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 NguyenCounterspeech Generation with Large Language Models
Amy Kodama, Isaac Sandoval-VazquezCountry in the Middle: Measuring Paths between People and their Government
Samvrit Srinath, Manan Patel, Shambhavi MittalMemory Lane: Exploring the Potential of Vision Language Models in Memory Tasks
Frank Zhong, Qi Wu, Towela Phiri, Ajay LiuEvaluating 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 MaradanaHand Recognition Virtual Whiteboard
Erika Sy, Ibrahim Sagir, Zahabiya LokhandwalaLeveraging Power Laws To Estimate Triangle Count
Somfenna Enwerekowe, Om Mehta, Ayushman Satpathy, Riddhimaan SenapatiDetector-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 HamabeLeveraging Virtual Pets to Enhance Productivity
Tahina Saint-Louis, Atonbara Diete-Koki, Khushi Rajoria, Ananya KrishnanPrivacy-Preserving Crowd Monitoring
Jarvis Woodard, Zainab JibrinViolin 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 TranDepth Sensing Technology Deep Dive
James PetkinCrapGPT: Predicting Dietary Patterns from Gut Microbiome Profiles
Ismail Ahmad Faiz, Arjun Kohli, Yongto Yoto KimExploring 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