SRC Poster Competition & General Poster Session
Thursday, November 10th 6:30 – 9:00 PM
Convention Center – Exhibit Halls B and C
- SRC Competition – Undergraduate
- SRC Competition – Graduate
- General Posters
- Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) Posters
SRC Poster Competition – Undergraduate
In alphabetical order by title:
Presenter: Pragya Tripathi (Columbia College)
Pragya Tripathi is a junior undergraduate student at Columbia College, SC. She is originally from Kathmandu, Nepal. She enjoys problem solving and mathematics. However, instead of being just a Math major, she wanted to expand her horizons and apply the concept of Mathematics in the real world. Thus, she chose to major in Computer Science and Accounting. Her major goal in life is to help change the world by expanding the use of advancing technology, especially in developing countries. Database, networks and programming are her major areas of interest in Computer Science.
Presenter: Hikari Murota (Toyama National College of Technology)
Ms. Hikari Murota entered Toyama National College of Technology in 2007. She is studying environmental catalysts such as the chemical hydrogen storage for fuel cell as mobile computer’s power source. She prefers experiments and she will be a chemical analyst. Now, she applies to enter a chemical company in Toyama.
Presenter: Stephanie M. Antetomaso (Wheaton College)
Stephanie Antetomaso is a senior at Wheaton College in Massachusetts where she is majoring in Linguistics and Russian Studies. Her current area of focus is computational linguistics, specifically audio and text segmentation and the use of deterministic finite state automata to describe ordered alphabets. She is particularly interested in natural language processing and human-computer interaction.
Presenter:Avani Nandini (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
I am a fourth year B.tech-M.Tech dual degree student in department of computer science and engineering at IIT Kanpur. Having lived most of my life in hostels, somehow getting involved in studies has been my hobby. I am very passionate about research and always dreamed of giving my contributions in research. My stay has been exciting with challenges at many stages. One such was last year when I successfully completed my internship at Microsoft Research Redmond, Washington working at a PHD level.
SRC Poster Competition – Graduate
In alphabetical order by title:
Presenter: Behnoush Abdollahi (University of Louisville)
I am a Master Student in Computer Science at University of Louisville. I am currently working as a research assistant under the guidance of Dr. Ming Ouyang and will be starting my PhD from Fall 2012. My research area is computer vision. As master thesis, I have been working on object detection and tracking methods for road-signs in moving camera video sequences. I also have a keen passion for data mining, social network mining and game programming. Before coming to Louisville, I completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Software Engineering at University of Tehran, Iran.
Presenter: Emily Lovell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab)
Emily Lovell is currently a doctoral student in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab. Guided by an interest in technological self-efficacy, her research focuses on creating electronic textile (e-textile) support materials for educators. She has also helped to design and develop an online e-textile community known as LilyPond. Emily also holds a B.A. in Computer Science with a minor in Electronic Music from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a certificate in Graphic Design from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University.
Presenter: Steena D. Monteiro (Utah State University/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Steena Monteiro is a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Utah State University and is currently a Lawrence Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research is focused on combinatorial testing algorithms and fault detection in large-scale data and event driven applications. Her other research interests include cyber defense architectures, computer forensics, statistical classifiers, and R.
Presenter: Molood Noori Alavijeh (Chalmers University of Technology)
Molood is a computer engineer who is also dominant at social life. She graduated from the high school of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents in Iran and studied Information Technology in college. She has done research in emotional intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture and meta-heuristic algorithms as well as real-time systems. In 2008 she moved to Sweden to study in Chalmers University of Technology. She has worked as researcher in FCC and as Software Developer in Ericsson. She was the president of Chalmers International Reception Committee in 2010. She was also a young journalist before becoming a technical woman.
Presenter: Sally K. Wahba (Clemson University)
After graduating from The American University in Cairo (Egypt), Sally joined IBM Egypt then ITWorx as a software engineer. In Fall 2006, Sally joined the PhD program in the School of Computing at Clemson University. She plans to graduate in 2012. Sally’s research interests span software engineering and wireless sensor networks. Specifically, she is interested in modeling and simulating wireless network systems. Sally was the first graduate student from Clemson to receive the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Apart from research, Sally is involved in numerous service activities and has served as a reviewer for multiple conferences and journals.
Presenter: Xiaozheng Tie (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Xiaozheng Tie is a PhD student at Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her M.S. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011, and her B.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in China in 2008. Her research interests are broadly in the areas of networks and distributed systems, with an emphasis on wireless networks and mobile networks.
Presenter: Mariya Zheleva (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Mariya Zheleva is a second year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interest is in wireless networking and more specifically in medium access control, measurements in wireless networks and smart-phones. She is a member of the MOMENT lab at UCSB and is working under the supervision of Professor Elizabeth Belding.
Presenter: Maryam Sadeghi (Simon Fraser University)
Maryam Sadeghi received her BSc in Computer Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2006. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in the Medical Image Analysis lab working closely with the Cancer Control Research Program, BC Cancer Agency and UBC Dermatology Department. Her research focuses on computer vision and analysis of dermoscopic images, computer-aided diagnosis and prevention of skin cancer.
Presenter: Veena Udayabhanu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
My name is Veena Udayabhanu and I am a first-year graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My advisor is Prof. Prashant Shenoy. My research interests are broadly in the areas of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, with a focus on Cloud Computing, Virtualization Technology and Web Benchmarking. I am currently working on a project titled BenchLab that aims at developing an Open Testbed for Realistic Benchmarking of Web Applications with Dr.Emmanuel Cecchet and Prof.Prashant Shenoy. I enjoy playing tennis, travelling and trekking in my free time.
Presenter: Awalin Sopan (University of Maryland, College Park)
Awalin Nabila Sopan is a PhD student at the department of computer science of University of Maryland. Currently she is a research assistant at the Human-computer Interaction Lab in the area of Information visualization, working in developing visual analytic tool and methods for temporal evolution of online social network. She worked as a software engineer at Escenic Asia developing content management system using J2EE. She completed her undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering of Engineering and Technology. HCI and Information visualization for networks are her prime research focus. Also enjoys hiking, photography and music.
Presenter: Kathryn M. Wozniak (DePaul University)
Kathryn Wozniak is working on her Ph.D. at DePaul University’s College of Computing & Digital Media, wherein she will focus her dissertation research on ePortfolios. She is also the coordinator of an ePortfolio pilot program at DePaul’s School for New Learning, where she teaches academic and professional writing to adult students. Her areas of interest include educational technology, learning sciences, and human-computer interaction. She and two of her colleagues were awarded the 2009 Kairos: Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy “Best Webtext” Award for their publication, “Expanding the Space of f2f: Writing Centers and Audio-Visual-Textual Conferencing” (Yergeau, Wozniak, & Vandenberg, 2009).
Presenter: Tiffany C. Inglis (University of Waterloo)
Growing up in Vancouver, Tiffany was always very interested in mathematics and logic puzzles. She received numerous awards for math contests in high school and consequently obtained a Bachelor’s degree in math and statistics at the University of British Columbia. For graduate studies, Tiffany shifted her focus to computational aesthetics and decided to pursue a PhD in Computer Science specializing in mathematical art at the University of Waterloo. Her areas of interest include picture logic puzzles, Op Art, computational geometry, and pixel art.
Presenter: Sally R. Ellingson (University of Tennessee)
Sally Ellingson has B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematical Science and is currently working on her PhD in Genome Science and Technology with a minor in Computational Sciences. She is a recipient of the Scalable Computing and Leading Edge Innovative Technologies for Biology graduate training program (NSF/IGERT). She works at the Center for Molecular Biophysics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with her PhD advisor Dr. Jerome Baudry. Sally’s current interests include the development and application of high-throughput molecular docking programs that run in distributed and parallel environments which reduce the time and cost of the novel drug discovery process.
Presenter: Gillian Smith (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Gillian Smith is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying in the Center for Games and Playable Media with Professors Jim Whitehead and Michael Mateas. Her research interests lie in procedural content generation for computer games, how it can be used to create new playable experiences, how to evaluate procedurally generated content, and how computers can assist during the design process. She also teaches game design and programming in COSMOS, a California summer outreach program for high school students.
Presenter: Niyati Chhaya (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Niyati Chhaya is a PhD student in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her dissertation research is a combination of computer vision and machine learning where she is working on building a representation to exploit relationships between different soft biometrics features. Her research interests include machine learning, computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence. She holds a Masters’ Degree from UMBC and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of Pune, India.
