Dr. Cheryl Pope
work: +61 (08) 8303-5833
e-mail: cheryl@cs.adelaide.edu.au
www: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~cheryl/
Education
2008-ongoing (expected completion 2009)
The University of
Adelaide, School of Education
Graduate Certificate in Online Education
1994-2002
The University of
Adelaide, Department of Computer Science
PhD Computer Science
Thesis: Scheduling and Management of Real-Time
Communication in Point-To-Point Wide Area Networks
My research is focused in the areas of real-time
scheduling theory, QoS communication in WANs, and fault-tolerance for real-time networks.
1990
Syracuse University
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
M.S. (partial) Computer Science
Transferred from part-time MS program to move to
Australia and begin PhD studies
GPA (3.5 out of 4.0)
Graduate level courses taken include: High Performance Computer Architecture and Artificial Intelligence.
1985-1989
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering
(GPA 3.9 out of 5.0)(awarded 5.0 out of 5.0 on thesis
research)
Courses taken include: Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs, Artificial Intelligence, Computability & Complexity,
Computer Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Engineering Problem Solving, Computer Architecture, Circuit Design and Digital Signal Processing.
Positions Held
Nov 1993-present
The University of Adelaide, School of Computer Science
Lecturer Level B, Feb. 1997-present. Casual lecturing and marking 1993-1997.
Jan 1996-Jan 2001
Centre for Computer Systems and Software Engineering
The University of Adelaide
Training Director of CCSSE. Responsible for managment
and development of professional development courses. Represented the
Centre at talks with industry and community including the Local Government
Association and the Auditor General's office. Currently serving as a Training
Director and Member of the Board for the Centre.
Mar-Oct 1993
Defence Science and Technology Organisation - Software Engineer
Salisbury
Research and development contract in cataloging and indexing documents using AI natural language techniques. Designed and built program
for automatic classification of documents into defined subject categories.
Sep 1989-Jun 1992
Rome Laboratory - Computer Systems Engineer
(formerly Rome Air Development Center), Rome, NY
Researcher in the Distributed Systems Group. Main areas
of research: distributed operating systems, software development tools for
distributed systems, and real-time systems. Co-developed the Distributed
Application Instrumentation Tool for analysing program behaviour in distributed
heterogeneous environments. Active member of the real-time computing sub-group.
Teaching
- 2009 Recipient of Implementation Grant for Learning and Teaching Enhancements ($7K) - "Extending online resources and tools to support remote participation in on campus courses."
- Faculty participant in the 2009 University e-enhancement project with the course Computer Networks and Applications.
- 2008 Recipient of Faculty Prize for Teaching Excellence and the Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Recipient of Learning & Teaching Development Grant ($27K grant + $9K in-kind) - "leveraging an industry partnership to enhance the computer networking student experience" (2007-2008)
- Student Evaluation of Teaching: overall rating 2007: 6.0/7,
2000: 5.8/7, 1999: 5.5/7, 1998: 5.4/7 (continuous improvement, with
high overall ratings)
- New courses developed: Open Systems Client Server Computing (1997), Artificial Intelligence (1998), Computer Science 1 (conversion
to Java) (2000), Computer Networks and Applicatins (major redevelopment 2001), Internet Computing (2005), Mobile & Wireless Networks (2006)
- Completed Postgraduate students:
- I have supervised successfull student research at Honours, Masters and PhD levels.
Research
- Main areas of interest include computer networks,
real-time systems, distributed systems, and natural language processing. Educational research in pedagogy and on-line support of learning.
- Member of the Advanced Computing and Communication Research on Systems and Services (ACROSS) research group
- Member of the Educational Research Group of Adelaide (ERGA)
Community and Professional Contributions and Activities
- ICT Networking Breakfast for secondary Maths and Science teachers speaker. Following up with teachers to help them promote interest in science, technology, engineering and maths. (2009)
- Video interview on student expectations for International Programs office (2008)
- Organising Committee: The 14th Australian Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2001 - Adelaide), The 5th Annual
Australasian Conference on Parallel And Real-Time Systems (1998 - Adelaide)
- Invited speaker to high school students interested on
studying CS and special topics: including St. Peter's College (annual request),
Para Hills High School
- Association for Computing Machinery (Member)
- Special Interest Group in Data Communication (Member)
- Special Interest Group in Multimedia (Member)
- Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education(Member)
- Member of the Educational Research Group of Adelaide
- Prior Editor of the Real-Time Systems web pages of
the CSIRO SEweb project
Other Awards
- Australian Postgraduate Research Award (Priority
Level)for PhD studies at the University of Adelaide
- Student paper award PART '95
- student travel grant by the Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM) to attend SIGCOMM '96 at Stanford University, California, U.S.A. (sole international recipient)
- Air Force Commendation Medal for research and
development on distributed instrumentation tools.
