Chris Grubb was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics. His advisor was Leanna House. Grubb’s research focused on developing a statistical learning method of population synthesis that allows for propagation of uncertainty from sample data into synthetic populations of agents.
Longfeng Wu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Her advisor is Dawei Zhou. Her research focus is on symbolic reasoning and trustworthy graph learning. She is particularly interested in exploring the reasoning process and developing more reliable and trustworthy models in the real world.
Hoang Anh Just has received some good news: The paper “LAVA: Data Valuation Without Pre-Specified Learning Algorithms” — on which he is first author — has been accepted as a spotlight at the 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) in May. He plans to travel to Rwanda to present the paper. Just, a Ph.D. student in the Bradley […]
A Virginia Tech team of five computer science Ph.D. students at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics is one of 10 university teams selected internationally to compete in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2. The team will design multimodal task-oriented conversational assistants that help customers complete complex multistep tasks while adapting to resources and tools available to the user, such as ingredients […]
Sha Li is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Her advisor is Naren Ramakrishnan. Li’s research interest is in machine learning and data mining. She is currently working on forecasting, natural language processing, and social media analytics.
Syuan-Ying (Justin) Wu is a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science. He is advised by Chang-Tien Lu. His research focuses on social media analytics and software development.
Jiayue Lin was an Accelerated BS/MS Program student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor was Chris North. His research focus is on visual analytics and artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in refining deep learning-based image projections using semantic interaction methods.
Rebecca DeSipio already knows where she is headed after graduating with a master’s degree in computer engineering this Spring. She will be joining the Charlottesville-based company GA-CCRi, an industry leader in geospatial storage, visualization, and analysis serving government and commercial clients, as a data scientist. In looking for a graduate program, DeSipio, who earned a bachelor’s degree […]
More than 275 community members, partners, and friends joined Virginia Tech and Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. on Feb. 7 to celebrate the next milestone for the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus – the topping out ceremony. The event featured a program inside the first floor of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus construction site and the ceremonial lifting of a […]
Suicide, the 10th leading cause of death for adults in the United States and the third leading cause of death among kids ages 10 to 14 and young adults ages 15 to 24, is often the result of an underlying mental health condition such as depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. Motivated by a suicide mortality by […]