April Rasala Lehman

Address: MIT CS and AI Lab, Room 32-G608 Cambridge, MA 02139 
Phone: (617) 876-5222 
email: rasala@mit.edu

Education:
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
		Candidate for Ph.D. in Computer Science, exp. January 2005.
		Studied theoretical limits on data transmission 
		through digital networks.
	
		Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 200.
		Designed cost-efficient cross-connects for optical networks.

	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
		Bachelor of Arts, 1999.
		Summa Cum Laude with High Honors in computer science.

Honors and Awards:
	*Outstanding Undergraduate Award 1999 - Awarded by the Computing Research 
		Association to the top female and male  undergraduate in computer 
		science in the United Sates and Canada.
	*National Science Foundation Fellowship Award 1999
	*Lucent Technologies Graduate Research Program for Women Fellowship 1999
	*Dartmouth College Rufus Choate Scholar 1996-99
	*Women's Soccer First Team All Ivy-League 1998

Professional Experience:
	IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. 
		Research Intern, summer 2001. Examined properties of random processes
 		that model internet browsing.

	Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. 
		Summer intern 1999, 2000. Designed cost-efficient optical cross-connects
 		that allow signals encoded in different light wavelengths from multiple
 		fibers to be simultaneously switched between fibers and wavelengths. 
 		Discovered instabilities in a widely-used internet routing protocol.

	Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. 
		Research Assistant, 1997-1999. Developed algorithms and techniques for
 		finding schedules that are near-optimal for multiple criteria.

	University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 
		Computing Research Association Intern, 1998.  Proved bounds on the
 		performance of algorithms that optimize a database in response to user
 		queries.
		 
Teaching Experience:
	Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.  Visiting Lecturer, summer 2002
		Taught undergraduate and graduate students fundamental mathematical 
		techniques for the study of computer science.  Supervised graduate
		teaching assistants and an undergraduate grader.

Patents:
	*Optical cross-connect design (#6,535,310; #6,487,332)
	*Improved border gateway protocol (application #20030174653)