2024 ERSP National Conference (Virtual)

About the Conference

The third ERSP National Virtual Conference will be held on September 21, 2024 from 10am PT/1pm ET through 1:30pm PT/4:30 pm ET on Zoom. It will provide a chance for students who have participated in ERSP to present their work to a national audience.

You can find information about the 2023 ERSP National Conference here and the 2022 ERSP National Conference here.

Attend the Conference

The conference will be held on Zoom. It is free and open to everyone who wants to attend (ERSP participants, all other students, faculty, parents, friends, etc.). You must register in advance by filling out the registration form below. After you register, you will receive a Zoom link for the conference. Note that the registrations are reviewed manually, so it will likely take a few days before you receive the link.

Click here to Register. Registration is free! - CLOSED

Conference Program (Subject to Change)

All times in Eastern Standard Time.

1-1:15: Introductions/icebreakers
1:15-1:50: Live keynote speaker: Sophie Groenwold
1:50-1:55: Break
1:55-3:10: Longer Talks* (10-minute pre-recorded talks with 5-minute live Q&A) [single session: See below for details.]
3:10-3:25: Small group networking with poster presenters
3:25-3:30: Break
3:30-4:10: Lightning talks* (5-minute pre-recorded talk with 5 minutes live Q&A) [parallel sessions. See below for details.]
4:10-4:15: Closing (optional continued networking after the conference)

*All presentations will be pre-recorded. At least one presenter from each team will be present at the conference. Attendees can interact with the presenter in Zoom chat while their presentation video is playing, during the 5-minute live Q&A, and during the networking sessions.

Important Dates

Submissions due: July 3 2024, 11:59pm.
Notification of acceptance: On or before August 6, 2024
Video presentations due: September 6, 2024
Conference: September 21, 2024, 1pm Eastern Time until 4:30pm Eastern Time. (Registration Closed)
Presenter registration deadline (at least one presenter must register by this date): Sept 15.
General registration deadline: Sept 20.

Submit Your Work

We invite all students who have participated in ERSP at any site in any cohort to submit their ERSP poster for presentation at the National Virtual Conference. At least one research team member must be available to attend the full conference to interact with the audience.

To submit a poster to be considered for presentation, please prepare the following materials:

A 250-word (<2000 characters) abstract
A PDF of your poster

Submission link (CLOSED)

Selection Criteria

Submissions will be reviewed for the research's clarity, scope, and quality.

Posters that are accepted for presentation will be accepted as one of the following presentation types:

Long format talks: Presenters will have a 15-minute slot to present and discuss their work. They will pre-record a 10-minute video presentation and have 5 minutes to interact with the audience. Long-format talks will be given in a single-track session.
Lightning talks: Presenters will have minutes to present their work. They will pre-record a 5-minute lightning talk and have time for 5 minutes of interaction with the audience. Lightning talks will be given in parallel tracks.

Instructions for Presenters

Deadline to submit recorded presentations: September 6, 2024 (11:59 pm Pacific Time)
Submit the link to your presentation here (CLOSED)

All presentations will be pre-recorded and played from video at the conference. Presenters will be required to record and submit a 10-minute (long presentation) or 5-minute (lightning talks) video presentation by September 6. Your video must meet the following requirements:

It must be uploaded to YouTube. Please make sure your video is either public or unlisted (i.e. we will be able to see it but no one else will be unless you give them the link), but NOT private.
It must be captioned with subtitles. Do not rely on the automatically generated subtitles. Click the link for more information about how to caption your video on YouTube. Remember to leave space at the bottom of your slides/video for these captions.
It must be no longer than the time limits posted above.
The video should have clear sound and visuals.

You may use any method you like to create your videos. Two popular methods are to use Zoom or PowerPoint. There are countless resources and videos online about how to record presentations using either of these methods, but if you are having trouble, feel free to reach out.

Longer Talks Detailed Schedule (2-3pm Eastern Time)

Click on the poster titles to access the posters.

Single Track:
- Large-Scale Sidewalk Navigation Dataset for Visually Impaired Assistance Using Quadruped Robots
  Shiven Patel, Antoinette Reid, Ron Kleinhause-Goldman, Dang Nguyen
- Counterspeech Generation with Large Language Models
  Amy Kodama, Isaac Sandoval-Vazquez
- Country in the Middle: Measuring Paths between People and their Government
  Samvrit Srinath, Manan Patel, Shambhavi Mittal
- Memory Lane: Exploring the Potential of Vision Language Models in Memory Tasks
  Frank Zhong, Qi Wu, Towela Phiri, Ajay Liu
- Evaluating Slang for View Synthesis
  Hayden Kwok, David Choi, Taiki Yoshino, Rick Rodness

Lightning Talks Detailed Schedule (3:30-4:10pm Eastern Time)

Click on the poster titles to access the posters.

Track 1:
- Improving LAMP Primer Design and Debugging Techniques
  Shruti Bhamidipati, Uliyaah Dionisio, Sonia Fereidooni, Vinuthna Maradana
- Hand Recognition Virtual Whiteboard
  Erika Sy, Ibrahim Sagir, Zahabiya Lokhandwala
- Leveraging Power Laws To Estimate Triangle Count
  Somfenna Enwerekowe, Om Mehta, Ayushman Satpathy, Riddhimaan Senapati
- Detector-based Importance Sampling for Computer Vision
  Lucky Kovvuri, Tan Le, Larissa Zhu, Mantra Burugu
Track 2:
- Targeted Edge Perturbations on GNNs: Exploring Greedy, Heuristic, and Gradient-Driven Approaches
  Will Corcoran, Niyati Mummidivarapu, Wyatt Hamabe
- Leveraging Virtual Pets to Enhance Productivity
  Tahina Saint-Louis, Atonbara Diete-Koki, Khushi Rajoria, Ananya Krishnan
- Privacy-Preserving Crowd Monitoring
  Jarvis Woodard, Zainab Jibrin
- Violin Performance Rendering Using Deep Neural Networks
  Wanning Lu, Hoang Phan, Diego Gomez
Track 3:
- Beyond English: Assessing Memorization of Translated Texts in Large Language Models
  Alisha Srivastava, Nhat Minh Le, Emir Korukluoglu, Duyen Tran
- Depth Sensing Technology Deep Dive
  James Petkin
- CrapGPT: Predicting Dietary Patterns from Gut Microbiome Profiles
  Ismail Ahmad Faiz, Arjun Kohli, Yongto Yoto Kim
- Exploring Urban Data
  Paola Reyes

Leadership Team

Conference chair: Diana Diaz Herrera, University of Illinois, Chicago (contact: dmdh@uic.edu)
Program and organizing committee:
- Christine Alvarado, UC San Diego
- Diba Mirza, UC Santa Barbara
- Neena Thota, UMass Amherst
- Winnie Yu Ng, Southern Connecticut SU
- Renata Revelo, U of Illinois Chicago

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