Virginia Tech’s new Data and Decision Sciences Building has opened its doors to students, faculty, staff, and industry professionals ready to tackle some of the world’s most pressing data challenges. Completed in the summer, the 120,000-gross-square-foot facility houses multiple colleges including the Pamplin College of Business, College of Engineering, and College of Science. Several faculty from the Department of […]

Tuna Han Salih Meral is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  He is advised by Pinar Yanardag. His research focuses on mitigating biases and other weaknesses to enhance the image generation processes of text-to-image generative models.

Hanwen Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. He is advised by Xuan Wang. Liu’s research is focused on establishing multi-modal translation models between EEG signals and human language.

Metro systems are vital to many people’s daily lives, but they face safety or reliability challenges, such as criminal activities or infrastructure disruptions. Real-time threat detection and analysis are crucial to ensure their safety and reliability.  Syuan-Ying (Justin) Wu, a master’s degree student in computer science whose research focuses on social media analytics and software development, is […]

Sandesh Jain is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He is advised by Abhijit Sarkar. His research is focused on computer vision and deep learning methods for interdisciplinary applications ranging from DL/ML applications to 3D perception and robotic systems.

Sumin Kang is a Ph.D. student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.  His advisor is Manish Bansal. Kang’s research interest is in optimization with uncertainty, especially with applications to network optimization problems and their vulnerability analysis. In particular, he aims to develop efficient algorithms for large-scale optimization problems within distributionally robust optimization […]

Amartya Dutta is a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science.  He is advised by Anuj Karpatne. His research focuses on how common-sense knowledge can be exploited to provide additional information in order to improve performance in various computer vision tasks. The aim is to see that the results obtained are interpretable solutions […]

Yusuf Dalva is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  He is advised by Pinar Yanardag. Dalva’s research interest is controllability aspect of visual diffusion models. He is focused on identifying and leveraging certain patterns on context representations of such models and making use of them in applications.

Humaid Desai was a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science.  His advisor was Hoda Eldardiry. Desai’s research focused on enhancing the efficiency and resource utilization of Federated Learning in resource-constrained and heterogeneous environments. This is achieved by addressing challenges related to resource-limited clients and communication within the federated learning-based system.  

Seonghun Park is a Ph.D. student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.  He is advised by Manish Bansal. Park’s research is focused on distributionally robust stochastic programming and combinatorial optimization. His expertise also extends to data analysis, including computer vision, time-series analysis, and probabilistic graphical models.