Cecilia R. Aragon

Cecilia R. Aragon
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology (BS)
University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Known forCo-invention of treap data structure
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
NASA Ames Research Center
ThesisImproving aviation safety with information visualization: Airflow hazard display for helicopter pilots (2004)
Doctoral advisorMarti Hearst
Websitececiliaaragonauthor.com

Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon is an American computer scientist, professor, author, and champion aerobatic pilot[1][2] who is best known as the co-inventor (with Raimund Seidel) of the treap data structure, a type of binary search tree that orders nodes by adding a priority as well as a key to each node.[3] She is also known for her work in data-intensive science and visual analytics of very large data sets, for which she received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

  1. ^ Ball, Edmund F. (1993). Rambling Recollections of Flying and Fliers. Muncie, Indiana: Minnetrista Cultural Center. ISBN 0-9623291-8-5.
  2. ^ Miller, Claudia (December 25, 1998). "Berkeley Pilot Flies High in Aerobatics". San Francisco Chronicle.
  3. ^ Aragon, C.R.; Seidel, R. G. (October 1989). "Randomized search trees". 30th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society Press. pp. 540–45. doi:10.1109/SFCS.1989.63531. ISBN 978-0-8186-1982-3. S2CID 47386481.