Save the Date: Meandering Paths: Two Women’s Journeys to Cybersecurity
2025-12-10 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event
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.

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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

Winners for Best PresentationFirst prize: Rebekah FogartyRunner up: Grace ChamberlainWinner for Best Halloween CostumeEleni Adam