Presenter: Diane Oyen (University of New Mexico)
Diane Oyen is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. She received her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research develops machine learning algorithms for the discovery of patterns of network activity in brain imaging data from people with varied backgrounds, including mental illness. These functional brain networks tell us how individual areas of the brain interact with each other. They are similar, but not identical, from person to person and it is valuable to understand how mental illness and treatment affect the brain as a network.
Presenter: Zeinab Abbassi (Columbia University)
Zeinab Abbassi is a PhD student of Computer Science at Columbia University. She received her M.Sc. from the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, and prior to that her B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She is interested in Social Networks, and Recommender Systems.
Presenter: Ji-Sun Kim (Virginia Tech)
Ji-Sun Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science and Center for HCI at Virginia Tech. Before joining Virginia Tech, she had some experiences as a software developer in industry over five years. Her research interests include 3D interaction techniques for learning and user interface software development on multi-platforms. Her current research work focuses on pursuing development of an advanced interaction design concept leveraging core theories in neuroscience and psychology. In addition to her research, she has also served by mentoring undergraduate students in a multidisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program for the last three years.
Presenter: Somayyeh Zangooei (University of Waterloo)
Somayyeh Zangooei is a graduate student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Her main research interest is structural Bioinformatics and algorithms. Currently she is working on developing efficient algorithms for computing and widening tunnels in protein structures. She is also a member of Women in Computer Science (WICS) committee. The objective of this committee is to establish a supportive environment for women in Computer Science.
General Poster Session
In alphabetical order by title:
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – O – P – R – S – T – U – V – W – Y
Presenter: Behnaz Abdollahi (University of Louisville)
I am currently a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville with focus on medical image analysis. I started in January 2009. I finished my master degree in 2006 and I studied in Computer Engineering Department at the Sharif University of Technology; which is one of the top technical universities in Iran, and my final project was on segmenting medical images. My major was computer engineering during my bachelor, and my final project was on database systems. My research and software development experience have truly helped me to become very enthusiastic in both fields.
Presenter: Anamary Leal (Virginia Tech)
Anamary Leal is a first year doctoral computer science student at the Center of Human-Computer interaction at Virginia Tech. She is interested in Human-Computer Interaction, specifically 3D User Interfaces, and gaming, and researches how to use 3d interactions to aid in surface design. Anamary is an avid supporter of women and minorities in computer science, as the Grace Hoper co-chair of Virginia Tech’s Association of Women in Computing, and held a similar role at the University of Central Florida. She is also a recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship, GEM Fellowship and Google Hispanic Scholars.
Presenter: Pooja Adhikari (Mississippi State University)
I am a master’s continued PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University since January 2007. I completed my undergraduate in Computer Engineering from Tribhuwan University, Nepal in 2005. At Mississippi State, my research goal is to reduce the cost of verification of parallel asynchronous communication protocol in high performance computing using finite state verification. I am working on building a model specific language that supports both protocol specification and automatic verification. I have presented my work in 22nd international conference on parallel and distributed computing in 2009.
Presenter: Laura Grupp (University of California, San Diego)
Laura is a PhD student in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Her current research focuses on improving Flash Translation Layers through characterization of flash memory. She is a Microsoft Research Scholar, an Emerging Leaders Boeing Scholar, a NASA Space Grant Scholar, and has received the Karl Ellerbeck EE scholarship.
Presenter: Nesreen Ahmed (Purdue University)
Nesreen is currently a PhD student and a research assistant in the CS department at Purdue University. Her research interests are in machine learning and data mining. She is also a member of Statistical Machine Learning @Purdue. Nesreen received her Bachelor and Masters degrees from the Information Technology department @Cairo University. Nesreen is currently working on sampling social networks. Social networks have witnessed a tremendous popularity recently which makes it important to study their behavior. However, their large size makes it computationally challenging to study. This can be solved by using network sampling.
Presenter: Midori Kato (Keio University)
Midori Kato was born in 1989. She is an undergraduate student in Faculty of Environment and Information at Keio University, Japan. Her major field of research is congestion control for multimedia streaming. Her research interests include IPv6 network design, network measurement and network visualization.
Presenter: Yasaman Haghpanah (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Yasaman Haghpanah is a doctoral candidate in the computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her anticipated graduation date is May 2012. Her research is on modeling trust and reputation in supply chain management and online markets. She is interested in learning peoples’ reviewing, rating, or reporting behavior, and then use the learned behavior to adjust the reviews, rates or reports. She is currently collaborating with researchers in the supply chain field to integrate her model into a supply chain management application. She serves as the president of ACM student chapter at UMBC.
Presenter: Farhana M. Kabir (Washington State University, Vancouver)
Farhana Kabir is currently pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. Her research area is Cloud Computing, under the supervision of Dr. David Chiu. She received a B.S. in CS (with highest distinction) from Purdue University. In the past she has worked as a software developer for Oracle Corp. More recently she was a graduate intern at Intel’s Digital Home Group, working on the security controller software for Intel® CE media processor. Cloud Computing, Information Retrieval, Networking, and Security are among the technologies she is most excited about and wishes to work on in the future.
Presenter: Rachel K. Strobel (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Rachel Strobel is a researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Information, Communication, and Technology for Development (ICTD), with specific research interest in utilizing technology for counter human trafficking efforts. Research endeavors have led Rachel to Mexico City, Mexico twice in 2011, in collaboration with counter trafficking organization – iEmpathize, the Mexican Government, and Mexican safe home – Camino A Casa. Rachel’s research has been presented in Puerto Rico; Buffalo, NY; and Berkley, CA. Rachel has been accepted to the MS-ICTD program at CU Boulder for fall 2012.
Presenter: Pinar Yanardag Delul (Bogazici University/Purdue University)
Pinar Yanardag is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University, Department of Computer Science under Fulbright Ph.D. fellowship and Google Anita Borg scholarship. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, both in Computer Engineering from Canakkale and Bogazici University, respectively. Prior to moving to United States, she worked for TUBITAK UEKAE (The National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology, Turkey) as a Security Team Leader and worked for Parkyeri (selected as the fastest growing Internet company in Turkey) as a project manager and developer, and also worked as a mentor for Google during Google Summer of Code.
Presenter: Golrokh Mirzaei (University of Toledo)
I am a PhD student / research assistant in the University of Toledo in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. My research area is mostly in the signal processing, Image Processing , Artificial Intelligence and Bio Inspired Computing. I have several publications on Evolutionary Neural Networls, Detection and classification of targets in acoustics and Imaging, Wireless networks and Smart Grid. I was the reviewer of the Journal of Supercomputing, Springer (SC2011) and the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits ans Systems(ISCAS2011). Also I have one year experience teaching in the University.
Presenter: Maegan Stanek (Rochester Institute of Technology)
My name is Maegan Stanek. I am twenty five years old and reside in Buffalo, NY. I received my Master’s Degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Networking, Security, and Systems Administration, and my Bachelor’s Degree from Hilbert College in Economic Crime Investigation, with a concentration in Computer Security. I currently work in Cyber Intelligence Research for the Department of Justice. I have previous work experience with the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the Western New York Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory. I have attended the Google Workshop for Women Engineers, as well the GHC Conference in 2009.
Presenter: Maria Gonzalez-Gil (University of Puerto Rico at MayagĂĽez)
Maria D. Gonzalez-Gil is a Computer Engineering undergraduate student at the University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez. In order to accomplish her careers goals, expand her knowledge, and get practical experiences, she has participated in several research experiences for undergraduates. Her research works include: “An integrated Hardware/Software Environment for the Implementation of Signal Processing Algorithms on FPGA Architectures,” at University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez; “Characterizing Application Specific Accelerators on Mobile Processors,” at Drexel University; “GPU vs. CPU Math Matrix Multiplication,” at University of Kentucky; and “Predicting Survival Time Using Genomic Data,” at University of South Florida.
Presenter: Sameena Shah (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Sameena works in the area of Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning.
Presenter: Bithika Khargharia (Cisco)
Bithika Khargharia received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Assam Engineering College, India in 2000 and the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. She is currently working with Cisco Systems on their next-generation enterprise router architecture. Her research focus is in the area of power and performance management, computer architecture, operating systems, autonomic computing, and high-performance distributed computing. Bithika is also active in the SWE community and in GHC having held different roles since 2008. She is a member of IEEE.
Presenter: Mizuho Yago (Toyama National College of Technology)
Mizuho Yago received her Associate of Arts in Computer Engineering from Toyama National College of Technology, Japan. She is in the Advanced Course Department of Control Information System Engineering Course at Toyama National College of Technology. She wants to learn more about the working ways of women in foreign countries, and become part of a network of women engineers. Last year, she was a member of the “Kosen Branding Project” for women engineers at Toyama National College of Technology.
