Vidya Setlur  Principal Research Scientist at Nokia since  Graduated from Northwestern University with a Ph.D. in computer graphics.  Research interests – visual interfaces, semantic graphics and visualization  Hobbies – classical Indian dance, cooking, gardening and interior design  Happily married with two young boys

Choose your priorities At any given moment, you may not find the optimal balance and that’s ok. Create a to-do list with roughly equal number of professional and personal goals Reward yourself for goals met Exercise and de-stress Try to make the best of the situation Watch Randy Pausch’s Time Management Lecture on YouTube

Daphne Koller – work Grew up in Israel BSc and MSc at Hebrew University, PhD at Stanford, Postdoc at Berkeley Assistant, Associate, Full Professor at Stanford University Research in machine learning, vision, probabilistic models, bioinformatics

Daphne Koller – Life Husband of 20 years: engineer, entrepeneur, VC Daughters, 6 & 8

Daphne’s tips from the trenches Choose a supportive partner Spend time with your kids: you won’t have many years to do that Take time for things that are important to you (vacations, exercise, reading) Delegate, at work and at home: It’s OK to get (and pay for) help! Fight perfectionism Reduce wasted time David Allen’s “Getting things done” Just say no

Fatma Mili – who am I? 25 years in Academia, most of it OU (Michigan), Professor, Associate Dean, Chair Formal Methods in Computing, Distributed Computing, Gaming in Education Broadening participation in computing an important component of everything I do Husband of 26 years, 20-year old daughter and 17-year old son. Grew up in Tunisia; studied in Tunisia and France

Fatma’s tips from the trenches Do what you enjoy; enjoy what you do. No matter how busy, reserve some time to take care of yourself and enjoy some selfish activity. Nurture and diversify your relationships at work. You often have much more impact on others than you think.

Susanne Hambrusch Grew up in Vienna, Austria Dipl. Ing. from Technical University of Vienna Ph.D. from Penn State (all degrees in CS) Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Purdue University Research in algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, query processing, computer science education Department Head currently on leave at NSF (CCF’s Division Director)

Susanne … Married to a computer scientist (professor in the same department) Two children (now 18 and 23)

Choose what to spend your time on Build your career and enjoy what you are doing Learn to say no (“Let me think if I have time to this”) and to accept what matters to you – Departmental committee, NSF panel, referee request, student emergency, helping out Don’t be afraid to negotiate Have your priority list and revise it Document what you do Let some things slide

Have a life Enjoy your family Have a backup system – sick kids, snow days, elder care, etc – unexpected work load Hire people to do tasks you don’t enjoy – Housework, yard work Make time for friends, time for yourself Take care of your health Ask for help

Robin Jeffries – who am I? HCI researcher/practitioner Academic research (CMU), industry research (HP), practice (Sun, Google) Grew up on a farm in Iowa PhD, married to a PhD in physics (for 40+ years) Two grown sons

What child rearing looks like from the other side

Robin’s tips from the trenches Take charge of your career – no one else will. 2-body problems (whose job do we pursue?) will work out in ways you don’t expect. What seems like a big problem today may resolve itself – wait before acting. Make some family things sacred (for us it was dinner together). Children are “only” 20ish years of your life. Your partner and your work are part of you longer.