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Resending this email. The clicked link in my previous email is not reflecting the actual link listed in the email.
Please copy and paste the URL, if you don’t get the form when you click on the link !!
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Dear MEng CS Students,
As of today, we are putting in place a new procedure for form submission for the MEng program. MEng CS students should submit all their forms, including Plan of Study, through the Master of Engineering in CS Google Form.
Here is the link to the form. You must be logged in to your VT Google account prior to accessing this form, otherwise you will receive an access denial error.
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Please save this email or bookmark the google form for your future submissions.
Thank you
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Sara Hooshangi, Ph.D.
Collegiate Associate Professor
Director, MEng Program
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
This email is intended ONLY for MEng students
Dear MEng CS Students,
As of today, we are putting in place a new procedure for form submission for the MEng program. MEng CS students should submit all their forms, including Plan of Study, through the Master of Engineering in CS Google Form.
Here is the link to the form. You must be logged in to your VT Google account prior to accessing this form, otherwise you will receive an access denial error.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1UpNNIIVuajS9g60ZTMgh_krI6H1kjIm… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1UpNNIIVuajS9g60ZTMgh_krI6H1kjIm…>
Please note that Samantha will not accept forms through email anymore, so I ask you to be mindful of this fact and DO NOT email her any forms moving forward.
Please save this email or bookmark the google from for your future form submission.
Thank you
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Sara Hooshangi, Ph.D.
Collegiate Associate Professor
Director, MEng Program
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Hello there early risers,
Juliet Clark will defend her Master's thesis, "Designing telehealth rehabilitation systems for diverse stakeholder needs” at 8:00am tomorrow, 05/06
Zoom link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81075726118
Abstract:
The strengthening of community care and the development of co-managed telehealth systems are vital components in addressing growing critical healthcare issues encountered worldwide. The global COVID pandemic highlights the challenges in providing appropriate co-managed home-based care in a systemic and financially viable way at scale. To develop practical and sustainable solutions it is important to understand the individual, institutional, and socio-technical opportunities and barriers potentially encountered when attempting to design and implement telehealth systems as part of a broader social healthcare network. In this thesis, I describe my work assessing the feasibility of deploying telehealth systems within the context of home based physical rehabilitation. I conducted an online survey and in-depth interviews with occupational and physical therapists to determine the issues impacting their current practices and the likelihood that a telehealth rehabilitation system might support or hinder their practice. Findings from this qualitative work highlighted the importance of maintaining the patient/therapist relationship, the need to empower the caregiver, and the potential for telehealth systems to provide quantitative and qualitative proof of care and patient progress. Building on these insights, I designed an interactive tablet application to assist therapists with the efficient and seamless installation and calibration of a telehealth system for stroke rehabilitation in the home. The application was evaluated in two studies with non-expert and expert users. The results from these studies indicate the efficiency of the application resulting from this design approach and the rich potential for integration of the system into clinical practice.
- Aisling
Aisling Kelliher
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
VT@CS Folks,
I hope everyone is doing well. I’m happy to announce that Sirui Yao will be defending her thesis tomorrow, May 4, 2021. The presentation portion is open to the public, so I invite you to join if you are available. Abstract and Zoom info follows.
Bert Huang
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Title: Evaluating, Understanding, and Mitigating Unfairness in Recommender Systems
Abstract: Recommender systems are information filtering tools that discover potential matching between users and items and benefit both parties. This benefit can be considered as a social resource that should be equitably allocated across users and items, especially in critical domains such as education and employment. Biases and unfairness in recommendations raise both ethical and legal concerns. In this research, we start with exploring the implication of fairness in the context of recommendation and formulating unfairness evaluation metrics. We also propose to reduce unfairness in matrix factorization (MF) models by optimizing modified learning objectives. Next, we target a form of unfairness in matrix factorization models observed as disparate prediction accuracy across user groups. We identify four types of biases in the training data that contribute to higher subpopulation error, then we propose a mitigation method named personalized regularization learning (PRL), which learns personalized regularization parameters to directly address the data biases. Last, we conduct theoretical analysis on the long-term dynamic of inequality in the underlying population. We mathematically formulate the user transition dynamics under the influence of recommendation and compare different scenarios based on the properties at system equilibrium.
https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/84543930362 <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/84543930362>
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 18:48:05 -0400
Subject: Lindah Kotut final defense
Hi all,
You're cordially invited to Lindah Kotut's Ph.D. final defense on
Tuesday May 4 at 2pm ET.
Zoom link:
https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83179035091?pwd=ZW9BNEpDQWkxRlRvNWc1cGhKWUR2…
Title:
Amplifying the Griot: Technology for Preserving, Retelling, and
Supporting Underrepresented Stories
Committee:
Dr. Scott McCrickard (chair)
Dr. Naren Ramakrishnan
Dr. Tanushree Mitra (University of Washington)
Dr. Michael Horning
Dr. Norman Makoto Su (University of Indiana)
Abstract:
As we develop intelligent systems to handle online interactions and
digital stories, how do we address those stories that are unwritten and
invisible? How do we make sure that communities that value oral
histories are not left behind and their voices inform the design of
these systems as well? How do we determine that the technology we design
respect the agency and ownership of the stories, without imposing our
own biases? To answer these questions, I rely on stories from different
underrepresented communities as avenues to understand how digital
technology affects their stories and the agency they have over them.
From these stories, I elicit guidelines for the design of equitable and
resilient tools and technologies. As a first step, I seek wisdom from
griots who are master storytellers and story-keepers on the craft of
handling both written and unwritten stories. From these guidelines I
developed the Respectful Space for technology typology--a framework that
informs our understanding of and interaction with underrepresented
stories. I then use this framework to guide the approach of
understanding technology use by inhabitants of rural spaces in the
United States--particularly long-distance hikers who traverse these
spaces. I further expand on the framework by considering its use for
community self-reflection and for researchers to query the ethical
implications of the research that we do, the technology that we develop,
and the voices that the technology amplify or suppress. The intention is
to highlight the vast resources that exist in domains we do not
consider, and the importance of those voices to also inform the future
of technology.
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D. Scott McCrickard
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061-0902
http://people.cs.vt.edu/~mccricks/https://techonthetrail.net/
