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Rising Stars Archive

This repository serves as both a testament to previous Rising Stars' remarkable achievements and an inspiration for future scholars and professionals. Join us in celebrating and supporting the promising future of computer science. 

Lecture recordings are linked where available. 

 

Previous Presenters

2023 Rising Stars

Design and Development of Robust Translational Devices for Veterinary and Medical Applications
Ceara Ann Byrne
Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Beyond the Search Bar: Transforming Information Discovery, Synthesis, and Creativity through Human-AI Interaction
Srishti Palani
PhD Candidate, University of California San Diego
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Software Productivity and Wellbeing: From Tools and Types to Cognition and Medicine
Madeline Endres
PhD Student, University of Michigan
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Towards Democratizing Data Interfaces 
Yiru Chen
PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

2022 Rising Stars

Understanding Digital Safety Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Youth Survivors
Diana Freed
PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Distance-Approximation and Shortcutting in Directed Graphs​
Nicole Wein 
Simons Postdoctoral Leader, Rutgers University
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 

Understanding Digital Literacy for Job Search for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals 
Ihudiya Finda Williams 
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Designing for Safety: Towards More Equitable and Trustworthy Systems
Daricia Wilkinson
Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

2021 Rising Stars

Social Commonsense for Social Good
Saadia Gabriel
PhD student, University of Washington
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Modeling the Dynamics of Poverty 
Rediet Abebe
Incoming Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley 
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

2020 Rising Stars

Diversity and Inequality in Social Networks: From Recommendation to Information Diffusion
Ana-Andreea Stoica
PhD candidate, Columbia University
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Two Disparate Applications of Independent Set Algorithms: The Hard Sphere Model and Preparing Biological Sequence Data for Benchmarking
Samantha Petti
Post-doc, NSF-Simons Center, Harvard University 
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Toward Privacy Enhanced Solutions For Granular Control Over Health Data Collected by Wearable Devices​
Byron Lowens
PhD candidate, Clemson University 
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

2019 Rising Stars

Informing Privacy and Security Decision-Making in an IoT World​
Pardis Emami-Naeini
PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Proof Engineering Tools for a New Era​
Talia Ringer
PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing: from Exposing Syntax Errors to Enabling Program Synthesis  
Caroline Lemieux
PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley 
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Targeted Client Synthesis for Detecting Concurrency Bugs​
Malavika Samak
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

2018 Rising Stars

Helena: A Web Automation Language for End Users
Sarah Chasins
PhD Candidate, University of California Berkeley 
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems for Guiding Self-Experiments 
Nediyana Daskalova
PhD Candidate, Brown University  
Monday, October 29, 2018

Paradise Unplugged: How We Create a More Empathetic and Helpful Online Community  
Denae Ford
PhD Candidate, North Carolina State University 
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Learning from the People: From Normative to Descriptive Solutions  
to Problems in Security, Privacy, and Machine Learning
Elissa Redmiles
PhD Candidate, University of Maryland College Park 
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

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