2016 – 2017 Student Presentations & Defenses
The 9th Semi-Annual Graduate Research Presentation Day – Fall 2016 Session II
Date and Time: Friday September 30, 2016 at 11:00 am
Location: STM 326
Presentations
Presenter: Tavish Vaidya
Title: Hidden Voice Commands
Nicholas Carlini, Pratyush Mishra, Tavish Vaidya, Yuankai Zhang, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, David Wagner, Wenchao Zhou, ” Hidden Voice Commands”, 25th USENIX Security Symposium, Aug 2016.
Presenter: Luca Soldaini
Title: QuickUMLS: a fast, unsupervised approach for medical concept extraction
Luca Soldaini and Nazli Goharian, QuickUMLS: a fast, unsupervised approach for medical concept extraction, In Proceedings of the Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) workshop at SIGIR, July 2016.
Presenter: Sicong Zhang
Title: Generating Risk Reduction Recommendations to Decrease Vulnerability of Public Online Profiles
Janet Zhu, Sicong Zhang, Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang and Micah Sherr, ” Generating Risk Reduction Recommendations to Decrease Vulnerability of Public Online Profiles”, The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining(ASONAM). August 2016. (short paper)
Presenter: Sicong Zhang
Title: Anonymizing Query Logs by Differential Privacy
Sicong Zhang, Grace Hui Yang, Lisa Singh, ” Anonymizing Query Logs by Differential Privacy”, In Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR), July 2016 (Short paper)
Presenter: Shuo Zhang (Linguistics Department PhD Student)
Title: Mining linguistic tone patterns with symbolic representation
Shuo Zhang, Mining linguistic tone patterns with symbolic representation. Proceedings of the 14th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. ACL 2016.
The 9th Semi-Annual Graduate Research Presentation Day – FALL 2016 Session I
Date and Time: Friday September 23, 2016 at 11:00 am
Location: STM 326
Presentations
Presenter: Brendan Sheridan
Title: On Manufacturing Resilient Opaque Constructs Against Static Analysis”, In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
Brendan Sheridan and Micah Sherr, “On Manufacturing Resilient Opaque Constructs Against Static Analysis”, In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), September 2016 (To appear).
Presenter: Mohammad Zaheri
Title: Selective-Opening Security in the Presence of Randomness Failures
Viet Tung Hoang, Jonathan Katz, Adam O’Neill, Mohammad Zaheri, “Selective-Opening Security in the Presence of Randomness Failures”, Asiacrypt December 2016, (to appear)
Presenter: Brendan Sheridan
Title: A case for distributed work-stealing in regular applications
Brendan Sheridan and Jeremy T. Fineman, “A case for distributed work-stealing in regular applications”, ACM SIGPLAN 2016 X10 Workshop (X10’16), June, 2016.
Presenter: Arman Cohan
Title: Temporal Information Extraction from Clinical Narratives
Arman Cohan, Kevin Meurer, Nazli Goharian , “Temporal Information Extraction from Clinical Narratives”, NAACL 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), June 2016.
Presenter: Dan Simonson (Linguistics Department PhD Student)
Title: NASTEA: Investigating Narrative Schemas through Annotated Entities
Dan Simonson and Anthony Davis, “NASTEA: Investigating Narrative Schemas through Annotated Entities”, The Second Computing News Storylines Workshop at EMNLP, November, 2016.
Master’s Thesis Defense – Hongkai Wu
Advisor: Grace Hui Yang, Ph.D.
Title: Modeling User Explorations in Dynamic Search: An Ontological Perspective
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 10:30 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Doctoral Thesis Proposal Presentation- Yifang Wei
Advisor: Lisa Singh, Ph.D.
Title: Event Detection in Open Source Big Data
Date and Time: Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 10:30 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Doctoral Thesis Proposal Presentation – Tonghe Wang
Advisor: Calvin Newport, Ph.D.
Title: Fairness for Distributed Algorithms
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 10:00 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Undergraduate Thesis Presentation – Jordan King
Advisor: Lisa Singh, PhD
Title: Methods to Overcome Challenges When Learning Arabic Word Embeddings for Text Mining Tasks
Date and Time: Thursday, May 5th, 2016 at 10:00 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Dissertation Defense: Brad Moore
Advisor: Micah Sherr, Ph.D.
Title: Privacy Preservation in the Presence of Advanced Persistent Threats
Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Dissertation Defense: Henry Tan
Advisor: Micah Sherr, Ph.D.
Title: Network Level Attacks and Defenses Against Anonymity Networks
Date and Time: Monday, April 18, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Dissertation Defense: Andrew Yates
Advisors: Nazli Goharian, Ph.D., and Ophir Frieder, Ph.D.
Title: Identifying Real World Concepts in Social Media
Date and Time: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Dissertation Defense: Jason Soo
Title: Search in Adverse Environments
Adviser: Ophir Frieder, Ph.D.
Date and Time: Monday, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Dissertation Defense: Jon Parker
Title: Effective and Efficient Binarization of Degraded Document Images
Adviser: Ophir Frieder, Ph.D.
Date and Time: Monday, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
There is a list of our past Student Presentations here.