Mahshid Ahmadian

Invited

1. Invited Speaker, VA-WHPC Seminar: Real Stories about Using HPC in Research, link.
   Virtual | Feb 2025
   Presented on my experiences, tips, and best practices for utilizing High-Performance Computing (HPC) in research.
2. Invited TED-style talk, Virginia Sea Grant Symposium, link.
   Virginia Beach, VA | Oct 2024
   Delivered a presentation titled “Fish Movement Imputations: How Data Science and Ecology Unite to Preserve Marine Ecosystems”, showcasing interdisciplinary research in spatiotemporal modeling, data science, and fisheries science to promote sustainable marine ecosystem management.
3. Invited Speaker, “Consulting Using Advanced Analytics” - VCU Capstone Course.
   Richmond, VA | Sep 2022
   Presented to undergraduate research students on applying advanced statistical and analytical techniques to real-world scenarios.

Contributed

1. Speaker, The 154th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
   Honolulu, HI | Sep 2024
   Delivered a talk titled “A Methodology for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Acoustically Tagged Fish Data.”
2. Speaker, The Symposium on Data Science and Statistics.
   Richmond, VA | Jun 2024
   Delivered a talk titled “A Methodology for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Acoustically Tagged Fish Data.”
3. Speaker, Seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University.
   Richmond, VA | Jul 2023
   Delivered a talk titled “A stochastic approach to animal location imputation with application to Salmon Sharks in the Pacific Ocean.”
4. Speaker, Virginia Women in High-Performance Computing (VA-WHPC) - Student Lightning Talks, link .
   Virtual | Apr 2023
   Delivered a virtual talk titled “Using HPC in Modeling Salmon shark’s location in the Pacific Ocean using stochastic process approach.”
5. Speaker, SOR Data Science Team - presentation of the NFL Big Data Bowl Competition.
   Richmond, VA | Feb 2023
   Delivered a group talk for the NFL Big Data Bowl Competition.
6. Speaker, Virginia Commonwealth University - 3 Minute talk.
   Richmond, VA | Feb 2023
   Delivered a talk titled “How do we find a lost shark? We model Salmon shark’s location in the Pacific Ocean.”
7. Speaker, The AAC&U 2022 Conference on Transforming STEM Higher Education.
   Richmond, VA | Feb 2023
   Delivered a group talk titled “Inclusive and Equitable Teaching Influences Student Belonging and Engagement.”

1. Presenter, The Southern Regional Council on Statistics 60th Research Conference.
   Jekyll Island, GA | June 2025
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “A New Methodology for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Acoustically Tagged Fish Data” link.
2. Presenter, GMU StatConnect 2025.
   Fairfax, VA | March 2025
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “Spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling of fish movement. link”
3. Presenter, SIAM Washington-Baltimore Section Fall Meeting.
   Arlington, VA | Dec 2024
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “A New Methodology for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Fish Trajectory Imputation.”
4. Presenter, NSF Workshop on Data-driven Modeling and Prediction of Rare and Extreme Events, link .
   Chicago, IL | Nov 2024
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “A New Methodology for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Fish Trajectory Imputation.”
5. Presenter, American Statistical Association - Virginia Chapter Annual Meeting.
   Richmond, VA | Oct 2023
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “Modeling Salmon shark’s location in the ocean using stochastic process with measurement error, link.”
6. Presenter, ENVR 2022 Workshop: Environmental and Ecological Statistical Research and Applications with Societal Impacts.
   Provo, SLC, UT | Oct 2022
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “Modeling Salmon shark’s location in the ocean using stochastic process with measurement error.”
7. Presenter, The Southern Regional Council on Statistics 57th Research Conference.
   Jekyll Island, GA | Oct 2022
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “Modeling Salmon shark’s location in the ocean using stochastic process with measurement error.”
8. Presenter, The Southern Regional Council on Statistics 56th Research Conference.
   Jekyll Island, GA | Oct 2021
   Delivered a poster presentation titled “Measurement Error in Ordinal Longitudinal Data.”