Assistant Professor
Email: hammond@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/862-4284 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 414C
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/hammond
Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
Finance Technology Option (FTO), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
M.A., Anthropology, Columbia University, 2001
M.S., Computer Science, Columbia University, 2000
B.A., Mathematics, Columbia University, 1997
B.A., Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 1997
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Concept learning, sketch recognition, artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces, the gender gap in computer science
AWARDS
- Best Paper Award, Student Oxygen Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
- Doctorial Consortium, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2003
- New Faculty Fellow, Frontiers in Education, 2002
- Clare Booth Luce Fellowship 2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Excellent TA Award (2x), Columbia University, Fall-1999, Spring 2000
- MSTA Award (2x), Columbia University, Spring-1999, Fall-1999
EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2006 - present
- Instructor, Fu School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, 1999-2001
- Telecommunications Developer Analyst, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY, 1996-2000
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
- Conference Volunteer, NIPS 2004 Conference, AAAI 2004 Conference
- Workshop Session Chair and Demo Organizer, "Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural," AAAI Fall Symposium 2004
- Workshop Organizer and Chair, SOW 2003: Third Annual MIT Student Oxygen Workshop
- Member: AAAI, ACM, IEEE, Intertel, Mensa, SWE
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Brandon Paulson*, Tracy Hammond,
"PaleoSketch: Accurate Primitive Sketch
Recognition and Beautification," IUI-08
(Intelligent User Interfaces), 2008.
Hammond, T. and Davis, R., "Interactive Learning of Structural Shape Descriptions from Automatically Generated Near-miss Examples," Interactive Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2006.
Hammond, T. and Davis, R., "LADDER: A Sketching Language for User Interface Developers," Computer and Graphics Journal, Elsevier, in press, 2005.
Hammond, T., "Automatically Generating Sketch Interfaces from Shape Descriptions," MIT Student Oxygen Workshop, Won the Best Paper Award, 2004.
Hammond, T. and Davis, R., "Automatically Transforming Symbolic Shape Descriptions for Use in Sketch Recognition," The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), 2004.
Tracy Hammond, Davis, Randall,
"LADDER: A Language to Describe
Drawing, Display, and Editing in Sketch
Recognition," IJCAI-03 (International
Joint Conference on Artifi cial Intelligence),
2003.
