Service

Departmental Service

  • Department Chair of Computer Science, 2020-2023.
  • Collaborated with Sophie Engle and Chris Brooks to draft and institute the first Computer Science Department Bylaws.
  • Collaborated with Kristin Jones, Paul Haskell, and Tonya Miller to create the first Computer Science Placement test.
  • Coordinated the piloting of the CS 111 - Introduction to Computer Science I using Java course with the help of Kristin Jones and Paul Haskell.
  • Created three Graduate certificates in coordination with Mikaela Mora.
    1. Introduction to DevOps with Mario Lim and Arnold Salazar Jr.
    2. Introduction to Computing using Python with Julia Nolfo
    3. Introduction to Unity with Beste Yuksel and Julia Nolfo
  • Hiring adjuncts and term faculty members through the 2020-23 duration.
    1. Michael Kremer (Term for 2022-2023, Adjunct for 2023-24)
    2. Phil Peterson (Term)
    3. Paul Haskell (Adjunct for 2022-2023, Term for 2023-24)
    4. Kristin Jones (Term 2020-2021, Adjunct 2022-current)
    5. Jags Krishnamurthy (Adjunct for 2021-current)
    6. Subbu Subramanian (Adjunct for 2022-2023
    7. Julia Nolfo (Adjunct for 2021-current)
    8. Ankush Prakash (Adjunct for Summer 2023)
  • Curriculum Changes through Curriculog
    1. Computer Science majors can take any two of the three systems courses: CS 315 (Computer Architecture), CS 236 (Introduction to Operating Systems), and CS 336 (Computer Networks).
    2. CS 245 as a prerequisite for CS 221
  • Organized internship panels for current students (Fall 2021)
  • Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Computer Science, 2018-19
  • Computer Science Faculty Search committee member, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-18
  • Served on the Hiring Commitee of the new Program Director for Graduate Programs in the Computer Science department, 2022-2023.

University Service

  • Community Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) Fellowship, The Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, 2021-22
  • University Information Technology Committee (UITC) member, 2013-2017
  • Member of the Ignatian Faculty Forum, 2017-18
  • Steering Committee, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), University of San Francisco 2014-2016
  • Co-founder of the Data Visualization Speaker Series at USF (with Sophie Engle and Scott Murray)
  • Committee Member of the Harney Renovation Committee, 2018-2019
  • Organizer of the free GirlTechPower coding workshop for middle-school girls in the Bay Area (2015-current)
  • Co-organizer of the CS4SF 2014 workshop for women in computing
  • Computer Science Graduate Admissions Committee, 2013-2016, 2018-current
  • Computer Science Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee, 2013-2014, 2018-2019
  • Graduate Recruitment visit to India, 2013, 2014.

Professional Service

  • NSF Reviewer in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science, 2015, 2016, 2018
  • Program Committee for IEEE Visualization 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Program Committee for CHI 2018 Workshop on “Data Visualization for Mobile Devices”
  • Program Committee for EuroVis 2013-2020
  • Program Committee for SIGCSE 2017
  • Co-organized the Pedagogy of Data Visualization Workshop (https://vgl.cs.usfca.edu/pdvw/2017/ with Professor Sophie Engle (USF), Professor Marti Heart (UC Berkeley), and Professor Eytan Adar (University of Michigan) at the IEEE Visualization conference in 2016 and 2017.
  • Reviewer for ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
  • Program Committee for SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis Conference 2012-2017
  • Program Committee for Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine 2012
  • Program Committee for IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization 2011-2014
  • Program Committee for IEEE Workshop on Visual Analytics for Health Care 2011
  • NIH Reviewer for the Insight Toolkit - Algorithms, Adapters, and Data Distribution 2010
  • International Program Committee for the International Symposium on Visual Computing 2009-2012
  • Posters Chair for IEEE Visualization conference - 2009, 2010
  • Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Tsinghua Science and Technology on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2012
  • Guest Editor for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications - Special Issue on Smart City Visualization 2018
  • Book Reviewer for Morgan Kaufmann publishers
  • Book Reviewer for Elsevier publishing company
  • Book Reviewer for CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group
  • Reviewer for the DOE's Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) - 2011, 2012
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
  • Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
  • Reviewer for IEEE VisWeek conference 2004-13
  • Reviewer for the Computer Graphics Forum 2007-13
  • Reviewer for PacificVis 2009-2014
  • Reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • Reviewer for ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems - 2012
  • Reviewer for Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality - 2010
  • Reviewer for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Reviewer for Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems - 2011
  • Reviewer for International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Reviewer for Elsevier's Image and Vision Computing Journal
  • Reviewer for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Journal
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • Reviewer for the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games conference - 2006
  • Reviewer for the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference - 2008
  • Reviewer for the Eurographics workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine - 2008
  • Reviewer for BMC Journal on Bioinformatics

Community Service

  • Volunteer instructor for the Girls Who Code club in Burlingame, CA (2013-14) and Foster City, CA (2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17)
  • Reviewer for the Girls Who Code summer immersion program - 2014
  • Scholarship Application Committee Member for the Grace Hopper Celebration - 2014
  • Co-Organizer for the National Center for Women & Information Technology NCWIT) awards in Idaho - 2012
  • Steering Committee for NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program at Boise State University - 2011-2012
  • Advisor to the NASA Microgravity team from Boise State University - 2012
  • Vice President for the Graduate Student Association - 2006-07