Workshop Committee co-Chair: International Conference on Software Engineering: 2022
Program Committee co-Chair: International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC: 2021
Program Committee co-Chair: International Conference on Software Engineering, SEIS: 2020
Committee co-chair for FSE 2020 test time of award.
Program Committee co-Chair: International Conference on Software Engineering, NIER track: 2019
Program Committee co-Chair: International Conference on Global Software Engineering (VL/HCC): 2017
Program Committee co-Chair: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human Centered Computing (VL/HCC): 2017
Graduate Consortium Chair: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages & Human Centered Computing (VL/HCC), 2015, 2016
Workshop Chair: ACM/ IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE): 2015
Guest editor, Special Issue on Software Engineering from a Social Network Perspective, Springer Open Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), 2015
Formal Demonstration Chair: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): 2014
Student Volunteer Chair: Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): 2010
Editorial Board for Transactions on Software Engineering: 2019-present
Steering Committee: Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE): 2017-present
Computer Human Interaction (CHI): 2008, 2009, 2010
Book Chapter in Collaborative Software Engineering: 2008
Other Activities
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award selection committee: 2019-2020
ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Awards Committee: 2019-2020
Co-Director of GenderMag.org: 2018-present
Steering Committee: Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)
Steering Committee: International Conference on Global Software Engineering (2016-2018)
Director of End Users Shaping Effective Software (EUSES) consortium, 2015
Executive committee member of End Users Shaping Effective Software (EUSES) consortium, which includes eight universities and two industrial collaborators: 2013-2015
Big Red Summer Camp on 3D Animation and Virtual World Creations: using Alice; 2011
Outreach Activities
Panelist and Program Committee member
Invited Panel: Gender Equality Workshop, collocated with ICSE, May 2019
New Faculty Symposium, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2013
Program Workshop and Panel committee for Grace Hopper (Women in Computer Science) Conference, 2012
Graduate Student Research Symposium, University of California, Irvine, June 2006
Graduate School Information Panel, Women in Computer Science (WICS), University of California, Irvine, April 2006
CS Summer Camp Instructor
Big Red Summer Camp on “3-D Animation and Virtual World Creation” as part of Nebraska 4H Youth Development Program, June 12-17, 2011
COSMOS (California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science, UCI); “Cluster 5 – Introduction to Computer Science”, June 20-25 2005
Encouraging Diversity
Participated as a mentor in the Hour of Code Workshops as part of the Nebraska Women in Science Con-ference (2015).
Founded and guiding the ACM-W chapter for Women in Computer Science in the Computer Science De-partment at UNL, 2015.
Designed and guided the implementation of Kinection – an application that allows users to paint (Jackson Pollock-style) by using gesture-detection software implemented through Microsoft Kinect. The objective of the application is to make science and art interesting to middle- and high-school students. The application was used as an interactive exhibit at the Sheldon Museum – a nationally accredited museum in Nebraska (June 2012), where it was very popular with youth and children. Since then, our department has showcased the application during recruitment activities. It has also been presented at the MINK WIC (Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas Women In Computing) event held in Kansas City (2013), at the UNL Middle School College Access outreach program (2014), and at the TEDxYouth program geared towards high school students in Lincoln. The application has also been requested to be showcased at the Walton School Art Show in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
As part of the BRAID (Building Recruiting And Inclusion for Diversity) program, a consortium of fifteen universities to increase diversity in Computer Science, I am in charge of guiding a group of fifteen CS students to attend the Grace Hopper Conference, October 2014.
Visited middle schools in Lincoln area as part of NCWIT (National Center for Women in Information Technology) GEM (Girl Empowerment and Mentoring) program to encourage middle school students to pursue careers in computer science, February 2012.
Judged essays as part of NCWIT GEM program, where middle school students are paired with undergraduate students who mentor the (middle school) students in writing essays on a technology related topic and the winner is provided a scholarship for attending the CSE department – March 2011, 2012.
Participated in MINK – WIC (Minnesota, Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas – Women in Computing) career fair, Kansas City, MI, October 2011.
Participated in “Ask a Scientist Night” to encourage middle school students to pursue careers in computer science at Irvine, October 2006, 2007.
Invited talk at Brea Olinda High School to encourage high-school students to pursue career in computer science at Brea, CA, USA, February 2006.
