PhD Research Showcase
The Computer Science PhD Research Showcase is an annual departmental event to showcase the research of our PhD students, who have the opportunity to demonstrate their research, receive feedback, and exchange information. The departmental objectives are the following:
- to improve the student’sresearch communication skills,
- to provide to feedback related to the students’ research progress and presentation of their ideas and results,
- to encourage scientific exchange of ideas between students and faculty working in different areas, and
- to promote internal community developmentby getting to know faculty and peers.
PhD Research Showcase
Friday, October 25, 2024
1PM - 5PM
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion
Tentative Schedule
1 PM, Opening and Introductions
1:10 PM, Lightning Talks
Students will give a one-minute oral overview of their research
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Poster Session
Mingle with participating students and delve deeper into their research
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Awards and Closing Remarks
Participating Students
| Name | Advisor |
| Huda Alghamdi | Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis |
| Rahma Aloui | Dr. Shishir Shah |
| Alireza Ansaripour | Dr. Om Gnawali |
| Thomas Carroll | Dr. Albert Cheng |
| Jeremy Easton-Marks | Dr. Fatima Merchant |
| Mohammad Javadi | Dr. Ernst Leiss / Dr. Nikos Tsekos |
| Rabimba Karanjai | Dr. Larry Shi |
| Vivek Karihaloo | Dr. Panruo Wu |
| Fettah Kiran | Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis |
| Michail Koumpanakis | Dr. Nikos Tsekos |
| Meng-Chen Lee | Dr. Zhigang Deng |
| Yang Lu | Dr. Stephen Huang |
| Md Mahin | Dr. Christoph Eick |
| Samiha Mirza | Dr. Shishir Shah |
| Dustin Nguyen | Dr. Shishir Shah |
| Nguyen Phan | Dr. Guoning Chen |
| Fatima Qachfar | Dr. Rakesh Verma |
| Raunak Sarbajna | Dr. Christoph Eick |
| Lei Si | Dr. Guoning Chen |
| Yuan Tian | Dr. Stephen Huang |
| Jatindera Walia | Dr. Jaspal Subhlok |
| Michael Yantosca | Dr. Albert Cheng |
| Aryo Yarahmadi | Dr. Om Gnawali |
| Mina Ghooshchi | Dr. Feng Yan |
| Adeel Zafar | Dr. Guoning Chen |
Awards
Participants will be considered for the following awards:
- Best Poster
- Honorable Mention
- People's Choice
- People's Choice Runner-Up
Expectations and Timeline:
- Register by Friday, September 13, 2024.
- Registered students will be added to PhD Showcase course in Canvas on date TBA
- Submit draft poster via Canvas course by Friday, September 27, 2024.
- Attend a PhD Showcase Committee Faculty Office Hours on Friday, October 4, 2024, 1PM-3PM, PGH 563. This will be to receive in-person feedback on your posters.
- Submit a final poster via Canvas for printing by Wednesday, October 16, 2024.
- Present on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Dates and times subject to change. Updates will be announced in Canvas for those who register.
- Judge's Choice Best Poster: Robert Griffin - Designing Mobile MRI Scanners: Mass Efficiency of Halbach Ring Design Parameters
- Judge's Choice Best Poster: Meng Chen (Martin) Lee - Online Multimodal End-of-Turn Prediction for Three-party Conversations
- People's Choice Best Poster: Vuong (Dustin) Nguyen - Contrastive Viewpoint-aware Shape Learning for Long-term Person Re-Identification
Spring 2023
- Judge's Choice Best Poster: Urmila Sampathkumar - Statistical Shape Models for Outcome Simulation in Breast Surgeries
- People's Choice Best Poster: Urmila Sampathkumar - Statistical Shape Models for Outcome Simulation in Breast Surgeries
Organizing Committee
Dr. Guoning Chen, chair (gchen22 at central dot uh dot edu)
Dr. Om Gnawali
Matthew Pariyothorn
Dr. Jaspal Subhlok