Teresa A. Dahlberg

Professor, Computer Science, www.cs.uncc.edu/~tdahlber

Director, Diversity in Information Technology Institute, www.cci.uncc.edu/diti

Director, STARS Alliance, www.starsalliance.org

Contact: Teresa.Dahlberg (at) uncc (dot) edu; 704-687-8553

 

 

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Teaching

 

*      Fall 2010, ITSC 8665 Graduate Teaching Seminar

*      Spring 2010, ITCS 3690 Computing Leaders Seminar

 


Research

 

Research Projects and Funding

*      The STARS Alliance, www.STARSAlliance.org

*       Socially Relevant Computing Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Visualization, Virtual Environments, Gaming and Networking, www.cs.uncc.edu/reu

*      UNC Charlotte GAANN Fellowship Program for Computing and Informatics

Principal or co-principal investigator for over 30 external research awards totaling over $15 million. 

Example Projects…

 

Contracts

Sponsor

Description of Example Funded Projects

March 2006-

Jan 2011

National Science Foundation (NSF)

$5,057,870

BPC-A: The STARS Alliance: A Southeastern Partnership for Diverse Participation in Computing

PI: Teresa Dahlberg, Co-PI: Tiffany Barnes

BPC-AE: Extending the STARS Alliance: A Southeastern Partnership for Broadening Participation in Computing

PI: Teresa Dahlberg, Co-PI: Tiffany Barnes

Broadening Participation in Computing Community Meeting - Supplemental Funding for The STARS Alliance

PI: Teresa Dahlberg

Supplemental Funding for The STARS Alliance (REU Supplements 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

PI: Teresa Dahlberg

Feb 2006-

March 2012

NSF

$618,500

REU Site: Computing Research for Undergraduates: Visualization, Virtual Environments, Gaming, and Networking

PI: Teresa Dahlberg

REU Site: Socially Relevant Computing Experiences for Undergraduates: Visualization, Virtual Environments, Gaming, and Networking

PI: Teresa Dahlberg, Co-PI: Tiffany Barnes

CISE REU Sites Assessment Project - Supplemental Funding for REU Site

PI: Teresa Dahlberg

August 2007 – July 2012

Dept of Education

$1,156,194

 

The UNC Charlotte GAANN Fellowship Program for Computing Sciences

PI: Teresa Dahlberg, Co-PI: Jing Xaio, Larry Hodges, Ken Chen

The UNC Charlotte GAANN Fellowship Program for Computing and Informatics

PI: Teresa Dahlberg, Co-PI: Jing Xaio, Cynthia Gibas, Bill Ribarsky

June 2009-

August 2010

Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women

$30,000

CREU Charlotte: SNAG: Social Networking and Games

PIs: Tiffany Barnes, Teresa Dahlberg, Jamie Payton

Students: Katelyn Doran, Samantha Finkelstein, Raven Andersen, Christie Thornton, Evie Powell

Sept 2006-

Aug. 2011

NSF

$2,632,389

 

ADVANCE: UNC Charlotte Institutional Transformations for the Future of the Faculty

PI: Joan Lorden; Co-PI: Teresa Dahlberg, Kim Buch, Roz Michelson, Arnie Cann

 

 


Recent Publications

Published Journal Papers (fully refereed)

1.     Yu Wang, Lijuan Cao, Teresa A. Dahlberg, Fan Li, “Self-Organizing Fault Tolerant Topology Control in Large-Scale three-Dimensional Wireless Networks,” to appear, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 2009.

2.     Yu Wang, Teresa A. Dahlberg, Weizhao Wang, “Routing Game in Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks with Selfish Mesh Clients,” International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), Volume: 1, Number: 4, Pages: 425-446, 2008.

3.     Kelly Nicholson, Dawson Hancock, Teresa Dahlberg, “Preparing Teachers and Counselors to Help Under-Represented Populations Embrace the Information Technology Field”, Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, Vol. 15, Issue 1, Jan. 2007.

