Research Scholar Program recipients
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- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
Algorithms and Optimization
Bo Waggoner, University of Colorado Boulder
Multi-Stage Pandora’s Box for Search and Decision Making
Hung Le, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Algorithmic Foundations of Road Networks
Josh Alman, Columbia University
Computational Complexity of Attention
Manish Raghavan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Synthetic Data Generation from Aggregate Data with Applications to Privacy and the US Census
Vasilis Syrgkanis, Stanford University
Automating the Causal Machine Learning Pipeline
Yan Gu, University of California, Riverside
Yihan Sun, University of California, Riverside
Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Graph Mining
Applied Science
Chibueze Amanchukwu, University of Chicago
ElectrolyteGPT to accelerate battery electrolyte discovery
Constantin Pape, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Vision Foundation Models for Bioimage Segmentation
Eric Y. Ma, University of California, Berkeley
Parsing Physics Literature with Large Language Models
Faez Ahmed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Md Ferdous Alam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MechTool-LLM: Integrating Large Language Models with Engineering Tools for Advanced Mechanical Engineering
Shu-han Hsu, National Cheng Kung University
Adaptive Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM): Incorporating Large Language Models for Automated TEM Imaging, Debugging and Explainability
Sanjiban Choudhury, Cornell University
Imitation Labs: Interactive Experiment Planning with LLM Apprentices
Human Computer Interaction
Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Concordia University
Early Warning Systems for Hand Tracking Failures in VR Head-Mounted Displays
Cori Faklaris, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
CYBERSECURITY BUDDY: A Human-in-the-loop AI App for Encouraging Security and Privacy Best Practices
Hong Shen, Carnegie Mellon University
Understanding and Supporting Marginalized Communities in AI Red Teaming
Maitraye Das, Northeastern University
Designing Accessible Collaborative Ideation Tools for Blind and Low Vision People
Motahhare Eslami, Carnegie Mellon University
Ken Holstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Generative AI Meets Responsible AI: Supporting User-Driven Auditing of Generative AI Systems
Stephanie Valencia Valencia, University of Maryland - College Park
Vaishnav Kameswaran, University of Maryland - College Park
Designing AI-powered DIY Communication Tools with AAC users
Vinitha Gadiraju, Wellesley College
Alicia Boyd, New York University
Improving Disability Representation in Large Language Models Through Reflexive and Collaborative Annotation
Health Research
Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Equity in Geographical Accessibility for Emergency Obstetric Care in sub-Saharan Africa
Irene Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco
Anna Zink, University of Chicago
Closing the Gap: Evaluating and Improving Clinical Risk Prediction Models for Patients with Lower Access to Care
Laleh Seyyed Kalantari, York University
Toward fair AI in radiology via Google CXR foundation models
Maggie Makar, University of Michigan
Reliability through causal alignment: causally motivated models for pain management
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Addressing Intersectional Clinical Fairness with Unknown Demographic Attributes
Milad Nazarahari, University of Alberta
A Large-Scale Movement Dataset for AI-Enabled Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Monitoring
Preeya Khanna, University of California, Berkeley
Machine learning for personalized at-home motor assessment and therapy in stroke participants
Sergey Stavisky, University of California, Davis
David Brandman, University of California, Davis
An “AI Listener” for Speech Restoration via Brain- and Muscle-Computer Interfaces
Xiang Li, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Quanzheng Li, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Tailoring Large Language Models for the Diagnosis and Management of Late-life Depression Patients with Limited Access to Healthcare Resources
Machine Learning and data mining
Aditi Raghunathan, Carnegie Mellon University
Robust fine-tuning of foundation models
Andrea Bajcsy, Carnegie Mellon University
In-the-Wild Robot Behavior Alignment from Human Preferences
Andrej Risteski, Carnegie Mellon University
Algorithmic Foundations for Generative AI: Inference, Distillation and Non-Autoregressive Generation
Aryan Mokhtari, University of Texas at Austin
Representation Learning and Fine-tuning of Large Models in Federated Environments
César A Uribe, Rice University
Enabling Next-Generation Performance for Efficient Distributed Training
Chenguang Wang, Washington University in St. Louis
Before Grounding Responses: Learning to Ground References of Large Language Models
Chris Schwiegelshohn, Aarhus University
Learning and Compression Algorithms for Clustering
