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Meg Drouhard
Education
Enrolled Ph.D., Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
(UW), Advisor: Dr. Cecilia Aragon, Concentration: Visualization, Visual Analytics.
Top Scholar Award, GPA: 3.93
May 2015 M.S. in Computer Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), Advisor: Dr. J. Douglas Birdwell, Concentration:
Visualization.
Thesis Research: Visualization of Neuroscience-Inspired Dynamic Architectures, GPA: 4.0
May 2009 B.A., German Studies & Spanish Studies, American University (AU), Advisor: Dr. Brenda
Werth.
Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University Honors in German Studies and Spanish Studies,
Presidential Scholarship (full tuition, 4 years), FU-BEST Study Abroad Scholarship, Dean’s List, University
Honors Program, GPA: 3.99
May 2005 Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
National Merit Scholar, National Honor Society, German Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, GPA:
4.38, Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Computer Skills
Proficient C++, C, Java, Python, LaTeX
Familiar Linux, MacOS, Windows, MATLAB, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, MySQL
Proficient Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe InDesign (CS3 & CS5)
Language Skills
Fluent German (8 years of study)
Fluent Spanish (15 years of study)
Selected Professional Experience
Sep. 2015 - Research Assistant, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of
present Washington, Advisor: Dr. Cecilia Aragon.
Main responsibilities:
1. Design and develop visual analytics software to support analysis of unstructured text data
2. Study and apply ethnographic approaches for deeper understanding of data science challenges
May - Aug. Intern, Computational Data Analytics Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mentor: Dr.
2014, May - Chad Steed.
Sep. 2015 Main responsibilities:
1. Developed immersive scientific visualizations for Spallation Neutron Source using the Oculus Rift
2. Presented immersive visualization results at Joint NSRC Workshop 2015
3. Contributed to lab-funded exploration of social media analytics for the purpose of global event detection
(LDRD #6427 “Interactive Analysis of High Throughput, Unstructured Information Streams”)
4. Integrated analysis from a fine-grained opinion mining classifier into a visual analytics tool
5. Developed an extension to the visual analytics tool to facilitate recognition of patterns among different
categories of sentiment using Valence-Arousal-Dominance dimensional model
6. Presented results at 2014 Summer Intern Lightning Talks as an invited presenter
Aug. 2010 - Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Volunteer, CASA of the Tennessee Heartland,
Sep. 2015 Anderson County, Tennessee.
Main responsibilities:
1. Appointed by judge to conduct independent investigations into circumstances surrounding cases of
child abuse or neglect
2. File written reports to the court and testify in order to represent the best interests of the child or
children involved
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Aug. 2014 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
May 2015 University of Tennessee, Advisor: Dr. J. Douglas Birdwell.
Main responsibilities:
1. CS 401 EECS Senior Design: Mentor students in software engineering and design for student-designed
projects
2. CS 402 EECS Senior Design Practicum: Mentor students in software engineering and design for projects
proposed by external technical sponsors
3. Evaluate design documentation, presentations, and posters associated with projects
Aug. 2012 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
May 2014 University of Tennessee, Advisor: Dr. Jens Gregor.
Main responsibilities:
1. CS 140/CS 302 Data Structures & Algorithms I & II
2. Held lab sessions and office hours weekly to assist students with programming assignments in C++
3. Developed rubrics and grade lab and homework assignments; graded exams based on assigned rubric
May - Aug. Intern, Technology Integration Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mentor: Ross Miller.
2013 Main responsibilities:
1. Researched changes between Lustre 1.8 and Lustre 2.4, including new extended attributes and multiblock extended attribute storage
2. Updated (non-open source) filesystem utilities used to scan the Lustre filesystem and analyze disk usage
3. Researched and tested Robinhood Policy Engine as an alternative to the non-open source utilities
Sep. 2010 - Bilingual Advocate, Safe Haven Crisis and Recovery Center for Sexual Assault, Knoxville,
May 2011 Tennessee.
Main responsibilities:
1. Assisted victims of sexual violence with accompaniment to forensic exams, criminal justice procedures,
filing orders of protection, applications for victims’ compensation, and other processes related to sexual
assault; served English- and Spanish-speaking clients
2. Advocated for change in the community response to sexual assault through educational presentations
and collaboration with law enforcement and other agencies
3. Translated agency materials (Spanish ⇔ English) and provided informal interpretation services to
Spanish-speaking clients
Oct. 2009 - Foreign Language Assistant, Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Upper Austria.
