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PhD Research 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:

  1. to improve the student’sresearch communication skills,
  2. to provide to feedback related to the students’ research progress and presentation of their ideas and results,
  3. to encourage scientific exchange of ideas between students and faculty working in different areas, and
  4. to promote internal community developmentby getting to know faculty and peers.

PhD Research Showcase
Friday, October 25, 2024
1PM - 5PM
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion

Schedule

1 PM, Opening and Introductions

1:10 PM, Lightning Talks
Students will give a 30-second overview of their research

1:20 PM - 2:40 PM, Poster Session #1
Mingle with participating students and delve deeper into their research

2:40 PM - 4:00 PM, Poster Session #2
Mingle with participating students and delve deeper into their research

4:00 PM - 4:10 PM, Break

4:10 PM - 4:40 PM, Awards and Closing Remarks

Participating Students

Presenter Advisor Title
Huda Alghamdi Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis Monitoring Driver’s Hand Behavior via Smartwatch Sensors
Rahma Aloui Dr. Shishir Shah GAM-UNet for Semantic Segmentation
Alireza Ansaripour Dr. Om Gnawali Enhancing the Performance of Ultra-wideband Radio Networks
Thomas Carroll Dr. Albert Cheng Work-In-Progress: Using Interaction Between Vehicles to Reduce Deadline Tardiness from a Route Assignment Perspective
Mohammad Javadi Dr. Ernst Leiss / Dr. Nikos Tsekos Revolutionizing Low-Field MRI: A Diffusion Model Can Outperform Traditional Methods
Vivek Karihaloo Dr. Panruo Wu Basic Linear Algebra Operations on TensorCore GPU
Fettah Kiran Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis Relatable and Humorous Videos Reduce Stress in Math Exams
Michail Koumpanakis Dr. Nikos Tsekos Meta-learning Loss Functions of Parametric Partial Differential Equations Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
Meng-chen Lee Dr. Zhigang Deng DialogueDiffu: Dyadic Conversational Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis
Md Mahin Dr. Christoph Eick Sirius: A Density-based Colocation Mining Framework for Sets of Continuous Spatial Variables
Samiha Mirza Dr. Shishir Shah Recall-Based Knowledge Distillation for Seismic Salt Boundary Segmentation
Dustin Nguyen Dr. Shishir Shah Attention-based Cross-Modality Learning for Cloth-Changing and Occluded Person Re-Identification
Nguyen Phan Dr. Guoning Chen Segment Neighborhood-based Vector Field Exploration
Fatima Zahra Qachfar Dr. Rakesh Verma How To Make Your LLM Faster?
Lei Si Dr. Guoning Chen Simplyfing Hex-dominant Meshes
Yuan Tian Dr. Stephen Huang Real-Time VPN Traffic Detector using Active Probing
Jatindera Walia Dr. Jaspal Subhlok Comparison of Document Key Phrase Extractors vs VideoPoints Heuristics Algorithm on Lecture Videos
Michael S. Yantosca Dr. Albert Cheng ARTIC/Phonotomizer: An Adaptive, Real-Time Pipeline for Unsupervised, Multilingual Phonetic Segmentation
Aryo Yarahmadi Dr. Om Gnawali Internet for Everyone: How to Connect the Unconnected and Turn Buffering into Productivity
Mina Yazdani Ghooshchi Dr. Feng Yan Mitigating Heterogeneity via detection in Federated Learning
Adeel Zafar Dr. Guoning Chen Topological Separation of Vortices

Awards

Participants will be considered for the following awards:

  1. Best Poster
  2. Honorable Mention
  3. People's Choice
  4. People's Choice Runner-Up
For Fall 2024, all CS PhD students who have passed the PhD RCE exam or have started their third year and beyond are expected to participate.

Expectations and Timeline:

  1. Register by Friday, September 13, 2024.
  2. Registered students will be added to PhD Showcase course in Canvas on date TBA
  3. Submit draft poster via Canvas course by Friday, September 27, 2024.
  4. Attend a PhD Showcase Committee Faculty Office Hours on Friday, October 4, 2024, 1PM-3PM, PGH 563. This will be to receive in-person feedback on your posters.
  5. Submit a final poster via Canvas for printing by Wednesday, October 16, 2024.
  6. Present on Friday, October 25, 2024.

Dates and times subject to change. Updates will be announced in Canvas for those who register.

Spring 2024

Spring 2023

Organizing Committee

Dr. Guoning Chen, chair (gchen22 at central dot uh dot edu)
Dr. Om Gnawali
Matthew Pariyothorn
Dr. Jaspal Subhlok