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Appendix W: CIFellows 2020


CIFellowPrimary Affiliation Project Title MentorFellowship InstitutionCIF Start Date
Alex AhmedNortheastern UniversityEnvisioning Alternative Technologies with and for Home Care WorkersSarah FoxCarnegie Mellon UniversitySep-20
Rika AntonovaKTH Royal Institute of Technology in StockholmActive Learning of Transferable Priors, Kernels and Latent Representations for RoboticsJeannette BohgStanford UniversityJan-21
Evangelos AtlidakisColumbia UniversityFuzzing of RESTful Cloud ServicesVasileios KemerlisBrown UniversitySep-20
Ramin AyanzadehUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyLeveraging AI to Improve the Fidelity of NISQ ComputersMoinuddin QureshiGeorgia Institute of TechnologySep-20
Marshall BallColumbia UniversityTowards more Granular Cryptographic FoundationsHuijia LinUniversity of WashingtonJan-21
Suguman BansalRice UniversityFormal Reasoning in Reinforcement LearningRajeev AlurUniversity of PennsylvaniaSep-20
Aline BessaNew York University Tandon School of EngineeringAugmenting Datasets for Model Improvement with Cost ConstraintsChristopher MuscoNew York UniversityJan-21
Clara CaldeiraUniversity of California, IrvineTechnology-mediated Caregiving for Older Adults in Different Cultural ContextsKatherine ConnellyIndiana University BloomingtonSep-20
Richard CanevezPennsylvania State UniversityEscalation and De-escalation in Expressions of Dissent: A Social Informatics ApproachJenifer Sunrise WinterUniversity of Hawaiʻi at MānoaJan-21
Marco CarmosinoUniversity of California, San DiegoFoundations of Prosocial DesiderataMark BunBoston UniversitySep-20
Kathryn CunninghamUniversity of MichiganImproving Novice Programmer Self-efficacy with a Purpose-first Programming Learning EnvironmentEleanor O’RourkeNorthwestern UniversityJan-21
Wenhan DaiMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyQuantum Communication and NetworksDonald TowsleyUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstSep-20
Sunipa DevUniversity of UtahUnderstanding and Mitigating Societal Biases in Language Processing Models and their ApplicationsKai-Wei ChangUniversity of California, Los AngelesJan-21
Michael Ann DeVitoNorthwestern UniversityFolk Theories of Content Moderation in Online Groups: Evaluating the Impact of Moderator Perceptions on Group Policy and Moderation Tool UseJed BrubakerUniversity of Colorado BoulderJan-21
Yi DingUniversity of ChicagoImproving System Efficiency and Reliability with Causal LearningMichael CarbinMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyJan-21
Houda El mimouniDrexel UniversityMobile Remote Presence to Facilitate Safe University ReopeningSelma ŠabanovićIndiana University BloomingtonJan-21
Emmanuel GarzaCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDesign and Optimization of Nanophotonic Devices via High-Performance Boundary Integral Equation SolversConstantine SiderisUniversity of Southern CaliforniaSep-20
Kari GeorgeUniversity of California, Los AngelesLeveraging Doctoral Student Experiences to Inform Faculty Mentoring Practices that Broaden Participation in ComputingColleen LewisUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSep-20
Amir GhasemianlangroodiUniversity of Colorado BoulderSample Size Calculation and Power Analysis in Network-Based ExperimentsNicholas ChristakisYale UniversityJan-21
Nikolaos GiannarakisPrinceton UniversitySecurity and Privacy for Programmable NetworksLoris D’AntoniUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonSep-20
Shiry GinosarUniversity of California, BerkeleyToward Rich Perception of Human MotionJitendra MalikUniversity of California, BerkeleySep-20
Ben GreenmanNortheastern UniversityHuman Factors for Gradual TypingShriram KrishnamurthiBrown UniversityJan-21
Biresh Kumar JoardarWashington State UniversityMachine Learning for Machine LearningKrishnendu ChakrabartyDuke UniversitySep-20
Gabriel KaptchukJohns Hopkins UniversityCryptography with Social ImpactRan CanettiBoston UniversitySep-20
Vera KhovanskayaCornell UniversityData Expertise in Worker Advocacy
Cloud Data Management BrainDB
Lilly IraniUniversity of California, San DiegoJan-21
Rafal KocielnikUniversity of WashingtonInforming Human-AI Interaction with User-Centered MetricsAnima AnandkumarCalifornia Institute of TechnologyJan-21
Deepak KumarUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIncorporating User Experiences to Improve Automated Detection of Toxic Content OnlineZakir DurumericStanford UniversitySep-20
Taisa KushnerUniversity of Colorado BoulderPersonalized Modeling & Decisions Under Uncertainty for Medical Cyber Physical SystemsPeter JacobsOregon Health & Science UniversitySep-20
Qi LeiUniversity of Texas at AustinOn Understanding Few-Shot Learning, ProvablyJason LeePrinceton UniversitySep-20
