Elaine Wenderholm

Education

• PhD Computer Science, Syracuse University, New York, May 1998. Dissertation: "Automatic Data Partitioning for a Parallel Language" Advisor: Ernest E. Sibert.
• MS Clinical Chemistry, University of Buffalo, SUNY, New York.
• BA Chemistry SUNY College at Oswego, New York.

Awards

• EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Grant Award (4/00-4/02) with Boyce Thomson Institute (Cornell University) $899,606. A Toolbox for Assembling Spatially-Explicit Multimedia Ecological Models from Reusable Components

Professional Service

• NSF CCLI/CS Summer 2002 Panel Review Member
  (Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement/Computer Science)
• NSF CISE/ITR 2001 Panel Review Member
  (Computer and Information Science and Engineering/Information Technology Research)
• NSF CISE/EI 2000 Panel Review Member
  (Computer and Information Science and Engineering/Educational Initiative)
• NSF CISE/ITW 2000 Panel Review Member
  (Computer and Information Science and Engineering/Information Technology Workforce)
• OOPSLA 2000 Referee

College Service

• Founding advisor to Women in Computing, an SA Organization

Academic Employment and Courses Taught

• Associate Professor. Computer Science Department, SUNY College at Oswego, NY. 9/98-present.
  Courses Taught: CSC 120(ISC 150), CSC 221, CSC 222, CSC 241, CSC 365, CSC 454, CSC 554, CSC/BIO 457, CSC 420, HCI 520, CSC 480, ISC 110.
• Assistant Professor. Computer Science, Onondaga Community College NY. 9/96-5/98. Courses Taught: Introduction to Programming, Data Structures.

Industrial/Research Employment

• Consultant CACI, Rome Labs, Fall 2008
• Senior Software Engineer. GE (now Lockheed Martin) Syracuse, NY.
• Senior Programmer. Instruments for Cardiac Research, Syracuse NY.
• Visiting Exchange Scientist Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Frankfurt, Germany.
• Clinical Laboratory Technologist. Oswego County Laboratory, NY.
• Technical Specialist. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Medical Research, Upton, NY.

Recent Journal Publications

1. Elaine Wenderholm. A Java-based framework for parallel ecosystem simulation and modeling. Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol 20, Issue 9, pp. 1081-1100 Sept 2005.
2. Elaine Wenderholm. Challenges and the Elements of Success in Undergraduate Research. ACM Inroads, SIGCSE Bulletin Vol 36, Issue 4, pp. 73-75, December 2004. Also published in Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE-WGR'04).
3. JR Tallent, JR Birge, C-F Zhang, E Wenderholm, RR Birge. Conformational energetics and excited state level ordering in 11-cis retinal. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 56(6):935-952, 1992.
4. JR Tallent, E Wenderholm , LA Findsen, GC Fox, RR Birge. Molecular Dynamics of the Primary Photochemical Event in Rhodopsin. J. American Chemical Society, 14:1581-1592, 1992.

Published Technical Reports

1. E Wenderholm. A Domain-Specific Parallel Programming System. II. Automatic Data Partitioning. Technical Report SU-CIS-95-2, Computer and Information Science, Syracuse University, May 1995.
2. E Wenderholm, M Beck. A Domain-Specific Parallel Programming System. I.Design and Application to Ecological Modelling. Technical Report SCCS-640, Syracuse Center for Computational Science, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, September 1994.

Invited Talks

1. Why are there so few female computer scientists? Women's Studies Luncheon Seminar Series, SUNY Oswego, April 4, 2002. (ps | pdf)

Professional Certifications

• Permanent NYS Teaching Certification, Secondary Education, Chemistry.
• American Society of Clinical Pathologists, Chemist.

Professional Organizations

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP)