2014-2015 Presentations
Graduate Research Presentation Day
Date and Time: Friday April 17, 2015
Location: STM 326
Session 2
Presentations:
Presenter: Arman Cohan
Title: Matching Citation Text and Cited Spans in Biomedical Literature: a Search-Oriented Approach
A. Cohan, L. Soldaini and N. Goharian, “Matching Citation Text and Cited Spans in Biomedical Literature: a Search-Oriented Approach.” NAACL-HLT, 2015.
Presenter: Brendan Sheridan
Title: Scheduling Non-Unit Jobs to Minimize Calibrations
J. Fineman and B. Sheridan, “Scheduling Non-Unit Jobs to Minimize Calibrations.” SPAA, 2015.
Presenter: Jiyun Luo
Title: Designing States, Actions, and Rewards for Using POMDP in Session Search
J. Luo, S. Zhang, X. Dong and H. Yang, ”Designing States, Actions, and Rewards for Using POMDP in Session Search.” ECIR, 2015.
Graduate Research Presentation Day
Date and Time: Friday February 27, 2015
Location: STM 414
Session 1
Presentations:
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Social Media
A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, “Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Social Media.” Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), 2015.
Presenter: Luca Soldaini
Title: Retrieving Medical Literature for Clinical Decision Support
L. Soldaini, A. Cohan, A. Yates, N. Goharian, O. Frieder, “Retrieving Medical Literature for Clinical Decision Support.” Proceedings of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), 2015.
Presenter: Henry Tan
Title: Multi-Class Traffic Morphing for Encrypted VoIP Communication
W. B. Moore, H. Tan, M. Sherr, and M. A. Maloof. “Multi-Class Traffic Morphing for Encrypted VoIP Communication.” in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC ’15), January 2015.
Presenter: Henry Tan
Title: A Disruption-Resistant MAC Layer for Multichannel Wireless Networks
H. Tan, C. Wacek, C. Newport, M. Sherr, “A Disruption-Resistant MAC Layer for Multichannel Wireless Networks”, OPODIS, 2014.
Presenter: Tavish Vaidya
Title: Mind your Rs and Φs: Location-Based Privacy Controls for Consumer Drones
T. Vaidya and M. Sherr, “Mind your Rs and Φs: Location-Based Privacy Controls for Consumer Drones”, Twenty-third International Workshop on Security Protocols, 2015.
Graduate Research Presentation Day
Date and Time: Friday November 7, 2014
Location: STM 404
Session 2
Presentations:
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: A Framework for Public Health Surveillance
A. Yates, J. Parker, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, “A Framework for Public Health Surveillance”, In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14), May 2014.
Presenter: Arman Cohan
Title: On Clinical Decision Support System
A. Cohan, L. Soldaini, A. Yates, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, “On Clinical Decision Support System”, 5th ACM SIGBio Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, September 2014. — Short paper
Presenter: Andrew Yates
Title: Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery
A. Yates, N. Goharian, and O. Frieder, “Relevance-Ranked Domain-Specific Synonym Discovery”, In Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’14), April 2014.
Presenter: Sicong Zhang
Title: A POMDP Model for Content-Free Document Re-ranking
S. Zhang, J. Luo, and H. Yang, ”A POMDP Model for Content-Free Document Re-ranking”, In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). July 6 – July 11, 2014. Gold Coast, Australia. – Short paper
Graduate Research Presentation Day
Date and Time: Friday October 17, 2014
Location: STM 326
Session 1
Presentations:
Presenter: Jon Parker
Title: Approximating the Solution to 2 Player Limit Hold’em using Sparse Dynamic Programming
J. Parker, “Approximating the Solution to 2 Player Limit Hold’em using Sparse Dynamic Programming”, The 2014 Computer Poker Symposium.
Presenter: Brad Moore
Title: Detecting Covert Timing Channels with Time-Deterministic Replay
A. Chen, W. Brad Moore, H. Xiao, A. Haeberlen, L. Phan, M. Sherr, and W. Zhou, “Detecting Covert Timing Channels with Time-Deterministic Replay.” In /USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)/, October 2014. .
Presenter: Jon Parker
Title: Spoofing Large Probability Mass Functions to Improve Sampling Times and Reduce Memory Costs
J. Parker, and H. Engler, ”Spoofing Large Probability Mass Functions to Improve Sampling Times and Reduce Memory Costs.” Proceedings of the Seven teenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 2014.
Presenter: Jiyun Luo
Title: Win-Win Search: Dual-Agent Stochastic Game in Session Search
J. Luo, S. Zhang, and H. Yang, ”Win-Win Search: Dual-Agent Stochastic Game in Session Search.” In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia.