Professional Experience

                              Inspire, Innovate & Shape!

 

Naval Postgraduate School

Leadership positions: 

  • Education Innovation leader aiming to inspire faculty and students to be leaders in classroom innovation, shaping the future of DoD Education to support fleet-responsive learning wherever and whenever they are!  
  • PI: Campus of the Future lead (2022-present), part of the NPS' CRADA with Microsoft and in collaboration with NPS Foundation, to include Digital Classroom project, the adoption of Athena and of the Innovation Curriculum.  She leads a team of visionary educators known for and dedicated to supporting current and impactful education, committed to achieving academic excellence in a modern phygital (integration of physical & digital) environemnt. 
  • PI and Director of CHUNK Learning (2018-present), researching and implementing education methodologies that guide the learner through personalized educational experiences by constantly adapting learning paths based on information captured about the learner, catering to the DoD officers and civilians of the 21st century.
  • Founder and Director of the Academic Certificate in Network Science (2014-present), providing education in the use of mathematical methods for the analysis, understanding, and exploitation of complex networks, providing a thorough understanding of the underlying mathematics to correctly interpret and further develop practical methods, models, and approaches to problems involving complex networks.
  • Senior Advisor to the Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning and Advising (2021-2022), focused on identifying resources that promote best practices in Teaching and Learning supported by technology and based on proven achievement.  She identifies specific needs of the NPS T&L community to ensure the right tools are available to successfully accomplish the NPS educational mission.
  • Associate Provost for Graduate Education (2018-2021), founding and leading the Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Education that supports NPS' institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence, fostering the delivery of quality graduate education in a modern work environment.   Promoting quality, collaboration, forward-thinking, and innovation in Teaching and Learning her office aspires to (a) facilitate easier access to services in Teaching and Learning across NPS, (b) support NPS’s strategic plan and mission, and (c) empower students and faculty especially transitioning from before COVID, to during COVID, and then to after the COVID online emergency learning. 
  • Founder and Director of Teaching and Learning Commons (2018-2021), comprised of cross-organizational teams that engage with faculty, students and staff to connect experiential learning efforts and classrooms environments in order to support quality, forward-thinking, and innovation in Teaching and Learning: facilitate access to live and on-demand resources; promote innovation, communication, and collaboration; foster experimentation and innovation campus-wide through mini-grants and active learning classrooms; support NPS’s mission and strategic plan.
  • Project mananger for the Data Analytics Informing Teaching and Hybrid Learning (DAiTa HL 2021), leveraging NPS hybrid courses experience to promote flexibility and improvements in learning experiences at academic program, certificate, and course levels.
  • Lead for "Classroom 2020" WSCUC NPS' accreditation (2020). The NPS themes for WSCUC 2020 accreditation: Curriculum 2020 (designing and aligning NPS educational programs to the mission), Classroom 2020 (programs supporting classroom Teaching and Learning, including assessment), and Campus 2020 (activities supporting faculty, diversity, and collaboration).
  • Project manager for the Distance Learning Quality Initiative Phase 1 (DLQi 2020), developing teaching resources and educational experiences that emphasize course quality ​and support cohesive learning experiences.  
  • Project manager for the Classroom of the Future project (FLEx: 2018-2020) creating NPS classrooms that support active learning by using movable furniture to support multiple classroom configurations, multiple displays with wireless presentation capability allowing instructors and students to project their devices around the room, whiteboard capture capabilities to save and share whiteboarding activity.

