Meeting of the Minds: SCS Thesis and Poster Presentations S25

— 4:50pm

Location:
In Person - Gates Hillman 4301

Speaker:
SCS Senior Thesis Presenters

Meeting of the Minds

► 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

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