Tracy Camp


Tracy Camp is a Full Professor of computer science and Interim Department Head of Mathematical and Computer Sciences 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. Her current research interests include the credibility of ad hoc network simulation studies and the use of wireless sensor networks in geosystems. Dr. Camp has received 19 grants from the National Science Foundation, including a prestigious NSF CAREER award. In total, her projects have received over $8.5 million dollars in external funding. This funding has produced 12 software packages that have been requested from (and shared with) more than 2000 researchers in 73 countries (as of June 2010). Dr. Camp is an ACM Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Senior Member, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In December 2007, Dr. Camp received the Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award at the Colorado School of Mines; this award has only been given five times between 1998-2007. She shares her life with Max (born in 2000), Emma (born in 2003), her husband (Glen), and three pets (two cats and a dog). The four humans are vegetarians who tremendously enjoy living in the foothills of the Rockies.