Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.
Lori Pollock is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Computer and Information Science at University of Delaware. Her research focuses on code and software artifact analysis for software evolution and maintenance, software testing, energy-efficient software, and computer science education. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, well known for her research to help programmers maintain correct software as it evolves over time, by automating tedious, error-prone program analyses that provides useful information for searching, understanding, and testing programs.
She is noted for her national, state, and university leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as an active board member of the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) since 2001 and was the Co-Chair from 2005-2009. In those roles, she has organized and participated in many mentoring workshops for graduate students, faculty, and industry researchers of underrepresented groups in computing. She was on the board when CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Public Service Award by the National Science Board in 2005, and when the CRA-W was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics in 2004. She also currently serves as Co-Chair of CRA Committee on Education (CRA-E) where she has co-led activities to broaden the undergraduate research pipeline and supporting teaching track faculty. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s E. A. Trabant Award for Women’s Equity, and College of Engineering Deans Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement.
Dr. Pollock has led significant efforts in undergraduate research mentoring, computer science education research, and K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Award, UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and NCWIT Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Her NSF-funded University of Delaware Partner4CS team has partnered with the Delaware Dept of Education since 2012, organizing annual teacher professional development in CS, developing a service-learning, field experience course that partners undergraduates with practicing teachers for ongoing support and expanding this model to other institutions, growing a statewide community dedicated to CS for All by establishing strong partnerships with school districts, teachers, policy makers and STEM leaders at the state level; and influencing policy changes at the state level to broaden participation in CS. She also has co-led a project to broaden participation in computational thinking through supporting faculty in various disciplines in adapting courses to integrate CS into their discipline-specific courses.