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Dr. Lamia Youseff, who earned her PhD from the UCSB Department from Computer Science in 2009, is featured in an article in the December 2013 issue of IEEE Women in Engineering magazine. The article, entitled “Making it All Compute,” describes the path that led Dr. Youseff to her current position at Google, where she works with the company’s cloud computing division “to bring new and innovative cloud solutions to the world,” as the article states. “It is always amazing to learn how to operate cloud systems at the scale of Google and bring new cloud products to the international market.”

The article begins:

Lamia Youseff, a project manager at Google, was a few years into her graduate program in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), when she suddenly noticed that she was the only female student in her advanced operating systems class. She was somewhat baffled. Her undergraduate class in computer science at The American University in Cairo had been 50% men and 50% women, and it was common for a female student to be at the top of the class. “I never realized that computer science as a field is a male-dominated field until I moved to the U.S.,” she says. “Luckily,” she adds, “I was the top student in that class as well.”

For the full article (IEEE Xplore access required), see:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06661484.