Elaine NewtonPhD Candidate (ABD) |
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About me & this page:
I am currently working in the DC area for the federal government, and I am a doctoral student in advanced candidacy in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (in absentia).I am also a Fellow (non-residential) with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and an adjunct researcher for the RAND Corporation. Before joining RAND (full-time) in 1999, I worked as a researcher and associate general manager for Columbia University's Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes in Washington, DC (now known as the Consortium for Science,Policy&Outcomes), and in the environmental engineering field.
This page is dedicated to my academic endeavors, primarily while at CMU, and will not be updated often.
Recent Projects
Program Manager of the Human ID at a Distance Program
Advisor
Dissertation Committee
Education
Ph.D. Student in Advanced Candidacy, All But Dissertation, Engineering & Public
Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004
M.S.Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003
B.S. Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences,
Georgia Tech, 1998
Graduate Coursework at CMU
[Click
here to download a pdf with descriptions.]
Research Interests
Science and
Technology Policy, Biometrics,
Data
Privacy, Education
Policy, Public
Health & Safety, Socio-Economic Inequities
Past Collaborators
Publications
R.D. Bailey, M. Grabarczyk, T.W. Hanks, E.M. Newton, W.T. Pennington.
"Solid State Interconversion of Tetra(2-pyridyl)pyrazine Polymorphs."
Electronic Conference on Trends in Organic Chemistry Proceedings. Physical
Organic, Mechanistic and Biological papers, # 68. 1995. [Paper]
D. Fossum, L. Painter, V. Williams, A. Yezril, E. Newton, and D. Trinkle.
Discovery and innovation: Federal Research and Development Activities
in
the Fifty States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. MR-1194-OSTP.
RAND. Santa Monica, CA, 2000. [Online version]
C. Lacampagne and E. Newton. Federal Funding of Mathematics Education
Research: A Compendium. RAND. Santa Monica, CA.
Stefan Leigh, Jonathan Phillips, Patrick Grother, Alan Heckert, Andrew
Ruhkin, Elaine Newton, Mariama Moody, Kimball Kniskern, Susan Heath,
"Transformation, Ranking, and Clustering for Face Recognition Algorithm
Comparison", Third Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced
Technologies Tarreytown, March, 2002.
M.G. Morgan and E.M. Newton. "Protecting
Public Anonymity" in Issues in
Science and Technology, Fall 2004.
E.M. Newton, L. Sweeney, B. Malin. "Preserving Privacy by De-identifying
Facial Images." Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Technical
Report. CMU-CS-03-119, March 2003. (forthcoming in IEEE TKDE)
P. J. Phillips, D. Blackburn, P. Grother, E. Newton, and J. M. Bone
(2003), "Methods for assessing progress in face recognition," In
Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation
(eds.)
J.L. Wayman, A.K. Jain, D. Maltoni and D. Maio, Surrey, UK:
Springer-Verlag London. (forthcoming)
J.P. Phillips and E.M. Newton. "Meta-Analysis of Face Recognition
Algorithms." Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face
and Gesture Recognition, Washington, D.C., May 2002. [Abstract]
Andrew Ruhkin, Patrick Grother, Jonathan Phillips, Stefan Leigh, Elaine
Newton, Alan Heckert, "Dependence Characteristics of Face Recognition
Algorithms", accepted for the International Conference on Pattern
Recognition, Quebec, Canada, August, 2002.
J.D. Woodward, K.W. Webb, E.M. Newton, M. Bradley, D. Rubenson, J. Lilly,
K. Smythe, B. K. Houghton, H.A. Pincus, J.M. Schachter, and P. Steinberg.
Army Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural
Concerns. MR-1237-A. RAND. Santa Monica, CA, 2000. [Online version]
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