Congratulations for Hannah and Chloe!
“CREU is an undergraduate research program that provides research stipends to teams of students working on research projects under the guidance of a mentor at their home institutions. Students supported by CREU collaborate with each other and with their mentors during the academic year and, in some cases, the following summer.”
The Wellesley Daily Shot recently featured HoloMuse, a virtual reality museum application developed in the Wellesley HCI Lab with Orit Shaer.
Eni Mustafaraj’s research on tracking and combating online misinformation was featured in the Wellesley Daily Shot: Why Are We Still Falling for “Fake News”?
Members of the Wellesley HCI Lab demonstrated their HoloMuse application at a Venture Cafe Foundation event on augmented reality.
Several members of the Wellesley community traveled to Denver in May for ACM CHI 2017. The Wellesley HCI Lab presented several papers, including:
Wellesley participants included HCI Lab director Orit Shaer, HCI research programmer Lauren Westendorf ’15 (pictured presenting), alumnae Johanna Okerlund ’14 (now a grad student at University of North Carolina Charlotte) and Veronica Lin ’15 (now a grad student at Stanford), professor Takis Metaxas, and others.
Sam Mincheva ’17, the lone CS thesis student of 2017, presented their undergraduate honors thesis work, Sound Thread Local Analysis for Lockset-Based Dynamic Data Race Detection, at a lively and well-attended public talk on Friday, May 5. We hope public thesis talks become a tradition in the department.
Advisor Ben Wood and committee members Ashley DeFlumere, Lyn Turbak, and (doctored) Alex Diesl (Math) posed with Sam in the senior-pranked Chamber of CS after delivering the good news. (No math faculty were eaten by the basilisk — Prof. Diesl had to run to another thesis defense immediately after Sam’s.)
Members of the Wellesley HCI Lab traveled to Yokohama, Japan, in March for the 2017 International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions. They presented:
Two Wellesley alums affiliated with the Computer Science department were awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to support their graduate studies. Several other Wellesley alums also received fellowships.
Su Lin Blodgett ’15 majored in Math and minored in CS after she discovered a passion for CS late during her time at Wellesley. She is now a PhD student at UMass studying the use of statistical text analysis to answer social science questions. She gave a Wellesley CS colloquium talk on her recent work last fall.
Emily Ahn ’16 majored in Cognitive and Linguistics Sciences with a CS concentration and completed an undergraduate honors thesis building a foreign accent classifier with Sravana Reddy. She is now studying language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Congrats to Su Lin and Emily!
The Wellesley Daily Shot highlighted the media and education impacts of TwitterTrails, the work of Takis Metaxas, Eni Mustafaraj, and several student researchers.
The Fall 2016 CS Colloquium series, organized by Hess Fellow Sravana Reddy, featured talks on everything from tools for social scientists and data scientists, computer security, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.
Friday, Nov 4: Jordan Suchow, UC Berkeley
Experiment design, algorithm design, and automation in the behavioral and social sciences
Tuesday, Nov 8: Andrea Parker, Northeastern University
Community Wellness Informatics: Creating Technology for Health Equity
Friday, Nov 11: Abhi Shelat, Northeastern University
Secure Stable Matchings
Monday, Nov 14: Mor Naaman, Cornell Tech
Awareness, Coordination and Trust in the Peer Economy
Friday, Nov 18: Su Lin Blodgett ’15, UMass Amherst
Dialectal variation in social media: A case study of African-American English
Wednesday, Nov 30: Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Continuous Vector Representations of (Spoken and Written) Words
Friday, Dec 9: Emma Tosch ’08, UMass Amherst
Programming Language and Systems Research for Data Scientists
In addition, the department hosted a panel on graduate school in computer science with Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, graduate student in CS and HCI at Stanford University (yes you may recognize those last names!), and Vicky Zeamer MAS ’15, currently a student in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program.
Marissa Avila ’07 led a discussion of the Where’s Wellesley app.
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