ACM-W Scholars

Margarita Markina

  • MS Student
    ITMO University
    Attended GECCO 2018
    2018, Kyoto, Japan
What did I get at the GECCO conference? It was a great experience. I could completely immerse myself in the research community and saw everything with my own eyes how exactly everything happens. I saw that the research community is a large group of people with deep knowledge who solves important problems. It was interesting […]
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Shaan Chopra

The conference was far more than a learning experience for me. Not only did I get to attend the presentation of the full paper co-authored by me and 2 workshops (I had one position paper in each), but also got an opportunity to network with people in the field. I was completely mesmerised by the […]
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Maria Rauschenberger

  • PHD Student
    Universitat Pompeu Fabra
    Attended CHI
    2016, San Jose, California, United States
First of all I want to thank all people who made this experience possible! Thank you very much!   Conference The variety of the topics and the presented content blow my mind. It’s amazing which topics you can merge to create something very interesting and useful. For example there was the climbing wall from Finland, […]
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Saumya Rawat

A jumble of nerves, for the first time truly alone in a foreign country with no known faces around, as I reached the conference I found myself thinking “Am I really doing this? Can I do it?” But merely 4 days later and I didn’t want to say goodbye. MMM 2018 in Bangkok was a […]
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Vanessa Volz

I really enjoyed my time at GECCO and am very grateful for the chance to attend it. Although I knew quite a few attendees in advance through my home university and the involvement with some workshops, it was nice to get to know even more people through the scholarship. I’m already planning papers with the […]
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Midori Yang

  • Undergraduate Student
    Wellesley College
    Attended UIST
    2016, Tokyo, Japan
I was incredibly fortunate to go to my first science conference as a student volunteer last week, and I had no idea what to expect. As a female undergraduate with no paper or poster to present, I was nervous about proving my place there and not making a fool of myself, even though I factually […]
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Melina Mongiovi

I’m a PhD student and it was my second time at SPLASH. I attended the full conference and presented my work in the Doctoral Symposium. I also had a paper accepted at GPCE, a co-located event of SPLASH. Moreover, I was a student volunteer of the conference. My experience was fantastic. I presented my work […]
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Maryamsadat Jalalitabar

  • PHD Student
    Georgia State University
    Attended IEEE GLOBECOM 2016
    2016, Washington DC, District Of Columbia, United States
It was great experience meeting researchers from around the world and learn new thing about my field of research.
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Karoliina Lehtinen

I was delighted to receive ACM’s support to attend this year’s edition of Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata in Brussels. The conference consisted of a tutorial day, followed by three intensive days of contributed and invited talks. The particular format of this conference, which asks for all participants to present very briefly their favourite […]
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Sanorita Dey

I attended CSCW, 2017 to present my paper titled “The Art and Science of Persuasion: Not all Crowdfunding Campaign Videos are the Same”. This was a wonderful experience for me to share my research findings with the CSCW community. I got to talk to many faculties and people from the industries about my work. These […]
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Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi

I attended the annual conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP2016) in Texas, Austin this year. The experience was very rewarding. I have been working on crowdsourcing for about five years, but I did not have chance to attend any conference and meet other people who work on this awesome area. HCOMP 2016 was my […]
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Aishwarya Naresh Reganti

  • Undergraduate Student
    Indian Institute of Information Technology- Sri City
    Attended AAAI
    2017, San Francisco, California, United States
My encounter with the pioneers of AI at AAAI-2017! Albert Einstein rightly said that “The only source of knowledge is experience”, and at AAAI-2017, I’ve had the best experience of my entire life. This was the first time I attended a conference so awe-inspiring and plush. I must indeed thank the ACM-Women foundation for making […]
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Valeria Soto

  • PHD Student
    CICESE Research Center, Mexico
    Attended UCAmI & IWAAL 2014
    2014, Belfast, United Kingdom
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Adeola Bamgboje

The ACM-W award gave me the opportunity to travel to New Zealand to present the conceptual overview and preliminary findings of my PhD dissertation at the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems. At this conference, I received valuable feedback concerning my work from experienced scholars in the discipline. While the practical contribution of my research, […]
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Joanna Konopko

