PhD Showcase
The Computer Science PhD Research Showcase is an annual departmental event to showcase the research of our PhD students, who have the opportunity to demonstrate their research, receive feedback, and exchange information. The departmental objectives are the following:
- to improve the student’sresearch communication skills,
- to provide to feedback related to the students’ research progress and presentation of their ideas and results,
- to encourage scientific exchange of ideas between students and faculty working in different areas, and
- to promote internal community developmentby getting to know faculty and peers.
PhD Research Showcase
Friday, March 22, 2024
1PM - 5PM
Farrish Hall (FH) 101
Schedule
1 PM, Opening and Introductions
1:20 PM, Lightning Talks
Students will give a one-minute oral overview of their research
2:00 PM, Poster Session
Mingle with participating students and delve deeper into their research
4 PM, Awards and Closing Remarks
Participating Students
Students | Titles |
Baharlouei, Elaheh | Labeling Comic Mischief Content in Online Videos Using Multimodal Hierarchical Cross-Attention |
Bikaki, Athina | An Exploration of Affective Speech in Different Languages |
Carroll, Thomas Patrick | Extending Dynamic Traffic Assignment Using the Selfless Traffic Routing Model |
Dang, Vu Minh Hoang | Data Quality in NLP: Metrics and Comprehensive Taxonomy |
Griffin, Robert Richard | Designing Mobile MRI Scanners: Mass Efficiency of Halbach Ring Design Parameters |
Hussain, Aftab | Trojan Detection in Large Language Models of Code |
Karihaloo, Vivek | Basic Linear Algebra Operations on TensorCore GPU |
Kiran, Fettah | Relatable and Humorous Videos Reduce Hyperarousal in Math Exams |
Lee, Meng-Chen | Online Multimodal End-of-Turn Prediction for Three-party Conversations |
Mahin, Md | Norma: A Framework for Finding Threshold Associations Between Continuous Variables Using Pointwise Functions |
Nguyen, Dustin | Contrastive Viewpoint-aware Shape Learning for Long-term Person Re-Identification |
Roy, Shanto | Cyber Deception against Adversarial Reconnaissance in Enterprise Network using Semi-Indistinguishable Honeypot |
Sampathkumar, Urmila | Postoperative shape estimates for reconstructive breast surgeries |
Sarbajna, Raunak | Accurate Geolocation and Navigation Through Landscape Recognition Using Visual Place Recognition |
Si, Lei | Structure of Hex-dominant Meshes and Its Improvement |
Varghese, Robin | Accelerating Gradient Descent Using Data Summarization For Weight Initialization |
Zafar, Adeel | Extract and Characterize Hairpin Vortices in Turbulent Flows |
Zhou, Xiantian | Graph Analytics with Data Science Languages |
Awards
Participants will be considered for the following awards:
- Best Poster
- Honorable Mention
- People's Choice
- People's Choice Runner-Up
Expectations and Timeline:
- Register by Friday, February 16, 2024. Refer to email invitation with registration link.
- Registered students will be added to PhD Showcase Class in Canvas on Monday, February 19, 2024
- Submit draft poster via Canvas course by Friday, February 23, 2024.
- Attend the CS Poster Design and Lightning Talk Information Session on Friday, March 1, 2024, 1PM-3PM, PGH 563.
- Submit a final poster via Canvas for printing by March 8, 2024.
- Submit a a lighting talk slide (1 slide) via Canvas by TBA.
- Present on Friday, March 22, 2024.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Guoning Chen, chair (gchen22 at central dot uh dot edu)
Des Jonee Baldwin
Dr. Om Gnawali
Matthew Pariyothorn
Dr. Jaspal Subhlok