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Bio

 

Lamia M. Youseff is currently a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her general research interests include operating systems, high performance computing and virtualization techniques. Her doctoral research is focused on virtualization aspects for scientific and HPC applications, under the supervision of Prof. Rich Wolski at UCSB. She received the prestigious UC Chancellor Graduate Fellowship award to pursue her graduate career at UCSB in 2003. Since then, she has also worked as a research assistant and teaching assistant at the department of computer science at UCSB. She was furthermore elected as the UCSB Graduate Student Association Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2005-2006, and served on the UCSB graduate senate council and several other senate committees.

Prior to joining UCSB, Lamia received her B.Sc. from The American University in Cairo (AUC), with Summa Cum Laude and a GPA of 4.0/4.0. During her undergraduate tenure, she received several awards including the international ACM-UPE Scholarship Award in 2002, AUC President's cup in 2003 and the exemplary student award from AUC School of Engineering in 2002. Lamia was the president of the local AUC ACM student chapter, and the contest manager for the ACM North Africa and Middle East Regional Programming Contest (ANARC) for two consecutive years (2001-2002). She is a member of both ACM and IEEE.

 

 

Awards

 

  • 2008 : Best Poster Award, at IPDPS TCPP PhD Forum, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2008, Miami, Florida, USA.
  • 2007 : 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) student scholarship; Stevenson, WA, USA.
  • 2006 : Best Paper Award, Workshop on XEN in HPC Cluster and Grid Computing Environments (XHPC), The International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Application (ISPA 2006).
  • 2005 : 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) student scholarship, Brighton, UK.
  • 2005 : SuperComputing'05 Student Volunteer Scholarship.
  • 2004 : GGF/ HPDC Student Scholarship.
  • 2003 : The American University in Cairo AUC Presidential cup, awarded to the student holding the highest GPA in the whole graduating class ).
  • 2003 : The American University in Cairo (AUC) Beleidy's Award for Academic Achievement.
  • 2003 : Runner-up; AUC Zewail Award.
  • 2003 : Runner-up; Nominated by the AUC office of student affairs to the AUC Parents' Association Cup, (awarded to the most active graduating student combining extracurricular activities with high academic achievement.
  • 2002 : ACM-UPE International Scholarship Award for academic excellence and professional commitment (Only 2 are awarded annually).
  • 2002 : Exemplary Student Award, AUC School of Science and Engineering (nominated by AUC Computer Science Department ).
  • 2001 : Third place, Egyptian National Award in Creative writing.
  • 2000 : First place, Egyptian National Award in Creative writing.
  • 2000 : Certificate of Recognition; ACM Egypt chapter.
  • 1999 : First place, Egyptian National Award in Creative writing.
  • 1999-2002 : AUC Cultural Achievement Scholarship.
  • 1999-2003 : AUC Dean of Science & engineering highest honors list.
  • 1998-2003 : AUC Presidential scholarship (renewed annually).
  • 1998 : ranked 11th Nationally (among 100,000 students) in secondary school certification (SAT equivalent)

 

Community and Academic Services

 

    [in no particular order]
  • 2007: PC, UCSB annual graduate student research conference.
  • 2002: PC and organizer, Workshop on Grid service, Glasgow.
  • 2006: Panelist, new UCSB graduate student orientation
  • 2006: Committee head, GSA Teaching Assistant Award selection committee
  • 2007: Committee member, GSA Teaching Assistant Award selection committee
  • 2006: Committee member and Grad student representative, Faculty and Mentor awards selection committee, UCSB senate.
  • 2006: Committee member and Grad student representative, Senate Graduate council, UCSB senate.
  • 2006: Committee member and Grad student representative, Committee on teaching and technology.
  • 2005-2006: Academic Vice President, (nominated and elected by the GSA assembly body), UCSB GSA.
  • 2006: Budget and finance, GSA Vice President (elected through general graduate student body; ), UCSB GSA.
  • 2001-2003: AUC ACM Student Chapter, President
  • 2001: AUC ACM Student Chapter, secretary
  • 2001: AUC ACM Student Chapter, Communications and publications committee head.
  • 2001: ACM Egypt National Programming Contest; organizing committee (2000)
  • 2002-2003: ACM ANARC (Arab and North Africa Regional Contest) General Manager, part of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC)


Department of Computer Science • University of California, Santa Barbara