{"id":2,"date":"2019-12-17T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-02-04T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:12:15","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Resume\/CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Notre Dame<\/strong>, Notre Dame, IN (August 2016 &#8211; Present)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D Computer Science, Advisor: Dr. Tim Weninger\n<ul>\n<li>Focus: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Media Literacy, Online Social Behavior, Healthcare Analytics<\/li>\n<li>Candidacy Proposal: Measurements for adoption, spread, and prediction of online human behavior (March 19, 2020)\n<ul>\n<li>Committee Members: Dr. Julian McAuley, Dr. Dong Wang, Dr. Meng Jiang, Dr. Tim Weninger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Indiana University<\/strong>, Bloomington, IN (August 2007 &#8211; May 2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MS Computer Science (August 2011 &#8211; May 2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Focus: Algorithms, Cybersecurity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BA Mathematics, Political Science (August 2007 &#8211; May 2011)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minors:\u00a0 Computer Science, History, Western European Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARDS AND HONORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Responsible Innovation Fellowship, September 2020<\/p>\n<p>Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science, Santa Fe Research Institute, June 2019<\/p>\n<p>Panelist, Hello Research, Indiana University, October 2018<\/p>\n<p>Data and Team Science Workshop, Purdue University, CSol, May 2018<\/p>\n<p>Disease Diagnostic Investors Challenge, Purdue University, CTSI, July 2018<\/p>\n<p>Leadership Advancing Socially Engaged Research Fellowship, April 2018<\/p>\n<p>Runner up, Outstanding TA Award, May 2017<\/p>\n<p>Hackathon Winner, Tech for Justice, March 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Notre Dame, Research Assistant <\/strong>(August 2016 &#8211; Present)<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researched machine learning and data mining methods<\/li>\n<li>Investigated online social behavior in GitHub and on social media<\/li>\n<li>Collaborated with others in healthcare analytics space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Intern<\/strong> (May 2019 &#8211; August 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Richland, WA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focused on topic spread on social media during censorship events<\/li>\n<li>Performed extensive statistical analysis on social networks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, IBRI Scholar <\/strong>(April 2017 \u2013 August 2018)<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worked to cleanse data coming in from multiple sources using Pyspark<\/li>\n<li>Developed algorithms to research trends in heart disease and diabetes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>University of Notre Dame, Associate Instructor<\/strong> (August 2016 \u2013 May 2017)<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graded homework and exams and ran office hours for:\n<ul>\n<li>Data Science &#8211; Fall 2016, Dr. Nitesh Chawla<\/li>\n<li>Ethics and Professional Issues In Computer Science &#8211; Spring 2017, Dr. Peter Bui<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Runner up for Outstanding TA award, 2016-2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eli Lilly and Company, Associate Consultant &#8211; IT\u00a0<\/strong>(March 2016 &#8211; July 2016)<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Won company recognition for work on data migration project<\/li>\n<li>Consulted with different business groups looking to use text mining<\/li>\n<li>Contributed to custom Lilly app developed using Agile methodologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eli Lilly and Company, Senior Analyst &#8211; IT\u00a0<\/strong>(July 2013 &#8211; March 2016)<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stood up ITIL services incorporating vendor software into the Lilly environment<\/li>\n<li>Consulted on data mining and natural language processing projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>School of Informatics and Computing, Research Assistant\u00a0 <\/strong>(January 2011 &#8211; May 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Bloomington, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researched cryptography and data security<\/li>\n<li>Implemented new homomorphic encryption schemes using Sage and Python<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Raytheon BBN Technologies, Programming Intern\u00a0 <\/strong>(May 2012 &#8211; August 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wrote scripts and parsers to evaluate data in Python, C, and MATLAB<\/li>\n<li>Worked on complicated Makefiles to compile large amounts of code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Indiana University CS Department, Associate Instructor<\/strong> (January 2012 &#8211; May 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Bloomington, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taught Introduction to Computer Science Scheme course<\/li>\n<li>Ran lab sections where students implemented simple code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Theisen, Joel Brogan, Pamela Bilo Thomas, Daniel Moreira, Pascal Phoa, Tim Weninger, Walter J. Scheirer\u00a0<em>Automatic Discovery of Political Meme Genres with Diverse Appearances.