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Christine Ann Shoemaker

Christine Ann Shoemaker
Dept: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Title: Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering
Address: Room 210 Hollister Hall
Phone: 607 255-9233
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Biography

In July 1, 2002, by a committee of other endowed professors in the College of Engineering, Christine Shoemaker was elected to the position of Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering. This appointment is given for her excellence in research and in teaching. Established in May 1968 by Joseph P. Ripley and funded in part by the Ford Foundation, the endowment provides a distinguished professorship which Mr. Ripley requested be held by professors "who have had and will have a major impact on the development of the College."

Research Interests

Prof. Shoemaker's research focuses on finding cost-effective, robust solutions for environmental problems by using optimization, modeling and statistical analyses. This includes development of general purpose, numerically efficient nonlinear and global optimization algorithms utilizing high performance computing and applications to data from complex, nonlinear environmental systems. Her applications areas include physical and biological groundwater remediation, pesticide management, ecology, carbon sequestration, and surface water pollutant transport in large watersheds. This analysis has resulted in improved policies for environmental remediation and protection.

Selected Publications

Petrica, Paula, Adam Izraelevitz, David H. Albonesi, Christine Ann Shoemaker. 2013. "Flicker: A Dynamically Adaptive Architecture for the Dark Silicon Era." Paper presented at International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June.
Shoemaker, Christine Ann, N. Bliznyuk, D Ruppert. 2012. "Local Derivative-Free Approach to Approximation of Computationally Expensive Posterior Densities." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 21 (2): 476-495.
Shoemaker, Christine Ann, C. Zhang, Y. Peng, Z Zhang. 2012. "Integrated Hydrological Modelling of Small- and Medium-sized Water Storages with Application to the Upper Fengman Reservoir Basin of China." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16: 4033-4047.
Shoemaker, Christine Ann, Fangfang Li, Jiahua Wei, Xudong Fu. 2012. "A New Reservoir Operation Policy Generation Method (SOSM) Using Scenarios Optimization (SO) and Surrogate Model (SM)." Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 136: 679-688.
Shoemaker, Christine Ann, F. Li, J. Wei, X Fu. 2012. "Estimating Maximal Annual Energy Given Heterogeneous Hydropower Generating Units with Application to the Three Gorges System." ASCE Journal of Water Resources, Planning and Management .