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URL:https://www.hmc.edu/calendar/events/cs-colloquium-speaker-brianna-b-po
 sadas-13/
SUMMARY:CS Colloquium: Brianna B. Posadas ’13
DESCRIPTION:How does a computer scientist build a research career around th
 e problems people actually face in the field? Brianna B. Posadas ’13 wil
 l share her personal journey to becoming an assistant professor and descri
 be how a background in human-computer interaction\, user-centered design a
 nd computing education led to agricultural technology research at Cal Poly
  Pomona.\n\nPosadas will highlight several projects that connect computing
 \, agriculture and community-engaged research: designing usable security p
 ractices for greenhouse workers\; collaborating with Pitzer College on a C
 alifornia Energy Commission project investigating agrivoltaic systems and 
 the integration of solar energy production with agriculture\; developing s
 ensor-based technologies for monitoring cows\; and using agricultural data
 sets to create more meaningful and applied experiences in computer science
  courses.\n\nTogether\, these projects illustrate how agricultural context
 s can motivate new computing research questions while creating opportuniti
 es for interdisciplinary collaboration\, student mentorship and teaching i
 nnovation. The talk will conclude with reflections on developing an academ
 ic identity\, pursuing research grounded in real-world communities and bui
 lding a career that connects human-centered computing with agriculture and
  student learning.\nSpeaker\nBrianna B. Posadas\, PhD\, is an assistant pr
 ofessor in the Department of Computer Science at California State Polytech
 nic University\, Pomona. An engineering alumna\, she earned an M.S. in agr
 icultural and biological engineering and a PhD in computer and information
  science and engineering from the University of Florida\, where she was th
 e first Latina to earn a doctorate from the department. Before joining Cal
  Poly Pomona\, she was a Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow and late
 r an assistant professor at Virginia Tech.\n\nPosadas’s research connect
 s human-centered computing\, data science and agricultural technology. Acr
 oss her work at Virginia Tech and Cal Poly Pomona\, she has studied how fa
 rmers and agricultural workers adopt emerging technologies\, including ass
 istive technologies\, precision-agriculture tools and AI-enabled systems. 
 Her current projects include usable security for greenhouse workers\, agri
 voltaic systems through a collaboration with Pitzer College\, sensor-based
  technologies for monitoring cows and the use of agricultural data in comp
 uter science education. Together\, this work reflects her goal of helping 
 engineers and computer scientists develop technologies that respond to the
  practical needs of agricultural communities.\n\nPosadas is committed to f
 ostering diversity\, belonging and community in computing and higher educa
 tion. She advises oSTEM at Cal Poly Pomona\, organizes the annual Hispanic
 s in Computing meeting and founded the Latino/Hispanic Organization of Gra
 duate Students at the University of Florida.
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Staff,Students
LOCATION:Galileo Hall\, 240 Platt Blvd.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\, United S
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