Josephine Lamp

PROFESSIONAL

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UVA: Student Mentor, 2018 - Present

Since my first semester at UVA, I have mentored a variety of students including high schoolers, undergraduates and graduate students at all levels. As a result of working together (in addition to all the other awesome things they do!) my students have had tangible successes: they have published posters and publications, been accepted to top tier universities for graduate programs, and have won competitive scholarships and national fellowships.

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UVA Writing Lab: NSF GRFP Application Mentor, 2020 - Present

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. Of the 6 students I have closely mentored throughout their entire application process, 4 won the fellowship.

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Computer Science Graduate Student Group (CSGSG): Graduate Program Rep, Chair, and Diversity Rep, 2019 - 2021

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. During my tenure, I revamped the organizational structure (added defined council positions), improved council efficiency and communication methods, helped pass instrumental changes to the graduate program requirements, started a Graduate Women in Computer Science group and hosted two departmental research symposiums. I received an outstanding service award for my work on the council in May 2020.

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Conference and Workshop Organization, 2021

• 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

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Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture: Co Editor-in-Chief, 2019

In 2019 I was the co 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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COMMUNITY

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Health and Privacy Policy (Washington D.C. and locally): Volunteer Consultant, 2018 - Present

I am 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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Computers4Kids: Workshop Mentor, 2018 - 2020

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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