Category: Seed Projects

Histomorphologic Analysis of Ebola Viral Disease in Rhesus Macaques Using Deep Learning

SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Nicholas Crossland, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, MED Co-PI: Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Ebola viral disease (EVD) is caused by 1 of 4 species in the Ebolavirus genus (Zaire, Sudan, Taï Forest, & Bundibugyo). These result in hemorrhagic fever in […]

reFuzz: Reusing Fuzzing Results to Improve Security Assessments

SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Manuel Egele, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG Special Track: Honda Research Institute Europe What is the Challenge? As cybersecurity concerns increasingly move to the forefront of manufacturers’ concerns, their need to perform security assessments of products and systems pre and post-sale receives significant attention. However, though security assessments […]

Multi-scale Modeling of Complex Interfaces Aided by Machine Learning

SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Emily M. Ryan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, ENG Co-PIs: Sahar Sharifzadeh, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, ENG. Brian Kulis, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? To investigate the complex interfaces in material systems and create […]

Automated Threat Modeling for Connected Vehicles

SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: David Starobinski, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Systems Engineering, ENG Special Track: Honda Research Institute Europe What is the Challenge? Misbehavior by compromised vehicles represents a significant threat to connected vehicle technology. Specifically, a compromised vehicle that has authenticated credentials allowing it to communicate with other vehicles freely. With […]

Interactive Biofeedback to Improve Voice Masculinity in Transmasculine Speakers 

SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Cara Stepp, Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, ENG Co-PI: Lauren Tracy, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, MED Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Acoustic parameters can target voice modification sessions to alter the perception of gender of transmasculine speakers meaningfully. Additionally, novel speech resynthesis techniques can be used to […]

Towards Developing Computational Models to Predict the Spreading of Radicalizing Content on the Web

SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Jessica Stern, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies Co-PI: Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Online social media has become a prominent vector for extremists to spread radicalized content, to make their ideology reach a large number of people by […]

Accelerating Multi-Party Computation with FPGAs

FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Martin Herbordt, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG Co-PI: Mayank Varia, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, CAS Track: HIC & Red Hat Collaboratory Datasets can tell a great story and provide critical insights in almost every aspect of society. Unfortunately, guaranteeing privacy can slow this process, and critical insights otherwise […]

Pre-Cancer AutoHist: A Software Application to Classify Lung Pre-Cancer Histologic Features

FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Jennifer Beane, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MED Track: Digital Health Initiative Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, and the pre-cancer lesion is an important clinical indicator of lung cancer risk to help therapies intercept the cancer development process in the early stage to increase survival. In this case, […]

Predicting Individualized Rehabilitation Outcomes based on Brain and Behavioral Biomarkers

FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Swathi Kiran, Associate Dean, SAR Co-PI: Margrit Betke, Professor of Computer Sciences, CAS Track: Digital Health Initiative & Artificial Intelligence Research Over 2 million people are currently living with aphasia due to a stroke, and the patients do not know whether they will ever recover to improve their communication/cognitive skills. Aphasia therapy […]

“Can I get that in Writing?” Lessons from a Contracting Field Experiment in Urban Malawi

FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, CAS Track: HIC In some low- and middle- income countries, transactions between the buyers and the sellers are often conducted informally and are based on credibility. Formalizing contracts can be important and beneficial. The team wants to measure the potential advantages of formalizing […]