Waterloo Women in Computer Science

Try to solve a computer science murder mystery at our first hands-on workshop! Teams will be asked to answer computer science-related questions in order to interview suspects and solve the case. Remember to bring your laptop/tablet!

Speaker:
Besat Kassaie is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo, supervised by Prof. Renée Miller, and a member of the Data Intelligence Lab and the Data Systems Group. Her research focuses on data systems, with particular interests in data intelligence, information extraction, unstructured data quality, and information retrieval. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, where her dissertation, supervised by Prof. Frank Tompa, introduced and addressed the problem of updatability in document databases.