Han Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Trustworthy Machine Learning via Post-Processing
Joel Mackenzie, The University of Queensland
Compressing Neural Indexes for Short and Long-Term Applications
Kwabena Afriyie Owusu, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani
Agent-Based Model to Investigate the Effects of Configuration, Timing, and Duration of Closed Fishing Areas on the Ecologic and Economic Sustainability of the Artisanal Sardinella Fishery in Ghana
Nan Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unification and Novel Interaction Protocols between Online and Offline RL
Song Mei, University of California, Berkeley
Theoretical Foundations of Foundation Models and Generative AI
Machine Perception
David Lindell, University of Toronto
Computational Single-Photon Photography for Dynamic Vision in the Dark
Francesco Locatello, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Causal Lifting: Eliciting causality from statistical models
Georgia Gkioxari, California Institute of Technology
A Foundation Model for 3D Perception
Jia-Bin Huang, University of Maryland - College Park
Text-driven Dynamic 3D Scene Generation
Yu-Lun Liu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Utilizing Dynamic 3D Gaussians for Space-Time Video Super-Resolution
Natural Language Processing
Aditya Joshi, University of New South Wales
Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey
A benchmark for sentiment and sarcasm classification for dialects of English
Ashwini Vaidya, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi
Does Quantity Buy Quality? Testing Argument Structure Knowledge in Hindi
Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna
Developing a Sri Lankan Tamil Corpus
Ming Jiang, Indiana University
Unity in Diversity: Augmenting the Geo-Cultural Competence of Language Technologies for Intercultural Communication
Peter Henderson, Princeton University
Improving and Understanding Agent Abilities to Follow Law-like Rules
Tatsunori Hashimoto, Stanford University
Synthetic data for small, efficient language models
Privacy
Florian Tramer, ETH Zurich
Adaptive Privacy Attacks on Machine Learning Models
Pardis Emami-Naeini, Duke University
Designing A Usable Security And Privacy Label "Dictionary"
Peihan Miao, Brown University
Scalable Private Set Intersection for Broader Applications
Yupeng Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Proof of Training and its Applications in Machine Unlearning and Differential Privacy
Quantum Computing
Dakshita Khurana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cryptography for the Quantum Age
Linran Fan, University of Texas at Austin
Coherent superconducting-photonic transducers for scalable quantum computing networks
Security
Earlence Fernandes, University of California, San Diego
Practical Least-Privilege Authorization with State for Internet Services
Jiang Ming, Tulane University
Precise Third-Party Library Detection in Android: Leveraging Surrounding Class Context for Globally Optimal Matches
Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos, University of Notre Dame
Leveraging the Power of Large Language Models to Generate Security Tests for Mobile Apps
Marc Juarez, University of Edinburgh
Providing Accountability to the Machine Learning Supply Chain
Michael Schwarz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
(Micro-)Architectural Security Analysis of RISC-V CPUs with Vendor Extensions
Software engineering and programming languages
Nuno P. Lopes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Automatic Verification of LLVM Loop Optimizations
Xiaoning Du, Monash University
Towards Faster and Greener LLM-assisted Programming
Systems and Networking systems
Adam Belay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Making Kernel Bypass Practical for the Cloud
Ambuj Varshney, National University of Singapore
From Supply Chains to Personal Belongings: Designing Zero-Battery Trackers
Amy Ousterhout, University of California, San Diego
Preemptive User-Level Scheduling with User Interrupts
Andrew Crotty, Northwestern University
Deep Semantic Modeling for Compressing and Querying Big Data
Muhammad Shahbaz, Purdue University
Robust and Tail-Optimal Collective Communication for Distributed Training in the Cloud
Pedro Fonseca, Purdue University
ML-based Concurrency Bug Finding for Operating System Kernels
Algorithms and Optimization
Aaron Bernstein, Rutgers University
New Algorithmic Tools for Computing a Maximum-Weight Matching
Li-Yang Tan, Stanford University
Theoretical foundations of explainable machine learning
Oliver Hinder, University of Pittsburgh
First-order methods for linear programming and beyond
Rajan Udwani, University of California, Berkeley
Generalized Framework for Prior-free Online Resource Allocation
Slobodan Mitrovic, University of California, Davis
Fast Fully Scalable Data Partitioning
Yuting Wei, University of Pennsylvania
Bridging Game Theory, Statistics and Optimization in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Applied Science
Aditi Sheshadri, Stanford University
Leveraging machine learning tools to transform the accuracy of climate models
Jon Tamir, The University of Texas at Austin
