Brigadier General Jody Daniels (Ph.D. '97) will receive the 2014 campus Distinguished Alumni Service Award at the Massachusetts State House in April. She is a Deputy Director (J2 Intelligence and Knowledge Development) currently on active duty. More details on her award in our next issue.
Carla Brodley (Ph.D. '94), was named to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology study group in 2013 for a three-year term. The highly selective ISAT advisory group supports DARPA's technology offices, providing continuing and independent assessment of the state of advanced information science and technology, and their relationship to Department of Defense issues. Brodley is a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University. She was Chair of the Department in the years 2010-2013.
Byron Wallace's (B.S. '06) thesis, "Machine Learning in Health Informatics: Making Better use of Domain Experts," was selected as the runner up for the 2013 ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award. He received his Ph.D. from Tufts University in 2012 and was advised by Carla Brodley. He is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Health Services and Public Policy, Center for Evidence-based Medicine, at Brown University.
CS alum and CSCF staffer David Korpiewski (B.S. '00) has started an aerial photography business, TransAerial (www.transaerial.com), which uses radio controlled drones to capture high definition video and pictures from the air.