May 2010 Main responsibilities:
1. Collaborated to create lesson plans with sixteen teachers at two schools for a total of twenty classes
2. Taught individually and with other teachers up to thirty students at a time; focused on oral fluency
in English, vocabulary building, English and American literature, and topical material regarding the
United States
3. Served as a judge and helped organize the 2010 Upper Austrian Foreign Language Competition
Jan. - May Project Assistant, Latin America & Caribbean Team, National Democratic Institute (NDI),
2009 Washington, D.C..
Main responsibilities:
1. Helped produce a daily news bulletin and maintain correspondence with field offices and embassies
2. Translated financial and institutional reports (Spanish ⇔ English), along with various documents from
NDI offices in the field
3. Conducted research on political participation, electoral systems, and other topics relevant to NDI’s
work in Central America
Sep. - Dec. Intern, Fulbright Commission Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2007 Main responsibilities:
1. Assisted in the processing of award applications and logged relevant information into office spreadsheets
and databases
2. Translated necessary forms and candidate statements for U.S. universities and IIE (Spanish ⇔ English)
Sep. - Dec. Intern, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C..
2006 Main responsibilities:
1. Catalogued German records collected during investigations in the 1960s, entering relevant details into
the Historical Documents database and summarizing the documents in English (German ⇒ English)
2. Analyzed significant court cases regarding human rights violations to assess their relevance in current
investigations
3. Conducted research at the Library of Congress, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library, UNBISnet,
and several other news and legal databases for both modern and WWII-era investigations
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Publications
2016 Chad A. Steed, Jamison Daniel, Margaret Drouhard, Steven Hahn, Thomas Proffen. “Immersive Visual Analytics for Transformative Neutron Scattering Science,” Workshop on Immersive
Analytics, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality, 2016. In press.
2016 Nan-Chen Chen, Rafal Kocielnik, Margaret Drouhard, Vanessa Peña-Araya, Jina Suh, Keting
Cen, Xiangyi Zheng, Cecilia R. Aragon. “Challenges of Applying Machine Learning to Qualitative
Coding,” Workshop on Human Centered Machine Learning, ACM Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems, 2016. In press.
2016 Margaret Drouhard, Cecilia Aragon. “Critical Actor-Network Theory: Hybrid Theory for
Visual Analytics,” Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science Workshop,
19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2016. In
press.
2015 Margaret Drouhard, Chad A. Steed, Steven Hahn, Thomas Proffen, Jamison Daniel, Michael
Matheson. “Immersive Visualization for Materials Science Data Analysis using the Oculus Rift,”
2nd Annual Workshop on Human-Centered Big Data Research, 2015 IEEE Conference on Big
Data, pp. 2453-2461. IEEE 2015.
2015 Chad A. Steed, Margaret Drouhard, Justin Beaver, Joshua Pyle, Paul L. Bogen II. “Matisse:
A Visual Analytics System for Exploring Emotion Trends in Social Media Text Streams,” 2015
IEEE Conference on Big Data, pp. 807-814. IEEE 2015.
2015 Chad A. Steed, Justin Beaver, Paul L. Bogen II, Margaret Drouhard, Joshua Pyle. “Text
Stream Trend Analysis using Multiscale Visual Analytics with Applications to Social Media
Systems,” 4th Workshop on Visual Text Analytics, 20th ACM Conference on Intelligent User
Interfaces, Atlanta, GA, 2015.
2014 Margaret Drouhard, Catherine D. Schuman, J. Douglas Birdwell, Mark E. Dean. “Visual
Analytics for Neuroscience-inspired Dynamic Architectures," IEEE Symposium on Foundations of
Computational Intelligence (FOCI), pp. 106-113. IEEE 2014.
Selected Presentations
2015 Visualization Techniques for Neuroscience-Inspired Dynamic Architectures. ACM Student Research Poster Competition Participant, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Houston, Texas.
2015 Immersive Visualization using the Oculus Rift: Applications in Material Science. Invited poster
presenter, Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference,
Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
2015 Scientific Visualization using the Oculus Rift: Strategies & Lessons Learned. Invited seminar
presenter, Institute for Imaging Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee.
2014 Opinion detectives: Visual Analytics for Social Media. Invited presenter, ORNL 2014 Summer
Intern Lightning Talks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
2009 The Past Among Us: Memory and the Pursuit of Justice and Truth in the Southern Cone, Honors
Capstone Research Conference, American University, Washington, D.C.
Honors and Awards
2014
2014
2014
2009/2010
2009/2010
2009
2009
2007
2005
Meg Drouhard
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Award for Extraordinary Professional Promise
Court Appointed Special Advocates’ Volunteer of the Year, CASA of the Tennessee Heartland
Fulbright Commission Teaching Assistantship Grant, Germany
Austrian-American Education Commission-Fulbright Commission Teaching Assistantship Grant
University Honors in German Studies, University Honors in Spanish Studies
Phi Beta Kappa
FU-BEST Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient
National Merit Scholar, National Honor Society, German Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society
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