Schedule

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Time

Description

Location

8:00AM

Breakfast

Light break fast options will be available as follows: 🥯 bagels, fruit, pastries, orange juice, ☕️ coffee, and 🫖 tea.

SEH Basement Atrium

8:30AM

Registration

SEH First Floor Atrium

9:45AM

Welcome

SEH Lehman Auditorium

10:00AM

Keynote

Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Dr. Quincy K. Brown, Ph.D.
Dr. Quincy K. Brown is an accomplished computer scientist, educator, former Policy Director in the White House, and expert on STEM education, policy development, cross-agency collaboration, and workforce initiatives in space, computing, technology, and STEM.

Dr. Brown will discuss leveraging her background as a computer scientist across research, education, and policy to drive innovation and shape the future. Her expertise offers valuable perspectives and practical insights on innovation, collaboration, and career navigation.

SEH Lehman Auditorium

11:00AM

Career Fair

SEH First Floor Atrium

11:00AM

Parallel Sessions

Panel

Choosing a grad school...or not: Questions, reflections, and discussion

S. McCrickard, N. Basit, N. Andrus, F. Nikseresht, A. Shahid, A. Prakash
Moderator: M. Seyam

SEH Lehman Auditorium

Research Shorts

Cybersecurity 1

Combining Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) with AI for Threat Detection
J. Fahmy

A Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot for Cybergrooming Prevention
H. An, Q. Zhang, A. Singh, J. Cho

Mitigating Cyber Threats in V2V and V2I Networks: A Security-Centric Approach
S. Zehra, S. Rizvi

Session Chair: Robbie Hott

SEH 1300

Research Shorts

Artificial Intelligence

Plot'n Polish: Zero-shot Story Visualization and Disentangled Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
K. Akdemir, P. Yanardag

Context Canvas: Enhancing Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Knowledge Graph-Based RAG
K. Venkatesh, Y. Dalva, I. Lourentzou, P. Yanardag

P2VFL: Performance and Privacy-enhanced Incentive Mechanism for Vertical Federated Learning
S. Madabushi, H. Ali, A. Khan, J. Cho

Session Chair: Brad McCoy

SEH 1400

12:00PM

Lunch

Lunch pickup is in the basement. Seating is available throughout the building.

SEH Basement Atrium

12:00PM

Student Research Posters

Home Tech Care: Symbiotic Tech Caregiving
N. Andrus, O. Mbanefo, V. Pettit, W. Wang, D. Scott McCrickard

The Web in Schools
A. Kozlowski

US Computer Science Faculty Pipeline Dashboard
L. Frew, M. Weigle

Enhancement of Deep Learning for Segmentation of Protein Secondary Structures from Cryo-EM
T. Nguyen, Y. Mu, J. Sun, J. He

AI-Powered Enhancement of Student Learning in Large Programming Courses
T. Zhan, B. Hou, S. Nizamani

Analyzing Ground-lightning Dataset Using the Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN)
J. Agresto, Z. Duan, M. Bentley, T. Gerken, D. Bonsal

Roots for STEM Organization
G. Venturi, L. Quick, S. Leyva, H. Mroczkowski

Characterizing GPU Memory Errors: Insights from a Cross-supercomputer Study
Z. Zhu

Investigating the Impact of AI-Assisted Tools on Practitioner Well-Being
F. Meem, B. Johnson

Investigating the Effectiveness of Using K-Nearest-Neighbors and Random Forest in Hybrid Recommendation Systems to Improve Personalized User Experience
A. Zhang, N. Gray, N. Basit

Voices in Code
M. Van Buren, J. Zeitz

Redirects Unraveled: From Lost Links to Rickrolls
K. Garg, S. Alam, M. Weigle, M. Nelson

Computational Analysis of Urbanization's Impact on Water Quality Using Earth Observation and GIS
Z. Rizvi, S. Rizvi

Crowdsourced Litter Mapping: A Smart App for Community Cleanup
Z. Rizvi, S. Rizvi

A Solution for Seizures: Developing Machine-Learning Algorithms For Use In Real-Time Seizure Detection Applications
R. Jain, A. Harandi, M. Schaffer, I. Punna, S. Nizamani

Praxly: An Online IDE for the Praxis CS Test Pseudocode
E. Macmillan, C. Mayfield

Campus Health Tracker: A Location-Based Disease Monitoring App for College Students and Highly Populous Areas
S. Gupta, M. Patel, O. Stuckman

