SYDE Graduate Symposium 2025

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 10:00 am - 2:15 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Symposium Schedule 

Time Presenter Session Title
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Welcome coffee and snacks with faculty and students
10:30 a.m - 11:45 a.m.

Student Research Seminar Session 1 – Co-Chaired by Dr. Eihab Abdel-Rahman and Dr. Jessie Ma

10:30 a.m. 

Sabrina Saiko

Therapeutic Applications of Social Robotics for Autism Spectrum Disorder

10:45 a.m. 

Yasser Shama

Bifurcation Drift in Electrostatic MEMS Sensors: Characterization and Mitigation Strategies

11:00 a.m.

Wendy Ding

Age-Related Differences in Eye Movements During Level 3 Autonomous Vehicle Takeover

11:15 a.m. Marco Moran-Ledesma TRAIN-KNEE: Developing a Haptic Manikin for Knee Injury Assessment Training
11:30 a.m. Rui Zhou Sensitive, Accurate and Fast Terahertz Detectors Design
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Pizza lunch and special guest speaker Dr. Dan Mashatan, Senior Manager – Autonomy & AI SW - Teledyne FLIR Unmanned Systems North America
1:15 pm. - 2:15 p.m.

Student Research Seminar Session 2 – Co-Chaired by Dr. Nasser Lashgarian Azad and Dr. Nima Maftoon

1:15 p.m.

Chiang Liu

Language-guided Context-aware Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation Under Distribution Shift

1:30 p.m.

Yaoxin Li

Mamba Fusion for Multimodality Action Quality Assessment

1:45 p.m.

Nima Abbasi Firoozjah

A General Computational Framework for Restoring Cellular-Resolution in Optical Coherence Tomography Images of the Eye

2:00 p.m. Abdul Abbasi Empowering Security Analysts: A User-Centric Approach to Explainable AI for Insider Threat Detection

Register for the Symposium by April 3

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For any questions, please reach out to Anna Cunningham, Academic Services Coordinator, Graduate Studies.