Talks and Poster Presentations
Highlighted Conference Talks
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
- “DepreST-CAT: Retrospective Smartphone Call and Text Logs Collected During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Screen for Mental Illnesses”, 2022
- “StudentSADD: Rapid Mobile Depression and Suicidal Ideation Screening of College Students during the Coronavirus Pandemic”, 2022
- “Left On Read: Reply Latency for Anxiety & Depression Screening”, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 7th International Workshop on Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and Intervention, 2022
Please refer to Publications for additional conference presentations associated with conference papers or abstracts.
Panels
- S Yoon, G Kovacs, C Zheng, EJ Lee, ML Tlachac, “College of Business Faculty Spotlight Research Panel”, Research and Engagement Day (REDay), Bryant University, 2023
- Charlie Morse, Angela Rodriguez, Kerry-Anne Williams, ML Tlachac, Robbie Star, “Student Mental Health”, Critical Conversations Series, 2021
- M Jutras, J Shankar, ML Tlachac, “Demystifying the Role of Women in Data Science”, Women+ in Data Science (WiDS) Central Massachusetts Conference, WPI, 2020
Invited Talks
- “Digital Mental Health Screening with Text Logs”, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, the University of Rhode Island, 2023
- “Screening for Depression with Retrospectively Harvested Private versus Public Text”, Graduate Colloquium, Florida State Online ACM Computer Club, 2020
- “Utilization of Predictive Modeling to Identify Emerging Statewide Antibiotic Resistance Trends in Massachusetts”, Massachusetts Healthcare Associated Infection/Antibiotic Resistance Technical Advisory Group Meeting, 2018
- “Sociodemographic Factors Influencing Household Energy Efficiency in the United States”, Colorado Energy Office, 2015
Campus Research and Teaching Talks
Fall Faculty Institute Day, Bryant University
- “Essays in the Age of ChatGPT”, 2023
Annual Spring Teaching Summit: Teaching and Learning Demos, Bryant University
Triannual Cross-Disciplinary Research, Teaching, and Technology Symposium at Bryant University
- “Text Mining for Shakespeare Plays”, Summer 2023
- “Bayesian Estimation instead of t-tests for Comparison of Depression Screening Score”, Fall 2022
- “Emutivo Digital Phenotype Datasets”, Summer 2022
Data Science Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), WPI
- “Dissecting the Paper Creation Process”, 2022
- “Dissecting the Poster Creation Process”, 2022
- “Developing a Professional Poster: My Poster Evolution”, 2021
- “Tackling the Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Crisis Using Predictive Analytics”, 2017
Mathematics Retreat, UWEC
- “Help the Robots Stack Boxes: Pattern Avoidance in Forests of Binary Trees”, 2015
- “The Slippery Slope of the Polar Bears: A Mathematical Model of their Population”, 2015
Campus Research Presentations
Celebrating Academic Excellence, Bryant University
- “Common Themes in the Experiences of Asexual College Students”, 2023 (poster)
- “Detecting Depressive Symptoms with Time Series of Call and Text Logs”, 2023 (poster)
- “Text Reply Latencies for Mental Illness Screening”, 2022 (poster)
- “Stereotype Threat Impact on Mobile Depression Screening”, 2022 (poster)
- “Digital Biomarker Datasets for Mental Illness Screening”, 2022 (poster)
Graduate Research Lightning Talks, Arts and Sciences Week, WPI
- “Collecting Data to Screen for Student Mental Health”, 2021 (5 min talk)
Annual Sustainability Project Competition, WPI
- “Mobile Data Collections for Mental Illness Screening”, 2021 (poster)
- “Depression Screening with Text Messages”, 2020 (poster)
Annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, WPI
- “Screening for Depression and Anxiety with Text Logs” 2022
- “Improving Depression Screening with Text Messages”, 2021
- “Text Generation with Signal Retention for Depression Screening”, 2020
- “Predicting Depression from Retrospectively Harvested Smartphone Data”, 2019
Annual Graduate Research Innovation Exchange, WPI
- “StudentSADD: Student Suicidal Ideation and Depression Detection Dataset”, 2022 (5 min talk)
- “Transfer Learning for Depression Screening with Text Messages”, 2021 (5 min talk)
- “Patient Text Message Data Generation”, 2020 (poster)
- “Predicting Mental Health from Smartphone Text Messages”, 2019 (poster)
- “Tackling the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis using Longitudinal Massachusetts Antibiogram Data”, 2018 (poster)
Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, UWEC
- “Asexuality: An Emerging Sexual Orientation and Identity”, 2015 (poster)