TCB Hands-on Workshop in Urbana
Participant Profile

There were thirty participants in the workshop. Each individual applied for a seat, and was selected from a pool of 93 applicants.

The average profile of a participant was a graduate student pursuing a doctorate.  While all participants were affiliated with educational institutions, there was variety in their citizenship.  A distribution of education is provided in Table 1 and of industry in Table 2.

Current Educational Standing Number
Doctorate 11
Graduate Student 17
Masters Student 0
BA/BS Degree 1
Total 30

Table 1: Breakdown of Participants and their current educational standing.
Location Number
Education 30

Table 2: Distribution of types of participant work locations.

 

Name Institute Education
Godwin Amo-Kwao University of New Mexico Graduate Student
Tristan Bereau Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Student
Workalemahu Berhanu University of Central Florida Graduate Student
Jennifer Brookes Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Associate
Keith Callenberg University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Niels Johan Christensen University of Copenhagen Postdoctoral Associate
Thomas Cundari University of North Texas Faculty
Ying Ding University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Ralitsa Dragomirova University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Associate
Aninditta Dutta University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Robert Elder University of Colorado - Boulder Graduate Student
Sally Fisher University of Richmond Undergraduate
Mert Gur Koc University Graduate Student
Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez Harvard University Graduate Student
Sefa Nur Karalti University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Prashant Kumar University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Bonnie Merchant Duquesne University Graduate Student
Sayan Mondal Cornell University Graduate Student
Hlengisizwe Ndlovu University of Leeds Graduate Student
Jessica Sarver University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Andrej Savol University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Indira Shrivastava University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Associate
Timothy Nino Travers University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student
Manuel A. Valera Slippery Rock University Faculty
Zunjing Wang Carnegie Mellon University Postdoctoral Associate
Sangwook Wu University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Associate
Ruijun Zhao Purdue University Postdoctoral Associate
Elia Zumot University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Associate
Jozef Hritz University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Associate
Luis Cueva-Parra Auburn University Montgomery Faculty