Rebecca A. Bates

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Minnesota State University, Mankato

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, College of Engineering, 1990

M.T.S. (Theological Studies), Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School, 1993

M.S. Electrical Engineering, Boston University, College of Engineering, 1996

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, College of Engineering, 2004

I am on sabbatical in Brazil for the 2009-10 academic year, working on the Borboleta Project, trying to improve my Portuguese and enjoying a full calendar year of lengthening days. 

Research and Funded Projects

Connection, Community, and Engagement in STEM Education (NSF 0910143)
Collaborative Research: Professional Development Gateways in Social Learning Settings (NSF 0816642)
The MAX Scholarship Program (NSF 0631111)
The High Performance Computer (NSF 0619641)

Classes

Summer 2009: CS 201W

Spring 2009: CS 380, CS 630, CS 293/493

Fall 2008: CS 230, CS 431, CS 293/493

Spring 2008: CS 171, CS 415/515, CS 496-02 (HPC Seminar), CS 293/493

Fall 2007: CS 171, CS 430, CS 293/493

Spring 2007: COMS 171, EE 298 Intro to Computer Engineering II

Fall 2006: COMS 171, COMS 202W, EE 298 Intro to Computer Engineering I

Spring 2006: COMS 171, COMS 202W, EE 298 Intro to Computer Engineering II

Fall 2005: COMS 171, COMS 202W, EE 298 Intro to Computer Engineering I

Spring 2005: COMS 171, EE 230

Fall 2004: COMS 171, COMS 601: Computational Linguistics

Spring 2004: COMS 171, COMS 380

Spring 2003: COMS 171, COMS 320

Fall 2002: COMS 320

Spring 2002: GRDSCH 630B (University of Washington)

Undergraduate and Graduate Research Opportunities

Potential Projects:

• speech recognition in noisy environments
• modeling conversation and meeting dynamics
• analysis of articulatory features for speech recognition
• prosodic analysis of William's Syndrome speech
• relational databases for speech and language corpora

Contact me if you are interested in exploring areas of speech and language or other pattern recognition tasks.   It is strongly advised that you have taken or plan to take probability and statistics to work in this area.  Experience with linux or unix operating systems is also a plus.

Research

My main area of interest is statistical modeling and pattern recognition with applications for speech recognition with a focus on pronunciation modeling.  I am also interested in problems of language understanding and computational linguistics.  In addition, I study student learning styles and education methods, especially active learning.  More information about my work and associated work can be found at the University of Washington SSLI Lab, my homepage there, and via my list of publications.

Student Resources

• MavJobs at the Career Development & Counseling Center
• Links to scholarship and fellowship programs.
• Find out about almost anything at the wikipedia.
• Running as non-Administrator on Windows.
• Try engineering!
• The CIS Technical Writing Contest

Faculty Resources

• My active learning page

Contact Information  and Travel Information

Computer Science Department

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Page last updated Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:52 PM -0600 by R. A. Bates