Jennifer Welch

Educational Background

- Algorithms and lower bounds for distributed computing systems
- Distributed shared objects and dynamic networks

ACM Distinguished Scientist Award, 2012
Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, College and University level, 2009
Regents Professor Award, 2008
Charles W. Crawford Service Award, 2007
Chevron II Professorship, Texas A&M University College of Engineering, November 2004
IEEE Education Society Hewlett-Packard Harriet B. Rigas Award for outstanding woman engineering educator, October 2004
TEES Fellow, Texas A&M University College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2003
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, Texas A&M University, 2003
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, Texas A&M University, 2000
The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University, Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, Texas A&M University College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2000
Halliburton Fellow, Texas A&M University College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1998-1999
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1990

Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Fuegger, Jennifer L. Welch, and Josef Widder, “Time Complexity of Link Reversal Routing,” ACM Transactions on Algorithms, vol. 11, no. 3, 18 pages, 2015.
Hagit Attiya, Hyun-Chul Chung, Faith Ellen, Saptaparni Kumar, and Jennifer L. Welch,“Simulating a Shared Register in an Asynchronous System that Never Stops Changing,” Proc. 29th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), pp. 75–91, 2015.
Edward Talmage and Jennifer L. Welch, “Improving Average Performance by Relaxing Distributed Data Structures,” Proc. 28th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), pp. 421–438, 2014.
Bernadette Charron-Bost, Antoine Gaillard, Jennifer L. Welch, and Josef Widder,“Link Reversal Routing with Binary Link Labels: Work Complexity,” SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 634–661, 2013.
Rebecca Ingram, Tsvetomira Radeva, Patrick Shields, Saira Viqar, Jennifer E. Walter, and Jennifer L. Welch, “A Leader Election Algorithm for Dynamic Networks with Causal Clocks,” Distributed Computing, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 75–97, 2013.
Cheng Shao, Jennifer L. Welch, Evelyn Pierce and Hyunyoung Lee, "Multi-Writer Consistency Conditions for Shared Memory Registers," SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 28-62, 2011.
Hagit Attiya and Jennifer Welch, Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations and Advanced Topics, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 414 pp., March 2004.