Tracy Camp is a Professor of computer science at the Colorado School of Mines. She is the Founder and Director of the Toilers (http://toilers.mines.edu), an active ad hoc networks research group currently consisting of five faculty members, 12 graduate students, and five undergraduate students. Her current research concerns (1) adaptive routing schemes for ad hoc networks, (2) interaction studies of cross-layer ad hoc network protocols, (3) the credibility of ad hoc network simulation studies, and (4) collision resolution protocols for wireless communications.
Dr. Camp has received 12 grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award in 1997 and an award in 2003 with an acceptance rate of only 4.5%. In total, her projects have received over $3 million dollars in external funding. This funding has produced 11 software packages which have been requested from (and shared with) more than 700 researchers in 49 countries (as of June 2006). Dr. Camp was recently invited to be an ACM Distinguished Lecturer (August 2006), awarded IEEE Senior Member status (July 2006), and selected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist (October 2006).
Dr. Camp has published over 50 refereed articles and 9 invited articles, many of which are in prestigious venues such as the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (12.3% acceptance rate), the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (16.4% acceptance rate), the Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (20.5% acceptance rate), and the Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing: Special issue on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Research, Trends and Applications (19% acceptance rate). As of August 2006, her articles have been cited over 1,300 times (per Google Scholar).
Dr. Camp was a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand from Feburary to June, 2006. She is currently a member of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal editorial board and the elected Treasurer of ACM's Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing (SIGMOBILE). She has been on the program committee of several conferences, including ACM's International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, IEEE's International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE's Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, and IEEE's International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems. In 2006, she was invited to be the MANET (Mobile Ad hoc NETworking) Area Editor for CRAWDAD (Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data at Dartmouth).
Dr. Camp's research into the plight of women in the sciences has appeared in over 15 newspaper and magazine articles, including the N.Y. Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Scientific American. She served as the co-chair of ACM's Committee on Women in Computing from 1998-2002, and continues to participate today as the liaison to the National Center for Women in Information Technology. Dr. Camp was recently invited to be the keynote speaker at the 2006 Australian Women in IT Conference (AusWIT).
Ph.D. Computer Science,
The College of William & Mary, 1993
M.S. Computer Science,
Michigan State University, 1989
B.A. Mathematics,
Kalamazoo College, 1987
Professor, Math. and Computer Sciences,
Colorado School of Mines, 2007-present
Associate Professor, Math. and Computer Sciences,
Colorado School of Mines, 2000-2007
Assistant Professor, Math. and Computer Sciences,
Colorado School of Mines, 1998-2000
Assistant Professor, Computer Science,
The University of Alabama, 1993-1998
Assistant System Administrator,
The College of William & Mary, 1991-1992
Research Assistant, Computer Science,
The College of William & Mary, 1989-1991
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science,
Michigan State University, 1987-1989
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks
Women in Computing