Rising Stars Archive
This repository serves as both a testament to previous Rising Stars' remarkable achievements and an inspiration for future scholars and professionals. Join us in celebrating and supporting the promising future of computer science.
Lecture recordings are linked where available.
Previous Presenters
2023 Rising Stars
Design and Development of Robust Translational Devices for Veterinary and Medical Applications
Ceara Ann Byrne
Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Beyond the Search Bar: Transforming Information Discovery, Synthesis, and Creativity through Human-AI Interaction
Srishti Palani
PhD Candidate, University of California San Diego
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Software Productivity and Wellbeing: From Tools and Types to Cognition and Medicine
Madeline Endres
PhD Student, University of Michigan
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Towards Democratizing Data Interfaces
Yiru Chen
PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
2022 Rising Stars
Understanding Digital Safety Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Youth Survivors
Diana Freed
PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Distance-Approximation and Shortcutting in Directed Graphs
Nicole Wein
Simons Postdoctoral Leader, Rutgers University
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Understanding Digital Literacy for Job Search for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
Ihudiya Finda Williams
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Designing for Safety: Towards More Equitable and Trustworthy Systems
Daricia Wilkinson
Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
2021 Rising Stars
Social Commonsense for Social Good
Saadia Gabriel
PhD student, University of Washington
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Modeling the Dynamics of Poverty
Rediet Abebe
Incoming Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
2020 Rising Stars
Diversity and Inequality in Social Networks: From Recommendation to Information Diffusion
Ana-Andreea Stoica
PhD candidate, Columbia University
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Two Disparate Applications of Independent Set Algorithms: The Hard Sphere Model and Preparing Biological Sequence Data for Benchmarking
Samantha Petti
Post-doc, NSF-Simons Center, Harvard University
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Toward Privacy Enhanced Solutions For Granular Control Over Health Data Collected by Wearable Devices
Byron Lowens
PhD candidate, Clemson University
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
2019 Rising Stars
Informing Privacy and Security Decision-Making in an IoT World
Pardis Emami-Naeini
PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Proof Engineering Tools for a New Era
Talia Ringer
PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing: from Exposing Syntax Errors to Enabling Program Synthesis
Caroline Lemieux
PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Targeted Client Synthesis for Detecting Concurrency Bugs
Malavika Samak
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
2018 Rising Stars
Helena: A Web Automation Language for End Users
Sarah Chasins
PhD Candidate, University of California Berkeley
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems for Guiding Self-Experiments
Nediyana Daskalova
PhD Candidate, Brown University
Monday, October 29, 2018
Paradise Unplugged: How We Create a More Empathetic and Helpful Online Community
Denae Ford
PhD Candidate, North Carolina State University
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Learning from the People: From Normative to Descriptive Solutions
to Problems in Security, Privacy, and Machine Learning
Elissa Redmiles
PhD Candidate, University of Maryland College Park
Wednesday, January 23, 2019