Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bronx Community College, CUNY Office: CP 122 Phone: (718) 289-5100 ext. 3413 E-mail: natalia.novak@bcc.cuny.edu |
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Education 2001 — 2009
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Graduate School and University Center, CUNY Ph.D. Computer Science Science Adviser: Distinguished Professor Sergei Artemov |
1996 — 2001 |
Moscow State University Moscow, Russia M.Sc. Mathematics |
Programming languages |
Python, C++, C, Java, HTML, Ocaml, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Basic, Focal |
Experience 2010 – present
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Bronx Community College, CUNY Assistant Professor Teaching Introduction to programming (Python), Object-Oriented Programming(Python), Data Structures (Python and C++), Discrete Mathematics, Pre-Calculus, Calculus I, Statistics and Probability, etc. |
summer 2017 | Bronx Community College, CUNY Bronx, NY Assisted in Java programming workshop by developing exercises for students and providing in-class tutoring. Because Java is the main programming language there, the workshop was aimed at students transferring to Lehman College. |
2014 – present | Bronx Community College, CUNY Leading Finch robot programming workshops, Arduino building and programming workshops as well as 3-D printing workshops for students. |
2015 – 2016 | Bronx Community College, CUNY Mentored an engineering major student in “ Controlling conditions in a greenhouse” research project using Arduino platform. Provided the programming support for the project. |
2014 | Bronx Community College, CUNY Mentored “Sensor run” research project conducted by three students from Bronx Community College at the Center for Sustainable Energy. |
2013 – present | Bronx Community College, CUNY One of the four members of the “Web-Assisted MTH05 with Incremental Steps and Progressive Assessments ” Presidential grant, awarded in February 2013; developed and programmed a set of problems for a remedial mathematics class in WeBWorK. Later on, one of the three members of the “Real World Applications for MTH05” presidential grant awarded in January 2014; developed course materials to facilitate real world applications in remedial course, MTH05. Continue support of the repository of problems at WeBWorK since inception. |
2007 – 2009 | Bronx Community College, CUNY Bronx, NY Substitute Lecturer |
2005 – 2007 | Bronx Community College, CUNY Bronx, NY Adjunct |
2001 – 2002 | Graduate School and University Center, CUNY Developed web site for Professor Janos Pach, used Ruby on Rails to provide a simple interface for viewing/adding corrections, new problems or solutions to old problems from the book Research Problems in Discrete Geometry, by P. Brass, W. Moser, J. Pach. |
2001 – 2006 | Graduate School and University Center, CUNY Developed and supported Computer Science Colloquium Web page. |
Publications Presentations November 20th,
2015 |
2015 Sustainable Energy and Design Conference - The Dynamic Trio Bronx, NY “ Design,Build and Network Sensors in Urban Environments with Community College Students” |
September 8-9, 2014 |
9th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications Brasilia D.F., Brazil “ Practical extraction of evidence terms from common-knowledge reasoning” |
September 14-17, 2004 |
Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics: TPHOLs 2004 Park City, Utah “ Implementing Calculus of Inductive Constructions in the MetaPRL Framework” joint work with Yegor Bryukhov |
Academic
and Professional Honors 2017 – 2018
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Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York (WiTNY) “Increasing student population and gender diversity in Computer Science Program” |
2014 – 2015 | PSC/CUNY Research Award “ Autonomous navigation in a dynamically changing environment ” |
2011 – 2012 | PSC/CUNY Research Award “ Proof Complexity and Quantitative Epistemology ” |