The 4th Annual USF Summer Enrichment Program is pleased to welcome the following speakers:

Maria Kazandjieva - Monday 6/23, 1PM
Maria Kazandjieva is a PhD student at Stanford University's Computer Science Department. Her research interests include low-power wireless devices and networks, as well as "green" computing. Recently, she has worked on characterizing wireless link quality and its impact on TCP performance. This summer, Maria will be deploying a network of sensor motes to track power usage across a variety of computing devices - desktops, laptops, routers, etc. Understanding where and how much of power goes into networked devices will drive the design and implementation of environmentally responsible protocols and applications.

Before Stanford, Maria worked at Princeton University as a research assistant. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College with major in Computer Science and minor in Mathematics.

In her free time, Maria researches new music and keeps up with the art life in the Bay Area. She is also a member of the World Wildlife Fund and loves spending time learning about and interacting with animals.

Ellen Spertus - Tuesday 6/24, 10AM
Ellen Spertus is an associate professor of computer science at Mills College in Oakland and a research scientist 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.

Deb Agarwal - Thursday 6/26, 11AM
Deb Agarwal is a Staff Scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(LBNL). Deb's areas of research interest include data and analysis infrastructure for science, cybersecurity, collaborative tools, and secure and reliable multicast communication protocols. She is the head of the Advanced Computing for Science Department and the group lead for the Data Intensive Systems 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.

Ann Almgren - Thursday 6/26, 11AM
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.

Nancy Montanez - Friday 6/27, 11AM
Nancy Montanez is a Systems Software Engineer in the Open Strategy Division at Yahoo!. She received a BS in Computer Science from USF and taught several semesters of computer science and math courses at USF. After leaving USF, Nancy went to work for the Department of Radiology at the UCSD, while also consulting on the side. Her lifelong goal to work for NASA was actualized when she accepted a position as Technical Higher Education Assistant at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. While at NASA, she was inspired to pursue her Master's in Computer Science at USF, where she completed her thesis on analyzing the effectiveness of tags in blogs. Her research papers have been accepted to a number of conferences, including the World Wide Web conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

As a graduate student, Nancy participated in and lead the Peru Immersion program, in which students and faculty from the Computer Science Department travel to Southern Peru to help bridge the Digital Divide by bringing computer equipment and teaching computer classes. Nancy was also a program organizer for the Summer Enrichment Program in 2006.

Her hobbies include photography, traveling around the world, and learning new languages.

Teresa Win - Friday 6/27, 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.