Search Tapia Program

— 2 people · 1 presentation

Capital One

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

— 3 people · 2 presentations

Clark Atlanta University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

CMD-IT

— 2 people · 1 presentation

Cornell University

— 2 people · 1 presentation

CRA-WP

— 1 person · 1 presentation

— 1 person · 1 presentation

DevColor

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Duke University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Eli Lilly and Company

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Emory University

— 4 people · 2 presentations

Ernst & Young

— 1 person · 1 presentation

— 2 people · 1 presentation

Georgia State University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

— 2 people · 2 presentations

Johnson C. Smith University

— 2 people · 2 presentations

Grinnell College

— 4 people · 2 presentations

Howard University

— 4 people · 4 presentations

IBM

— 2 people · 2 presentations

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Kean University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

L&T Technology Services

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Massachusetts Institution of Technology

— 1 person · 1 presentation

National Center for Artificial Intelligence of Chile (CENIA)

— 2 people · 1 presentation

Meta Inc

— 2 people · 1 presentation

Microsoft

— 2 people · 2 presentations

Microsoft Research

— 1 person · 1 presentation

MIT

— 1 person · 1 presentation

— 1 person · 1 presentation

NCWIT

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Netflix Inc

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Texas A&M University-Central Texas

— 2 people · 1 presentation

Ohio State University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

PNC

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Rem

— 3 people · 1 presentation

RenderATL

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Stanford University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

— 1 person · 1 presentation

The Product Builders

— 1 person · 1 presentation

ThemeHealth

— 1 person · 1 presentation

UC Davis

— 1 person · 2 presentations

UNC Charlotte

— 1 person · 1 presentation

University at Buffalo

— 1 person · 1 presentation

University of California, Berkeley

— 1 person · 1 presentation

University of Central Florida

— 1 person · 1 presentation

University of Chicago

— 1 person · 1 presentation

University of Ghana

— 1 person · 1 presentation

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

— 1 person · 1 presentation

— 2 people · 1 presentation

— 2 people · 1 presentation

— 3 people · 1 presentation

University of Notre Dame

— 1 person · 1 presentation

"Are YOU Future Ready? The Evolution of the Software Engineer"

— 2 people · 1 presentation

University of Utah

— 1 person · 1 presentation

University of Virginia

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Vanderbilt University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Vierra Digital LLC

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Voorhees University

— 1 person · 2 presentations

Wesleyan University

— 1 person · 1 presentation

Presentations

Workshop

3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Davon Cannon

Director, Software Engineering

Brandon Williams

Manager, Software Engineering

“Needs to be Integrated Into Everything” Instructor Perspectives on Addressing Computing Student Well-being with Social Emotional Learning

Posters

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Darren "Ren" Butler

Andrew Begel

A Bayesian-Optimized Ensemble Deep Learning Framework for Automated Detection and Classification of Retinal Diseases using OCT Images

Posters

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Gifty Duah

Theophilus Dwamena Frimpong

Eric Nyarko

University of Ghana

A Prototype “Born Accessible” Program State Visualizer

Posters

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Posters

Adaptive Trend Extraction in Financial Time Series Using ℓ₁ Trend Filtering

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Augustine Manu-Frimpong

Argonne National Laboratory

Tutorial

Agentic AI Tutorial

3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Matthew Dearing

University of Chicago

Posters

AI-Driven Scaffolding Using RAG-Finetuned Chatbot for Novice App Developers

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Anan Afrida

Wesleyan University

MIT

Presentation

Assistive Technologies in a Global Enterprise

3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Kevin Grogg

Ernst & Young

Posters

Audio Deepfake Detection Beyond Models: A Human-Centered Perspective

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Courtney Lambright

Georgia State University

Workshop

Beyond the Finish Line: Nightmares, Imposter Phenomenon, and Healing for Women Earning the PhD in STEM

9:00am - 10:15am EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Dean and Professor

Associate Professor

Clark Atlanta University

Plenary

Beyond Translation: Lessons from Building Latin America's First Foundation Model

9:00am - 10:30am EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Omar Florez

National Center for Artificial Intelligence of Chile (CENIA)

Birds of a Feather

Black in Computing

3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Dale Marie Wilson

Teaching Professor

Marlon Mejias

Johnson C. Smith University

Felesia Stukes

Associate Professor

Jody Marshall

Director of Graduate Studies

BOF: Hispanics in Computing

Associate Professor

Dean and Professor

Associate Professor

Birds of a Feather

4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Manuel A. Pérez Quiñones

UNC Charlotte

Karla Badillo-Urquiola

University of Notre Dame

Alvaro Monge

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Brianna B. Posadas

Oscar Veliz

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Patricia Ordóñez

Birds of a Feather

Bridging the Gap - Preparing Diverse Talent for the Corporate Tech Landscape

1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Steve Graham

Director of Diversity & Development

Kaleb Moody

Build Your First Mobile App in Under an Hour Using GenAI

Workshop

1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Ariella Mendel

Senior Android Engineer & Adjunct Professor

Capital One

Panel

Causal Inference and Network Science: Bridging the Delta Between Academic Methodology and Tech Industry Intelligence

