Margaret M. Fleck: Education and Experience

Education

B.A., Linguistics, May 1982, Yale University.

Summa cum laude, exceptional distinction in linguistics, Hadley prize (highest scholarship in social sciences). Senior thesis: ``Design options for a morphological analysis system'' (advisor: Judith Aissen).

M.S., Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, September 1985, Mass. Institute of Technology.

Thesis: ``Local Rotational Symmetries'' (advisor: J. Michael Brady).

Ph.D., Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, September 1988, Mass. Institute of Technology.

Thesis: ``Boundaries and Topological Algorithms,'' (advisors: J. Michael Brady and Harold Abelson). Minor: algebraic topology.

Visiting student, Keble College, Oxford University, October 1986-August 1987.

Employment

Summer 1979: Smith College, Northampton, MA, helping set up the new VAX system at the Science Center.

Summer employee in the linguistics and robotics departments at AT\&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ:

• 1980, 1982: syntactic parsing research under Mitchell P. Marcus.
• 1981: locating syllables in speech waveforms under Mark Y. Liberman.
• 1983: representing Finnish morphology under Janet Pierrehumbert.
• 1986: depth of objects from camera motion under Michael K. Brown.

BP Junior Research Fellow, St. Cross College and Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, September 1988 to September 1991 (supervisor: J. Michael Brady).

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, September 1991 to spring 1996.

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, spring 1996 to present.

Fellowships

Graduate fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation (1982-1987).

Grant from the AT&T Bell Laboratories Graduate Research Program for Women (1982-1988).

Advising

Supervisor or co-supervisor: 1 Ph.D. thesis, 3 MS theses, 8 MS/Ph.D. qual projects, 7 undergraduate research projects.

Reader: 4 Ph.D. theses, 5 MS theses.

Currently supervising (or jointly supervising): 5 students working on Ph.D. theses (one of whom should finish within a year), one student working on MS project, two new students getting started.

I also organize the weekly computer vision seminar (22c:397), which has run every term since fall 1993 (except fall 1994).

Service

I review papers for all the major journals in our field. I have also served on three NSF grant review panels.

I have been a member of our faculty assembly for the past three years. I have served various departmental committees: hiring (twice), undergraduate (twice), curriculum (twice), and research.

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