Sophie Pavia

Sophie Pavia

Graduate Student at Vanderbilt University

About Me

About Me - Sophie Pavia

I am a graduate student in Vanderbilt University’s Department of Computer Science, advised by Prof. Abhishek Dubey. I work as a research assistant in the ScopeLab research group where I apply fairness in decision making to cyber-physical systems. I also work with the SmartTransit.AI group to solve classic transit problems through the lens of equity.

Prior to this, I was a research assistant at BigLab! at Florida State University, working under Prof. Michael Gubanov during my undergraduate. During my time at BigLab!, I focused on the intersection of machine learning and data management, working on projects such as COVIDKG.ORG and web-scale tabular data classification.

My research interests include AI for Social Good, fairness in decision making, Big Data, and cyber-physical systems. For more information, check out my publications and projects

Updates

  • Started as President for Graduate Women in Science GWIS Nashville Chapter
  • I received the Travel Award Grant to attend IJCAI 2024
  • Deploying Mobility-On-Demand for All by Optimizing Paratransit Services was accepted to IJCAI’24 Social Good Track (20% acceptance rate)
  • SmartTransit.AI: A Dynamic Paratransit and Microtransit Application was accepted to IJCAI’24 for demonstration!
  • Attended IPAM’s Mathematical Foundations for Equity in Transportation Systems and was a travel award recipient!
  • Presented ‘Designing and Assessing Public Transit Networks’ at TRB 2024
  • Attended and presented Fairness in Transit work at EAAMO 2023!
  • Attended and presented ‘Designing Equitable Transit’ at INFORMs 2023
  • Started as Social Media Executive Board Member for Graduate Women in Science GWIS Nashville Chapter
  • Presented and Accepted Best Demo award for Microtransit Optimizer for Mobility-on-Demand at SMARTCOMP 2023
  • I organized and lead an N2Women Panel at SMARTCOMP’23 see more information here
  • I attended AAAI’23 and CPS-IoT Week 2023 (NSF Student Travel Grant recipient)
  • Our fairness in network design work was accepted as a short abstract to the Transportation Science and Logistics Society Conference TSL 2023
  • Our COVID-19 Web-scale visualization demo paper was accepted to CIKM 2022
  • We attended and presented our large-scale tabular profiling demo paper at SIGMOD 2022
  • I started as an Research Assistant at ScopeLab under the advisal of Prof. Abhishek Dubey
  • I graduated from Florida State University, summa cum laude, with a BS in Computer Science
  • I received the Student Travel Award to attend SIGMOD/PODS 2022
  • Our tabular profiling demo paper was accepted to SIGMOD/PODS 2022