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Minute Madness Submission
December 3, 2020
This is the perfect platform for you to talk about a project you’ve been working on no matter the scale - be it a 1B group project, your Part II dissertation, or your PhD project.
Each speaker will be given 60 seconds and 1 slide to present the essence of their project.
To avoid technical difficulties on the day, we accept submissions as a pre-recorded video. This year there will be a prize for the best minute madness presentation, so grab the opportunity!
Registration
December 1, 2020
This conference is open to everyone in STEM, regardless of gender identity.
In addition to Registering using the linked Form, we encourage you to click going on the official Facebook event and invite your friends.Â
We look forward to seeing you all there and hope you are as excited about it as we are.
Speakers
Dr Hatice Gunes
Department of Computer Science and Technology,
University of Cambridge
Artificial Emotional Intelligence for Well-being
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Designing artificially intelligent systems and interfaces with socio-emotional skills is a challenging task. Progress in industry and developments in academia provide us a positive outlook, however, the artificial emotional intelligence of the current technology is still limited. In this talk, I will present some of our research explorations in this area, including virtual reality based cognitive training with affective adaptation, and telepresence robot coach for mindfulness and well-being.
Gunshi Gupta
Deep Learning Researcher at Wayve
End-to-End Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving
The past couple of years have seen rising evidence of the scalability of deep-learning powered solutions, when they’re allowed to harness massive data and compute. In this talk, I will describe the 'fleet learning loop' at Wayve that allows us to deploy deep models learnt using demonstration data and discuss various challenges that arise in the scaling of this technology. I will also survey some recent feats from related companies in the mobility space.
Dr Helen Purchase
School of Computing Science,
University of Glasgow
Academic experiences that have excited me: a personal pot-pourri
I consider myself first and foremost an academic. I just happen to be female, and I just happen to work in Computing Science - what drives me is my role as a university academic, with all its highs and lows and in-betweens.
In this talk, I will reflect on a selection of academic experiences that have excited and driven me over almost 30 years of working in Higher Education. With a wide range of topics to choose from - outreach, technology, research, curricula, policy, teaching, leadership, administration - I have chosen to focus on four: educational technology, community outreach, research development, and students (in all their guises).
I have been fortunate to work with many inspiring and generous colleagues who have inspired me, and to have been offered several challenging and rewarding opportunities. In this talk I hope to give a flavour of my exciting academic journey so far.
Loretta He
VP at Morgan Stanley
My EPIC
No, I don’t mean my JIRA Epics
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Everyone can be epic - gender and background should not matter. In order to achieve our career ambitions, we should be eager to learn new technology, pragmatic in problem solving, innovative in our approaches and confident in our own abilities. With over 10 years of working as a developer, I will share my thoughts and experiences as a software engineer.
Greta Yorsh
Jane Street
Feedback-Directed Optimization for OCaml
Compilers can use information about most frequently-executed code paths of a program to guide optimization decisions. This method is known as
feedback-directed optimization and it can lead to significant improvements in the runtime performance of compiled
programs. The key challenge is to obtain accurate execution profile information.
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In this talk, I will describe the approach we have taken when designing OCamlFDO, a tool for feedback-directed optimization of OCaml programs. I will compare it to existing approaches and explain how the design of OCamlFDO was influenced by practical needs to fit in with different build systems, developers' workflows, and the open-source compiler itself.
Schedule
Don’t Miss Out
Welcome to Hopin
9:00 - 9:10
Reception
You can have a quick glance around the platform.
Welcome Speech
9:10 - 9:20
Main stage
A short introduction to the conference.
Keynote Speech 1
9:20 - 10:00
Main stage
Dr Hatice Gunes
Student Talks
10:00 - 10:30
Main stage
Coffee and Networking
10:30 - 10:50
Networking panel
Please grab your own hot beverage and join us for a round of networking!
Keynote Speech 2
10:50 - 11:30
Main stage
Gunshi Gupta
Poster talks
11:30 - 12:20
Main stage
A series short pre-recorded talks with a joint Q&A session afterwards.
Lunch Break
12:20-13:10
Sessions area
Network with fellow Computer Scientists over lunch.
One Minute Madness
13:10 - 13:20
Main stage
A pre-recorded Minute Madness competition with prizes!
Keynote Speech 3
13:20 - 14:00
Main stage
Dr Helen Purchase
Sponsor tech talk
14:00 - 15:00
Main stage
Jane Street
Careers fair
15:00 - 15:45
Expo area
Visit the sponsors' booths to get to know the companies and talk with recruiters.
Student talks
15:45 - 16:30
Main stage
Keynote Speech 4
16:30 - 17:10
Main stage
Loretta He
Panel Discussion
17:10 - 18:00
Main stage
Join the Panel Discussion table for some exciting conversations!
Closing Remarks
18:00 - 18:10
Main stage
Closing remarks and award ceremony
Conference Organisers
Erika Bondareva
University of Cambridge, co-chair
Marta Walentynowicz
University of Cambridge, co-chair
Lonie Sebagh
University of Oxford
Special thanks
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the last academic year's organisers, who have built a strong foundation for Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference 2020. Sadly, the conference had to be postponed from March 2020 due to the pandemic, but we hope that they are able to enjoy the results of our combined efforts!
Nicole Joseph
University of Cambridge
Huiyuan Xie
University of Cambridge
Adina Neda
University of Cambridge
Scientific Committee
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost?
Thanks to our generous sponsors this event is FREE for all attendees.
What do I wear?
There is no set dress code for the conference.
I'm not a woman in Computer Science and/or I do not attend Oxford or Cambridge. Can I attend?
This event is open to all to attend regardless of discipline or gender.Â
However, any submissions for presentations must be researched in collaboration with a Computer Science department.
My company is interested in sponsoring this event, who do I contact?
Please contact the conference organisers with your interest and we will provide you with the available sponsorship packages.
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