Laurie Hendren

Laurie Jane Hendren

Kayaking at Chandos Lake, Summer 2014
Born (1958-12-13) December 13, 1958
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Fields Computer Science
Institutions McGill University
Alma mater Queen's University, Kingston
Cornell University
Doctoral advisor Alex Nicolau[1]
Known for programming languages
compiler research
pointer analysis
Notable awards Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005–2006)[2]
ACM Fellow (2009)[3]
Canada Research Chair (2011) [4]
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012)[5]
Website
www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren
flatchestedwarriors.weebly.com

Laurie Hendren (born 1958) is a Canadian Computer Scientist noted for her research in programming languages and compilers.

Biography

Hendren received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Queen's University, Kingston in 1982 and 1984 respectively. She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1990.[6]

She then joined the School of Computer Science at the McGill University as an assistant professor in 1990. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 2001. She also served as Associate Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Science at McGill University from 2005 to 2014. She was recently made the 5 of diamonds in the Notable Women of Computing card deck.[7]

Awards and notable achievements

Hendren was awarded the Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Science at McGill University[2] for the academic year 2006–2007. She was made an ACM Fellow[3] in 2009, awarded a Canada Research Chair [4] in 2011, and elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[5] in 2012.

Hendren is the programming languages area editor the Association for Computing Machinery Books Series[8] and has been the Program Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference.


Research Projects

Laurie Hendren has led or co-led several big open source research projects at McGill University. These are:

References

  1. ↑ Alex Nicolau. "Alex Nicolau's Home Page". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  2. 1 2 Faculty of Science, McGill University. "The Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching". McGill University. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  3. 1 2 ACM Awards. "Laurie J. Hendren - Award Winner". ACM. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  4. 1 2 NSERC Awards. "Canada Research Chair - Laurie Hendren". NSERC. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  5. 1 2 McGill Reporter. "Royal Society of Canada honours 12 McGill researchers and scholars". McGill. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  6. ↑ Laurie J. Hendren. "Laurie J. Hendren - CV". McGill University. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  7. ↑ Susan H. Rodger (2014-12-13). "CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing". Duke University. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  8. ↑ ACM Books. "Board Members - ACM Books". ACM. Retrieved 2015-04-06.

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