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MSIT Alumni establish scholarship to help Kennesaw State computing students in need
Chris and Amanda Arrendale, who both faced financial challenges as students, became
the first individual alumni to establish an endowment for students within the CCSE.
The Arrendales announced their “Never Stop Learning” scholarship to help qualified
students pay for college
Chris Arrendale graduated from SPSU with a Master’s in Information Technology and
Software Engineering in 2004, and his wife, Amanda, graduated from SPSU with a Bachelor
of Science in Mathematics in 1998. Both struggled with paying for school and recognize
the hardships many college students continue to face.
Thank you for your generosity, the Arrendales!
Detailed story.
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Careers in IT Series - A Day in the Life of a Senior Director of Data & Analytics
Date & Time: Oct 21, 2021 6pm-7pm
Location: virtual through MS Teams: Click here to join the meeting.
RSVP: Registration Link
Speaker: Mr. Tanvir Rahman. Sr. Director of Data & Analytics at EdPlus.
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MSIT Information Session - Oct 12th, 2021
Join our information session to learn how MSIT degree can enhance your career options
whether you have undergraduate degree in computing or not.
Special Admission Programs for KSU students: https://msit.kennesaw.edu/future-students/KSUAdmission.php
Date & time: Oct 12th, 6:00pm-7:00pm.
Topics covered:
- Benefits of MSIT degree
- Program requirements
- Admission process
- Difference of MSIT and other computing discipline
RSVP: https://kennesawstate.secure.force.com/events/targetX_eventsb__events#/esr?eid=a1E5w00000oGO5FEAW
Location: Virtual through MS Teams: Click here to join the meeting
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Career Mentor Program
MSIT program is delighted to launch the first ever career mentor program which is
designed to nurture the career development of existing students. The mentors are composed
of experienced IT professionals from MSIT alumni and members of IT IAB (Industry Advisory
Board) members. Given the limited number of mentors available, priorities will be
given to international students, career changers, and female students. Please use
the link below to sign up for the program:
https://kennesaw.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_egktHWb8LRWwZGS
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Careers in Information Technology Series - A Day of Life as a CIO
Mr. Darin Marrow will discuss how he become a technology leader, a typical day as
CIO, and what it takes to get into senior IT Management positions.
Date & Time: Thursday, 6/17 7:00pm-7:45pm
Location: virtual through MS Teams: click here to join the meeting
Recording of session: Youtube Link
Featured Speaker: Darin Marrow.
Mr. Marrow is a technology leader with 38+ successful years in technology business. He currently
serves Vice President of Technology Transformation at The HoneyBaked Ham. Mr. Morrow
retired from AT&T as the CIO of Cricket Wireless, where he led the development, delivery
and 24x7 IT operations for the fastest growing wireless carrier in the US supporting
4800 stores and 10 million customers. Mr. Morrow was awarded both the AT&T Technology
Development Presidents award and the AT&T CIO Award during his career at AT&T. He
is an inventor on 19 U.S. patents within AT&T. Beyond AT&T, Mr. Marrow is a veteran
and a retired Air Force Reserve Lt Colonel.
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MSIT Information Session - May 26th2021
Join our information session to learn how MSIT degree can enhance your career options
whether you have background in computing or not.
Recording of information session on March 16.
Date & time: May 26th, 6:30pm-7:30pm.
RSVP: https://kennesaw.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eCB59numLMFOZym
Location: Virtual through MS Teams: Click here to join the meeting
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Careers in Information Technology Series
Join us and hear from a MSIT alumni discussing his career development.
Date & Time: Thursday, 4/15 5:00-5:40pm
Location: virtual through MS Teams.
Speaker: Edward Moses has been the Director of Risk and Compliance Management for
the KSU University IT Services, Office of Cybersecurity, for almost 4 years. He has
over 30 years of IT and Cybersecurity experience in law enforcement, military, banking,
telecommunications, manufacturing, and, of course, higher education. He holds an MS
IT and MBA from KSU and an MS in Technical Communication from SPSU. Edward enjoys
Sci-Fi/Fantasy books and movies, 3D printing and CAD, and learning new technologies.
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MSIT New (2021-2022) Curriculum Information Session
Excited to announce that we are have a new curriculum for MSIT and 4 Graduate certificates.
Join the information session to learn about our new courses and what existing students
need to do.
Date & time: March 3rd, 6pm-7pm.
