Sherri K. Harms
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EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Candidate-ABD, Computer Science, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia,
Missouri, 1997- present, (expected graduation date: August 2001.) Major professor: Dr. Otho
Plummer
PhD
Dissertation Proposal: Associating and
Predicting Episodes in Multiple Time Series for Supporting Policy Decision
Making, partially funded by a NSF DGI grant, mentioned below.
M.S., Computer
Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, May 1990.
Master's Research Paper:
Comparison of Nested Query Performance of Four IBM Relational Database
Management Systems.
B.S., Computer Science/Math/Education, Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa, May 1987.
year,
and Z.Z. White talent scholarship each year.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems, University
of Nebraska, Kearney, NE (Aug 2001 – present)
Course
web pages available through the University
of Nebraska-Kearney Blackboard Intranet.
Lecturer in Computer Science & Engineering, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (Aug 1999 – Aug 2001)
Course
webpage: CSE 155 Introduction to Computer Science I
Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems, Lincoln University,
Jefferson City, MO (Aug 1993-Aug
1999). (Promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor in 1999)
Instructor of Computer Information Systems, Fort Hays State
University, Hays, KS (Jan. 1990-Dec. 1991)
Assistant Coordinator of Academic Computing, Fort Hays State University,
Hays, KS (Jan. 1990-Dec. 1991)
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, Iowa State University (Aug. 1988-Dec.
1989)
AWARDS & HONORS
1997 Recipient of Missouri
Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for Lincoln University; 1999
International Who's Who of Information Technology; 1998 Who's Who Among
American Teachers; 1998 International Who's Who of Professionals
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Professional Papers
Harms, S. K., Deogun, J.,
Tadesse, T., Discovering
Sequential Association Rules with Constraints and Time Lags in Multiple
Sequences, submitted to
ISMIS '02: The 2002 International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Lyon,
France, June 27-29 2002.
Goddard, S., Harms, S. K.,
Reichenbach, S. E., Tadesse, T., Waltman, W. J., Geospatial Decision
Support for Drought Risk Management, submitted to Communications of the ACM, January 2003 ed.
Harms,
S. K., Saquer, J., Deogun, J., Tadesse, T., Discovering
Representative Episodal Association Rules from Event Sequences Using Frequent
Closed Episode Sets and Event Constraints, Proceedings of
the ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining,
Silicon Valley, CA, November 29 - December 2, 2001, pp. 603-606.
Harms, S. K., Reichenbach,
S. Goddard, S. E., Tadesse, T., Waltman, W. J., Data Mining in a Geospatial Decision Support
system for Drought Risk Management, Proceedings of
the First National Conference on Digital Government,
May 2001, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 9-16.
Harms, S. K., Ye, Y., CSE
155 Introduction to Computer Science I Lab Manual, Fall 2000 and Spring
2001 editions.
Professional Presentations
Tadesse, T., Harms, S.,
K., Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of
Drought and Crop Yields, USDA Drought Risk Assessment Advisory Panel, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln,
Nebraska, August 28-30, 2001.
Harms, S. K., Tadesse, T.,
Discovering Associations between Climatic and
Environmental Variables for Supporting Drought Decision Making, The
First National Conference on Digital Government, Los Angeles, CA, May 2001.
Harms, S., K., Tadesse,
T., Identifying the Association of Climatic and Physical
Variables in Monitoring Drought to Support Decision Making, US
Geological Service (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data
Center, Sioux Falls, SD, January 11, 2001.
Harms, S., K., Comparison of knowledge discovery and statistical
analysis on high school drop-out rates, UNL Department of Computer Science
Colloquium, October 21, 1999.
GRANTS
- National Science
Foundation (NSF) Digital Government Initiative (DGI): A Geospatial
Decision Support System for Drought Risk Management, ~$1,000,000 3 year grant awarded Spring 2001 to University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Stephen E. Reichenbach, lead PI
This project is developing and
integrating an advanced Geospatial Decision Support System (GDSS) to
support faster and better drought risk management in the USDA Risk
Management Agency (RMA) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS). Our overall goal is to
substantially improve RMA's delivery of risk management services in the
near-term and will provide a foundation and directions for the future. Helping RMA become a model
"digital government" agency will directly assist those in agriculture
and will have important economic and societal benefits.
I developed the knowledge discovery
design in the proposal and am responsible for developing and integrating
spatial-temporal knowledge discovery techniques into the information layer of
the GDSS. We use a combination of
data mining techniques applied to rich, geospatial, time-series data with the
goal of discovering relationships and predicting specified events. I work with
several team members from several research areas on this project.
·
University of Nebraska Math
& Science Initiative: Revising
the CSE 155 Curriculum, Summer 2001
This project provided summer support to revise the CSE 155 Introduction to Computer Science I curriculum. The course emphasis is problem solving, but we changed programming languages from C++ to Java. We wanted to take advantage of the object-oriented nature of the Java language and to immerse the students in object-oriented design from the first day of class. Because of this, the current assignments could not simply be rewritten for the Java language. We completely revised our lab problems, homework assignments, course web resources, and presentation notes. Additionally, we researched how other computer science programs implement Java into their CS I courses to take advantage of lessons learned and to develop an outstanding program. These resources are vital to this course, especially considering that over 600 students per year enroll in this course, and only 1/3 of them are either a computer science or computer engineering major.
I
was completely responsible for this grant. I hired a student assistant for the summer and helped
another faculty member to become acquainted with the material.
·
USDA NRI Proposal: Soil
Climate Regimes of the Northeastern U.S., William J. Waltman, lead PI, submitted November 2000, not funded.
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Nebraska EPSCor
Proposal for Geoinformatics of Natural Hazards: Enhancing the Geoinformatics of Drought Monitoring and
Risk Assessment in Nebraska and the Northern Great Plains, D. A. Wilhite, lead PI, submitted April 2000, not
funded.
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Improving CIS student’s problem solving skills using the GamePlan
software tool,
CBHE Funding for Results Initiative, 1997/98 year.
·
Title III Scholarship to pursue Ph.D. degree
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Improving CIS students’ oral communication skills, CBHE Funding for Results
Initiative, Sp 97.
·
Texas Instrument’s University Program, partnered with the State of Missouri to
receive all TI analytical software (Composer, Performer, Arranger, etc.) for
training students, and access to all TI training for faculty, Dec. 96. (Renewed with Sterling Software Inc.,
when the software and the University program were sold from TI to Sterling.)
Jan 97-Dec 99.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Facilitator/Analyst, USDA. USDA Field Office of the Future Project.
Programmer/Analyst, Missouri Farm Bureau, Jefferson City, MO
Programmer/Analyst, Intelligent Business Systems, Jefferson City, MO
Intern, IBM, Rochester, MN
Data Base Analyst, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
1999-present Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1999-present Special
Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data (SIGKDD) of the ACM
2000-present Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
1995-1999 Jefferson City Information
Technology Coalition (JC-ITC).
Developed and implemented the JC-ITC web page. (Fall 1995- Spring 1999)
1994-1999 Capital
Connect User Group, Jefferson City, MO
1993-present International
Association of Computer Information Systems