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CISE Graduate Student Workshop<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Event Date:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Friday, January 24th
\nWorkshop Research Presentations<\/strong>: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1750 (9:15am-5:30pm)
\nAward Reception<\/strong>: BU Castle,\u00a0<\/span>225 Bay State Rd<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(6:00-8:00PM)<\/p>\n

9:15am – 9:45am: Breakfast & Registration
\n<\/strong>9:45am – 9:55am: Opening Remarks: Ay\u015fe K. Co\u015fkun<\/strong>, CISE Director
\n9:55am \u2013 10:00am: Welcome: CGSW 11.0 Student Organizers: Ioannis Angelakopoulos<\/strong>, <\/span>Jonathan Chamberlain<\/strong>, Zeynep Ece Kizilates<\/strong>, Ehsan Sabouni<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plenary Speaker<\/strong><\/span>
\n10:00am – 10:30am: Denis Daly, <\/strong>Senior Manager and Architect, Apple Inc.<\/p>\n

Session 1: Advancements in Reinforcement Learning
\n<\/span><\/strong>10:30am – 10:45am: Ahmad Ahmad <\/strong>(Advisors: Roberto Tron and Calin Belta), Accelerating Proximal Policy Optimization Learning Using Task Prediction for Solving Games with Delayed Rewards<\/em>
\n10:45am – 11:00am: Qinzi Zhang <\/strong>(Advisor: Ashok Cutkosky),\u00a0Random Scaling and Momentum for Non-smooth Non-Convex Optimization<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/em>11:00am – 11:15am: Zijian Guo<\/strong> (Advisor: Wenchao Li), Towards Diverse Constraint Formulations in Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:15am – 11:30am: BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 2: Optimizations and Efficiency in Robotics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

11:30am – 11:45am: Akua Kodie Dickson <\/strong>(Advisor: Andrew Sabelhaus), Spline Trajectory Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Agents via Convex Optimization\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/span>11:45am -12:00pm: Abin Binoy George <\/strong>(Advisor: Sabrina Neuman), Co-Design of Mechanical & Computer Hardware for Robots
\n<\/em>12:00pm -12:15pm: Kamran Vakil <\/strong>(Advisor: Alyssa Pierson), Decentralized Drone Swaps for Online Rebalancing of Drone Delivery Tasks<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

12:15pm – 1:15pm: Lunch & Poster Session<\/strong> (665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1750)<\/p>\n

Plenary Speaker<\/strong><\/span>
\n1:15pm – 1:45pm: Elli Ntakou,<\/strong> Systems Resilience and Reliability Manager, Eversource Energy<\/p>\n

Session 3:\u00a0 Task Allocation, Monitoring, and Control
\n<\/strong><\/span>1:45pm – 2:00pm: Mela Coffey<\/strong> (Advisor: Alyssa Pierson), Maximizing Reputation for Serving Time-Constrained Tasks with Distributed Heterogeneous Teams
\n<\/em>2:00pm – 2:15pm: Brennan Brodt<\/strong> (Advisor: Alyssa Pierson), Heterogeneous Exploration and Monitoring with Online Free-Space Ellipsoid Graphs
\n<\/em>2:15pm – 2:30pm: Alp\u00a0<\/strong>Eren Yilmaz<\/b> (Advisor: Sabrina Neuman), Accelerating Rigid Body Dynamics through Variable Fixed-Precision with Provable Error-Bounds<\/em><\/p>\n

2:30pm – 2:45pm: BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 4:\u00a0 Security and Data Centers
\n<\/strong><\/span>2:45pm – 3:00pm: Efe Sencan<\/strong> (Advisors: Ay\u015fe K. Co\u015fkun<\/span> and Brian Kulis), Refine: Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Production HPC Systems
\n<\/em>3:00pm – 3:15pm: Fatih Acun<\/strong> (Advisor: Ay\u015fe K. Co\u015fkun<\/span>), Conductor: A Collaboration Framework for Multi-Data-Center Demand Response
\n<\/em>3:15pm – 3:30pm: Sevval Simsek<\/b> (Advisor: David Starobinski), Automated Enrichment of Vulnerability Metadata using Knowledge Graphs<\/em><\/p>\n

Session 5:\u00a0 Application Specific Innovations
\n<\/strong><\/span>3:30pm – 3:45pm: Ruangrawee (Kao) Kitichotkul<\/span><\/strong> (Advisor: Vivek Goyal), High-flux Free-running Single-Photon Lidar
\n<\/em>3:45pm \u2013 4:00pm: Zexin Sun<\/strong> \u00a0(Advisor: John Baillieul), Structure and Control of Biology-inspired Networks
\n<\/em>4:00pm \u2013 4:15pm: Yeping Jin<\/strong> (Advisor: Yannis Paschalidis),\u00a0Distributionally Robust Learning in Survival Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n

4:15pm – 4:30pm: BREAK<\/strong> \u00a0
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Alumni Panel<\/strong><\/span>
\n4:30pm – 5:15pm: BU Alumni Panel: Alexander Bulekov (Amazon), Furkan Ercan (Intel), Uro\u0161 Kuzmanovi\u0107 (BioSens8)<\/strong>
\n5:15pm \u2013 5:30pm: Closing Remarks: Ay\u015fe K. Co\u015fkun<\/strong>, CISE Director, and CGSW 11.0 Student Organizers: Ioannis Angelakopoulos<\/strong>, <\/span>Jonathan Chamberlain<\/strong>, Zeynep Ece Kizilates<\/strong>, Ehsan Sabouni<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

6:00pm \u2013 8:00pm: Awards Reception <\/strong>(The BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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