Brenna Nieva

Poltical Science & Computer Science

I am a senior at Western Washington University (WWU) which is located in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Here I am double majoring in Political Sciences and Computer Science.

GitHub Field Expert - US

Campus Experts is a global program that consists of student leaders that strive to build diverse and inclusive spaces to learn skills, share their experiences, and build projects together. As the Field Expert representing the US, I travel to conference and speak at workshops, providing students with the tools needed to build their circles into inclusive and safe environments.
If you're interested in learning more about the program, reach out!

President of the Association for Gender Inclusion in Computing

I have always been extremely passionate towards increasing diversity and inclusivity in the CS field. In high school I was consistently doing advocacy work through Girls Who Code and passed a bill supporting K-12 CS classroom demographics! I knew I wanted to continue this work once I started at university, which brought me to AGIC. We have built a community that aims to support women, non binary, gender nonconforming and other minority CS students through their academics and career.

HutchResearch

Since 2019, I have been a part of a machine learning research group called HutchResearch, led by Dr. Brian Hutchinson. In addition to contributing to projects and publications, we place a heavy emphasis on reading deep learning and related papers to stay up to date with the field. Currently I am working to use deep learning to predict information on global weather and climate.