Heather Friedberg

Contact
5420 Sennott Square
210 S. Bouquet St.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

email:
friedberg {at} cs {dot} pitt {dot} edu

About Me
I am a master's student in the Computer Science department at the University of Pittsburgh. I graduated with my undergrad degrees from Pitt in Spring 2011 in Computer Science and Linguistics with a minor in Economics, and am finishing my grad degree this year through the 5 year BS+MS program.

Research & Publications
My research interest is in Natural Language Processing, specifically in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. My advisor is Diane Litman and I am part of the ITSPOKE research group.

Turn-Taking Cues in a Human Tutoring Corpus (January 2010 - April 2011)
- Analyzed prosodic features in a human-human tutoring corpus
- Heather Friedberg (2011). Turn-Taking Cues in a Human Tutoring Corpus. Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Student Session. Portland, Oregon, June 2011.

Annotating User Disengagement in Spoken Dialogue Systems (September-December 2009)
- Helped develop a scheme for annotating user disengagement
- Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman, and Heather Friedberg, Annotating Disengagement for Spoken Dialogue Computer Tutoring, New Perspectives on Affect and Learning Technologies (Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies 3), R. A. Calvo and S. K. D'Mello (eds.), Springer, 2011.

Work Experience
Google (May-August 2011, May-August 2010) - Software Engineering Intern
- Implemented and designed web applications for Image Search and Product Search

Trifecta Technologies (May-August 2009, May-August 2008) - Intern
- Implemented local business websites in a content management system given an initial design and HTML prototype
- Trained customers to make changes to their completed sites
- Designed and developed PHP payment modules for the content management system

University of Pittsburgh (September 2008 - April 2009) - Computer Science Help Room Tutor
- Helped fellow students with class work and programming assignments

Awards
- Outstanding CS Undergrad Student (April 2011)
- CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention (November 2010)
- Google Engineering Intern Scholarship (September 2010)

Other Activities
- I am on the organization committee for the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems 2012.
- I am the former president and am still very involved in Pitt WiCS (Women in Computer Science). For more information, see the WiCS website.