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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Lily Yassemi
Computer Science
Award Winner: Lily Yassemi
Co-Curricular: Outstanding Student of the Year
Lily Yassemi was nominated by Michelle Gledhill and Victoria Petrillo for the Outstanding Student of the Year award in the co-curricular category.
Lily is the Founder and President of the Society of Women in STEM Humboldt organization and has been the President of the Computer Science Club at Cal Poly Humboldt. Lily is a trailblazer at Cal Poly Humboldt, demonstrating an exceptional balance between academic excellence, leadership, and extracurricular involvement.
It both clubs she raises funds through grassroots efforts and has produced rapid growth in club membership. In Society of Women in STEM club Lily has built a supportive community with resources and networking. For Computer Science club, Lily has organized industry talks, developed and led technical workshops, and facilitated networking opportunities that have helped students round out their education and build professional connections. She also brings an exciting and engaging mix of activities to the club’s meetings like workshops where students learn how to make their own apps.
She led the club’s participation in the prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), a globally recognized competition, where Cal Poly Humboldt achieved a top-10 placement—the first time the university has appeared on the ICPC global leaderboard. Lily also spearheaded the development of Hackathon for Social Good, an ambitious event that will bring students together to solve real-world challenges proposed by local non-profits.
Lily pours an extraordinary amount of time and energy into her work. Between leading two STEM-focused academic organizations, organizing high-impact events, and ensuring meaningful opportunities for students, she has made a lasting impact on both the campus and the broader community.
Congratulations Lily!
Cheyenne Ty
Computer Science
Award Winner: Cheyenne Ty
Academics & Research: Outstanding Student of the Year
Cheyenne Ty was nominated by Sharon Tuttle and Kamila Larripa for the Outstanding Student of the Year award in the academics & research category.
Kami invited Cheyenne in Fall 2023 to join her National Science Foundation-funded project using mathematical models to investigate the impact of dysfunctional immune cells in the brain. A colleague gave her a very high recommendation after she took a mathematical proofs course with him.
Cheyenne has been the most outstanding undergraduate researcher I have worked with. She quickly came up to speed, devouring large volumes of peer-reviewed biological papers without a background in biology, learned a new coding language and became the expert coder in the group, and contributed a great deal to writing a manuscript, making figures, and overall project management in the first year together. She represented our group by presenting our project at the CSU Research Competition in April 2024. We published a paper from this work, and Cheyenne was with me every step of the way in terms of contributions, writing, revising and organizing supplemental material to be in line with best practices in reproducible research. She is the first author on this paper due to her excellent work.
We are in our second year together of the same project, and have welcomed three new students into the lab group. Cheyenne has stepped into a mentorship role, and continues to push the project ahead with her independence and self-motivation. She is able to explain the necessary biology to our new lab members as well as I can. We are now adding metabolic pathways to our model, and Cheyenne again is delving into the biology and translating mechanisms into code and running simulations. She is a wonderful role model for more junior lab members, and someone I can absolutely count on to contribute to the project with both her work ethic and scientific insights.
Cheyenne has two peer-reviewed publications (one as a first author) and has presented at multiple scientific conferences. This level of activity is quite extraordinary for an undergraduate student.
Her contribution to research projects in the areas of literature review, machine learning experiments, statistical and computational analysis, and programming has been exceptional. As a diligent student with a passion for both mathematics and computer science, her professionalism that surpasses her peers.
Congratulations Cheyenne!!
Kay Vargas and Dr. Sherrene Bogle
Computer Science
The NSF funded ACOSUS project has received another peer reviewed acceptance to present their findings in Phoenix Arizona at the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference. This publication includes Kay Vargas, a recent CS graduate now pursuing a PhD at University of California, Santa Cruz and research assistant of Dr. Sherrene Bogle.
