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ZAHRA ASHKTORAB [email protected] EDUCATION University of Maryland, College Park Ph.D in Information Science: Focus in HCI and Social Computing Advisor: Jennifer Golbeck ~2017 University of Maryland, College Park M.S. in Human Computer Interaction Thesis: The Relationship Between Tweets and Freedom During Elections 2013 University of Maryland College Park B.S. in Computer Science B.A. in Middle East Studies Minor: Arabic 2011 AWARDS Anita Borg Scholarship Code4Lib Diversity Scholarship Microsoft Social Media Expo: semifinalist August 2014 April 2014 March 2014 iAnon: Leveraging Social Network Big Data to Mitigate Behavioral Symptoms of Cyberbullying Future of Information Alliance Seed Grant Competition Winner 2014 November 2013 – May SERVICE Mentor for New York University Abu Dhabi Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World February 2014 Led team that developed application: OrphanLocator that used fuzzy matching to find lost children during times of disaster Student Representative for Dean Search Committee, College of Information Studies 2014-2015 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Holiday Park Senior Center, Silver Spring, MD [Instructor – “Introduction to iPads”] [Developed syllabus and overall course structure] 2013 RELATED EXPERIENCE IBM Research Center Watson Intern, IBM Almaden Research Center May 2014 – August 2014 Intern Used Topic Models to identify different types of Discourse on ask.fm; built classifiers to detect different types of discourse and analyzed correlations between discourse and personality types Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, Computation Institute, Chicago, Illinois Fellow June 2013 – August 2013 Classified tweets as pertaining to disaster or not (using Machine Learning techniques), Extracted Relevant information from tweets during disasters for Red Cross and UN Disaster relief workers, Presented work at “Data Slam” hosted by University of Chicago, Presented work at the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) poster session University of Maryland, College Park Graduate Research Assistant Sept. 2013 – Present Cyberbullying detection and prevention research: Research on automatic detection of cyberbullying in ask.fm, interface and system design to mitigate behavioral symptoms of cyberbullying Global Election Prediction Project: Collecting Twitter Data from states with varying “Freedom Statuses”, Sentiment analysis and analyzing edge relationships between influential Twitter users National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Fellow May 2012 – August 2012 Created software in image processing that reproduced #D Tumor and Organ segmentation National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution Intern June 2011 – August 2011 Created a website that showcased sustainability initiatives in the East Zone Mall of the Smithsonian, Collected data, pictures, conducted interviews to build a sustainability website National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Summer Intern Parsed files to find duplicates in Amish Genealogy Database 4, Used Ruby to update information in Amish Genealogy Database 5 May 2010 – August 2010 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Summer Intern May 2009 – August 2009 Created “Star Glyph application”: a software application in language Processing that graphically represent medical data, Presented at NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG): “Bench to Bedside Computing” Presented Poster “A General Purpose 2-D Graphics Package for Plotting Biomedical Data” TALKS AND PANELS 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration in Computing Lightning Talk in Human Computer Interaction: October 2014 iAnon: Leveraging Social Network Big Data to Mitigate Behavioral Symptoms of Cyberbullying Association for Women in Computing Panel: 2014 November 2014 Spoke on Maryland Center for Women in Computing and AWC - Grace Hopper Post-Event Networking Panel and Reception PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS 2014 Tweedr: Mining Twitter to Inform Disaster Response The 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 2014 “How do I get back to my Homescreen?”: Education on Tablet Usage for Senior Citizens Developing a Living HCI Curriculum to Support a Global Community: CHI 2014 Workshop “Twitter-Informed Disaster Relief” Poster Session at Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD); KDD for Social Good 2013 “Bear-with-me: an embodied prototype to explore tangible two-way exchanges of emotional language” Extended Abstract in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2012 “Living the good life? Mortality and hospital utilization patterns in the old order amish” PLoS One: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051560 LANGUAGES [English – native language] [Farsi – speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency] [Arabic – speak, read and write with basic competence] COMPUTER SKILLS Languages - Python, Java, C, Processing, Ruby, Ocaml, Scheme, PHP, MySQL, Javascript Software - Excel, Word, Windows Movie Maker, Power Point, Photoshop, HTML, Spotfire, Tableau MEMBERSHIPS [Association for Computing Machinery]