May
16
2024
Past EventMay 16, 2024
DSI Research Day
Annual DSI Research Day featuring cutting edge research talks from faculty labs, DSI research initiatives, and postdoctoral
fellows
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William Eckhardt Research Center. Room 161
The annual DSI Research Day will take place May 16th from 9-5pm in ERC 161. The event will feature cutting edge research talks from faculty labs, DSI research initiatives, and postdoctoral fellows. RSVP
| Time | Agenda | Presentation |
| 8:30am | Breakfast | |
| 9:00am | Welcome | |
| 9:10am – 10:45am | DSI Faculty Presentations | |
| Bo Li, Neubauer Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science | Risk Assessment, Safety Alignment, and Guardrails for Generative Models | |
| Victor Veitch, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science | ||
| Aaron Schein, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science | Expanding the toolkit for probabilistic models of discrete event data | |
| Frederic Koehler, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science | From models to algorithms, and back again | |
| 10:45am | Break | |
| 11:00am – 12:20pm | DSI Faculty & Research Initiative Presentations | |
| Internet Equity Research Initiative | ||
| Nick Feamster, Faculty Director of Research, Data Science Institute; Neubauer Professor of Computer Science and the College | ||
| Alexis Schrubbe, Director, Internet Equity Initiative | ||
| Chenhao Tan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science | Towards Complementary AI: Predicting Fatigue and Generating Hypothesis with LLMs | |
| Nikos Ignatiadis, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science | Analyzing thousands of t-tests with empirical Bayes | |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm – 3:10pm | DSI Faculty & Research Initiative Presentations | |
| AI+Science Research Initiative | ||
| Rebecca Willett, Faculty Director of AI, Data Science Institute; Professor, Statistics, Computer Science, and the College | ||
| Ramanujan Srinath, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow | ||
| Chihway Chang, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Astronomy and Astrophysics | ||
| David Miller, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College | ||
| Data & Democracy Research Initiative | ||
| Joshua Jackson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, Booth | ||
| Molly Offer-Westort, Assistant Professor of Political Science | ||
| Haifeng Xu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science | Rethinking Online Content Eco-systems in the Era of Generative AIs | |
| 3:10pm | Break | |
| 3:20pm – 5:00pm | Grad Student & Postdoc Lightning Talks | |
| Anthony Badea, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow | Intelligent pixel detectors: towards a radiation hard ASIC with on-chip machine learning in 28nm CMOS | |
| Vasilis Charisopoulos, DSI Postdoc | A superlinearly convergent first-order method for nonsmooth optimization | |
| Chacha Chen, PhD Student | Improving Radiologist Performance with AI Assistance | |
| Christian Cianfarani, PhD Student | Differential Privacy and Lawful Redistricting | |
| John Hood, PhD Student | Modeling Dependency Structure in International Relations Data With the Allocore Tensor Decomposition | |
| Peter Lu, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow | Physics-informed Representation Learning for Dynamical Systems and Emulators | |
| Jonatas Marques, DSI Postdoc | Are We Up to the Challenge? Insights from an analysis of the FCC Broadband Data Collection Fixed Internet Availability Challenges | |
| Taveesh Sharma, PhD Student | Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Internet Performance Data | |
| Pranav Subramaniam, PhD Student | Intent-Based Access Control for Databases: Using LLMs to Intelligently Manage Access Control | |
| Colm Talbot, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow | An information-based approach to gravitational-wave population inference | |
| Jibang Wu, PhD Student | TBD | |
| Rosa Zhou, PhD Student | Hypothesis Generation with Large Language Models | |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm | Reception |