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
May 16, 2024 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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 |