RSVP: https://kennesaw.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b91vk8KStiHBM7c
Location: Virtual through MS Teams: Click here to join the meeting
Recording of the information session
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IT Faculty Private Sector Grant Engagement Workshop
All CCSE faculty are welcome!
Speakers: Dr. Jennifer Priestley and Bill Franks
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: In person at Atrium (J) building -101 Or Virtual through MS Teams:
Click here to join the meeting
Recording of the workshop
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MSIT Capstone Project Featured on US Department of State DipLab Demo Day.
A MSIT fall 2020 capstone project, "Analyzing Risk Communication and Behavioral Change
During the COVID-19 Pandemic", was accepted as one of the only four projects featured
on the first US Department of State DipLab Demo Day: www.diplomacylab.org/demo-day.
This project was completed by Elain Harris (now MSIT alumni) and sponsored Drs. Shirley
Tian and Zhigang Li. Congratulations to Elaine and Dr. Tain and Li!
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Congrations to Fall 2020 Graduates!
After a long journey of hard work and dedication, 55 students are graduating from
the MSIT program! Their achievement and success truly deserve celebration. Unfortunatley,
the pandemic has postponed their graduation walk to spring 2021. We are hosting a
virtual ceremony for our students. Please join us the congratulate our fresh minted
alumni!
MSIT Fall 2020 Virtual Graduation Ceremony.
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IT Graduate Capstone Project won First Place in CCSE C-day.
Congratulations to Vara Kalyani Vundavalli, Jayashree Pakkirisamy, Sangita Rai, and
Winston Kone for winning First Place in both Graduate Capstone Project and Alumni Award categories in CCSE C-day on Dec. 3rd, 2020! Their project, Alumni Information System,
sponsored by Dr Lei Li, will enable MSIT program keeping track of the career progression
of its graduates.
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Finding Jobs during Pandemic Times - A Workshop
Host: MSIT program. The workshop is open to all students.
Date & Time: November 19th 2020, 6pm-7:30pm.
Workshop Recording
Location: Virtual through MS Teams.
RSVP: Not required, but recommended.
Panelists:
- Lauren Higdon - Career and Internship Advisor from KSU Department of Career Planning and Development.
- Preeti Aggarwal - MSIT 2016 graduate, Senior Software Developer at Home Depot.
- Juston Bryant - MSIT 2019 graduate, Finance Analytics Developer at Google.
- Steven Ferguson - MSIT 2013 graduate, CIO at Technical College System of Georgia.
- Tammara Johnson - MSIT 2019 graduate, Cyber Risk Advisor Analyst at Deloitte.
- Sabrina Patel, Cyber Risk Manager at Deloitte.
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IT Faculty Research Seminar Series
Date & Time: November 19th 1pm-1:45pm
Research Seminar Recording
Location: Virtual Through MS Team
Presenter: Dr. Maria Valero
Presentation Title: An mHealth Tool for Real-time Respiratory Monitoring During Pandemics and Self-Isolation
using IoT
Abstract:The current COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a serious disease with life-threatening
clinical manifestations and a high mortality rate. One of the major complications
of this disease is the rapid and dangerous pulmonary deterioration that can lead to
critical pneumonia conditions, resulting in death. The current healthcare system around
the world faces the potential problem of lacking resources to assist a large number
of patients at the same time; then, the non-critical patients are mostly referred
to perform self-isolation/quarantine at home. With the advancement of sensors, IoT,
and Cloud technologies now it is possible to monitor patient's symptoms in real-time
to detect and quickly report sudden and dangerous changes to the healthcare provider.
In this presentation, we present R-Mon, a real-time mHealth tool for monitoring pulmonary
function to diagnose respiratory diseases like COVID-19, or even asthma and apnea.
R-Mon is designed to detect anomaly in pulmonary function such as sudden changes in
breathe rate and predict pulmonary deterioration to raise alert for immediate attention
by healthcare providers while the patient is at home. R-Mon uses non-invasive under-mattress
sensors to collect data on lung function followed by training and testing of data
for real-time prediction of deteriorating lung condition. The proposed tool is inexpensive
for patients and providers, enables the management of the limited healthcare resources
within hospitals, and improves patient-provider communications for high-risk patients.
