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CRA-W Co-Chairs:

  • Carla Brodley - Co-Chair

    Department of Computer Science, Tufts University

  • Kathleen Fisher - Co-Chair, Industry Programs, CAPP-L

    AT&T Labs Research

CRA-W Members and Projects:

  • Nancy Amato - Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU), Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

    Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University

  • Cecilia R. Aragon - Communications
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Carla Brodley - Co-Chair

    Department of Computer Science, Tufts University

  • Tracy Camp - Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
    Colorado School of Mines

  • Sheila Castañeda - Career Mentoring Workshops, Multidisciplinary Research Opportunities for Women (MRO-W)

    Computer Science Department, Clarke College

  • Lori Clarke - Grad Cohort Program
    University of Massachusetts

  • Joanne Cohoon - Evaluation
    University of Virginia

  • Andrea Danyluk - Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)

    Williams College

  • Dilma Da Silva - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
    IBM Research

  • Carla Ellis - Steering Committee, Fundraising Committee, NCWIT hub co-director, Grace Hopper liaison

    Computer Science Department, Duke University

  • Kathleen Fisher - Co-Chair, Industry Programs, CAPP-L

    AT&T Labs Research

  • Joan Francioni - Advanced Career Mentoring Workshop (CAPP)
    Department of Computer Science, Winona State University

  • Maria Gini - Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

  • Susanne E. Hambrusch - Career Mentoring Workshops (CMW-R), Advanced Career Mentoring Workshop (CAPP)

    Purdue University

  • Mary Jean Harrold - Steering Committee, Communications Committee (Newsletter editor)

    School of Computer Science, College of Computing
    Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Computing

  • Julia Hirschberg
    Computer Science, Columbia University

  • Mary Jane Irwin - Steering Committee member, Awards and Nominations, Governments Affairs member

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University

  • Susan Landau - ResearcHers, Booklist, Advanced Career Mentoring Workshop (CAPP)

    Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories

  • Tessa Lau
    Staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center

  • Margaret Martonosi - Co-Chair, Discipline-Specific Workshops

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

  • Renée J. Miller - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

    Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

  • Joann Ordille

    Avaya Labs

  • Lori Pollock - Grad Cohort Program

    Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware

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

    Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

  • Manuela Veloso
    Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

  • 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:

Joann Ordille: Distinguished Lecture Program
Avaya Laboratories

Dr. Joann J. Ordille is a consulting research scientist in the Software Technology Research Department of Avaya Labs. Her research focuses on creating new technologies that give us choice and power in how we communicate about what is most important and urgent to us. Dr. Ordille leads the Rome Research Project in right time communication for the enterprise. Through Rome, she created notification and response, exception conferencing, and publish-subscribe services that are used within Avaya. She led an effort that incorporated many of these services into a new Avaya product for communication enabling business processes.

Dr. Ordille was an early innovator in making it easier to search, integrate and use information available on the Internet for which she received the "10 Year Best Paper Award" at the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Conference in 2006. She invented meta-directories for which she received the "Best Paper Award" at the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems in 1993. She then leveraged that work in creating the first prototype for the Avaya meta-directory product.

Dr. Ordille has given talks on the future of Internet technologies around the world as a featured speaker in the Bell Labs Seminar Series. She joined Avaya Labs at its birth in 2000 in a spin-off from Bell Labs and previously joined Bell Labs in 1993 after completing her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Philosophy from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.