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2020 Tapia Conference

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020 (Central Time)

11:45AM - 4:30PM
Doctoral Consortium

Doctoral Consortium

By invitation only

11:45AM - 12:30PM
Doctoral Consortium

A Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Pathways into the Computing Field and Workforce

Doctoral Consortium

Discovering Knowledge Sharing Patterns of Blind People Pursuing STEM Disciplines: Data Science and Computational Linguistics on Large-Scale Email Corpora

Doctoral Consortium

Community Detection of Anomalies in Large Scale Network using Deep Learning

12:45PM - 1:30PM
Doctoral Consortium

Towards Scientific Study of Technical Interviews

Doctoral Consortium

Humans and Bots on Social Media

Doctoral Consortium

Resource Management in Edge Computing Systems

2:45PM - 3:30PM
Doctoral Consortium

Designing Learning Environments to Foster Inquiry as a Situated Practice

Doctoral Consortium

Computational Methods and Algorithms for Real-Time Routing of Emergency Response in Unreliable Settings

Doctoral Consortium

Integration of Bioinformatics Data Using Deep Learning

3:45PM - 4:30PM
Doctoral Consortium

Detecting Changes in LN-18 glial cell morphology using an SVM: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Cell Image Classification

Doctoral Consortium

The Modeling and Management of Computational Sprinting

Doctoral Consortium

An Analysis of User Experiences regarding Presence within VR games

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 (Central Time)

11:00AM - 11:15AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks

11:15AM - 12:20PM

Plenary Panel (Fireside Chat)

12:30PM - 4:30PM
Posters

Poster Session

Reception

Networking Lounge

Exhibits

Career Fair

12:30PM - 1:15PM
Panel

Digital Identity: Understanding It, Curating It, Protecting It

Panel

Storytelling, Coding, and Identity: Developing Culturally Relevant Computing Courses for Native Students

Panel

Increasing Diversity in Doctoral Programs: Insights from the Trenches

Panel

The Art of Scientific Lectures and Poster Presentations

12:30PM - 1:45PM
Workshop

Techniques in Cyber File Forensics

Workshop

Design for Failure

Workshop

Federated Learning for All: Crowdsourced Machine Learning on its Journey to Privacy & Fairness

1:30PM - 2:15PM
Panel

So You Want to Work at a Startup: Breaking into Tech

Panel

It Takes a Village: Creating and Implementing an Autism to Work Program for Students

Panel

Taking on the Technical Interview

Panel

Increasing Diversity in Computing: Sharing of Good Practices

2:00PM - 3:15PM
Workshop

Next-Generation Secure Computer Systems: Post-Quantum Cryptosystems

Workshop

Design Thinking

Workshop

Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) on Google App Scripts

2:45PM - 3:30PM
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20/20: Visual Storytelling to Examine Bias

Panel

Ethical Engineering: Tabletop Exercise

Panel

May the High Performance Computing Force be With You

Birds of a Feather

Help!? I Need an Idea For My Dissertation.

Panel

Cracking the Internship Code: A Crash Course on How to Get an Internship in Tech

Panel

Creating a Community for Black College Women in Tech

3:30PM - 4:45PM
Workshop

Easy-Peasy GPU Programming using OpenMP

Workshop

Power of Resiliency - Design your systems to be inherently resilient for continued business operations

Workshop

Leveraging Habitat: A Platform for Embodied AI Research

3:45PM - 4:30PM
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Diversity Includes Disability

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Mental Health in Computing Students and Professionals

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Working Moms in Tech: The Struggle is Real! A Discussion on How to Combat the Pressures Faced by Working Mothers in the Tech Workplace and Beyond

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Technological Needs of the Black Collective

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A New Class of Teaching Faculty: No PhD Required

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Spectral Analysis: An LGBTQIA+ Community in Scientific Computing

4:30PM - 5:30PM

Featured Speaker

5:45PM - 7:00PM
Posters

Poster Session

Networking Lounge

Career Fair

Thursday, September 17, 2020 (Central Time)

11:00AM - 11:15AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks

11:15AM - 12:20PM
Panel

Plenary Early Career Panel

12:30pm - 4:30pm

Poster Session

Networking Lounge

Career Fair

12:30PM - 1:15PM
Panel

Navigating the Coding Interview: How to Prepare and Thrive in the Technical Interview Environment

