Virginia Women in HPC: Student Lightning Talks IV

On November 12th from 1–2 pm EST, VA-WHPC hosted 9 students as they gave 3-minute lightning talks on their research to members of the HPC community from across Virginia. A prize was awarded to the top presentation, as voted by attendees. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Dell Technologies for this event.

Speakers:

Tejasri Anuboina, George Mason University:
Identification of Anomalous Agents in Human Trajectory
Volunteer Mentor: Karsten Siller, University of Virginia

Daniel Berhane Araya, George Mason University:
FinVet: A Collaborative Framework of RAG and External Fact-Checking Agents for Financial Misinformation Detection
Volunteer Mentor: John Gillespe, Virginia Tech AOE / NASA GRC 

Parastoo Bybordi, Virginia Commonwealth University:
Genotype Classification Using High-Resolution Melt Curves and Machine Learning Approaches
Volunteer Mentor: Anuridhi Gupta, George Mason University

Emily Euler, James Madison University
Modeling Isomeric Butanol Reactivity on TiO2/Au(111) Inverse Model Catalysts
Volunteer Mentor: Supraja Naraharisetty, George Mason University

Ying Fei Lin, Virginia Tech
Root Estimation in Phylogenetic Trees Using Deep Learning
Volunteer Mentor: Kirti Patel, Virginia Tech

Kapi Ketan Mehta, Virginia Tech
Intelligence Embodied with Safe Autonomy
Volunteer Mentor: Eric Walter, William & Mary

Chandra Sarkar, Virginia Tech
Discovering Bacterial Lineages from Bird Lice 
Volunteer Mentor: Lishan Yang, George Mason University

Xiaorong Shan, George Mason University
A Breath Can Tell: Detecting Breast Cancer through Airborne Biomarkers 
Volunteer Mentor: Hadeel Albahar, Virginia Tech 

Adriana Valentina Farias, George Mason University
Leveraging Connected Vehicle Data in Richmond, VA to Improve Travel Demand Modeling 
Volunteer Mentor: Xinxin Mei, Jefferson Lab