Dr. Jamika Burge, Senior Behavioral Computer Scientist at i_SW, an
Information Systems company, led a webinar session in June 2011 and discussed "Overcoming
Difficulties in Obtaining your PhD". Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_JB. PDF of ppt used during webinar.
Dr. Burge is currently a Senior Behavioral
Computer Scientist at i_SW, an Information Systems company in Arlington,
VA that provides high-end, advanced technical and research services
to the US Government and other customers. Her research interests lie in HCI,
comfortably, in the intersection of behavioral methodology and technology use,
and she enjoys applying her skills in new and innovative ways. Most
recently, she was a postdoc in the College
of IST at Penn State
(2007-2009), where she worked with John M. Carroll on wireless informatics
initiatives for non-profit organizations. Jamika completed her PhD
in CS from Virginia Tech, where she was an IBM PhD Research Fellow. She has
several publications in books and refereed conferences, and she is a
member of ACM (CSE and CHI), and the CDC (The Coalition to Diversify
Computing). For the CDC, she is currently co-director of the
Collaborative Research for Undergraduates (CREU) program, which funds
undergraduate CS research and encourages retention in the field. She is
also currently a co-investigator for the CDC Shrinking Pipeline research
project, whose goals are to empirically evaluate those factors affecting
attrition and retention in CS among Black