Schedule

Friday, February 20

Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis

4:00 registration in front of Keller 3-180
4:30-5:00 Opening and Lightning talks in Keller 3-180
Liza Girsova, Lawrence University
Lawrentian Under Design: A System that Streamlines the Creation and Distribution of a Private Newspaper
Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Speech Recognition Virtual Kitchen: A Toolkit for Research and Learning
5:00-5:45 Industry lead BOF "How do you evaluate employers to find the right opportunity for you?" in Keller 3-180
Katie J. DeCabooter, 3M, Samantha Oestreicher, Target Corporation and Ann Thureen, Unisys

McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak St. SE, Minneapolis

6:00-7:00 Posters in Maroon and Gold Room
  1. A Parallelized Music Lesson Scheduler -- Xandra Best, St. Olaf College (undergrad)
  2. Analyzing YouTube Comments using Hadoop and COCA -- Elinor Holm, St. Olaf College (undergrad)
  3. The Deepening Digital Divide: Information Poverty in Technology Use Among Immigrant Communities -- Nayeli Martinez, Carleton College (undergrad)
  4. Interactive Crowd Simulation in Virtual Reality -- Ran Hu, Liang Zeng, Peng Liu, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (undergrad)
  5. Virtualization technologies to support classroom learning -- Sarah Riedel, Minnesota State Community and Technical College (undergrad)
  6. Parentopia.org : Place-based Web Platform for Parent Learning And Support- - Zahar Eslami,Susan Walker, Loren Terveen (graduate)
  7. Uncertainty Quantified Matrix Completion using Bayesian Hierarchical Matrix Factorization -- Farideh Fazayeli (graduate)
  8. Robot Team Exploration and Dispersion -- Elizabeth Jensen, University of Minnesota (grad)
  9. Parallel implementation of confidence-weighted neural disease classification applied to magnetoencephalography data -- Margaret Mahan and Apostolos Georgopoulos (grad)
  10. The Architecture Design of A Mobile Application for Collecting Plant Observation Data -- Jingbo Chu and Yu Qiu, U of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisccnsin La Crosse (grad)
  11. A Learning based Co-clustering Algorithm for an Improved Predictive Modeling -- Chandrima Sarkar (grad)
  12. Clinical Decision Making Systems: A Framework to Predicting Rx Response -- Aarti Sathyanarayana (grad)
  13. Leveraging network structure to discover genetic interactions in genome-wide association studies -- Wen Wang (grad)
7:00-8:00 Buffet dinner in University Hall

8:00-9:00 Invited speaker Lana Yarosh, "Designing to Support Strong Tie Relationships"
Lana Yarosh Abstract: What do the relationships between childhood best friends, parents and children, and A.A. home group members have in common? These are all examples of "strong ties" - types of connections that are key to reducing loneliness, providing a support network, and growing together as individuals. My research focuses on using technology to support such strong-tie relationships, and I present three examples from my personal work. First, after endeavoring to understand the needs of parents and children who live apart, I designed and built the ShareTable to address some of the challenges they face. Second, I investigated technological support for remote play between a child and a remote partner, such as a best friend who has moved away. Third, I examined the opportunities and challenges in using technology to support strong-tie relationships among those recovering from addiction and alcoholism. I'll discuss my new and ongoing work at University of Minnesota inspired by each of these three contexts.

Bio: Svetlana "Lana" Yarosh is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at University of Minnesota. She has two Bachelors of Science from University of Maryland (in Computer Science and Psychology), a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Institute of Technology, and two years of industry research experience with AT&T Labs. Her research falls primarily in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on Social Computing and Child-Computer Interaction. She designs systems that enhance strong-tie social relationships to create stronger families, support individual health and well being, and provide a stage for personal and community growth. Her work has been featured on CNN, has won multiple innovation competitions and best paper awards, and has been honored with numerous grants and scholarships.
9:00-10:30 Student lead BOFs in University Hall
  1. Student-led organizations
    Nayely Martinez, Carleton College and
    Jessica McMillan ACM-W at UofM
  2. The impostor syndrome
    Sarah McRoberts and Hannah Miller, UofM and
    Sophia Wang, Lawrence University
  3. Outreach to K-12
    Katja Collier, Carleton and
    Rachel Feltes, Lawrence University

Saturday, February 21

Keller Hall room 3-180 and open area

8:00-8:30 breakfast in open area
8:30-9:15 Invited industry speaker Julie Flaschenriem in Keller 3-180
Bio: Julie Flaschenriem is a patient-centered Healthcare CIO with a reputation for leading enterprise-level business transformations and leveraging technology to improve patient outcomes and reduce the total cost of care. She has been promoted on numerous occasions to lead organizational transformations, department start-ups and key enterprise-wide initiatives. She has a talent and passion for changing how IT delivers value, building high-performance teams and delivering technology solutions that drive business success. Most recently Julie served as the Chief Information Officer for Park Nicollet Health Services, an integrated care delivery system, located in St. Louis Park, MN. There she spearheaded a multiyear initiative to improve IT’s culture, accountability, delivery, transparency and business relationships. Defined organizational roadmaps and drove change management initiatives, assessed and aligned IT teams with business needs, implemented process and operational improvements, built and developed teams, established and managed cross-organizational partnerships, and implemented transparency around capacity, costs and performance. This resulted in improved delivery and outcomes while reducing the total cost of IT. Julie is passionate about helping others reach their potential. She is a founding board member of Women Leading in Technology; a group that works to promote, educate and empower women in technology across Minnesota with the goal to “Connect, Educate and Reach Back”. She is a member of a number advisory boards, often speaks on topics ranging from building great teams to transforming the delivery of information technology and is an active mentor.
9:15 coffee break
9:45-11:00 Career panel in Keller 3-180
Chair: Shana Watters, Augsburg College
Janis Briesemeister, IT Director, 3M's Health Care Business
Billie Chock, GBS Solutions Manager, General Mills
Paula Greve, Senior Director, Data Science at McAfee
Catherine (Katy) Micek, WindLogics, Senior Data Scientist
Ellen Sorenson, Lead Engineer, Unisys Corporation
11:30-12:30 Parallel tracks
1. Graduate school panel in Keller 3-180

Chair: Kate Lockwood, St. Thomas University
Panel members: Meredith Anderson, Otelia Buffington, Zahra Eslami, Sarah McRoberts, Hannah Miller
2. For Faculty: Increasing number of women in computing in Keller 3-125

Elizabeth Kleiman, Mount Mercy University, Denise Szecsei, University of Iowa, Marie Manner Univ of Minnesota, Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato
12:30- 1:30 lunch
1:30-3:00 Mock interviews and resume clinic