Other service positions:

  • Chair of the "Chair Search Committee" (2007)

    The Flexible Learning Experience (FLEx) spaces support active learning in many ways including:

  • Movable furniture to support multiple classroom configurations
  • Multiple displays with wireless presentation capability, allowing instructors and students to project their devices around the room
  • Whiteboard capture capabilities to save and share whiteboarding activity
  • Member of the The Twentieth Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing organizing committee (2007)
  • Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of Scheduling (2007-2008)
  • NPS faculty council member -Math representative (2008-2013)
  • NPS Faculty Council Executive board member (2008)
  • Spring 2008 Southern California-Nevada Student Poster Contest (2008)
  • Mathfest Poster and Presentation contest judge (2008)
  • Member of the Faculty Council Scholarship Committee (2008-2010)
  • YMN and Joint Meetings/MathFest Liaison (2009-2010)
  • Chair of the Church Award committee (2009)
  • NPS Academic Council member -Math representative (2010-2013)
  • Chair of the Church Award committee (2011)
  • NPS Faculty Council Executive board member (2013)
  • Chair of the "Chair Search Committee" (2013)
  • Member of the Mathematics Performance Awards committee (2013)
  • NPS Alternate Faculty Council member -Math representative (2013-2014)
  • NPS Alternate Academic Council member -Math representative (2013-2014)
  • Member of the Church Award committee (2014)
  • Colloquia and Seminars Coordinator (2005-present)
  • Math Dept. webmaster (2008-present)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Graph Theory Notes of New York (2008-present)
  • Member of the Young Mathematicians Network Editorial Board (2008-present)
  • Member of the Bay Area Discrete Math (BAD Math) organizing committee (2014-present)
  • Associate Editors for the Journal of Graph Labeling (2015-present)
  • Network Science Summer mentor for United States Military Academy interns (2015)
  • Judge for the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (2015)
  • Summer mentor for Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP) at NPS through the Department of the Navy (2016)
  • Head Judge for the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (2016-2019).

Community Service

  • Child Care Development Center PPA member (on and off 2008-2014)
  • Monterey Mathletics volunteer (proctoring/grading in 2010 and 2013)
  • International School of Monterey science fair judge
  • Officer (Treasurer) on the Child Care Development Center PPA (2013-2014)
  • Officer (Secretary) on the Board of Directors at Bay View Academy (2013-2015)
  • Director on the Board of Directors at Bay View Academy (2013-2015)

Founder/Co-Founder of New Mathematical Organizations

  • 2018 Founder of the Teaching and learning Commons at the Naval Postgraduate School
  • 2018 CHUNK Learning
  • 2014 Founder and currently the director of the Academic Certificate in Network Science. 
  • 2009 Co-founder of the NorCal, HI and NV Section NExT

Board Membership (past and present)

  • Editorial Board of Graph Theory Notes of New York
  • Editorial Board of Young Mathematicians' Network
  • Naval Postgraduate School Faculty Executive Board
  • NorCal, HI and NV Section NExT editorial board

Program Committee Member for Conferences:

  • CSoNet
  • Complex Networks
  • CompleNet

 

