{"583769":{"#nid":"583769","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Computing Faculty, Students Participate in IEEE\/WIE Women\u0027s Leadership Summit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology was represented last week at the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.wielead.org\/program\/\u0022\u003EWomen\u0026rsquo;s Leadership Summit\u003C\/a\u003E, held on Nov. 3-4 at the Loews Atlanta Hotel, by a contingent of students and faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong faculty panelists were College of Computing Professors Dana Randall (ADVANCE Professor of Computing and Executive Director Institute for Data Engineering and Science) and Annie Ant\u0026oacute;n (Chair, School of Interactive Computing), and College of Engineering Professor Ayanna Howard (Bioengineering Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering), Leanne West (GTRI and IPaT), and Maryam Alavi (Dean of the Scheller College of Business).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, fifteen students were selected to attend from an internal competition run by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.advance.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EADVANCE\u003C\/a\u003E program, which awarded costs to attend the summit through a donation from Microsoft. Students applied and submitted vision statements for the competition, which were narrowed down and awarded by the ADVANCE professors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was really exciting for me to read the vision statements,\u0026rdquo; Randall said. \u0026ldquo;I left incredibly excited and inspired because it is not very often you get to stop and just focus on great things that our female students are doing and want to do, and they\u0026rsquo;re outrageously good.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENine College of Computing, six electrical and computer engineering, and one mathematics student were chosen overall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event hosted influential leaders from academia, industry, nonprofit, and entrepreneurship spheres, predominantly women, who shared their stories amongst four conference programs: Entrepreneurship, Academe, Leadership, and STEM outreach.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program consisted of a number of panels and keynote speeches over the course of the two days. Randall and Howard participated in the \u0026ldquo;Paths and Strategies to Successful and Fulfilling Careers in Academia\u0026rdquo; panel, while Anton joined an elite panel on academic leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne Georgia Tech Ph.D. student, Sarah Cannon in the School of Computer Science, was also a member of a panel that focused on undergraduates. The discussion, titled \u0026ldquo;Inspiring Lessons and Success Stories for the Undergrad,\u0026rdquo; included two working professionals and two current Ph.D. students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECannon is in her fourth year pursuing her Ph.D. in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization and is advised by Randall. She was excited to be a part of the conference and panel because of what the exchange of ideas with peers can lead to in her research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a broad conference, but what we\u0026rsquo;re doing here is increasingly interdisciplinary,\u0026rdquo; Cannon said. \u0026ldquo;Right now, (Randall) and I have collaborations going on with some in the physics department. That starts with people meeting and sharing what they\u0026rsquo;re doing. I was just excited to share what I\u0026rsquo;ve been working on and hear about the other fascinating things that are being done by women in STEM.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech ADVANCE was a sponsor of the summit, and Randall was a member of the organizing committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two College of Computing professors and one College of Computing student participated in panels during the Women\u0027s Leadership Summit."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2016-11-10 21:39:45","changed_gmt":"2016-11-30 17:39:32","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583768":{"id":"583768","type":"image","title":"IEEE\/WIE Women\u0027s Leadership Summit","body":null,"created":"1478813876","gmt_created":"2016-11-10 21:37:56","changed":"1478813876","gmt_changed":"2016-11-10 21:37:56","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222560","name":"WIE.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WIE.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WIE.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":566168,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/WIE.jpeg?itok=KjCrvM94"}},"61093":{"id":"61093","type":"image","title":"Dana Randall","body":null,"created":"1449176308","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:28","changed":"1475894531","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:11","alt":"Dana Randall","file":{"fid":"191271","name":"dana-randall.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dana-randall.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dana-randall.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":16094,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dana-randall.jpg?itok=1VnCSqz-"}}},"media_ids":["583768","61093"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"10626","name":"WIE"},{"id":"14107","name":"ADVANCE Women in Engineering"},{"id":"714","name":"ADVANCE"},{"id":"1235","name":"women in engineering"},{"id":"4476","name":"Women\u0027s Leadership Conference"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mitchell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer I\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.mitchell@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}