Amy Csizmar Dalal

Education & Professional History

University of Notre Dame, BS; Northwestern University, MS, PhD

Post-doctoral researcher, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA.

HERS Institute (Higher Education Leadership Development Program)

Highlights & Recent Activity

Currently serving a 3-year term as STEM Director, working with the STEM Board to develop vision and priorities for STEM at Carleton, and to coordinate efforts to achieve these priorities.

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

Organizations: National Center for Women & Information Technology Academic Alliance, Association of Computing Machinery (special interest groups on human-computer interaction and computer science education), American Association of University Professors.

Honor societies: Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

My research focuses on ways to make computer networks more usable and more user-friendly. My current projects explore computer networks within the home, focusing on troubleshooting behaviors and strategies of homeowners; terminology used in help-seeking and help-giving situations, such as online help forums; home network measurement and performance analysis; and self-healing home networks, networks that can detect network performance issues and mitigate them before they occur.

I am passionate about broadening participation in computing. I currently direct the Summer Science Fellows program at Carleton, and am active in the NCWIT Academic Alliance.

I am also passionate about integrating meaningful and ethical civic engagement experiences into the Computer Science curriculum, and in working with community and campus partners to incorporate technical solutions that serve their needs and enable them to do their work more efficiently and effectively.

(bold = undergraduate coauthors)

A. Csizmar Dalal and E. Oliver. “A Case Study of a Multiyear Community-Engaged Learning Capstone in Computer Science.” To appear in Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 26(1), April 2022.

A. Csizmar Dalal, J. Chan, K. Mitchell. “A Preliminary Study of the Role of Language in Home Network Troubleshooting”. In: Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts (CHI), May 2019. (Extended abstract)

J. Davis, J. Albrecht, C. Alvarado, T. Chen, A. Csizmar Dalal, S. Lee. “Computer science faculty careers at liberal arts colleges.” In XRDS 21(3), March 2015, pp 13-15.

A. Csizmar Dalal. “A Framework for Self-Healing Home Networks.” In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustnesss (Qshine), Rhodes, Greece, August 2014. (Short paper)

S. Hambrusch, R. Libeskind-Hadas, F. Zhao, D. Rabson, A. Csizmar Dalal, E. Fox, C. Isbell, V. Taylor. “Exploring the Baccalaureate Origin of Domestic Ph.D. Students in Computing Fields”. In Computer Research News 25(1), Computing Research Association, January 2013.

See full list on my Google Scholar page

Running, taekwondo (2nd degree blackbelt and assistant instructor), crafting, kayaking, camping.