ACM CAPWIC 2024: ACM THE CAPITAL REGION CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN COMPUTING CONFERENCE 2024
PROGRAM

Days: Friday, April 5th Saturday, April 6th

Friday, April 5th

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16:30-18:00 Session 1: Registration
Chairs:
Robbie Hott (University of Virginia, United States)
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Alumni Hall
18:00-19:30 Dinner
Chairs:
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Robbie Hott (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Alumni Hall
18:00-18:30 Session 2: Welcome
Chairs:
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Robbie Hott (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Alumni Hall
18:30-19:30 Session 3: Keynote #1
Chair:
Briana Morrison (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Alumni Hall
18:30
Eileen Krepkovich (Charlottesville Women in Tech, United States)
Kim Wilkens (Charlottesville Women in Tech, United States)
Elaine Cheng (Charlottesville Women in Tech, United States)
Beyond Graduation: Finding Your Community as a Professional Woman in Technology (abstract)
Saturday, April 6th

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08:00-08:45 Session 4: Registration and Breakfast
Chairs:
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Robbie Hott (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Rice Hall
09:00-09:40 Session 5: Opening and Keynote #2
Chairs:
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Briana Morrison (University of Virginia, United States)
Robbie Hott (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Chemistry 402
09:00
Melanie Frank (Capitol One, United States)
What Rocket Science & Banking Have in Common (abstract)
10:00-10:50 Session 6A: Research Shorts #1
Chair:
Sehrish Basir Nizamani (Virginia Tech, United States)
Location: Olsson 011
10:00
Kiymet Akdemir (Virginia Tech, United States)
Pinar Yanardag (Virginia Tech, United States)
ORACLE: Consistent Character Generation with LoRAs in Diffusion Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kiymet Akdemir
10:20
Ying Li (William & Mary, United States)
Yuhui Bao (Northeastern University, United States)
Pranav Vaid (Stanford University, United States)
Gongyu Wang (Lightmatter, United States)
Adwait Jog (University of Virginia, United States)
Darius Bunandar (Lightmatter, United States)
Ajay Joshi (Lightmatter, United States)
Yifan Sun (William & Mary, United States)
TraceSim: a Lightweight Simulator for Large-Scale DNN Workloads on Multi-GPU Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ying Li
10:00-10:50 Session 6B: Research Shorts #2
Chair:
Jason Forsyth (James Madison University, United States)
Location: Olsson 009
10:00
Dian Chen (Virginia Tech, United States)
Paul Yang (Virginia Tech, United States)
Ing-Ray Chen (Virginia Tech, United States)
Dong Sam Ha (Virginia Tech, United States)
Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Tech, United States)
SusFL: Energy-Aware Federated Learning-based Monitoring for Sustainable Smart Farms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dian Chen
10:20
Emily Chang (University of Virginia, United States)
Caroline Gihlstorf (University of Virginia, United States)
Jade Gregoire (University of Virginia, United States)
Endangered Languages–How much data do we need to model them well? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emily Chang
10:00-10:50 Session 6C: Classroom Panel
Chair:
Scott Mccrickard (Virginia Tech, United States)
Location: Rice Hall 130
Scott McCrickard (Virginia Tech, United States)
Megan Olsen (Loyola (MD), United States)
Mohammed Seyam (Virginia Tech, United States)
Chandani Shrestha (James Madison University, United States)
Jixiang Fan (Virginia Tech, United States)
Making voices heard: Classroom tools and techniques for augmenting student opinions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Scott McCrickard
10:00-10:50 Session 6D: Workshop #1
Chair:
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Olsson 018
10:00
Stephanie Lewandowski (WillowTree, United States)
Leading AI/Machine Learning Product Delivery by WillowTree (abstract)
11:00-11:50 Session 7A: Research Shorts #3
Chair:
Sehrish Basir Nizamani (Virginia Tech, United States)
Location: Olsson 011
11:00
Sindhuja Madabushi (Virginia Tech, United States)
Haider Ali (Virginia Tech, United States)
Ahmad Khan (Virginia Tech, United States)
Mengmeng Gu (Virginia Tech, United States)
Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Tech, United States)
Privacy Preserving and Feature Importance Based Incentive Mechanism in Vertical Federated Learning (abstract)
11:20
Qi Zhang (Virginia Tech, United States)
Lance M Kaplan (US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, United States)
Feng Chen (University of Texas, Dallas, United States)
Dong Jeong (University of the District of Columbia, United States)
Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Tech, United States)
Winning the Social Media Influence Battle: A New Approach to Understanding and Spreading True Information (abstract)
PRESENTER: Qi Zhang
11:00-11:50 Session 7B: Research Shorts #4
Chair:
Michael Stewart (James Madison University, United States)
Location: Olsson 009
11:00
Sarah Wilsey (Randolph-Macon College, United States)
How Many Cards to the Center of the Universe: The Connectedness of Randolph Macon College (abstract)
11:20
Elizabeth Palmieri (University of Virginia, United States)
