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Sriparna Saha is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. She has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers. Her current research interests include machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, multiobjective optimization and biomedical information extraction. Her h5-index is 40 and the total citation count of her papers is 8333. Her lectures include "AI/ML Applications in Digital Health," "Multimodal Information Processing: Some Recent NLP applications," and more.

The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and exchange ideas, rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries, understand the practical applications of their research and gain recognition.

Heloisa Caroline de Souza Pereira Candello is a research scientist at the Responsible & Inclusive Group at the IBM Research laboratory in São Paulo, Brazil. She applies her expertise in user research and user experience design to create engaging and ethical AI interactive systems, especially conversational interfaces. One of her primary interests has been in applying design methods to uncover how people use multimedia features in their mobile devices in cultural heritage settings. In her interview, she discusses user experience fostering ethical AI systems, recent changes in chatbots, how cultural heritage impacts the use of multimedia features, and more

Jonathan Crowcroft is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, and the Chair of the Program Committee at the Alan Turing Institute. He is credited with fundamental contributions to rural broadband, helping extend the Internet to multimedia, and founding the field of opportunistic networking. In his interview, he discusses Internet bandwidth challenges, data vulnerabilities in the cloud, his work with the ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law, and more.

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You can use your technical skills for social good and offer volunteer support on software development projects to organizations who could not otherwise afford it. SocialCoder connects volunteer programmers/software developers with registered charities and helps match them to suitable projects based on their skills, experience, and the causes they care about. Learn more about ACM’s new partnership with SocialCoder, and how you can get involved.

ACM has launched a local events initiative in several major US cities to help computer professionals like you build personal networks of smart technical people nearby. You can share work experiences and insight, discuss new research ideas and provide guidance in finding a job or launching a new venture.