Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering II
Thursday March 13 and Friday March 14, 2008.
Biographies of participants
James E. Batterson, Executive Director, Women's Health at Stanford
Jim Batterson provides strategic, management and marketing direction to the Women's Health at Stanford promoting an active interdisciplinary medical program that supports professional and community education. Batterson has lectured and advised on a number of health and wellness programs and projects, including weight management, stress reduction and integrative medicine. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Joyce Chung has over 10 years of operating experience in technology companies and 10 years of venture capital investing experience. She was a founding partner of Cardinal Venture Capital, a $125 million early stage venture fund. At Cardinal, Joyce was responsible for investments in Chipcon (acquired by Texas Instruments), Mobilygen, Valista, and Zilliant. She continues to co-manage the current Cardinal portfolio. Prior to forming Cardinal Venture Capital, Joyce managed venture investments for Adobe Ventures. Her portfolio companies included Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN), DigitalThink, Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC), and Virage. Joyce also held operating roles at Adobe Systems, Sony Corporation, and Cambridge Technology Group. She received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Joyce is active at the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and is on the board of the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA), Chair of the Northern California chapter of AMITA and Member of the Executive Council of Astia.
Louise Fortmann, Professor of Forestry and Sustainable Development, University of California-Berkeley
Louise Fortmann is the Rudy Grah Chair in Forestry and Sustainable Development at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research concerns "civil science", also known as traditional knowledge. She looks at the outcomes of natural resource use and management for individuals and for communities, with a particular focus on California and South Africa. Professor Fortmann was a Clayman Institute Research Fellow 2005-06 and she is a contributor to the Clayman Institute's new volume, Londa Schiebinger (ed), Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering (Stanford University Press, 2008).
Cynthia Friend, T.W. Richards Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science, and Chair, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Cynthia Friend has been a member of Harvard's faculty since 1982. She is known for her studies of the chemical and physical properties of surfaces and interfaces as applied to important scientific and technological problems. She has also been a leader in forging new opportunities for women scientists. She was co-Chair of a workshop entitled "Building Strong Academic Chemistry Departments through Gender Equity" that was sponsored by three major funding agencies (DOE, NIH, and NSF). This workshop resulted in important changes in policy at the funding agencies.
Sheri Graner Ray, Executive Chair, Women in Games International
Ray has been developing games in the computer game industry since 1990. She has worked for such companies as, Origin Systems/Electronic Arts, Her Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment and Cartoon Network. A strong proponent for women in the game industry, she co-founded and is currently serving as the Executive Chair of Women In
Games International. Her book, "Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market" is being used as a core text in many university game development programs today. In 2005 she was awarded the Game Developers Choice Award for her work in gender and technology. She has been named one of the most influential women in computer entertainment by both Hollywood Reporter and NextGen and one of the 50 most influential women in technology by Corporate Board Member Magazine. While she has worked as everything from a game writer to head of her own game studio, her first
love is game design and she describes herself as a "hard-core gamer." She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband Tim where she is in the process of setting up SaberDance Studios to make games for the new generation of gamers.
Diane Greene, President, CEO and co-founder of VMware
Greene is President, CEO and co-founder of VMware. Under Diane's leadership, VMware created the market for mainstream virtualization and VMware definitively leads what is now a virtualization software industry.
Green has held technical leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Sybase and Tandem and was CEO of VXtreme.
Green's degrees include mechanical engineering, naval architecture and computer science from the University of Vermont, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California Berkeley, respectively.
Green serves on the board of VMware and Intuit.
Myra M. Hart, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard University
Myra Hart is the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. Her research on women entrepreneurs in high growth ventures is conducted in collaboration with the Diana Project. Hart is a Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, 2008.
Nancy Hopkins, Amgen Professor of Biology, MIT
Nancy Hopkins is well known for her work to promote women in science. In 1995, she was appointed Chair of the first Committee on Women Faculty in the School of Science at MIT, which issued an influential report in 1999. In 2000, she was appointed co-Chair of the Council on Faculty Diversity at MIT. In her research, Hopkins examines the role of genes in creating predisposition to developing cancer. Hopkins is a Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, 2008.
