University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2005 — present
Ph.D. in Computer Science
In Pursuit

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1997 — 2001
B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science
Cum Laude and Highest Distinction

Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Visualization, Legal and Social Issues in Computing

Rural Social NetworkingSpring 2007 — present
Currently investigating the behavioral differences between urban and rural social networking users.

GossipFall 2006
Currently investigating transforming a small portion of a person’s gossip into a public display. Conducting low-fi prototyping sessions with students from across the University.

Assisted LivingSummer 2006
As part of a larger Assisted Living project, built and refined interfaces for a pilot study in June-July 2006. Conducted the pilot user study at the assisted living facility.

LifeSource: Two CVS Visualizations Fall 2005 — Fall 2006
Two visualizations of software development, one person-centric and one file-centric. Currently conducting online user study with lead open source developers.

Gilbert, E., Karahalios, K. and Sandvig, C. The Network in the Garden: An Empirical Analysis of Social Media in Rural Life. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2008.

Gilbert, E. and Karahalios, K. Visualization Annotation at Internet Scale. Social Data Analysis Workshop. CHI 2008.

Gilbert, E. and Karahalios, K. CodeSaw: A Social Visualization of Distributed Software Development. Proceedings of Interact 2007.

AlShebli, B.K., Gilbert, E. and Karahalios, K. The Social Implications of an Assisted Living Reminder System. To appear at HCI International 2007.

Gilbert, E., Yapchaian, M. and Karahalios, K. Exploring Passive Social Wearables with Gossip. Shared Encounters Workshop. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007.

Gilbert, E. and Karahalios, K. LifeSource: Two CVS Visualizations. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 2006.

Bardeen, M., Gilbert, E., et al. The QuarkNet/Grid Collaborative Learning e-Lab. Future Generation Computer Systems, The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications, 2005.

Intern, Visual Communication Lab, IBM ResearchSummer 2007
Designed and developed a system to allow users to collaboratively collect data on the Many Eyes site. Many Eyes is a public web site for social visualization.

Lead Developer, FermilabAugust 2004 — December 2005
Served as lead developer for Quarknet/Grid, a project by Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago. Helped design collaboratory that brings the computing power of The Grid to high school students. Authored grid-computing code. Presented at SuperComputing 2004.

Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Lab July 2001 — July 2002
Analyzed computer and social networks in Java and C/C++. Developed visualizations of very large graphs.

Software Engineer, NovaNet February 1999 — May 2001
Developed distance education software for students removed from standard public schools.

Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois 2006 — present
Introduction to Computing for Non-Technical Majors, Professor Marsha Woodbury. Social Visualization, Professor Karrie Karahalios. Ranked as top University teaching assistant by students.

High School Teacher, Teach For America July 2002 — July 2004
Served as member of national service corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools. Taught on the South Side of Chicago at Paul Robeson High School. Developed and implemented the school’s first ever college prep Computer Science curriculum.

Tutor, National Society of Black Engineers 1999 — 2001
Provided weekly support in mathematics.

Workshop Leader, Expanding Your Horizons Conference October 2001
Lead workshop at conference to encourage young women to pursue careers in science and technology.

Verizon Fellowship 2007
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention Fall 2005
National Merit Scholarship 1997 — 2001
UIUC James Scholar 1997 — 2000
Dean’s List 1997 — 2001
First United Bank Technical Scholarship 1997 — 2001
William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition: Top 5% December 1999

ACM2006 — present
ACM SIGCHI2006 — present