The citation is below:
Standfast*, J., Franco*, J., Carabello*, R., Vargas*, K., Wan, Y., Wang, X., Bogle, S., Aggarwal, P., & Rayana, S., (2024) Deciding on a College Transfer: Uncovering Transition Queries and Concerns via Reddit Topic Modeling, DSI Annual Conference November 2024 Status = ACCEPTED
Dr. Sherrene Bogle, Dr. Marjan Asadinia, & Desai, M., Rumale
Computer Science
Dr. Sherrene Bogle and collaborators from CSU Northridge including Dr. Marjan Asadinia and graduate students Desai, M., Rumale, A. will present findings on their NSF funded research "CISE-MSI : RCBP-ED: CCF-FET : Improving Reliability and Durability in Phase Change Main Memory (PCM)" at the Future Technologies Conference in November 2024.
The work is published with Springer and the citation is below:
WIRE: Write Energy Reduction via Encoding in Phase Change Main Memories (PCM)). In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2024, Volume 3. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1156. Springer, Cham.
Cheyenne Ty, Dr. Sherrene Bogle
Computer Science
Cheyenne Ty, a Computer Science Senior/Research Assistant, and Dr Sherrene Bogle and presented findings on their NSF funded research "CISE-MSI : Building an AI Counseling system for Underrepresented CS transfer students: ACOSUS” at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) Northwestern Regional Conference in October 2024.
The citation for the published work is below:
Ty*, C., Vargas*, Wan, Y., K., Wang, X., Aggarwal, P., Rayana, S., & Bogle, S., (2024), Investigation of Computing Transfer Students Success, CCSC Northwestern Regional Conference 2024. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 20(1)
Sherrene Bogle, Marjan Asadinia
Computer Science
Dr. Sherrene Bogle and collaborators from CSU Northridge including Dr Marjan Asadinia and graduate students Desai, M., Rumale, A. will present findings on their NSF-funded research "Improving Reliability and Durability in Phase Change Main Memory (PCM)" at the Future Technologies Conference in November 2024. The work is published in Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2024, Volume 3. FTC 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1156. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73125-9_38
Sherrene Bogle, Kay Vargas
Computer Science
The NSF funded ACOSUS project has also received another peer reviewed acceptance to present their findings Saturday 11/23 in Phoenix Arizona at the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference. This publication includes Kay Vargas recent CS graduate and Dr. Bogle
Standfast*, J., Franco*, J., Carabello*, R., Vargas*, K., Wan, Y., Wang, X., Bogle, S., Aggarwal, P., & Rayana, S., (2024) Deciding on a College Transfer: Uncovering Transition Queries and Concerns via Reddit Topic Modeling, DSI Annual Conference November 2024 To be published in Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference Conference Proceedings
Sherrene Bogle, Cheyenne Ty, Kay Vargas
Computer Science
Cheyenne Ty, a Computer Science Senior/Research Assistant, and Dr Sherrene Bogle and presented findings on their NSF funded research "CISE-MSI : Building an AI Counseling system for Underrepresented CS transfer students: ACOSUS” at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) Northwestern Regional Conference in October 2024. The citation for the published work is below:
Ty*, C., Vargas*, Wan, Y., K., Wang, X., Aggarwal, P., Rayana, S., & Bogle, S., (2024), Investigation of Computing Transfer Students Success, CCSC Northwestern Regional Conference 2024. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 20(1)
Colton Boyd, Brianna Rennard, Cristina Portillo, Kayah Ray, Nievita Bueno Watts
Computer Science
2023 LSAMP PROUD
Outstanding Research in STEM
Please find attached the 2023 LSAMP PROUD Cal Poly Humboldt page featuring:
Cristina Portillo, Wildlife
Brianna Rennard, Zoology
Kayah Ray, Geology
Colton Boyd, Computer Science
Congratulations to these scholars and a huge thank you to their mentors.
Giselle Urquijo, Kana Voelckers, Dr. Marjan Asadinia
Computer Science
Computer Science students Giselle Urquijo and Kana Voelckers, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Dr. Marjan Asadinia, presented their poster on Improving Reliability and Durability of Phase Change Main Memories at this years Northwestern Regional Conference hosted by the Consortium for Computing Sciences in colleges, winning Best Poster Award.