Industry Researcher Birds of a Feather

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Moderator: A.J. Brush (Microsoft Research)
Panelists: Gilda Garreton (Oracle Corporation), and Patty Lopez (Intel)
Abstract: Do you work as a researcher in industry? Are you interested in meeting and exchanging ideas with other industry researchers? Come to this BOF to network and exchange strategies for a successful career in industry research.

Biographies:

A.J. Brush
A.J. Bernheim Brush is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. A.J.’s research area is Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on Ubiquitous Computing and Computer Supported Collaboration. She currently focuses on Contextual Computing, using sensing, inference, and prediction to enable new experiences in the home and on mobile devices. A.J. publishes frequently at the top conferences in her research areas and she holds 5 patents. She was honored to receive a Borg Early Career Award in 2010. A.J. serves on the CRA-W board and was the ACM SIGCHI VP for Membership from 2006 – 2009 and program co-chair for Pervasive 2009.

Gilda Garreton
Gilda Garretón is a Principal Engineer at Oracle Labs/Oracle and her main research focuses on VLSI CAD, computer architecture for databases and parallel programming. She is an Open Source advocate and a Java/C++ developer. She is one of the main developers of Electric, a java.net VLSI CAD tool. Gilda received her B.A. and Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and her Ph.D. from the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). She is the co-founder of the community Latinas in Computing (LiC) whose goal is to promote leadership and professional development among Latinas in the engineering field.

Patty Lopez
Patty Lopez spent 19 years at HP transferring technology into products and holds seven imaging patents. Patty joined Intel in 2008 and works on microprocessor logic validation design for test. Patty graduated with high honors from New Mexico State University with a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Patty received several technical leadership, diversity, and community service awards, including the 2010 HENAAC Award for Community Service. She serves on the CAHSI, ABI, and CRA-W Boards and the GHC organizing committee in several roles. Her current passion is computer science education, and creating an inclusive organizational culture in the workplace.

Blog Post by KarenT available here: BOF: Industry Researchers