4.     Yu Wang, Fan Li, Teresa A. Dahlberg, “Energy-Efficient Topology Control for 3-Dimensional Sensor Networks”, accepted for publication, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), 2007

5.     B. Cao, T. Dahlberg, “Soft Capacity Modeling for WCDMA Radio Resource Management,” IEEE Brazilian Computer Society Journal (BCSJ), No. 3, Vol. 8, April 2003, pp. 6-17.

6.     D. Tipper, T. Dahlberg, H. Shin, and C. Charnsripinyo, “Providing Fault Tolerance in Wireless Access Networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 1, Jan 2002, pp. 58-64.

7.     T.A. Dahlberg, K.R. Subramanian, "Visualization of Mobile Network Simulations," Simulation, Vol. 77, No. 3-4, pp.128-140, September/October 2001.

8.     T. Dahlberg, J. Jung, "Survivable Load Sharing Protocols: A Simulation Study," ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal (WINET), May 2001, Vol. 7, pp. 283-296.

 

Published Books, Book Chapters, and Edited Proceedings

1.     Editor, Proceedings of the 24th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2005.

2.     T. Dahlberg, D. Tipper, B. Cao, C. Charnsripinyo, “Survivability in Wireless Mobile Networks,” Quality and Reliability of Large Scale Telecom Systems:  Case Study Olympic Games, P. Stavroulakis (editor), John Wiley & Sons, to appear in 2002.

3.     T. Dahlberg, M. Meo, Editors of the Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM2002), Sept. 2002.

4.     M. Meo, T. Dahlberg, Editors of the Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM2001), July 2001.

 

Fully Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings

1.     M. Doman, T. Dahlberg, and J. Payton, “Simulating Dynamic Environments Using Cellular Automata for Wireless Sensor network Analysis,” Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS-2009), New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 2009.

2.     L. Cao, K. Sharif, Y. Wang, T. Dahlberg, “Multiple-Metric Hybrid Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks,” Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2009.

3.     T. Dahlberg, T. Barnes, A. Rorrer, C. Seals, M. Lustria, L. Hawks “The STARS Leadership Corps: Case studies for broadening participation in computing” Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2008), Saratoga, N.Y., October 2008.

4.     Kashif Sharif, Lijuan Cao, Yu Wang and Teresa Dahlberg, A Hybrid Anycast Routing Protocol for Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Access Networks, 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, August 2008.

5.     Yu Wang, Lijuan Cao and Teresa Dahlberg, Efficient Fault Tolerant Topology Control for Three-Dimensional Wireless Networks, 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, August 2008.

6.     T. Dahlberg, T. Barnes, A. Rorrer, Eve Powell, Lauren Cairco “Improving Retention and Graduate Recruitment through Immersive Research Experiences for Uncergraduates” Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2008), Portland, Oregon, March, 2008.

7.     L. Cao, K. Sharif, Y. Wang, T. Dahlberg, “Adaptive Multiple Metrics Routing Protocols for Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless Networks” Proceedings of the fifth annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2008.

8.     T. Dahlberg, T. Barnes, A. Rorrer “The STARS Leadership Model for Broadening Participation in Computing” Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2007), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2007.

9.     L. Cao, T. A. Dahlberg, Y. Wang, "Performance Evaluation of Energy Efficient Ad Hoc Routing Protocols”, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2007.

10.  Fan Li, Y. Wang, T. Dahlberg, “Power Efficient 3-Dimensional Topology Control for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, California, November 2006.

11.  Yu Wang, Wen-Zhan Song, Weizhao Wang, Xiang-Yang Li, Teresa A. Dahlberg, “LEARN: Localized Energy Aware Restricted Neighborhood Routing for Ad Hoc Networks”, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Reston, Virginia, September 2006.

