Curriculum Vitae

Contact:isabelle AT eecs. Add .berkeley.edu to complete.

Research Interests

Graph Theory, Graph Clustering, Algorithms

Education

2008 - Now
University of California, Berkeley
Enrolled in PhD program in Computer Science

2006 - 2008
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Masters of Science in Computer Science, May 2008

2003 - 2005
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Master of Arts in Mathematics, May 2005

1999 - 2003
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA USA
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics with minors in Computer Science and Philosophy, May 2003
Graduated Cum Laude with Distinction from the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted

Honors and Awards

2008
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2008
NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowship

2007 - 2008
NPSC Fellowship supported by the NSA

2007 - 2008
Google Anita Borg Scholar

2003
Ashley Dulac Memorial Mathematics Awards
Awarded to the top Math Major at Mary Baldwin College

2002
PEG Merit Scholarship at Mary Baldwin College

2000 - 2003
Honor's List at Mary Baldwin College

2000 - 2003
Leadership Scholarship in Mathematics and the Sciences at Mary Baldwin College

2000 - 2003
Navas Family Named Scholarship at Mary Baldwin College

1998
Australian Mathematics Competition - High Distinction in Junior Division

Academic Experience

Fall 2009
Teaching Assistant for CS 70 - Discrete Math for Dr David Tse and Dr Satish Rao

Summer 2006 - May 2008
Research Assistant for Dr Nina Mishra
I worked on clustering algorithms and problems in privacy preserving data mining.

Spring 2007
Teaching Assistant for CS 302 - Discrete Math II for Dr Nina Mishra

Fall 2006
Teaching Assistant for CS 216 - Data and Program Representation for Dr Michele Co

Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
Instructor for Math 121: Applied Business Calculus 1 at University of Virginia
Course Coordinator for Spring 2005

Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Math 131-132 Calculus 1 and Calculus 2 for Prof. Daria Giffen at UVa.

Spring 2003
TA for CS 180: Intro to Computer Science for Prof. Brian Arthur at Mary Baldwin College

Publications

Clustering Social Networks (Nina Mishra, Robert Schreiber, Isabelle Stanton, Robert E. Tarjan) Internet Mathematics to appear.

Clustering Social Networks (Nina Mishra, Robert Schreiber, Isabelle Stanton, Robert E. Tarjan) The 5th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph, WAW2007. LNCS, vol 4863, pp. 56-67.

Crossing Numbers of Some Twisted Toroidal Grid Graphs (Abbie Foley, Rachel Krieger, Adrian Riskin and Isabelle Stanton) Bulletin of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications 36 (2002) p80-88

Talks

Clustering Social Networks at Workshop for Women in Machine Learning, Oct 2007

Guest Lecturer for David Evans' Spring 2008 CS 302 class on NP-Complete Problems

Professional Experience

June 2006 - Sept 2006
Webmaster for Astronomy Department at UVa
Developed online web applications to handle reservations and lab signups using PHP and SQL as well as redesigning www.astro.virginia.edu

Oct 2004 - Oct 2006
WNRN Radio
I have been the office manager, webmaster, accountant, graphic design artist, supervisor of bi-annual fundraisers, college music director, punk music director, member of the music staff and DJ for varying lengths of time. I created an online traffic system to schedule underwriting announcements and create program logs using PHP, MySQL and fPDF.

Fall 2000 - Present
Tutor
I have tutored over 100 students in courses ranging from Pre-Algebra to Multivariate Calculus and Computer Science through Mary Baldwin College (Fall 2000 - Spring 2003), privately and through Math Advantage Tutoring (Jan 2006 - May 2008)

Fall 2000 - Spring 2003
Manager of Student Workers at the Computer Information Center at Mary Baldwin College
I troubleshot student, lab and faculty PCs as well as operating the help desk and training the other workers. While interning over the summer in 2002 I set up all the PC and Macintosh labs on campus as well as setting up a Kerberos server for Linux machines.

Community Involvement

May 2009 - Present
Member of the CSGSA

Aug 2006 - May 2008
Theory Tsar
I organized UVa's theory lunch meetings

Aug 2006 - May 2008
Treasurer for UVa's Chapter of ACM-W

Jan 2000 - May 2003
Treasurer for Mary Baldwin's Chapter of Amnesty International

Jan 2000 - May 2001
Treasurer for Mary Baldwin's Student Fine Arts Association

Reviewer for: COLT '09, KDD '08, AAAI '08, Information Processing Letters

Articles

May 6, 2008 U.Va. Graduate Students Secure Esteemed NSF Fellowships Uva Today

Apr 19, 2007 Two U.Va. Engineering Students Receive 2007 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships UVa Today

May 20, 2005 "Numbers Make Sense to Her" Inside UVA

Oct 24, 2003 "Teen Grad Students Excel in Academics" Inside UVA

Sept 20, 1999 "The Littlest Freshman of All" US News and World Report

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