Presenter: Divya Chaganti (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus)
I am Divya Chaganti,currently pursuing my BTech in Computer Sciences from BITS Pilani,Hyderabad campus. I am interested in network security and currently I am researching on adoption of honeypots for Intrusion Detections. I also did paper presentations on Intrusion Detection System. I am also interested in Distributed Computing and Computer graphics. My favorite passtime is to do a lot of browsing related to technical innovations and they inspire me. I am interested in applying computer science to solve real world problems. I am also serving as a member of National Service Scheme and conduct many service activities along with other members.
Presenter: Lauren Bradel (Virginia Tech)
Lauren is a second-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech advised by Dr. Chris North. She is currently researching co-located collaborative sensemaking for intelligence analysis on large, high-resolution displays . Lauren is an active member of Virginia Tech’s Association for Women in Computing, currently serving as the Public Relations chair.
Presenter: Yolián Amaro-Rivera (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)
Yolián Amaro-Rivera is a Computer Engineering undergraduate student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM). Through her academic life she has been involved in research at various institutions such as Virginia Tech, University of Colorado at Boulder and UPRM. Yolián is member of FemProf, an organization that encourages female computer engineers and computer scientists to follow academic career paths towards the professoriate, SWE (Society of Women Engineers) and Campus Verde, an environmental organization. She currently works at the Intelligent Wireless and Networked Communications Laboratory (iWiNC) with Dr. Lizdabel Morales as her advisor. She plans to pursue a PhD.
Presenter: Catherine Spence (Intel)
Catherine Spence is an Enterprise Architect in Intel Information Technology. Catherine, a 14 year Intel veteran, is a part of the Intel IT Cloud Computing team with specialization in on-demand services including Cloud Computing, PaaS, SaaS, and client virtualization. She holds degrees in Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering from Trinity College and Harvard University.
Presenter: Rongrong Wang (Virginia Tech)
Wang Rongrong is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include human computer interaction, computer mediated communication, social computing and computer animation. Before she came to Virginia Tech, she got her Master and Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from China. In her spare time, she enjoys reading history books, running and playing tennis.
Presenter: Jessica Dickinson Goodman (Carnegie Mellon University/HollaBack)
Jessica Dickinson Goodman received the prestigious 5th Year Scholarship at Carnegie Mellon University enabling her to stay for an additional year and complete her minor in opera and certificate in Arabic, in addition to her completed major in Ethics, History, and Public Policy. Through internships with the World Organization for Human Rights USA and the Polaris Project, Jessica learned about the widespread devastation which sex trafficking trafficking causes. Through her work as an activist, in Summer 2011 the Pittsburgh became the first city in the United States to take a comprehensive approach to ending sex trafficking in its massage parlors.
Presenter: Melanie A. Veltman (Women in Science and Engineering – Ontario (CWSE-ON)/University of Guelph)
Since completing her MSc. in Computer Science in 2010, Melanie has been working as a Project Manager for the NSERC/RIM Chair for Women in Science and Engineering – Ontario (CWSE-ON). In addition to participating in research projects and organizing events, Melanie has delivered more than 250 hands-on workshops promoting computer science and technology to more than 6,000 middle and high school students.
Presenter: Amanda S. Danko (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Amanda Danko is a doctoral student in Computer Science at the University at Albany in NY. She completed her Masters degree in May 2011 and is currently working toward the PhD. Amanda completed her undergraduate work in Computer Science at Siena College in 2007. Upon graduation she took a position with the NYS Department of Taxation & Finance. Before returning to graduate school Amanda also worked as a software developer at Auto/Mate Dealership Systems. In her second year, Amanda became the primary instructor for ICSI-201 Introduction to Computer Science at UAlbany, for the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters.
Presenter: Weiyi Sun (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Weiyi Sun is an Informatics Ph.D. student in SUNY Albany, with research interests in social computing, knowledge discovery and management. Prior to her doctoral study, she worked as a web application product manager in an international software company. She completed her undergraduate study in Fudan University with a major in Mathematics, and a second major in Computer Science.
Presenter: Sumita Barahmand (University of Southern California)
Sumita Barahmand received her B.Sc in Information Technology Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, the premiere engineering institution in Iran. She is currently a Ph.D. student collaborating with Professor Shahram Ghandeharizadeh in DBLab at USC. Her current research interests include social streaming, sharing of multimedia streams using smart devices and the cloud. These concepts are exercised in a prototype named RAYS (rays.shorturl.com) that was deployed in early 2011. Her current focus is on design and implementation of novel memory management techniques that allow viewers of social streams to perform time-shifted displays on the streams.
Presenter: Samantha T. Finn (Wellesley College)
Samantha Finn is a senior at Wellesley College, majoring in Computer Science. Her current research centers around analyzing how people discuss politics on Twitter and how the online discussion can influence and predict real world outcomes.
Presenter: Spurthi Chaganti (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
I am Spurthi Chaganti, currently pursuing Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Twin cities. I did my undergraduation from BITS-Pilani, India in 2009. My focus is on implementing data mining and machine learning techniques that solve real world problems. I worked as a researcher from past two years and I have worked on distributed caches, replication tools for providing high availability, scalability and performance,secure group communication and complex event processing system. I love vedic mathematics. I am a music buff and love to travel whole world. I adore swami vivekananda’s philosophy.
Presenter: Melissa Smith (University of British Columbia)
Melissa Smith is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She will begin her Master’s degree specializing in Data Management in January to continue work on the Conceptual Integration Modeling Framework. Her research interests include Database Usability, Data Integration and Business Intelligence.
Presenter: Arthi Ramachandran (Columbia University)
Arthi Ramachandran is a third year doctoral student at Columbia University, in the Pe’er Lab of Computational Genetics. She graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Computer Science. She is president of WiCS (Women in Computer Science) and a graduate coordinator for the Emerging Scholar’s Program. Her current research interest is development of methodologies for analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.
Presenter: Mahmuda Ahmed (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Mahmuda Ahmed is a second year PhD student of Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include Algorithms, Computational Geometry especially, Geometric Algorithms, Geometric Pattern Analysis, Computational Biology and Data Mining. Currently, she is working on Map Construction from geo-referenced trajectory data under supervision of her adviser, Carola Wenk. She completed her B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2008.
Presenter: Nare Hayrapetyan (Utah State University)
I was born and raised in Yerevan, Armenia. Since early childhood I was fascinated by math and read a lot of physics and science fiction books. I graduated from high school when I was sixteen years old and started college in Yerevan to study applied math. However, at the end of my freshman year I got a full scholarship for Utah State University and decided to move to Utah to pursue a computer science degree. I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics last December and started working on my Master’s Degree in bioinformatics.
Presenter: Seetha Annamraju (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Seetha Annamraju is a senior at Rutgers- State University of New Jersey. She is studying Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a focus in Sensor design. As an active member of Women in Computer Science, and Society of Women Engineers, Seetha enjoys doing research, attending conferences, and meeting other women in CS. Seetha plans on pursuing her PhD in Computer Science, and eventually travel around the whole world.
Presenter: Sarah A. Buchanan (University of Central Florida)
Sarah Buchanan is a second year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Central Florida, as well as a research assistant at the Interactive Systems and User Experiences Laboratory. Her focus is on sketch-based interfaces for STEM education, and is currently working on a sketch-based tutoring system for computer science students called CSTutor.
Presenter: Kayona Yamada (Toyama National College of Technology)
Kayona YAMADA began studying at Toyama National College of Technology, in April 2007 in the department of Electrical Engineering. She is in her fifth year at the college currently. Last year, she began her studies in robotics in the laboratory of Professor Sato and is to graduate in March 2012. In college, she has been learning a lot on electronic circuits and electrical circuits related to computer science, and electrical engineering. In college, she was a vice leader of the brass band for one year. As club activities, the band performs community services like charity concerts at nursing homes.
Presenter: Asuka Nakajima (Keio University)
Asuka Nakajima was born in Osaka, Japan, on October 27, 1990. She is now a student at Keio University. At Keio University, Asuka is belonging to Keiji Takeda laboratory, which studies about computer security. She has been interested in comuter security since she was high school student. Her present research topic is “Design and Implementation of a Network Sonification System for Anomaly Detection”.
Presenter: Todd Cooper (Toyama National College of Technology)
Todd Cooper is an Associate Professor at Toyama National College of Technology and is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University and the University of Alberta (1996). He teaches a wide range of communicative and specialized English courses, and has given talks about educational technology at conferences in Canada, Japan, Korea and the UK. His current research involves developing an interactive virtual interview system, and was recently awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan.
Presenter: Ann-Marie Horcher (Nova Southeastern University)
Ann-Marie Horcher is a PhD student in Information Systems at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Her research interests include security and usability, wearable computers, gender-based design differences and mobile device security. Currently she teaches Computer Forensics and programming as an adjunct professor at Saginaw Valley State University. Previously she worked for a large global chemical company in information architecture and global infrastructure design. This included the design of intellectual property security models to be used by multiple companies to collaborate on secure projects.
Presenter: Parul Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
Parul Agarwal is a third year undergraduate student studying at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. Her career goal is to pursue research in Computer Science.
Presenter: Rajni (Thapar University)
Rajni received her Bachelor’s Degree (Mathematics, Computer Application and Economics) from Punjab University, India in 2007, and obtained Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Computing from Thapar University, India in year 2009. At present she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science & Engineering Department at Thapar University. Her research interests lie in algorithm aspects of resource provisioning and scheduling in distributed computing, Grid Computing.
Presenter: Sonia Jahid (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Sonia Jahid is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests lie in computer security area. She works on access control and security and privacy issues of social networks under the supervision of professor Nikita Borisov. Her recent works include efficient revocation for attribute-based encryption scheme and distributed architecture for social networks with emphasis on security and privacy. She has also worked on attribute-based security for databases and countermeasures for denial of service. She received her bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
Presenter: Fatina Gammoh (University of Central Florida)
Fatina T. Gammoh is currently working as a research assistant with Dr. Pamela McCauley Bush in an Ergonomic Study of Solid Waste Collection. She is a graduate student at the University of Central Florida in the Industrial Engineering and Management system department. She had her bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Jordan in 2008 and then she worked in the Total Quality Management field for two years at one of the best leading industrial companies in the Middle East. She has two Green Belt certificates in Six Sigma and currently working towards getting project engineering certificate from the University of Central Florida.
Presenter: Akshaya M. Iyengar (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Akshaya Iyengar has a masters degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). At UMBC she worked at the eBiquity Research Group on the Relief Social Media project with. In her thesis advised by Dr.Tim Finin, she developed an approach to estimate temporal boundaries for events using social social media data. She received her Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from the University of Pune, India in 2008. She has worked at Azingo Inc (now Motorola), ZS Associates and interned at Akamai Technologes. Upon graduation she would be joining Amazon as a Software Development Engineer.
Presenter: Ozge Yeloglu (Dalhousie University)
Ozge is a PhD candidate at Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She received her B.Eng in Computer Engineering from Ege University, Turkey in 2004 and her Master’s in Computer Science from Dalhousie University in 2007. Her research areas are Machine Learning and Text Mining. In particular, her focus is on the applications of Neural Networks to the information management problems. She enjoys spreading the awareness of women in technology by being actively involved in Dalhousie Women in Technology Society and her achievements with this group has been recognized with many awards including Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
Presenter: Mastooreh Salajegheh (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Mastooreh Salajegheh is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interest is in different aspects of low-power devices. Specifically, storage and security of resource constraint battery-powered or batteryless devices such as RFIDs, medical devices and sensor motes. Mastooreh is a member of RFID CUSP (Consortium for Security and Privacy) and works under the supervision of Professor Kevin Fu.
Presenter: Zheng Gu (Florida State University)
Zheng Gu is a Ph.D. candidate at Computer Science Department in Florida State University. Her primary research interests include high performance computing, communication protocols, and MPI optimizations.
Presenter: Xianshu Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Xianshu Zhu is currently a PhD candidate in computer science at University of Maryland Baltimore County. Before joining UMBC, she got her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Hunan University, Changsha, China, both in computer science. Her main research interest is in data mining, especially text mining. She has published several papers in various prestigious conferences.
Presenter: Valentina De Rosa (Univesity of Rome, Sapienza)
I’m a 22 years old student from Rome. I obtained my Bs in CS at Sapienza University of Rome and from September I will be a CS Master Student at ETHZ. I work as a freelance web developer. I’m very passionate about all the different aspects of CS and I’m still trying to find my way; in the meanwhile I follow my inspiration and study whatever I find useful, interesting or simply amusing. My other interests include traveling, cooking and learning foreign languages. I’m very curious about different cultures and I pride myself on having friends from four different continents.
Presenter: Kara A. Behnke (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Kara A. Behnke is a second-year PhD student in the Technology, Media & Society Program at the ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research interests involve the sociological impacts of digital games on identity, cross-cultural computer-mediated communication (CMC) in virtual worlds, and learning theories developed for serious games and human-computer interaction (HCI) frameworks. Her dissertation research investigates the sociocultural contexts of gender and gaming within Asia and the United States. As a teaching assistant in ATLAS, she also explores how game development can be used as an educational tool to promote computer science learning.
Presenter: Aya Nakahama (Tsuda College)
Aya Nakahama was born in Otaru City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. She received her Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science in 2011 from Tsuda College. In her Bachelor, her research was designing the algorithm that automatically generates quizzes for ESL learners. She currently enrolls in Graduate Program in Mathematics and Computer Science, Tsuda College. She engages in the Generating Language Quizzes for ESL learners. She has been a member of the institute of electronics, information and communication engineers.
Presenter: Anne M. Sullivan (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Anne Sullivan is a PhD candidate at the University of California Santa Cruz in the Expressive Intelligence Studio. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence techniques within quest-driven story games. The motivation for her research is to support player-influenced dynamic narratives as well as moving away from combat-centric mechanics. Her work is both in author-support tools as well as in-game frameworks.
Presenter: Caroline Cornelius (University of Minnesota, Twin CIties)
Ph.D. 1990, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University M.S. 1987, Knowledge-Based Systems, Carnegie Mellon University B.S. 1983, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Projects explore issues ranging from: -Computer decision support systems to assist people in complex tasks such as manufacturing, architectural design, and intelligence analysis; Decision making in natural work settings, Globally distributed design teams and barriers to their effectiveness, Interfaces through which a quadriplegic person can control a wheel-chair mounted robot arm.
Presenter: Yessenia Yari (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Yessenia Yari was born in Arequipa, PerĂş. She got her Bachelor degree in Systems Engineering from San Agustin University of Arequipa, Peru in the year of 2008. Currently she is doing her Master degree in Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her areas of interest are image processing and computer vision.
Presenter: Samar Swaid (Philander Smith College)
Dr. Samar Swaid is an innovative researcher in the area of human factors in computing systems. Her Main research area is web-based service system of e-commerce and e-health. Her work focuses on usability, information architecture and quality management of web-based service systems. Dr. Swaid’s work was published in highly ranked journals such as Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and International Journal of Management. As well, her work was presented in national and international conferences of International Conference of Information Systems, International Conference on Information Quality, IsOneWolrd, Decision Science Institute and Conference of Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology.
Presenter: Rosalva E. Gallardo-Valencia (University of California, Irvine)
Rosalva Gallardo-Valencia is a PhD Candidate at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine under the supervision of Professor Susan Sim. Rosalva conducts empirical studies on software engineering, specifically on source code search on the Web and Agile methodologies. She has six years of experience developing applications for telecommunication and financial organizations. Rosalva holds a B.S. degree in Informatics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Presenter: Leslie Dodson (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Leslie Dodson is earning her PhD in Technology, Media and Society in the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder, focusing on Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD). Prior to pursuing a PhD, Leslie was a TV news reporter covering international development, finance and the environment for CNBC, MSNBC, CNN and NHK-Tokyo. She co-authored a paper with Dr. Revi Sterling entitled “Ethics of Participation: Research or Reporting?” which she presented at the International Development Informatics Association 2010 conference in South Africa. Leslie is on the board of Her Story Media and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Heartland Chapter.
Presenter: Soma Halder (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Soma Halder was born in West Bengal, India on 18th April 1985. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Kolkata, also known as city of joy .She is doing her master’s degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has done considerable research in the field of Computer Forensics and Knowledge base and data mining. Het interest includes – information extraction and retrieval, machine learning and computer forensics.
Presenter: Ernur Saka (University of Louisville)
Ernur Saka received the BS degree in computer engineering from the University of Dokuz Eylul, Turkey. She is currently graduate student and research assistant in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Louisville. Her research interests include in-situ gene expression image analysis, high performance computing (HPC) cluster and visualization walls, data visualization, and computer graphics. She also enjoys skiing, tennis, swimming, SCUBA diving and couple dancing.
