Jeannie Albrecht

	Jeannie Albrecht Professor and Dept Chair Department of Computer Science Williams College Office: TCL 305 Phone: 413-597-4251 Email: jeannie AT cs.williams.edu
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General Info

I was born and raised in Baltimore, MD making me an Orioles and Ravens fan. In 1997 I graduated from Patapsco High School in Dundalk, MD. After high school, I went to Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA, where I received a BS in Math and Computer Science in 2001. In 2003 I completed an MS in Computer Science at Duke University in Durham, NC. Finally, in 2007 I earned a PhD in Computer Science from UCSD in San Diego, CA. My thesis advisors were Dr. Amin Vahdat and Dr. Alex C. Snoeren, and my thesis can be found here.

I am a Professor of Computer Science at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. I occasionally spend time at UMass Amherst as an Adjunct Professor. I have studied computer forensics, mobile application management, and energy management/monitoring systems in smart homes. I am grateful for the support provided by my 2014 NSF EAGER award, 2009 NSF CAREER award, and the GENI project. I am also interested in computer science pedagogy. Since 2021, I have been developing computer science curricular materials for children in elementary school. When I'm not working, I enjoy spending time with my family and participating in a variety of outdoor activities, including (but not limited to) ultimate frisbee, skiing, soccer, basketball, and kayaking. In my past life, I was also an excellent surfer.

You can find a brief professional bio here.

Videos:
- Daring Change video about sustainability and the liberal arts
- Faculty lecture series on occupancy prediction in a smart home
- Info about the Williams Summer Science Program

Teaching and Advising

Course Webpages

CSCI 102T: The Socio-Techno Web (F12, F15)
CSCI 134: Introduction to Computer Science (F07, S10, S16, F19, F21, S22, F22)
CSCI 136: Data Structures and Advanced Programming (F08, S09, F09, S12, S13, S14)
CSCI 237: Computer Organization (F16, S17, S18, S22, S24)
CSCI 339: Distributed Systems (S08, F09, S12, S14, S16, F17, S20, S23, F24)
CSCI 432: Operating Systems (S09, S13, S17, F18, S19, F23)
CSCI 10: Untangling the Web: A Social Analysis of the Internet (W08)

Advising Info

CS Major Planning Worksheets

Research

Past Workshop Info

GENI Regional Workshop - Sept 2015
Intro to GENI Workshop - Nov 2014
Workshop on Prototyping and Deploying Experimental SDXs - June 2014
GENI Education Workshop - Oct 2013 (CFP)
Distributed Systems Education Workshop - July 2012 (NSF award page)

Past and Present Projects

Summer Lego Robotics Lab 2023
CS Curriculum for Kids
Lego Robotics Camp 2021
Monitoring and visualizing energy use in a living building
Energy management systems for smart homes (with LASS group at UMass)
Digital forensics at UMass
Supporting experiment workflows on GENI
Distributed application management with Plush and Gush
PlanetLab application management and visualization with Nebula
PlanetLab resource discovery with SWORD
High bandwidth data dissemination using Bullet and RanSub

A full list of my publications can be found here.

Personal Pages
Husband (David Irwin) Family (Aug 2017) Kids (Oct 2018) Son (June 2015) Daughter (June 2015) Dogs (Lucy (Oct 2011) Linus (Nov 2018) Extended family (June 2015) Miscellaneous Pictures (password required)