Amy Csizmar Dalal

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I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carleton College. I have been a member of the Carleton faculty since September 2003. Prior to Carleton, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories from 2000-2003. I have a PhD and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

My research interests include quality of service/quality of experience of Internet applications; streaming media; network measurement; performance analysis of computer and communication networks; and queueing theory. I focus on the intersection of application performance and network performance, determining how the two interact with and react in the presence of each other. Currently, I'm interested in multimedia networking: specifically, how can we determine the (subjective) quality of a media stream from network- and application-level measurements (that is, without having to ask the user directly), so as to improve application protocols and network infrastructure to better support high-quality video (for applications such as distance learning, remote medicine, and entertainment). For more information, see my research page.

Carleton students: Interested in doing research in my lab during Summer 2010? Please see this page for details. Deadlines to apply are January 15, 2010 and mid-February, 2010.

I teach courses in Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, and our Intro course sequence. I've also taught and developed courses on Computer Security, Digital Storytelling, and Peer-to-Peer and Multimedia Computing. In addition, I advise our Senior Comprehensive Exercise ("Comps"). For more information, see my teaching page.

Want to know what's going on in my research lab, in the classroom, in the news, in my head? Then you'll want to visit my blog.

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