Dr. Barbara G. Ryder

Honors

• ACM Fellow, 1998
• ACM Presidential Award, 2008
• Elected ACM Vice President, 2010
• Elected ACM Secretary-Treasurer, 2008
• Graduate School Teaching Award, Rutgers Univeristy, New Brunswick, 2007
• Rutgers University Leader in Diversity Award, 2006
• Distinguished Program Committee Member Award, Conference on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2006
• CRA-W Distinguished Professor, 2004
• Professor of the Year, Computer Science Graduate Students Society (CSGSS) Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University, 2003
• ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, 2001
• Keynote Speaker, 19th Asia-Pacific Enginering Conference (APSEC 2012); ACM India Annual Conference, Hyderabad, India (2011); International Conference on Compiler Construction, Warsaw, Poland (2003)
• Best of PLDI Collection 1970-1996, Landi-Ryder PLDI '92

Research

My research group is informally referred to as PROLANGS@VT the PROgramming LANGuageS research group. A full listing of publications from the group is available from this website, including one in chronological order, latest first.

Current Grants

Blended Static/Dynamic Analysis for Performance Understanding and Improved Security of Framework-intensive Applications, NSF CPA-SEL.

IBM Open Collaboration Award, Software Quality. Detailed descriptions of the supported projects in PROLANGS, Blended Program Analysis for Performance Diagnosis (with Gary Sevitsky) and Semantic Change Impact Analysis (with Frank Tip, Marco Pistoia) are available.

Recruiting Female High School Students into Computer Science in VA/DC, Northrup Grumman, March 2012.

Professional Development and Networking Workshop for High School Teachers of CS, NCWIT and Microsoft Round 6 Seed Fund Award, April 2010.

Recruiting First-year Women and Minority College Students into CS, Lockheed Martin, Sept. 2009.

Recruting High School Women and Minorities into CS, Lockheed Martin, Sept. 2009

Talks/Lectures

Here is my keynote talk on Blended Analysis for JavaScript at APSEC 2012.

I was an invited instructor at ACACES 2007: Third International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems, in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2007. I taught a course in program analyses for object-oriented languages. My five lectures are available 2-up in PDF format here:

During September 2006, I delivered a lecture at the International School on Software Engineering at the University of Salerno, entitled "Practical Program Anlaysis for Object-oriented Software Tools", available in PDF format in two parts (1) and (2).

In April 2003, I was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Compiler Construction, Warsaw, Poland. My talk there on Dimensions of Precision in Reference Analysis of Object-oriented Languages is available in PDF with the animations as a 4.5Mb file or without the animations printed 2-up as a .5Mb file.

Teaching

Since assuming my department head duties at CS@VT, I have not taught a 'normal' lecture course. I did teach the graduate weekly research seminar in 2009-2010. The courses listed here were taught at Rutgers.

Here is my talk at the Software Engineering Education Symposium on on the Benefits of Peer Led Team Learning in CS.

During each of the academic years 2005-2008 at Rutgers, I led the Rutgers Emerging Scholars in Computer Science, a peer-led team-learning program in CS funded by the NSF. I was part of a consortium of eight universities on this grant. This program recruited incoming Rutgers students to take CS111 (CS1) supplemented by a 2 hour a week peer-led, group learning session, designed to enhance the learning of concepts and skills. This program aimed to attract new students from currently underrepresented groups in Computer Science and to build a learning community with them. We hoped to retain these students as Computer Science majors/minors and to acquaint them with possible careers in this field.

Courses Taught:

• 198:111 Introduction to Computer Science, last taught in Spring 2000. You can also view the syllabus of the version I taught in 1998
• 198:314 Principles of Programming Languages last taught in Fall 2007.
• 198:415 Compilers last taught in Spring 1999.
• 198:431 Software Engineering last taught in Fall 2006.
• 198:515 Programming Languages and Compilers I, last taught in Fall 2005.
• 198:516 Programming Languages and Compilers II, last taught in Spring 2006.
• 198:674 a graduate seminar on Large, Modern Object-oriented Applications: Tools for Analyzing, Testing, Debugging, and Performance Understanding taught in Spring 2005.
• 198:671 a graduate seminar on Object-oriented Programming Languages taught in Fall 1999.

Service

External: I continue to serve as a member of the ACM SIGSOFT ISSTA Steering Committee. I am a member of the NSF-funded ACM SIGSOFT IMPACT project that explores the impact of Software Engineering research on programming practice. As part of this project, I co-authored a paper with Mary Lou Soffa and Margaret Burnett, published in ACM TOSEM in October 2005, The Impact of Software Engineering on Modern Programming Languages.

Virginia Tech: I am serving as co-chair of the 2013 NCWIT VA/DC Regional Aspirations in Computing awards. I am a member of the ADVANCE-VT Faculty Advisory Committee and a member of the ADVANCE Portal Website Advisory Committee. I am a member of the search committee for a new Department Head in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Recent Program Committees

PLDI12, ISSTA10, ICSE09, FSE08, SCAM07

Recent Past Activities

I was elected Vice President of ACM from July 2010-June 2012, which means that I served on the ACM Executive Committee and ACM Council. I also chaired the ACM EC's Membership Task Force on Researchers/Academics in North America.

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