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WiDS CENTRALMASSACHUSETTSCONFERENCEMeet today’s PresentersMARCH 2, 2020
A n d r e a B aya s Al b u j aIn Andrea’s role as a Training Engineer at Mathworks, shedelivers training sessions on Data Science and other relatedtopics to a wide array of customers.Andrea’s role entails interfacing with customers to assistthem with understanding their educational needs andsuggesting content that would be helpful to their applications.Andrea is a WPI Alum where she earned both her Bachelorsand Masters of Science degrees in Mathematics. She alsohas a strong background in Data Science and in many otherfields.
D r . An d r e a Ar n o l dDr. Nancy baymDr. Andrea Arnold is an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Mathematical Sciences at WPI. Her research isin the field of inverse problems and uncertainty quantification,which involves estimating unknown system parameters usingindirect observations and analyzing the changes in predictedoutcomes due to changes in the inputs.Dr. Nancy Baym is a Senior Principal Researcher atMicrosoft Research New England, where she conducts basicresearch into how people understand and act with newcommunication technologies in their relationships.Dr. Arnold’s work focuses on the design and analysis ofefficient and robust nonlinear filtering algorithms for state andparameter estimation. She applies these algorithms inanalyzing real-world data from areas of the life sciences and engineering, with a specific interest in patient-specific models forbiomedicine.A pioneer in the field of internet research, Baym wrote someof the first articles about online community. With JeanBurgess, she is the author of Twitter: A Biography(forthcoming 2020, NYU). Her recognitions include theFrederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study ofCommunication and Technology awarded by theInternational Communication Association, the namingof the Nancy Baym Book Award by the Association ofInternet Researchers, and an Honorary Doctorate fromthe Faculty of Information Technology at the University ofGothenburg.Nancy earned a Ph.D. from theUrbana Champaign.University of Illinois at
Dr. Fernanda CampelloDr. Fernanda Campello is a data scientist in the DellTechnologies Edge/IoT Division at VMware. As a data scientist,Fernanda works on developing analytics methodologies and usecases to gain insight and unlock the value from data, going frombusiness and analytics problem framing, to model developmentand deployment.Prior to joining the Dell Technologies Edge/IoT Division,Fernanda was a senior data science consultant at Dell EMC,developing analytics projects in several industries, includinghealthcare, utilities, finance, insurance, and biotech.Fernanda holds a Ph.D. in Operations and Information Systemsfrom the University of Alberta in Canada, a Master’s Degree inIndustrial Engineering and a Bachelor’s Degree in ElectricalEngineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, inBrazil.Dr. Esra CansizogluEsra Cansizoglu has been working on machine learning andcomputer vision problems in various domains: from understandinginterior design to object localization for robotic perception.Esra earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering fromNortheastern University and an MS in Computer Science fromBoston University. She worked at Mitsubishi Electric ResearchLabs as a research scientist and later she joined the computervision team at Wayfair working on image-based models forproduct recommendation.Dr. Cansizoglu recently joined the Facebook Boston office as amachine learning engineer.
Rachel JohnsonMelanie JutrasRachel Johnson is an Application Engineer for theAerospace Industry at MathWorks, where she focuses ondata analytics and predictive maintenance with MATLAB.Melanie is a seasoned professional with more than 20 yearsof experience in software engineering.Prior to MathWorks, Rachel worked as an aerodynamics andpropulsion analyst for the Office of Naval Intelligence, andspent several years teaching high school math, physics, andengineering.Rachel holds a B.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering fromPrinceton University, an MS in Aerospace Engineering fromthe University of Maryland, and an M.A.T. in MathematicsEducation from Tufts University.Rachel is also a WPI and former visiting scholar of theMassachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI.Melanie holds a BS and MS degrees in Computer Scienceas well as her most recent MS degree in Data Science fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute.Melanie works as a Data Scientist for The MITRECorporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. Her areas of workand research include Robust and Sparse PrincipalComponent Analysis, anomaly detection and dimensionreduction techniques applied in the cybersecurity andhealthcare domain.
