JENNIFER L. WELCH

Chevron Professorship II

Email: welch@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5076 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 425G
http://parasol.cs.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, distributed shared objects, and metamorphic robot systems

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Collaborative Research: Randomized Distributed Data Structures for Product Design," National Science Foundation, 2005-2008.

"Combating Failures and Malicious Attacks in Communication Networks," TAMU-Conacyt Collaborative Research Grant Program, 2006.

"Increasing the Longevity of Power-Constrained Sensor Networks," Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Advanced Research Program, 2006-2007.

AWARDS

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, 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, Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, appointed, 1994 - present

Program Committee Member, 21st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Sep. 2007

Program Committee Member, 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Jul. 2006

Program Committee Member, 25th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Jul. 2006

Program Committee Member, 1st International Workshop on Foundations and Algorithms for Wireless Networking (FAWN), Mar. 2006

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, et al.

Member of ACM

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Yu Chen and Jennifer L. Welch, "Self-Stabilizing Dynamic Mutual Exclusion for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 1072-1089, 2005.

Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Nancy A. Lynch, Alex Shvartsman, and Jennifer L. Welch, "GeoQuorums: Implementing Atomic Memory in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Distributed Computing (special issue of invited papers from DISC 2003), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 125-155, 2005.

Navneet Malpani, Nitin Vaidya, Yu Chen and Jennifer L. Welch, "Distributed Token Circulation on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2005.

Shlomi Dolev and Jennifer L. Welch, "Self-Stabilizing Clock Synchronization in the Presence of Byzantine Faults," Journal of the ACM, 2004.

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