Presenter: Kerri Stone (Colorado School of Mines)
Kerri is a PhD Candidate in the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department at The Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. Her research interests include embedded systems, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and machine learning. Currently, Kerri is researching WSN localization and time synchronization algorithms to enable the development of low-cost wireless geophysical monitoring applications. Kerri’s WSN algorithm research is motivated by the need for improved embankment dam monitoring techniques, and her research enables low-cost, continuous, and autonomous geophysical inspection of embankment dams.
Presenter: Noor N. Alaydie (Wayne State University)
Noor Alaydie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Wayne State University. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Jordan, Jordan. She has served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and instructor in the Department of Computer Science at Wayne State University since 2007. Her research interests include bioinformatics, data mining, medical informatics and data integration. Currently, she is working on hierarchical multi-label classification for gene function classification under the supervision of her advisers, Farshad Fotouhi and Chandan Reddy. She has published several research papers in refereed conferences, such as: IEEE ICTAI, IEEE IRI, ACM-BCB, CSB and DEXA.
Presenter: Preethi Raghavan (Ohio State University)
Preethi Raghavan is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is co-advised by Dr. Eric Fosler-Lussier and Dr. Albert Lai. Her research interests include temporal reasoning and natural language processing applied to medical data. She received a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2009 and a BTech in Computer Science from SNDT University, Mumbai in 2005. She has also worked as a Software Engineer with Infosys Technologies Ltd. (2006-2007) for 2 years and pursued internships with IBM Research Labs (2009) and eBay Research Labs (2011).
Presenter: Spurthi Chaganti (University Of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
I am Spurthi Chaganti, currently pursuing Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Twin cities. I did my undergraduation from BITS-Pilani, India in 2009. My focus is on implementing data mining and machine learning techniques that solve real world problems. I worked as a researcher from past two years and I have worked on distributed caches, replication tools for providing high availability, scalability and performance,secure group communication and complex event processing system. I love vedic mathematics. I am a music buff and love to travel whole world. I adore swami vivekananda’s philosophy.
Presenter: Chaitrali Amrutkar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Chaitrali Amrutkar is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on cellular/mobile security and web browser security. Her honors include the Google Anita Borg scholarship (finalist 2009), best IMS application prize at the â€Innovative Convergence Applications’ competition at Georgia-Tech and 1st prize in â€emerging rural technology’ category at Asia’s largest technical festival Techfest’06 at IIT Bombay, India. Her industry experience includes internships at AT&T research, IBM, Motorola and Qualcomm. She is the co-chair of women in computing organization at Georgia-Tech, where she endeavors to provide mentoring and networking opportunities to members.
Presenter: Valerie Juarez (Lamar University)
Valerie is a senior Computer Science major at Lamar University. Since 2007, she has worked with professors Dr. Doerschuk and Dr. Liu in the NSF funded INSPIRED program researching, mentoring and participating in outreach to local students. She was president of Lamar’s Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2009 – 2011. In summer 2010 she interned for Cisco Systems in San Jose, California. For the past year, she has been working with with Daniel Vincent and Kathlyn Doss on a Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates developing teaching materials for beginning programming concepts using Java and Greenfoot.
Presenter: Beatrice Perez (University of Puerto Rico at MayagĂĽez)
Beatrice Perez is a senior at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (UPRM) currently working on her BS in Computer Engineering. She is involved in undergraduate research. She has worked in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Harvard University, the TRUST REU at Carnegie Mellon University, and currently works with the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) at UPRM. Beatrice is a member of the SWE, the ACM, and FemProf, a professional initiative for women in computing. Her goal is to attend graduate school and work in academia.
Presenter: Arzoo Katiyar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
Arzoo Katiyar is a senior undergraduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research interests lie mainly in Data Mining, Data Structures and Algorithms.
Presenter: Shoko Miyagawa (Keio University)
Shoko Miyagawa is currently an associate professor of the Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care, Keio University. She received her B.A. in Economics and Master of Business Administration and Accounting from Hitotsubashi University. She completed her Ph.D in Media and Governance from Keio University in 2002. Her field of expertise is health informatics. She has also participated in the work-life balance and female researchers support program since 2008 in Keio University.
Presenter: Sarah Dotson (Virginia Tech)
Sarah Dotson is currently attending Virginia Tech and plans to graduate with a Computer Science degree in the Fall of 2012. She is focusing on Human and Computer Interaction and enjoys making products more cognitive for the end-user. Sarah’s interest in Human Factors and Systems Engineering exposed her to research opportunities and projects with the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at Virginia Tech. Through her research, she has learned a lot about researching the end-user, creating solutions, and presenting changes to management.
Presenter: Lisa Jing Yan (York University)
Lisa Jing Yan is a Ph.D candidate in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at York University in Toronto, under Dr. Nick Cercone’s supervision. Her broad research interests include artificial intelligence, evolutionary computing, game theory, vision, and health care. Her major Ph.D research focus is multi-agent learning, which bridges AI with game theory and evolutionary computing. Her goal is to address how a single agent can autonomously perform in a multiagent environment with unforeseen factors. Lisa Yan graduated cum laude with her Bachelor of Computer Engineering (B.Eng.) degree in 2003 and M.Eng. in 2007, from Beijing University of Technology.
Presenter: Sa-Lin Bernstein (Argonne National Laboratory)
Sa-Lin Cheng Bernstein, a condensed-matter physicist by training, received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 2001. Her research focused on theoretical studies of the effect of artificial defects on vortices in low Tc superconductors. Upon graduation, she joined the Physics Department at the University of Michigan as a lecturer and research fellow. She studied the similarities between different spatially extended systems characterizing the onset of motion and avalanche dynamics. With her science background and computational experience, in 2011 Bernstein joined the Lighthouse project at Argonne National Laboratory, working to bridge the numerical software and science/engineering communities.
Presenter: Karissa McKelvey (Indiana University)
Currently an Undergraduate Student studying Computer Science and Political Science at Indiana University, graduating in May, 2012. Won 2nd place for her autograder at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing competition in May, 2011 at Indiana University. Worked as a Software Development Engineer Intern at Microsoft in the summer of 2011. Grew up in Santa Rosa, California and enjoys playing trumpet and guitar in her spare time.
Presenter: Alexandra Holloway (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Alexandra Holloway is a Ph.D. candidate in computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the mother of Leon (2009). Her games for health, including The Prepared Partner and her upcoming simulation called Digital Birth, attempt to teach and prepare birth partners for childbirth. Alexandra is a member of IEEE, ACM, and Systers.
Presenter: Fathiyeh Faghih (University of Waterloo)
Fathiyeh Faghih received her B.Sc. degree in 2007 and her M.Sc. degree in 2009 from Sharif University of Technology (both under the supervision of Prof. Rasool Jalili). She was recognized as a talented student in her B.Sc. and offered to study in M.Sc. without entrance exam (awarded to only 6 students). She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada (under the supervision of Prof. Nancy Day). Her research interests include formal methods, model transformation, automated reasoning, and semantics of modelling notations.
Presenter: Mahashweta Das (University of Texas at Arlington)
Mahashweta Das is a 2nd year PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Gautam Das in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington. She completed her under-graduation in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2007 and joined the Ohio State University to pursue her Masters degree. While her MS thesis focused on spatial and temporal mining, her PhD research concerns databases, data mining, machine learning and algorithms. She visited IBM India Research Lab in summer 2009 as a student intern. Currently, she is interning in the Recommendation Group at Technicolor Research Lab, California.
Presenter: Emily LeBlanc (Temple University)
Emily Cooper LeBlanc is a Computer Science undergraduate student at Temple University. She is an officer of the school’s chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) and is involved in representation of the organization to new CIS students. Emily is a tutor for the Math and Science Resource Center(MSRC) in CIS subjects such as Program Design, Data Structures, and Discrete Mathematics. After achieving her Bachelor’s Degree from Temple, Emily plans to pursue graduate study for Computer Science. She aspires to combine her interests in computer science, art, music, and electronics to develop new and creative ways to interact with information.
Presenter: Halimat I. Alabi (University of Victoria)
Halimat is currently pursuing her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. In her former life as a video game producer Halimat worked on PSP, PS2, PS3 and Wii games. Her research is informed by the experiences she had working on console games. Applicable in multiple fields, Halimat’s research interests include personal informatics, visualization, inclusive interface design and serious game design. Her non-academic interests include disability advocacy and the design of interactive experiences. She hopes to create accessible spaces in all realms digital and real.