  • PHD Student
    Warsaw University of Technology
    Attended ICCMSE 2015
    2015, Athens, Greece
Attending the conference was a very valuable experience that greatly enriched and strengthened the existing achievements of the research. The four 30 minutes presentations was given at the General IX Session of the ICCMSE’2015 Conference. I was a chair of the General IX Session that lasted more than two hours. The title of presented scientific […]
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Jasmine Davis

  • Undergraduate Student
    Wellesley College, USA
    Attended SUI and UIST 2014
    2014, Waikiki, Hawaii, United States
I admit I was a bit nervous to be attending SUI and UIST. Nervous to the point of be scared, but I am so incredibly glad I reached for it. I’m also glad I was at SUI before UIST. Being at the smaller, one-track conference gave me a chance to settle into things, get over […]
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Sara Burns

  • Undergraduate Student
    Wellesley College, USA
    Attended TEI 2015
    2015, Palo Alto, California, United States
Attending TEI was a fantastic learning opportunity. Not only did I have the chance to hear about the latest advancements in Human-Computer Interaction and present my work to some of the most influential forces in the field, but I was also to gain an understanding of what it means to pursue a career in HCI. […]
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Allie Sauppe

  • PHD Student
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Attended SIGCSE 2015
    2015, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
I am currently a PhD candidate scheduled to finish my degree in the next few months, and will be starting a job as an assistant professor at an undergraduate-oriented institution this fall. I’m excited to start working with undergraduates both in and outside of class, but haven’t had the opportunity to keep up with what […]
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Leila (Roghayeh) Barmaki

Attending EDM’14 conference was a great opportunity for me to meet with scholars in my new research domain. Educational Data Mining is a growing multidisciplinary field of research, and there is almost no faculty member who works on this domain at my home university. Hence, meeting, networking and consulting with top-notch EDM researchers (my mentor, […]
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Johanna Pirker

The ACM-W Grant enabled me to attend the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2015 in Vancouver, BC. I was able to present my recent research results to a wonderful research community and was able to get valuable feedback and connect to researchers with similar interests and interesting future research and […]
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Luna Backes

After receiving the news that I was awarded this scholarship, I decided to present a poster in the Career Workshop for Women and Minorities in Computer Architecture (CWWMCA) to make the most of the experience. The workshop, including top-researchers talks, was very refreshing. It helped me get a deeper insight of research life and procedures. […]
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Ladan Najafizadeh

Attending the most prestigious conference in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) for the first time was indeed a great experience for me from the following perspectives. It was a great opportunity for me to meet with the pioneers in this field, talk to them face-to-face about their research, and ask for their feedback on […]
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Yan Yan Cao

I have attended the art exhibition track of TEI conference held at Stanford University from Jan 15-19th 2015, to present my prototype Scented Pebbles (https://vimeo.com/110558914). As PhD student in final years, it is really good opportunity to meet with people from the same research area Computer Human Interaction and have face to face interactions with […]
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Sandra Dylus

Thanks to a scholarship from ACM-W, I had the chance to visit the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) in Gothenburg. I am currently writing my master’s thesis in the area of functional programming and plan to continue my academic education as a PhD student afterwards, thus, it was really exciting to attend the most […]
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Alexandra Olteanu

I should first say that the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) is a top-tier venue for my area of research, and over the last years it published authoritative research on Social Media use during humanitarian crises. As a result, this was the main venue we targeted for our paper “What […]
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Rena Friedman

Attending the ITCS conference, I was surprised to see how applicable the talks on theoretical Computer Science were. It seems that every two weeks, the public is faced with a news headline about a major company whose confidentiality is compromised, whether company email accounts were hacked or customer’s credit card information were exposed for the […]
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Megan Hofmann

  • Undergraduate Student
    Colorado State University
    Attended CHI 2015
    2015, Seoul, South Korea
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Kendra Schmal

