Audrey Lee-St. John

Photo by Paul Schnaittacher

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Mount Holyoke College

astjohn "at" mtholyoke.edu
Clapp 221
Department of Computer Science

Office hours (Spring 2012)
Mon 2:15 - 3:15pm
Wed 3:15 - 4:15pm
Thu 10-11am
and by appt

Courses

This semester (Spring 2012), I am teaching:

and advising (independent studies):

Felicia Cordeiro '12: Motion Simulation of Geometric Constraint Structures (honors thesis)
Rittika Shamsuddin '12: Using Rigidity Theory to Identify Hinge Joints in Proteins (honors thesis, winner of Best senior honors thesis or research project at NEUCS '12)
Gabby Snyder '13, Ruimin Cai '14, Phuong Vu '14, Linh Le '14, Erin Pierce '15: IHart: Interactive Hallways for Attraction and Retention to Technology
Jessie Hamelin '13 (in cooperation with Dr. Dan Barry): Robotics and mobile devices
Jingjing Rong '15 and Liye Fu '15 (in cooperation with Dr. Dan Barry): Developing a Robotic Pet (winner of a 2012 Harold Grinspoon Foundation Entrepreneurial Spirit Award)

Research

My research is in computational geometry -- algorithms and applications for geometric problems. A particular focus is in the area of rigidity theory, with motivating problems coming from biology and CAD (computer aided design). Current and past projects include

rigidity theory for body-and-cad systems
pebble games for sparse graphs
motion/sampling conformations of molecule-like structures
single-vertex origami
Milka Doktorova's thesis project on computational analysis of the allosteric effect

In the news

NSF video footage of CS students -- April 24, 2012: YouTube video
MHC News -- March 2, 2012: The Business of Designing Games -- in 24 Hours
MHC News -- February 27, 2012: New Lab a Meeting Place for Technology and Art
Named a Distinguished Alumna by Wellesley CS -- Winter 2012: Wellesley College Computer Science Department Winter 2012 Newsletter
LITS blog -- December 7, 2011: LITS Joins Computer Science in celebrating Computer Science Education Week
LITS blog -- October 28, 2011: Computer Science Students Bring Interactive Games to Info Commons
Boston Globe -- August 1, 2011: Machine adds new dimension to DIY manufacturing
MHC News -- July 18, 2011: 3-D Printer Makes Robotics a Piece of Cake
Boston Globe -- March 14, 2011: Robotic wheelchair bolsters mobility
MHC News -- March 2, 2011: Students Building Autonomous Wheelchair
President Pasquerella -- February, 2011: What I Learned at MHC this Month
MHC News -- October 15, 2010: Upcoming Lecture Series in Computer Science

Undergraduate Projects

Service and Events

IHart HitPoint GameJam -- March 3-4, 2012
National Computer Science Education Week 2011
National Computer Science Education Week 2010
Five College Consortium: CRA-W/CDC DLS Event
Tech Rendezvous with Alumnae
National Computer Science Education Week 2009
Fall 2009 CS Seminar
- 12/1/09 The Biggest Technology Shift You Never Heard Of -- Michael Scott, University of Rochester
- 11/18/09 Data mining: finding fraud, analyzing patterns, and crunching numbers -- Lisa Friedland, UMass Amherst
- 10/15/09 What's the use of a personal robot assistant? -- Dan Barry
Spring 2009 CS Seminar
- 4/16/09 The Fine Art of Computer Optimizations: Why real men (and women) don't rely on Moore's Law to speed up their code} -- Jon Greene, Redline Trading
- 3/24/09 Computer Science Department Network -- Adam Goodman, Mount Holyoke CS department
- 2/17/09 How studying computer science led me to be a video game developer -- Susanne Biehl, HitPoint Studios
**Cancelled** 12/9/08 Lunch for MHC CS students featuring Tanya Royer, senior producer at RealPlayer
11/18/08 Sammet Lecture at MHC: "Geometry of Colon Cancer and Topology of Lipid Fusion" -- Afra Zomorodian
11/12/08 Tea for MHC CS students: Grad panel discussion