We envision that this kind of mHealth tool and framework can be implemented for better
health response in future pandemics
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IT Faculty Research Seminar Series
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28th 11am-11:45am
Location: Virtual Through MS Team
Presenter: Dr. Linh Le
Presentation Title: Motion-Intelligence-Based Workout Assistant System
PowerPoints Slides
Abstract:
This research proposes the use of motion intelligence – extraction of human poses
from images and videos – in developing a workout assistant system. In short, we aim
to help users perform workout exercises with real-time feedback provided without the
need of an actual trainer. We first collect videos of different exercises performed
by professional trainers whose sequence of poses are extracted and stored. Then, for
a video or live feed of user performing an exercise, we extract the user’s pose sequence,
query the most similar sequence from trainers, and overlay the trainers’ poses on
the user poses. This allow the user to observe if they perform the exercise correctly
or incorrectly to improve in future sessions. Our main research tasks include how
to extract and store poses, how to compare and query poses, and how to adjust two
poses so that they can be overlaid on each other given the differences in human forms,
camera perspectives, and user errors..
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MSIT Open House - Fall 2020
Date & time: September 30th 6pm-7pm.
Location: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
RSVP recommended not required: https://kennesaw.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41jCUTRf8TWuIZL
Note: If you don't have MS Teams account, you can join through a Web browser (Edge or Chrome is recommended).
As the highest ranked IT graduate program in the State of GA by US News & World Report,
the MSIT program has been enhancing career options for current and future IT professionals
for more than 20 years!Join the open house and learn more about the MSIT program and
the success stories of our graduates if you are:
- a student who is not majoring a computing related BS degree but want to transition into the thriving IT field.
- a student who major in CCSE BS degree programs. A student in this categroy and has has 3.5 instituional GPA will qualify for a streamlined
admission process.
- an existing IT practionner who wants to expand their knowledge base and climb the career ladder.
- just interested in a graduate program is about.
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IT Faculty Research Seminar Series
Date & Time: Tuesday, September 29th 1pm-1:45pm
Location: Virtual Through MS Team
Presenter: Dr. Liang Zhao
Presentation Title: Towards Efficient and Secure Analytics: A Decentralized Computing Approach
Abstract:
This talk will present case studies and research opportunities of using decentralized
computing for data analytics. We will demonstrate several decentralized framework
designs for applications in environment systems and healthcare. Research challenges
and future directions would also be discussed towards developing efficient and secure
analytics paradigms.
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CCSE Internship/Co-op Speed Networking Events - Students MUST REGISTER TO ATTENDWednesday,
September 9th, 6-8:30pm; Thursday, September 10th, 6-8:30pm
Program and list of employers attending can be found: https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/events/internship-networking.php
Please register for one or both nights in Handshake and upload your resume to the
CCSE Internship Networking Night job posting in Handshake to be shared with the attending
employers.
The link to upload your resume can be found here: https://kennesaw.joinhandshake.com/jobs/3937833
Registration for Wednesday, September 9th, 6-8:30pm
https://kennesaw.joinhandshake.com/events/543289
Registration for the Thursday, September 10th, 6-8:30pm
https://kennesaw.joinhandshake.com/events/543293
All students will be sent an email with your custom program and the links to join
the Employers' Virtual Teams Sessions during specified time periods during the event.
Each student group will spend 10 minutes with each employers on each night. There
will be 2 minutes included in between session for you to transition to/from each employer's
session. The employers will all be sent your resumes (if you have uploaded it using
the link above) prior to the event. Please direct questions about the event to ccseinternship@kennesaw.edu,
or contact Dawn Tatum, dtatum7@kennesaw.edu.
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Important Update to International students on F1 Visa - Fall 2020
On July 24, 2020, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) issued updated guidance
for this fall. It provides additional flexibility for students at schools like Kennesaw
State that are adapting their business practices due to COVID-19. Here is what you
need to know for the Fall 2020 semester.
New Students
- You are a new student if you are entering the US to begin your time as an F-1 student
in a degree program for Fall 2020.
- You must enroll full-time. This is a minimum of 9 credits for graduate students.
- You must have at least one course that includes face-to-face instruction.
- You may not enter the US to take a course load that is 100% online. However, you
may study 100% online from outside the US. If you will start your degree online from
home, please log into iStart and complete the “Remote for Fall 2020” e-form under “F-1 Student Services.” We
will contact you about an updated I-20.
- If you cannot make it to the US this semester, we strongly encourage you to start
your education online. If that is not possible and you are deferring your admission
to a future semester, please log into iStart and complete the “Defer I-20" e-form under “Admission.” You also need to contact
the appropriate admissions office to update your application to a future semester.
