The 6th Annual CS Research Symposium: 04/13/2021

Description

It’s time for the 6th Annual CS Undergrad Research Symposium! Although we won’t be in the 3rd floor atrium this year, the MURAs have been working hard to recreate the atrium and immaculate CIT-vibes on gather.town.

For undergrad researchers, the Symposium is a unique opportunity to showcase your work. There will be faculty and corporate judges and over $1000 in cash prizes. This year, we’re excited to be hosting students from the exploreCSR program, who will present their projects along with Brown undergrads! For the first time ever, we’re hosting the Symposium on the same day as department honors presentations (honors in the morning, Symposium in the afternoon), so that folks pursuing honors can easily move from one event to another. The honors presentations will be hosted on Zoom (see below for details), while the Symposium poster session will be hosted on Gather.town.

If you’re thinking about starting research or just want to see the awesome projects your fellow peers are working on, this is a great opportunity to chat one-on-one with student researchers. We will be giving out CIT swag (t-shirts, umbrellas, mugs. etc.) in a raffle draw, and all participants can vote for an audience favourite award.

Honors Presentations Schedule and Event Details

  • Room 1: Zoom Link
    • 10:00 - 10:20, Bryce Blinn: Functional Chair Programs in ShapeAssembly
    • 10:20-10:40, Isa Milefchik: Generating Object Stamps
    • 10:40-11:00, Dylan Sam: Generalization of EndModel
    • 11:00-11:20, Lucia Reyes: What You See Is Not Always What You Get: An Analysis of Informative Graphs in Formal Methods Languages
    • 11:20-11:40, Michael Mao: Exploration of Video Language Inference
    • 11:40-12:00, William Jurayj: Scaling Bias in Journalism using Contextual Embeddings
  • Room 2: Zoom Link
    • 10:00 - 10:20, Casey Nelson: Investigating the Potential for Near Data Processing to Reduce Secure Memory Overheads
    • 10:20-10:40, Daniel Ritter: Multiagent Planning via Partial Coordination in Markov Games
    • 10:40 - 11:00, Koyena Pal: The Effect of Multi-Document Summarizations on User SERP Experience
    • 11:00-11:20, Amelia O’Halloran: The Technical, Legal, and Ethical Landscape of Deepfake Pornography
    • 11:20-11:40, Maggie Wu: Amortized View Synthesis in MatryODShka: Real Time 6DoF Video View Synthesis Using Multi-Sphere Images
  • Room 3: Zoom Link
    • 13:00-13:20, Matthew Berg: Natural Language to Long-Range Robot Navigation in Outdoor Environments
    • 13:20-13:40, Homer Walke: Learning Linear Temporal Logic

Symposium Event Details

When: Tuesday, April 13th between 3pm and 5pm

Where: Gather.town link (password: csUgradSymp21)

Symposium Schedule

  • 2:45 - 3:00: Set up
  • 3:00 - 3:10: Introductions // Logistics
  • 3:10 - 4:40: Judging and open poster session
  • 4:40 - 5:00: Winner announced // Wrap-up

Symposium Presenters

  1. Yiheng Xie: Joint Texture-Geometry-Reflectance Estimation via Differentiable Rasterization
  2. Isa Milefchik: GaussiGAN: Controllable Image Synthesis with 3D Gaussians from Unposed Silhouettes
  3. Shihab Khalfalla (exploreCSR): Current Issues in Deep Reinforcement Learning
  4. Adam Pikielny and Alex Meyrowitz: Towards Social Video Verification of Face Expression, Identity, and Lighting for DeepFake Detection
  5. Benjamin Spiegel: Grounding Adverbs to Skill Performance
  6. Caleb Trotz: Modeling Part-Based Objects Implicitly Using Geometric Structural Information
  7. Juliette Rike (exploreCSR): Using Style Transfer to Identity People Within Artwork
  8. David Charatan: Improving the Editability of ShapeAssembly, a Domain-specific Language for 3D Shapes, via an Interactive Editor
  9. Grace Stephenson (exploreCSR): Neural Network Approach to Predict California Wildfires Using NOAA Climate and Weather Data
  10. Ishaani S Khatri: Evaluation of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging to predict intracranial hypertension in neonates by machine learning
  11. Xavi Loinaz: Exploring graph based neural networks for modeling long range gene regulation
  12. An Nguyen (exploreCSR): RigNet for 2D Characters
  13. Bryce Blinn: Functional Chair Programs in ShapeAssembly
  14. Marcos Acosta (exploreCSR): Accounting for Visual Storytelling in Sign Language Recognition
  15. Geireann Lindfield Roberts and Anika Ahluwalia: Dash
  16. Dylan Sam: Learning from Dependent Weak Supervision Sources
  17. Kelly Ly (exploreCSR): Exploring Novel 3-D Texture Generation Models
  18. Neil Xu: Mental Health Impacts of Shifting from Physical to Digital Socialization during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  19. Hana Memon (exploreCSR): Protecting Digital Identity using StyleGAN
  20. Daniel Smits and Niharika Jhingan: Towards A Computational Model of Alternative Generation
  21. Jing Wei Nicholas Lim: Environment Mapping and Reconstruction for Remote Exploration
  22. Alexandra Chin (exploreCSR): Accent Adaptation in Smart Home Speech Recognition
  23. Theo Guerin: Hardware Acceleration of Nonparametric Belief Propagation for Efficient Graph-Based Inference
  24. Lucas Camillo: AltumAge: A Pan-Tissue DNA-Methylation Epigenetic Clock Based on Deep Learning
  25. Hannah Norman (exploreCSR): Investigating the Effects of Feature Embedding Dimensionality and Distance Functions in Few Shot Learning
  26. Jiaju Ma: Novel Selection Technique for Tiny Virtual Objects