Curriculum Vitae

Patrick Adam Wagstrom

55 McKinley Ave, Apt DG-11
White Plains, NY 10606

Phone: 612-217-2874
Email: patrick@wagstrom.net
URL: http://academic.patrick.wagstrom.net/

Education

Primary Research Interests

  • Governance
    A good team needs more than a good leader, they need to be able to communicate across boundaries, coordinate work, find information, create modular tasks, account for latent task dependencies, and more. How do we ensure that teams understand the dependencies between individuals and components? Can we provide a quantifiable measure related to task complexity in a team? What is the impact of working on highly clustered components? Can we identify high performing team structures and implement these structures in other teams?
  • Successful Software Engineering
    Good software doesn't happen by accident, but sometimes it is unexpected. I examine at Open Source communities and ecosystems to understand how foundations, firms, and individuals come together to routinely produce best-in-class software packages in an open environment.
  • Open Communities
    The same technologies and ethos that led to the success of Open Source software flourish in other many other creative contexts, such as crafting, electronics design, automobile enthusiasts, and serving the developing world. How do these communities differ from what is known about Open Source? How do incentives differ between production and non-production communities? What tools can we develop and provision to support these communities? How can we utilize lessons from Open Source communities to create new and better communities?
  • Technology Policy
    As information technology has taken a key role in our daily lives, politicians and administrators must address complex policy issues related to access, privacy, security, and intellectual property. Computer scientists cannot afford to remain voiceless on these issues and must work together wit policy makers to ensure that prudent decisions are made. I have particular interests in digital rights management, media broadcasting, network neutrality, and innovation policies.

Work Experience

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
August 2009-Present

Work as a member of the governance science research team. Research on understanding how communication affects team performance at the planning, implementation, and maintenance stages of software development. Evaluation of the state of collaborative tools and communities to better understand how to develop tools to support communication and coordination. Model and develop how we can utilize various data streams to provide portfolio wide ROI metrics while taking into account uncertainty.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Software Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
May 2009-July 2009

Research assistant working to understand the complex dependencies of non-routine intellectual work such as novel engineering tasks and software development. Worked to develop methods to capture these dependencies and understand their implications for team performance.

Graduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
August 2003-May 2009

Research to better understand the complex interactions and motivations involved in Open Source software development. This has required the development of methods to understand software architecture evolution and design, collaborative requirements management, software development governance, and tracing artifacts across the software development process.

Summer Research Intern
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
June 2007-August 2007

Member of the governance science research team. Expanded the Socio-Technical Congruence metric for use in the enterprise environment by allowing measurement at the individual level. Worked with projects within IBM to understand what attributes of projects led to successful Open Source releases of software. Developed visualizations of communication and congruence.

Teaching Assistant
Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
September 2000-August 2003

Designed homework assignments and tests, graded work, oversaw student projects, managed labs, and lectured when needed. From January 2003 to August 2003 I managed a group of twelve undergraduate students on an inter-professional project to understand the place of pervasive and ubiquitous computing on a college campus.

Summer Research Intern
Math and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
April 2002-September 2002

Achievements:

  • Developed the Grid Services Flow Language, an XML dialect for specifying dependencies and information flow in the GLOBUS Environment.
  • Worked with the SciDAC Java CoG Kit Team and the Collaboratory for Multiscale Chemistry to develop a grid services based system for analysis of thermochemical tables.

Senior Developer
LEC, Ltd, Chicago, IL
April 1999-September 2000

Achievements:

  • Worked directly with designers and clients to sell and develop usable, novel, and cutting edge web experiences.
  • Designed, ordered, installed, and managed a commercial grade data center for advertising agency clients.
  • Architected and developed E-Stakes, a multi-million user capable system for tying offline purchases to online activities.
  • Designed and managed the technical components of the Chicago Transit Authority's "Take it and Win" promotion.

Developer
MyPoints, Schaumburg, IL
April 1998-September 1998

One of the earliest employees of the company. Designed and implemented a complete customer service system in PL/SQL and Java to support multiple branded campaigns.

Teaching Experience

Project Manager for Student Project on the Impact of Spyware
Carnegie Mellon University
2005

Worked with two other graduate students under Dr. Jon Peha and Dr. Ed Rubin to manage and guide senior level project to understand the nature of spyware and its effect on consumers. Culminated in a large project report and presentation to a review board with individuals from Carnegie Mellon, the Federal Trade Commission, and AOL.

Research Supervisor for Undergraduate Summer Researchers
Illinois Institute of Technology
2003

Guided and advised three undergraduate researchers on developing applications for pervasive computing; Tyler Butler (now at Microsoft), Andrei Makhanov (on leave from Northwestern at PowerSet) and Brent Lagesse (currently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Instructor/Project Lead for Interprofessional Project
Illinois Institute of Technology
2003

Under the guidance of Dr. Xian-He Sun I worked and managed twelve undergraduates to design and implement applications of pervasive computing as part of the IPRO program at IIT. The initial project was an in-class tool that provided rapid responses from surveys and quizzes. Later expansion and refocus of the project led to a pervasive tour system for the city of Chicago.

Teaching Assistant for CS595 - Special Topics in Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
2003

Worked with Dr. Xian-He Sun and Dr. Gregor von Laszewski to create a class addressing the nexus of pervasive and grid computing. Responsible for developing student homework, grading assignments, and helping to plan out lectures and course material.

