Who We Are: Anushka Anand

Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago

Anushka Anand is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Her research interest is in visual analytics which blends data mining and information visualization. Her research investigates identifying patterns and anomalies in high-dimensional data by leveraging visual features in novel ways. She was elected and served as President of the Computer Science Graduate Student Association at UIC and Secretary for the Graduate Student government at UIC for the 2009-2011 academic years. Also, she created a Women in CS group at UIC to build a community for students and faculty through the organization of socials, outreach events and teams from UIC to go to the Grace Hopper Conference since 2005. Apart from receiving UIC Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership awards in 2010 and 2011 she was one of the few graduate student 50 For the Future awardees selected by the Illinois Technology Foundation in September 2011 as a student who pursues innovation through technology.

Currently, she serves as the graduate student representative on the Education Subcommittee of the Information Technology Governance Council at UIC and as Chair of the professional Chicago Chapter of the ACM. For more details on her extra-curricular activities and research visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/~aanand/

Officers

  • Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary

Corporate Counsel

  • Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Staff

Our Founder

Board of Trustees

  • Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
  • Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
  • Robin Abrams, Investor
  • Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
  • Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
  • Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  • Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
  • Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
  • Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
  • Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
  • Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
  • Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
  • William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
  • Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
  • Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
  • Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

Individual and Organizations

Board of Advisors