Graduate Research 2021-2022
Kapil Devkota, PhD candidate, co-first author, presented "Topsy-Turvy: integrating a global view into sequence-based PPI prediction,” co-authored with Rohit Singh (co-first author), Samuel Sledzieski, Bonnie Berger, and Professor Lenore Cowen at the 30th Conference for Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology, July 2022; published in Bioinformatics, Volume 38, Supplement_1 (2022): i264-i272. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac258
Andrei Gonczi, PhD candidate, presented “Reconfiguration of Polygonal Subdivisions via Recombination”, co-authored by Hugo A. Akitaya, Professor Diane L. Souvaine, Professor Csaba D. Tóth, and Thomas Weighil at the 2022 International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Workshop on Combinatorial Reconfiguration (ICALP July 2022).
Darby Huye, PhD candidate, Lan Liu, PhD candidate, Zhaoqi Zhang, PhD candidate, and Alex Ellis, MS candidate co-authored “Automating instrumentation choices for performance problems in distributed applications with VAIF,” with Mert Toslali (primary), Emre Ates, Samantha Peterman, Ayse K. Coskun, and Professor Raja R. Sambasivan at the Symposium of Cloud Computing (SoCC) November 2021. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3472883.3487000
Darby Huye, PhD candidate, Lan Liu, PhD candidate, and Zhaoqi Zhang, PhD candidate co-authored “VAIF: Variance-driven automated instrumentation framework,” with Mert Toslali (primary), Emre Ates, Samantha Peterman, Ayse K. Coskun, and Professor Raja R. Sambasivan at the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, June 2022.
Carson Powers, PhD student, presented "WiP: Where's Eve? Evaluating Student Threat Modeling Performance and Perceptions", co-authored by Nickolas Gravel, Maxwell Mitchell, and Professor Daniel Votipka at the 8th Workshop on Security Information Workers (August 2022). https://security-information-workers.org/downloads/WIP-Wheres%20Eve.pdf.
Sarah Radway, PhD student, presented "Differential Privacy and Swapping: Examining De-Identification's Impact on Minority Representation and Privacy Preservation in the US Census”, co-authored by Miranda Christ and Steve M. Bellovin at the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (May 2022). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9833668.
Sarah Radway, PhD student, presented “Counting Kindergarteners: De-Identification’s Impact on Student Representation”, co-authored by Miranda Christ at National Academies Committee on National Statistics 2020 Census Data Products Workshop (June 2022). https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/06-21-2022/2020-census-data-products-workshop-on-the-demographic-and-housing-characteristics-files#sectionEventMaterials
Other Publications
Journal Papers
Darby Huye, PhD candidate, published “[SoK] Identifying Mismatches Between Microservice Testbeds and Industrial Perceptions of Microservices,” co-authored by Vishwanath Seshagiri, Lan Liu, Avani Wildani, and Professor Raja R Sambasivan in the Journal of Systems Research, July 2022.
Nicholas Rabb, PhD candidate, published “Cognitive Cascades: How to Model (and Potentially Counter) the Spread of Fake News”, co-authored by Professor Lenore Cowen, Professor Jan P. de Ruiter, and Professor Matthias Scheutz in PLOS One, Jan 7, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261811.
Polina Shpilker, Ph.D. candidate, published "Metadata format for open reef data (medford)," co-authored with John Freeman, Hailey McKelvie, Jill Ashey, Jay-Miguel Fonticella, Hollie Putnam, Jane Greenberg, Professor Lenore Cowen, Professor Alva Couch, and Professor Noah M. Daniels in Research Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR), pp. 206-211. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98876-0_18
Muhammad Umair, PhD student, published “GailBot: An automatic transcription system for Conversation Analysis”, co-authored by Julia Beret Mertens, Saul Albert, and Professor J.P de Ruiter in Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 13 No.1 (2022)