Dawn J. Lawrie

Dawn J. Lawrie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Loyola College in Maryland

Computer Science Department
Loyola College in Maryland
4501 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21210

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Donnelly Science Center 125b
(410) 617-2140
(410) 617-2157
lawrie<at>cs<dot>loyola<dot>edu

Current Classes (Summer 2009)

Computer Science RPCS Program

Past Classes

Spring 2009 CS120 - Computers, Robots, and Minds CS302 - Data Structures and Algorithms II	Fall 2008 CS295 - Discrete Structures CS496 - Computer Science Project I CS610 - Discrete Math & Algorithm Analysis
Spring 2008 CS120 - Computers, Robots, and Minds CS302 - Data Structures and Algorithms II	Fall 2007 CS111 - Introduction to Computing with Software Applications CS484 - Artificial Intelligence	Spring 2006 CS111 - Introduction to Computing with Software Applications CS774 - Human Computer Interaction
Fall 2005 CS484 - Artificial Intelligence CS630 - Computing Fundamentals I	Spring 2005 CS302 - Data Structures & Algorithms II CS630 - Computing Fundamentals I CS631 - Computing Fundamentals II	Fall 2004 CS201 - Computer Science I CS485 - Database Management Systems
Summer 2004 CS630 - Computing Fundamentals I	Spring 2004 CS201 - Computer Science I CS630 - Computing Fundamentals I	Fall 2003 CS301 - Data Structures & Algorithms I CS630 - Computing Fundamentals I

Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Amherst, MA
Ph.D. in computer science	September 2003
Ph.D. thesis: Language Models for Hierarchical Summarization. Advisor: W. Bruce Croft
(Presentation, Proposal, and Demo using Google Search Engine)
Masters in computer science	December 2000
Masters thesis: Discovering and Comparing Topic Hierarchies . Advisor: W. Bruce Croft

Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH
A.B. with high honors in computer science; minor in chemistry	June 1997
Honors thesis: Self-Organizing File Cabinet. ( appendix of figures ) Advisor: Daniela Rus
Presidential Scholar
Received two citations for academic excellence in computer science courses

Work Experience

Loyola College in Maryland	Baltimore, MD
Assistant Professor	July 2003 to present
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science. Research Interests Investigating how information retrieval techniques can improve software engineering tools that analyze source code Improve users' ability to find digital information through better organizationsl methods
Computer Sciences Corporation	Falls Chruch, VA
Consultant	October 2004 to July 2005
Designed and executed a user study of the application VisCS which automatically creates topic hierarchies using statistical models
University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Amherst, MA
Research Assistant	September 1998 to July 2003
Developed techniques to automatically create topic hierarchies using statistical models of text for a large set of documents.
Lecturer	September 2002 to December 2002
Delivered 2 lectures a week, conducted office hours, and problem solving sessions for the Data Structures course in JAVA programming language. Assisted in the development of lectures, written and programming assignments, and tests.
Teradyne, Inc.	Boston, MA
Software Engineer	July 1997 to August 1998
Developed a plan to convert the user interface of a large software product from XView, an outdated design model, to Motif by porting one interface, estimating the time required for over 100 other interfaces, and identifying potential problem areas. Presented the plan to the divisional Vice President.
Software Engineer Internship	April 1996 to August 1996
Implemented a graphical user interface that helped customers configure a technical instrument.
Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH
Teaching Assistant	September 1996 to December 1996
Helped students become better programmers by diligently reading and extensive commenting of their programs.
Presidential Scholar Research Assistant	June 1995 to December 1995
Developed a navigation system for mobile agents that interact with multiple computers to find internet services.
Organic Chemistry Research Assistant	January 1994 to May 1994
Improved the output of experiments previously performed by graduate students, assisted in the purification of new chemicals, and maintained a detailed record of findings.
Western Pathology Consultants	Reno, NV
Programmer	June 1994 to August 1994
Improved the billing system written in DBase IV to make the billing office more efficient.

