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Rising Stars in CS Lecture Series

The UMass Amherst CICS Rising Stars in Computer Science lecture series highlights the stellar work of young computer scientists about to launch into careers in academia. Join us to hear from rising stars working to solve pressing issues facing the field.

2023 Rising Stars 

Design and Development of Robust Translational Devices for Veterinary and Medical Applications
Presenter: Ceara Ann Byrne, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 12:20 pm, Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room  A112 
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Beyond the Search Bar: Transforming Information Discovery, Synthesis, and Creativity through Human-AI Interaction 
Presenter: Srishti Palani, PhD Candidate, University of California San Diego
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 12:20 pm, Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A112 
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Software Productivity and Wellbeing: From Tools and Types to Cognition and Medicine
Presenter: Madeline Endres, PhD Student, University of Michigan
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:20 pm, Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A112
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Towards Democratizing Data Interfaces 
Presenter: Yiru Chen, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 12:20 pm, Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A112 
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2022 Rising Stars 

Understanding Digital Safety Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Youth Survivors
Presenter: Diana Freed, PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:20 pm, Computer Science Building, Room 150/151 
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Distance-Approximation and Shortcutting in Directed Graphs​
Presenter: Nicole Wein, Simons Postdoctoral Leader, Rutgers University
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 12:20 pm, Computer Science Building, Room 150/151 
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Understanding Digital Literacy for Job Search for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals 
Presenter: Ihudiya Finda Williams, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 12:20 pm, Computer Science Building, Room 150/151
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Designing for Safety: Towards More Equitable and Trustworthy Systems
Presenter: Daricia Wilkinson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 12:20 pm, Computer Science Building, Room 150/151 
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Looking Past the Abstractions: Characterizing Information Flow in Real-World Systems
Presenter: Pubali Datta, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 12:20 pm, Computer Science Building, Room 150/151 
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2020 Rising Stars 


 
Diversity and Inequality in Social Networks:
From Recommendation to Information Diffusion

Presenter: Ana-Andreea Stoica, PhD candidate, Columbia University
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 1:00 pm via Zoom 
Lecture Recording

 
Two Disparate Applications of Independent Set Algorithms: The
Hard Sphere Model and Preparing Biological Sequence Data for
Benchmarking

Presenter: Samantha Petti, post-doc, NSF-Simons Center, Harvard University 
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 12:00 pm via Zoom 
Lecture Recording 

 
Toward Privacy Enhanced Solutions For Granular Control Over Health
Data Collected by Wearable Devices​

Presenter: Byron Lowens, PhD candidate, Clemson University 
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 12:00 pm via Zoom  
Lecture Recording

 
Social Commonsense for Social Good
Presenter: Saadia Gabriel, PhD student, University of Washington
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 12:00 pm via Zoom
Lecture Recording

 
Modeling the Dynamics of Poverty 
Presenter: Rediet Abebe, incoming Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley 
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 12:00 pm via Zoom
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2019 Rising Stars 


 
Informing Privacy and Security Decision-Making in an IoT World​
Presenter: Pardis Emami-Naeini, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 2:30 pm, CS Building, Rm. 150/151 
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Proof Engineering Tools for a New Era​
Presenter: Talia Ringer, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 12:00 pm, CS Building, Rm. 150/151 
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Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing: from Exposing Syntax Errors to Enabling Program Synthesis  
Presenter: Caroline Lemieux, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley 
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 12:00 pm, CS Building, Rm. 150/151 
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Targeted Client Synthesis for Detecting Concurrency Bugs​
Presenter: Malavika Samak, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 4:00 pm, CS Building, Rm. 150/151 
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2018 Rising Stars 


 
Helena: A Web Automation Language for End Users
Presenter: Sarah Chasins, PhD Candidate, University of California Berkeley 
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 4:00 pm, CS Building, Rm. 151 
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Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems for Guiding Self-Experiments 
Presenter: Nediyana Daskalova, PhD Candidate, Brown University  
Monday, October 29, 2018 - 4:00 pm, CS Building, Rm. 151 
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Paradise Unplugged: How We Create a More Empathetic and Helpful Online Community  
Presenter: Denae Ford, PhD Candidate, North Carolina State University 
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 4:00 pm, CS Building, Rm. 151 
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Learning from the People: From Normative to Descriptive Solutions  
to Problems in Security, Privacy, and Machine Learning

Presenter: Elissa Redmiles, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland College Park 
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 4:00 pm, CS Building, Rm. 151 
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