9:00am - 10:00am EDT Friday, September 18th

People

David T. Jacho-Chavez (Moderator)

Panel

Workshop

CMD-IT Academic Careers Workshop (Open Invitation)

10:00am - 4:00pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Workshop

CMD-IT Industry Leadership Workshop Pt. 1

10:30am - 11:45am EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Joseph Dinunzio

UC Davis

Workshop

CMD-IT Industry Leadership Workshop Pt. 2

1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Joseph Dinunzio

UC Davis

Panel

Workshop

CMD-IT Student Professional Development Workshop Panels (Open Invitation)

1:00pm - 3:05pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Workshop

CMD-IT Student Professional Development Workshop Resume Session (Groups Assigned During Panel Session)

3:10pm - 4:15pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Posters

Cognitive Offloading in Agile Teams; How AI Reshapes Risk Assessment and Planning Quality

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Adriana Caraeni

Artemis

Alex Shick

Cultivating Tomorrow’s Innovators: The Transformative Power of Undergraduate Research

Vierra Digital LLC

Panel

10:30am - 11:30am EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Kori Inkpen

Partner Research Manager

Microsoft Research

Lilian Ngweta

AI Research Scientist

IBM

Jessica de Souza

Postdoctoral Associate

Duke University

Megan Wang

Recent Graduate

Vanderbilt University

Humishka Zope

Recent Graduate

Stanford University

Posters

Culturally Aware Multilingual Model Routing through a Mixture-of-specialists Framework

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Presentation

Data Science Demystified: Data, Machine Learning and Problem Solving

10:45am - 11:45am EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Domonique Taylor

Business Analytics Lead

PNC

Posters

E.A.G.L.E. Autonomous Drone Vision: Edge-Aware Guidance for Lightweight Evaluation

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Jessica Morris

University of Central Florida

Posters

Efficient Implementations of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check Codes on Distributed Quantum Computing

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Shahram Babaie

University at Buffalo

Posters

Enhancing Accessibility of a Web-based Scheme IDE to Improve Inclusion in Computing

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Nicole Moreno Gonzalez

Grinnell College

Presentation

Faster Science, Worse Scientists? What We're Learning from AI-Assisted Scientific Discovery in Practice

1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Rubén Lozano-Aguilera

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

Presentation

First-Gen in Tech: A Group Conversation About the Rules Nobody Teaches You

10:45am - 12:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Shanna-Shaye Forbes

L&T Technology Services

Skylar Hernández Gregorio

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Evette Maynard-Noel

Presentation

From Academia to Industry: Lessons on Navigating Big Tech and Building a Startup

1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Senior Product Designer

Meta Inc

Rem

Workshop

From Git Commit to PR: Making Your First Open Source Contribution

10:30am - 11:45am EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Suma Movva

Microsoft

Hackathon

Generative AI Student Hackathon sponsored by Capital One

12:00pm - 5:45pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Birds of a Feather

Impact-Focused Research in Computing: Publishing, Career Paths, and Community-Building Without Losing Your Values

9:00am - 10:00am EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Alex Cabral

Josiah Hester

Physical Intelligence at the Edge (PIE): An Introduction to Research Opportunities

Workshop

4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Christopher Stewart

Ohio State University

Panel

Proven Inclusivity: Undergrad and Grad Programs

10:30am - 11:30am EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Valerie Taylor (Moderator)

President and CEO

Posters

Query Reformulation and Dense-Lexical Retrieval Fusion for Multi-Turn Retrieval-Augmented Generation

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Sijan Shrestha

Howard University

Workshop

Reworking Agentic Workflows for Non-Technical Tech Roles

3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Oluwaseun Omotayo

Sr. Technology Analyst

Eli Lilly and Company

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

Olasubomi Olawepo

Technical Product Manager II

The Product Builders

Posters

SignBridge: A Multi-Agent Adaptive ASL--English Tutor for Equitable Bimodal Learning

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Holy Agyei

Sky High, Greener Insider: Unearthing Performance and Sustainability Trade-Offs for Serverless and HPC Platforms

Posters

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Amit Samanta

University of Utah

Posters

SLM-First Automated Feature Engineering

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Isaac Kobby Anni

Bowling Green State University

Posters

Solicitation Wizard: Retrieval Configuration Sensitivity in Multi-Document RAG Systems for Grant Requirement Extraction

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Jose Marchena

Kean University

Presentation

Supercharging Data Interviews in the AI Era

1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Ashi Tyagi

Engineering Analyst

Undergraduate Research Opportunities: LEAP Alliance Panel Discussion on REU Programs

Panel

3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT Friday, September 18th

People

Michelle Lane

Massachusetts Institution of Technology

Amanda Beyer- Purvis

Tiffany Grimsley-Vazquez

University of California, Berkeley

Posters

Understanding Large Language Model inference on Cloud Datacenter GPUs: A Quantization perspective