Accelerating Diffusion Inference via Quantization and Parallel Patch Processing
F. Amin

Organizer: Michael Stewart

SEH First Floor Atrium

1:00PM

Parallel Sessions

Technical Talks	Artificial Intelligence Explaining in Diffusion: Explaining a Classifier Through Hierarchical Semantics with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models T. Kazimi, R. Allada, P. Yanardag Enhanced methods for incorporating resiliency in UAV swarms A. Phadke Session Chair: Melissa Cameron	SEH B1220
Research Shorts	Humans and Artificial Intelligence Human AI Collaboration for Scalable Rationale Generation to Support Explainable Stance Detection Systems A. Gupta, H. Purohit Code-Decomp: Automated Prompt Decomposition for Code Generation E. Al Haque, A. Gupta, B. Johnson Strategic Questioning and Enhanced Engagement: Developing a Counselor Chatbot Using LLMs and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Deeper Self-Exploration and Therapeutic Dialogue Q. Zhang, H. An, A. Singh, J. Cho Session Chair: Briana Morrison	SEH B1270
Research Shorts	Cybersecurity 2 Use of Control Flow Graphs with Edges Consideration for Fault Localization Z. Chen, C. Murphy Building Trust and Transparency for Government Cloud Adoption: a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Perspective D. Twum Gyamrah Mitigating In-Transit Vision Noise for Enhanced Vehicle Safety Y. Luo, J. Chen, X. Chen, S. Lu Session Chair: Robbie Hott	SEH 1300
Technical Workshop	Breaking Machine Learning Models to Understand Security Implications P. Reddy Note that this workshop runs 1pm-2:50pm. Session Chair: Jin-Hee Cho	SEH 1400
Research Shorts	Artificial Intelligence 2 Using virtual reality to simulate wilderness search and rescue 'clue-finding' tasks P. Luby, A. Mathis, B. White, R. Penn, A. Robbins, M. Hout Emerging Technologies and Autonomous Interaction I. Perez Ruiz Accelerated Community Detection using Directed Graphs on GPUs B. Gul Session Chair: Sehrish Basir Nizamani	SEH 1450

2:00PM

Parallel Sessions

Technical Talks	Smart Healthcare HealthLens: AI-Powered Insights for Healthcare Data N. Gaddam, S. Gurunathan‬ Ethical AI for Healthcare Systems: Uncertainty-Aware, Fair Federated Learning D. chen, Q. Zhang, L. Kaplan, A. Josang, D. Jeong, F. Chen, J. Cho Session Chair: Melissa Cameron	SEH B1220
Research Shorts	CS Education Who Gets In? The Role of AI in Shaping the Next Generation of Computer Scientists A. Prakash, M. Seyam Increasing Digital Literacy Amongst Older Adults I. Divietro Machine Learning Insights into Academic Success in CS3: The Role of Mathematics and CS Coursework N. Wali, S. Hooshangi Session Chair: Briana Morrison	SEH B1270
Research Shorts	Artificial Intelligence 3 Data Collection Pipeline to Diversify AI Training Data V. Wiegand, S. Cooney Agentic AI for the Rescue: Factual Summarisation of Crisis-Related Documents H. Klair Driver Facial Expression Classification: A Comparative Study of Computer Vision Techniques Y. Bond, S. Hasan, M. Hamza, M. Rehman Session Chair: Robbie Hott	SEH 1300
Technical Workshop	Breaking Machine Learning Models to understand Security Implications P. Reddy Continued from the prior 1pm session. Session Chair: Jin-Hee Cho	SEH 1400
Birds of a Feather	Economic Impact of Decision-Making Software on Minorities E. Olimpiew	SEH 1450

