ISI Grad Students Show Off Their Stuff
October 26, 2010
An Information Sciences Institute tradition entered its fifth year on October 22, when young researchers spent the day presenting their work to colleagues and teachers.
The event, the Graduate Student Student Symposium, this year for the first time included students working in Networks as well as Intelligent Systems.The program included ten papers -- judged separately on content and presentation -- and twelve posters. Participants voted on the best and runner up in each category, with separate winners in Intelligent Systems and Networks.
The program included presentations by senior ISI researchers, including a talk by Craig Knoblock on "Life After Grad School" and one on "How to Write a Good Paper" by Liang Huang.
Student George Konstantinidis was the principal organizer of the event, working with Ashish Vaswani and Rumi Ghosh.
ISI Deputy Director and Intelligent Systems Director Yigal Arens announced the award winners at the end of the day.
They include:
Intelligent Systems
Winners
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Best Paper -
Ashish Vaswani
Efficient optimization of an
MDL-inspired objective function
for unsupervised partof-speech
tagging
Best Presentation -
Dirk Hovy The
Rules of the Game:
Unsupervised discovery of
domain-specific knowledge
from text
Best Poster -
Aman Goel
Exploiting sub-structure in
Hierarchical Conditional
Random Fields for accurate
annotation of structured
data
Runner-up Paper -
Rumi Gosh
Predicting influential users on
online social networks
Runner-up
Presentation - Ashish
Vaswani Efficient
optimization of an MDL-inspired
objective function for
unsupervised part-of-
speech tagging
Runner-up Poster -
Yoon-sik Cho
Learning Co-evolving network
models
Paper Reviewer - Dirk Hovy
Networks Winners
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Best Paper - Lin
Quan On the
characteristics and reasons of
long-lived Internet flows
Best Presentation -
Andrew Goodney
Dr. Droid: Assisting stroke
rehabilitation using mobile
phones
Best Poster -
Chengjie Zhang
Steam-Powered Sensing
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back row: George
Konstantinidis, Yigal Arens
(ISD faculty), Chengjie Zhang,
Aman Goel, Ashish Vaswani,
Lin Quan
front row: Yoon-sik
Cho, Rumi Ghosh, Jelena
Mirkovic (Network faculty),
Andrew Goodney
Not shown: Dirk
Hovy