ACM-W Scholars 2014

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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