Elizabeth A. Bodine

Basics

I am a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering department at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.  I grew up in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2006, with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Plan II Honors (a liberal arts honors program).  In January 2006, I moved to Los Angeles to work for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and I began a Masters/Ph.D. program at Caltech in the fall of that year, funded by an NDSEG fellowship.
 

Research Interests

I am currently looking at the structure of information networks, with an emphasis on social networks. I am interested in how this structure could be used to build a distributed wireless network where the mobile nodes in the network are attached to people, similar to how cell phones are deployed.  I want to see how we can use the tools and results of social network analysis and random graph theory to improve our understanding of such a network.  I am also interested more broadly in information theory, (coding and network), as well as communication theory and distributed algorithms.

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eabodine@caltech.edu

Elizabeth Bodine
MC 136-93
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91125