Deborah Kilgore, Research Scientist, University of Washington
Kilgore received a BA in Economics from the University of Maryland College Park, an MS in Business from the John Hopkins University, and a PhD in Education from Texas A&M University.
At the University of Washington, she is based at the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, where she is researching gender differences in the practice of engineering.
Vladlen Koltun, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Vladlen Koltun is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at
Stanford University and is the founding head of the Stanford Virtual
Worlds Group. His prior work in computational geometry and theoretical
computer science was recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred
P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Machtey Award. He is on the editorial
board of Theory of Computing and is editor of two special issues for
SIAM Journal on Computing.
Michelle Murphy, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
Michelle Murphy's research considers the intersections of environment, technoscience, sex, race and health. Her most recent book is "Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Technology, Feminist Health Practices, and Biopolitics." She is currently working on a study of environmental history and gendered practices in South Asia, 1950-2005. Murphy is a Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, 2007-08.
Kavita Philip, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine
Kavita Philip's interests are in transnational studies of science and technology, feminist technocultures; and environmental history. Her work focuses on South India from the 19th century to the present. Philip is a Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, 2008.
Sue V. Rosser, Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Professor of History, Technology, and Society
Sue Rosser is a zoologist by training, and has held senior faculty positions in women's studies, anthropology and as a Senior Program Officer at the National Science Foundation. She has a strong interest in improving the environment of science and engineering for women, and in enabling more girls and women to see themselves as potential scientists. Rosser is a Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, 2008.
Sheri D. Sheppard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Sheri Sheppard's research looks at weld fatigue and impact failures. She is also concerned with engineering education. Sheppard is currently co-Principal Investigator on a 5-year National Science Foundation grant-funded project looking at the choices students make when considering and undertaking an education and career in engineering. Sheppard is a Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, 2007-08.
Sibongile Van Damme, General Manager, People and Conservation Division, South African National Parks
Sibongile Van Damme is a self-described eco-feminist. She has served as a government adviser within South Africa's Department of Arts and Culture on heritage policy and strategy affecting major heritage institutions, including as a member of the advisory team for the Nelson Mandela National Museum. Her general interest is in the interaction of gender and environment; and her current research is on the re-teaching of traditional skills to the Khomani San in the Kalahari. Van Damme is a Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute, 2008.
Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Winblad is the co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (www.humwin.com ) is a leading venture capital firm focused on software investing and manages over $1 billion in cumulative capital. Since Hummer Winblad Venture Partners' inception in 1989 the firm has launched over 100 new software companies.
Winblad has over 30 years of experience in the software industry as a successful software entrepreneur, strategy advisor, technical author and venture capitalist. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications.
Winblad has a BA in Mathematics and in Business Administration. She has an MA in Education with a focus in International Economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Law degree from the University of St. Thomas. Ann served and serves as a Director of numerous start-up and public companies. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of St. Thomas, co-chair of SDForum and serves as an advisor to many entrepreneurial organizations.
Terry Winograd, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Winograd's interest is human-computer interaction design, with a focus on the theoretical background and conceptual models. He directs the teaching programs and HCI research in the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. He is also a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the "d.school"). Winograd was a founding member and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. He is on a number of journal editorial boards, including Human Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, and Informatica.
Nick Yee, Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Nick Yee studies social interaction and self-perception in virtual environments. At Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, he conducted experimental studies in immersive virtual reality for his dissertation work. Nick has also applied data-mining techniques on server-side data from online games while working with PARC and Sony Online Entertainment. Nick is also the founder of The Daedalus Project, an online survey study that has surveyed over 40,000 online gamers on a wide variety of issues, such as age and gender differences, motivations of play, relationship formation, and problematic usage.
www.nickyee.com
Michelle Zawadzki, Senior Director, Global Knee Development, Zimmer Inc.
Zawadzki was educated in mechanical engineering at the universities of Akron and Purdue.
Michelle's 20 years with Zimmer has provided her with many opportunities to grow into an effective leader and manager. She now leads a team of over 40 engineering personnel worldwide and provides guidance in all aspects of global knee development projects.
Her work has been recognized with many honors and patents.
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