Josephine Lamp

PhD Candidate, Computer Science

Olive B. and Franklin C. Mac Krell Jefferson Fellow

School of Engineering and Applied Science

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Senior Privacy Engineer (Contractor)

Dexcom, Charlottesville, VA

Selected Publications & Talks

FELLOWSHIPS

• 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) [more info] [UVA news article]

• Olive B. and Franklin C. Mac Krell Jefferson Fellowship Recipient, awarded to “individuals of extraordinary intellectual range and depth … who demonstrate outstanding achievement and the highest promise as scholars, teachers, public servants, and business leaders in the United States and beyond.” [more info] [fellow bio]

• UVA Distinguished Engineering Fellowship Recipient

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CHALLENGES

• 2020 NIH organized NHLBI (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) Big Data Analysis Challenge: Creating New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research for our Solution entitled Intelligently Characterizing Patient Hemodynamic Phenotypes for Advanced Heart Failure in the ESCAPE Trial Using Learned Multi Valued Decision Diagrams. The Challenge included a $50,000 prize. [more info]

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AWARDS & HONORS

• Best Poster Presentation, UVA CS Fall 2021 Research Symposium, December 2021 [more info]

• UVA Raven Society Inductee, February 2021

• Sigma Xi Associate Member, June 2020 [more info]

• UVA CS Department Outstanding Graduate Service Award 2019-2020, April, 2020 [more info]

• Received a travel scholarship award to attend CPS Week in Montreal, Canada, April, 2019 [more info]

• Selected to participate in the CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women Workshop in Chicago, IL, January 2019 [more info]

• Student Scholarship to the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) 2019 Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, December 2018 [more info]

• Arizona State University Outstanding Graduate Award, May 2018, an award given to high-impact undergraduate students who are likely to make a difference in the world, and of which only one student from each college is selected (total of 17 students selected out of a graduating class of 15,000) [more info]

• National Center for Women in Technology Collegiate Award Finalist, March 2018 [more info]

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CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:

• Web Chair, International Conference on Runtime Verification 2021

• Co-Chair, Medical Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Medical Things Workshop, as part of the CPS-IoT Week 2021

COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE STUDENT GROUP (CSGSG)

From January 2019 - December 2021, I served as the Graduate Program Rep (2021), Chair (2020), and Diversity Rep (2019) of the Computer Science Graduate Student Group (CSGSG), equivalent to a graduate student council, that acts as the liaison between faculty and students. The committee hosts student events to help with students knowing each other, and represents the CS student body at faculty meetings and for departmental decisions.

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NSF GRFP APPLICATION MENTOR FOR UVA WRITING LAB

I serve as a NSF GRFP writing lab mentor to help students who are applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This includes helping with brainstorming, content and flow of ideas, and reviewing and editing application essays.

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JEFFERSON JOURNAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

In 2019 I was the editor-in-chief for the newly revamped Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture. The interdisciplinary journal serves to provide a venue where scholars who are doing cross-discipline work can publish articles related to specific topics. The journal is part of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, and I helped set up and manage the journal, from setting up the website, planning out our call for submissions, writing submission guidelines, picking journal themes, and more. We also planned a conference for the accepted submissions to present their work in November 2019. More information about the journal is available via the website: http://journals.sfu.ca/jjsc/index.php/journal/index

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WORKSHOPS AT COMPUTERS4KIDS

A fellow CS PhD student and I hosted weekly workshops at Computers4Kids, a local nonprofit serving low income 6th--12th graders that provides free mentoring and access to technology and STEAM projects from fall of 2018 - spring of 2020. Each week we guided students through various projects, such as temperature-changing lamps (using arduinos), building remote control cars from scratch, fun coding projects, cybersecurity and basic hacking camps, and wearable tech. It was such a great experience working with these brilliant students. I hope we inspired them to dive into the wild, ultra-creative world of CS and Engineering!

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HEALTH AND PRIVACY POLICY VOLUNTEER CONSULTANT

I am also involved with health policy, as I believe that change can only be affected through multiple facets, and that it is important to collaborate and communicate with other entities (i.e. the government). Specifically, I am working with Dr. Don Detmer and have made multiple trips to Washington DC to meet with Senate staffers and health-related committees (e.g. the US senate HELP committee) to provide input on current privacy and healthcare bills, including the “Protecting Personal Health Data Act,” proposed to the Senate in June 2019.

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