Continuing Students
You are a continuing student if you were present in the US in F-1 status on March
9, 2020 and you have maintained your F-1 status since then. This includes students
who have transferred to KSU and will be in the US for Fall 2020.
- You must enroll full-time. This is a minimum of 12 credits for undergraduates and
9 credits for graduate students.
- If you are graduating in Fall 2020 and need less than a full-time course load to graduate,
you may be eligible for a Reduced Course Load authorization. You can apply for one
here.
- You may take any combination of classes that KSU is offering this fall including in-person,
hybrid or online courses, including a course load that is entirely online.
- If you will study online from outside the US, please log into iStart and complete the “Remote for Fall 2020” e-form under “F-1 Student Services” so that
we can update your student record appropriately.
Other Students
If you had a change of status to F-1 approved after March 9, 2020, are transferring
to KSU for Fall 2020 and will be out of the country this semester, had a break in
your F-1 status between March 9, 2020 and today or are otherwise not sure which rules
apply to you, please contact the International Student and Scholar Services Office
at ISSS@kennesaw.edu or schedule an appointment at https://calendly.com/ksu-issso
to discuss your individual situation.
Questions?
If you have questions about your situation, please contact the ISSSO at ISSS@kennesaw.edu
or schedule an appointment at https://calendly.com/ksu-issso. Please continue to check your KSU email account for updates and additional information
from the ISSSO. More information about KSU’s fall plans is available at coronavirus.kennesaw.edu.
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Online Webinar - Cybersecurity Positions in Today's Workforce
Wednesday, May 27th at 12:00 pm EST.
Finding a good candidate, or possibly any candidate, to fill one of the thousands
of open cybersecurity positions available is one of the greatest challenges facing
security executives today.
Cybint's Bryan Dickens, a former FBI Behavioral Profiler and now SVP at the cyber
education company, will discuss the most valuable attributes to look for when hiring
in cyber with Chuck Brooks. Chuck is a thought leader in emerging technology and cybersecurity,
a Forbes Contributor, Georgetown University Professor, and was named in the top 10
people to follow on LinkedIn.
Register for the Workshop
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MSIT Team Won 1st Place in Spring 2020 CCSE C-Day
Congratulations to MSIT students Geetika Bajaj, Nikita Talole, Elizabeth Gladstone,Casiana Mba Maye and their project sponsor Prof. Dawn Tatum. Their project CCSE Project Management
System Won 1st place in the graduate capstone project category in Spring 2020 CCSE C-Day. Job well done!
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Summer 2020 New Student Orientation
Date & Time: April 30th, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Location: Online through MS Teams
Agenda: 1) 6:30pm-7pm: general information about graduate program at CCSE: meeting link; 2) 7pm-7:30pm a breakout session for the IT graduate students: meeting link. Note: All KSU students have free license of Office 365: https://uits.kennesaw.edu/office365/index.php If you don’t have MS team installed, you may join the meeting from the browser.
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Information Session on MS in Cybersecurity
Date & Time: April 1st, 2020 6pm-7pm.
Virtual location: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/6a35a6cd60af43a29f8337d6d0cb40b5 (if you never used Collaborate Ultra before, you may need to install a plug in first.
Just click on the link and following the instructions)
Description: MS in Cybersecurity is a new graduate program hosted at Institute for Cybersecurity
Workforce Development and jointed offered by IT, IS, CJ, CS, and SWE. We will introduce
the MS Cyber program and discuss the tranferability of existing graudate programs to
MS Cyber. Information on MS Cyber: https://cyberinstitute.kennesaw.edu/
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Summer & Fall 2020 Registration & Graduation
1. Registration. Check your owl express account for your time ticket. I encourage
you to enroll in summer classes which can speed up progress toward graduation. If
you have error when register for class, use the link below to request an override: https://msit.kennesaw.edu/prereqOverride_form.php
