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Elke A. Rundensteiner
Professor
Faculty Listing
Office: Fuller Laboratories, 238
Phone: +1-508-831-5815
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
rundenst@wpi.edu
rundenst@cs.wpi.edu
Related Information
Educational Background
- B.S., J. W. Goethe University - Germany, 1983
- M.S., J. W. Goethe University - Germany, 1984
- M.S., Florida State University, 1987
- Ph.D., University of California - Irvine, 1992
Research & Teaching Interests
Database and information systems; web data management; distributed databases; information integration; object-oriented database technology; database support for advanced applications
IQP Advising Interests
Transportation planning; international comparisons in science & technology; impact of technical change on job and business; technological transfer; computers & education; introducing new teaching materials
Honors & Awards
- Fulbright Scholarship, 1984 - 1985.
- Quadrille Scholarship, 1988 - 1989.
- UC Regents' Fellowship, Univ. of Cal., Irvine, 1989/90.
- IBM Corporate Fellowship,1990 - 1991.
- GOP Dissertation Fellowship, Univ. of Cal., Irvine, 1991/92.
- NSF Research Initiation award, 1993.
- Listed in the American Men and Women of Science (AMWS), 1994.
- Engineering Foundation Research Initiation award, 1994.
- NSF Young Investigator award, 1994.
- Listed in Who's Who in American Education, 5th Edition, 1996-1997.
- IBM Corporate Partnership Award,1996 - 1997.
Years of Service at WPI
- 1996-1998, Assistant Professor.
- 1998-present, Associate Professor.
Professional Experience & Activities
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Consulting
- Professional Engineering Summer Conference, Object-Oriented Modeling and Databases, University of Michigan, Summer 1995.
- General Motors Technical Education Program, "Object-Oriented Databases and Technology," Spring 94.
- Professional Engineering Summer Conference, Object-Oriented Modeling and Databases, University of Michigan, Summer 1994.
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Editorial Activity
- Associate Editor, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 1998- 1999.
- Special Issue Editor, (with E. Bertino, S. Davidson), Innovative Object-oriented Applications, TOPAS Journal, 1998.
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Digital Libraries (JODL),
Professional Societies/Memberships
- Association for Computing Machinery. (ACM SIGMOD, SIGPLAN)
- IEEE Computer Society. (TCDE)