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Texas ECE and Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFMl) postdoc Shiwei Liu along with Prof. Atlas Wang and the Visual Informatics Group received the Best Paper Award at the Learning on Graphs (LoG) 2022 Conference for their paper “You Can Have Better Graph Neural Networks by Not Training Weights at All: Finding Untrained GNNs Tickets.” LoG is a new annual research conference that covers areas broadly related to machine learning on graphs and geometry, with a special focus on review quality.

Only 13 percent of engineers in the workforce are women, according to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). The same analysis shows that over 32 percent of women switch out of STEM degree programs in college. Encouragement and support for women in STEM fields has grown in the past few years; however, there’s still work to be done to continue building an environment where female engineers can flourish. Texas ECE and WNCG student Sandy Saab is doing her best to be a part of that effort.