Presenter: Jenna L. Butler (Univeristy of Western Ontario)
Jenna Butler is current working towards a PhD in Computer Science, in the area of Bioinformatics, at the University of Western Ontario (UWO). Her work focuses primarily on cancer, including modelling of cancer growth and the analysis of large genetic information. Currently she is working to develop a new algorithm for data mining microarray data. She also works as a Limited Duties Lecturer at UWO, teaching first year introductory computer science. She is married to a wonderful husband and in her free time she enjoys playing soccer, quilting and being active in her church and spiritual life.
Presenter: Maryam Sadeghi (Simon Fraser University)
Maryam Sadeghi received her BSc in Computer Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2006. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in the Medical Image Analysis lab working closely with the Cancer Control Research Program, BC Cancer Agency and UBC Dermatology Department. Her research focuses on computer vision and analysis of dermoscopic images, computer-aided diagnosis and prevention of skin cancer.
Presenter: Keri Laughter (Utah State University)
Keri started out as a student of psychology at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN). She earned an AA in psychology, but in the meantime decided that she preferred working with technology. She returned to CSN to pursue a degree in information technologies. The best advice she received at that time was to go to a university and get a degree in computer science. She spent one year at UNLV before moving to Logan Utah and transferring to Utah State University (USU) where she is currently working on completing a degree in software development.
Presenter: Mai Dang (University of Washington)
Mai Dang is a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Washington, studying computer science. Currently she is working in games research at UW CSE’s Center for Games Science, led by Zoran Popovic. Last spring she completed a senior capstone on game design, and this autumn will start the year-long animation capstone.
Presenter: Tianyu Li (University of British Columbia)
Tianyu Li was born in Hubei, China. She came to North America right after she finished her bachelor degree in software engineering in Zhejiang University. Now she is a second-year master student in University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Affiliated with data managment and mining lab, her thesis project falls in between information extraction and natural language processing, which is ontology extraction from semi-structured text such as collaborative tagging system and unstructured text such as engineering documents. She attended Grace Hopper in 2010 as a hopper, this time she looks forward to presenting her work in this amazing event.
Presenter: Heather Marie Underwood (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Originally from Seattle, I moved to Boulder, CO to start my PhD program in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) in August 2010. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2009, I wanted to use my technology skills on a global scale to help those in need. The interdisciplinary ATLAS program at CU Boulder has allowed me to combine my interests in health care, computer science, and global development to create a truly unique degree that I hope will have a positive impact on communities worldwide.
Presenter: Laurian Vega (Next Century Corporation)
Dr. Laurian Vega received her degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in the Spring of 2011. Her research explores security & privacy in socio-technical systems. She now works as a Human Factors Engineer for Next Century. She has had internships with Xerox PARC and IBM.
Presenter: Sameena Shah (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Sameena works in the area of Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning.
Presenter: Ouldooz Baghban Karimi (Simon Fraser University)
Ouldooz Baghban Karimi received her BSc degree from University of Tehran, Iran, and her MSc from IUST, Tehran, Iran, both in Computer Engineering. She is a PhD student in Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Her research interests include multimedia transmission over wireless mesh networks, LTE-based cellular wireless networks, and convex optimization. In addition to her research, she enjoys programming for exciting projects, extending her problem solving skills, and volunteering for the computing science community in her spare time. She is the current president of Women in Computing Science, and Computing Science Graduate Student Society in Simon Fraser University.
Presenter: Chisato Ohashi (Toyama National College of Technology)
Ms. Chisato Ohashi received a Master of Physical Education from Fukuoka University (2001) and currently is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Toyama National College of Technology in Japan. She teaches Physical Education and Health Science at college. Currently, she is working with students to develop a physical activity support tool for mentally challenged children. She was recently awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan to carry out this research.
Presenter: Chikako Kawahara (Toyama National College of Technology)
Chikako Kawahara began studying at Toyama National College of Technology in 2007. Currently, she is a fifth year working on her research on chemically modified natural rubber as the theme for her graduate thesis. After graduating Toyama National College of Technology next year in 2012, she wants to go on with her studies in a university in the field of environmentally friendly chemical modification of national rubber.
Presenter: Elizabeth Thiry (The Pennsylvania State University)
I am a PhD candidate in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University, an interdisciplinary school for the digital age. My main research interest focuses on online reminiscing for the elderly; specifically creating an online reminiscing system that serves as a life review tool. Additionally, I have been involved in two other research projects: wConnect, an online community of women that promotes women in information technology; and EVOSTA, Examining Virtual Organizations through Socio-Technical Analysis. In my spare time I play roller derby, run, and do whatever else happens to be going on.
Presenter: Juliet Norton (University of Central Florida)
Juliet is a doctoral student in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Interactive Systems and User Experiences Lab for the NSF funded project “Major: Enhancing Creativity and Authoring in STEM Education-Based Virtual Worlds through Concept-Oriented Design.” She is interested in youth experience with technology and how it affects human development.
Presenter: Jeri Countryman (Iridescent)
Jeri Countryman is the Technovation Challenge Director of Programs at Iridescent. She brings ten years of expertise in project management, development of technology curriculum, trainings, and resources, implementation and scale up of science, engineering and technology programs for girls. Ms. Countryman has exceptional partnership development experience with organizations involved in outreach and has extensive experience working with mentors and role models. She has a Master’s degree in interdisciplinary computer science from Mills College and a Master’s degree in science education from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Presenter: Ouldooz Baghban Karimi (Simon Fraser University)
Ouldooz Baghban Karimi received her BSc degree from University of Tehran, Iran, and her MSc from IUST, Tehran, Iran, both in Computer Engineering. She is a PhD student in Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Her research interests include multimedia transmission over wireless mesh networks, LTE-based cellular wireless networks, and convex optimization. In addition to her research, she enjoys programming for exciting projects, extending her problem solving skills, and volunteering for the computing science community in her spare time. She is the current president of Women in Computing Science, and Computing Science Graduate Student Society in Simon Fraser University.
Presenter: Sarah Ferraro (Harvey Mudd College)
Sarah Ferraro is a senior Computer Science major at Harvey Mudd College. For 2 years she has researched exercise video games for senior citizens, and won Honorable Mention in the Computer Research Association’s 2011 Undergraduate Research Award for her work in this area. She is a Presidential Scholar, dean’s list student, and a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society. Sarah has also been active in FIRST Robotics since 2006, both as a high school participant and as a mentor to FRC team 3473.
Presenter: Parul Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
Parul Agarwal is a third year undergraduate student studying at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. Her career goal is to pursue research in Computer Science.
Presenter: Nataira Pagán (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)
My name is Nataira Pagán Pagán. I am an undergraduate student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM). In Spring 2010, during my second semester of my first year as a college student, I decided to join a research group working on computational methods for digital signal processing. I believe that as a woman and as a student, I have the sensibility to deal with people and share my knowledge. I am a person who so far has been successful learning and communicating concepts and ideas. One of my main goals is to be a quality professional.
Presenter: Arzoo Katiyar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
Arzoo Katiyar is a senior undergraduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research interests lie mainly in Data Mining, Data Structures and Algorithms.
Presenter: Summer M. Olmstead (Tennessee Tech University)
Summer M. Olmstead is a master of computer science student at Tennessee Tech University located in Cookeville, Tennessee.
Presenter: Carol Fung (University of Waterloo)
Carol Fung is a PhD student in University of Waterloo (Canada). She received her BSc and Msc from University of Manitoba, Canada. Her research topic is collaborative Intrusion Detection networks, which includes trust management, collaborative decision, resource management, and incentive design of such a system. She is also interested in the security problems in wireless networks and social networks.
Presenter: Allison Goodman (Intel)
Allison currently works for Intel’s Non-volatile memory Solutions Group as a Solid State Drive (SSD) Senior Systems Integration Engineer, focusing on bringing enterprise and client solid state drives from concept to product. Prior to this postition, she has worked in various Intel divisions focused on system validation of SSDs and laptops, as a product manager, and chipset validation engineer. Allison has a passion for connecting people and advocating for others. She chairs a women’s group inside of Intel and is actively involved in the Society of Women Engineers as the a Region Governor. She also blogs at engineeringgal.com
Presenter: Sanjana Prasain (University of Washington, Seattle)
Sanjana Prasain is a senior of Computer Science at University of Washington, Seattle. She is from Kathmandu, Nepal. Her research interest is in Human Computer Interaction with a focus on an accessibility and designing for human values. Her previous research project includes developing a system on android platform that provides functionality like real time bus arrival information, nearest address, nearest location etc to blind, low-vision, and deaf-blind users that could be accessed in the Braille sense. She is currently working on improving the public transit experience for the blind people by crowdsourcing landmarks using iPhones.