Szu-Yu LiuIndiana University BloomingtonFrom Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data NarrationPaul DourishUniversity of California, IrvineJan-21
Byron LowensClemson UniversityAn Exploration of Privacy Risk and Concerns For Emerging IOT Medical Devices Among Marginalized PopulationsFlorian SchaubUniversity of MichiganJan-21
Nicholas LytleNorth Carolina State UniversityTechniques for Adapting Student Programming Assignments to Promote Collaboration and Scaffold Learning during Remote InstructionKristy BoyerUniversity of FloridaJan-21
Naja MackUniversity of FloridaInvestigating the Effectiveness of a Coding Bootcamp Preparation Program for African-American At-Risk YouthKinnis GoshaMorehouse CollegeJan-21
Lara MartinGeorgia Institute of TechnologyWhat Stories Can Teach AI about the WorldChris Callison-BurchUniversity of PennsylvaniaJan-21
David NarváezRochester Institute of TechnologySearch versus Decision in AILane A. HemaspaandraUniversity of RochesterJan-21
Sabrina NeumanMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyAutomatic Generation of Hardware Accelerators for Robot Motion PlanningVijay Janapa ReddiHarvard UniversitySep-20
Minh (Tan) NguyenRice UniversityPredicting the Drug-Target Binding Affinity for Drug Repurposing with Drug-Structure-Aware Graph Neural NetworksStan OsherUniversity of California, Los AngelesSep-20
Marziyeh NourianNorth Carolina State UniversityHardware-software Co-design for High-Performance Data TransformationAndrew ChienUniversity of ChicagoJan-21
Ellen NovosellerCalifornia Institute of TechnologyHuman-in-the-loop Robotic Manipulation of Deformable ObjectsKen GoldbergUniversity of California, BerkeleyJan-21
Michael O’NeillUniversity of Wisconsin- MadisonPractical Algorithms for Smooth Nonconvex Optimization with Complexity GuaranteesFrank CurtisLehigh UniversitySep-20
Zoe ParaskevopoulouPrinceton UniversityWebAssembly as Platform for Safe and Secure Language InteroperabilityAmal AhmedNortheastern UniversityJan-21
Beatrice PerezUniversity College LondonExploring and Securing Smart EnvironmentsDavid KotzDartmouth CollegeSep-20
Brianna PosadasUniversity of FloridaUsing Participation Design to Develop an Affordable and Flexible Robotic Assistive Technology for AgricultureKim NiewolnyVirginia TechSep-20
Marlen PromannPurdue UniversityConceptualizing Data Work to Enhance the Future of Work in the USAJames HowisonUniversity of Texas at AustinJan-21
Gokul Subramanian RaviUniversity of Wisconsin- MadisonArchitecting Classical Control for Near-term Quantum SystemsFrederic ChongUniversity of ChicagoSep-20
Ibrahim SabekUniversity of MinnesotaML-based Storage and Query Execution in DBMSMichael CafarellaMassachusetts Institute of TechnologySep-20
Soheil Salehi MobarakehUniversity of Central FloridaSHIELD: Secure Hardware for IoT using Emerging-devices against side-channeL Deep-learning attacksHouman HomayounUniversity of California, DavisSep-20
Sebastian SchusterStanford UniversityEvaluating and Improving Pragmatic Reasoning by Neural Language ModelsTal LinzenNew York UniversityJan-21
Amirbehshad ShahrasbiCarnegie Mellon UniversityError-correction and ComputationMadhu SudanHarvard UniversitySep-20
Abigale StanglUniversity of Texas at AustinSafeguarding Private Visual InformationLeah FindlaterUniversity of WashingtonJan-21
Minka StoyanovaCity University of Hong KongActivating Urban Space through Interactive and Augmented Reality InterfacesReece AuguisteUniversity of Colorado BoulderJan-21
Morgan TurnerBrown UniversityDeveloping Visualizations for Exploring Fossil Skeletal Morphology in the Context of Living Animal Motion DataDaniel KeefeUniversity of MinnesotaJan-21
Yu-Chun YenUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAn Interactive ​Visualization Tool for Scaffolding Online Design Critique for ​Creative ​EducationSteven DowUniversity of California, San DiegoJan-21
Justin YimUniversity of California, BerkeleyLegged Locomotion In UnderbrushAaron JohnsonCarnegie Mellon UniversitySep-20
Kianoosh YousefiUniversity of DelawareMultiscale Modeling of Hurricane Boundary-layer FlowsMarco GiomettoColumbia UniversityJan-21
Alisa YurovskyStony Brook UniversityPrecise Compartment Deconvolution and Weight Estimation of Mixed Tissue SamplesRichard MoffittStony Brook UniversityJan-21
Yixue ZhaoUniversity of Southern CaliforniaImproving Natural Language Feedback QualityYuriy BrunUniversity of MassachusettsJan-21
Pengfei ZhengDuke UniversityAI Assisted Approaches for Learning AI Models at Massive ScaleAditya AkellaUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonSep-20
Tara ZimmermanUniversity of North TexasSocial Noise & Its Influence on Social Media Information BehaviorKenneth FleischmannUniversity of TexasSep-20