Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

This summer, I was excited to be chosen as a new Postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory 's Information Sciences Division (CCS-3) . Being accepted for the position helped me focus my attention on quickly finishing and defending my dissertation . I appreciate the support of my committee -- Michael Nelson , Michele Weigle , Sampath Jayarathna , Jian Wu , Jose Padilla , and Martin Klein  -- without whom this would not have been possible. By finishing my dissertation this summer, I could accept the Postdoc position this fall and begin working with my new mentor, Dr. Diane Oyen . Over the past few months, I have been working on new computer vision and image information retrieval research. Dr. Oyen strongly suggested submitting an application to the  Information Science & Technology Institute (ISTI) Postdoctoral Fellow  program. Each year, out of the hundreds of postdocs at LANL, only two are awarded this prestigious position. Last week, I discovered...

After successfully defending my Master's Thesis , I accepted a position as a Graduate Research Assistant at  Los Alamos National Laboratory  (LANL) Library's Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team .  I now work directly for  Herbert Van de Sompel , in collaboration with my advisor, Michael Nelson . Up to this point, I worked for years as a software engineer, but then re-entered academia in 2010 to finish my Master's Degree.  I originally just wanted to be able to apply for jobs that required Master's Degrees in Computer Science, but during my time working on my thesis, I discovered that I had more of a passion for the research than I had expected, so I became a  PhD student in Computer Science at Old Dominion University .  During the time of my Master's Degree, I had taken coursework that counts toward my PhD, so I am free to accept this current extended internship while I complete my PhD dissertation. LANL is a fascinating pla...