Eileen Kraemer
Background
Eileen Kraemer is an alumna of the doctoral program of the
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
of the College of Computing
at the
Georgia Institute of Technology
.
She received a B.A. in Biology from Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY) in
1980 and an M.S. in Computer Science from Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY)
in 1986. Her research interests include parallel and distributed systems, software visualization, parallel programming environments, performance modeling and
analysis, and computational biology. Her thesis research focuses on the
treatment of time and event order in the visualization of parallel and
distributed systems. She is
currently
an
assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science
of the
School of Engineering
and Applied Science
at
Washington University
Software Visualization -
Eileen works with the
Software Visualization Research Group.
Her thesis research is predicated on the belief that writing parallel programs
is a complex task and that visualization can help programmers develop intuition
about the execution of these programs. Visualization takes advantage of
our natural abilities to track moving objects, detect patterns, and spot
anomalies in these patterns. Displays that exploit these abilities can
help viewers gain insight into the correctness and efficiency of the program
under study.
Further, the most effective displays are those that closely match the programmer's mental model of the computation. Time and event order are critical factors in effective displays of concurrent computations. Altering these parameters can distinctly affect the appearance of the display and the degree to which the display matches the user's mental model, thus affecting the amount and type of information absorbed by the viewer.
As part of her thesis research, she developed a tool, the Animation Choreographer , a graphical, interactive tool that supports the visualization of parallel and distributed programs under a variety of temporal perspectives. These alternate perspectives (orderings) can provide the user with additional insight into the execution of the program under study.
On-line Program Monitoring and Steering - Eileen also worked on the
Falcon System
for online program monitoring,
visualization, and steering with Prof. Karsten Schwan,
Prof. John Stasko,
Greg Eisenhauer,
Weiming Gu, Niru Mallavarupu (Now at Transarc.),
Vernard Martin,
and Jeff Vetter. Her "piece of the action" involves the on-line reordering of events.
Computational Biology - In this project, Eileen worked with
Dr. Mark Borodovsky of the Biology department at Tech, developing
parallel algorithms for the multiple alignment of nucleosomal DNA
sequences.
Eileen T. Kraemer
c/o College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
internet: eileen@cc.gatech.edu