CCIS Senior Tanya Cashorali Wins Honorable Mention in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program
CCIS senior Tanya Cashorali was awarded an honorable mention in the Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Awards Program. The CRA is an association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research . Each year, the CRA recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research. The award committee also considers the student’s academic record and service to the community.
Tanya is a senior in CCIS, with a dual major in Computer Science and Biology. This award recognizes her work with three different research groups. At Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, her first coop assignment, she designed project standards that are now in general use. Her work at her second co-op assignment, at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program, resulted in a published paper which she presented at the 2006 NIH Roadmap Biomedical Computing Conference. On her final co-op at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, she designed a rich internet application which allows scientists' to capture and process data from data-intensive medical instruments, such as mass spectrometers. The paper on this work is in preparation.
Besides her research accomplishment, Tanya is also one of the founders of CISters, the very active student group in CCIS that focuses on attracting and retaining female student's interest in computing professions.