Stacy Patterson

Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Mechanical Engieering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
sep at cs.ucsb.edu

I completed my PhD in the Department of Computer Science at UCSB in June 2009 under the advisement of Professor Amr El Abadi.

Conference and Workshop Publications Journal Articles Teaching

Conference and Workshop Publications

Effect of Topological Dimension on Rigidity of Vehicle Formations: Fundamental Limitations of Local Feedback,
Bassam Bamieh, Mihailo Jovanovic, Partha Mitra, and Stacy Patterson,
47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , December 9-11, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
Using Tomography for Ubiquitous Sensing,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), November 5-7, 2008, Irvine, CA, USA [ pdf ]
Distributed Consensus with Link Failures as a Structured Stochastic Uncertainty Problem,
Stacy Patterson and Bassam Bamieh,
2008 Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 23-26, 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA [ pdf ]
On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Automated Highways (invited paper),
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, Amr El Abbadi, and Mihailo Jovanovic,
First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, July 21, 2008, Dublin, Ireland [ pdf ]
Demonstration - Environmenal Tomography: Ubiquitous Sensing with Mobile Devices,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 7-12, 2008, Cancun, Mexico, Technical Report
Distributed Average Consensus with Stochastic Communication Failures,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 12-14, 2007, New Orleans, LA USA
Brief Announcment: Convergence Analysis of Scalable Gossip Protocols,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2006), Stockholm, Sweden
From Static Distributed Systems to Dynamic Systems,
Achour Mostefaoui, Michel Raynal, Corentin Travers, Stacy Patterson, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi,
Proceedings 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2005), Orlando, FL.
Guaranteeing Correctness of Lock-free Range Queries over P2P Data,
Stacy Patterson, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi,
The Third International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2005) with VLDB 2005.

Journal Publications

Convergence Rates of Distributed Average Consensus with Stochastic Link Failures,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (to appear).
Coherence in Large-Scale Networks: Dimension Dependent Limitations of Local Feedback,
Bassam Bamieh, Mihailo Jovanovic, Partha Mitra, and Stacy Patterson
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (accepted for publication).

Teaching

CS 5JA: Introduction to Computer Programming - Instructor for Spring 2009
CS 274: Advanced Topics on Databases - TA for Winter 2009 (Outstanding Teaching Assistant)
ECE 94R: Green Works: Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability Teaching Scholar 2007-2008
CS 171: Introduction to Distributed Systems - TA for Spring 2007
CS 193: Information Technology in the Community - TA for Winter 2007
CS 271: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems - TA for Fall 2006 (Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Honorable Mention)
CS 273: Data and Knowledge Bases - TA for Spring 2006
CS 271: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems - TA for Winter 2006
CS 40: Foundations of Computer Science - TA for Fall 2005 Discussion Notes (Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Honorable Mention)