2023 Agenda
WiDS Central Massachusetts 2023
Hosted Via Zoom
VIRTUAL EVENT as of 03/13/2023
12:00 pm – 4:30 pm (EST)
Wednesday, March 15th (Virtual)
12:00pm – 12:15pm
Welcome
Geri Dimas, Data Science PhD Candidate, WPI
Dr. Jean King, Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Science, WPI
12:15pm – 1:15pm
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Tasha Snow, Mines Glaciology Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines
Title: Accelerating discovery for NASA Cryosphere communities with open-source data science and cloud-infrastructure
1:15pm – 1:30pm
Break
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Technical Talks
Dr. Chaitra Gopalappa, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
Talk Title: Follow the data: social factors are drives of behaviors. Building public health decision analytic models informed by data
Dr. Marina Astitha, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Talk Title: Environmental modeling for extreme weather, offshore wind farms and lake water quality: how to integrate physics-based models with machine learning
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Break
2:45pm – 3:15pm
Networking session via Zoom breakout rooms
3:15pm – 4:30pm
Panel: Data Science and Environmental Justice
Moderator:
Dr. Laureen Elgert, Department Head, The Global School, WPI
Panelists:
Brooke Williams, Associate Professor of the Practice of Computational Journalism, Boston University
Dr. Reshmi Ghosh, Applied Scientist, Microsoft
Dr. Catherine Izard, Data Science Manager at National Grid
4:30pm
Closing Remarks
Dr. Elke Rundensteiner, Professor and Director / Founder, Data Science Program, WPI