ACM-W Scholars 2024

Ananya Balaji
Attending WISE 2024 (The International Web Information Systems Engineering Conference) in Doha, Qatar was my first time at a conference, that too abroad! I had the privilege of presenting my work employing prompt-engineering on Large Language Models for Privacy Question Answering, which I developed during my time at Carnegie Mellon University’s REUSE (Research Experience for […]
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Sangya Shrivastava
I want to sincerely thank the ACM-W Scholarship Committee for their generous support, which allowed me to attend IEEE Globecom 2024. As a first-time conference attendee, this was an unforgettable experience. The conference provided a fantastic opportunity to learn from renowned researchers, industry professionals, and academics from around the world. It was inspiring to see […]
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Laura Limin Lewis
This November, I had the opportunity to attend QTML 2024 (the 8th International Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning) in Melbourne, Australia with the support of the ACM-W Scholarship. I was able to give a talk on one of my recent research projects and was a co-author on three other papers which had talks […]
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Kyanna Dagenais
  • Undergraduate Student
    McMaster University
    Attended MODELS'24
    2024, Linz, Austria
In September, I was able to attend the MODELS’24 conference in Linz Austria, and had a great experience. I was able to present my work at a workshop and compete in the ACM Student Research competition. I’m very proud to have won first place in the undergraduate category for the SRC! I learned a lot […]
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Ana Beatriz Cavalcante Pires C Studart
It was such a rewarding experience to share the work my lab has been developing over the past year and a half and to represent Harvey Mudd College on an international stage. Along with presenting, I also served as a student volunteer, assisting with Q&A sessions and attending insightful talks and workshops on the future […]
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Mira Bhagirathi Kaniyur
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PRASEETHA M
I had the privilege of attending the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2024, which took place over four days in the picturesque city of Visby, Sweden. It was an enriching experience both professionally and personally. The conference brought together leading researchers, practitioners, and academics from around the world to discuss the latest advancements and […]
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Yihan Yang
  • Undergraduate Student
    Harvey Mudd College
    Attended ISSTA
    2024, Vienna, Austria
The conference was great and I learned a lot through attending the talks! Vienna is a pretty city and I enjoy my time doing site visit there.
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Yu Rou Tuan
I am honored to receive the ACM-W scholarship to attend ECCV 2024. This is my first time to attend a conference and have a poster. I am very grateful for such a precious opportunity. During the conference, I actively participated in poster sessions and gained a lot of inspiration from them. Participating in the conference […]
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Nigar Alishzade
As a PhD researcher working on developing deep learning models for Azerbaijani Sign Language recognition, this conference provided me with invaluable insights and opportunities for growth. I had the privilege of presenting my work titled [Case Study] Transfer Learning with Inflated 3D CNN for Word-Level Recognition for Azerbaijani Sign Language Dataset. Presenting at MVML allowed […]
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Qi Shi
  • PHD Student
    University of Southampton
    Attended IJCAI 2024
    2024, Jeju, South Korea
The IJCAI-24 conference in Jeju, South Korea, was a fantastic memory for me as a PhD student and a budding researcher. My paper named “Agentive Permissions in Multiagent Systems” was accepted by the main track of the conference, which was the first motivation for attending the cross-continental conference in person. Indeed, I perceived much more […]
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Hridiza Roy
  • Undergraduate Student
    Rochester Institute of Technology
    Attended ACM SIGGRAPH
    2024, Denver, Colorado, United States
Attending SIGGRAPH 2024 has been the best experience of my entire college career. I got to speak with legends in the field of Computer Graphics whom I really admire like Steve May, Cem Yuksel, and Rachel Rose. Having dinner and lunch with people working in technical fields in the animation and VFX industries was an […]
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Koushiki Sinha
Participating in SIGIR 2024 is a significant milestone in my academic journey, especially as a bachelor’s student aspiring to pursue graduate studies in machine learning and its applications. It was incredible to have the opportunity to present our short paper, titled “Instruction-Guided Bullet Point Summarization of Long Financial Earnings Call Transcripts,” during the poster session. […]
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Christianah Titilope Oyewale
Being sponsored through the ACM-W Scholarship Program and by Google was a pivotal experience for my professional growth and career advancement. This opportunity enabled me to lead a panel discussion and present my accepted paper. Additionally, serving on the conference’s steering committee connected me with fellow organizers, fostering potential future collaborations. Participating in the doctoral […]
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Memunat Ajoke Ibrahim
  • PHD Student
    The Australian National University
    Attended ACM CHI 2024
    2024, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
I had a thrilling experience attending and presenting my paper titled “Expectations Vs Reality of Conducting Ethnographic Research in Nigeria to Inform Autonomous Ground Vehicles Design” at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), on behalf of my co-authors. The paper highlights how institutional, geographical and sociocultural factors affected an ethnographic […]
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Maria Lydia Fioravanti
In April 2024, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) in Lisbon, Portugal. This wasn’t the first time I attended a conference, but it was the first time I was able to participate without worrying about paper presentations, which always make me apprehensive. Throughout the conference, I […]
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Adwita Arora
  • Undergraduate Student
    Netaji Subhas University of Technology
    Attended EACL 24
    2024, St. Julians, Malta
In March 2024, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) in St. Julians, Malta. There, I presented the poster for my paper titled “MEnTr@LT-EDI-2024: Multilingual Ensemble of Transformer Models for Homophobia/Transphobia Detection” at the Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI) […]
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Syeda Fatema Mazumder
This is the first time I got the opportunity to participate in-person in one of the largest Computer Science (CS) Education conferences SIGCSE TS 2024. I felt delighted to be part of the vibrant and friendly community and learned more about the scholarly works happening in the domain of CS Education. Moreover, attending SIGCSE TS […]
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Micol Spitale
I have attended the HRI24 conference because I had a full paper published (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3610977.3634948) for which I was one of the co-authors. Then, I have also organised a workshop (https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/ss4hri/home), and I was invited as a panelist in another workshop (https://human-llm-interaction.github.io/workshop/hri24/program#schedule). (Scholarship awarded in 2020, delayed use because of the pandemic)
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