Faculty Directory

Elke A. Rundensteiner

Professor

Office: Fuller Laboratories, 238
Phone: +1-508-831-5815
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
rundenst@wpi.edu

Related Information

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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

• 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.
• 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)