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Dr. Cecilia R. Aragon Staff Scientist Computational Research Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (510) 486-4106  Dr. Cecilia R. Aragon has been a Staff Scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2005, after earning her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2004. She earned her B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. Her current research focuses on scientist-computer interaction, a subfield of human-computer interaction, and she is interested in how social media and new methods of computer-mediated communication are changing scientific practice. She has developed novel visual interfaces for collaborative exploration of very large scientific data sets, and has authored or co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 other publications in the areas of computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, visualization, visual analytics, image processing, machine learning, and astrophysics.
She has received many awards for her research,
including the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
in 2009
and
four Best Paper awards since 2004.
She was recently named one of the Top 25 Women of 2009 by Hispanic
Business Magazine.
Her work on the Sunfall data visualization and workflow management system
for the Nearby Supernova Factory helped advance the study of supernovae in order
to reduce the statistical uncertainties on key cosmological parameters that
categorize dark energy, one of the grand challenges in physics today.
Dr. Aragon has an interdisciplinary
background, including over 15 years of software development experience in industry
and NASA, and a three-year stint as the founder and CEO of a small company.
Aragon's early research was in theoretical computer science and analysis
of algorithms. She is the co-inventor (with Raimund Seidel) of a data structure,
the treap, which has been commended for its elegance and efficiency,
and is now widely used in production applications ranging from wireless networking
to memory allocation to fast parallel aggregate set operations.
Dr. Aragon is also active in program service and supporting diversity in computing.
She is a founding member of Latinas in Computing,
a board member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women
in Computing Research (CRA-W),
a founding member of Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Diversity Working Group
and Women in Science Council,
the current chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Entrepreneur and
Pioneer Awards committee,
and has served as a reviewer and program committee member for numerous
computer science conferences.
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