Data Science Consortium 2020

October 29, 12:00 PM - October 30, 2020, 2:00 PM

Virtual

Day 1 – October 29

12:00 PM – 12:10 PM

Opening Remarks

Jing Liu, Managing Director, MIDAS

12:10 PM – 1:40 PM

Data Scientists in Training Presentations

Data Science and the Physical World

12:10 PM

Shaking up Earthquake Science in the Age of Big Data

Presented by Karianne Bergen

12:25 PM

Modeling for Ambiguous SNP Calls in Allotetraploids

Presented by Roshan Kulkarni

12:40 PM

PATS: A Taxon Re-sampling Pipeline to Test Phylogenetic Stability in Large Datasets

Presented by Chris Powell

12:55 PM

Unveiling the Nature of the Circumgalactic Medium

Presented by Sameer Sameer

1:10 PM

Physics-guided Energy-efficient Path Selection

Presented by Yan Li

1:25 PM

Framework for Effective Resilience Assessment of Deep-Tier Automotive Supply Networks

Presented by Elham Taghizadeh

Data Science and Human Society

12:10 PM

Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Identification of Child Abuse and Neglect in Hospital Settings with Implications for Bias Reduction and Future Interventions

Presented by Aviv Landau

12:25 PM

The Contagiousness of Police Violence

Presented by Thibaut Horel

12:40 PM

Robust Sound Event Detection in Urban Environments

Presented by Chris Ick

12:55 PM

Restricted Paraphrase Generation Model for Commercial Tweets

Presented by Renhao Cui

1:10 PM

Text Mining for Social Good; Context-aware Measurement of Social Impact and Effects Using Natural Language Processing

Presented by Rezvanah Rezapour

Day 2 – October 30

12:00 PM – 12:10 PM

Welcome Back

Jing Liu, Managing Director, MIDAS

12:10 PM – 1:55 PM

Data Scientists in Training Presentations

Data Science Theory and Methodology

12:10 PM

Bringing Modern Machine Learning to Survival Analysis

Presented by Paidamoyo Chapfuwa

12:25 PM

Bluff: Interactive Interpretation of Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning

Presented by Heakyu Park

12:40 PM

On the Computational Complexities of Three Privacy Measures for Large Networks Under Active Attack

Presented by Tanima Chaterjee

12:55 PM

Introducing retraced non-backtracking random walk (RNBRW) as a tool to uncover the mesoscopic structure of open-source software (OSS) networks

Presented by Behnaz Moradi

1:10 PM

Securing the IoT Communication

Presented by Sanjeev Kaushik

1:25 PM

Towards Trustworthy and Fair Classifiers

Presented by Arya Farahi

1:40 PM

Persistence Enhanced Graph Neural Network

Presented by Qi Zhao

Data Science and Human Health

12:10 PM

Comprehensive analysis of the reproducibility of RNAseq computational pipelines

Presented by Sarah Ben Mamaar

12:25 PM

Optimizing Genetic-Based Public Health Interventions

Presented by Váleri Vásquez

12:40 PM

Modeling the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality to Understand Health Inequities

Presented by Abby Stevens

12:55 PM

Multiple Instance Learning from Distributional Instances

Presented by Sean Kent

1:10 PM

Suicide Rates on African African Youth as it relates to the Influence of Different types of Communication

Presented by LaKeithia Glover

1:25 PM

BioData Catalyst and Deep Learning: Feature extraction on a full-feature platform

Presented by Matt Satusky

1:40 PM

Using an Ecological Inference Software Tool to Detect Vote Dilution

Presented by Juandalyn Burke