The 3rd Annual USF Summer Enrichment Program is pleased to welcome the following speakers:

Ellen Spertus - Monday 7/16, 11AM
Ellen Spertus is an associate professor of computer science at Mills College in Oakland and a software engineer at Google in Mountain View. She received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has done research in computer architecture, compilers, information retrieval, and online communities. She and her work have been written about in The New York Times, USA Today, Wired, and The Weekly World News . She has worked toward increasing the number of girls and women in computer science for more than 15 years. She lives in San Francisco with her husband.

Jee Park - Monday 7/16, 1PM
Jee Park is a Sr. Product Manager in the User Experience team of Qualcomm's Internet Services group where she designs next generation applications for the mobile phone. Prior to joining Qualcomm, she spent 4.5 yrs at Yahoo! as a lead interaction designer for several products. Before her career in technology, Jee was a high school math teacher for seven years. In her spare time, Jee enjoys cycling, surfing, ceramics, reading, and epicurean endeavors. Jee holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MA in Education from Stanford.

Carin Taylor - Tuesday 7/17, 10AM

Sridevi Koneru Rao - Tuesday 7/17, 11AM
Director of Engineering, Wireless Business Unit-Cisco

Education: BS-Computer Science, MS-Computer Science, MBA-Wharton (graduate-2008)

Industry experience 12 years. Prior experience: Video Compression engineer-CLI, SW tools engineer-Stratacom , Cisco

Personal: Live in South Bay, 2 kids (ages 10 and 5).

Hobbies: Running, Volleyball, Travel, Reading, Mentor networks, Voluntary service

Affiliations: President of Indian Employee Network at Cisco, member of TIE-entrepreneur organization

Megan Wachs - Tuesday 7/17, 12noon
I'm a 3rd year PhD student at Stanford University, studying Electrical Engineering. I got my undergrad degree at Brown University in Rhode Island. My main interest is computer architecture, and I'm currently studying how to make it easy for people to design a computer for a specific task. I also am also working on a device which will allow neuroscientists to study brain activity in rats. When I'm not in the lab I like to be outside, whether running or swimming or just reading books under the trees. Also, I like to make quilts.

Deb Agarwal - Thursday 7/19, 10AM
Deb Agarwal is a Staff Scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(LBNL). Deb's areas of research interest include cybersecurity, collaborative tools, secure and reliable multicast communication protocols, scientific dataservers, and network protocols. She is the head of the Distributed Systems Department and the group lead for the Cybersecurity and Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Deb earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. Her MS and PhD are from University of California, Santa Barbara in Computer Engineering.

Cecilia Aragon - Thursday 7/19, 10AM
Cecilia Aragon is a computer scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the software group lead and architect for the Nearby Supernova Factory, the largest supernova search currently in operation. Her research interests lie in visualization, image processing, and visual analytics. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. She has over 20 years of experience in the computing field, including research, software development, and team building and management experience. She was also the founder and CEO of a small aviation company, an airshow and test pilot, aerobatic champion, and medalist at the World Aerobatic Championships, the Olympics of aviation.

Website: http://vis.lbl.gov/~aragon

Ann Almgren - Thursday 7/19, 10AM
Ann Almgren is a staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, working in computational fluid dynamics. She focuses primarily on numerical simulation of low-speed fluid flow, such as that in the very early stages of a Type Ia supernova prior to ignition. Her research interests are in the development and implementation of specialized algorithms that exploit the mathematical character of the equations and run efficiently on thousands of processors.

She earned her Ph.D. in 1991 in the Mechanical Engineering Department at U.C. Berkeley, then spent one year as a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Following that she worked in the Applied Math Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, moving with her research group to LBL in 1996.

Ann is married to fellow researcher John Bell, and has identical twin daughters and a son in elementary school, and two older step-children. Her main interest beyond work and family is soccer, both coaching and playing.

Kylie Owen - Thursday 7/19, 1PM
Kylie Owen has worked in the IT industry for over ten years. Graduating from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, Kylie initially developed her project and people management skills working for the New South Wales Government. Her transition into IT managment began at a small Sydney startup followed by leading software application deployments in Australia's second largest Service Provider.

The oppourtunity to manage the creation of the first i-Home (broadband enabled home) in Australia introduced an unsuspecting public to the wonders of the "internet fridge" brought Kylie to Cisco Systems.

Her various roles at Cisco have included managing the deployment of the largest broadband ATM network in Australia and several Global software application deployments.

In 2000, Kylie joined Cisco's internal IT department and now manages an international team that owns the strategy behind handling the 350,000 support calls her team receives every quarter. Kylie has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region and has recently re-located from Sydney to San Francisco with her husband and 18 month old son.

Deb Volk - Thursday 7/19, 2PM
Deborah Volk is the founder of Identigral, Inc., a systems integrator specializing in Identity Management Solutions. She began her career in Identity Management when she started working for Entrust in 2002. She joined Thor Technologies in 2003 and quickly developed a passion and expertise in Oracle Identity Manager.

She has over 12 years of experience in Information Technology. Prior to working at Entrust, Deborah was a defense contractor for DARPA. She also was the Technical Director of the Smart Card Forum.

Deborah has a BS in Physics, a BS in Computer Science, and a BA in Mathematics from Wofford College.

Stephanie Oshita - Friday 7/20, 10AM

Stephanie Ohshita is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Management at the University of San Francisco (USF). Her research centers on energy-based solutions to multiple environmental problemsÑfrom global climate change to local air pollutionÑand combines engineering with tools from political economy and organizational theory. She specializes in cleaner energy technology diffusion, policy design and implementation, and development cooperation, with a geographical focus on Japan and China. Her recently co-authored book, Cooperative Climate: Energy Efficiency Action in East Asia, is available from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

Claire Castro - Friday 7/20, 10:45AM

Teresa Win - Friday 7/20, 1PM
Ms. Win worked in technical and management positions related to information technology at large and small businesses. Ms. Win co-invented getAccess - an Internet security related software application - at enCommerce Inc. which was acquired by Entrust in April 2000. Ms. Win worked as program manager on Xellerate, another security related application, at Thor Technologies which was acquired by Oracle in November 2005. Ms. Win is a member of the USF Board of Trustees. Her service to USF includes volunteer fund raiser, chair of the Committee on Information Technology Strategy, and working with the Women in Science and Community Connections programs. Ms Win has a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco and a JD from Santa Clara University.