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.
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Presenter: Ceara Ann Byrne, 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 Diversity, 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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Presenter: Madeline Endres, University of Michigan
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:20 pm, Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A112
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Presenter: Yiru Chen, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 12:20 pm, Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A112
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
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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 Event Page |
