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Engineering & Product leader with 20 years of crafting vision, scaling products and…
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Big news today!!! We’ve landed $5.5M in seed funding from Craft Ventures, Chapter One, Saga and Valor Equity Partners AND Ragie is now open to the…
Big news today!!! We’ve landed $5.5M in seed funding from Craft Ventures, Chapter One, Saga and Valor Equity Partners AND Ragie is now open to the…
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Excited to share that, I will be speaking at Hyderabad Trailblazin'24 at T-Hub Hyderabad on June 1st, alongside Shasanka Yechuri (PMP) and Bharadwaj…
Excited to share that, I will be speaking at Hyderabad Trailblazin'24 at T-Hub Hyderabad on June 1st, alongside Shasanka Yechuri (PMP) and Bharadwaj…
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📦 Wrapping up my last week at Salesforce! 🙏 It’s been an awesome 4+ years, with tons of learnings and meeting great people. Thank you, Julie…
📦 Wrapping up my last week at Salesforce! 🙏 It’s been an awesome 4+ years, with tons of learnings and meeting great people. Thank you, Julie…
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Experience
Education
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University of Washington
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Activities and Societies: * Recipient of the Undergraduate Service Award; given to one graduating senior for contribution to the Computer Science and Engineering department (June 2004) * Recipient of Outstanding Female CSE Undergraduate award given by UW’s Society of Women Engineers (Feb 2004) * Honorable Mention in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award (2004) * Co-creator and instructor of a women’s seminar course to encourage women to pursue Computer Science and Engineering (2003-2004)
Coursework included: Concepts and Tools for Software Development, Digital Design, Discrete Models, Discrete Structures, Embedded Systems, Formal Models, Graphics, Machine Organization, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Software Engineering.
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Volunteer Experience
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Business Mentor for Small Businesses
SCORE Mentors
- 1 year 7 months
Social Services
Mentor & support small business clients as they are creating their initial business plans as well as when they are seeking to expand their businesses.
Publications
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A Study of Diagrammatic Ink in Lecture
Computers and Graphics 29
In this paper, we present a study of how instructors draw diagrams in the process of delivering lectures. We are motivated by wanting to understand challenges and opportunities for automatically analyzing diagrams, and to use this to improve tools to support the delivery of presentations and the viewing of archived lectures. The study was conducted by analyzing a large group of examples of diagrams collected from real lectures that were delivered from a Tablet PC. The main result of the paper…
In this paper, we present a study of how instructors draw diagrams in the process of delivering lectures. We are motivated by wanting to understand challenges and opportunities for automatically analyzing diagrams, and to use this to improve tools to support the delivery of presentations and the viewing of archived lectures. The study was conducted by analyzing a large group of examples of diagrams collected from real lectures that were delivered from a Tablet PC. The main result of the paper is the identification of three specific challenges in analyzing spontaneous instructor diagrams: separating the diagram from its annotations and other surrounding ink, identifying phases in discussion of a diagram, and constructing the active context in a diagram.
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Making a Difference on $10 a Day: Creating a "Women in CSE" Seminar Linked to CS1
American Society for Engineering Education
Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs across the country are increasingly
concerned about the lack of women pursuing computer-related fields. To address this issue, we
created a one credit seminar focused on the recruitment and retention of women in technology.
The seminar targeted undergraduate women who were co-enrolled in introductory programming
at a four year research institution. For approximately $500 per quarter, a staff member and an
undergraduate teaching…Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs across the country are increasingly
concerned about the lack of women pursuing computer-related fields. To address this issue, we
created a one credit seminar focused on the recruitment and retention of women in technology.
The seminar targeted undergraduate women who were co-enrolled in introductory programming
at a four year research institution. For approximately $500 per quarter, a staff member and an
undergraduate teaching assistant ran the Women in Computer Science and Engineering WICSE)
seminar. The syllabus was shaped by the instructors’ personal experiences, and research studies
on gender disparity in computer science and engineering. Throughout the quarter we brought in
guest speakers, visited research projects, and held discussions. Our activities concentrated on
fostering a sense of community, encouraging a wider and more accurate view of computer
engineering, and offering a safe environment for discussion and debate. At the end of each
quarter we surveyed the students and found that they had uniformly positive reactions to the
seminar. The women felt more comfortable in their programming course and became excited
about the field of computing. Our paper will outline what we learned during our first three
offerings of the course, and how we plan to improve upon our experience in the future. We will
show how we developed creative solutions to support women in technology with minimal
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Understanding Diagrammatic Ink in Lecture
AAAI Fall Symposium 2004 Workshop on Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural
We are interested in understanding how digital ink and speech are used together in presentation. Our long range goal is to develop tools to analyze the ink and speech channels of recorded lectures. As a first step in this process, we are making a detailed study of instructors’ digital ink usage in real university lectures. This work is being done in the context of a Tablet-PC based presentation system we have developed, but is applicable to other systems which record digital ink and speech. In…
We are interested in understanding how digital ink and speech are used together in presentation. Our long range goal is to develop tools to analyze the ink and speech channels of recorded lectures. As a first step in this process, we are making a detailed study of instructors’ digital ink usage in real university lectures. This work is being done in the context of a Tablet-PC based presentation system we have developed, but is applicable to other systems which record digital ink and speech. In this paper we concentrate on how instructors draw and use diagrams in the process of lecture delivery and
identify phenomena which are important when automatically processing the diagrammatic ink.Other authorsSee publication -
Preliminary Experiences with a Tablet PC Based System to Support Active Learning in Computer Science Courses
ItiCSE