- 4-year Air Force Scholarship for BS studies at MIT
- Valedictorian award (1st in class) at Eastern
Wayne High School (1985)
Additional Professional Training
- Cisco Certified Network Associate
- Workplace Discrimination and Harassment - Legal Compliance,
2003
- Postgraduate Supervision Workshop, 2000
- Teaching at University, 1998
- Effective Presentation Seminar, Terry Grimond, 1996
- OSI model and Internet Protocols, US Air Force Academy,
1 week course, 1990
- Cronus Distributed Operating Environment, 1 week,
BBN corporation, 1990
Publications and Talks
Refereed:
C. Pope, "Experiences with Building Intrinsic Motivation Through Self Directed Projects" (revised), ERGO journal, Volume 1, Number 2, February 2009, pp. 51-58.
C. Pope, "Experiences with Building Intrinsic Motivation Through Self Directed Projects", ERGA Conference, Adelaide, September 2008
C. Pope, H. Detmold, D.S. Stirling and F. Vaughan, "Adapting
to New Environments: Rethinking the TCP/IP Stack", Proceedings of the International
Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, June 2003 pp. 519-522 CSREA Press
C. Pope "Scheduling and Management of Real-Time Communication in Point-To-Point
Wide Area Networks", University of Adelaide, PhD Thesis, May 2002.
C. Pope "Delay Bounds for Non-Rate Controlled Real-Time Traffic in
Multi-Hop Networks", Proceedings of the 5th Australasian Conference on Parallel
and Real-Time Systems, Adelaide, September 1998 pp. 225-236 Springer
C. Pope and J. Yantchev"Computing
Tighter Delay Bounds for Non-Rate Controlled FIFO Networks by means of a more
Detailed Traffic Model",Proceedings of the Third Australasian Parallel
and Real-Time Conference, Brisbane, September 1996
C. Pope and J. Yantchev "The Scheduling
of Fault Recovery for Real-Time Channels", Proceedings of the Second
Australasian Parallel and Real-Time Conference, Perth, September 1995
C. Pope and J. Yantchev "Fault-tolerant
Real-time Communication with Reduced Resource Overhead",Proceedings
of the Australian Computer Science Conference, January 1995
C. Pope and J. Yantchev "Performance Evaluation of
Fault-tolerant Routing Protocols for Real-Time Channels", Proceedings
of the First Australasian Parallel and Real-Time Conference, Melbourne,
July 1995
Non-refereed:
C. Pope, H. Detmold, D.S. Stirling and F. Vaughan, "A Network
Stack Compliant to the Needs of New Environments", University of Adelaide,
Dept. of Computer Science, Technical Report TR-2003-01.
C. Pope, "Experiences with the Use of IT in Teaching Internal Report on
student & staff response to and experiences with introduction of web
and CD-ROM use in support of courses"
P. Pusopa, C. Pope and J. Yantchev "Real-Time Communication
in ATM Networks", University of Adelaide, Dept. of Computer Science, Technical
Report TR-96-06
C. Pope "Automated Cataloging, Indexing and Classification
of Documents for Information Systems", DSTO Divisional Paper, ITD-93-21.
C. Pope, et.al. "A Review of Full-Text Retrieval Methods
and Systems", DSTO Divisional Paper, ITD-93-25.
C. Pope, T. Newton, V. Combs "Distributed Application Instrumentation
Tool", Rome Laboratory technical report, 1992.
C. Pope "Semantic Parsing of the Russian Language", Bachelor
of Science Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989
Public talks:
C. Pope, "Getting more from Moodle", Departmental Seminar, 3 August, 2009
C. Pope, "Architectures for providing QoS on the Internet
", October 2000, Departmental Seminar
C. Pope, "A Network Emulator for the Testing and Validation
of Internet Protocols and Traffic Models", Dec 2000, Melbourne-Adelaide Teletraffic Workshop
C. Pope, "A Discussion of the IETF Integrated Service Model
and it's Role in QoS", Dec 2000, Internet Research Forum
Referees
- Prof. David Suter, Head, School of Computer Science,
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005
- Prof. Chris Barter, Emeritus Professor, School of Computer Science,
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005
- Dr. Jay Yantchev, CEO, Australian Semiconductor Technology Company, Adelaide, SA 5000
- Dick Metzger, Head, Distributed Systems Group, Rome
Laboratory, Griffiss AFB, NY 13441-5700 U.S.A.