Elva Jones

**Elva Johnson Jones** farfesa ce kuma shugabar kafa Sashen Kimiyyar Kwamfuta a Jami'ar Jihar Winston-Salem (WSSU), matsayin da ta riƙe tun 1991. 

## Rayuwar Farko da Tarihi
An haifi Elva Johnson Jones kuma ta girma a gonar taba a Louisburg, North Carolina . Iyayenta Bettie da Sanford Jones ne kuma tana da 'yan'uwa uku. Ta auri Emory Jones, ɗalibi kuma tsohuwar ma'aikaciyar WSSU; suna da ɗa ɗaya, Eugene wanda ya kammala karatunsa daga WSSU. Jones ɗaliba ce ta farko a kwaleji wacce ta fito daga gidan da ke tallafa wa ƙoƙarinta na ilimi. Iyayenta ba su sami damar zuwa kwaleji ba, amma sun sadaukar da girbin farko na amfanin gona na kowace shekara don biyan kuɗin makaranta. Ta bi sawun babbar 'yar uwarta don halartar WSSU. 

## Ilimi
Jones ta sami digirinta na farko a fannin kasuwanci daga Jami'ar Jihar Winston-Salem a shekarar 1970 kafin a ba ta ilimin kwamfuta a can. Daga nan ta ci gaba zuwa Jami'ar North Carolina da ke Greensboro inda ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin binciken ayyuka . Ta je Raleigh, North Carolina inda ta zama Ba'amurke ɗan Afirka ta farko da ta sami digiri na uku a fannin injiniyanci da kimiyyar kwamfuta daga Jami'ar Jihar North Carolina . 

## Aiki da bincike
Jones ta ci gaba da aiki a WSSU yayin da take shiga UNCG a matsayin ɗalibar digiri na biyu. An ba ta aiki a NCSU bayan ta sami digirin digirgir, wanda ta ƙi. Ta koma WSSU daga baya kuma ta zama shugabar sashen lissafi .  Ta kafa sashen kimiyyar kwamfuta a WSSU. 

Sha'awar Jones ga haɓaka manhaja ta fara ne tun da wuri, kafin a kafa shirin Kimiyyar Kwamfuta a WSSU. Za ta koya wa abokan karatunta yadda ake rubuta lambar kwamfuta a lokacin cin abincin rana. Ta jagoranci Jami'ar don haɓaka shirin digiri na biyu a fannin nazarin bayanai . Ta taimaka wa WSSU ƙara kimiyyar bayanai a matsayin ƙarama ga ɗaliban da ke karatun digiri na farko. 

A matsayinta na mai tsara shirye-shirye da kuma mai ilimi a matakin farko, Jones ta himmatu wajen jagorantar tsararraki masu zuwa na tsiraru a STEM . Ta yi imanin cewa masu ba da shawara mata suna da mahimmanci wajen yin koyi da ayyukan STEM ga ƙananan 'yan mata da mata don samun muryarsu da ƙarfinsu. 

Bincikenta da karatunta sun mayar da hankali kan neman kuɗi don tallafawa shirye-shirye da ɗalibai. Tun daga shekarar 2000, ta sami sama da dala miliyan 12 don shirin kimiyyar kwamfuta a WSSU.  A shekarar 2005, jami'ar ta sanya wa sabon ginin kimiyyar kwamfuta suna don girmama ta.  Abubuwan da take sha'awa a fannin bincike sun haɗa da hangen nesa, dawo da bayanai ( kimiyyar sararin samaniya ), tsarin multimedia, ƙira da haɓaka tsarin, hulɗar ɗan adam da kwamfuta, da kuma ilimin kimiyyar kwamfuta. 

Ta wallafa ta hanyar SIGCSE (Ƙungiyar Sha'awa ta Musamman kan Ilimin Kimiyyar Kwamfuta) a cikin 2018. 

## Daraja da nasarori
Jones ta kasance memba na NASA JOVE Fellow a Cibiyar Jiragen Sama ta Goddard daga 1994-1997. Birnin Winston-Salem ya ba ta kyautar Shugabancin Mata Masu Kyau a shekarar 2006. An ba ta kyautar Shugabancin Ilimi ta Ivory Dome a shekarar 2009 kuma ta kasance mai girmamawa ga Mafi Muhimmancin 'Yan Afirka Ba'amurke a Fasaha a shekarar 2010. Ta kasance memba na Residence Fellow a Google Faculty a shekarar 2021. Ta kuma kasance Co-PI ga Tallafin Tallafin NSF: "Binciken Haɗin gwiwa: CISE-MSI:RPEP: SaTC: HBCU Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AI-CyS) Research Partnership."

## Ƙungiyoyin ƙwararru
Jones ta kasance mai himma a cikin Ƙungiyar Injin Kwamfuta, Cibiyar Injiniyoyi da Lantarki, Kwamitin Canvasing na Ƙasa na NSF don Binciken Daraktan CISE, Big South Data Hub—Education Working Group, National Academics of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Science, da National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) Academic Alliance. An naɗa ta a matsayin kwamishina kuma mai kimantawa ga Hukumar Amincewa da Kwamfuta ta ABET tsawon shekaru 2010-1015 da 2022-2026. Ta shiga Hukumar Daraktocin Ƙungiyar Sashen Kimiyyar Kwamfuta a Ƙananan Cibiyoyin a 1996.  Ta fara aiki tukuru a Ƙungiyar Ba da Lamuni ta Sararin Samaniya ta NC a 1997. 

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