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Meet our four 2023 2024 Poster Contest judges. Three All of our judges are colleagues representing different LexisNexis Risk Solutions teams and our external judge is a former HPCC Systems Intern who entered this contest in 2020 and 2021.
This year due to the abundance of Poster Submissions we have split the Judges to cover 2 separate groups of competition participants.
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Please see below to know a little more about this year's judges for the 2023 HPCC Systems Poster Competition.
 | Lili Xu |
Amila De Silva is a Software Engineer on the Innovation Engineering team of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. She joined the company in 2018 after completing her Master’s degree in Computer Science from St. Cloud State University. Since then, Amila has been involved in projects that leverage various kinds of technology, such as automation, building scalable applications, machine learning, and web design. She constantly seeks a holistic, inclusive, and simplified approach when designing software. One of her current technical expeditions includes migrating existing internal applications to the Azure Cloud with her team. Amila is the recipient of the 2019 Risk Solutions Ada Lovelace Award for the Rising Star in Technology. When Amila is not glued to her computer screen, she spends her time reading mind-bending books, painting, and practicing yoga.
Lili Xu, has interacted with HPCC Systems in several different roles. She first began working with the platform as part of her Ph.D. studies in Dr. Amy Apon’s DICE lab at Clemson University. Lili completed three internships with HPCC System before joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group as an employee. | |
 | Chris Connelly |
Michael has been with the HPCC Systems Platform team since 2014. His responsibilities revolve around the HPCC Systems Platform init systems, administration scripts, and project builds. In addition to his work on the platform, Michael maintains and contributes to several HPCC Systems Java projects. His most recent undertakings include updating the Platform to leverage systemd, and migrating the wssql project from using antlr3 to antlr4.
Jeff Mao
Co-founder @SellRaze • CS student at Georgia Tech
Jefferson was a returning student to the HPCC Systems Intern Program, having completed his first internship with us in 2020. He completed a project that contributed to the ongoing development of our Cloud Native platform by evaluating Using HPCC Systems on the Google Cloud Platform. In 2021, his project involved using our Cloud Native platform but as a use case for his chosen project. Jeff has been concerned about the increasing negative interactions across the internet, especially social media platforms, where bullying and trolling can be a problem. This Toxicity Detection feature was designed by Jeff to be able to spot cyberbullying in the text of messages. As well as using our Machine Learning Library, Jeff also used GitOps demonstrating how the creation and deployment of HPCC Systems clusters through Arc and GitOps provides a number of beneficial functions such as central versioning, continuous integration and delivery etc.
As well as the resources included here, read Jeff's intern blog journal which includes a more in depth look of his work during his 2021 internship. To learn more about his 2020 intern project, view the poster Jeff entered into our 2020 Poster Contest.
Mauricio Nunes de Oliveira
Manager Software Engineering • LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Intern for two summers while working with the athletics department at NC State University. Projects included working with men's Soccer and Women's Basketball teams to gather data and build an athlete monitoring system to predict athlete's readiness to perform in games. Has worked as an HPCC developer for LexisNexis Risk under the MVR team since September 2021. | ||
 | Fulvio Favilla Filho | Fulvio Favilla started his internship at LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Brazil in 2023, working with the ETL team within the Business Services division. At that time, Fulvio was an Electrical Engineering Bachelor's student at the University of São Paulo, researching cardiovascular disease prediction using Machine Learning models. During his internship, Fulvio won the Best Poster award in both the Data Analytics and Community Choice categories at the 2023 HPCC Systems Poster Competition, which saw record-breaking submissions. He was the first contestant to win awards in two distinct categories since the competition’s inception. In early 2024, Fulvio became a Software Engineer, continuing his work with the ETL team. He designs and builds ETL pipelines, optimizes their performance, ensures data quality, and documents processes. Fulvio collaborates with teams to meet data needs and enhance overall data solutions. |
 | Shamser Ahmed | Since joining the HPCC Systems platform team with the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group in 2015, Shamser Ahmed has been working as a Senior Software Engineer primarily on the code generator, Thor, ROXIE and statistical improvements for monitoring purposes. Solving real world problems is at the forefront of his efforts. One of those problems is the cost of running data on the cloud. |