There has been much research on the benefits of active and collaborative learning and in its use in computer science courses. As classroom technology becomes more prevalent it is natural to develop systems that support the use of these techniques. We have developed such a system as an extension to Classroom Presenter [2], a Tablet PC-based presentation system. In our system students (or groups of students) are equipped with tablet computers and at various points during the lecture, are asked to…
There has been much research on the benefits of active and collaborative learning and in its use in computer science courses. As classroom technology becomes more prevalent it is natural to develop systems that support the use of these techniques. We have developed such a system as an extension to Classroom Presenter [2], a Tablet PC-based presentation system. In our system students (or groups of students) are equipped with tablet computers and at various points during the lecture, are asked to solve a problem or respond to a question. Students respond by writing their solution on the tablet and submitting it wirelessly to the instructor. The instructor can view all student responses, select one or more to display to the class, and annotate responses with ink as they are being displayed. Student responses can be saved for review after lecture by the instructor or made available electronically to the
students. In this paper we describe the system and our initial experiences using the system in two classes (CS1 and Computer Ethics) at the University of San Diego in Fall 2003.Other authorsSee publication -
A Study of Digital Ink in Lecture Presentation
CHI
Digital inking systems are becoming increasingly popular across a variety of domains. In particular, many systems now allow instructors to write on digital surfaces in the classroom. Yet, our understanding of how people actually use writing in these systems is limited. In this paper, we report on classroom use of writing in one such system, in which the instructor annotates projected slides using a Tablet PC. Through a detailed analysis of lecture archives, we identify key use patterns. In…
Digital inking systems are becoming increasingly popular across a variety of domains. In particular, many systems now allow instructors to write on digital surfaces in the classroom. Yet, our understanding of how people actually use writing in these systems is limited. In this paper, we report on classroom use of writing in one such system, in which the instructor annotates projected slides using a Tablet PC. Through a detailed analysis of lecture archives, we identify key use patterns. In particular, we categorize a major use of ink as analogous to physical gestures and present a framework for analyzing this ink; we explore the relationship between the ephemeral meaning of many annotations and their persistent representation; and we observe that instructors make conservative use of the system’s features. Finally, we discuss implications of our study to the design of future digital inking systems.
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Speech, Ink, and Slides: The Interaction of Content Channels
ACM Multimedia
In this paper, we report on an empirical exploration of digital ink and speech usage in lecture presentation. We studied the video archives of five Master’s level Computer Science courses to understand how instructors use ink and speech together while lecturing, and to evaluate techniques for analyzing digital ink.
Our interest in understanding how ink and speech are used together is to inform the development of future tools for supporting classroom presentation, distance education, and…In this paper, we report on an empirical exploration of digital ink and speech usage in lecture presentation. We studied the video archives of five Master’s level Computer Science courses to understand how instructors use ink and speech together while lecturing, and to evaluate techniques for analyzing digital ink.
Our interest in understanding how ink and speech are used together is to inform the development of future tools for supporting classroom presentation, distance education, and viewing of archived lectures. We want to make it easier to interact with electronic materials and to extract information from
them. We want to provide an empirical basis for addressing challenging problems such as automatically generating full text transcripts of lectures, matching speaker audio with slide content,
and recognizing the meaning of the instructor’s ink. Our results include an evaluation of handwritten word recognition in the lecture domain, an approach for associating attentional marks with content, an analysis of linkage between speech and ink, and an application of recognition techniques to infer speaker actions.Other authorsSee publication -
Lecture Presentation from the Tablet PC
Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments
We have developed and deployed a lecture presentation system called Classroom Presenter in which the instructor uses a Tablet PC as a presentation device. The system has been deployed in courses at the University of Washington, University of Virginia, and the University of San Diego, and has been favorably received by students and instructors. In this paper we present an overview of the system and discuss particular uses and advantages of the system in small and large lectures as well as…
We have developed and deployed a lecture presentation system called Classroom Presenter in which the instructor uses a Tablet PC as a presentation device. The system has been deployed in courses at the University of Washington, University of Virginia, and the University of San Diego, and has been favorably received by students and instructors. In this paper we present an overview of the system and discuss particular uses and advantages of the system in small and large lectures as well as distance education scenarios. We discuss two system features in greater detail, a facility for supporting multiple versions of slides for instructor notes, and a facility for delivering student feedback in real time to the instructor. We report on in class use of these facilities.
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Patents
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Networked program dependency compatibility analysis
Issued US 8601439
A web application may be developed in an environment which has different components than a target environment, so determining component dependencies and identifying which dependencies are met in a given environment can be helpful when deploying the application. Toward that end, test code makes a request that test file(s) be sent from a protected location in the target environment, such as from a randomly-named folder or from another location that is not directly browsable by a user. Received…
A web application may be developed in an environment which has different components than a target environment, so determining component dependencies and identifying which dependencies are met in a given environment can be helpful when deploying the application. Toward that end, test code makes a request that test file(s) be sent from a protected location in the target environment, such as from a randomly-named folder or from another location that is not directly browsable by a user. Received test file(s) and network protocol headers are parsed, and component dependency metadata such as component names and version numbers are extracted. Based on the extracted metadata, information is determined about the target environment's installed component(s). By comparing component dependency(ies) of the program with the identified installed component(s) of the target environment, compatibility of the target environment can then be reported.
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