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The DSI PhD Student Research Day will showcase and celebrate the research of outstanding PhD students in the DSI community. Please join us for an afternoon of engaging research talks, poster presentations, and opportunities to get involved in research across DSI.

Agenda

Friday, December 6, 2024

12:30–12:45

Lunch & Opening Remarks

12:45–2:00

Lightning Talks

Zihan Pengmei: “Geom2Vec: Using pretrained GNNs with token mixers as geometric featurizers for conformational dynamics”

Yue Gong: “Nexus: Correlation Discovery over Collections of Spatio-Temporal Tabular Data”

Steven Xia: “Data station: delegated, trustworthy, and auditable computation to enable data-sharing consortia”

Zixin Ding: “Learning to Rank for Active Learning via Multi-Task Bilevel Optimization”

Fengxue Zhang: “Constrained Bayesian Optimization with Adaptive Active Learning of Unknown Constraints”

Ruoxi (Roxie) Jiang: “Embed and Emulate: Contrastive representations for simulation-based inference”

2:00–2:15

Break

2:15–3:30

Lightning Talks

Fan Yao: “Single-Agent Poisoning Attacks Suffice to Ruin Multi-Agent Learning”

Yifan Peng: “Tensor Density Estimator by Deconvolution”

Rohan Hore: “Monotonicity meets conditional independence testing: new insights”

Kiho Park: “The Geometry of Concepts in Large Language Models”

Nikša Praljak: “Molecular Dialogues: Guiding Protein Design through Natural Language Prompts”

Lin Gui: “BoNBoN Alignment for Large Language Models and the Sweetness of Best-of-n Sampling”

3:30–3:40

Poster Spotlight

3:40–5:00

Poster Session & Reception

Melissa Adrian
Christian Cianfarani
Zixin Ding
Lin Gui
Richard Liu
Marko Medvedev
Jake Nicoll
Nikša Praljak
Mansi Sakavardia
Van Tran
Tianyang Xu

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