Generative Physical Modeling for Blind Imaging Inverse Problems
Joseph G. Makin, Purdue University
Brain-Machine Interfaces for Speech
Laura Minet, University of Victoria
Remote sensing of on-road vehicle emissions for assessing ambient air quality
N M Anoop Krishnan, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Sayan Ranu, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Reinforcement Learning on Rough Landscapes for Materials Discovery
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University
Can Congestion Pricing Work? Equilibrium Analysis in a Large Field Experiment
Geo
Ching-Yao Lai, Stanford University
Data-driven and physics informed models for iceberg calving
Paulo Orenstein, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
Forest monitoring with satellite imagery and machine learning: diagnostics, prediction and uncertainty quantification
Human Computer Interaction
Alexis Hiniker, University of Washington
Encouraging Nonviolent Communication in Online Messaging Platforms
Andrea Mauri, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Human-Guided Annotation for High-Quality Health Data Collection
Daniel Buschek, University of Bayreuth
SHAIRED: Shared Human-AI Relationships for Editing Documents
David Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz
Conversational UX and Conversational Clustering Algorithms for Large Group Mentorship
Dhruv Jain, University of Michigan
Sound Awareness Systems to Support People Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Dominik Moritz, Carnegie Mellon University
Accessible Interactions for Data Visualizations
Michael J. Lee, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Increasing Underrepresented Youth and Older Adults’ Participation in Computing Activities through Intergenerational Coding
Terika McCall, Yale University
Mobile Application to Support Management of Anxiety and Depression Among Black Women
Health Research
Longfei Shangguan, University of Pittsburgh
Enabling Remote Cardiac Auscultation On the Fly
Marinka Zitnik, Harvard University
Geometric Deep Learning to Shorten Diagnostic Odysseys for Rare Disease
Mathias Unberath, Johns Hopkins University
Assuring Image-based Surgical Autonomy with Human-in-the-loop Designs
Pranav Rajpurkar, Harvard University
Medically Accurate Radiology Report Generation
Tauhidur Rahman, University of California, San Diego
Personalized AI/ML Framework for Modeling Opioid Addiction with Wearable and Smartphone Sensor Data
Waqas Sultani, Information Technology University, Pakistan
A Large-Scale Blood Cancer Dataset of Multiple Microscopes for Low-Cost Blood Cancer Detection
Yasser Khan, University of Southern California
Racial bias correction in oximetry with Google’s skin tone framework
Yunyu Xiao, Weill Cornell Medicine
Equity-focused Policy-Decision-Making using Causal Machine Learning (EPIC)
Machine Learning and data mining
Atlas Wang, University of Texas at Austin
Efficiently Scale, Adaptively Compute: A Recipe for Training and Using Larger Sparse Models
Beomjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Integrating large language models with geometric task and motion planning
Christopher De Sa, Cornell University
Example Selection for Large-Scale Optimization and Learning
Gauri Joshi, Carnegie Mellon University
Heterogeneity-aware Algorithms for Federated Optimization
Graeme Best, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Online Behaviour Tree Synthesis for Adaptive Multi-Agent Coordination
Hamidreza Kasaei, University of Groningen
Continual Robot Learning in Human-centered Environments through Imitation and Interaction
Ilija Bogunovic, University College London
Deep Model-based Optimization for Graph-structured Data
Luis Felipe Giraldo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Modeling Financial Cooperation in Underprivileged Communities using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Marynel Vázquez, Yale University
Facilitating Human Evaluation of Robot Performance
Nika Haghtalab, University of California, Berkeley
Statistical Foundations of Collaborative Machine Learning
Sebastian Stich, Saarland Universität
Efficient Algorithms for Non-Convex Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Data
Wei Hu, University of Michigan
Deep Learning Theory Under Realistic and Measurable High-Dimensional Data Properties
Mobile
Jeffrey Nanzer, Michigan State University
Joint Sensing and Communications for High-Accuracy Localization in Mobile Millimeter-Wave Networks
Jun Han, Yonsei University
Utilizing Road Context for Augmentation and Verification of Vehicular Applications
Vikram Iyer, University of Washington
Circular Fabrication and Computational Design for Sustainable Electronics
Machine Perception
Aanchan Mohan, Northeastern University
No speaker left behind: advancing speech technology for disordered speech
Gul Varol, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
Open-Vocabulary Sign Language Translation
Naveed Akhtar, The University of Western Australia
Enabling Glass-box Deep Machine Perception
Networking
Maria Apostolaki, Princeton University
Fine-Grained Network Telemetry via Multivariate Time Series Imputation
Sajjad Moazeni, University of Washington