Publications

Refereed Publications

D. Binkley and D. Lawrie. Information Retrieval Applications in Software Development. In Encyclopedia of Software Engineering (P. Laplante, ed.), Taylor & Francis LLC, (to appear), 2009.
D. Binkley and D. Lawrie. Information Retrieval Applications in Software Maintenance and Evolution. In Encyclopedia of Software Engineering (P. Laplante, ed.), Taylor & Francis LLC, (to appear), 2009.
D. Binkley, D. Lawrie, S. Maex, and C. Morrell. Impact of Limited Memory Resources. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2008.
D. Lawrie, C. Morrell, H. Feild, and D. Binkley. Effective Identifier Names for Comprehension and Memory. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal, 3(4), 2007.
D. Lawrie, H. Feild, and D. Binkley. Extracting Meaning from Abbreviated Identifiers. In Proceedings of Seventh IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2007.
D. Binkley, H. Feild, D. Lawrie, and M. Pighin. Software Fault Prediction using Language Processing. In Proceedings of Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference, 2007.
D. Lawrie, H. Feild, and D. Binkley. Quantify Identifier Quality: An Analysis of Trends. Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 12(4), 2007.
D. Lawrie, H. Feild, and D. Binkley. An empirical study of rules for well-formed identifiers. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, 19(4), 2007.
H. Field, D. Binkley, and D. Lawrie. An Empirical Comparison of Techniques For Extracting Concept Abbreviations from Identifiers. Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2006), Dallas, Texas, USA, November 2006.
D. Lawrie, H. Feild, and D. Binkley. Syntactic Identifier Conciseness and Consistency. Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 2006.
D. Lawrie, C. Morrell, H. Feild, and D. Binkley. What's in a Name? A Study of Identifiers . 14th International Conference on Program Comprehension, Athens, Greece, June 2006, pp. 3-12.
D. Lawrie, H. Feild, and D. Binkley. Leveraged Quality Assessment using Information Retrieval Techniques. 14th International Conference on Program Comprehension, Athens, Greece, June 2006, pp. 149-158.
D. Lawrie and W. B. Croft. Generating Hierarchical Summaries for Web Searches. SIGIR 2003 Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2003. Long Version
D. Lawrie, W.B. Croft, and A. L. Rosenberg. Finding Topic Words for Hierarchical Summarization. In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR01), New Orleans, September 9-13, 2001, pp. 349-357.
V. Lavrenko, M. Schmill, D. Lawrie, P. Ogilvie, D. Jensen, and J. Allan. Language Models for Financial News Recommendation. In the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM00), Washington, DC, November 6-11, 2000, pp. 389 - 396.
V. Lavrenko, M. Schmill, D. Lawrie, P. Ogilvie, D. Jensen, and J. Allan. Mining of Concurrent Text and Time Series. In Proceedings of Workshop on Text Mining at KDD 2000 Conference, Boston, August 20, 2000, pp. 37-44.
D. Lawrie and W. B. Croft. Discovering and Comparing Hierarchies. In Proceedings of RIAO 2000 Conference, Paris, April 12-14, 2000, pp. 314-330.
D. Lawrie and D. Rus. A Self-Organized File Cabinet. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM99), Kansas City, MO, November 2-6, 1999, pp 499-506.

Unrefereed Publications

D. Lawrie. A Relative Entropy Approach to Contructing Hierarchical Summaries, Loyola College in Maryland Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS-TR-07-516. 2007.
M. Sanderson and D. Lawrie. Building, Testing, and Applying Concept Hierarchies. In Croft, W. B., Advances in Information Retrieval. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Service

Professional
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems	March 2005
Vendor Chair for The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges 2004 Eastern Conference	September 2003 to October 2004
Reviewer for Human Language Technologies Conference 2004	November 2003 to February 2004
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Internet Computing	September 2002
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems	August 2002
Program Committee member for Mobile Agents and Wireless Access at the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference - May 2001	September 2000 to December 2000
College
Athletic Committee	September 2004 to present
Common Text Committee	December 2004 to present

Last updated August, 2003