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CRA-W Co-Chairs:

  • Lori A. Clarke - Co-Chair

    Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts

  • Lori Pollock - Co-Chair

    Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware

CRA-W Members and Projects:

  • Nancy Amato - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)

    Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
  • Cecilia R. Aragon - Communications
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Carla Brodley

    Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
  • Tracy Camp - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
    Colorado School of Mines
  • Sheila Castañeda - Career Mentoring Workshops, - Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)

    Computer Science Department, Clarke College
  • Joanne Cohoon
    University of Virginia
  • Carla Ellis

    Computer Science Department, Duke University
  • Faith Ellen - Canadian Distributed Mentoring Project (CDMP)

    University of Toronto
  • Kathleen Fisher

    AT&T Labs Research
  • Joan Francioni
    Department of Computer Science, Winona State University
  • Maria Gini - Distributed Mentor Project (DMP)
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • Susanne E. Hambrusch

    Purdue University
  • Mary Jean Harrold

    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jessica Hodgins - Distributed Mentor Project (DMP)

    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Mary Jane Irwin - Steering Committee member, Awards and Nominations, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP), Governments Affairs member

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University
  • Susan Landau - ResearcHers, Booklist

    Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
  • Tessa Lau
    Staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center
  • Margaret Martonosi - Editor of the Expanding the Pipeline Column

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  • Renée J. Miller - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

    Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  • Joann Ordille - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

    Avaya Labs
  • Mary Lou Soffa - Affilites DMP Program, Grad Cohort Program, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP)

    Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
  • Telle Whitney - Liaison with the Institute for Women in Technology

    Institute for Women in Technology

CRA-W Emerita Members:
Emerita status is bestowed upon retired members who made major contributions to CRA-W during their membership.

CRA-W Staff:



Mary Jane Irwin - Steering Committee member, Awards and Nominations, Governments Affairs member
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Penn State University

Dr. Irwin received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1977.  Her current research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, low power design, and electronic design automation. For her research contributions, Dr. Irwin was named Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 1995 and Fellow of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1996.  She received the Penn State Engineering Society's Premier Research Award in 2001.

Dr. Irwin is currently serving as chair of the National Science Foundation's Computer Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate's Advisory Committee, as a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Army Research Lab, as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, and as an elected member of the Computing Research Association's Board of Directors.   In the past she has served as an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society's Board of Governers, of ACM's Council, and as Vice President of ACM.