2024 Poster Contest Judges

Meet our four 2024 Poster Contest judges. All of our judges are colleagues representing different LexisNexis Risk Solutions teams.

This year due to the abundance of Poster Submissions we have split the Judges to cover 2 separate groups of competition participants.

Judging focuses on the following categories:

Content - The originality of the project and relevance to the HPCC Systems open source platform and community.

Poster Design - The organization and the visual appeal of the poster as well as the relationship with the content.

Presentation - How the student communicated their ideas, including the flow and clarity of the video presentation.

Please see below to know a little more about this year's judges for the 2023 HPCC Systems Poster Competition.

	Lili Xu Senior Software Engineer II • LexisNexis Risk Solutions	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 Software Engineer III • 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 Software Engineer I • LexisNexis Risk Solutions	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 Sr Consulting SWE • LexisNexis Risk Solutions	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.