bracy--cis--upenn--edu
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bracy

Doctoral Candidate in Computer Science, Advisor: Amir Roth, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-present
Master of Science in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2001
Bachelor of Science (with Distinction) in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, 2000
Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction) in German Studies, Stanford University, 2000

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2001-2004
Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 2000

• Anne Bracy and Amir Roth. Serialization-Aware Mini-Graphs: Performance with Fewer Resources. To appear In proc. of MICRO-39, Dec. 11-13, 2006. [slides]


• Anne Bracy, Kshitij Doshi, and Quinn Jacobson. Disintermediated Active Communication. Computer Architecture Letters, Volume 5, 2006.


• Anne Bracy, Prashant Prahlad, and Amir Roth. Dataflow Mini-Graphs: Amplifying Superscalar Capacity and Bandwidth. In proc. of MICRO-37, December 2004. [slides]


• Vlad Petric, Anne Bracy, and Amir Roth. Three Extensions to Register Integration. In proc. of MICRO-35, Nov. 20-22, 2002.[slides]

• Oliver Lemon, Anne Bracy, Alexander Gruenstein, and Stanley Peters, An Information State Approach in a Multi-modal Dialogue System for Human-Robot Conversation., Chapter in Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium, eds. Kuhnlein, Reiser, Zeevat, 2003.
  
• Oliver Lemon, Anne Bracy, Alexander Gruenstein, and Stanley Peters. Information States in a Multi-modal Dialogue System for Human-Robot Conversation. In proc. Bi-Dialog, 5th Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 2001.
  
• Oliver Lemon, Anne Bracy, Alexander Gruenstein, and Stanley Peters. A Multi-Modal Dialogue System for Human-Robot Conversation., In proc. NAACL 2001.
  
• Oliver Lemon, Anne Bracy, Alexander Gruenstein, and Stanley Peters. The WITAS Multi-Modal Dialogue System I., In proc. EuroSpeech 2001.

• Serialization-Aware Mini-Graphs: Performance with Fewer Resources.
  39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture. December 11, 2006.
• Mini-Graph Processing: a High Granularity Instruction Architecture
  Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Ph.D. Forum, October 2006.
• Dataflow Mini-Graphs: Amplification, Serialization, and Selection
  University of Washington, October 2005.
• Dataflow Mini-Graphs: Amplifying Superscalar Capacity and Bandwidth.
  37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture. December, 2004.
• Three Extensions to Register Integration.
  35th International Symposium on Microarchitecture. November, 2002.
  Awarded Best Student Presentation.

(All slides were prepared on a Mac. Consequently, they may look sub-optimal when viewed on a PC. Apologies!)

Research Assistant for Amir Roth, 2001-present
Investigating power-aware designs, instruction scheduling granularity, control-independence and the role of light-weight threads in increasing instruction-level parallelism. Simple Scalar, C, Unix, gdb.
Teaching Assistant, 2002-2003
Prepare recitations, homeworks, exams, grade etc. for graduate level Programming Languages and undergraduate Digital Systems Organization and Design courses.

Research Scientist, October 2005 - present
Continuation of internship responsibilites.
Graduate Intern, May-October 2005
Investigate hardware support for thread synchronization; learn about how to move technology from research to product. Four invention disclosures submitted. C, C++, various x86 simulation environments.

Research Assistant for Clark Barrett, Summer 2003
Investigate automatic generation of monitors for hardware verification. C++, binary decision diagrams, PCI Bus invariants.

Research Assistant for Stanley Peters at Semantics Lab, 2000-2001
Develop multi-modal interface of a UAV. Speech synthesis, grammars, speech recognition, and dialog systems. Nuance Speech Recognition, Festival Speech Synthesis, SRI's Open Agent Architecture & Gemini Parser

I have filed 4 patents from my work at Intel. I'll list them as soon as I'm sure that I'm allowed to... (I don't really follow all the legal stuff too closely.)

Organized and led CISters, Penns graduate womens' computer science group. Formed email list for women in computer architecture. Fluent in German. Have lived and traveled throughout the US and Europe. Interests include hiking, local volunteer work, cooking, and yoga.

Available upon request.