Anne Condon
NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for B.C. and the Yukon
Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia
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Anne has been a long-time member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on Women in Computer Science and Engineering (CRA-W) which implements research mentoring, community building, and in formation sharing projects for women in computer science and related fields across North America. Anne was co-chair of the Computing Research Association's Committee on Women in Computing (CRA-W) from 2000-2003, and from 1995-1998 she coordinated CRA-W's Distributed Mentoring Project. Anne organized a career mentoring workshop for Canadian women faculty in Science and Engineering in St. Johns, Newfoundland in June, 2000, initiated a Focus on Women in Computer Science Committee in UBC's CS Department, which involves department members in mentoring and outreach events aimed at recruiting and retaining women in computer science.

Anne obtained her B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1982 from the University College Cork, Ireland and her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1987 from the University of Washington, Seattle. She was a faculty member of the Computer Sciences Department at U. Wisconsin at Madison from 1987-1999. Her research interests include bioinformatics (particularly prediction of RNA secondary structure), computational complexity theory, design and analysis of algorithms, and biomolecular computing.

Anne was awarded a Distinguished Dissertation Award in 1998 by the Association for Computing Machinery, a National Young Investigator Award in 1992 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from University College Cork, Ireland in 2001. She has over 60 research publications in refereed conferences and journals.

Michele Ng
Special Projects' Coordinator

Michele is currently working as Special Programs Coordinator in the Department of Computer Science at UBC. Her interest in Gender and Technology stems from her involvement as the research coordinator for Maria Klawe for the SWIFT (Supporting Women in Information Technology) project. Since then, she has continued her work in recruiting and retaining women in Computer Science through coordinating the BCS program and the tri-mentoring program. She is also involved in high school outreach programs and in projects on understanding the effect of curriculum and program design on retaining female students in Computer Science.

Hiromi Matsui
Director of Diversity and Recruitment
Faculty of Applied Science
Simon Fraser University
and Co-Chair, Working Committee
Women in SETT- Building Communities CCWEST

Hiromi works with faculty, staff and students at SFU on diversity and recruitment. She works with the Employment Equity Committee in Applied Sciences and the Gender Committees in Computing and Engineering Sciences.  In particular, she has supported female students in Computing and Engineering Science - WICS and WEG who now have developed their own organizations for support and social activities.

The contributions that working women make to the economy has always interested Hiromi.  Her inerest in women in science and engineering grew from my involvement with SCWIST, the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology and CCWESTT, the Canadian Coalition for Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology.