CRA-W Co-Chairs:

• Lori A. Clarke - Co-Chair
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
  

• Lori Pollock - Co-Chair
  
  Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
  

CRA-W Members and Projects:

• Nancy Amato - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
  
  Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
  
• Cecilia R. Aragon - Communications
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
• Carla Brodley
  
  Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
  
• Tracy Camp - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
  Colorado School of Mines
  
• Sheila Castañeda - Career Mentoring Workshops, - Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)
  
  Computer Science Department, Clarke College
  
• Joanne Cohoon
  University of Virginia
  
• Carla Ellis
  
  Computer Science Department, Duke University
  
• Faith Ellen - Canadian Distributed Mentoring Project (CDMP)
  
  University of Toronto
  
• Kathleen Fisher
  
  AT&T Labs Research
  
• Joan Francioni
  Department of Computer Science, Winona State University
  
• Maria Gini - Distributed Mentor Project (DMP)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
  
• Susanne E. Hambrusch
  
  Purdue University
  
• Mary Jean Harrold
  
  College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jessica Hodgins - Distributed Mentor Project (DMP)
  
  School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  
• Mary Jane Irwin - Steering Committee member, Awards and Nominations, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP), Governments Affairs member
  
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University
  
• Susan Landau - ResearcHers, Booklist
  
  Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
  
• Tessa Lau
  Staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center
  
• Margaret Martonosi - Editor of the Expanding the Pipeline Column
  
  Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  
• Renée J. Miller - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  
• Joann Ordille - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
  
  Avaya Labs
  
• Mary Lou Soffa - Affilites DMP Program, Grad Cohort Program, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP)
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
  
• Telle Whitney - Liaison with the Institute for Women in Technology
  
  Institute for Women in Technology
  

CRA-W Emerita Members:
Emerita status is bestowed upon retired members who made major contributions to CRA-W during their membership.

• Anne Condon
  
  University of British Columbia
• Fran Berman
  San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD
• Leah Jamieson
  
  Purdue University
• Marie Klawe
  
  Harvey Mudd College
  
• Nancy G. Leveson
  MIT
  

CRA-W Staff:

• Carla Romero - Director of Programs
  
  Computing Research Association
  
• Sarah Poon - Web Designer
• Aimée Vargas - CRA-W Webmaster
  

Mary Lou Soffa
Affiliates DMP, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP),
Grad Cohort Program
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia

Mary Lou Soffa received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977. Since that time, she has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Professor in the Computer Science Department. She served

as the Graduate Dean in Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh from 1991 through 1996. In 1999, she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. She also was elected an ACM Fellow in 1999. In 1987 she received an NSF Professorship for Women award.

She currently serves on the editorial board for IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, International Journal of Parallel Programming, Computer Languages and the South African Journal of Computing.

She serves as Vice President for the Computing Research Association (CRA) and also as co-chair of the CRA's Committee on the Status of Women in CSE. She is currently a member-at-large for ACM SIGBoard. She has served as conference chair, program chair and program committee member for conferences in both programming languages and software engineering. Her research interests include optimizing and parallelizing compilers, program analysis, and software tools for debugging and testing programs.