ACM-W Scholars 2022

Denivan do Carmo Campos da Silva
I am really grateful for the ACM-W Scholarship award, I was able to attend the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023). Participating in the ICSE was my first in-person international conference, so it was a really important experience for me. I feel encouraged and energized to continue my work. Talking about the conference, […]
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Prashanthi S K
  • PHD Student
    Indian Institute of Science
    Attended EuroSys 2023
    2022, Rome, Italy
I was very fortunate to be able to attend EuroSys 2023 from May 8-12 in Rome, Italy. It is a premier conference in systems research, and attending it gave me exposure to advances in systems research across a wide variety of domains. Additionally, I presented my work both as a poster and a short talk […]
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Fanta Camara
I am very grateful to the ACM-W scholarship committee for supporting my travel to the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden. My experience at HRI 2023 was just great! It was a fantastic opportunity for me to present my work at the VAM-HRI workshop on “A Text Mining Analysis of […]
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Amani Abusafia
  • PHD Student
    The University of Sydney
    Attended ICSOC 2022
    2022, Sevilla, Spain
At the recent International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), I had the remarkable opportunity to present my research and demo paper, thanks to the generous funding from the ACM-W Scholarship Award. My first paper introduced a QoE-aware framework for efficiently crowdsourcing IoT energy services, which aims to maximize consumer satisfaction by utilizing novel composition algorithms. […]
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Akshitha Kumbam
  • Undergraduate Student
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science
    Attended IEEE Globecom 2022
    2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
My experience, from researching computer networks to finally presenting my work, has been an exciting-bumpy ride. I noticed how my coordination and collaborative skills were enhanced. The zeal to chase my dreams strengthened with the ACM scholarship award. It helped me believe in myself and reminded me of my responsibilities as a woman engineer. I […]
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Ghazal Khalighinejad
  • PHD Student
    Duke University
    Attended NeurIPS 2022
    2022, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
I attended NeurIPS in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was my first in-person machine learning conference and I was grateful for the opportunity made possible by the ACM-W scholarship. The workshop sessions and posters were insightful and a great opportunity to network with other researchers. The conference events were also a great way to meet new […]
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Ma Christina Jamerlan
As a commencing PhD student, my attendance to the Complexity, Criticality, Computation (C3) 2023 Symposium in Heron Island (Queensland, Australia) was a great opportunity to meet and collaborate with fellow researchers in the field. Acquiring funding for conference travel as an international student remains challenging (even more so post-pandemic), hence I am grateful for institutions […]
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Gladys Ying Xuan Chen
  • MS Student
    Oral Roberts University
    Attended SC22
    2022, Dallas, Texas, United States
Having the opportunity to attend SC22 in Dallas, Texas, was one of the most transformative experiences in my professional journey. Being my first in-person professional conference, I greatly enjoyed networking with professionals in the high-performance computing field and reconnecting with various mentors and colleagues. I learned a lot from the technical programs and talks, especially […]
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Alara Dirik
ECCV 2022 was my first on-site international conference and I had a great experience presenting my work “FairStyle: Debiasing StyleGAN2 with Style Channel Manipulations” in a poster session at the main conference. Apart from having the opportunity to present in-person for the first time, I also had to chance to meet with and get feedback […]
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Kiruthika Kannan
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Sufia Khatoon
Thank you, ACM, for giving me the valuable opportunity to present my work titled “Inverse problems in thermos-fluid systems using polynomial chaos expansions and Bayesian inference” at the SIAM MDS22 conference in San Diego, California, USA. It was a pleasure to meet and chat with some brilliant researchers from around the world, talk about my […]
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Ana Nikolikj
I really enjoyed every minute of attending my first conference! Exciting research directions followed by lively discussions by the world’s foremost experts in the field were just part of the daily routine. My role as a student volunteer kept me proactive most of the time, allowing me to learn so much about the community and […]
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Gjorgjina Cenikj
I attended the GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) in Boston, Massachusetts, which is at the heart of optimization research. Here I had the opportunity to present one of my papers, “SELECTOR: Selecting a Representative Benchmark Suite for Reproducible Statistical Comparison”. This was my first time presenting my research in person and it was an […]
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Tunazzina Islam
The 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022) is my first in-person international conference after three years because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In ICWSM’22, I had a long paper accepted as a first author. This paper has a special place in my heart because I wrote the paper while I was […]
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Vaishnavi Prashant Subhedar
Hello, I am Vaishnavi Subhedar studying master’s in computer science at Syracuse University. I attended SIGCSE 2022 Technical Symposium to present our research work. It was amazing experience! Along with conveying our research work I tried to understand other research projects too. Visited maximum booths to understand their different programs. I learned about different topics […]
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Irene Wang
I had the opportunity to attend ISCA 2022 in New York this summer, and I feel very thankful and fortunate for this experience. This was not only my first time attending a conference, but I was also part of the organizing committee for the uArch workshop at the conference. The uArch workshop aims to introduce […]
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Angélica Aparecida Moreira
When I first joined my university’s PhD program in the second semester of 2018, participating in an in-person conference seemed a given — it was par for the course to publish and present conference papers. Fate, however, had other things planned. In early 2020, all conferences went remote-only due to the pandemic, coincidentally when I […]
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Brenda Silva Machado
  • Undergraduate Student
    Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
    Attended GECCO'22
    2022, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
More than an opportunity to learn more about Evolutionary and Genetic Computing, Gecco’22 provided me with several incredible experiences, contact with other researchers and certainly memories that I will take with me for the rest of my life. As my first conference on Evolutionary Computing, I had the opportunity to learn more about the work […]
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Viviana Sutedjo
  • MS Student
    Technical University of Munich
    Attended IEEE ICRA 2022
    2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
After a long period of online conferences during Covid, the time had finally come to attend an in-person conference. I had looked forward to my first conference as an attendee for a long time, and since I was lucky enough to have my first paper published in the IEEE ICRA 2022, I was more than […]
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Lavínia Francesca Paganini
My journey for ICSE 2022 started in 2020. I received the ACM-W award to go for ICSE 2020 in Seoul since I had a paper in CHASE (at the time, a workshop; now, it’s a co-located event). However, all the events went virtual – with the uncertainty if they could go back for the in-person […]
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Luana Martins
Attending the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022) was my first in-person international conference as the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have changed how scientific conferences occurred in the last two-three years. Although the conference was held in-person, we must wear a mask to ensure the safety and well-being of the attendants. […]
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Viviane Herdel
For CHI 2022, I had a full paper accepted as a first author which received an honorable mention award. The paper title is “Above and Beyond: A Scoping Review of Domains and Applications for Human-Drone Interaction”. In this project, we present a holistic view of domains and applications of use that are described, studied, and […]
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