  • Undergraduate Student
    Willamette University, USA
    Attended SIGGRAPH
    2014, Vancouver, Canada
My experience of SIGGRAPH this year was very service oriented; I really enjoyed the keynote by Not Impossible Labs (which was about using graphics-oriented technology to aid those with disabilities), and felt that it helped frame the conference for me, and what I wanted to get out of it this year. Some of my favorite […]
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Deana Brown

  • PHD Student
    Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
    Attended CHI 2015
    2015, Seoul, South Korea
I attended the annual conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2015) in Seoul, Korea this year. The experience was very rewarding. This year was my first time serving on the committee in the role of Proceedings Chair. Receiving the scholarship to attend helped me to network with the other committee members including top researchers in the […]
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Grace Hu

  • Undergraduate Student
    Wellesley College, USA
    Attended CHI 2015
    2015, Seoul, South Korea
CHI was an incredibly eye-opening and invigorating experience. I attended presentations on a wide variety of topics, including augmented reality/virtual reality on headsets, novel interaction techniques on smart glasses, smart watches, tangible user interfaces, 3D printing’s impact on assistive technologies, eye-tracking devices, robots as co-workers, and smart homes. Coming into the conference, my goal was […]
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Robin Brewer

  • PHD Student
    Northwestern University, USA
    Attended CSCW
    2015, Vancouver, Canada
I greatly enjoyed my conference experience at the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. It was my second time attending CSCW while in graduate school and was proud that I could come and be such an active participant. For the first two days, I participated in the workshop on Networked Privacy. I […]
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Han Li

  • PHD Student
    The College of William and Mary
    Attended SIGGRAPH
    2014, Vancouver, Canada
It was my first time to attend SIGGRAPH — the biggest and most important conference in the research field of computer graphics. I really appreciate that ACM-W provided me the scholarship to attend this conference. I met so many great researchers from different research groups, and got many inspirations from their wonderful presentations at SIGGRAPH. […]
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Rachel Holladay

Being able to attend RO-MAN 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland was an absolutely fantastic opportunity and I am extremely grateful to ACM-W for helping me get there. I was awed from start to finish that I was able to attend my first conference in such a beautiful city. This past spring, I worked with my graduate […]
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Zeineb Chelly

I am very pleased to have attended the GECCO’2014 as it had a crucial role in my learning area. The event was an incredible success in which I had the opportunity to tell more about my research and to attend other constructive presentations. This was a real inspiration for my work. Indeed, I have got […]
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Alexandra Diehl

  • PHD Student
    Faculty of Exact and Natural Science, University of Buenos A
    Attended SIGGRAPH 2014
    2014, Vancouver, Canada
During the SIGGRAPH 2014, I attended to several courses, focused in Visualization and in Human-Computer interaction, such as: – Fundamentals Seminar – Introduction to WebGL Programming – Put on Your 3D Glasses Now: The Past, Present, and Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality – Introduction to 3D Gestural Interfaces I also attended to the Art […]
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Sonal Aggarwal

Attending 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS) was a good learning experience. And I am thankful to the ACM-W scholarship committee for providing me the travel grant. Apart from presenting my work on web navigation and getting useful feedback, I also got to know about more interesting topics in the relevant […]
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Joanna Misztal

As I am a Master’s student, the ICCC conference in Ljubljana was the first scientific conference I have attended. I was presenting there an article which is a part of my Master’s Thesis – “Poetry generation system with an emotional personality”. I felt stressed before my talk as I had never performed in front of […]
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Hanna-Liisa Pender

  • PHD Student
    Tallinn University
    Attended DIS 2014
    2014, Vancouver, Canada
As a first year PhD student it was a truly valuable experience to participate in the DIS2014 conference and to present my position paper in the workshop about Crafting user experience of self-service technologies: Key challenges and potential solutions that was organised by Prof Victor Kaptelinin. The feedback that I received from the more experienced […]
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Anita Gilbert

  • PHD Student
    UCIrvine
    Attended SIGCHI
    2014, Toronto, Canada
The CHI ’15 conference was a liberating experience… I have read many conference papers, heard several university talks referencing the conference in addition to first-hand stories of attendees… these do not adequately present or do justice to the active academic engagement during the conference. The quality bar for research is incredibly high, the field is […]
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Elaine Wah