Next-generation Disaggregated AI Architectures Enabled by Co-packaged Optics
Vishal Shrivastav, Purdue University
Online Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention in High‐Speed Networks using Data Plane Programmability
Natural Language Processing
Dr. Casper Shikali Shivachi, South Eastern Kenya University
Processing African Low Resource Languages Using Deep Learning
Miryam de Lhoneux, KU Leuven
Typologically fair NLP
Nanyun (Violet) Peng, University of California, Los Angeles
Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Multimodal Open-Domain Creative Generation
Robin Jia, University of Southern California
Stabilizing In-Context Learning by Understanding the Value of Demonstrations
Privacy
Charith Perera, Cardiff University
Tangible Interfaces for Assisting Young People with Neurodiversity Towards better Understanding Online Harms
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Private Web Search
Oren Mangoubi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Matrix Diffusions for Differentially Private Linear Algebra
Wenting Zheng, Carnegie Mellon University
Privacy-Preserving Inference for Natural Language Processing
Quantum Computing
Matthew Amy, Simon Fraser University
Practical automated verification for quantum computing
Nai-Hui Chia, Rice University
Shallow-forwarding and Parallel Fast-forwarding of Hamiltonian Simulation
Shenglong Xu, Texas A&M University
Test Quantum Advantage by Scrambling in Random Circuits
Structured data, extraction, semantic graph, and database management
Dong Xie, Pennsylvania State University
ERRAND: Elastic and Responsive Real-Time Analytics on Newly-ingested Data
Tao Yu, The University of Hong Kong
Building Natural Language Interfaces for Data Science with Language Models
Security
Aayush Jain, Carnegie Mellon University
Light-Weight Homomorphic Secret Sharing from Sparse Decoding Problems
Ling Ren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practical Single-Server Private Information Retrieval
Sanghyun Hong, Oregon State University
Evaluating and Mitigating Security and Privacy Risks of Publishing Resource-Efficient Models to Edge Devices
Shuai Wang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Exploiting and Mitigating Side Channels in AI Infrastructures
Xiao Wang, Northwestern University
Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Private and Transparent Machine Learning
Yousra Aafer, University of Waterloo
Security Audit of Android APIs Via Probabilistic Inference
Zakir Durumeric, Stanford University
Detecting DNS Hijacking Attacks at Scale and in Real Time
Software engineering and programming languages
Caroline Lemieux, The University of British Columbia
Practical Fuzz Driven-Development
Gagandeep Singh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Accurate, Efficient, and Provably Robust Deep Learning
Gema Rodriguez-Perez, University of British Columbia
Everyone talks in their own way: Making natural language-based code generation systems accessible to women and ESL developers
Systems
Mengjia Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leveraging User-Accessible Hardware Signals for the Efficient Discovery of Corrupt Execution Errors
Minsoo Rhu, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Co-Designing Hardware/Software Systems for Differentially Private Machine Learning
Mosharaf Chowdhury, University of Michigan
Fault-Tolerant Distributed Training of Large DNN Models
Sophia Shao, University of California, Berkeley
Scalable Multi-Chiplet Architectures with Heterogeneous Integration Platforms
Algorithms and Optimization
Andres Gomez, University of Southern California
Convexification of mixed-integer quadratic optimization problems
Yuxin Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Tackling Nonconvex Optimization in Reinforcement Learning
Hubert Wagner, University of Florida
Algorithms for Topological Analysis of Neural Networks
Cameron Musco, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Random Sketching for Scalable and Data Efficient Learning
Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Mechanism Design with Strategic Effort
Geo
Anderson Chaves Carniel, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Development of an Extensible Spatial Library for Indexing Spatial Data on Different Types of Memories
Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, University of California, Santa Cruz
New habitat connectivity models for bird conservation using artificial intelligence
Nicolas Audebert, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Mapping Aerial imagery by learning on Game Engine-based simulations
Muhamad Risqi Utama Saputra, Monash University, Indonesia
Global Mining Watch: A Large Scale Geo-Spatial Analysis from Global Mining Footprints
Human Computer Interaction
Thanh Nho Do, University of New South Wales
Reproduce A Better Sense of Touch with Soft Robotic Haptic Skin Interfaces
Brian Y. Lim, National University of Singapore
Measuring & Mitigating Misleading Model Explanations of Private Data
Kiran Garimella, Rutgers University
Community-Driven Fact-Checking on Encrypted Chat Platforms: Who fact-checks Whom, Why, and With What Effect?
Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
Learning Beyond Labels: Extracting Human Knowledge to Teach AI
Toby Li, University of Notre Dame
Effective Human-AI Collaboration with Data-Driven Models in UX Design
Anhong Guo, University of Michigan
Making Collaborative Augmented Reality Experiences Accessible for People with Visual Impairments
Kristen Shinohara, Rochester Institute of Technology
Think Aloud Protocols for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Designers and Users
Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington
Designing End User Tools for Personalized Content Moderation
Tony Russell-Rose, Goldsmiths, University of London
Promoting efficiency and effectiveness in structured searching
Health Research
Kongmeng Liew, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Understanding Social Withdrawal and Hikikomori: Research and Development of an Intelligent Companion Application for AI-Assisted Therapy
Roneel Sharan, Macquarie University
Cough Sound Assessment Using Deep Learning Techniques
Kun-Hsing Yu, Harvard University
Causal Machine Learning for Personalized Cancer Medicine in Diverse Populations
Edward Jay Wang, University of California, San Diego
Smartphone BP Monitoring for Hypertension Care in Low Resource Communities
Bryan Ranger, Boston College
Mobile ultrasound and machine learning-based image interpretation for body composition measurements and nutritional status assessment in newborns
Chemtai Mungo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Feasibility of artificial intelligence- supported cervical cancer screening in sub-Saharan Africa
Rui Duan, Harvard University
Targeting Underrepresented Populations in Precision Medicine via Federated Transfer Learning
Machine Learning and data mining
Kevin Ellis, Cornell University
Programming Problem Generation for Human and Machine Learning
Daehyung Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Physics-Informed Interactive Skill Learning Toward In-hand Manipulation of Deformable Objects
Damian Borth, University of St.Gallen
Hyper-Representations: Learning from Populations of Neural Networks
Shuran Song, Columbia University
Language-Informed Decision Making for GeneralizableRobot Manipulation
Jaime Fernández Fisac, Princeton University
Safe Reinforcement Learning via Adversarial Imagination
Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University
Distribution-free uncertainty quantification for structured data
Grant M. Rotskoff, Stanford University
Establishing theoretical foundations for robust, data-driven simulations of physical systems
Haipeng Luo, University of Southern California
Goal-Oriented Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms
Razieh Rahimi, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Generative Rankers toward Trustworthy Search Result Diversification
Jayadev Acharya, Cornell University
Information-Constrained Statistics and Federated Analytics
Yanning Shen, University of California, Irvine
Addressing Unfairness in Learning over Social Networks
Samet Oymak, University of California, Riverside
Personalized Training Strategies for Heterogeneous Data
Roi Livni, Tel-Aviv University
Fair use of synthetic data
Mobile
Elahe Soltanaghai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Scalable Millimeter-Wave Backscatter Sensing for Augmented Reality
Feng Qian, University of Minnesota
Learning-based Mobile Video Delivery over 5G Networks
Jeffrey Nanzer, Michigan State University
Spectrally-Sparse Distributed Localization for Mobile Millimeter-Wave Networks
Machine Perception
Justin Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geometric Representations for Intelligent 3D Modeling
Laura Sevilla-Lara, University of Edinburgh
Sparse Temporal Representations for VideoUnderstanding
Angela Dai, Technische Universität München
Self-Supervised 3D Reconstruction in the Wild
Abby Stylianou, Saint Louis University
Using Deep Learning to Uncover Unknown Genotype x Phenotype Relationships in Crops
Priyadarshini Panda, Yale University
Private Explainable & Robust Distributed Learning With Spiking Neural Networks
Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, University of California, Berkeley
Streaming Neural Speech Synthesis from Biosignals
Judy Hoffman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Reliable Visual Adaptation through Selective Learning
Networking
Lin Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Unified Programming for Data Center In-Network Computing
Endadul Hoque, Syracuse University
CSFuzz: Fuzzing for Highly Structured Context-Sensitive Inputs
Michio Honda, University of Edinburgh
Upcycling Packets as Persistent In-Memory Data Structures
Manya Ghobadi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cassini: Optimizing Communication Bandwidth in Shared Machine Learning Clusters
Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology
Endokernels: In-dataplane Support for Lower-Latency Programmable Network Reconfiguration
Natural Language Processing
Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College
Culture-Aware Language Models
Ryan Cotterell, ETH Zürich
Controlling and Understanding Representations through Concept Erasure
Vukosi Marivate, University of Pretoria
Investigation into the consolidation of learnings of language models and language tools for South African languages and beyond
Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago
Robustifying NLP models via Learning from Explanations
Karthik Narasimhan, Princeton University
Autonomous Interaction with the World Wide Web
Andrew Katumba, Makerere University
Building Luganda Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Agriculture
Chenhui Chu, Kyoto University
Visual Scene-Aware Machine Translation
Other Research Areas
Ji Yun Lee, Washington State University
Data-driven dynamic wildfire risk assessment for resilient communities
Junjie Qin, Purdue University
Storage for 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy: Modeling, Control, and Market Design
Yu She, Purdue University
Visuo-tactile Enhanced Perception for Robotic Cable Installation
Privacy
Elissa M. Redmiles, Max Planck Institute
Aligning Technical Data Privacy Protections with User Concerns
Saba Eskandarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tracking Misinformation on Private Communication Platforms
Ferdinando Fioretto, Syracuse University
Equity of Differentially Private Decision Processes
Sebastian Zimmeck, Wesleyan University
Privacy Pioneer: Automating the Creation of Privacy Labels for Websites
Mathias Lécuyer, The University of British Columbia
Improving Differentially Private Machine Learning with Data Generation as Information Sharing
Quantum Computing
Erez Zohar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Using Duality Transformations for Quantum Simulation
Xiao Chen, Boston College
Applications of the measurement-induced entanglement phase transition in quantum computing
Bill Fefferman, The University of Chicago
Understanding the feasibility of practical applications from quantum supremacy experiments
Anthony Sigillito, University of Pennsylvania
Towards a spin memory for superconducting circuits
Marina Radulaski, University of California, Davis
Marina Krstic Marinkovic, ETH Zürich
Q-MARINA: Quantum Mapping Algorithm of Resonator Interaction with N Atoms
Structured data, extraction, semantic graph, and database management
Xu Chu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Differentiable Search of Data Preprocessing Pipelines for Learning over Dirty Structured Data
Huan Sun, The Ohio State University
Empowering Pre-trained Language Models for Multi-Step Reasoning
Xiang Ren, University of Southern California
Continual Model Refinement with Human in the Loop
Romila Pradhan, Purdue University
Post hoc Diagnostic Explanations for Machine Learning Model Outcomes
Security
Franziska Roesner, University of Washington
Security and Privacy for Vulnerable and/or Marginalized Populations
Aydin Aysu, North Carolina State University
Demonstrating and Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities of Edge Tensor Processing Units
David Wu, University of Texas at Austin
High-Rate, High-Throughput Private Information Retrieval via FHE Composition
Yasemin Acar, George Washington University
Human factors everywhere: A qualitative investigation into trust and security in open source projects
Eleonora Losiouk, Universita' degli studi di Padova
SPECK: From Android Textual Guidelines To Automatic Exploitation of Vulnerable Applications
Musard Balliu, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Automated Detection and Exploitation of Object Injection Vulnerabilities
Software engineering and programming languages
Maria Christakis, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Metamorphic Specification and Testing of Machine-Learning Models
Brittany Johnson-Matthews, George Mason University
Exploring and Boosting Ethical Signals in Data-Driven Software Communities
Lingming Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Towards Effective Fuzzing of Deep Learning Libraries
Systems
Inna Partin-Vaisband, University Of Illinois Chicago
Knowledge Graph Embedding for Early Detection of Hardware Trojans
James Bornholt, University of Texas at Austin
Lightweight Formal Methods for Continuously Verified Cloud Services
Jason Lowe-Power, University of California, Davis
Virtualized Remote Memory Management: Enabling Sharing of Fabric-Attached Memory for Disaggregated Systems
Sudarsun Kannan, Rutgers University
Addressing I/O Bottlenecks with Near-storage Filesystem and CISC I/O
Xun Jian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Architectural Support to Assist OS Aggressively Save Memory in Cloud while Preserving High Application Performance and Strong Performance Isolation