Conference Sessions and Minisymposia Organization

  • 2000 Member of the 9th Quadrennial International Conference on graph theory, combinatorics, algorithms and applications organizing committee, Kalamazoo, MI
  • 2000-2008 Session Chair for the The Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Boca Raton, FL. (every year from 2000 to 2008)
  • 2007 Organizer and Session Chair for the International Conference on Information Technology: New Generation (ITNG 2007), Nevada
  • 2007 Organizer and Sessions Co-chair for the two Graph Theory Section at the MathFest, San Jose, CA
  • 2008 Organizer and Sessions Co-chair for the Graph Theory Section at the SIAM conference on Discrete Mathematics, Burlington, VT
  • 2008 Organizer and Chair of the Panel on applying for a grant for the Spring Southern California and Nevada MAA meeting, San Diego, CA
  • 2008 Co-coordinator for the Student Poster Session at the Northern California, Nevada, and Hawaii Section of the MAA, Sacramento, CA
  • 2008 Co-chair for the General Contributed Paper Session at the MathFest, Maddison, WI.
  • 2009 Co-organizer of the Panel on nding your nth job, n >1, at the Joint Meetings, Washington DC
  • 2009 Organizer and Chair for the Graph Theory Special Session at the MathFest, Portland, OR
  • 2010 Co-organizer of the Graph Theory Session at the Joint Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
  • 2010 Organizer and chair of "Applications of Graphs and Digraphs" minisymposium at the SIAM discrete math, Austin, TX.
  • 2010 Co-chair of the "Graph Theory and Geometry'' contributed paper session at the MathFest, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2010 Co-organizer of the "Mathfest Early Career'' Poster Session at the MathFest, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2011 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "Research Talks for Undergraduates", a new AMS session for the Joint Meetings, exposing undergraduate students to new research topics, at the Joint Meetings in New Orleans, LA.
  • 2011 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "New Topics in Graph Theory" AMS special session, at the Joint Meetings in New Orleans, LA.
  • 2011 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "Career Options for Undergraduates" MAA panel, at the Joint Meetings in New Orleans, LA.
  • 2012 Co-organizer and Co-chair of 3 "My Favorite Graph Theory Conjecture" AMS special sessions, at the Joint Meetings in Boston, MA
  • 2012 Organizer and Chair of 2 "New Trends in Graph Theory" AMS special sessions, at the Joint Meetings in Boston, MA
  • 2012 Co-organizer and Co-chair of 3 "My Favorite Graph Theory Conjecture" AMS special sessions, at the Joint Meetings in Boston, MA
  • 2012 Co-organizer and Co-chair of 3 "My Favorite Graph Theory Conjecture" AMS special sessions, at the SIAM on Discrete Math in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • 2014 Co-organizer and Co-chair of 3 "My Favorite Graph Theory Conjecture" AMS special sessions, at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 Co-organizer and Co-chair of 3 "New Trends in Graph Theory" AMS special sessions, at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "Undergraduate Internships and Research Experience for Undergraduates" MAA panel, at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "Career Options for Undergraduate Mathematics Majors" MAA panel, at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "What Experiences Matter on your Resume?" MAA panel, at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "Network Science for National Defense" symposium as part of the NetSci2014, Berkeley, CA.
  • 2016 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "NetSciEd" symposium as part of the NetSci2016, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2017 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "NetSciEd" symposium as part of the NetSci2017, Indianapolis, IN.
  • 2018 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "NetSciEd" symposium as part of the NetSci2018, Paris, France.
  • 2019 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "NetSciEd" symposium as part of the NetSci2019, Burlington, VT.
  • 2020 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "NetSciEd" symposium as part of the NetSci2020, online.
  • 2021 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "NetSciEd" symposium as part of the NetSci2021, online.
  • 2022 Co-organizer and Co-chair of "NetSciEd" symposium as part of the NetSci2021, online.

Western Michigan University

  • 1998-1999 Treasurer of the Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honorary Society.
  • 1999-2000 Honorary President of the Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honorary Society.
  • 2000 Conference Assistant for the Ninth International Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Applications.
  • 1999-2000 President for Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honorary Society.
  • 2000-2001 Student Representative for the Undergraduate Mathematics Committee.
  • 2001-2002 Mathematics Department Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Student Advisory Committee.
  • 2001-2002 Student Representative to the Graduate Mathematics Committee.
  • 2002-2003 Mathematics Department Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Student Advisory Committee.
  • 2002-2003 Graduate Representative to Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honorary Society.
  • 2002-2003 Student Representative to the Graduate Mathematics Committee.
  • 2002-2003 Graduate Student Advisory Committee Representative to Graduate Financial Advisory Committee.
  • 2003-2004 Mathematics Department Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Student Advisory Committee.
  • 2003-2004 Technology Committee Graduate Student Representative.
  • 2003 Graduate Representative to Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honorary Society.
  • 2004 Web Coordinator to Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honorary Society.
  • 2003-2004 Mathematics Graduate Mentor.
  • 2004-2005 Graduate Student Advisory Committee Representative to Graduate Financial Advisory Committee.
  • 2004-2005 Mathematics Department Graduate Student Representative to Graduate Student Advisory Committee.
  • 2004-2005 Web Coordinator to Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honorary Society.
  • 2004-2005 Mathematics Graduate Mentor.
  • 2004-2005 Chair of the Public Relation Graduate Student Advisory Committee.
  • 2004-2005 Graduate Student Representative to the University Assessment Steering Committee.