Yangfeng Ji (University of Virginia, United States)
An Empirical Study on Aspect Based Text Summarization (abstract)
11:00-11:50 Session 7C: Tech Talk
Chair:
Angela Orebaugh (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Olsson 018
11:00
Prajakta Belsare (James Madison University, United States)
Leveraging Wearable Technology to Understand Glycemic Trends in Diabetes: Unraveling Seasonal and Behavioral Influences (abstract)
11:00-12:00 Session 7D: Flash Talks
Chair:
Megan Olsen (Loyola University Maryland, United States)
Location: Rice Hall 130
11:00
Julia Larson (James Madison University, United States)
Design of a Wearable Coaching System for Shoulder Rehabilitation (abstract)
11:10
Caroline Gihlstorf (University of Virginia, United States)
Yangfeng Ji (University of Virginia, United States)
Studying the impact of finetuning language models with part of speech tags on their syntactic abilities and levels of gender bias (abstract)
11:20
Ananya Prakash (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States)
Human-in-the-loop classifier of human-written and AI-written text (abstract)
11:30
Abigail Ensogna (James Madison University, United States)
Labelling Data in the Field of Wearable Computing (abstract)
11:40
Stephen Watson (James Madison University, United States)
Hannah Lam (James Madison University, United States)
Alex Milanese (James Madison University, United States)
Application of Traveling Salesman Problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hannah Lam
11:50
Susan Zehra (Old Dominion University, United States)
Syed Rizvi (Old Dominion University, United States)
Na Na (N/A, United States)
Enhancing Security in Vehicular Networks: A Novel Algorithmic Approach to Safeguarding Inter-vehicular Communications and Privacy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Susan Zehra
11:00-13:50 Session 7E: Career Fair
Chairs:
Swap Sheth (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Rice Hall
12:00-13:00Lunch Break (Rice Hall)
12:00-13:00 Session 8: Poster Session
Chair:
Sharon Simmon (James Madison University, United States)
Location: Rice Hall
Judy Wang (Georgetown University, United States)
Hongmei Chi (Florida A&M University, United States)
Explore Phishing Email Generation and Detection via ChatGPT and Gemini (abstract)
PRESENTER: Judy Wang
Yelyzaveta Satynska (Roanoke College, United States)
Rayford Johnson (Roanoke College, United States)
A Maximal Independent Set Of Vertices On a Cellular Grid (abstract)
Van Ha Nguyen (undergraduate student at Virginia Tech, United States)
Bharathi Ganesan (undergraduate student at Virginia Tech, United States)
Mary Zeno (undergraduate student at Virginia Tech, United States)
Defense in Augmented Reality (abstract)
PRESENTER: Van Ha Nguyen
Kassandra Williams (Christopher Newport University, United States)
Samuel Henry (Christopher Newport University, United States)
Biomedical Question Answering Using Large Language Models (abstract)
Afsara Benazir (University of Virginia, United States)
Zhiming Xu (University of Virginia, United States)
Felix Xiaozhu Lin (University of Virginia, United States)
Leveraging cache features to enable SLU on tiny devices (abstract)
PRESENTER: Afsara Benazir
Prianka Mandal (William & Mary, United States)
Amit Seal Ami (William & Mary, United States)
Victor Olaiya (William & Mary, United States)
Sayyed Hadi Razmjo (William & Mary, United States)
Adwait Nadkarni (William and Mary, United States)
Poster: "Belt and suspenders" or "just red tape"?: Investigating Early Artifacts and User Perceptions of IoT App Security Certification (abstract)
PRESENTER: Prianka Mandal
Zheye Caroline Yao (CS Department, Swarthmore College, United States)
Yue Zhang (CS Department, Swarthmore College, United States)
3D Terrain Generation with Procedural Noise and Pseudo-Delaunay Triangulation (abstract)
Aarushi Sachdeva (Swarthmore College, United States)
Kenneth Barkdoll (Swarthmore College, United States)
Applying Genetic Algorithms for Colour Based Image Clustering (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aarushi Sachdeva
Soneya Binta Hossain (University of Virginia, Bangladesh)
Matthew Dwyer (University of Virginia, United States)
Ensuring Critical Properties of Test Oracles for Effective Bug Detection (abstract)
Shikha Shrestha (Swarthmore College, United States)
Ben Mitchell (Swarthmore College, United States)
Assessing Model Performance Estimation in the Presence of Missing Data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shikha Shrestha
Desire Omotoye (George Mason University, United States)
Baseerat Chaudhry (George Mason University, United States)
Enhancing Post-Acute Cardiovascular Care: A Cross-Dataset Analysis of Healthcare and Wearable Technology Access in the Washington Metropolitan Area (abstract)
PRESENTER: Desire Omotoye
Natalie Andrus (Virginia Tech, United States)
Wei Lu Wang (Virginia Tech, United States)
Implications for Design in Outdoor Asynchronous Video Sharing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Natalie Andrus
Jordan Horrall (Virginia Tech, United States)
Jennifer Chandran (Virginia Tech, United States)
Pallavi Chavan (Virginia Tech, United States)
Will Gaudian (Virginia Tech, United States)
Yaw Owusu Snr (Virginia Tech, United States)
Phillip Jordan (Virginia Tech, United States)
Aditya Rana (Virginia Tech, United States)
John Zhao (Virginia Tech, United States)
Building Tools to Support Diary Studies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jordan Horrall