Teaching Assistant for CS450 - Operating Systems
Illinois Institute of Technology
2002-2003

Assisted students, managed lab sessions, graded student homework assignments, and guest lectured in senior level required course on operating systems. I was awarded the Teaching Assistant of the Year for the Department of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology for this.

Teaching Assistant for CS470 - Computer Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology
2000-2002

Graded student homework assignments, managed lab sessions, and guest lectured in senior level required computer architecture course under Virgil Bistriceanu.

Journal Papers

Refereed Conference Papers

Refereed Workshop Papers

Book Chapters

  • Gregor von Laszewski, Patrick Wagstrom. "Gestalt of the Grid". Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing. Wiley. 2004.

Technical Reports

Research/Technical Skills

Programming: Python, Unix Shell Scripting, C, R, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Java.

System Administration: Linux, OpenBSD, Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Wireless Networks.

Data Mining: Harvesting and analyzing information from software repositories, online forums, weblogs, real-time chats, in-person meetings.

Research Methods: Social Network Analysis, Data Mining, Text and Content Analysis, Qualitative Data Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Uncertainty Modeling and Simulation, Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis.

Web Technologies: HTML (and most of the HTML5 goodness like canvas, audio, etc), CSS, XML, SVG, AJAX, XSLT.

Awards and Honors

  • Best Paper: Academy of Management 2010 Annual Meeting, August 2010

    "Communication, Team Performance, and the Individual: Bridging Technical Dependencies" was selected as one of the best papers from the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) division at the 2010 Academy of Management annual meeting in Montreal, Canada.

  • Sloan Industry Studies 2009 Dissertation Award (2nd Place), May 2010

    My doctoral thesis was awarded second place in the 2009 doctoral thesis competition from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

  • Best Paper: CSCW 2006, November 2006

    Awarded best paper for CSCW 2006 for "Identification of Coordination Requirements: Implications for the Design of Collaboration and Awareness Tools" with M. Cataldo, J. Herbsleb, and K. Carley.

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, May 2004-May 2007

    Three year highly competitive fellowship based on research potential supporting portions of tuition and stipend at Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Teaching Assistant of the Year, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, December 2002

    Given in recognition of work as teaching assistant for senior level undergraduate courses in computer architecture and operating systems.

  • Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship, United States Department of Energy, May 2002-August 2002

    Competitive fellowship for junior and senior level undergraduates to pursue summer research at a United States Department of Energy research lab. This allowed to research grid and distributed computing at Argonne National Lab.

  • Styker Outstanding Student Leader Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1999-2001

    Award given annually to the top 20-25 most outstanding student leaders at Illinois Institute of Technology. Three time recipient for my contributions to student government, Greek life, and service.

  • Camras/NExT Scholarship, Illinois Institute of Technology, August 1997-May 2002

    Recipient of a competitive five year full tuition merit based academic scholarship.

Professional Memberships

  • IEEE, 2003-Present:
    The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The professional society for computer engineers, electrical engineers, and computer scientists.
  • IEEE Computer Society, 2003-Present:
    Special interest group within IEEE for computer professionals.
  • ACM, 2003-Present:
    The Association for Computing Machinery, the society for computer scientists and computer professionals.
  • ACM SIGCHI, 2009-Present:
    Special interest group in ACM on computer-human interaction.
  • ACM SIGSoft, 2009-Present:
    Special interest group on software engineering.
  • INSNA, 2005-2008:
    International Network for Social Network Analysis, the professional society for researchers and practitioners of social network analysis.
  • Tau Beta Pi:
    Honor society for engineers. Inducted into the Illinois Beta chapter in 2000.
  • INFORMS, 2008-Present:
    Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.
  • Academy of Management, 2010-Present:
    The Academy of Management is the premiere professional organization for scholars and practitioners that create and disseminate knowledge about management and organizations.

Volunteer/Professional Service

  • CSCW 2011 Computing/AV Co-Chair (with Frank Liu)
    Basic planning of a network and AV support for the conference with the added twist of doing it in China.
  • CSCW 2008 Computing/AV Co-Chair (with Brian Amento)
    Designed and implemented a wireless network for 500 conference attendees in a location where traditional networks were unavailable.
  • Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group President, 2006-2007
    Instituted reforms in meeting schedule and increased membership by 30%.
  • Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group Board Member, 2005-2007
    Formalized accounting procedures. Fostered relationships with local tech community.
  • CSCW 2006 Student Volunteer
    Managed wireless network for 500 attendees.
  • CSCW 2004 Computing Chair
    Designed, ordered, and built a wireless network for conference attendees on four days notice after the hotel backed out of contract for wireless.
  • Reviewer
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Security and Privacy, Management Science, CSCW, CHI, ICSE, FSE, and numerous workshops.

Personal Interests

  • Running: I routinely run road races and run as many marathons a year as my body can handle.
  • Hockey: I play ice hockey and floor hockey with a preference for ice. As you might expect, this has a great impact on the number of marathons I can run in a year.
  • Games: Both brainy board games and understanding how games and other online environments change how we communicate and interact.
  • Travel: Travel is like the sight of a kitten relaxing under a double rainbow, almost everyone loves it. In particular, I enjoy traveling away from big tourist highlights -- you can go to Santorini, I'll go to Amorgos.
  • Technology Policy: There are too few people in Washington who truly understand technology. I've worked with my senators, representatives, their staffs, and federal rule making bodies on these complicated issues.

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