6^th Annual Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference

MArch 9, 2019 | University of Oxford, UK

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The Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference is an annual conference that brings together junior and senior female computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge, encourages collaboration through formal and informal discussion, and provides a perfect opportunity for young researchers to present their research and get valuable feedback in an open, friendly and informal environment.

The conference is free to attend for computer scientists at all UK universities and this year will be held at the University of Oxford. It will include talks by key speakers from industry and academia who will share their experiences with the participants. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15^th February 2019 and conference registration is now open!

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Important Dates

Clear your calendar - this is going to be the best conference yet! The Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference is on 9th March, 2019, and you are invited to take part. Whether you are excited to hear from industry representatives, present your research, or do some networking, there is definitely something for you.

Abstract Submission: *DEADLINE EXTENDED* to 15^th February 2019

Current undergraduate, MPhil/MSc, PhD/DPhil female students, RAs and PostDocs are encouraged to submit abstracts for presentations and posters on their topic of research. Presentations will be 10 minutes long . There are no proceedings for the conference, and hence posters can be under submission for other conferences or workshops.

Abstracts should be of no more than one single-column page including all figures and references (format US letter size 8.5 × 11, font size no smaller than 10). Please include on the page the name, affiliation and email address of the author, research area and whether the abstract should be considered for a presentation and/or poster. Abstracts should be submitted along with your registration here.

Poster can be up to size A0. ( A1 posters are also fine!)

Notification: 26^th February 2019

Each presentation and poster abstract will be reviewed by members of the scientific committee. Rejected presentations may be offered a poster slot.

Registration Deadline: 25th February 2019
*EXTENDED to 26th February 2019*

Registrations are now open. In addition to registering, you are encouraged to RSVP to the official Facebook event and invite your friends!

Panel topic

What kinds of gender-bias exist in Computer Science workplaces?

Keynote Speakers

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Professor Rebecca Eynon

Keynote Speakers

Rebecca Eynon

Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor at
Oxford Internet Institute

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Dame Stephanie Shirley CH is a workplace revolutionary and successful IT entrepreneur turned ardent philanthropist.

Schedule

Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Mathematical Institute, University Of Oxford

9 - 10 am

Registration

10 - 10:10 am

Welcome Speech

10:10 - 10:50 am

Keynote Speech 1:
Speaker: Prof Rebecca Eynon

Title: Coding as a ‘pipeline to prosperity’?

10:50 - 11 am

Break 1

11 - 12:20 pm

Student Presentation 1

Google Workshop 1

12:20 -13:45 pm

Break 2:

Group Photo and Lunch

13:45-14:30 pm

Poster Session

14:30-15:15 pm

Keynote Speech 2:

Speaker: Dame Stephanie Shirley
Title: The Story of a Woman in Computing

15:15 -15:30 pm

Break 3:

Dame Stephanie will sign copies of her memoir for a donation to her charity, Autistica.

15:30 - 16:30 pm

Student Presentation 2

Google Workshop 2

16:30-16:45 pm

Break 4

16:45 - 17:50 pm

Panel Discussion

Theme: What kinds of gender-bias exist in Computer Science workplaces?

Format: Initial Remark Style

17:50 - 18 pm

Closing Remark

18:15 - 18:45 pm

Drink Reception at St. Anne's College

18:15 - 21 pm

Dinner at St. Anne's College

Dame Stephanie Shirley CH

Professor Rebecca Eynon

Schedule

Mroning Session

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Registration

Sign in, grab your badge

10:00 - 10:10 am

Welcome Speech

10:10 - 10:50 Am

Keynote Speech

Prof Rebecca Eynon

10:50 - 11:00 Am

Break

11:00 - 12:20 PM

Student Presentation

12:20 - 13:45 PM

Group Photo and Lunch

13:45-14:30 PM

Poster Session

14:30-15:15 AM

Keynote Speech: Dame Stephanie Shirley

00:00 AM

Agenda item

description

Student session #1

Student session #2

Lightning talks

Panelists

Winners

Every year we celebrate the best submissions to the conference and reward the authors with prizes kindly provided by Google. Here are our winners this year! Congratulations!

Best Overall Presentation

Nathalie Cauchi

Best Minute Madness Talk

Hala Lamdouar

Best Innovator

Helen Oliver

Rising Star

Julia Bibik

Rising Star

Andreea-Ioana Deac

FAQ

How much does it cost?

It's FREE! Thanks to our generous sponsors, participants don't need to pay anything.

I'm an undergrad and I don't have any research to present - is this conference for me?

YES! This conference is for students at all stages in their career!

I represent a company that is interested in sponsoring this event - who should I contact?

Thanks for your interest! For information on the opportunities available for sponsoring this exciting event, please download our sponsorship packages here and do not hesitate to contact the conference organisers using the button below!

