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Katherine E. Carl

Expected Year of Graduation

• 2013

Advisor

• Dr. Moshe Dror

Dissertation Title:

• Automated Route Generation of Bicycle Tours of the United States

Research Interests

• Operations research
• Applied combinatorial optimization
• Complexity theory
• Algorithm design and analysis

Education

• B.A. English Literature Illinois Wesleyan University, Computer Science Minor, Russian Literature Minor, 2008

Publications

• Carl, K., Brown, S., Dror, M., and Durcikova, A. (work in progress), "Bicycle Tours:  Perceived Exertion of a Daily Path," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS).
• Carl, K. and Dror, M., "Bicycle Tours:  Modeling the Perceived Exertion of a Daily Path," 2012 Proceedings of INFORMS, SpORts Cluster.
• Twyman, N., Jenkins, J., Carl, K., Nunamaker Jr., J. F., “Knowledge contribution improves complex decision making,” 2011 Proceedings of HICCS Symposium
• Humpherys, S., Carl, K., Burgoon, J. K., Nunamaker Jr., J. F., “Disfluency rate as a paralinguistic cue to deception among native and nonnative English speakers,” 2010 Proceedings of HICCS Symposium

Awards and Honors

• 2012 Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow
• 2011 James F. LaSalle Teaching Award
• 2011 U A Foundation’s Outstanding GTA Award
• 2010 Eller College Teaching Award
• 2011 and 2010 Graduate and Professional Student Council Presentation Award
• 2008 Science Foundation Arizona Fellow
• 2004 Illinois Wesleyan University Alumni Talent Award
• 2004 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship

Professional Services

Developed a web application using ArcGIS software for the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center (AEMRC) at the University of Arizona to analyze potential sites for a new urgent care center in the Tucson metropolitan area.