JENNIFER L. WELCH

Chevron Professor II, Regents Professor

Email: welch@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5076
Office: HRBB 425G
http://parasol.cse.tamu.edu/people/welch

Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988
S.M., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
B.A., Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1979

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Algorithms and lower bounds for distributed computing systems, in particular mobile ad hoc networks and distributed shared objects

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"AF:Medium:A Fair Prescription for Partial Synchrony," National Science Foundation, 2010-2014

AWARDS

Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, College and University level, 2009

Regents Professor Award, 2008

Charles W. Crawford Service Award, 2007

Chevron II Professorship, Texas A&M University Dwight Look College of Engineering, November 2004

IEEE Education Society Hewlett-Packard Harriet B. Rigas Award for outstanding woman engineering educator, October 2004

TEES Fellow, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2003

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, Texas A&M University, 2003

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, Texas A&M University, 2000

The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University, Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2000

Halliburton Fellow, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1998-1999

National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991

IBM Faculty Development Award, 1990

EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002 - present

Interim Department Head, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2001-2002

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1996-2002

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1992-1996

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of North Carolina, 1989-1992

Member, Technical Staff, GTE Laboratories Inc., 1988-1989

Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, summer 1986

Programmer, Sipes, Williamson & Associates, 1981-1982

Programmer, Tracor, Inc., 1980-1981

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 2010 - present

Editorial Board Member, Distributed Computing, appointed, 2008 - present

Program Committee Member, 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2012

Program Committee Member, 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Jan 2012

Program Committee Member, 23rd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), Jun 2011

Program Committee Member, 22nd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), Jun 2010

Program Committee Member, 24th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Sep 2010

Program Committee Member, 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jun 2010

Reviewer for Information and Computation; Journal of the ACM; ACM Transactions on Computer Systems; ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; IEEE Transactions on Computers; IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems; Distributed Computing; etc.

Member of ACM

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hagit Attiya and Jennifer Welch, Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations and Advanced Topics, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 414 pp., March 2004.

Cheng Shao, Jennifer L. Welch, Evelyn Pierce and Hyunyoung Lee, "Multi-Writer Consistency Conditions for Shared Memory Registers," SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 28--62, 2011.

Hagit Attiya, Alex Kogan, and Jennifer L. Welch, "Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Local Mutual Exclusion in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 361-375, 2010.

Bernadette Charron-Bost, Antoine Gaillard, Jennifer L. Welch, and Josef Widder, "Routing Without Ordering," Proc. 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 145-153, 2009.

Srikanth Sastry, Scott Pike, and Jennifer L. Welch, "The Weakest Failure Detector for Wait-free Dining Under Eventual Weak Exclusion," Proc. 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), pp. 111-120, 2009.

Rebecca Ingram, Patrick Shields, Jennifer Walter, and Jennifer L. Welch, "An Asynchronous Leader Election Algorithm for Dynamic Networks," Proc. 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 12pp., 2009.