Gennady Pekhimenko, University of Toronto
Holistic Systems Techniques for Efficient Training of Deep Learning Models
Adrian Sampson, Cornell University
Debugging and Verifying DSL-to-Hardware Compilers
Algorithms and Optimization
Alexandros Psomas, Purdue University
Auction Theory Beyond Independent, Quasi-Linear Bidders
Julian Shun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scalable Parallel Subgraph Finding and Peeling Algorithms
Mary Wootters, Stanford University
The Role of Redundancy in Algorithm Design
Pravesh K. Kothari, Carnegie Mellon University
Efficient Algorithms for Robust Machine Learning
Sepehr Assadi, Rutgers University
Graph Clustering at Scale via Improved Massively Parallel Algorithms
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Srinath Sridhar, Brown University
Perception and Generation of Interactive Objects
Geo
Miriam E. Marlier, University of California, Los Angeles
Mapping California’s Compound Climate Hazards in Google Earth Engine
Suining He, The University of Connecticut
Fairness-Aware and Cross-Modality Traffic Learning and Predictive Modeling for Urban Smart Mobility Systems
Human Computer Interaction
Arvind Satyanarayan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Generating Semantically Rich Natural Language Captions for Data Visualizations to Promote Accessibility
Dina EL-Zanfaly, Carnegie Mellon University
In-the-making: An intelligence mediated collaboration system for creative practices
Katharina Reinecke, University of Washington
Providing Science-Backed Answers to Health-related Questions in Google Search
Misha Sra, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hands-free Game Controller for Quadriplegic Individuals
Mohsen Mosleh, University of Exeter Business School
Effective Strategies to Debunk False Claims on Social Media: A large-scale digital field experiments approach
Tanushree Mitra, University of Washington
Supporting Scalable Value-Sensitive Fact-Checking through Human-AI Intelligence
Health Research
Catarina Barata, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
DeepMutation – A CNN Model To Predict Genetic Mutations In Melanoma Patients
Emma Pierson, Cornell Tech, the Jacobs Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Cornell University
Using cell phone mobility data to reduce inequality and improve public health
Jasmine Jones, Berea College
Reachout: Co-Designing Social Connection Technologies for Isolated Young Adults
Mojtaba Golzan, University of Technology Sydney, Jack Phu, University of New South Wales
Autonomous Grading of Dynamic Blood Vessel Markers in the Eye using Deep Learning
Serena Yeung, Stanford University
Artificial Intelligence Analysis of Surgical Technique in the Operating Room
Machine Learning and data mining
Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Northwestern University, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Carnegie Mellon University
Principled Approaches for Learning with Test-time Robustness
Cho-Jui Hsieh, University of California, Los Angeles
Scalability and Tunability for Neural Network Optimizers
Golnoosh Farnadi, University of Montreal, HEC Montreal/MILA
Addressing Algorithmic Fairness in Decision-focused Deep Learning
Harrie Oosterhuis, Radboud University
Search and Recommendation Systems that Learn from Diverse User Preferences
Jimmy Ba, University of Toronto
Model-based Reinforcement Learning with Causal World Models
Nadav Cohen, Tel-Aviv University
A Dynamical Theory of Deep Learning
Nihar Shah, Carnegie Mellon University
Addressing Unfairness in Distributed Human Decisions
Nima Fazeli, University of Michigan
Semi-Implicit Methods for Deformable Object Manipulation
Qingyao Ai, University of Utah
Metric-agnostic Ranking Optimization
Stefanie Jegelka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Generalization of Graph Neural Networks under Distribution Shifts
Virginia Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
A Multi-Task Approach for Trustworthy Federated Learning
Mobile
Aruna Balasubramanian, State University of New York - Stony Brook
AccessWear: Ubiquitous Accessibility using Wearables
Tingjun Chen, Duke University
Machine Learning- and Optical-enabled Mobile Millimeter-Wave Networks
Machine Perception
Amir Patel, University of Cape Town
WildPose: 3D Animal Biomechanics in the Field using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Angjoo Kanazawa, University of California, Berkeley
Practical Volumetric Capture of People and Scenes
Emanuele Rodolà, Sapienza University of Rome
Fair Geometry: Toward Algorithmic Debiasing in Geometric Deep Learning
Minchen Wei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Accurate Capture of Perceived Object Colors for Smart Phone Cameras
Mohsen Ali, Information Technology University, Pakistan, Izza Aftab, Information Technology University, Pakistan
Is Economics From Afar Domain Generalizable?
Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Bridging Perspectives of Explainability and Adversarial Robustness
Xin Yu, University of Technology Sydney, Linchao Zhu, University of Technology Sydney
Sign Language Translation in the Wild
Networking
Aurojit Panda, New York University
Bertha: Network APIs for the Programmable Network Era
Cristina Klippel Dominicini, Instituto Federal do Espirito Santo
Polynomial Key-based Architecture for Source Routing in Network Fabrics
Noa Zilberman, University of Oxford
Exposing Vulnerabilities in Programmable Network Devices
Rachit Agarwal, Cornell University
Designing Datacenter Transport for Terabit Ethernet
Natural Language Processing
Danqi Chen, Princeton University
Improving Training and Inference Efficiency of NLP Models
Derry Tanti Wijaya, Boston University, Anietie Andy, University of Pennsylvania
Exploring the evolution of racial biases over time through framing analysis
Eunsol Choi, University of Texas at Austin
Answering Information Seeking Questions In The Wild
Kai-Wei Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
Certified Robustness to against language differences in Cross-Lingual Transfer
Mohohlo Samuel Tsoeu, University of Cape Town
Corpora collection and complete natural language processing of isiXhosa, Sesotho and South African Sign languages
Natalia Diaz Rodriguez, University of Granada (Spain) + ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique Paris, Inria. Lorenzo Baraldi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
SignNet: Towards democratizing content accessibility for the deaf by aligning multi-modal sign representations
Other Research Areas
John Dickerson, University of Maryland - College Park, Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University
Fairness and Diversity in Graduate Admissions
Mor Nitzan, Hebrew University
Learning representations of tissue design principles from single-cell data
Nikolai Matni, University of Pennsylvania
Robust Learning for Safe Control
Privacy
Foteini Baldimtsi, George Mason University
Improved Single-Use Anonymous Credentials with Private Metabit
Yu-Xiang Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stronger, Better and More Accessible Differential Privacy with autodp
Quantum Computing
Ashok Ajoy, University of California, Berkeley
Accelerating NMR spectroscopy with a Quantum Computer
John Nichol, University of Rochester
Coherent spin-photon coupling
Jordi Tura i Brugués, Leiden University
RAGECLIQ - Randomness Generation with Certification via Limited Quantum Devices
Nathan Wiebe, University of Toronto
New Frameworks for Quantum Simulation and Machine Learning
Philipp Hauke, University of Trento
ProGauge: Protecting Gauge Symmetry in Quantum Hardware
Shruti Puri, Yale University
Surface Code Co-Design for Practical Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Structured data, extraction, semantic graph, and database management
Abolfazl Asudeh, University Of Illinois, Chicago
An end-to-end system for detecting cherry-picked trendlines
Eugene Wu, Columbia University
Interactive training data debugging for ML analytics
Jingbo Shang, University of California, San Diego
Structuring Massive Text Corpora via Extremely Weak Supervision
Security
Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, The University of Adelaide, Markus Wagner, The University of Adelaide
Automatic Post-Quantum Cryptographic Code Generation and Optimization
Elette Boyle, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Cheaper Private Set Intersection via Advances in "Silent OT"
Joseph Bonneau, New York University
Zeroizing keys in secure messaging implementations
Yu Feng, University of California, Santa Barbara, Yuan Tian, University of Virginia
Exploit Generation Using Reinforcement Learning
Software engineering and programming languages
Kelly Blincoe, University of Auckland
Towards more inclusive software engineering practices to retain women in software engineering
Fredrik Kjolstad, Stanford University
Sparse Tensor Algebra Compilation to Domain-Specific Architectures
Milos Gligoric, University of Texas at Austin
Adaptive Regression Test Selection
Sarah E. Chasins, University of California, Berkeley
If you break it, you fix it: Synthesizing program transformations so that library maintainers can make breaking changes
Systems
Adwait Jog, College of William and Mary
Enabling Efficient Sharing of Emerging GPUs
Heiner Litz, University of California, Santa Cruz
Software Prefetching Irregular Memory Access Patterns
Malte Schwarzkopf, Brown University
Privacy-Compliant Web Services by Construction
Mehdi Saligane, University of Michigan
Autonomous generation of Open Source Analog & Mixed Signal IC
Nathan Beckmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Making Data Access Faster and Cheaper with Smarter Flash Caches
Yanjing Li, University of Chicago
Resilient Accelerators for Deep Learning Training Tasks