Aushi kapurwanDr. Jean KingArushi has been an integral part of the #womeninSTEM initiativeand is involved in CUwiP, TechTogether and CreatedBy events.Jean King joined the WPI community as the Peterson FamilyDean of Arts and Sciences in 2017. She is a professor in theDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology.Arushi is a USC Alum who loves to create products thatbenefit humankind by infusing technology and buildingcollaborative teams. Her greatest achievements are those whereshe can collectively create a positive impact and help society.Arushi is working as a software engineer at EngineeringDevelopment Group on Parallel Computing Technologies tooptimize solvers in MATLAB.Dr. King’s research uses functional magnetic resonanceImaging (fMRI) to identify and monitor neuronal plasticityassociated with addiction, ADHD, depression, fearfulness,anxiety, autism and neurological disorders (PD and TBI) inanimal models with the hope of finding clues to help usunderstand these conditions in humans.Prior to joining WPI, Jean was vice provost for biomedicalresearch at the University of Massachusetts Medical School;a tenured professor of psychiatry, radiology, and neurology;and director of the university’s Center for ComparativeNeuroimaging.
President Laurie LeshinLaurie Leshin was an accomplished leader in academia andgovernment service before joining WPI. She had roles as theDean of the School of Science at Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute, a scientist for the Mars Curiosity Rover mission, andas Deputy Director of NASA’s Exploration Systems MissionDirectorate. In that position Laurie oversaw NASA’s futurehuman spaceflight programs and activities.Laurie also serves in leadership positions for manyacademic- and science-focused organizations beyond WPI.Dr. Eleanor LoiaconoEleanor Loiacono is Professor of Information Technologyand Data Science at WPI in the Robert A. Foisie School ofBusiness.Dr. Loiacono is the Founder and Director of the InclusiveDesign and Accessibility (IDEA) Hub at WPI, which wasestablished to address the needs of people with differingabilities across technologies and environments.Eleanor’s research centers on the intersection of technologyand the user. For more than 20 years, Dr. Loiacono hasfocused on how people feel about the technology they useand how technologies, such as mobile apps and social media,can improve users’ experiences.
Dr. Rodica NeamtuDr. Elke RundensteinerDr. Neamtu is a data mining researcher who investigateshow to develop and leverage ground-breaking techniques toexplore time series datasets at the confluence of theoreticalcomputer science and application domains. These includemedicine, neuroscience, economics, transportation, andcomplex decision making.Dr. Rundensteiner is the founding director of the WPIData Science Program and Professor in Computer Scienceat WPI. Elke is also an internationally recognized expert inbig data analytics.Rodica has more than fifteen years of teaching experience invarious academic institutions and is committed to using herlove and talent for teaching and research to empower othersthrough education to make a difference in the world.Rodica is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of theWPI Bucharest Project.Her recent research interests include scalable machinelearning and knowledge discovery, event sensor streamanalytics, intelligent decision making, and visual andcomputational big data analytics infrastructures.Elke’s work is been supported by government agenciesincluding DARPA, NSF, NIH, DOE, and FDA, and byindustry including HP, IBM, Verizon Labs, GTE, NEC,AMADEUS, Charles River Analytics, and by labs such asMITRE Corporation.
Jaya ShankarDr. Erin SoloveyJaya Shankar leads an engineering team for compiling andgenerating efficient code for deep learning applicationstargeting hardware such as embedded GPUs and CPUs. Jayahas also worked on product development for C/C codegeneration and verification from MATLAB/Simulink products.Erin T. Solovey is an Assistant Professor of ComputerScience at WPI. Erin’s research expertise is in emerginghuman-computer interaction modes and techniques, suchas brain-computer interfaces, physiological computing,wearable computing, and reality-based interaction.Jaya is a founding member of the GPU Coder product forgenerating CUDA code from MATLAB which won the 2018Vision Product award at the Embedded Vision Alliance in theSoftware and Algorithms Category.Erin’s research is supported by the NSF and has receivedawards including the NSF/CRA Computing InnovationFellowship and three ACM CHI Best Paper AwardHonorable Mentions.Jay earned a MS in Electrical Engineering from Utah Statemajoring in signal/image processing domain.Erin received a BS in computer science from Harvard, andher MS and Ph.D. in computer science from Tufts University. Prior to joining WPI , she was a professor at DrexelUniversity and a postdoctoral fellow in the Humans andAutomation Lab at MIT.
Erin received a BS in computer science from Harvard, and her MS and Ph.D. in computer science from Tufts Universi-ty. Prior to joining WPI , she was a professor at Drexel University and a postdoctoral fellow in the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT. Jaya Shankar leads an engineering team for compiling and
