Maria Tomasso

Biography

I am a third year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University focusing on information management. I have a background in applied mathematics and statistics and have interdisciplinary experience in chemistry, public health, and computer vision. Currently, I work in Dr. Apan Qasem's Compilers Research Lab (CRL) investigating agent-based models.

PhD Activities

• Joined the Tranlational Health Research Center as a graduate research assistant.

• Participated in the Department of Homeland Security Summer Research Team (DHS-SRT) Program on a team led by Dr. Dan Tamir and hosted by the University of Illinois's Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI). We partnered with the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and investigated applicability of distributed ledger techology to the missions of the USCG with a focus on supply chain traceability in the seafood industry. The poster is available here and the workshop presentation is available here.


• Mentored a computer science undergradute researcher during the 2021 STEM Undergraduate Research Program (SURE).

• Continued the study of community detection of signed graphs that I begin in CS 7300 during an independent study (CS 7387) supervised by Dr. Tesic. The final report can be viewed here and is currently being prepared for submission to journals.

• Participated in MediaEval 2020 FakeNews: Coronavirus and 5G Conspiracy benchmark competition and led the structure-based branch of the project. The working notes paper is available here.


• Completed the CS 7300 rotation project under the supervision of Dr. Tesic on the topic of community detection in signed graphs. The poster can be viewed here.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020 - Present (in-progress)
  Concentration in Information Management
  Department of Computer Science
  Texas State University


• M.S. in Mathematics, 2018 - 2020
  Concentration in Statistics
  Department of Mathematics
  Texas State University


• Bachelor of Science, 2011 - 2016
  Major in Applied Mathematics, Minors in Chemistry and Biology
  Member of the Honors College
  Texas State University

Research

Research Interests

• Agent-Based Models
• High Performance Computing
• Distributed Ledger Technology

• Translational Health

• Nguyen, M. N., Tomasso, M. E., Easter, D. C., & Ji, C. (2016). Reaction of Electrogenerated Ligand-Reduced Nickel Salen with Benzyl Bromide, 1-Bromomethylnaphthalene, and a-Bromodiphenylmethane: A Study of Steric Effects. J. Electrochem. Soc., 163(2), G1–G6. DOI


• Tomasso, M.E., Tarver, M.J., Devarajan, D., and Whitten, S.T. (2016). Hydrodynamic Radii of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Determined from Experimental Polyproline II Propensities. PLoS Computational Biology 12(1): e1004686. DOI

• Nguyen, M.N., Tomasso, M.E., and Ji, C. (2014). Steric effects in the reaction of electrogenerated ligand-reduced nickel salen with organic halides. ECS Transactions, 61(30), 25-35.

• Gulacar, O., Bowman, C.R., Tomasso, M.*, and Sahin, A. (2014). Investigating the evolution of students’ conceptions about the scientific method. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching. Pittsburg, PA: NARST.

• Tomasso, M.E., Devarajan, E., Tarver, M.J., and Whitten, S.T. (2015, October). Hydrodynamic radii of intrinsically disordered protein determined from experimental polyproline II propensities. Flash-talk and poster presented at the 29th Annual Gibbs Conference on Biological Thermodynamics, Carbondale, IL.


• Tomasso, M., Miller, C., Nussbaum, H., and Gulacar, O. (2013, November). Investigating the evolution of students’ conceptions about the scientific method. Poster presented at the 2013 Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Conference, San Marcos, TX.

Teaching

Courses Taught

• MATH 1300 (Elementary Algebra) - Fall 2019
• 9th Grade Algebra I (Lehman High School) - Fall 2017

• MATH 2472 (Calculus II) - Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
• MATH 2417 (Pre-calculus) - Summer 2015, Summer 2018

Service

• Pi Mu Epsilon - Texas Rho Chapter
• President, 2018-2020
• Vice President, May 2014 – May 2015
• Treasurer, May 2013 – May 2014
• Math Club at Texas State University
• President, August 2014 – May 2015
• Vice President, January – May 2014
• Treasurer, August – December 2013
• Secretary, January – May 2013

Contact

• Email: met48@txstate.edu

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