about me
Hi! My name is Heather Piwowar. Daunting, eh? Polish, so pronounce the Ws like Vs and it gets much easier.
I’m currently doing my PhD in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. It is a great life, especially when combined with a wonderful husband and the cutest 2 year old in the world.
I’ve had a long and varied past, growing up in Maple Ridge (near Vancouver) Canada before heading off to MIT to get a degree in Course 6 (originally planning to study AI but ended up relishing all the math in Digital Signal Processing). I worked for 10 years at various tech startups in Austin and Berkeley and Toronto and finally Pittsburgh. Love it here!
Selected Publications, CV
email me [Thanks to email obfuscator]
Only picture I have handy… showing off my new haircut via webcam :P
Just snooping around the internet and came upon your blog. Great to ’see’ you and read up on all you’re doing. Congratulations on your 1 year old, and also all the work you’re doing w/ getting your PhD. Life must be busy, but wonderful.
Have a great night,
Heather McCue
Comment by Heather (World) McCue — May 14, 2007 @ 9:48 pm
Heather Patricia! :) This is great! Wow, I never guessed my research blog would be found by my primary school buddy. Neato.
I’ll send you some email offline…
Heather Alyce ;)
ps If anyone else from past lives stumbles across this, I’d love to hear from you!
Comment by Heather Piwowar — May 18, 2007 @ 8:17 am
Wonderful blog! I look forward to reading your open nuggets.
Comment by Jean-Claude Bradley — May 23, 2007 @ 4:54 am
Heather
Great blog (nice look n feel too). Looking forward to reading it regularly. Welcome aboard the blog train.
Comment by Deepak — May 25, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
Hi Heather - glad to have found you too (think we lost contact after your wedding)! We should catch up offline.. ;) –Amy
Comment by Amy Hsiao — August 3, 2007 @ 6:37 am
Hi Heather,… I am finally finished with the CD I owe you,… found this site on the internets,… or the web tubes,.. or whatever these things are,.. I would love to send it out to you,.. I tried your other email but have not heard back,…
hope you are well,..
Ned
Comment by Ned Landin - Flathead — December 14, 2007 @ 2:50 am
Great blog! Interesting, stimulating, thoughtful, well articulated. Thanks for insight into what you are doing. - Robyn
Comment by robyncampbell — December 16, 2007 @ 2:28 pm
I came across your blog while doing some research for my husband. He has been offered a 10-day dental “internship” in the Dominican Republic. I read your post about a travel grant. Is there anyway you can give me any more info on this? The cost for him is $500, plus a plane ticket. He would pretty much be doing the similar thing as Operation Smile for the local people of the DR. He is currently in Dental School at OSU, so obviously, money is tight.
Thanks in advance for any info you can give.
Trinette
Comment by Trinette — April 18, 2008 @ 6:40 pm
Hi Trinette. Sounds like a neat opportunity for your husband! Unfortunately, I don’t have much information on travel grants that would be applicable for him. The travel grant I received was associated with the conference I attended, and sponsored by the NSF. I’d suggest he contact the organization that is providing the internship and ask if there are any grant opportunities available. Another idea is to contact the OSU Grad Student office, the Dental School Office, or the Career Center (or whatever such organizations are called at OSU) to see if they know of any sources of funding.
There is more funding out there than some people realize, but on the flip side it can be tight or nonexistant for certain situations.
Good luck!
Comment by Heather Piwowar — April 22, 2008 @ 12:01 pm