12.  L. Cao, T. Dahlberg, “Path Cost Metrics for Multi-Hop Network Routing,” 25th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference,” (IPCCC 2006), April 2006.

13.  Y. Wang, W. Wang, T. Dahlberg, “Truthful Routing for Hybrid Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE global communications conference (GLOBECOM), Nov. 2005.

14.  T. Dahlberg, A. Nasipuri, C. Taylor, “Explorebots: A Mobile Network Experimentation Testbed,” Proceedings of the International ACM Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis (EWIND), August, 2005.

15.  C. Curescu,  S. Nadj-Tehrani, B. Cao, T. Dahlberg, “Utility-based Adaptive Resource Allocation in Hybrid Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2005).

16.  B. Cao, T. Dahlberg, “Adaptive Channel Switching for Admission Control with 
QoS & Priority in WCDMA,” 23rd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference,” (IPCCC 2004), April 2004, Phoenix, Arizona.

17.  Howitt, G.-J. Ahn, T. Dahlberg, A. Nasipuri, Y. Zheng, “Context and Environment Aware Wireless Sensor Networks for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems”, 2nd International CIRP Conference on Reconfigurable Manufacturing, August 20-21, 2003, Ann Arbor, MI.

18.  V. Namboodiri, T. Dahlberg, “Experimental Analysis of a Hybrid Proxy-based Multimedia Adaptation Scheme,” 7th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA), Hawaii, USA, August 13-15, 2003.

19.  S. Nadjm-Tehrani, K. Najarian, C. Curescu, T. Lingvall, T. Dahlberg, “Adaptive Load Control Algorithms for 3rd Generation Mobile Networks,” Proceedings ACM Modeling and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 2002.

20.  D. Tipper, C. Charnsripinyo, H. Shin, and T. Dahlberg, “Survivability Analysis for Mobile Cellular Networks,” Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference 2002, San Antonio , Texas, Jan. 27-31, 2002.

21.  H. Shin, C. Charnsripinyo, D. Tipper, T. Dahlberg, “The Effects of Failures in PCS Networks,”' Proceedings of Third International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, Oct., 2001, Budapest , Hungary.

22.  B. Heybruck, T. Dahlberg, "Survivability Analysis of Mobile Networks," Proc. of 11th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), Boulder, Colorado, March 2001.

23.  K.R. Subramanian, T. Dahlberg, "Congestion Control in Mobile Networks," IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2000 (InfoVis 2000), Oct. 2000, IEEE Computer Society.

24.  T.A. Dahlberg, K.R. Subramanian, "Visualization of Real-time Survivability Metrics for Mobile Networks," Proc. Modeling and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Aug. 2000.

25.  J. Jung, T.A. Dahlberg, “Geographical based simulation of survivable mobile networks”, Proc. Of The Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2000), Washington, D.C., April, 2000.

26.  T.A. Dahlberg, J. Jung, “Survivable Load Sharing Protocols:  A Simulation Study”, Proceedings Modeling and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Aug. 1999.

27.  T.A. Dahlberg, J. Jung, “Load Sharing Protocols for Radio Level Resilience”, Proceedings International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-16), June 1999.

28.  T. Dahlberg, J. Jung, “Teletraffic Modeling for Mobile Communications”, Proceedings International Conference on Communications (ICC98), June 1998.

29.  T. Dahlberg, “Modeling Nonuniform Mobile Communications Traffic”, Proceedings Advances in Communications and Control Conference (COMCON6), June 1997.

30.  T. Dahlberg, S. Ramaswamy, D. Tipper, “Issues in the Survivability of Wireless Mobile Networks”, Proceedings IEEE Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks Workshop (MWCN97), May 1997.

 

Abstract Refereed Conference Presentations and Sessions

1.     T. Barnes, T. Dahlberg, “How to start a STARS Leadership Corps to Improve Retention and Recruiting in Computing,” Workshop at the Tapia Celebration of Diversity and Computing, April 2009, Portland, Oregon.