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Afsara Benazir

University of Virginia

Workshop

Unmasking and Defending Against Prompt Injection in Large Language Models

10:45am - 12:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Deepti Gupta

Texas A&M University-Central Texas

Posters

Using Quality Diversity for Motif Discovery

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Alejandro Medina

Baylor University

Birds of a Feather

You Don’t Have to Do This Alone: Building Community for Graduate Applications

10:45am - 11:45am EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Ashlyn Campbell

PhD Student

Kaila Dawkins

PhD Student

Your Brain Trust: How Peer Mentorship Unlocks Harder Technical Problems

Panel

1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

People

Tech Lead

Sessions

Posters

ACM SRC Competition Round II (Graduate)

4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Posters

ACM SRC Competition Round II (Undergraduate)

4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Snack Break

Afternoon Break

4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Snack Break

Afternoon Break

2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Tech Talk

Capital One Tech Talk

1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Career Fair

Career Fair & Tech Expo

10:30am - 12:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Lunch

CMD-IT Faculty Only Networking Lunch

12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Reception

CMD-IT VIP Reception (Private Event)

5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Workshop

GEM Fellowship Workshop

9:00am - 10:15am EDT Friday, September 18th

Lunch

General Lunch & Networking

12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Lunch

General Lunch & Networking

12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Mother's Room

8:00am - 6:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Mother's Room

8:00am - 8:00pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Mothers' Room

9:00am - 7:00pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Lunch

Posters

Private Student Poster Presenters' Luncheon (Invitation Only)

10:30am - 11:45am EDT Thursday, September 17th

Quiet Room

9:00am - 7:00pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Quiet Room

8:00am - 8:00pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Quiet Room

8:00am - 6:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Plenary

Reception

Tapia 2026 Welcome & Reception

4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Reception

Tapia Awards Reception & Dance Party

6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Check-In

Tapia Conference Check-In

8:00am - 6:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Check-In

Tapia Conference Check-In

9:00am - 7:00pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Check-In

Tapia Conference Check-In

8:00am - 6:30pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Posters

Tapia Student Poster & ACM Student Research Competition Round I

12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Career Fair

Tech Expo & Career Fair

5:00pm - 7:00pm EDT Wednesday, September 16th

Career Fair

Tech Expo & Career Fair

1:15pm - 5:00pm EDT Thursday, September 17th

Career Fair

Tech Expo & Career Fair

9:00am - 12:00pm EDT Friday, September 18th

Contributors

Bowling Green State University

Samuel Alake

Senior Product Designer

Meta Inc

Isaac Kobby Anni

Paul Anunda

IBM

Shahram Babaie

University at Buffalo

Karla Badillo-Urquiola

University of Notre Dame

Andrew Begel

Massachusetts Institution of Technology

Afsara Benazir

University of Virginia

Amanda Beyer- Purvis

Tech Lead

Alex Cabral

Ashlyn Campbell

PhD Student

Davon Cannon

Director, Software Engineering

Adriana Caraeni

Kaila Dawkins

PhD Student

Argonne National Laboratory

Jessica de Souza

Postdoctoral Associate

Duke University

Matthew Dearing

Theophilus Dwamena Frimpong

National Center for Artificial Intelligence of Chile (CENIA)

Omar Florez

Shanna-Shaye Forbes

L&T Technology Services

Steve Graham

Director of Diversity & Development

University of California, Berkeley

Tiffany Grimsley

Kevin Grogg

Ernst & Young

Deepti Gupta

Texas A&M University-Central Texas

Skylar Hernández Gregorio

Josiah Hester

David T. Jacho-Chavez (Moderator)

William Hill

RenderATL

Kori Inkpen

Partner Research Manager

Microsoft Research

Clark Atlanta University

Courtney Lambright

Georgia State University

Michelle Lane

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

Rubén Lozano-Aguilera

Augustine Manu-Frimpong

Jose Marchena

Kean University

Jody Marshall

Director of Graduate Studies

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Evette Maynard-Noel

Alejandro Medina

Baylor University

Marlon Mejias

Ariella Mendel

Senior Android Engineer & Adjunct Professor

Kaleb Moody

University of Central Florida

Nicole Moreno Gonzalez

Grinnell College

Jessica Morris

Srisuma Movva

Microsoft

Lilian Ngweta

AI Research Scientist

Software Engineer

Technical Product Manager II

Software Engineer

Sr. Technology Analyst

Eli Lilly and Company

Patricia Ordóñez

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Manuel A. Pérez Quiñones

Associate Professor

Johnson C. Smith University

Sijan Shrestha

Howard University

Christopher Stewart

Ohio State University

Felesia Stukes

Associate Professor

Dean and Professor

Business Analytics Lead

President and CEO

Engineering Analyst

Megan Wang

Recent Graduate

Vanderbilt University

Associate Professor

Manager, Software Engineering

Dale Marie Wilson

Teaching Professor