VA-WHPC hosted 10 students as they gave lightning talks on their research to members of the HPC community from across Virginia. Each presenter had 3 minutes and 1-2 slides to tell us all about their research. The speakers used this opportunity to practice their presentation skills and share their research with a diverse audience!

Scroll to the bottom of this page to see the announcement of the winners for Best Presentation and Best Halloween Costume.

Watch the Recording

Featured Speakers:

• Soukaina Amniouel, George Mason University: A machine learning-based approach for drug response prediction in ovarian cancer patients
• Eleni Adam, Old Dominion University: Analysis of SubtelomereTelomere Regions of Metastatic Cancer Genomes
• Rebekah Fogarty, Virginia Tech: Dynamics and Conformational Heterogeneity of the PIM1 G-Quadruplexes from Polarizable Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• Emma Cleveland, Virginia Tech: Characterizing Oligomeric Amyloid-β42 and Lipid Interactions Through Molecular Dynamics: A Computational Approach for Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
• Ranya Fischer, University of Virginia: Analysis of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) for COVID-19 Using County-Level Data
• Anna Schmedding, William and Mary: Transient Faults in Autonomous Vehicle Neural Networks: Resilience Evaluation and Mitigation
• Sabiha Salma, George Mason University: GUIEvo: Automated Evolution of Mobile Application GUIs from Mockups
• Alina Enikeeva, University of Richmond: What’s up with the cluster availability?
• Shawal Khalid, Virginia Tech: Blockchain oriented Software Engineering
• Grace Chamberlain, James Madison University: Computational Investigation of High Entropy Oxide Materials

Moderators:

• Eric Walter – William & Mary

https://youtu.be/PDXXeRelTnM

Winners for Best Presentation

1. First prize: Rebekah Fogarty
   
2. Runner up: Grace Chamberlain
   

Winner for Best Halloween Costume

1. Eleni Adam