Professor of Computer Science
Joined department in 1982
Education:
MS, Computer Science
Technical University of Vienna (1977)
PhD, Computer Science
The Pennsylvania State University (1982)
Professor Hambrusch's research interests are in the area of parallel and distributed computation,
data management and data dissemination in wireless environments, and analysis of algorithms. Her
research contributions include communication and data dissemination routines for distributed
applications, data management techniques for query processing in wireless, mobile environments, and
parallel algorithms for image processing and graph problems. Professor Hambrusch's research has been
supported by NSF, Air Force, ONR, DARPA, and Microsoft Corp.
Professor Hambrusch is a member of the editorial board for Parallel Computing and Information
Processing Letters, and she also serves on the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. As a
member of CRA-W, she serves as a director for CRA-W's undergraduate research programs. Her
recognitions include inaugural membership in the Purdue University Book of Great Teachers, a 2003
Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University, and 2004 TechPoint Mira
Education Award Winner. She served as the head of the Department of Computer Science from 2002-2007.
Selected Publications
Mohamed Mokbel, Xiaopeng Xiong, Walid Aref, Susanne Hambrusch, Sunil Prabhakar, and Moustafa Hammad,
"PLACE: A Query Processor for Handling Real-time Spatio-temporal Data Streams", Proceedings of
the 13th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pp. 1377-1380, 2004.
S.E. Hambrusch, C.-M. Liu, and S. Prabhakar, "Broadcasting and Querying Multi-dimensional Index Trees
in a Multi-channel environment", Information Systems, Vol. 31, pp 870-886, 2006.
Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Sunil Prabhakar, Rahul Shah, Susanne E. Hambrusc, "Indexing Uncertain
Categorical Data,", 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007),
2007.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Sunil K. Prabhakar and Susanne E. Hambrusch, Scalable, Reliable Management of Sensor
Information, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2/15/2006-11/30/2009.
Susanne E. Hambrusch, Collaborative Research: Increasing the Representation of Undergraduate
Women and Minorities in Computer Science, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2004-8/31/2008.
Susanne E. Hambrusch, Mark P Haugan, Christoph M. Hoffmann, Tony Hosking, and Sabre Kais, CPATH
CB: Computing Education in Science Context, National Science Foundation, 7/1/2007-6/30/2009.
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