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Mihaela Sabin

Program Coordinator and Associate Professor

Science & Technology Division, Computer Information Systems Program

Mihaela Sabin joined UNH Manchester in the fall of 2007. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and M.S.T. in College Teaching from UNH, and M.S. in Computer Science from “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania. This academic year she teaches database design and development, business application implementation with database management systems, networking concepts, system analysis and design, and the major’s internship course. Her prior teaching experience includes software development, object-oriented design, C++ and Java programming, data structures, and algorithms. Central to her philosophy of teaching is partnering with her students in the always exciting endeavor of learning about computing and its applications. She stimulates her students to inquire and engages them to experience first hand how a computing problem transforms into a well designed and professionally implemented project. Her students learn to work in teams and communicate project results with clarity and precision to both fellow professionals and the larger community.

Mihaela Sabin has previously worked at Rivier College, where she directed the computer science programs and coordinated the mathematics and computer science department. Outside academia, she has over ten years of experience in computing research and industry.

Her current research is on the application of constraint satisfaction problem modeling and solving to network diagnosis and product configuration. She is also involved in educational research in computer science and information technology. Her most recent interests are in outreach scholarship. Mihaela Sabin has numerous journal and conference papers. Her service to the computing discipline includes chairing conference sessions and workshops, organizing and participating in panel presentations, reviewing journal and conference papers, and participating in academic program evaluations. She has designed and supervised service learning projects and developed partnerships with local community agencies and private business and industry organizations to sponsor student internships.

Selected Publications

• “Teaching and Learning in Live Online Classrooms”. Mihaela Sabin and Bryan Higgs. In the proceedings of the 8th ACM SIG - Information Technology Education (SIGITE 2007), Sandestin, FL, October 18-20, 2007.
• “Conditional Constraint Satisfaction and Configuration — A Win-Win Proposition.” Esther Gelle and Mihaela Sabin. IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal, February, 2007.
• “Solver Framework for Conditional Constraint Satisfaction Problems.” Esther Gelle and Mihaela Sabin. In the proceedings of the Configuration Workshop, jointly held with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI’07), Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.
• “Evaluation of Solving Methods for Conditional Constraint Satisfaction Problems.” Mihaela Sabin and Esther Gelle. In the proceedings of the 25th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, July 2006.
• “Towards Using Online Portfolios in Computing Courses.” Bryan Higgs and Mihaela Sabin. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIG — Information Technology Education Conference, Newark, NJ, October 20-22, 2005. Also published in the Rivier College Online Academic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2006.
• “Designing and Running a Pre-College Computing Course,” Mihaela Sabin, Bryan Higgs, Vladimir Riabov, and Alberto Moreiro. The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Also in the proceedings of the Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges of Northeastern Region (CCSC-NE-2005), Providence College, Providence, RI, April 22-23, 2005.
• Greater Efficiency for Conditional Constraint Satisfaction. Mihaela Sabin, Eugene Freuder, and Rick Wallace. In the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. Also in the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP’03), Kinsale, Ireland, October 2003.
• Solving Methods for Conditional Constraint Satisfaction, Esther Gelle and Mihaela Sabin. In the proceedings of the Configuration Workshop jointly held with the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.

Education

• Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 2003
• M.S.T., University of New Hampshire, 2003
• M.S., 1984 B.S., Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1984

Courses Taught

• Database Design and Development
• Networking Computers
• Object-Oriented Design
• Algorithms
• Data Structures
• Programming Fundamentals with C++ and Java

Affiliations

• American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC)
• ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
• ACM Special Interest Group in Information Technology Education (SIGITE)
• Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)

Awards

• Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
• Richard Lyczak Memorial Teaching Award, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, May 1999
• Student Scholarships, American Association for Artificial Intelligence 1996, 1999
• Travel Grants, UNH Graduate School, 1996-1999, and Integrated Network Management Symposium, 1997

• Grants:
• Inspiring and Growing Natural Interests and Talents in Education for Science (IGNITES), Rivier College and Daniel Webster College Collaborative Project for IGNITES Planning, 2006-2007.
• Improving Online Communication with “Live” Web Conferencing, Rivier College Faculty Development Summer Grant Award, Summer 2006.
• Computer Modeling: How Simulations are Changing the World, Mihaela Sabin, Bryan Higgs, and Vladimir Riabov. Rivier College Davis Foundation Grant Award for a Junior Year Seminar Course Proposal, Summer 2005.
• Towards Improving Counseling Instruction with Automated Tools for Speech Recognition, Mihaela Sabin and Andrew Gersten. Rivier College Faculty Development Summer Grant Award, Summer 2004.

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