My research interests include (but are not limited to): accessible privacy and security, computing education, information visualization, bioinformatics, usability, and the social impact of computers.
Many of my publications are available electronically.
I am currently accepting undergraduate, Master's, and Doctoral students interested in conducting independent studies, research projects, and thesis/dissertation work.
My currently active projects include:
Computational Thinking: An NSF-Funded (CPATH CDP) project aimed at developing General Education courses that will bring computational thinking to a broad range of students.
Security Injections: AN NSF CCLI project aimed at developing modulars for minimally-invasive integration of computer security concerns throughout the undergraduate curriculum.
Accessible privacy and security tools
The Open
Microscopy Environment, an international project aimed at
providing data models, data storage, and user tools for
supporting high-content digital microscopy.
My dissertation
work focused on Interactive Query
Specification for Time-Series Data. This project was
profiled in an article
in ComputerWorld.
Please contact me if you are interested in any of these areas.
Spring 2009: Semester Schedule
Previous Semesters:
The U.S. Public
Policy
Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery
(Executive Committee member since 2005). Most recently, I helped
draft an ACM report
on statewide voter
registration databases.
I co-founded
the ACM SIGCHI US
Public Policy Committee, which is working to bring HCI
expertise to bear on US public policy issues.
I have been a member
of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility for many years, including two terms as
a member of the board of directors (1997-2003), and participation
in the board advisory council since fall 2005.
Ph.D. (May 2003), Computer
Science, University of Maryland
B.S.,M.S. (1991), Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology