Distinguished Lecturer Series
Tyler Becker
Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Topic: From Southeastern to Amazon
Email industryConnect@southeastern.edu to be added to the RSVP list
Tyler Becker will speak in the Envoc Innovation Lab, Room 2026, Computer Science Technology Building, Southeastern Louisiana University and via GoogleMeet.
Tyler Becker is a Software Development Engineer in the Device, Digital and Alexa Support organization at Amazon. He graduated from Southeastern in 2017 with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science in the Science concentration. He has experience in the Health, Defense and Oil and Gas industries. In his spare time he likes to make hobby video games and take care of his two cats.
Seth Champagne
Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Topic: Careers in Computer Science Research
Email industryConnect@southeastern.edu to be added to the RSVP list
Seth Champagne graduated from Southeastern in 2017 with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science. He has worked for the US Naval Research Laboratory as a Computer Scientist since 2015 and specializes in Geospatial Information Systems (GIS). He is currently completing a Master’s in Southeastern’s ISAT program with a concentration in data science. He enjoys long distance running, watching anime, and has a cat named Graham.
Shubhangi Rastogi
Thursday, February 17, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Topic: Can Data Science Spot Fake News?
Email industryConnect@southeastern.edu to be added to the RSVP list
Shubhangi Rastogi spoke via GoogleMeet (live viewing in the Envoc Innovation Lab, Room 2026, Computer Science Technology Building, Southeastern Louisiana University).
Shubhangi Rastogi is an experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working
in the
higher education industry. She is pursuing her PhD from Punjab Engineering College
(PEC), India and also working as a data science intern in The Logically Advanced R&D,
United Kingdom. She is currently working on automated fake news detection concerning
National security and Politics. She has worked on various data science projects with
different government and private organizations. Her research interests are Data Science,
Social Media Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Applied Machine
learning, Statistical Techniques, Data mining and visualization, Predictive modelling,
Big Data Analytics, Information warfare. Also, published ten research papers in different
international journals and conferences. Recently, one of her papers was published
in an SCI-indexed Journal, Cybernetics & Systems (Taylor and Francis) which was based
on the visualization of Twitter sentiments on Kashmir territorial Conflict. She has
also worked as an assistant professor for more than five years in different engineering
colleges in India. She was invited as a keynote speaker in AL-Azhar university, Egypt
in 2019.
Elias Khalaf
Thursday, November 18th - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Topic: DevOps: The pitfalls of implementing a continuous deployment pipeline. Bridging
the gap between academia and industry
RSVP to industryconnect@southeastern.edu
Dr. Elias Khalaf started his career in the IT Operations world at the Computer Science department at LSU in Baton Rouge where he spent over 13 years as Computer Manager and part time lecturer. During that time he earned a Master of Science degree in Systems Science, and then a PhD in Computer Science. In 2002, Dr. Khalaf joined the faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science at Loyola University New Orleans as Assistant Professor of Computer Science and stayed there until 2007. He then switched careers from academia to the industry, and started working for General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) on an IT Development & Infrastructure contract with the US Department of Interior. In 2020, the contract was awarded to NTT Data Services where he is currently still employed as a senior advisor and IT Infrastructure team leader.
Matthew Vidacovich
Senior Software Developer
Matthew Vidacovich is a graduate of Southeastern from 2012 where he received his bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics. Matthew began his career at Envoc as a part-time developer and now has over 10 years of experience as a software professional. Some of you may know him from the CMPS 383 class in which he has been involved for the past 7 years as part of the industry connect program headed by Dr Ghassan Alkadi. Others might recognize his notable red mane, or the questions he offers up as a frequent visitor to CMPS 285 and CMPS 411 student presentations.
William Assaf
William Assaf is a principal consultant at Sparkhound, author of two recent books
for Microsoft on the SQL Server database platform, and a database design and development
consultant for the past 15 years. He has also been part of the writing and design
of Microsoft certification exams since 2012 and this year was named a Microsoft Data
Platform MVP, one around 350 honorees in the world. Before COVID William was the organizer
of the annual Baton Rouge SQLSaturday conference and the now-virtual SQL Server user
community in the area. He lives and works from Baton Rouge.
