12 CICS PhD Students Selected to Receive Spring 2024 Dissertation Writing Fellowships

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12 doctoral students have been selected to receive Spring 2024 Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences Dissertation Writing Fellowships. Each fellowship provides a $16,500 stipend, granted to students who are nearing the end of their dissertation writing and are planning to defend their dissertations and graduate. Students are nominated by their faculty advisors, based on the strength of their dissertations and its significance to computing theory and practice. 
 

Image	Deep Chakraborty Advisor: Erik Learned-Miller "Information-Theoretic Methods for Self-Supervised Learning"
Image	Edmund Cunningham Advisors: Madalina Fiterau and Dan Sheldon "Uncovering Structure in Data with Generative Models"
Image	Iman Deznabi Advisor: Madalina Fiterau "Adaptive Deep Learning Models for Personalized Modeling of Heterogenous Time-series Data"
Image	Zhiqi Huang Advisor: James Allan "Modeling Cross-lingual Knowledge in Multilingual Information Retrieval Systems"
Image	Youngwoo Kim  Advisor: James Allan "Extracting Token-level Semantic Understandings from Text-pair Classification"
Image	Yen-Chieh Lien Advisors" Bruce Croft and Hamed Zamani "Data Generation for Weakly Supervise Neural Retrieval"
Image	Purva Pruthi Advisor: David Jensen "Modular Causal Models for Mechanistic Reasoning in Computational Systems"
Image	Ashish Singh Advisor: Erik Learned-Miller "Source-Free Domain Adaptation of OCR Model"
Image	Bin Wang Advisor: Prashant Shenoy "Resource Allocation of Latency Sensitive Applications in Edge Environments"
Image	Lingdong Wang Advisors: Ramesh Sitaraman and Mohammad Hajiesmaili "Deep Learning for Immersive Media Delivery"
Image	Ke Xiao Advisor: Madalina Fiterau "Domain Knowledge Injection in Deep Neural Networks for Congenital Heart Disease Diagnosis"
Image	Puxuan Yu Advisor: James Allan "Leveraging Explanations for Information Retrieval Systems Under Data Scarcity"