Carla Schlatter Ellis

Professor Emeritus
Department of Computer Science
Box 90129
Duke University
Durham NC 27708-0129

Biography

I received the B.S. degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo OH, in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1977 and 1979. Before coming to Duke as an Associate Professor in 1986, I was a member of the Computer Science faculties at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 1978 to 1980, and at the University of Rochester, Rochester NY, from 1980 to 1986. During the 1997-98 academic year, I was on sabbatical at the University of Washington.

In my retirement, I will be pursuing two passions: (1) advocating for green computing and the role of computing in creating a sustainable society and (2) encouraging the participation of women in computing.

I was named a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2010.

Research

• The Milly Watt Power Management Project
• Mobile computing
• Sensor networks

I am author of Controlling Energy Demand in Mobile Computing Systems, Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, editor. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2007.

A list of my publications is available.

Some of my recent talks can be found at the Milly Watt talks page.

Professional Service

ACM:
Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2003-2009. Co-Program Chair of the MobiSys conference in 2008. Past Chair of ACM SIGOPS, the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, past Chair of the ACM SIG Governing Board, and former member of ACM Council.

CRA and CRA-W:
Member of CRA-W, CRA's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research and past Co-chair. Past Board member and secretary of CRA.

USENIX:
Program Chair for the USENIX Technical Conference 2002

NCWIT:
Past co-chair of the Academic Alliance of the National Center for Women & Information Technology.

Duke's Faculty Women's Network:
I served as co-convener for FWN from 2005-2007.

Teaching and Mentoring

• Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring
• Introduction to Operating Systems, CPS 110, Spring 2007
• Operating Systems, CPS210, Spring 2005.
• Topics course on Experimental Methods in Computer Systems, Fall 2004.
• Operating Systems, CPS210, Spring 2001, with emphasis on energy management.
• A Topics Course on Programming Palms (Spring 1999)

Our weekly Systems Seminar: SPIDER meetings.

I have mentored 6 undergraduate women students over several years through the CRA-W Distributed Mentorship Program.

A list of former students whom I advised for their Ph.D. degrees and where they are now.

Life Beyond Computer Science