Kiymet Akdemir (Virginia Tech, United States)
Pinar Yanardag (Virginia Tech, United States)
MIST: Mitigating Intersectional Bias in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kiymet Akdemir
Emily Chang (University of Virginia, United States)
Considering Anthropogenic Factors in PM 2.5 Machine Learning Models (abstract)
Emily Chang (University of Virginia, United States)
A Methodology for Controlling Smart HVAC Systems in Planetary Environments (abstract)
Ebtesam Al-Haque (George Mason University, United States)
Brittany Johnson (George Mason University, United States)
Exploring Developer Interactions with AI-Assisted Tools (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ebtesam Al-Haque
Genevieve Purcell (University of Virginia, United States)
Ananya Ananda (University of Virginia, United States)
Aaron Bloomfield (University of Virginia, United States)
Poster: A Computing Club for Middle School Girls (abstract)
Mary Kate McGranahan (Virginia Tech, United States)
Using Technology to Unleash the Power of Positive Self-Talk in Endurance Sports (abstract)
Zahra Rizvi (Grafton High School, United States)
Sophia Rizvi (Grafton High School, United States)
Yousuf Mohammed (Virginia Peninsula Community College, United States)
MedAI: Pioneering Rheumatoid Arthritis Detection with Python-Driven EHR Diagnosis Extraction (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zahra Rizvi
Xiaoxiao Gan (Virginia Tech, United States)
Chris Brown (Virginia Tech, United States)
Exploring Challenges of Integrating GUI Testing Framework in CI/CD Workflows on Open Source Repositories​ (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xiaoxiao Gan
Khyati Kiyawat (University of Virginia, United States)
Kevin Skadron (University of Virginia, United States)
Performance modeling of memory-bound kernels for Processing-In-Memory(PIM) architectures (abstract)
PRESENTER: Khyati Kiyawat
13:00-13:50 Session 9A: Research Shorts #5
Chair:
Maha Eloun (Randolph-Macon College, United States)
Location: Olsson 005
13:00
Meriel von Stein (University of Virginia, United States)
Sebastian Elbaum (University of Virginia, United States)
Distribution-Aware Feature Mitigation for Testing and Evolving Autonomous Robots (abstract)
PRESENTER: Meriel von Stein
13:20
Shawal Khalid (Virginia Tech, United States)
Chris Brown (Virginia Tech, United States)
Smart Contract Generation: A Comparison Between Generative AI Tools (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shawal Khalid
13:00-13:50 Session 9B: Research Shorts #6
Chair:
Dee Weikle (James Madison University, United States)
Location: Olsson 009
13:00
Grace Chamberlain (James Madison University, United States)
Kendra Letchworth-Weaver (James Madison University, United States)
Lily Jade Joyce (James Madison University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States)
Computational Investigation of High Entropy Oxides (abstract)
13:20
Huayu Liang (Virginia Tech, United States)
Understanding End User and Software Engineer Perceptions of Dark Patterns (abstract)
13:00-13:50 Session 9C: Male Allies: Birds of a Feather
Chairs:
Jason Forsyth (James Madison University, United States)
Robbie Hott (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Olsson 018
13:00
Jason Forsyth (James Madison University, United States)
Robbie Holt (University of Virginia, United States)
Male Allies Birds of a Feather (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jason Forsyth
14:00-14:50 Session 10A: Research Shorts #7
Chair:
Zhuojun Duan (James Madison University, United States)
Location: Olsson 009
14:00
Tatiana Chakravorti (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Sarah Rajtmajer (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
A survey study of research reproducibility and transparency in India and USA (abstract)
14:20
Xinyu Wang (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Sarah Rajtmajer (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
Understanding the disparity between Public and Private Opinion in Social Media (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xinyu Wang
14:00-14:50 Session 10B: Research Shorts #8
Chair:
Megan Olsen (Loyola University Maryland, United States)
Location: Olsson 011
14:00
Yanfu Yan (William & Mary, United States)
Kevin Moran (University of Central Florida, United States)
Denys Poshyvannyk (William & Mary, United States)
Enhancing Code Understanding for Impact Analysis by Combining Transformers and Program Dependence Graphs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yanfu Yan
14:20
Prianka Mandal (William & Mary, United States)
"Belt and suspenders" or "just red tape"?: Investigating Early Artifacts and User Perceptions of IoT App Security Certification (abstract)
14:00-14:50 Session 10C: Graduate School Panel
Chair:
Jason Forsyth (James Madison University, United States)
Location: Rice Hall 130
Jason Forsyth (James Madison University, United States)
Pinar Yanardag (Virginia Tech, United States)
Pursuing Graduate School in Computing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jason Forsyth
15:00-16:00 Session 11: Closing and Keynote #3
Chairs:
Robbie Hott (University of Virginia, United States)
Briana Morrison (University of Virginia, United States)
Nada Basit (University of Virginia, United States)
Location: Chemistry 402
15:00
Cynthia Bailey (Stanford University, United States)
Computing with a Conscience: crafting a career that matches your values (abstract)