Opening Presentation – 10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Your Data
- Jenny Muilenburg, Data Curriculum and Communications Librarian, UW Libraries
Should We Bother? Prioritizing New Cancer Technologies
- Jeanette Birnbaum, Health Services
Jeanette’s research career began in a laser lab where she studied an imaging system that had potential applications to health care…some day. Through a post-bachelor fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at UW, where she also completed her MPH, she happily transitioned into population health research that has implications for health care today. Her PhD work in Health Services uses modeling to provide early-stage evaluations of new cancer technologies. Jeanette’s dissertation papers have won student prizes from UW’s Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program and the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.
Tsunami Prediction using Adjoint Methods.
- Brisa Davis, Applied Mathematics
Brisa received her BS in Mathematics, BS in Computer Science, and BA in Physics all from Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. She is currently a first year Ph.D. student in the Applied Math department. Her research focuses on improving adaptive mesh refinement strategies through the use of adjoint differential equations for modeling tsunami wave propagation.
Looking Beyond Grades: Predicting Academic Success with Student Personality Traits
- Chaya Jones, Evans School of Public Affairs
Chaya is a second-year master’s student at the Evans School of Public Affairs, graduating this June. She has pursued advanced study in quantitative research, statistical analysis, and data visualization, with primary policy interests in education and social welfare policy. Her research is on predicting success in accelerated coursework among high school students, with a particular focus on identifying underrepresented students who may experience barriers to enrollment. Chaya is currently seeking opportunities to work on interesting and socially focused research problems after graduation. Don’t be surprised if she arrives on roller skates.
Predicting Gender in Social Media
- Gayathri Vasudevan, Institute of Technology
Gayathri completed her undergraduate studies in Information Systems at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. She is currently pursuing her masters in Computer Science and Systems at the Institute of Technology, UW Tacoma. Her research home is UW Tacoma’s Center for Web and Data Science, where she is deeply invested in research in social networks and big data analytics.
Attempting to Know What We Don’t Know: Combating Wage Theft in Washington State
- Isaac Sederbaum, Evans School of Public Affairs
Isaac (Izzy) is a second-year master’s student at the Evans School of Public Affairs, focusing on wage and employment policies and workers’ rights issues, as well as evaluation. His research focuses on assessing the extent of wage theft in King County and Washington State, in hopes of broadening the scope of the current labor debate.
The Rhetoric of Digital Futures
- Ian Porter, Communication
Ian is a PhD student in Communication. He is interested in rhetorics of and in the material world, particularly rhetorics of and in digital materialities. Although he is perennially unsure of his dissertation topic, he is currently strongly considering a rhetorical study of new materialist philosophies and the rhetorics of strange and enchanting materialities.
- Rafa Murillo, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Built Environments
Rafa is a graduate student pursuing Master of Urban Planning and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from the University of Washington – College of Built Environments. During his time in graduate school, he served as a policy analyst at UW’s León Center in Spain for the Rights, Governance and Culture in Sustainable Access to Water Program.
Predicting Costs of Medical Episodes using Analytics
- Si-Chi Chin, Institute of Technology
Si-Chi is currently a postdoc at the Center for Web and Data Science. She obtained her Ph.D. in Informatics at the University of Iowa in May 2013. Her research interests include the areas of knowledge discovery, healthcare analytics, and quantitative analysis of information. Si-Chi enjoys outdoor exploration and the breathtaking natural landscapes in the northwest. Outside her work in analytics research, she has a passion for gardens and cuisine.
Computational Design of Protein-Based Nanomaterials
- Jacob Bale, Biochemistry
Jacob is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the UW Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate program, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a member of Dr. David Baker’s laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry. Broadly speaking, he is interested in using our understanding of natural protein structures and functions to develop methods for the design of novel proteins and protein-based materials customized to address modern day challenges in medicine, environmental biotechnology, and renewable energy.
Forecasting the Future of Library Leadership
- Sofia Leung, Information School and Evans School of Public Affairs
Sofia is a third-year graduate student pursuing concurrent masters’ in Library and Information Science and Public Administration, graduating in June. Her interests include academic library management and advocacy, and diversity in librarianship. She currently works in the UW Libraries’ Research Commons as a graduate student specialist with a focus on programming. After graduation this June, Sofia hopes to work in an academic or public library system.