2.     T. Dahlberg, T. Barnes, K. Boyer, C. Seals, M. Lustria, A. Lawrence, J. Strothman, “Developing Student Leaders to Invent the Future” Session at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing conference, October, 2007, Orlando, Florida.

3.     J. Peckham, T. Dahlberg, S. Humphreys, F. Mili, I. Russell, H. Taylor, “REUs: Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students” Session at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing conference, October, 2007, Orlando, Florida.

4.     T. Barnes, T. Dahlberg, “Innovation in Broadening Participation in Computing: STARS Leadership Corps” Session at the Tapia Celebration of Diversity and Computing, October, 2007, Orlando, Florida.

5.     T. Barnes, T. Dahlberg, A. Rorrer, “Evaluation of Efforts to Broaden Participation in Computing” Bird of a Feather Session at the Tapia Celebration of Diversity and Computing, October, 2007, Orlando, Florida.

6.     T. Barnes, T. Dahlberg, “The STARS Alliance: Experiences in Broadening Participation in Computing” Session at The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing conference, October, 2006, San Diego, CA. (AR: 30%) 

7.     T. Dahlberg, A. Blowers, “The STEM Pipeline: From Kindergarten to the Ph.D.” session at the American Council on Education (ACE) “Educating One Nation” conference, October 2005.

 

Technical Reports

1.     L. Cao, K. Sharif, Y. Wang, T. A. Dahlberg, “Multiple Metrics Routing Protocols for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks”, Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, UNC Charlotte, May 2006.

2.     T. Dahlberg, G. Metze, M. Anderson, “Wireless Interconnect and Reconfigurable System (WINARS)”, report to the National Security Agency, Feb. 1997.

 

Research Project Reports

1.     STARS Alliance Extension Grant, Year 1 Annual Report, Submitted to NSF, Jan. 2009.

2.     STARS Alliance Grant, Year 3 Annual Report, Submitted to NSF, Feb. 2009.

3.     Computing Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site Grant, Year 3 Annual Report, Submitted to NSF, Dec. 2008.

4.     GAANN Grant, Year 1 Annual Report, Submitted to the Department of Education, May 2008.

5.     STARS Alliance Grant, Year 2 Annual Report, Submitted to NSF, Feb. 2008.

6.     Computing Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site Grant, Year 2 Annual Report, Submitted to NSF, Dec. 2007.

7.     STARS Alliance Grant, Year 1 Annual Report, Submitted to NSF, Feb. 2007.

8.     Computing Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site Grant, Year 1 Annual Report, Submitted to NSF, Dec. 2006.

9.     Final Project Report to the NSF, Collaborative Research: Design and Restoration Techniques for Fault Tolerant Wireless Access networks, Fall 2004.

 

Invited Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

1.     P. Bhasin, B. Cao, L. Cao, T. Dahlberg, “Challenges for Hybrid Multi-hop Networks”, Proceedings of the High-Capacity Optical Network & Enabling Technologies (HONETS), NSF Sponsored US-Pakistan Int’l Workshop, Dec. 2005, Pakistan.

2.     M. Hadzikadic, T. Dahlberg, A. Somya, M. Khouja, “Computer Networks and Complex Adaptive Systems”, Proceedings of the High-Capacity Optical Network & Enabling Technologies (HONETS), NSF Sponsored US-Pakistan Int’l Workshop, Dec. 2004, Pakistan.

3.     T. Dahlberg, K.R. Subramanian, B. Cao, “Soft Capacity Modeling for Third Generation Radio Resource Management,” Proceedings of the IEEE Int’l Symposium on Modeling and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) 2002 Mobility and Wireless Access Workshop, Oct. 12, 2002.

4.     D. Tipper, S. Ramaswamy, T.A. Dahlberg, “PCS Network Survivability”, Proc. Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks conference (WCNC), Sept. 1999.

