Please note that the schedule is subject to change.
Zoom links are shared with those who are invited to the event. If you have not received it, please send the organizers an email (sangwonlee@vt.edu)
February 26th, Friday, 2021 (EST)
| Time | Title |
| 9:30 AM | Greeting |
| 10:00 AM | Graduate Program Introduction |
| 10:20 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM | Faculty Research Presentation (in Zoom breakout rooms) <Room1> Bimal Viswanath (session chair) Security in an AI-driven World Shaddi Hasan Expanding the Frontiers of the Internet Bo Ji Learning Integrated Design of Computer and Network Systems Thang Hoang Privacy-Preserving and Functional Information Systems <Room2> Lifu Huang Natural Language Processing: How do Machines Read, Understand and Generate Human Languages Ismini Lourentzou AI Models for Data-driven Discovery: from Hype to Reality Anuj Karpatne (session chair) Science-guided Machine Learning: How Can We Make Machine Learning Models Science-aware? Eugenia Rho AI-Driven Approaches to Computational Social Science Wu-chun Feng Synergistic Computing at the SEEC Center, SHREC Center, and Synergy Lab <Room 3> T. M. Murali (session chair) Tackling COVID-19 Using Network Biology and Graph Machine Learning Young Cao Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems Jamie Sikora Quantum Computing and Cryptography at VT Adrian Sandu The Computational Science Laboratory at VT |
| 11:20 AM | Break |
| 11:30 AM | Graduate Life Panel Discussion with Professors Moderator: Anuj Karpatne Panel – Layne Watson – Bob Edmison – Eli Tilevich – Ali R. Butt – Mohammed Seyam |
| 12:00 PM | Break |
| 12:30 PM | Open Office hours with Faculty Members (Zoom Breakout rooms) Schedule (All schedules are in EST) Professors Adrian Sandu (12:30~13:30) Aisling Kelliher (13:00~14:00) Alexey Onufriev (12:30~14:00) Ali R. Butt (12:30~14:00) Anuj Karpatne (12:30~14:00) Bimal Viswanath (13:00~14:00) Bo Ji (12:30~13:30) Chris North (12:30~13:30) Cliff Shaffer (12:30~14:00) Eugenia Rho (13:00~14:00) Ismini Lourentzou (12:30~13:30) Jamie Sikora (12:30~14:00) Layne Watson (12:30~13:15) Lifu Huang (13:30~14:00) Shaddi Hasan (13:00~14:00) T. M. Murali (12:30~13:30) Thang Hoang (13:00~14:00) Wu-chun Feng (12:30~14:00) Young Cao (13:30~14:00) Administrative Faculty & Staff Sharon Kinder-Potter(Graduate Program Coordinator) and, Trey Mayo (Director of Graduate Programs) Cliff Shaffer (Professor/Associate Department Head) |
| 2:00 PM | (the end of Day 1) |
February 27th, Saturday, 2021 (EST)
| Time | Title |
| 9:30 AM | Graduate council Greeting Graduate Life Panel Discussion with Graduate Students |
| 10:20 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM | Research Poster Presentation Lab Introduction Research Chat |
| 12:00 PM | Virtual Virginia Tech/Blacksburg Tour |
| 12:30 PM | Break |
| 1:00 PM | Graduate Council Social |
| 2:00 PM | (the end of Day 2) |
Graduate council Greeting
Graduate Life Panel Discussion with Graduate Students (9:30 AM ~10:20PM)
In this Panel, Aarathi and Nure will give you some information about different topics including funding and cost of living, housing, transportation, recreational activities, etc.
We will also have a panel of students; Bipasha, Juliet, Makanjuola, MD Tahsin, Molly, Patrick, Runge, and Satvik, who would take your questions (about ANYTHING) and answer them from different perspectives.
Research Presentations (10:30AM~12:00PM)
Here is the name of the breakout rooms followed by a short keyword description of their Lab, their advisor’s name and their name, followed by a short blurb from the students themselves:
AR/VR: Li
3D Interaction Lab | Dr. Doug Bowman | Yuan Li
“Yuan will discuss the projects done at the 3D Interaction lab, focusing on Virtual/Augmented reality, pervasive technologies, and computer-supported collaborative work.”
Scientific Computing: Detwiler
Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications (LASCA) | Joshua Detwiler
“Joshua will discuss the Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications (LASCA), the Urban Computing program, and his research topic of applying numerical optimization to political and school redistricting.”
InfoViz: Davidson
Information Visualization Lab | Dr. Chris North | Kylie Davidson
“Kylie will be discussing research with the Information Visualization Lab (Advised by Chris North). We focus on: big data visualization and analytics, usable interactive human-in-the-loop analytics, large high-resolution display workspaces, and visual text analytics. “
HCI: Tausif
Echolab | Dr Sang Won Lee | Md Tahsin Tausif
” I’ll be introducing our lab, Echolab (of Dr. Sang Won Lee), what type of research we are conducting, current grad students, and such. I’ll also briefly talk about my current research works and future plans.”