Panel

Collaborative Projects and Narratives on Broadening Participation in Computing

Panel

Secure Your Bag(s) and Degree(s): Graduate School Edition

Panel

On Mixing Creativity and Teamwork into a CS course with a Sprinkle of Entrepreneurial Spirit

12:30PM - 1:45PM
Workshop

Cybersecurity 101 for Critical Infrastructures: A Hands-on Approach

Workshop

HPC Infrastructure Security: Ensuring Storage and Network Safety, Integrity, Efficiency, and Performance

1:30PM - 2:15PM
Panel

Moving from Career Anxiety to Career Exploration!

Panel

Teaching Assistant Training Programs as a Vital Component of Broadening Participation

Panel

Building an Inclusive Computing Community: One Decision at a Time

Panel

How To Build Your Online Presence and Advance Your Career

2:00PM - 3:15PM
Workshop

BRISC-V: A RISC-V Open-Source Architecture Design Space Exploration Toolbox

Workshop

Getting Started with Big Data Analytics in the Cloud

Workshop

Hands-on Unsupervised Deep Learning for Beginners

2:45PM - 3:30PM
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Executing a Commitment to Disability Inclusion and Accessibility for Employees and Customers

Panel

Leading Without Authority: Techniques Towards Becoming an Effective Leader

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Student Organizations: Promoting Diversity in Computing through K-12 Outreach to Latinx and other Underrepresented Communities

Panel

Find Your Inner Tech Talk Topic in 60 Minutes

Panel

Disability Disclosure in Education and Employment

Panel

ReFraming & ReImagining the Experiences of Doctoral Women of Color in Computing

3:45PM - 4:30PM
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On Being the First or the Only: Overcoming Isolation and Sharing Techniques to Cope and Thrive in Any Environment

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Partnership in Practice, Building Online Experiences as a Community

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Non-Traditional Career Trajectories

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DNP: Mental Health Management

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Building Inclusive Communities at Liberal Arts Colleges

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Charting Your Informatics Career Plan: Pathways Toward Careers in Biomedical Informatics

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Re-Imagining the Tech Space through Compassion and Rising Strong Methodologies

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Strategies to Thrive in a Male Dominated Workplace

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Hispanics in Computing Community

4:30PM - 5:30PM

Featured Speaker

5:45PM - 7:00PM

Poster Session

Networking Lounge

Career Fair

Friday, September 18, 2020 (Central Time)

11:00AM - 11:15AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks

11:15AM - 12:15PM

Ken Kennedy Lecture: Colin Parris, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, GE Digital

12:30PM - 2:45PM

Networking Lounge

Career Fair

12:30PM - 1:15PM
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Inclusive Hiring Practices for People with Disabilities

Panel

Build your Career and Community through Authentic Personal Branding

Panel

Developing a Plan for Broadening Participation in Computing

Panel

Writing Your Personal Statement/Statement of Purpose

Panel

Everything I Need To Know About Diversity and Inclusion I Learned From Listening to Salsa

12:30PM - 1:45PM
Workshop

Preparing for the People: Tips for Creating Inclusive User Studies

Workshop

Security – Graphical Passwords

Workshop

Blockchain in Banking and Finance

1:30PM - 2:15PM
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Empowering Faculty to Develop Future-Ready Workforce Pipelines in Emerging Technologies

Panel

Fueling Your Career With Coffee Chats

Panel

An Intersectional Approach to Improving Hiring Outcomes

Panel

Strategic Planning for Diversifying Your Student Body in Postsecondary Computing Programs

Panel

Seeking Professional Success, Cultural Identity, and Happiness as an International Student

2:00PM - 3:15PM
Workshop

Best Practices for Validating Machine Learning in Medicine

Workshop

Artificial Intelligence Research is for Everyone!

Workshop

Building Diverse Design Communities

3:30PM - 4:45PM
Workshop

Dark Patterns Through the Lens of Accessibility

Workshop

Data Archaeology: Fusing, Triaging, Analyzing to Create an Information Symphony

Workshop

Transitioning into Product Management as an Engineer