2024 OMSCS Conference Program
* Indicates events available to virtual attendees
Monday, April 29
6:00-9:00 pm: OMSCS 10th Anniversary Celebration and Welcome Reception (at the Biltmore Hotel)
Tuesday, April 30
8:00 am: Check-In Opens
8:00-9:30 am: Breakfast
| Main Auditorium (Room 236) | Rooms 323-324 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30-9:50 am | Welcome Address* | ||
| Alex Duncan & Hannah Moon | |||
| 9:55-10:05 am | GT Services: College of Computing Office of Development* | ||
| Lana Gilyalova | |||
| 10:05-10:25 am | BREAK | ||
| 10:25-10:45 am | Machine Learning Potentials for Large-Scale Simulations* | 10:25-11:25 am: | Managing Your Cloud Infrastructure with Code |
| Geonu Kim | Chinmay Anaokar | ||
| Traditional Talk | Workshop (registration required) | ||
| 10:50-11:10 am | Applying Learning from OMSCS to Build My First AI Product* | ||
| Li Liu | |||
| Traditional Talk | |||
| 11:15-11:35 am | MuseChat: A Conversational Music Recommendation System for Videos* | ||
| Zhikang Dong | |||
| Traditional Talk | |||
11:40 am-12:45 pm: Lunch
| Main Auditorium (Room 236) | Rooms 323-324 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:45-12:55 pm | GT Services: Alumni Association* | ||
| Emily Palubeski | |||
| 1:00-2:00 pm | OMSCS Through The Years* | 1:00-2:00 pm | Hypermedia-Driven Applications with Flask and HTMX |
| Moderator: Nikita Burks-Hale | Shuwen Qian | ||
| Panel Discussion | Workshop (registration required) | ||
| 2:00-2:20 pm | BREAK | ||
| 2:20-2:30 pm | Pathways to PhD* | ||
| Nick Lytle | |||
| 2:35-2:55 pm | AI-Powered Foreign Language Conversation Practice with LLMs* | 2:35-3:35 pm: | Introduction to Quantum Computing with Qiskit |
| Owen Sizemore | Lakshmi Yendapalli | ||
| Traditional Talk | Workshop (registration required) | ||
| 3:00-3:20 pm | A Founder's Guide to Building a Software Startup* | ||
| Will Gleason | |||
| Traditional Talk | |||
| 3:25-3:45 pm | How to Win a Hackathon: The Importance of Storytelling in Tech* | ||
| Maritza Mills | |||
| Traditional Talk | |||
| 3:45-4:05 pm | BREAK | ||
| 4:05-4:25 pm | Igniting Innovation: Navigating the Startup Journey with ATDC* | ||
| Robert "RED" Daniel | |||
| 4:25-4:35 pm | Day 1 Closing Remarks* | ||
| Alex Duncan | |||
| 4:35 pm | Group Picture | ||
5:00-7:00 pm: ATDC Cocktail Reception (at ATDC: 75 5th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30332)
Wednesday, May 1
7:30 am: Check-In Opens
7:30-9:00 am: Breakfast
| Rooms 156-158 | Rooms 323-324 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 am-11:30 am | Career & Resource Fair | ||
| 9:30-11:00 am | Demo Session | ||
12:00-1:05 pm: Lunch (if you're not participating in the workshop at 1:05, sessions will resume at 1:30)
| Main Auditorium (Room 236) | Rooms 323-324 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:05-1:30 pm | BREAK | 1:05-2:05 pm: | An Introduction to ROS: The Industry-Standard Robot Operating System |
| Ibrahim Abdulhafiz | |||
| Workshop (registration required) | |||
| 1:30-1:50 pm | Data to Insights: A Deep Dive into Django's Fusion with D3.js and Bokeh* | ||
| Drishti Jain | |||
| Traditional Talk | |||
| 1:55-2:15 pm | DS@GT PlantCLEF 2024: Plant Biodiversity Identification Using Deep Learning* | ||
| Murilo Gustineli | |||
| Traditional Talk | |||
| 2:20-3:20 pm | AI in Education: Friend and Foe?* | ||
| Moderator: Chris Poch | |||
| Panel Discussion | |||
| 3:20-3:35 pm | BREAK | ||
| 3:35-4:45 pm | Closing Keynote* | ||
| David Joyner & Zvi Galil | |||
| 4:45-5:00 pm | Conference Closing Remarks* | ||
| Alex Duncan | |||
5:15-7:00 pm: Campus Tour (led by David Joyner)