September 2024 - Sanghani-students

Harish Babu Manogaran's M.S. defense [Sep 26 at 11 am]
by Karpatne, Anuj 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hello everyone, You are cordially invited to the M.S. defense of Harish Babu Manogaran on Thursday, Sep 26 at 11 am. Zoom Link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/87874001510 Physical Location: D&DS 450 Title: Hierarchy Aligned Commonality Through Prototypical Networks: Discovering Evolutionary Traits over Tree-of-Life Committee: Dr. Lynn Abbott (committee chair) Dr. Anuj Karpatne (co-chair) Dr. Creed Jones Abstract: A grand challenge in biology is to discover evolutionary traits, which are features of organisms common to a group of species with a shared ancestor in the Tree of Life (also referred to as phylogenetic tree). With the recent availability of large-scale image repositories in biology and advances in the field of explainable ML such as ProtoPNet and other prototype-based methods, there is a tremendous opportunity to discover evolutionary traits directly from images in the form of a hierarchy of prototypes learned at internal nodes of the phylogenetic tree. However, current prototype-based methods are mostly designed to operate over a flat structure of classes and face several challenges in discovering hierarchical prototypes on a tree, including the problem of learning over-specific features at internal nodes in the tree. To overcome these challenges, we introduce the framework of Hierarchy aligned Commonality through Prototypical Networks (HComP-Net), which learns common features shared by all descendant species of an internal node and avoids the learning of over-specific prototypes. We empirically show that HComP-Net learns prototypes that are accurate, semantically consistent, and generalizable to unseen species in comparison to baselines on 190 species of birds, 38 species of fishes and 30 species of butterflies. While we focus on the biological problem of discovering evolutionary traits, our work can be applied to any domain involving a hierarchy of classes. Thanks, -Anuj ------------------- Anuj Karpatne Associate Professor Computer Science, Virginia Tech https://people.cs.vt.edu/karpatne/

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Student Poster Session - Call For Participation- Amazon-VT Initiative Fall 2024 Retreat- Thursday, Oct. 3
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hello, The Amazon - Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning<https://amazon.cs.vt.edu/> will be hosting its Fall 2023 Retreat on Thursday, Oct. 3 in Blacksburg, at the Virginia Tech Inn. We plan to have a student poster session at 3-4 pm, with the opportunity to talk/network with Amazon researchers. Posters are invited from all aspects of AI and Machine Learning. Projects in NLP, large language models, human-AI interfaces, conversational AI, federated learning are especially encouraged. If you would like to be considered, please email me your poster as a PDF by Friday, Sept. 20. Your poster should be 24 inches wide by 36 inches tall. If selected, please make arrangements to get your poster printed in time. I believe each department provides printing services to students. CS students can email techstaff(a)cs.vt.edu<mailto:techstaff@cs.vt.edu> to get their posters printed. We will mount your poster onto a foam board the morning of the event to be displayed on an easel. We will be providing the foam board and the easel. Additionally, you can apply for a travel grant to attend the event along with your poster submission. Please be sure to specify whether you will need a travel grant when you submit your poster. Funding is limited. Eventbrite link: https://shorturl.at/gnVzv **Only one poster submission per student** Thanks, Wanawsha Wanawsha Shalaby Manager of Operations UrbComp Program Coordinator Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics - Virginia Tech 900 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203 Phone: (571) 858-3361 E-Mail: wanah92(a)vt.edu<mailto:wanah92@vt.edu> Wanawsha Shalaby Manager of Operations UrbComp Program Coordinator Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics - Virginia Tech 900 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203 Phone: (571) 858-3361 E-Mail: wanah92(a)vt.edu<mailto:wanah92@vt.edu>

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Requesting information about participation in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
by blmicale＠vt.edu 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

I've invited you to fill out the following form: Requesting information about participation in the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024 To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexG9CH98DaN8uf1mWhzTR0B095K_uN6Cu… Please fill out this form if you are participating in this conference and have not yet done so. Thank you! Google Forms: Create and analyze surveys.

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Amazon-VT Initiative Fall 2024 Retreat- Thursday, Oct. 3
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

**Please do not forward message - this event is by invite only** Eventbrite link: https://shorturl.at/gnVzv [cid:86e4ab8a-3d61-420a-989f-58609a106c9e]<https://shorturl.at/gnVzv> Wanawsha Shalaby Manager of Operations UrbComp Program Coordinator Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics - Virginia Tech 900 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203 Phone: (571) 858-3361 E-Mail: wanah92(a)vt.edu<mailto:wanah92@vt.edu>

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Requesting Information about Participation at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
by blmicale＠vt.edu 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

I've invited you to fill out the following form: Requesting Information about Participation at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024 To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScM8vlnROfoZxk5wswBcC2VzNiBw_cc74H… Google Forms: Create and analyze surveys.

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