 

Education

Ph.D.

1993

North Carolina State University

Computer Engineering

M.S.

1990

North Carolina State University

Computer Engineering

B.S.

1984

University of Pittsburgh

Electrical Engineering


Biography

Teresa Dahlberg, is Professor of Computer Science and founding Director of the UNC Charlotte Diversity in Information Technology Institute.  Teresa leads a number of demonstration research projects in educational informatics, workforce development, and broadening participation.  She is principal investigator and director of the STARS Alliance: A Southeastern Partnership for Broadening Participation in Computing; the Socially Relevant Computing Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site; and the Computing Scholars – Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Needs project. Teresa has served as General Chair for the STARS Celebration of Computing Leaders in its first four years.  Teresa is co-chair for the Panels and Workshops Committee for the Grace Hopper Celebration 2009.  Teresa is active in the Networking Research Lab at UNC Charlotte.  Her research on wireless networks addresses resource management protocols, data management for sensor networks, and analytic, simulation and experimental modeling and analysis techniques. 

Teresa has graduated four doctoral students and has two current doctoral students in Computer Engineering and Information Technology.  Most recently, Dr. Lijuan Cao’s research focuses on path cost metrics for hybrid (cellular/ad hoc) wireless networks.  Marguerite Doman’s research explores the application of fuzzy database approach to data management for wireless sensor networks.  Kashif Sharif has conducted research that explores the use of anycast communications paradigm for hybrid wireless networks.  Kashif is also enhancing the Explorebots (mobile, sensor equipped robots) to experiment with approaches to increasing children’s interest in computing research through hands-on activities.

Teresa teaches graduate classes in the communications networks area.  She leads the STARS Alliance undergraduate seminar class that fosters student recruitment and retention through Technical Excellence, Leadership, Service & Civic Engagement, and Community.  Teresa also teaches a graduate teaching seminar to prepare PhD students for the professoriate. 

Teresa worked in hardware and software development for the IBM Corporation from 1984-1994.   She developed the logic controller and image analysis functions for the IBM 3897 Image Capture Module, which is a feature of the IBM 3890 Document Reader/Sorter.   Within this work, which consisted of logic design and real-time microcode, she developed a unique real-time, task-queuing operating system for very high-speed control and for image analysis applications.   She received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award for this work.  

Teresa received her doctorate from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University in November 1993, with support from the IBM Resident Study program.   In 1990, she also obtained her M.S. in Computer Engineering from NCSU, and in 1984 received her B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh.   Teresa's dissertation focused on reliability evaluation of communications networks and computer systems.   She developed hierarchical modeling techniques and dependability algorithms for efficiently assessing large,   distributed systems.


Technology Consultant/Expert Witness

 

*     Expert Witness, Non-testifying Expert:  Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

*     Experience with: Expert Reports; Rebuttal Reports;  Prior Art Analysis; Expert Deposition

*     Reverse Engineering Studies: Integrated Circuits, Printed Circuit Board, Systems

*     Software Analysis: Assembly level code, Structured and Object-Oriented Code (e.g., C/C++, Java), Applications

 

Professional Experience

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

 

Professor, Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics

Since July 2009

 

Provost’s Faculty Fellow, Academic Affairs, 50% time over 12 months

2005 (12 months)

 

Director, Diversity in Information Technology Institute

2004-present

 

Diversity Coordinator, College of Computing and Informatics

2004-present

 

Associate Professor, Computer Science, College of Information Technology (later renamed College of Computing and Informatics)

Moved from 9 to 12 month appointment in 2007

2003-2006

 

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, College of Information Technology

2000-2003

 

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering (later renamed Electrical & Computer Engineering), College of Engineering

1995-2000

Winthrop University, South Carolina

 

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science

1994-1995

IBM Corporation

 

 

Staff Engineer, Banking Systems Division, Charlotte, N.C.

1987-1994