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PhD Student Research Spotlights
Optimal Scalar Quantization for Matrix Multiplication
PhD Student: Calvin Ang
Advisor: Mert Pilanci
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Basis Statistics for Phylogenetic Tree Balance
PhD Student: Daniel Bauman
Advisor: Noah Rosenberg
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Non-Invasive Profiling of Spatial Cellular Ecosystems in the Tumor Microenvironment with Interpretable Deep Learning
PhD Student: Erin L. Brown
Advisor: Aaron Newman
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Operator Adapted Preconditioners At Scale
PhD Student: Obed Camacho
Advisor: Adrien Lew
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Adaptive Consistency in Mimetic Finite Difference (MFD): A Residual-Based Criterion for K-Orthogonal Cell Classification
PhD Student: Sharon Cha
Advisor: Hamdi Tchelepi
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Adversarially Robust Control of Conditional Value-at-Risk via Kelly Conformal Inference
PhD Student: Catherine Chen
Advisor: Lihua Lei
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Accelerating Diffusion Models with Parallel Sampling: Inference at Sub-Linear Time Complexity
PhD Student: Haoxuan Chen
Advisor: Lexing Ying
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Reinforcement Learning for Automated Spectrometer Calibration
PhD Student: Martina Del Gaudio
Advisor: Frederic Poitevin
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Machine Learning Methods for Studying the Nonregulatory Genomics of the Human Heart
PhD Student: Salil Deshpande
Advisor: Anshul Kundaje
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Representation Learning for the Discovery of Extragalactic Fast X-ray Transients
PhD Student: Stephen Dillmann
Advisor:
Focus Area: Computational Astrophysics
Publication: Research Poster
Analyzing Labor Market Dynamics, Individual Careers, & Gender Disparities Using Big Data & Computational Methods
PhD Student: Tianyu Du
Advisor: Susan Athey
Focus Area: Computational Social Sciences
Publication: Research Poster
Wasserstein Distributionally Regret Optimization
PhD Student: Lukas Fiechtner
Advisor: Jose Blanchet
Focus Area: Computational Finance
Publication: Research Poster
Gradient Methods with Online Scaling
PhD Student: Wenzhi Gao
Advisor: Madeleine Udell
Focus Area: Operations Research
Publication: Research Poster
ML-OpenAPS Hybrid Modeling: Optimizing Physiological Parameters in Mechanistic Models for Forecasting Glucose in Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes Under an Unknown Insulin-Delivery Controller
PhD Student: Rachel Guo
Advisor: Ramesh Johari
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Representation-Level Signals of Incorrect Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
PhD Student: Sarah Hashash
Advisor: Ramesh Johari, Ashish Goel
Focus Area: Computational Social Science
Publication: Research Poster
Constructing Machine Precision Neural Networks with Quasi-Interpolants
PhD Student: Junmiao Hu
Advisors: Gianluca Iaccarino, Christopher Ré
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Learning Advice in Message Space: Policy Optimization with Welfare and Selection Decomposition
PhD Student: Zoe Ji
Advisor: Susan Athey
Focus Area: Computational Social Science
Publication: Research Poster
Evaluating Genetic Engineering Trade-offs Through Whole-cell Modeling of Escherichia coli
PhD Student: Riley Juenemann
Advisor: Markus Covert
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Real-time Virtual Stenting via Signed Distance Field-Derived Mesh Deformation Functions
PhD Student: Jeff Li
Advisor: Alison Marsden
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Data Driven Excess Risk Bounds: Circumventing the Need to Analyze Class Complexity
PhD Student: Anna Lyubarskaja
Advisor: Susan Athey
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Neural Network Surrogates for Patient-Specific Cardiac Electrophysiology Models
PhD Student: Elena Sabdy Martinez
Advisor: Alison Marsden
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Nonlinear SVD: Revealing Dominant Modes of Neural Computation and Control Across All AI
PhD Student: Jinhee Paeng
Advisor: Surya Ganguli
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Deep Learning for Optimal MBS Investment
PhD Student: Adam Rebei
Advisor: Kay Giesecke & Markus Pelger
Focus Area: Computational Finance
Publication: Research Poster
How Discrete and Continuous Diffusion Meet: Analysis of Discrete Diffusion Models via a Stochastic Integral Framework
PhD Student: Yinuo Ren
Advisor: Lexing Ying & Grant Roskoff
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Efficient Optimization and Simulation Procedures for Rare Event Probabilities in Power Systems
PhD Student: Anish Senapati
Advisor: Jose Blanchet
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Approximation of High-Dimensional Gibbs Distributions with Functional Hierarchical Tensors
PhD Student: Nan Sheng
Advisor: Lexing Ying
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Enumerative Combinatorics of Phylogenetic Trees
PhD Student: Chloe Shiff
Advisor: Noah Rosenberg
Focus Area: Mathematical Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Some Perspectives on Aggregating Labels When Comparing Models
PhD Student: Malo Sommers
Advisor: John Dulchi
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Modeling of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
PhD Student: Adrien Specht
Advisor: Emmanuel Mignot
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetics Under the Infinite Sites Model
PhD Student: Ivan Specht
Advisors: Julia Palacios
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Learning to Lift: Physics-Aware Digital Twins for 3D-printed Metal Parts
PhD Student: Jonathan Thompson
Advisor: Daniel Tartakovsky
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Matrix-Based Distance Metrics and Statistical Summaries of Labeled Evolutionary Trees
PhD Student: Yi-Ting Tsai
Advisor: Julia Palacios
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
STRUCT a Statistical Approach to Identify RNA Secondary Structures from Raw Sequencing Data, Bypassing Multiple Sequence Alignment
PhD Student: Julie Wang
Advisor: Julia Salzman
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publications: Research Poster
Integrating Intra- and Inter-Cell Gene-Gene Interactions via Dual-Branch Transformers for Single-Cell Omics Analysis
PhD Student: Qingyue Wei
Advisor: Lei Xing
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Matrix Sketching for Online Analysis of LCLS Imaging Datasets
PhD Student: John Winnicki
Advisor: Eric Darve
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster
Wavelet Decomposition Based Genomic Analysis of the Human Electrocardiogram
PhD Student: Salma Zainana
Advisor: Manuel Rivas
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Who Loses and Why? Market Microstructure of Perpetual Future
PhD Student: Xinmeng Zeng
Advisor: Marco Pavone
Focus Area: Uncertainty Quantification
Publication: Research Poster
Imaging Source Locations in Scattering Media With Super-Resolution
PhD Student: Jennifer Zheng
Advisor: George Papanicolaou
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publication: Research Poster