Valerie Galluzzi
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology – 5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, IN 47803
B galluzzi@rose-hulman.edu • Í http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~galluzzi/
EDUCATION
University of Iowa
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Iowa City, IA
2015
Thesis: “Automatic Recognition of Healthcare Worker Hand Hygiene"
University of Iowa
M.S. in Computer Science
Iowa City, IA
2012
Thesis: “Distributed Learning in Sensor Networks"
Mount Holyoke College
B.A. in Computer Science
South Hadley, MA
2009
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Machine Learning, Sensor Networks, Distributed Algorithms, Activity Recognition
AWARDS
2009-2015: Dean’s Graduate Fellowship: Full support for 5 years.
TEACHING
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
CSSE491-02
Internet of Things
CSSE132
Introduction to Computer Systems
CSSE120
Introduction to Software Development With Robotics
2015-2016
University of Iowa
Programming Languages and Tools: C ++
Fall 2012
RESEARCH
Research Assistant with the Compepi Group
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Fall 2013-2015
Developed method for detecting hand hygiene duration and technique from wrist based 3-dimensional accelerometers and 3-dimensional orientation sensors. Processed raw signal into features and classified observed
motions using various machine learning methods. Designed data collection protocols and assisted with data
collection.
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Curriculum Vitae
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PUBLICATIONS
2015
Galluzzi, Valerie, Ted Herman, and Philip M Polgreen (2015). “Hand Hygiene Duration and
Technique Recognition Using Wrist-worn Sensors”. In: ACM/IEEE International Conference
on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2015.
2014
Galluzzi, Valerie, Ted Herman, DJ Shumaker, DR Macinga, JW Arbogast, Elena M Segre,
Alberto M Segre, and Philip M Polgreen (2014). “Electronic Recognition of Hand Hygiene
Technique and Duration”. In: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 35.10, pp. 1298–
1300.
2013
Galluzzi, Valerie, James Arbogast, Ted Herman, Danny Parker, Alberto Segre, David
Shumaker, and Philip M. Polgreen (2013). “Recognizing Hand Hygiene Technique from
Accelerometry Data: a First Step Towards a New Standard of Hand Hygiene Measurement”.
In: IDWeek 2013.
2012
Galluzzi, Valerie (2012). “Real Time Distributed Community Structure Detection in
Dynamic Networks”. In: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in
Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1236–
1241.
Galluzzi, Valerie and Ted Herman (2012). “Survey: discovery in wireless sensor networks”.
In: International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 2012.
SERVICE
Advisor, Women of Like Fields Passionate About Computing (WOLF PAC)
Co-chair, 2015 Jakobsen Conference
Vice President, Graduate Student Senate
Division Head, 2014 Jakobsen Conference
Senator, Graduate Student Senate
2015-Present
2014-2015
2014-2015
2013-2014
2013-2014
SKILLS
Programming Languages: Python, C/C ++, TinyOS/nesC, OpenMP, MPI, OpenGL, ARM, HTML
Tools: Weka, Scipy/Numpy, Pyplot, LATEX
Classroom Management: Iowa Courses Online (ICON), Panopto
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Curriculum Vitae
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