Rachel Dorn, a student in VCU’s post-baccalaureate certification program in computer science, received the award for best poster at the 2019 Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) Conference held March 22-23, 2019, at James Madison University.

Dorn’s poster is titled “Dialect-Specific Models for Automatic Speech Recognition of African American Vernacular English.”

Dorn’s academic adviser is Bridget McInnes, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science.