2023-2024 IDSC Fellows Capstone Event 4/30
2023-2024 IDSC Fellows Capstone Event 4/30
April 30 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
The four outstanding students selected as the 2023-2024 IDSC Fellows presented their proposed projects at a launch symposium held at the Richter Library on November 28. This was followed by presentations from the inaugural cohort of the Provost’s Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Computing awardees.If you missed it, watch on our YouTube Channel, and join us to hear the IDSC Fellows’ progress at the capstone event.
Tuesday 4/30/2024 | 3:00-5:00 PM, Richter Library 3rd Floor Conference Room #343
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Introducing the 2023-2024 IDSC Fellows:
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Madeleine Dawson3rd year PhD in Ocean Sciences PROJECT TITLE: Island Wake Segmentation and Characterization from Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery: A Deep Learning Approach MENTORS: Madeleine is currently working with Dr. Hans Graber at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia before beginning her Ph.D. at the University of Miami. Her current research is focused on the characterization of island wakes through spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar datasets. As an IDSC Fellow, the utilization of deep learning techniques will aid in classifying highly dynamic and turbulent features of the island wakes to create accurate parameterizations for future predictions. |
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Anna GolikovaSenior, majoring in Biology PROJECT TITLE: Identification of bacterial viruses in two reef-building corals, Pseudodiploria strigosa and Montastraea cavernosa MENTORS: Anna is majoring in Biology with minors in Chemistry, Computer Science, and Psychology. After learning about viral diversity in the “Biology of Viruses” course offered at the University of Miami, Anna joined the Silveira Lab to delve deeper into marine viral ecology. She started working on the project that aimed to isolate and identify seawater viruses that infect coral-associated bacteria and that may be involved in coral diseases. As an IDSC Fellow, she hopes to conduct bioinformatics analysis, including genome annotations and comparative genomics study, of her isolated bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and their hosts in order to explore how bacterial viruses could contribute to the emergence of pathogens in coral reefs. |
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Tianhao Liu3rd year PhD in Biostatistics PROJECT TITLE: Spectral Graph Theory Methods Using Eigenpairs With Small Eigenvalues MENTORS: Tianhao is working under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Díaz at the Division of Biostatistics, University of Miami. Tianhao received his M.Sc. in Biostatistics in 2020 from UM. His research centers around pattern recognition and clustering using advanced statistical and machine learning methods. As an IDSC Fellow, he hopes to explore how to make use of the eigenvectors with the smallest eigenvalues in random graph models. |
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Christian Ramsoomair3rd year MD/PhD in Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) PROJECT TITLE: Locus-Specific Characterization of Transposable Elements in Glioblastoma MENTORS: Christian is in his first year of graduate studies working under the mentorship of Drs. Danny Reinberg and Ashish Shah in the Sheila and David Fuente Graduate Program in Cancer Biology. He received his Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Chemistry (concentration in Biochemistry) from College of the Holy Cross. During the IDSC Fellows program, he is seeking to characterize the role of retroelements in Glioblastoma. |
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