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- Associate Professor, College of Engineering
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Instructional Administrator
- Vice President of Software Development at Singlewire Software
Amber is currently the Vice President of Software Development at Singlewire Software in Madison, WI. She has nearly 20 years of experience working with agile software teams and loves helping teams and people become more efficient and happy. Each fall, she teaches the Computer Sciences Capstone course at UW-Madison. She blogs here and speaks at countless events across the country. Previously, she was the Head of Product Operations for Capital One's Innovation Lab in Washington, DC. She ran the agile transformation for National Geographic and the Agile Program Management Office for Opower (acquired by Oracle), helping it effectively scale and establish an innovation strategy. In 2016 she co-founded O2 Agility, an agile consultancy focused on self-selection. She is a Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and Certified Program Management Professional (PMP).
Outside of work, Amber spends a lot of time with her husband and two daughters playing board games, traveling, hiking, kayaking, and running. She blogs at amberrfield.com.
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- Graduate Admissions Chair
- Professor
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- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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- Payroll & Benefit Specialist
- Payroll & Benefits
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Professor and UW - Madison Provost
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- Department Administrator for Academic Services
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- Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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- Alumni Relations Chair, Amar and Balinder Sohi Professor of Computer Sciences )
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Associate
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- Associate Chair & Professor
- Grad Advising Committee ( GAC ) Chair
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- Student Social Media Manager
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
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- Receptionist, Assistant to the Chair
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- Grace Wahba Professor of Computer Sciences
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Computer Sciences Affiliate Faculty
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- Payroll & Benefit Specialist / Travel Specialist
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- Assistant Professor, the Information School
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- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
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- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
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- Pre - Award and Post - Award Research Program Manager
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Judy Faulkner is CEO and founder of Epic, which she began in 1979 in the basement of an apartment house with $70,000 in start-up money and two half-time assistants. Epic has grown by its bootstraps, without venture capital or going public.
Judy received honorary doctorates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and from Mount Sinai in New York, an M.S. in computer sciences from the UW, and a BS in mathematics from Dickinson College. After teaching computer science for several years, she then worked as a software developer, creating one of the first databases organized around the patient.
Judy currently serves on the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Board of Visitors, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Leadership Roundtable and of the Aspen Health Strategy Group. She has pledged that 99% of her assets will go to philanthropy.
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- Department of Biostatistics
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Communications Coordinator
- Communications Staff
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Undergraduate Academic Advisor
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- Metadata and Information Specialist, Internet Scout
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- Associate Professor, Design Studies, School of Human Ecology
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- Professor, Physics Department Director, American Family Data Science Institute
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- Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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- Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
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- Enrollment Management Support Specialist
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- Undergraduate Coordinator
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- Director of Undergraduate Studies & Professor
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- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Mouna Ayari Ben Hadj Kacem joined the faculty in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Spring 2018. She is currently a Teaching Faculty member. Before that she was an associate researcher conducting research with PHARE-team, LIP6 laboratory, Sorbonne University - Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, from July 2011 to September 2018. She also was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Monastir - Tunisia from September 2009 to September 2014.
Mouna received her PhD in Computer Science jointly from Sorbonne University Campus Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris 6, France and the National School of Computer Science ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia in 2009. She received her MS and her BS degrees in Computer Science from ENSI, Tunisia, in 2004 and 2003 respectively.
She is interested in teaching programming, data structures, and software engineering. Her research interests include mobility management and resource allocation in wireless and mobile networks, information centric networking, and automomic networking.
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- Graduate Program Admissions Coordinator
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- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Phil Blake is the retired publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal and CEO of Madison Newspapers, Inc. He spent 25 years as a newspaper executive after working as a newspaper reporter in Chicago and serving as a naval officer. He has a B.A. from Brown University and a master's in management from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.
Blake has served in a number of civic roles in the community, including serving on boards of directors including the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce (Chair), Edgewood College (Chair) and Meriter Hospital. He is also a member of the boards of visitors of the UW Waisman Center and Waisman Biomanufacturing.
