Varisa (Fern) Tantivess

- Developing a scorecard to evaluate state and federal AI legislative proposals - Recipient of Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA) - PI: Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Professor of Data Science and Computer Science - Organization: Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign (CNTR)

Gen AI Feature for Windows

Personal knowledge graphs and linked data, gen AI product for Library of Congress

- Held weekly labs and sections of ~20 students, debugging hours for projects, answered edStem posts, maintained accuracy of lecture slides, assisted students with concepts they struggle with from lecture - Edited code project structures in java

- Delivered lecture segments to ~400 students every week about relevant IT topics in the news (misinformation, algorithmic justice, freedom of expression etc.) - Pioneered course curriculum (20 lectures) to integrate socially responsible computing topics into the largest introductory computer science class at Brown with co-STA and Professor Andries van Dam

- Worked alongside ~20 members in semester-long program to develop an entrepreneurial project. - As a team of 4, won first prize in the final pitch competition for our ‘SELF’ startup, a personalized health app that helps students recover from unhealthy college lifestyles; the algorithm creates realistic solutions that take into account one’s productivity goals.

- Collaborated with team of four student developers: Implemented pages for project ‘Mootual’, a Web Application to connect users with mutual friends (Javascript, CSS, HTML, React, React Native).

- Co-authored research paper published in MDPI journal - Synthesized and purified target compounds for testing for anti-malarial drugs and lung cancer