Day 1

1. 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm

   Registration

2. 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm

   Professional Development Workshop

   

   by Ashley Rose Edgar Director of Career Development, Georgia Tech College of Computing

   Finding Your Competitive Advantage

   First impressions matter. Your personal brand is what employers remember about you...whether that includes your professionalism at a job fair, the quality of your resume, or your coding portfolio. What about you stands out from other job candidates and how have you tailored your skills for jobs or companies of interest? What steps can you take to create a personal brand that is effective, consistent, and sends a clear message about your intentions? This workshop will help attendees identify their inherent strengths, learn about ways to set themselves apart in the job search, and set goals for career success.

3. 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm

   Dinner and Keynote

   

   by Dr. Ewa Deelman Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California

   Lessons Learned and Things to Pursue in Distributed Computing

   A Scientific Workflow and Personal Perspectives

   This talk will describe the challenges in the area of scientific workflows: how they are used to advance science in a number of domains, and how state-of-the-art software systems, such as Pegasus, meet the application and computing infrastructure challenges.  Pegasus enables scientists to describe the workflows in an abstract, resource-independent way.  That description includes the definition of the workflow steps and the data they take in and generate, but does not include low-level cyber-infrastructure information.  Given the abstract workflow description and the information about the execution environment (composed of potentially distributed systems), a planner can map the computational tasks onto the available resources and plan the movement of data across distributed resources.   The planning process also opens up opportunities for performance optimization and fault-tolerance.

   The talk will follow the evolution of Pegasus and of the research agenda over the past 15 years. It will describe how various science applications motivated the advances in Computer Science.   Some of the lessons learned along the way come from the scientific arena, whereas some relate to more mundane topics, but can be just as important.  Yes, there are many more lessons left to learn…

4. 8.00 pm to 9.00 pm

   Poster Session

   Undergraduate Posters:

   • Modeling Problem Solving Approaches in Collaborative Programming - Raquel Lawrence (Georgia Gwinnett College)
   • Building a Simulated Processor in the Classroom - Amy Hill, Mason Dordell, Joseph Cloutier and Joseph Elarde (Austin Peay State University)
   • Brain Machine Interface using Head Motion Based Gestures for Users with ALS - Ally Kaminsky and V. Paul Pauca (Wake Forest University)
   • Connected Car Infotainment System - Surina Puri (Georgia Tech)
   • PRECISE, PREDICTIVE, PERSONALIZED: DESIGNING ASSISTIVE NOTIFICATIONS FOR POINTING PERFORMANCE - Casey Means (Rhodes College), Amy Hurst and Aqueasha Martin Hammond (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

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   Graduate Posters:

   • DASSA: Automatic Segmentation of General Time Stamped Data Sequences - Liangzhe Chen, Sorour E. Amiri, B. Aditya Prakash (Virginia Tech)
   • Product Recommendation in Social Networks - Anahita Davoudi (University of Central Florida)
   • Using Data Science to Discover What Motivates High School Dropout Students to Persist in Online Learning - Yeva Muradyan (Golden Gate University/Graduation Alliance)
   • Robot Reaching Controller Inspired by Infant Development - Zahra Mahoor and Bruce MacLennan (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
   • Framework for Creating Intervention Studies Using Indemics - Vanessa Cedeno (Virginia Tech)
   • Detecting Eulerian Paths in RDF Graphs for Genome Assembly Using SPARQL - Rina Singh and Jeffrey A. Graves (Tennessee Tech), Sangkeun Lee, Sreeniva R. Sukumar and Mallikarjun Shankar (ORNL)
   • Technical Debt Prioritization Using Predictive Analytics - Zadia Codabux (Mississippi State University)