TRACY ANNE HAMMOND

Assistant Professor

Email: hammond@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/862-4284 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 414C
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/hammond

Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
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.S., Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 1997

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sketch recognition, gesture recognition, haptics, hand-tracking, artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces

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 and Engineering, 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

Presenter: AAAI Tutorial: Introduction to Sketch Recognition 2008

Presenter: VL/HCC Tutorial: Getting Started With Sketch Tools 2008

Organizer and Chair: IUI Worskhop on Sketch Recognition 2008

Chair: VL/HCC Workshop on Sketch Tools for Diagramming 2008

Organizer and Chair: FIE Workshop on Integrating SR Technologies into your Classroom 2008

Session Chair and Demo Organizer, "Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural," AAAI Fall Symposium 2004

Organizer and Chair, SOW 2003: Third Annual MIT Student Oxygen Workshop

Program Committee: VLC Special Session on Sketch Computing 2008, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling 2008, IUI 2008-2009, AAAI 2008, IJCAI 2009

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2008    Paulson, B. (student), & Hammond, T. "PaleoSketch: Accurate Primitive Sketch Recognition and Beautification." In Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) January 2008. (acceptance rate 16%)

2008    Hammond, T. "Free-Sketch Recognition." In Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Works In Progress April 2008. (acceptance rate 38%)

2008    Paulson, B., Eoff, B., Wolin, A., Johnston, J., and Hammond, T. (2008). Sketch-based Educational Games: "Drawing" Kids Away from Traditional Interfaces. In Proceedings of Interaction Design for Children (IDC) '08 Posters. (acceptance rate 40%)

2008    Paulson, B. (student), & Hammond, T. "Office Activity Recognition using Hand Posture Cues." In Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) September 2008. (acceptance rate 30%)

2007    Hammond, T. "Simplifying Sketch Recognition UI Development." Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - New Investigators Papers October 2007. (acceptance rate: 32%)

2006    Hammond, T. & Davis, R. "Interactive Learning of Structural Shape Descriptions from Automatically Generated Near-miss Examples." In Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) January 2006. (acceptance rate: 22%)

2004    Hammond, T & Davis, R. "Automatically Transforming Symbolic Shape Descriptions for Use in Sketch Recognition." In Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) July 2004. (acceptance rate 26%)

2004    Hammond, T. "Automatically Generating Sketch Interfaces from Shape Descriptions." MIT Student Oxygen Workshop 2004. (Won Best Paper Award)

2003    Hammond, T. & Davis, R. (2003). "LADDER: A Language to Describe Drawing, Display, and Editing in Sketch Recognition." In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2003. (acceptance rate: 20%)

2002    Hammond, T. & Hammond, J. "Gender Related Under-representation in Computer Science and Related Disciplines." In Proceedings of Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2002 (New Faculty Fellow Award: acceptance rate 12%)