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Time & Place Student & Advisor Title
12/06/2024
11:00 AM
PGH 591
Dana Alsagheer
Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi
Ph.D. Proposal: A Human-Centered Evaluation of Rationality and Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs): An Audit Guided by the Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory
12/04/2024
3:00 PM
PGH 591
Nour Diallo
Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi
Ph.D. Proposal: Enhancing DAG-Based Byzantine Fault Tolerance with augmented Graph Neural Networks for Scalable and Adaptive Blockchain Consensus
12/02/2024
5:15 PM
PGH 550
Raunak Sarbajna
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
Ph.D. Proposal: Spatial Computing Frameworks for Adaptive Disaster Response and Visual Place Recognition
11/25/2024
4:30 PM
PGH 550
Melis Ilhan
Co-Advisors: Dr. Jinyang Liu, Dr. Ricardo Vilalta
M.S. Thesis: Physics Informed Decision Tree
11/21/2024
2:30 PM
PGH 550
Lei Si
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Hex-dominant Mesh Generation, Evaluation, and Simplification
11/21/2024
2:00PM
PGH 501B
Sara Bouhali
Advisor: Dr. Fatima Merchant
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Contrastive Learning Approach For Automated Identification Of Anatomical Landmarks In 3D Human Torso Surface Scans
11/21/2024
2:00 PM
PGH 392
Aftab Hussain
Advisor: Dr. Amin Alipour
Ph.D. Dissertation: Trojan Detection in Large Language Models of Code
11/20/2024
3:30 PM
PGH 501B
Nguyen Phan
Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen
Ph.D. Proposal: Towards Accessible and Robust Methods for Curve-Based Visualization and Analysis
11/12/2024
1:00 PM
Health 1 HBS 302
Fettah Kiran
Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis
Ph.D. Proposal: Exploring the Impact of Humorous Video Format on Students' Stress and Score Performance in Math Tests
11/11/2024
4:00 PM
PGH 550
Meng-Chen Lee
Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Ph.D. Proposal: Analysis and Modeling of Turn Dynamics in Multiparty Conversations
11/08/2024
3:30 PM
PGH 392
Fatima Zahra Qachfar
Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma
Ph.D. Dissertation: Investigating Persuasion Techniques in Social Engineering Cybercrime
11/06/2024
10:00 AM
PGH 550
Dustin Nguyen
Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah
Ph.D. Proposal: Towards Robust Person Re-Identification: Learning Invariant Features Under Clothing Changes and Occlusions
11/04/2024
3:00 PM
PGH 550
Sadat Shahriar
Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee
Ph.D. Proposal: Battling Deception in the Era of Large Language Models
11/01/2024
1:30 PM
PGH 550
Md Mahin
Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick
Ph.D. Dissertation: Threshold-based Association Analysis Frameworks for Continuous Variables

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