NSF HDR Postbaccalaureate Workshop 2023

20 Jun 2023, 09:00 → 21 Jun 2023, 13:00 US/Pacific

UCSD

This workshop located at UC San Diego will bring together postbaccalaureate fellows from all NSF HDR institutes to present their research, network, provide feedback on the programs, learn about cutting-edge data science research, and prepare for the next phase of their education/training/employment. Travel and lodging support will be provided for participants.

Venue: 
Martin Johson House (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/about/venues/martin-johnson-house)
8840 Biological Grade, La Jolla, CA 92037

Organizing Committee

• Anthony Aportela (UCSD)
• Javier Duarte (UCSD)
• Janina Hakenmueller (Duke University)
• Elham Khoda (University of Washington)
• Melissa Quinnan (UCSD) 
   

Administrative support: Daniela Roman-Gutierrez (UCSD)

Sponsors:

• Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3)
• Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE)
• Institute for Data Driven Dynamical Design (ID4)
• Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP)
• Imageomics Institute

 

 

Tuesday 20 June

09:00 → 10:20 Introduction

Convener: Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

HDR_PostbacWorkshop_20June2023.pdf

09:20 Bottom-up manifold learning with low distortion

Speaker: Prof. Gal Mishne (UC San Diego)

HDR_presentation.pdf

10:20 → 10:40 Coffee

10:40 → 12:30 Postbac/Student Symposium

Convener: Dr Ayman Nasser (Utah State University)

10:40 Observing Scenarios and Low Latency EM Training

Abigail Gray is an A3D3 postbaccaulareate fellow working with Professor Michael Coughlin at the University of Minnesota on multimessenger astronomy.

Speaker: Abigail Gray (University of Minnesota)

Observing Scenarios and Low Latency EM Training.pdf

11:05 Surrogate models to predict storm surge hydrodynamics over evolving landscapes and climate forcings

Mohammed is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University working on hydrology and water resources, and artificial intelligence. He is part of the I-GUIDE project. Hid presentation today about Surrogate models to predict storm surge hydrodynamics over evolving landscapes and climate forcings

Speaker: Mohammad Ahmadi Gharehtoragh (Purdue University)

Final_Ahmadi_PP.pdf

11:30 Denoising Autoencoder for raw, wireplane, waveforms in DUNE’s LArTPC detector

Van Tha Bik Lian is an A3D3 postbaccalaureate fellow working with Professor Kate Scholberg at Duke University on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

Speaker: Van Tha Bik Lian (Duke University)

Lian_workshop_slides

Talk_ A3D3 Postbac Workshop .pdf

11:55 Discovering Ultracool Dwarfs in Deep Surveys using Machine Learning Methods

Malina Desai has recently graduated from the Physics Department at UC San Diego. She will start as an A3D3 postbaccalaureate fellow this summer, working with Dr. Erik Katsavounidis and Professor Phil Harris at MIT on multimessenger astronomy.

Speaker: Malina Desai (UC San Diego)

HDR Postbacc Workshop: Desai Presentation

HDR Postbacc Workshop_ Desai Presentation.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:40 Postbac/Student Symposium

Convener: Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US))

13:30 Anomaly Detection at CMS L1 Trigger

Speaker: Andrew Skivington (University of California-San Diego, Duarte Lab)

HDR_A3D3_postbac_update_06_20_23 (1).key

HDR_A3D3_postbac_update_06_20_23 (1).pdf

13:55 Visual Alchemist: Visualization tool for data-driven materials science

Bruktawit Teklay Amare is an ID4 postbaccalaureate fellow working with Professor Alvitta Ottley at Washington University in St. Louis on developing visual analytic tools to support domain scientists in the material discovery process.

Speaker: Bruktawit Teklay Amare (Washington University in St. Louis)

Visual Alchemist.pdf

Visual Alchemist Presentation.pptx

visual alchemist recording.mov

14:20 Using convex feature selection to improve offline movement decoding

Lauren Peterson is an A3D3 postbaccalaureate fellow working with Professor Amy Orsborn at the University of Washington on neuroscience.

Speaker: Lauren Peterson

lnp_nsf_2023.pdf

lnp_nsf_2023.pptx

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee

15:00 → 16:20 Academy/Industry Panel

Convener: Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

15:00 Panel

Panelists:

Ben Kries is a Senior Data Scientist at Apple. Previously he was a postdoctoral research associate at Fermilab. He received his Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University.

Philip Hebda is Senior Data Scientist at Roblox. He was previously at Pinterest and Netflix. He received a Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University.

Rushil Roy is System Engineer at Qualcomm. He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Machine Learning and Controls at UC San Diego.

Olivia Weng is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego.

Christian Aganze is a Ph.D. student in Astrophysics at UC San Diego.

Anthony Aportela is a Ph.D. student in Physics at UC San Diego.

Questions:

What kinds of positions did you consider in your job search and why?
What are the most useful skills in your current job that you learned during your undergraduate career?
If you conducted research during your undergraduate career, how useful was that experience for your current position?
What do you wish you knew before you started applying to your current career?
Are there any skills you wished you had developed more before your current position?
How has work/life balance impacted your current career and career progression?
Where do you see your career progressing in the next 5 years?

For those that went to grad school:

What made you decide to go to graduate school?
What about graduate school is different from your expectations as an undergraduate?

For those in industry:

What made you decide to go into industry rather than academia?
What surprises you most about working in industry?
What backgrounds (majors, previous careers, etc.) or skills does your company look for in hiring?

Speakers: Anthony Vizcaino Aportela (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Ben Kreis (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Christian Aganze (UC San Diego), Olivia Weng, Philip Hebda (Princeton University (US)), Rushil Roy

17:00 → 19:00 Reception

Wednesday 21 June

09:00 → 10:00 Towhall

Convener: Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

09:00 Townhall for feedback

Speaker: Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

Townhall Minutes

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 11:40 Professional Development

Convener: Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US))

10:20 How to write a research paper

Speaker: Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US))

How to write a research paper_HDRpostbac2023.pdf

paper_writing_elham

11:00 Interactive session

Speaker: Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US))

11:40 → 12:00 Wrapup

Convener: Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

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