2:30PM

Snacks

Snacks available for pickup starting at 2:30

SEH First Floor Atrium

3:00PM

Parallel Sessions

Birds of a Feather	Women and non-binary undergraduate students N. Andrus	SEH B1220
Flash Talks	FoodieSafety T. Emokpae, P. Ramkumar Fairness Tools in Practice: The Researcher Perspective S. Mim, B. Johnson LLM-Driven Heuristic Evaluation of Code Snippets from Website Homepages N. Platt, E. Luchs, S. Nizamani Exploring The Role of Electrodermal Activity (EDA) in Estimating Attention Via Wearable Devices F. Faiz, V. Motti AI-Based Usability Evaluations of Low-Fidelity vs. High-Fidelity Prototypes S. Monisha, K. Hissan, S. Nizamani Beyond the Surface: Rethinking Pulse Oximetry for Equitable Healthcare A. Bhutani, M. Sanghavi, K. Kramarczuk Session Chair: Briana Morrison	SEH B1270
Research Shorts	Cybersecurity 3 Detecting Stealthy Manipulations of Control logic in Programmable Logic Controllers A. Ayub, I. Ahmed SCVI: Bridging Social and Cyber Dimensions for Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment S. Mitra, T. Nguyen, Q. Zhang, H. Kim, H. Salemi, C. Chang, F. Zhang, M. Hong, C. Lu, H. Purohit, J. Cho Session Chair: Zhoujun Duan	SEH 1300
Research Shorts	Games and Virtual Reality DBWorkout: A Collaborative and Gamified Web-Based Platform for SQL Learning S. Ravella, A. Pochamreddy, J. Wang, Q. Chen, S. Nizamani, S. Hamouda, S. Nizamani Examining Visual Attention in Gaze-Driven VR Learning: An Eye-Tracking Study Y. Abeysinghe, K. Cauchi, V. Ashok, S. Jayarathna Web-based PDC Educational Video Games M. Cameron, S. Kasera Session Chair: Jin-Hee Cho	SEH 1400
Birds of a Feather	CAPWIC Male Allies J. Hott, S. McCrickard, S. Sheth, M. Stewart, M. Seyam	SEH 1450

4:00PM

Parallel Sessions

Technical Workshop	Cybersecurity: Strengthening Workforce Education Excellence in Programming Securely (SWEEPS) D. Kariuki, I. Ngambeki Session Chair: Sehrish Basir Nizamani	SEH B1220
Panel	Exploring Various Career Paths in Computer Science and the Tech Industry N. Perodin, N. Schneider, I. Gupta Moderator: N. Basit	SEH B1270
Research Shorts	Social Media Evaluating Children's Ability to Distinguish Between Traditional and AI-Generated Media S. Kumari, F. Shah, S. Nizamani Assessing Public Perception of AI-Generated Social Media Content of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate R. Ansell, P. Bode, D. Paik, P. Singh, A. Toney-Wails, D. Ventura Infrastructure for Tracking Information Flow from Social Media to U.S. TV News H. Jayanetti, A. Nwala, M. Nelson, M. Weigle Session Chair: Zhoujun Duan	SEH 1300
Research Shorts	Human Computer Interaction Leveraging Smartwatch Sensors For Detecting Off-Task Behaviors Of Neurodivergent Individuals A. Islam, V. Motti Usability Heuristics and Large Language Models: Enhancing University Website Evaluations M. Hirakawa, M. Saritha, M. Goel, S. Bapat, N. Dawar, R. Reddy, S. Nizamani Advanced Gaze Measures for Analyzing Joint Visual Attention K. Thennakoon, Y. Abeysinghe, B. Mahanama, R. Obadage, V. Ashok, S. Jayarathna Session Chair: Jin-Hee Cho	SEH 1400
Research Shorts	Machine Learning An Investigation into Maintenance Support for Neural Networks F. Zohra, B. Johnson Enhancing Neuronal Connectivity Inference with Cross-Correlograms and Interpretations from Learned Model Representations X. Sun, R. Simha, C. Zheng, H. Lu Analysis of Subtelomere and Telomere Regions of Cancer Genomes on the Cloud E. Adam, D. Ranjan, H. Riethman Session Chair: Brad McCoy	SEH 1450

5:00PM

Keynote, Closing Remarks

Becky Robertson
Becky Robertson is a Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she leads amazingly innovative teams building advanced technology solutions and products to accelerate outcomes for the Nation. In her more than 30-year career, Becky has blended her technical expertise, problem solving skills, and passion for collaboration in roles including web-based training development, software engineering project management, systems engineering and integration, commercial satellite vulnerability analysis, large contract management, competitive contract capture and negotiation, as well as leading corporate investments in next wave technologies. In her current role, Becky leads Booz Allen’s National Missions team, tackling priority national cyber issues with collective ingenuity and unmatched mission understanding. She lives in the Annapolis area with her family and spends almost all of her spare time reading mysteries, cooking for the people she loves, or on soccer and lacrosse fields.

SEH Lehman Auditorium

5:45PM

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SEH Basement Atrium

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