Rebecca Mason Rebecca MasonI am a first-year PhD student at Brown University. I work with the Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing and my advisor is Eugene Charniak.
In 2007, I participated in the REU program at DePauw University, where I was advised by Scott Thede. Our work was on sentence reranking for redundancy reduction in extractive summaries, and was presented at the 2007 Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics. (paper)
I have also done research through the SURF-IT program at UC-Santa Cruz, where I worked with Roberto Manduchi on exploring the use of haptic devices in wayfinding for the visually impaired. (report, poster)
I graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2009 with an AB in Computer Science (magna cum laude). In my senior year, I did an independent study in multi-document summarization with my undergraduate advisor, Lisa Ballesteros.
As an undergraduate, I spent a semester as a visiting student at the University of Limerick in Ireland, and I have taken courses at Smith College and Rutgers.
In 2009, I was the Lead Instructor for iD Tech Camp at Smith College. I mainly taught Introductory Programming (in Java), although I had a few students for game creation and modding. Additionally, I provided online assistance to instructors at other iD Tech sites, and I was the Health and Safety Coordinator at Smith.
In January 2007, I taught a 10 hour non-credit course on programming for interactive fiction at Mount Holyoke College.
I love to ski, I am a mediocre klezmer clarinetist, and I have a finite Erdos-Bacon number.
rebecca@cs.brown.edu
Box 1910, Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