\u00a0<\/em>Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Bilo Thomas, Rachel Krohn, Tim Weninger. <em>Dynamics of team library adoptions: an exploration of GitHub commit logs. <\/em>Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. August 27, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Bilo Thomas, Daniel H Robertson, Nitesh V. Chawla. <em>Predicting onset of complications from diabetes: a graph based approach<\/em>. Applied Network Science, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Page 48. December 1, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Saurabh Nagrecha; Pamela Bilo Thomas; Keith Feldman; Nitesh V. Chawla. <em>Predicting Chronic Heart Failure using Diagnoses Graphs<\/em>. Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Reggio Calabria, Italy August 29 &#8211; September 1, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>P.B. Thomas, T. Weninger. &#8220;Deploying a Media Literacy Intervention &#8211; a Case Study in Indonesia.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Conference for Truth and Trust Online<\/em>, October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>P.B. Thomas, E. Saldanha, and S. Volkova. \u201cThe Effect of External Events on Online Social Interactions\u201d, <em>2019 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Summit, <\/em>Richland, WA, USA, July 30, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>M.P. Pradhan, M.D. Mathews, P. B. Thomas, T. Huschto, W. Petrich, T. Schleyer, S.M. McAhren, and D.H. Robertson, \u201cUnderstanding Type 2 Diabetes Patient Sub-Groups through Electronic Medical Records\u201d, <em>Indiana Life Sciences Summit 2017<\/em>, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 9, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Machine learning, data mining, media literacy, online social behavior, healthcare analytics<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL SERVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notre Dame Graduate Society of Women Engineers, President\u00a0<\/strong> (May 2018 \u2013 May 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Led and managed organization in determining social and professional development events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Science Policy Initiative, Communications Director\u00a0 <\/strong>(May 2018 \u2013 May 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 Managed communications regarding science policy on a municipal, state, and federal level that are of importance to the Notre Dame community<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 Helped to organize Indiana Science Communication Day at Indiana Statehouse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notre Dame Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Board\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0(August 2018 &#8211; May 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped plan social and professional development events for graduate students in Computer Science and Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Acted as liaison between students and faculty to express concerns and issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elkhart County Public Library, Speaker Series<\/strong>\u00a0 (February 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Elkhart, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organized a speaker series about the effect of the spread of misinformation on social media in various facets of society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Robinson Community Learning Center, Tutor\u00a0<\/strong> (August 2017 \u2013 December 2018)<\/p>\n<p>South Bend, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tutored students in math and helped write college essays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notre Dame Graduate School, Graduate Orientation Ambassador <\/strong>(May 2018 \u2013 August 2018)<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped plan and organize new student orientation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notre Dame Graduate Society of Women Engineers, Secretary<\/strong> (August 2017 \u2013 May 2018)<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped to plan and organize different social and professional events throughout the year<\/li>\n<li>In charge of organizing email campaigns to remind students of events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Indiana University Graduate Women in Computing, Co-President\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>August 2012 \u2013 May 2013<\/p>\n<p>Bloomington, IN<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Led events to promote women in computing<\/li>\n<li>Worked to create a supportive environment for female computer scientists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDUCATION University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (August 2016 &#8211; Present) Ph.D Computer Science, Advisor: Dr. Tim Weninger Focus: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Media Literacy, Online Social Behavior, Healthcare Analytics Candidacy Proposal: Measurements for adoption, spread, and prediction of online human behavior (March 19, 2020) Committee Members: Dr. Julian McAuley, Dr. Dong Wang, Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3049,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/pamela-bilo-thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}