I'm a Cambridge student - how do I get to Oxford?

The conference organiser from Women@CL (Cambridge) will be arranging free transportation to and from Oxford.

I'm not a Computer Science student and/or I don't study at Oxford/Cambridge, can I come?

You are definitely welcome to register and attend the conference! If you are not a Computer Science student, you cannot be considered for a presentation *UNLESS* you are doing research in collaboration with a Computer Science department.

Do you provide any childcare?

Please contact the organisers using the button below if you require childcare and we will be happy to arrange this!

What should I wear to the dinner?

There is no dress code, so there is no need to get changed between the conference and the dinner.

Student session #1

11:40 - 11:50

Diana popescu, Cambridge

“Network Latency in Data Centres: Measurement and Impact”

12:00 - 12:10

Cristina cadar, cambridge

"Mining large scale human mobility data for long-term
crime prediction"

11:50 - 12:00

Daniela Massiceti, Oxford

"FlipDial: A Generative Model for Visual Dialogue"

12:10 - 12:20

Helena Andres-Terre, Cambridge

"Machine Learning and Cell Decision Making"

12:20 - 12:30

andreea deac, cambridge

"Attentive cross-modal paratope prediction"

Student session #2

14:10 - 14:20

maria perez ortiz, cambridge

"Psychometric scaling and the law of comparative judgment"

14:30 - 14:40

helen oliver, cambridge

"Design Fiction for Wearables - The Story So Far"

14:20 - 14:30

harshita sharma, oxford

"Improving efficiency of fetal ultrasound screening using artificial intelligence in routine pregnancy scans"

14:40 - 14:50

nathalie cauchi, oxford

"Efficient Probabilistic Model Checking of Smart Building Maintenance using Fault Maintenance Trees"

14:50 - 15:00

eva agapaki, cambridge

"Automated 3D modelling of existing industrial facilities"

Lightning talks

16:05 - 16:10

Sian gooding, cambridge

"Complex Word Identification"

16:10 - 16:15

julia bibik, cambridge

"Code2Vec: code embeddings in Java"

Panelists

Anil Madhavapeddy

Dr Anil Madhavapeddy is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He leads the OCaml Labs group at Cambridge, and work on the MirageOS
unikernel operating system as a new foundation for networked, multi-scale applications. He also develops open-source software such as the secure OpenBSD operating system. He has worked in a variety of senior architecture, engineering, product management, sales and as well as government and research organisations for many years and a co-author of a functional programming book titled - Real World OCaml.

Gemma Gordon

Gemma Gordon is Operations Director for the OCaml Labs group based at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and the CEO of OCaml Labs Consultancy. She manages core projects of the group together with organising community events in the field of functional programming and open source. Before joining OCaml Labs Consultancy, Gemma has many years work experience with a sole trader startup and a
limited company startup - AllYearbooks.

Anna Ukhanova

Dr Anna Ukhanova is one of the Research Leads in Google Research Europe which focuses on machine learning research on a wide area of ML and AI related
topics. Anna received an M.Sc. in Information and Communication Systems from St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in Russia, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). She is a grantee of the
Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation for research work in the field of visual perception. She has been working with Google Switzerland since 2014.

Laura James

Dr Laura James is Technology Principal at Doteveryone, an independent think tank that champions responsible technology for the good of everyone in society, and Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, catalysing interdisciplinary research around trustworthy technologies. She has worked extensively in technology and leadership roles in R&D, startups, civil society, humanitarian relief and more. Laura holds Masters and PhD degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Since graduating, she has been the first employee at a connected home startup, on the management team of an AI startup, scaled a rapidly growing civic tech nonprofit, and co-founded a community workshop, a startup NGO, and most recently a member owned co-operative.

Ilona Budapesti

Ilona is founder and CEO of ilona.tech - Bringing 1M Women To Tech and also doing her MSc at Oxford, applying Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing on Buddhist texts. She is President of Oxford Entrepreneurs, which helps startup founders to scale their companies and had many years software development experience in
large tech organisations.

Alina Petrova

Alina is a third-year DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Oxford. She has studied Linguistics and NLP, and is now doing research in the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Beginning of her third year she joined two other Oxbridge students as a co-founder of a biomedical startup , which is currently operating in stealth mode.

Conference Organisers

Fatimah Ahmadi

OXWOCS

Anna Whitmore

OxWocs

Sarah Baldwin

Oxwocs

Mahwish Arif

women@CL

Scientific Committee

Dr Helena Webb

University of Oxford

Dr Jun Zhao

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Dr Elisa Passini

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Dr Maria Bada

University of Cambridge

Dr Zohre Shams

University of Cambridge

Nikhil Churamani

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

6th Annual Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference