DAC Student Spotlight: Andreea Sistrunk

Andreea Sistrunk, DAC Ph.D. student in Department of Computer Science

Graphic is from the paper “REGAL: A regionalization framework for school boundaries”
When Andreea Sistrunk started taking classes at Virginia Tech in the fall of 2014 she had left her job as a full time teacher in northern Virginia to devote more time to her two young daughters, ages three and seven.
“It was becoming more difficult for me to hold a full time job and be a good mother so I chose to take a break from work,” Sistrunk said. “I used a sort of ‘mom’s night out’ to enroll in a graduate course at Virginia Tech because I really missed learning new things.”