Presenter: Ami Otsuka (Tsuda College)
Ami Otsuka received her Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science in 2010 from Tsuda College, currently enrolls in Graduate Program in Mathematics and Computer Science, Tsuda College. She engages in the research of Computer Networks and Human Computer Interaction.
Presenter: Yasaman Sadat Sefidgar (University of British Columbia)
Yasaman S. Sefidgar did her undergrad in Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2009. She then moved to the University of British Columbia to pursue her M.Sc. in Human Computer Interaction under the supervision of professor Karon MacLean where she is the lead student in the TAMER project.
Presenter: Jenna Marie Dulak (Rochester Institute of Technology/Hilbert College)
Jenna Marie Dulak received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Security and Information Assurance from Hilbert College and is completing a Master of Science degree in Networking, Security, and Systems Administration from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is currently employed full time at Hilbert College as the Web Manager, Distance Learning Coordinator, and Adjunct Instructor of MIS.
Presenter: Ryohei Isobe (Toyama National College of Technology)
Ryohei Isobe is a student in Advanced Course at Toyama National College of Technology and he is learning “Control Information System Engineering” to be an engineer in the future. He is interested in a development of iPhone applications and he is working with a physical education teacher to develop a physical activity support system using iPhone for special needs children.
Presenter: Taima Suid (Lisa Academy)
Taima Suid is a student at LISA NORTH of Arkansas. Taima’s research interests are in the intersection of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction. She is interested in identifying design metrics for interfaces and web-based software that make it usable and effective. Taima’s research won a number of regional and national awards and her work was presented in conferences such as Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.
Presenter: Shaimaa Lazem (Virginia Tech)
Shaimaa Lazem is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech. Her work deals with distributed groups in online 3D virtual worlds. She studies how groups coordinate their actions and decisions in an environment that lacks many of the non-verbal cues we have in Face-to-Face interaction. She explores how online groups respond to the system problems such as latency and inconsistency in the shared state. Shaimaa graduated from Alexandria University, Egypt with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. of Computer Science in 2000, and 2006. She expects to get her Ph.D. degree in 2012.
Presenter: Zeinab Abbassi (Columbia University)
Zeinab Abbassi is a PhD student of Computer Science at Columbia University. She received her M.Sc. from the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, and prior to that her B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She is interested in Social Networks, and Recommender Systems.
Presenter: Andreea Danielescu (Arizona State University)
Andreea Danielescu is a graduate student at Arizona State University pursuing a PhD in Computer Science with a concentration in Arts, Media + Engineering. She received her bachelors in computer science and mathematics from the University of Arizona in May 2004. She is working with Dr. Ellen Campana on the MIReR project, a user experience visualization tool for designers. Her research focuses on human cognition with the goals of advancing the current state of knowledge regarding the capabilities and methods employed by humans, and developing tools and experiential media systems to more effectively transfer knowledge, promote reflection and encourage development.
Presenter: Zainab AlMeraj (University of Waterloo)
Born in Kuwait in 1982 were I completed high school and was offered a scholarship to pursue a Computer Engineering degree at California State University, Long Beach. Three years later I returned home and worked for the Kuwait Ministry of Defense for two years during which I had my daughter Batool, 8, and son Haidar, 7. Soon after I applied and was immediately accepted to pursue my higher education fully supported by Kuwait University. I am now a PhD candidate. Once complete, I will proudly hold the position of Assistant Professor at the College for Women in Kuwait University.
Presenter: Aparna Kotha (University of Maryland, College Park)
Aparna Kotha is presently a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is advised by Dr. Rajeev Barua. Her field of interest is computer architecture and high performance computing. Her current pet project is automatic parallelization and cache analysis of binaries. She has interned with Intel over summer 2011 in binary translation group. She has her bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in Electrical Engineering. She has also worked with Ittiam Systems Pvt. Ltd on the multi-standard video decoder.
Presenter: Rebecca M. Long (Eastern Washington University)
Rebecca Long is a computer science master’s student at Eastern Washington University (EWU), researching computer security and social engineering. She currently holds degrees in computer science and web development. Outside of school, she is a full-time software quality assurance engineer at NextIT testing AI virtual employees. She is an active member in her company’s running club and enjoys participating in local races. Rebecca has studied various martial arts and holds a black belt in Taekwondo. She also helps run the local women-in-computing group, Spokane Geek Girls.
Presenter: Gowri Chitloor Parthasarathy (University of Minnesota/Intel)
Gowri obtained her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore. She later worked for Hewlett Packard, Bangalore for about 2 yrs. Her work involved development of system performance analysis tools. Following this, she obtained her Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is currently employed at Intel Corporation where she works on the development of Intel Wireless Display related products.
Presenter: Avani Nandini (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
I am a fourth year B.tech-M.Tech dual degree student in department of computer science and engineering at IIT Kanpur. Having lived most of my life in hostels, somehow getting involved in studies has been my hobby. I am very passionate about research and always dreamed of giving my contributions in research. My stay has been exciting with challenges at many stages. One such was last year when I successfully completed my internship at Microsoft Research Redmond, Washington working at a PHD level.
Presenter: Becka Morgan (Oregon State University)
Becka Morgan received her B.S. with the Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Science and an M.S. in Management and Information Systems from Western Oregon University. She is working on her PhD in Science and Mathematics Education at Oregon State University and is an Assistant Professor of computer science at Western Oregon University. Her area of research is focused on the underrepresentation of women in computer science and FOSS.
Presenter: Andrea Villanes (North Carolina State University)
I’m a PhD student at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in the department of Computer Science. I received a Master of Science in Analytics from North Carolina State University in 2009. Prior to enrolling at NCSU, I received a bachelor degree in Computer Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in May 2008.
Presenter: Smriti Pramanick (Castilleja High School)
Smriti Pramanick is currently a sophomore at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California. Her favorite subjects in school are mathematics and science. While at the Girls’ Middle School in Mountain View, California, Smriti participated in the MAGIC program (getmagic.org) in which she dabbled in Scratch, Alice, and Python programming. She presented this experience as a panelist in the 2009 Grace Hopper Conference session “MAGICal Learnings from 1-1 Mentoring of Middle School Girls.” Smriti enjoys a variety of extra-curricular activities, including playing the piano, martial arts, Indian classical dance and vocal music, table tennis, and swimming.
Presenter: Senjuti Basu Roy (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Senjuti Basu Roy was born in Calcutta, India. She received her B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Calcutta, India, in 2004, and her M.S. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2007. She has just completed her PhD in Computer Science from the UT Arlington, and is currently continuing as a Postdoctoral Associate at DIMACS at Rutgers University. Her current research interests include information retrieval and data mining techniques on databases and social networks, algorithms, machine learning etc. Visit her webpage for further details http://dbxlab.uta.edu/dbxlab/senjuti.html
Presenter: Jennifer M. Lin (Collabotron)
Jenn is the founder of Office Labs Test at Microsoft and worked in Live Labs on cutting edge data visualization tools. She was part of the PivotViewer team, which was runner up for the Wall Street Journal’s Internet Technology of the Year Award in 2010. Jenn is also a founder of Collabotron, a Tech Stars Seattle semi-finalist in 2011. Jenn has also worked as a developer with IBM for ASCI Blue, White, and Purple. Jennifer holds a BA from Harvard University in Biomedical Engineering.
Presenter: Shazia B. Mardhani (Intel)
Shazia Mardhani is a hardware Engineer at Intel Corporation, Chandler AZ. As the start of her professional career she worked for IBM, Endicott plus IBM, Austin and later moved on to Intel Corp. She was a gold medalist in high school, finished her BSc in Computer Engineering from University of Alberta, Canada and started Masters at Stanford University. Shazia published a couple of papers for International Test Conference while working for IBM and has written some papers for Intel’s internal conferences. Her interests include, volunteering for the community, making positive difference in lives of people around her, environmental health and safety.
Presenter: Yahya Suid (Lisa Academy North)
Yahya Suid is a student at LISA Academy. Yahya’s research interests are located in the interdisciplinary area of privacy, security and trust in computing systems. Yahya’s work was presented in regional and national completions such as Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2011.