Attending the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation was both an educational and stimulating experience. It gave me the opportunity to present a poster on one of my current ongoing projects (I received notification of the ACM-W scholarship award just prior the poster submission deadline, and as such submitted an abstract for a poster). […]
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Tejaswinee Kelkar

I found the experience at NIME 2014 very richly rewarding. I am working in the area of music analysis and meta-creation specific to Hindustani music. In India, there is not much happening in this area as electronic music in the context of Indian arts is fairly unexplored. It was for this reason that going to […]
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Nadin Kokciyan

It was great to have a chance to participate in AAMAS 2014, which is one of the most important conferences in the field of artificial intelligence. It was a great experience to learn about recent works. Furthermore, I met many researchers working in different topics. I was an author of a paper that I presented […]
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Jesmin Jahan Tithi

Report: “What I Got Out of My Conference Experience” IPDPS is one of the top most conferences of my research area: High Performance Computing (HPC) and Algorithm Engineering. IPDPS is held in conjunction of 18 other workshops. More than 150 high quality papers are presented covering different areas of HPC. I work on high performance […]
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Gloria Leticia

ACM Grants Committee. Dear Members of the Committee: I want to thanks for the help for to attend at the IEEE 21st. Robert Weiner Century congress realized in Boston. It was an excellent experience, because I was able to converse with others research students in areas related to my thesis topic. I also met researchers […]
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Phaedra Mohammed

The 27th International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Society) Conference was held from May 21-23, 2014 in Pensacola Beach, Florida, U.S.A. There were 72full papers, 17 short papers and 27 posters. Three keynote speeches were given by William Clancey from NASA, U.S.A., Jennifer Neville from Purdue University, and Thad Starner from Georgia Tech. In addition there […]
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Alegria Baquero Merino

The ACM-W award allowed me to travel to Hyderabad, India to present my dissertation work at the Doctoral Symposium at the International Conference on Software Engineering. This experience was very enriching both academically and socially. By presenting at the Doctoral Symposium, I had the opportunity to get invaluable feedback on my work from experts in […]
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Marcela Araujo

My sentiments of gratitude at this award are beyond words. CHI 2014 was such a fascinating experience. I could learn from different perspectives and experiences though all the papers, panels and demos. I could meet people from all over the world and make valuable connections. The discussions and testimonies inspired me, this knowledge will be […]
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Haley Archer-Mcclellan

  • Undergraduate Student
    Washington and Lee University
    Attended ACM SIGCHI IUI
    2014, Haifa, Israel
As an undergraduate, the biggest benefit of attending the conference on Intelligent User Interfaces this past February was seeing what a future in academia could mean for me. Throughout the past three years as a computer science major, every time someone has asked me what I want to do in computer science, I’ve shrugged and […]
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Gili Rusak

  • High School Student
    Stanford University
    Attended SIGCSE 2014
    2014, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
I would like to thank you very much for awarding me the ACM-W scholarship to SIGCSE. I had an absolutely incredible time at SIGCSE, presenting both my Codester App Poster and my Properties of Twitter Network Communications among Teenagers Poster at the Student Research Competition. The best part of this experience was getting to know […]
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Buddhiprabha Erabadda

The Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications was held at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovations, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 18-20 March as part of The Second World Congress on Computing and Information Technology. I participated for the conference and it was a very valuable opportunity for me. I got registered […]
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Cindy Solano

  • Attended SC13
    2013, Denver, Colorado, United States
I would like to thank you ACM-W for the scholarship and also thank you SIGHPC for your support too. Thanks to all of you I had the opportunity to attend SC13 in Denver, Colorado, United States. It was an excellent experience for my professional life. It was really important for me to take part in […]
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Himeshi De Silva

I arrived in the beautiful mile high city of Denver on 10th November as a member of the SCinet student volunteer team and to participate in the SC13 conference starting a week from then. My first few days contributing to SCinet – the powerful network being setup for exhibitors of the conference to run their […]
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Elissa Redmiles

