Keynote description: This talk will describe the technical foundations of modern Artificial Intelligence and its potential to transform science and society.  It will also discuss the perils of AI including disinformation, encoding systemic bias and eroding privacy.  The talk will also address what young computer scientists can do to help AI reach is promise while minimizing negative impact. 

Biography: Melanie E. Moses is a Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the University of New Mexico and an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute. She earned a B.S. from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems and a Ph.D. in Biology from UNM. Her interdisciplinary research crosses the boundaries of Computer Science and Biology by modeling search processes in complex adaptive systems such as ant colonies and immune systems, including the immune response to COVID. She builds bio-inspired swarms of robots to autonomously cooperate with each other. Recently her team has taken these robots into the field to monitor the gas emissions from volcanoes. She is building an agent based model to understand how fish foraging protects coral reefs. She has mentored dozens of graduate and undergraduate students and led projects including NM CSforAll, the NASA Swarmathon, and the Google ExploreCSR Swarmathon:TNG to engage thousands of women and URM students from high school through graduate school. She co-founded the UNM-SFI Working Group on Algorithmic Justice, is part of the UNM ADVANCE program to support women faculty in STEM, and she currently serves on the board of the Computing Research Association-Widening Participation.

Biography: Nicole Lloyd-Ronning is an astrophysicist in the Computational Physics and Methods group (CCS-2) at Los Alamos National Lab, and teaches physics and astronomy at the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos.  She models the multi-scale physics behind the bright, explosive deaths of very massive stars, the black holes they create, and uses these explosions as tools to learn about star formation and their evolution in our universe.  She is the author of Great Mysteries in Astrophysics: A Guide to What We Don’t Know, a book about the most pressing unsolved puzzles in our universe. She grew up all over the U.S. and Germany, moving about every two years, and graduated high school in Honolulu, Hawaii. She received her B.A. in physics from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, and has been living in and loving New Mexico since 2003. In her free time, she likes to run, swim, listen to music, read, cook, and eat.

Machine Learning based Accessible Mobile
App for Activity Recognition and Freezing of
Gait Monitoring in Parkinson's Patients     
 

La Cueva High School

Team Members: Abitpal Gyawali, Aditya Koushik, Aiden Shoppel,
Amandeep Prasankumar, Venkata Menta