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Date: January 7, 2000
Andrea S. LaPaugh to Become Master of Forbes College
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Professor of Computer Science Andrea S. LaPaugh will become master of Forbes College, effective July 1, 2000.
LaPaugh received an A.B. in 1974 from Cornell University and an M.S. in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1980 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a year's appointment as visiting assistant professor of computer science at Brown University, she joined the Princeton faculty as assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science in 1981. She was promoted to associate professor of computer science in 1987 and to professor in 1995.
LaPaugh's teaching has ranged broadly. Her recent courses have included, at the undergraduate level, COS 111, "Computers and Computing," and COS 425, Database Systems (spring 2000), and at the graduate level, advanced topics courses, Digital Information Access, and Information Access: Issues for the Web and Digital Libraries.
A specialist in computer-aided design (CAD) of digital systems, LaPaugh has worked extensively in the development of algorithms for problems in digital design. A major area of her research has been the interactions between placement and detailed routing in VLSI circuit layout. Another focus of research has been the synthesis and verification of digital systems from high-level descriptions. One project in this area was the representation and verification of timing requirements for asynchronous digital systems; another was the scheduling of program iterations on hardware (software pipelining). Most recently, LaPaugh has begun a new project in information access for the Web and digital libraries, involving both a strong algorithm design component, in which the usefulness of structure among information components is explored, and a strong systems component, in which the efficient delivery of information to information access tools is explored. An editor of the journal Algorithmica, she has published in leading professional journals, conference proceedings, and handbooks in electrical engineering and computer science.
Currently associate chair of the Department of Computer Science, LaPaugh is a member of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing, the Applications of Computing Program Committee, and the Engineering Biology Program Committee. She has served previously as departmental representative in Computer Science and in many university roles, including member of the University's Faculty/Staff Sexual Harassment Panel, representative to the Council of the Princeton University Community, and member of the ad-hoc committee on women faculty in science and engineering. LaPaugh has served for many years as a freshman adviser in the School of Engineering. Now a faculty fellow at Butler College, she was a fellow at Forbes from 1983 to 1992, and she served on the advisory board of the Forbes Computing Center from 1984 to 1986.
LaPaugh will succeed John G. Gager Jr., William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, who has served as master of Forbes College since 1992. LaPaugh's appointment was made by President Shapiro on the recommendation of Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel and Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan.