CyPy: Python Boot Camp- Fall 2023
This hands-on course/bootcamp is designed to help you get started on programming in Python and get you coding on your own. We will also try to provide some good coding suggestions. Almost all instruction will be hands-on in a computer lab and hence this bootcamp can be useful both to students who have never ever coded before as well as to those who have coded in another language/software such as C, Java or MATLAB, but never in Python.
Graduate Organization for Women (GrOW)- ECpE
The primary aim of this organization is to facilitate and nurture productive exchanges and partnerships among women faculty members and graduate students, fostering an environment of support and mentorship. By creating opportunities for networking and knowledge sharing, the organization seeks to empower its members in their academic pursuits and professional growth.
CyMath
CyMath is a mathematics tutoring program that provides school-year-long weekly small-group Math support to grade school students from historically underrepresented backgrounds in STEM through the entire school year. The tutors are graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, most of whom volunteer their time. As it grows, it may also include undergraduate student tutors. Because of the cumulative nature of mathematics education, if there is knowledge missing in students' learning in early grades, it is difficult to address it in high school and very difficult to do so if the student is already in college. Starting the interventions in Grade 3, and following the students through the school years allows tutors to fill in the learning gap while it is still quite small. The eventual goal is to ensure that these students pursue and thrive in math-intensive majors in college.
Highlights of my work in different venues:
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Purdue University, ECE: I gave a talk at Purdue University, on Multi-Task Representation Learning for Sequential Decision Making.
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IIT Kharagpur, IEEE: I gave an invited talk at IIT Kharagpur, organized by IEEE Kharagpur section; Women in Engineering (WIE), and Control System Society.
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INFORMS 2022: I gave an invited talk at in the "Predictive Analytics for Game Theory" session at INFORMS, 2022.
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TrAC, ISU: I gave an invited talk at the Translation AI Center, Iowa State University.