Student Updates

Eugenia Gabrielova (C. Lopes, advisor) is interning for the second summer in a row at SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific in San Diego in the Cybersecurity Science & Technology division.  She hopes to investigate how her research on distributed system testing might be used on systems already in development at SPAWAR and to gain some insights into testing and performance challenges in cybersecurity.  Her SPAWAR mentor is ISR alumnus Jose Romero-Mariona. 

Wen Shen (C. Lopes, advisor) presented his paper “An Online Mechanism for Ridesharing in Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems” at the  25th Int’l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16) held in New York, NY in July.  The paper is co-authored by his advisor, Prof. Crista Lopes, and Jacob W. Crandall of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE. 

Vijay Krishna Palepu (J. Jones, advisor) is spending his summer interning at Microsoft in Redmond, WA with the Microsoft Word Engineering team. Pelapu is working on the iOS app for Microsoft Word.  

Chris Wolf (P. Dourish, advisor) has received an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for 2016-17. The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. 

Noopur Raval (P. Dourish, advisor) has been appointed as an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University for 2016-17 where she will continue her research on ridehailing technologies and digital labor issues.

Vaibhav Saini (C. Lopes, advisor) presented his paper “SourcererCC and SourcererCC-I: Tools to Detect Clones in Batch mode and During Software Development” in the Demon-strations Track at the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) held in Austin, TX in May. The paper is co-authored by alumni Hitesh Sajnani and Jaewoo Kim, and Saini’s advisor Prof. Cristina Videira Lopes.

Katherine Lo (P. Dourish, advisor) has received a three year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. 

Lee Martie (A. van der Hoek, advisor) has received a 2016-17 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. This fellowship program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.  Additionally, Martie is spending his summer as an intern at IBM T.J. Watson in New York for the second summer in a row.  His mentor at IBM is Peri Tarr. 

Yiran Wang (G. Mark, advisor) was selected to attend the 2016 Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) held in Watsonville, CA in June where she gave a ‘boaster’ to introduce her research on youth and technology, and how the Millennial generation engages with information and communication technologies.

Caitie Lustig (B. Nardi and G. Bowker, advisors) was a co-organizer and co-moderator of a panel on “Algorithmic Authority: the Ethics, Politics, and Economics of Algorithms that Interpret, Decide, and Manage” at the ACM Conference for Human-Computer Interaction (CHI 2016) in San Jose, CA in May.

Daniel Gardner (B. Nardi, advisor) is presenting his paper “Gatekeeping Games: A Topographic Consideration of Para-Ludic Borderlands” at the First International Joint Conference of DIGRA (Digital Games Research Association) and FDG (Foundations of Digital Games) in August at Dundee, UK.

Nicole Crenshaw (B. Nardi, advisor) is co-author on the paper “‘Its’a Me, Mario!’: Costumed Gaming’s Effects on Character Identification” which is being presented at the First International Joint Conference of DIGRA (Digital Games Research Association) and FDG (Foundations of Digital Games) in August at Dundee, UK. The paper is co-authored by ICS Prof. Joshua Tanenbaum and ICS project scientist Karen Tanenbaum.

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