The 2017 symposium team

The 2017 Panel of Judges

Esteban Adame: is a new Stevenson alumni and now works as an academic advisor at Kresge College. He has participated as a qualitative researcher in both the Working for Dignity and No Place Like Home research projects.

Charles Baxley: Is a UCSC alumni and is an aspiring developmental psychologist. He is passionate about research and plans to attend a PhD in psychology in the near future. Charles was also the co-founder of the first SURU-HASS event in 2016.

Stella Mazeika: is a fifth year PhD student in computer science. Her work is on notions of style, and how to incorporate it into procedural generation systems.

Speakers

We would like to thank Provost Alice Yang and Doctor Edward Kehler for providing the opening and closing remarks. They provided insight into the importance of student research. Student involvement in research is valued by the Stevenson College community.

We would like to thank Nirupama Chandrasekhar and Teodor Jaich from the Gail Project for participating as the Key Note Speakers at the Symposium. They provided a great example of student collaboration and motivation to create significant research.

Symposium Coordinators

Talia Waltzer: has a background in psychology and cognitive science, and is currently a third-year phD student researching moral development and reasoning at UC Santa Cruz. Talia is passionate about creating educational opportunities for people through both basic research and applied work.

Carmelle Bareket-Shavit: is a current undergraduate psychology and cognitive science student and research assistant in the Early Social Interaction Lab at UC Santa Cruz. She plans to pursue a career in cognitive fields of research. She is specifically interested in research related to perception and belief perseverance.

Akim Williams: attends UCSC as a cognitive science student. He is involved in the Early Social Interaction Lab focusing on moral reason of plagiarism and the Re-embodied Cognition Lab at UCSC focusing on human-robot interaction. He plans to pursue a career involving research.