ACM-W/Microsoft Research Scholars

Artiona Bogo
My ICSE experience ICSE is more than often regarded as the most prominent conference in Software Engineering, “the hippest conference under the sky” and as a final year master student in Software Engineering, for me participating at ICSE 2013 was a dream come true. Thanks to the ACM-W scholarship I was part of the ICSE […]
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Virginia Grande
I attended CHI2013 in Paris because I wanted to see if it would be a good idea to focus my career on Human Computer Interaction (HCI). My background is in Computer Science and my degree does not include courses on HCI but I have done some research on my own and was deeply interested. CHI2013 […]
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Simina Branzei
  • PHD Student
    Aarhus University, Denmark
    Attended Dagstuhl seminar
    2013, Saarbrucken, Germany
The Dagstuhl seminars are widely known in computer science and I’m very grateful for having had the opportunity to participate — it was one of the most inspiring academic events I’ve ever attended. The quality of the talks was extremely high and the presentation schedule sparse enough to allow for plenty of informal interaction among […]
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Veronika Cheplygina
Thank you for the opportunity that your organization provided for me to attend Multiple Classifier Systems 2013. I had interesting discussions about my work on Multiple Instance Learning and its connection with ensemble classifiers, and I received some new ideas on how to improve the work done in the paper. I am planning to extend […]
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Jessica Cauchard
I presented my work on underwater projection systems at the CHI workshop “Displays Take New Shape”. The workshop had a lot of attendants and my work was very well received. Participants gave me interesting feedback as well as comments on how to pursue this work. I had a chance to network with senior researchers in […]
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Tamara Bobic
I was very grateful and honored to be chosen as a recipient of the ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance at Research Conferences and thus be able to attend one of the top three conferences in the world of computational linguistics and text mining. I took part in one of the Semantic Evaluation challenges collocated with the […]
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Anastasia Athanasiou
  • PHD Student
    University of Catania, Italy
    Attended GECCO 2013
    2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands
My participation in GECCO 2013 was without a doubt a very constructive experience which went far beyond my expectations as a graduate student. The attendance of tutorials and workshops presented by experts in the field of Evolutionary Computation, the discussion with my ACM-W mentor and the interaction with international senior researchers provided me with valuable […]
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Natali Ruchansky
  • PHD Student
    University of Boston, USA
    Attended SIGCOMM 2013
    2013, Hong Kong, China
You may roll your eyes if I talk about a major difference between first and second year grad student like a high school sophomore claiming they are so different from freshman. But for me there was a major difference. Last year I was fortunate enough to be second author on a SIGCOMM paper, and to […]
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Elena Gorbacheva
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Ioana Cristescu
  • PHD Student
    Universite Paris 7 Paris Diderot, France
    Attended CONCUR 2013
    2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
I attended the CONCUR 2013 conference at Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the 26-30th of August 2013. In the following I will try to summarize all that I gained from this experience. CONCUR is the only conference of the year that focuses on concurrency in theoretical computer science, my current eld of work. I am a […]
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