Tag Archive: CRA-E Graduate Fellows

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Student Highlight: Improving Security and Privacy Education for Low-Income Students


By Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) and Emma McDonald (CRA-E Fellow, University of Alberta) This Q&A highlight features Katherine Quintanilla, an Honorable Mention in the 2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Katherine is an undergraduate at Tufts University, with a double major in Computer Science and Child Study & […]

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Navigating the World of Computer Architecture from Chip Design to Formal Verification


By Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) and Emma McDonald (CRA-E Fellow, University of Alberta)   This Q&A highlight features Viansa Schmulbach, an Honorable Mention in the 2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Viansa finished her undergrad in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley (UC […]

Headshot of Anya Ji, B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology,  and M.Eng. in Computer Science Cornell Headshot of Anya Ji, B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology,  and M.Eng. in Computer Science Cornell 

Between Mind and Machine: NLP Discoveries


By Yasra Chandio (CRA-E Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary This Q&A highlight features Anya Ji, a Finalist in the 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Anya finished her undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Psychology and her M.Eng in Computer Science at Cornell […]

Optimizing Code Performance in Serverless Environments


By Yasra Chandio (CRA-E Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) This Q&A highlight features Shreyas Kharbanda, an Honorable Mention in the 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Shreyas finished his undergraduate degree at Purdue University and is now pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science […]

Emma McDonald Selected as CRA-E Graduate Fellow


By Barrington Davis, Program Associate, CRA-E CRA’s Education Committee (CRA-E) has recently selected its 2024 CRA-E Graduate Fellow – Emma McDonald, from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Emma (she/her) is a PhD student in Computing Science at the University of Alberta supervised by Carrie Demmans Epp. She earned her master’s degree from […]

Exploring the Restorative Potential of Nature Through Virtual Reality


By Yasra Chandio (CRA-E Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) This Q&A highlight features Rachel Masters, who received an Honorable Mention in the 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Rachel finished her undergraduate degree at Colorado State University (CSU) and is now pursuing a […]

Unveiling Patterns: Undergraduate Ventures Into Statistically Significant Pattern Mining


By Yasra Chandio (CRA-E Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) This Q&A highlight features Stefan Walzer-Goldfled, a Finalist in the 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Stefan finished his undergraduate degree at Amherst College and is now pursuing a Master’s in Environmental Modelling at […]

Undergrad Uses Recursive Data Structures to Enhance Analysis of Parallel Programming


By Yasra Chandio (CRA-E Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) This Q&A highlight features Francis Rinaldi, an Honorable Mention in the 2022 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Francis earned their bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), and they continued […]