He is an active investor in startup businesses in Madison, and he operates and co-owns a sustainable timber business.
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- President and Founder of the Data Insights Laboratories
Rakesh Agrawal is the President and Founder of the Data Insights Laboratories. He is also the President of the Professor Ram Kumar Memorial Foundation.
Rakesh is an innovator and thought leader who is driven by the desire to make the world better through scientific breakthroughs and by building practical working systems. He is the recipient of the ACM-SIGKDD Inaugural Innovation Award, ACM-SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, ACM-SIGMOD Test of Time Award (twice), VLDB 10-Yr Most Influential Paper Award, ICDE Most Influential Paper Award, and the Computerworld First Horizon Award. Scientific American named him to its first list of 50 top scientists and technologists. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of ACM, and a Fellow of IEEE.
Until recently, Rakesh was a Microsoft Technical Fellow and headed the Search Labs in Microsoft Research. Prior to joining Microsoft in March 2006, Rakesh was an IBM Fellow and led the Quest group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Earlier, he was with the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill from 1983 to 1989. He also worked for three years at India's premier company, the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.
He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He also holds a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT-Roorkee, and a two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Bombay. Both IIT-Roorkee and NITIE have decorated him with their distinguished alum award.
Rakesh has been granted 83 patents. He has published more than 200 research papers, many of them considered seminal. He has written the 1st as well as 2nd highest cited of all papers in the fields of databases and data mining (18th and 26th most cited across all computer science). Wikipedia lists one of his papers as one of the most influential database papers. His papers have been cited more than 80,0000 times, with more than 25 of them receiving more than 500 citations each and three of them receiving 5000 citations each (Google Scholar). He is the most cited author in the field of database systems and the 26th most cited author across all of Computer Science (Citeseer). His research has been featured in NBC, New York Times, and several other venues.
It is rare that a researcher's work creates not only a product, but a whole new industry. IBM's data mining product, Intelligent Miner, grew straight out of Rakesh's research. IBM's introduction of Intelligent Miner and associated services created a new category of software and services. His research has been incorporated into many other commercial products, including DB2 Mining Extender, DB2 OLAP Server, WebSphere Commerce Server, and Microsoft Bing Search engine, as well as many research prototypes and applications.
Rakesh is being increasingly sought to help with studies on topics of national and international interest. He played a key role in 2005 IBM's study for President of India on Improving India's Education System through Information Technology. In 2008, he was a key member of the National Academy of Sciences study on Voter Registration Databases. Then, he was the only computer scientist in the 2010 National Research Council study on Science and Technology strategies of key countries worldwide. Recently, Rakesh is in dialog with the government of India to use his technology for enriching textbooks used by millions of students.
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Computer Sciences Department Chair, Grace Wahba
- Grace Wahba Professor of Computer Sciences
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- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Advising and Student Services
- Undergraduate Coordinator
Shelby joined the UW and the Department of Computer Sciences in January 2020. Prior to her job at UW, she worked in the Madison Metropolitan School District as a high school counselor. Shelby has a bachelor's in special education from UW-Eau Claire and a master's degree in school counseling from Concordia University.
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- Pre - Award and Post - Award Research Program Manager
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- Chairman
- Department Chair and Professor
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- Professor and Associate Chair, Professional Programs
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- Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Thomas (Tom) Ball (MS '89, PhD '93) is a principal researcher and manager at Microsoft Research. Tom initiated the influential SLAM software model-checking project with Sriram Rajamani, which led to the creation of the Static Driver Verifier tool for finding defects in Windows device drivers. Tom is a 2011 ACM Fellow for "contributions to software analysis and defect detection." As a manager, he has nurtured research areas such as automated theorem proving, program testing/verification and empirical software engineering.
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- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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- Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
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- Department of Biostatistics
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- Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering