About:

For professional information you can see my Curriculum Vitae.

I will be a first year PhD student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2008.

I received my BS in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (May'07). As an undergraduate I have been involved in several research projects, from modeling complex biological structures, analyzing tone and physiology in a conversation, 3D virtual reality human-computer interaction, to educational outreach.

My advisors from the University of Arizona: Dr. Kobus Barnard, Dr. Emily Butler and Dr. Barry Pryor.

Projects:

• All for Education - Non-Profit Organization: Educational Resources from Academia and the Community to Everyone (Currently for Tucson, AZ). In the University of Arizona news: Scholarships, Internships and Homework Tips - All In One Location.


• Virtual Reality Research Program - currently in the making. If you are interested in getting a demo of the Virtual Environment facility at the University of Arizona, please email me at ekaterina AT taralova.net


• Quantum and Molecular Computing - a Wiki site (just started, so it is still under development) with the goal of providing valuable information on the topics of Quantum and Molecular Computing.

Publications:

• Joseph Schlecht, Kobus Barnard, Ekaterina Spriggs, and Barry Pryor, "Inferring Grammar-based Structure Models in 3D Microscopy Data," IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2007 [PDF].


• Ekaterina Spriggs, Emily Butler, Kobus Barnard, Frank H. Wilhelm, James J. Gross, "Predicting emotional experience from autonomic physiology using machine learning methods," 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), October 17-21, 2007 (to appear).


• Ekaterina Spriggs, Joseph Schlect, Kobus Barnard, and Barry Pryor, Modeling complex 3-dimensional structure in Alternaria and applications to morphometric analysis, the Annual Meeting of the Mycologicial Society of America, 2007.

Contact:

If you would like to email the webmistress: ekaterina AT taralova.net. I do not have accounts with Facebook, flickr, etc, all pertinent information can be found on this website.