Amy Csizmar Dalal

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About me

• Professor of Computer Science, Carleton College
• Director, STEM Board, Carleton College, 2019-2022
• Director, Summer Science Fellows Program, Carleton College, 2017-2023
• Chair of Computer Science department, 2013-2016
• Member of Carleton Faculty since 2003
• Post-doctoral researcher, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 2000-2003
• PhD, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University
• MS, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University
• BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Research interests

• Technical support relationships
• Usable and user-friendly computer networks
• Ethical and sustainable academic civic engagement in software engineering (public scholarship)
• Quality of experience
• Self-healing computer networks
• Human-computer interaction
• Network measurement, characterization, performance, and analysis

Research projects and publications
Public scholarship
ResearchGate page

Teaching interests

• Academic civic engagement
• Alternative grading
• Computer networks
• Human-computer interaction and human-centered computing
• Software design
• Introductory CS sequence
• Senior comprehensive exercise ("Comps")
• Computer architecture

Courses and other teaching-related info

I also maintain a blog where I write about life and academia and other random pursuits.

Selected recent publications

(undergraduate authors listed in bold)

• Amy Csizmar Dalal, Stan Kurkovsky, Patricia Morreale, and Mikey Goldweber. 2025. How to Teach Software Engineering for Societal and Social Impact. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSETS 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1691–1692. Panel presentation. DOI: 10.1145/3641555.3704711
• Amy Csizmar Dalal and Emily Oliver. 2022. A Case Study of a Multiyear Community-Engaged Learning Capstone in Computer Science. In Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 26(1), April 2022.
• Amy Csizmar Dalal, Jackie Chan, and Kirby Mitchell. 2019. A Preliminary Study of the Role of Language in Home Network Troubleshooting. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages LBW0272, 6 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312856 [PDF] [Poster]
• J. Davis, J. Albrecht, C. Alvarado, T. Chen, A. Csizmar Dalal, S. Lee. "Computer science faculty careers at liberal arts colleges." In XRDS 21(3), March 2015, pp 13-15.
• A. Csizmar Dalal. "A Framework for Self-Healing Home Networks." In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustnests (Qshine), Rhodes, Greece, August 2014. (Short paper)
• A. Csizmar Dalal. "Systems Considerations in Real Time Video QoE Assessment". In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications (QoEMC), Anaheim, CA, December 2012.
• A. Csizmar Dalal. "User-perceived Quality Assessment of Streaming Media Using Reduced Feature Sets". In ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 11(2), December 2011.
• A. Csizmar Dalal, Andy Bouchard, Sara Cantor, Yiran Guo, Anya Johnson. "Assessing QoE of On-Demand TCP Video Streams in Real Time." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 2012.
• H. French, J. Lin, T. Phan, A. Csizmar Dalal. "Real Time Video QoE Analysis of RTMP Streams." (Poster). In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Orlando, FL, November 2011.
• A. Csizmar Dalal. "Revisiting a QoE Assessment Architecture Six Years Later: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges". (Invited paper) In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications (AAA-IDEA), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, November 2009.
• A. Csizmar Dalal, E. Kawaler, S. Tucker. "Towards Real-Time Stream Quality Prediction: Predicting Video Stream Quality from Partial Stream Information". In Proceedings of The Sixth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, November 2009.
• A. Csizmar Dalal. "Digital Storytelling as a Gateway to Computer Science". In Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology 4(2), Fall 2008. Available online at http://www.rcetj.org

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