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PhD Student Research Spotlights
Enumerative Combinatorics of Phylogenetic Trees
PhD Student: Chloe Shiff
Advisor: Noah Rosenberg
Focus Area: Mathematical Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Risk Control for Large Language Models
PhD Student: Catherine Chen
Advisor: Lihua Lei
Focus Area: Computational Mathematics
Publication: Research Poster
Modeling of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
PhD Student: Adrien Specht
Advisor: Emmanuel Mignot
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
Optimality of First-Order Debiasing in Functional Estimation
PhD Student: Jikai Jin
Advisor: Vasilis Syrgkanis
Focus Area: Causal Inference, Causal Machine Learning
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
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
Machine Learning Methods for Studying the Nonregulatory Genomics of the Human Heart
PhD Student: Salil Deshpande
Advisor: Anshul Kundaje
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Sensor Localization Using Neural Networks
PhD Student: Jennifer Zheng
Advisor: George Papanicolaou
Focus Area:
Publication: Research Poster
Matrix Sketching for Online Analysis of LCLS Imaging Datasets
PhD Student: John Winnicki
Advisor: Eric Darve
Focus Area:
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
Accelerating Diffusion Models with Parallel Sampling: Inference at Sub-Linear Time Complexity
PhD Student: Haoxuan Chen
Advisor: Lexing Ying
Focus Area: Computational Mathematics
Publication: Research Poster
Leveraging Computer Graphics Techniques for Geometric Deformations of Cardiovascular Anatomy
PhD Student: Jeff Li
Advisor: Alison Marsden
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
Efficient Optimization and Simulation Procedures for Rare Event Probabilities in Power Systems
PhD Student: Anish Senapati
Advisor: Jose Blanchet
Focus Area: Computational Mathematics
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 Mathematics
Publication: Research Poster
A Meta-learner for Heterogeneous Effects in Difference-in-Differences.
PhD Student: Hui Lan
Advisor: Vasilis Syrgkanis
Focus Area: Causal Inference, Causal Machine Learning
Can Transformers Solve Least Squares to High Precision?
PhD Student: Jerry Liu
Advisor: Chris Re
Focus Area: Computational Math
Publications: Research Poster
Wasserstein Distributionally Regret Optimization
PhD Student: Lukas Fiechtner
Advisor: Jose Blanchet
Focus Area: Computational Finance
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
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
Basis Statistics for Phylogenetic Tree Balance
PhD Student: Daniel Bauman
Advisor: Noah Rosenberg
Focus Area: Computational Biology
Publication: Research Poster
PhyloSMC: Fast, Parallel Bayesian Phylogenetics
PhD Student: Ivan Specht
Advisor: Julia Palacios
Focus Area: Computational Phylogenetics
Publication: Research Poster
Discovering Hierarchical Latent Capabilities of Language Models via Causal Representation Learning
PhD Student: Jikai Jin
Advisor: Vasilis Syrgkanis
Focus Area: Causal Representation Learning
Publication: Research Poster
Approximation of High-Dimensional Gibbs Distributions with Functional Hierarchical Tensors
PhD Student: Nan Sheng
Advisor: Lexing Ying
Focus Area: Computational Mathematics
Publication: 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
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
Sampling on Metric Graphs
PhD Student: Rajat Dwaraknath
Advisor: Lexing Ying
Focus Area: Computational Mathematics
Publication: Research Poster
Gradient Methods with Online Scaling
PhD Student: Wenzhi Gao
Advisor: Madeleine Udell
Focus Area: Operations Research
Publication: Research Poster
LLM Decision Making: Uncertainty Quantification with Conformal Prediction
PhD Student: Xinmeng Zeng
Advisor: Marco Pavone
Focus Area: Uncertainty Quantification
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