Friday, September 29, 2023

Miner School Research Symposium

at UMass Lowell

Focus on the Future:
Miner School Assistant Professors and
Fireside Chat with Rich Miner

Moloney Hall, University Crossing, UMass Lowell

220 Pawtucket St, Lowell, MA 01854

9-10am Registration and Breakfast, 10am-2pm Program and Lunch

Questions? Contact Karen Volis at kvolis@cs.uml.edu or 978-934-3642

Come learn about the research being done by the junior faculty in the Richard A. Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences!

Our Speakers

Reza Ahmadzadeh

Robot Learning, Learning from Demonstration

Hugo Akitaya

Computational Geometry, Graph Drawing

Maru Cabrera

Human-Robot Interaction, Assistive Technology

Ian Chen

Security and Privacy

Matteo Cimini

Programming Languages

Anitha Gollamudi

Language-based Security, Provably Secure Systems

Ruizhe Ma

Data Mining, Machine Learning

Rich Miner

Google Ventures, Co-Founder: Android, Wildfire, UML Alum

Sashank Narain

User Privacy, Cybersecurity

Samantha Reig

Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction

Holly Yanco

Chair, Richard A. Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences

Agenda

9:00 - 10:00

Registration and Breakfast

10:00 - 10:15

Provost Joe Hartman, Dean Noureddine Melikechi, and Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Anne Maglia

10:15 - 10:45

Fireside Chat: Rich Miner and Holly Yanco

10:45 - 12:00

Assistant Professors Ruizhe Ma, Matteo Cimini, Anitha Gollamudi, Hugo Akitaya and Reza Ahmadzadeh

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:00

Assistant Professors Sam Reig, Sashank Narain, Maru Cabrera, and Ian Chen