CS Education: Basak-Hicks
Computer Science Education Research Group | Drs. Cliff Shaffer, Steve Edwards, Dennis Kafura | Arinjoy Basak, Alex Hicks
“Arinjoy and Alex will be discussing research conducted by the Computer Science Education Research Group (including work by Cliff Shaffer, Steve Edwards, Dennis Kafura). We focus on Smart learning objects (OpenDSA, CodeWorkout, WebCAT), tools, and infrastructure for improving the learning and teaching of computing (OpenFLAP, DevEventTracker, BlockPy), and analyzing student learning behavior (Deforms problem-solving system, quantifying incremental development practices).”
Neural Cryptanalysis: Meno
Emma Meno
“I’ll be discussing my Master’s thesis work in neural cryptanalysis, which harnesses machine learning to “learn” ciphers. Given the intuition that a harder cipher will be more difficult to predict and replicate with neural networks, neural cryptanalysis provides a novel quantitative security measure.”
Yao Group: Ahmed
Yao Group | Dr. Danfeng Yao | Salman Ahmed
“I will be giving an overview of the ongoing research in Yao Group (https://yaogroup.cs.vt.edu/), especially about building deployment-grade security tools, large-scale security assurance measurement, anomaly detection in systems, secure coding, and data science with machine learning in medical information.”
HCI: Hu
Echolab | Dr. Sang Won Lee | Donghan Hu
“I will be discussing our HCI lab: Echolab conducted by Dr. Sang Won Lee, including current ongoing research, related topics, and so on. I will introduce my current research work and share my experience in this wonderful lab with amazing people.”
ML Security: Weeks
Connor Weeks
“I’ll be presenting some of the ongoing research of my machine learning & security group, including my own research on chatbot security.”
HPC: Dey
Synergy Lab | Dr. Wu Feng | Saikat Dey
“I’ll be discussing my on-going research work at Synergy Lab run by Dr. Wu Feng on real-time intrusion detection in large network traffic.”
HPC: Jha
Synergy Lab | Dr. Wu Feng | Sonal Jha
“As part of Synergy Lab run by Dr. Wu Feng, I will be presenting my work on large-scale multi-attributed graph generation and fraud detection in financial graphs. Will briefly discuss high-performance deep learning for smart wearable telehealth and precision feeding in dairy science.”
HCI: Bhuiyan
Echolab | Dr. Sang Won Lee | Md Momen Bhuiyan
“Momen will present his research on social computing in Echolab and SocialCompLab (now @UW), including design intervention strategies on online social systems to influence the audience’s perception of trust. “
Bioinformatics: Akers-Tasnina-Sen
Computational Systems Biology Group | Kyle Akers & Nure Tasnina & Malabika Sen
“We will present research areas of the Computational Systems Biology (CSB) group, including applications of graph machine learning in single-cell gene expression, drug synergy, and COVID-19 drug repurposing.”
Sci. Comput.: Chennault-Sarshar
Computational Science Lab | Dr. Adrian Sandu | Austin Chennault & Arash Sarshar
“Some friendly introduction of scientific computing and different research directions in the computational science lab (CSL)”
HPC: Gondhalekar
Synergy Lab | Dr. Wu Feng | Atharva Gondhalekar
“Productivity tools and parallel computing frameworks play a huge role in the area of High-performance computing(HPC). In this session, I will be presenting my work on HPC productivity tools and frameworks, done at the Synergy Lab run by Dr. Wu Feng.”
HPC: Wanye
Synergy Lab | Dr. Wu Feng | Frank Wanye
“I’ll present my research work on HPC graph analytics, as well as an overview of the work done in the Synergy Lab run by Dr. Wu Feng.”
HPC: Goal
Synergy Lab | Dr. Wu Feng | Garvit Goel
“I will be presenting my work on deep learning based testing of COVID-19 using CT scans”
HPC: Youssef
Synergy Lab | Dr. Wu Feng | Karim Youssef
“I’ll present my research about scalable genome analysis, high-performance data analytics, and I’ll give an overview of other research done at the Synergy Lab run by Dr. Wu Feng.”
Ahmadi: Sara Ahmadi
“I will have some slides to introduce my research that I have recently started and I will also answer questions as the coordinator of the lab. “
Campus/ City Tour (12:00PM~12:30PM)
Alex, Ri, Mohannad, and Lee will take you on a tour around campus and try to show you a glimpse of Blacksburg. By the end of this event, you will know more about some teleportation circles on campus that even many of the current students don’t know about ( 😀 )
Social Event (1:00PM~2:00PM)
Here is the name of the breakout rooms followed by a short description of what they are about and a link to the games:
Jackbox – 1: How to play.
Jackbox – 2: Same as above
Jackbox – 3: Same as above
Jackbox – 4: Same as above
Jackbox – 5: Same as above
CodeNames: How to play.
5 Second Rule: How to play.
Among Us – 1: How to play.
Among Us – 2: Same as above
Among Us – 3: Same as above
Skribbl – 1: How to play.
Skribbl – 2: Same as above
Conversation – 1: Talk about anything you want with the prospective students or current students.
Conversation – 2: Same as above
Conversation – 3: Same as above
Music with Patrick:
Join Patrick to:
– Improv on drumset to certain songs
– Listen to him play preset songs through piano or drumset
– Queue songs and play them through zoom
– Potentially invite others to play