Presenter: Tamara Wesley (Intel)
Tamara received her BS and MS in EE (CS minor) from Georgia Institute of Technology. She spent 12 years as an Engineer working for GM in manufacturing, HP in technical marketing, and Intel in component design. Tamara lives in Fort Collins, CO, and designs the Intel Itanium processor. She is now an Engineering Manager for the FC Mask Design Team. She serves as Diversity Leadership Chair, Women at Intel VP, and United Way Campaign Co-Chair at FC. Tamara was a Colorado State University Women of Excellence and Black Beauty panelist, sharing her experiences with African-American female students attending CSU. She is most importantly, a single mother of two.
Presenter: Scott Crabtree (Intel)
Scott Crabtree earned a B.A. in Cognitive Science from Vassar College in 1988. Immediately afterwards he worked on artificial intelligence software. He started working at the first of several game development companies in 1996. He joined Intel in 2005 as an Engineering Manager and is now a Technology Strategist. He is fascinated by and passionately studies organizational development, human psychology, neuroscience, and the science of happiness and well-being. Scott lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter. He enjoys spending time with them, especially in nature, and playing with his band Mister Fisk.
Presenter: Andrea Leszek (Salesforce.com)
Andrea Leszek is the Senior Director of User Assistance at salesforce.com. She has been building and leading high-performing teams in the technical communications industry for over fifteen years. Since joining salesforce.com in 2000, she has focused her work on two critical goals: helping customers be successful with high-quality documentation and in-app help, and nurturing a team-centered environment to help employees achieve their highest potential. She has spoken at conferences about salesforce.com’s approach to integrated user assistance and their Agile writing process. Andrea holds a B.S. and M.S. in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Presenter: Cynthia Lester (Tuskegee University)
Cynthia Lester is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama. She earned the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas and both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Dr. Lester’s areas of specialization are Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction. She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. Her noted recognitions include being named a 2010 International Academy, Research, and Industry Association Fellow and a 2011 Tuskegee University College of Business and Information Science Distinguished Faculty.
Presenter: Divya Kolar (Intel)
Divya Kolar holds a M.S in Computer Science conferred in 2006 from Portland State University. She joined Intel in 2005 and has previously worked as a Software Engineer where she was an active researcher in various security and manageability technologies. Today she is a Technical Marketing Engineer in the Intel’s largest research group and is responsible to promote Intel technologies to external media partners besides performing ecosystem enabling and competitive technology analysis for Intel Labs’ microprocessor research. Divya Kolar has been an active member in Anita Borg Institute since 2007 and has conducted more than 5 panel presentations at the conference.
Presenter: Vikki Mueller-Espinosa (Intel)
Vikki Mueller Espinosa holds a B.S. in Business Administration conferred in 1990 from Northeastern University. She joined Intel in 1991 where she was a Finance Professional for the past 20 years supporting the Corporate Services Organization. Over her career she held a variety of roles from Budgets & Planning Analyst to Controller with a heavy concentration in Systems, Processes and Training for the New Building and Factory Construction Organization. Today she is the Mobile Wireless Bluetooth Core and Products Group Business Operations Manager. Vikki is passionate about Career Development, Manager & Leadership Coaching and Development and is a regular Intel University Instructor and Speaker.
Presenter: Shannon G. Cepeda (Intel)
Shannon Cepeda holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from NC State University. She has 10 years of experience at Intel Corp related to software and hardware performance analysis. She has worked on servers as well as client systems, and hardware/system performance tuning as well as software optimization (her current focus).
Presenter: Moriah K. Baxevane-Connell (Temple University)
Moriah Baxevane-Connell is going into her senior year at Temple University with a double major in Information Science and Technology and Psychology. Originally from the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, Moriah now lives in Philadelphia and works as an intern at the Vanguard Group. Her research dealing with the lack of women in the technology field stems from her time at the Grace Hopper Conference in 2010 along with the personal experience of changing majors herself.
Presenter: Nicole Ray (New Mexico State University)
Nicole is a junior in the New Mexico State University Computer Science Department. She has been involved with the department’s Young Women in Computing program since 2006 and is now an undergraduate research assistant with them. Her job is mainly comprised of various outreach sessions and compiling research gained from each session, followed by the presentation of a research poster at a conference such as GHC or CAHSI. Nicole is currently working with a non-profit organization in England as a network technician and video producer. In her free time she enjoys leadership in her church college group, music, and friends/family.
Presenter: Stephanie Marquez (Young Women in Computing at New Mexico State University)
Stephanie Marquez is part of the undergraduate research assistant staff with Young Women in Computing at New Mexico State University. She began working with YWIC in the Spring of 2009, and is majoring in Business Computer Information Systems and minoring in Computer Science. Stephanie was an assistant instructor at Sierra Middle School, where she helped students with LilyPad Arduino. In September, she was a poster presenter for YWiC at the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) Posters
(in alphabetical order by title)
These posters were added to the poster session from the Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) held over the summer.
Presenter: Amelia Nybakke (Harvey Mudd College)
Amelia Nybakke is a junior at Harvey Mudd College double majoring in computer science and Spanish. Her areas of interest include virtual reality and scientific computing. She recently held a research position at the University of Minnesota. In her free time, she also enjoys baking.
Presenter: Ramya Ramakrishnan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
I am Ramya Ramakrishnan, a sophomore CS major at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I have really enjoyed CS, which has led me to join organizations like Women @ College of Computing to promote other women to pursue their dreams in CS. I did virtual reality research over the summer under Prof. Victoria Interrante at the University of Minnesota and learned a lot from the experience. In my free time, I enjoy singing South Indian classical music. Being involved like this is a great feeling, which is why I am very excited for this year’s Grace Hopper conference!
Presenter: Chitra Gadwal (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Presenter: Kate Boxer (Cornell University)
Presenter: Alex Reynolds (Vassar College)
Alexandra Reynolds is a third year Computer Science major at Vassar College. She is considering a minor in Russian, however a life of nomadic exploration is also a possibility.
Presenter: Laura Willson (Barnard College)
Laura Willson is a senior at Barnard College where she is a computer science major. Laura works as a research assistant in the Spoken Language Processing lab at Columbia University and serves on the board of Columbia’s Women in Computer Science. Her research focuses on natural language processing, specifically prosody, sentiment analysis, and sociolinguistics. An article that she co-authored, “Acoustic and Prosodic Correlates of Social Behavior” was recently published in Interspeech in 2011. She is currently writing her senior thesis on prosodic entrainment of intonational contours in questions.
Presenter: Amanreet Bajwa (Colorado School of Mines)
Amanreet Kaur Bajwa is an undergraduate student in computer science at Colorado School of Mines. She is currently enrolled in her final undergraduate year and is concurrently pursuing her master’s degree at the same institution. She is also the president of the Colorado School of Mines chapter of ACM-W. She participated in the DREU program this summer and got her first look at what research is like and will be presenting a poster about the parallelization of a molecular dynamics simulation called moldyn. Her interests include education through gaming, web applications, and mobile application development.
Presenter: Alexis Chuck (Pomona College)
Alexis Chuck is a senior at Pomona College majoring in Media Studies and minoring in Computer Science. She has participated in the DREU program for two summers, first in the Sketch Recognition lab at Texas A&M University in College Station and most recently with the Looking Glass group at Washington University in St. Louis. At Washington University she worked on educational software aimed at teaching programming to middle school children and helped plan a complementary online community. After graduation she hopes to explore and develop new forms of digital media and the tools available for artist and graphic designers.
Presenter: Lan Li (Rice University)
Lan Li is a junior undergraduate student at Rice University studying computer science. Outside of programming, she enjoys a wide variety of activities such as cooking, drawing, and watching movies.
Presenter: Jianling Fang (De Pauw University)
Presenter: Cassandra Stephens (Southern Union State Community College)
I am a native of Auburn, Alabama. I have lived in Alabama for most of my life although lived in New Jersey for three years and Atlanta for five. I have worked in various fields which have included government, telecom, the mortgage industry and for a Fortune 500 computer company. I have always been interested in computers. This interest was driven by my need for assistive technology for work, learning and play since I am visually impaired. When the opportunity presented itself, I decided to pursue a degree in computer science and am currently enrolled at Auburn University.
Presenter: Patrick Kamongi (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
Patrick Kamongi is a senior undergraduate student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), majoring in Computer Science with minors in Information Assurance and Mathematics. He has been awarded a Rwanda Presidential Scholarship. In his Summer 2011 DREU internship, he worked on the participatory sensing project at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with Dr. Jamie Payton. He is currently working on a project on secure and efficient sharing of files in the cloud with mobile devices at UALR with Dr. Shucheng Yu. He is a member of ACM, Pi Mu Epsilon, and the Mathematics Honorary Society.