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TRACY ANNE HAMMOND

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.



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