Meeting of the Minds: SCS Thesis and Poster Presentations S25
— 4:50pm
Location:
In Person
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Gates Hillman 4301
Speaker:
SCS Senior Thesis Presenters
► Morning Session
9:20 AM → Janavi Gupta | Work in Progress: Passive Wearable Control Interfaces in Robotic Caregiving
Mentor: Zackory Erickson
9:30 AM → Diya Dinesh | Work in Progress: Physically-Consistent Motion Generation Using Diffusion Models for Assistive Biomechanics
Mentor: Inseung Kang
9:40 AM → Xinfei Cen | How Are Intelligent Tutoring Systems Related to Student Self-Efficacy
Mentor: Paulo Carvalho
10:10 AM → Emily Amspoker | A Transformational Game for Supporting Computational Empowerment in Responsible AI
Mentor: Jessica Hammer
10:30 AM → Dongkyun Kim | Exploring Intra-Object Composition Using Scene Graphs and Diffusion Models
Mentor: Jun-Yan Zhu
10:50 AM → Abigail Defranco | Steering with Confidence: Uncertainty-Aware Classifier-Based Guidance for Diffusion Policies
Mentor: Andrea Bajcsy
11:10 AM → Arthur Jakobsson | (DORMA) Deformable Object Rapid Motor Adaptation
Mentor: Jeffrey Ichnowski
11:30 AM → Joshua Kim | Caramel: Multi-GPU Framework for Encrypted AI
Mentor: Dimitrios Skarlatos
► Early Afternoon Session
12:10 PM → Lijie Yang | TIDALDECODE: Fast and Accurate LLM Decoding with Position Persistent Sparse Attention
Mentor: Zhihao Jia
12:30 PM → Jerick Shi | Beyond Classical Models: Simulating Opinion Dynamics and Polarization Using Large Language Model Agents
Mentor: Vincent Conitzer
12:50 PM → Rithika Narayan | Teaching Robot Policies to Humans Using Erroneous Examples
Mentor: Henny Admoni
1:10 PM → Maxwell Soh | Causal inference identifies average and individual treatment effects for individual cells in case-control scRNA-seq
Mentor: Martin Zhang
1:30 PM → Andrew Wang | Deep Generative Design of Evolutionarily Conserved Celltype-Specific Enhancers
Mentor: Andreas Pfenning
1:50 PM → Jessica Yaxuan Liu | Identifying the impact of Alzheimer’s disease-associated genetic variants on molecular pathways via genetic perturbation of selected enhancers in conditional specific immune cells
Mentor: Andreas Pfenning
► Late Afternoon Session
2:30 PM → Siddharth Parekh | Efficiently Emphasizing Correctness during Question Answering Inference
Mentor: Carolyn Rosé
2:50 PM → Taekseung Kim | About range retrieval and clustering in nearest neighbors |
Mentor: Guy Blelloch
3:10 PM → Shirley Yu | Diversifying to Verify: Improving Program Verification with Diverse Equivalent Code
Mentor: Ruben Martins
3:30 PM → Ally Du | Reconciling model multiplicity for improved conformal prediction set
Mentor: Steven Wu
3:50 PM → Trey Debose | Adaptive Lagrangian Fluids Using SPH and MLS Techniques
Mentor: Minchen Li
4:10 PM → Kevin You | An Energy-Controllable Time Integrator for Elastodynamic Contact
Mentor: Minchen Li
4:30 PM → Sophia Qingyang Cao | Possum: A Tail of Dynamic Flash Capacity for Sustainability
Mentor: Greg Ganger
Meeting of the Minds - Complete Schedule