  • Attended SIGCSE 2014
    2014, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
As an attendee at SIGCSE2014 I was able to attend many useful presentations and to give my Birds of a Feather talk. I really enjoyed attending the Google Supporter Session. Many of the ideas in CS First are similar to what I am trying to do with my SIGCSE Special Projects “Curriculum-In-A-Box “Grant, so it […]
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Tamara Peyton

I found this year’s CSCW experience to be much more rewarding and professionally fulfilling than it was last year. This was due, in part, to the ability to present a ‘lightning talk’ of my poster at the conference, which enabled me to meet a few of the key senior CSCW scholar-researchers; people like Cliffe Lampe, […]
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Adriana Wilde

  • Attended ICST 2013
    2013, Wellington, New Zealand
Thanks to the support of both ACM-W and my own university, I was able to attend the 7th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST 2013), held in Wellington, New Zealand, from the 3-5 December. The following are specific achievements of my participation: The successful presentation of my research paper, “Developing a low-cost general-purpose device for […]
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Diana Darabi

I am very grateful for receiving the ACM-W Scholarship to attend the Women in Cyber Security Conference. The first Women Cyber Security Conference was held in Nashville, TN this past April 11-12 and brought together over 300 women in Cyber Security. The attendees were a mix of women from industry and academia which included students […]
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Deepti Aggarwal

My experience at CHI-2013 CHI was a wonderful experience for me. Different panels, workshops and special interest meetings provided me an opportunity to update myself with the current research topics and works in the areas of design, HCI and social computing. I attended the workshop on “Why was the Game for Children not a Success?” […]
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Sasha Naranjit

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Angelica Rosenzweig

I am very grateful to have been given the opportunity to attend SIGCHI 2013 and meet as many great people as I did. The conference provided an incredible space for discussion and networking, and it was truly inspiring to be surrounded by so many passionate and brilliant individuals. I was particularly surprised at how open […]
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Chun Wang

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Gabriela Steren

Attending UNILOG 2013 has been a great and helpful experience. First of all, I have learnt much about aspects of logic I was not aware of, like hybrid logics, description logics and some forms of non-classical mathematics. I also gave a talk in the congress and one at the IMLA workshop, and have found others […]
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Arina Buzdalova

My GECCO 2013 experience GECCO is one of the largest conferences in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. I have been working on my bachelor’s and then master’s thesis in this field for the last two years, so I was dreaming about attending this conference. I had previously proposed a method of enhancing evolutionary […]
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Andrea Yanez

  • Undergraduate Student
    University of Concepcion, Chile
    Attended IWINAC 2013
    2013, Mallorca, Spain
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Haixa Liu

  • MS Student
    Uppsala University, Sweden
    Attended SIGITE2013
    2013, Florida, Florida, United States
Report of SIGITE 2013 Haixia Liu Uppsala University 9 Oct – 12 Oct Orlando, FL I’d like to group the conference contents into 2 categories: Soft and Hard. Soft 1.1 Curriculums revising. According to the job markets demanding, new techniques need to be introduced to students, such as cloud computing and data analysis. The courses […]
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Bassey Patience

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Alyssa Harris

Before I was able to attend the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, I had no idea what pursuing a graduate degree in Computer Science would be like. But when I attended the conference, I realized not only the cool subjects I would be able to study if I went to graduate school in computer science, […]
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Adedoyin Adegoke

I applied to attend Spring Simulation Multi-conference between 13-16 April 2014 in Tampa, Florida (U.S.A). At this conference, I was able to present two of my papers; one was accepted as part of the PhD colloquium (Consideration for M&S in Africa) while the other was accepted as a full paper (System of Systems based Approaches […]
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Melanie Kambadur

  • PHD Student
    Columbia University
    Attended ASPLOS
    2015, Istanbul, Turkey
Attending ASPLOS 2015 was a wonderful experience. The conference, which is at the intersection of Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, and Operating Systems, focused this year on the themes of security, warehouse scale computing, approximate computing, memory and reliability, and energy efficiency. Since I have done research in a few of these areas before, I found […]
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