2. Graduation. For those who are graduating, spring graduation ceremony is postponed.
You still can graduate as planned, but ceremony is delayed to different date. It's
time to petition for fall graduation now and you can do that in Owl express. If you
are a MSIT student and qualify for graduate certificate, you need to petition for
the certificate separately: https://msit.kennesaw.edu/petition-graduate-cert.php
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IT Faculty Research Series
Date & Time: Jan 24 12pm-1pm
Location: J-215B
Presenter #1. Dr. Ying Xie
Powerpoints Slides
Title: Deep KNN and Its applications in Fintech and Healthcare
Description: The k Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm has been widely applied in various
supervised learning tasks due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, the quality
of KNN decision making is directly affected by the quality of the neighborhoods
in the modeling space. Efforts have been made to map data to a better feature space
either implicitly with kernel functions, or explicitly through learning linear or
nonlinear transformations. However, all these methods use pre-determined distance
or similarity functions, which may limit their learning capacity. In this talk, we
present a novel deep learning method called Deep KNN that is able to learn pairwise
similarities of data, which implicitly maps data to a feature space where the quality
of KNN neighborhoods is optimized. We will further demonstrate successful applications
of the proposed Deep KNN in critical domains such as Fintech and Healthcare with superior
performance.
Presenter #2. Dr. Zhigang Li
PowerPoints Slides
Topic: Technology Enabled Learning
Description: Dr. Li will briefly introduce his research interests in technology enabled
learning and then present a case study on a research-based course development framework
that was implemented for an Intro to FinTech course.
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CCSE TECH TALK – Cybersecurity
Ron Dilley, CISO, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
Tuesday, January 21st, 4-5pm. Marietta Campus, Building J (Atrium), Room 101
Topic: What do CISOs really want?
Come hear directly from a CISO the things that are important regarding security.
Mr. Dilley will also discuss war stories – when security professionals go too far
or not far enough. Do not miss this chance to network with a C-level executive from
a major corporation.
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MST Ranking Improved
US News & World Report just announced its new ranking for Best Online Master's Information
Technology program. The MSIT program a is ranked at #36, 2 spots up from last year's rankings. The MSIT remains the highest ranked program
in the State of Georgia. We got to proud of ourselves!
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Graduation Season
Dec 17, 2019. It was cold and windy outside, but inside of social science building is filled with
warm air and smiley face. 37 MSIT students are graduating this fall. 14 students celebrated
their achievements with family, friends and faculty in this afternoon's hooding ceremony!
Very proud of our graduates! Join me welcome our newly minted alumni!
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MSIT Student Awarded Travel Scholarship to attend Woman in Cybersecurity conference.
Chaunda Dallas, a second year MSIT student got awarded a travel scholarship to Woman in Cybersecurity
conference on March 2020 at Aurora Co under the guidance of her professor, Dr. Shirley
Tian. Very proud of Chaunda!
https://www.wicys.org/conference
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IT Graduate Faculty Research Seminar #3November 21, 4pm-5pm.Marietta Campus J-215B.
Presenter #1: Dr. Zhigang Li
Topic: Technology Enabled Learning
Description: Dr. Li will briefly introduce his research interests in technology enabled
learning and then present a case study on a research based course development framework
that was implemented for an Intro to FinTech course.
Presenter #2: Dr. Seyedamin Pouriyeh
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Pouriyeh will focus on two main research areas including
exploration of RDF data using topic modeling technique and security issues in federated
machine learning. Dr. Pouriyeh will present his recent conference and journal papers
and his ongoing research topics and projects.
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IBM X-Force Comes to You Challenge (Cyber security)
Description: Join IBM to learn and develop new cyber best practices in their X-Force Comes to
You challenge! On Saturday November 9, the "IBM X-Force Comes to You Challenge" immerses
a customer team in a realistic Fusion Team center environment. X-Force Facility members
will reveal cyber-related issues and players must figure out how to react (as a team)
across dimensions of technical, legal, public relations and media responses. Students
will get to see the gaps in their response plan in a safe place where they can learn
from their mistakes.
Perk: Lunch will be provided. IBM usually charges corporation $100,000 per day for such
events.
Date/Time: November 9th, 2019
Session 1: 10:00am-12:00pm RSVP here!
Session 2: 1:00pm-3:00pm RSVP here!
Location: Kennesaw Campus Burruss Building Room BB152
Lunch will be served: 12:00pm-1:00pm Location: Burruss Building Atrium
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IT Graduate Faculty Research Series #2
Presenters: Dr. Meng Han and Dr. Shirley Tian
Date/Time: October 29th, 4pm-5pm
Location: J-132
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IT Graduate Faculty Research Series #1
Presenters: Dr. Halstead-Nussloch and Dr. Lei Li
Date/Time: September 23th, 4pm-5pm
Location: Atrium (J Building) Room157
