Posters and Short Talks
Posters will be available for viewing on this page for the duration of the conference. Short talks will consist of pre-recorded, 5-minute presentations and will be posted on this page for the duration of the conference. The PDF files of the posters and the videos of your short talks should be submitted HERE no later than November 28th December 1st, 2021. If problems with the submission arise, please contact one of the organizers: Prof. Selvitella (aselvite@pfw.edu) and/or Prof. Foster (klfoster@bsu.edu).
Poster Awards
1st - Emily Brink, Galen Burrell, Nicki Felger, and Emmanuel Green, PFW, Genetic Connectivity in a Montane Salamander
2nd - Leah Morris, Megan O'Sullivan, and LaDavie'a Shears, PFW, Statistical Analysis of Computing Patterns in and out of Fort Wayne, IN and Cook County, IL
3rd - Noel Schutt, PFW, On the effect of healthcare overextension on increased mortality rate in the COVID-19 pandemic
3rd - Pete Dragnev, PFW, Hierarchical time series models for the onset of COVID-19 in Northeast Indiana
Short Talk Awards
1st - Mason Lary, University of Texas at Arlington, Neural networks for rat brains
2nd - Jeffrey Sawalha, University of Alberta, Predicting pediatric anxiety from the temporal pole using neural responses in emotional faces
3rd - Derek Brown, Dariya Mamyrbek, Hong Nguyen, and Margo Thompson, PFW, Data augmentation with Mobius transformations
3rd - Michael Li, PFW, Rain in Australia
"Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do."
~ Judea Pearl, Turing Award 2011
"The future depends on some graduate student who is deeply suspicious of everything I have said."
~ Geoffrey Hinton, Turing Award Winner 2018
Jeffrey Sawalha
Predicting pediatric anxiety from the temporal pole using neural responses to emotional faces
Supervisors: Andrew J. Greenshaw & Russell GreinerUniversity of AlbertaJingyuan Cao
Insurance framework in actuarial and epidemiology modeling
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneEvženie Čoupková
Minimal complexity and asymptotic optimality of random projections
Supervisor: Mireille BoutinPurdue UniversitySam Scott
The Generational Gap: Are Personalities to Blame?
Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort WayneLiliya V. Frolova
Data collection for machine design of novel antibiotics against ESKAPE bacteria
Purdue University Fort WayneSamuel Dick
Data collection for machine design of novel antibiotics against ESKAPE bacteria
Supervisors: Dr. Tanya Soule, Dr. Liliya FrolovaPurdue University Fort WayneSavannah Farney
Classification of Income Data using a Logistic Model
Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort WayneKarun Jason Franklin
The Grinnell System and modern basketball analytics
Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort WayneDeanne Jensen, Nicholas Molisani, Carsten White, and Ebenezer Zena
Phylogenetic Analyses of the genus Gekko using Maximum Likelihood and Minimum Evolution Models
Supervisor: Mark JordanPurdue University Fort WayneMason Lary
Neural network analogs for rat brains
Supervisor: Pedro Maia & Yuan PengUniversity of Texas at ArlingtonKashyab Ambarani, Derek Brown, Ha Le, Kale Menchhofer, and Tessa Thatcher - Poster
Indiana Data Mine Corporate Project Interim Report
Supervisor: Central Insurance & Yihao DengPurdue University Fort WayneBrian Olagoke, Kamorudeen Taiwo, Suleimana Mohammed, and Asenath Odondi
Epsilon-greediness in competing and non-competing bandit problem
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneLeah Morris, Megan O’Sullivan, and LaDavie’a Shears
Statistical analysis of commuting patterns in and out of Fort Wayne, IN and Cook County, IL
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneIsabella Haraguchi and Allison Hauter
Statistical shape analysis of MRI: An application to the study of schizophrenia
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneEmily Brink, Galen Burrell, Nicki Felger, and Emmanuel Green
Genetic Connectivity in a Montane Salamander (Pseudoeurycea leprosa)
Supervisor: Mark JordanPurdue University Fort WayneElle Di Girolamo, Benjamin Harris, Alice Henderson, and Doug Hutchison
Analysis of population structure for Pleurodeles waltl and Pelobates cultripes in Mediterranean wetlands
Supervisor: Mark JordanPurdue University Fort WayneNoel Schutt
On the effects of healthcare overextension on increased mortality rate in the COVID-19 pandemic
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria Selvitella & Kathleen Lois FosterPurdue University Fort WayneMichael Holdgreve
Estimation of survival times for lung cancer patients via Kaplan -Meier
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneDavid Caudillo, Matthew Bennett, and Abu Yahya
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneCarlyn Albright, Evan Bishop, Madison Beckstedt, and Sierra Blair
Analysis of variance and minimum spanning tree of Chlorotypes within populations of Larix laricina, a boreal conifer
Supervisor: Mark JordanPurdue University Fort WayneCharissa Hoang
Does the COVID Vaccine Reduce Hospitalization Rates?
Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort WayneSam Brown and Reuben Moser
Best covering, sensor networks, and maximum polarization
Supervisor: Peter DragnevPurdue University Fort WaynePete Dragnev
Hierarchical time series models for the onset of COVID-19 in Northeast Indiana
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneKashyab Ambarani, Derek Brown, Ha Le, Kale Menchhofer, and Tessa Thatcher - Short Talk
Indiana Data Mine Corporate Project Interim Report
Supervisor: Central Insurance & Yihao DengPurdue University Fort WayneDerek Brown, Dariya Mamyrbek, Hong Nguyen, and Margo Thompson - Poster
Data augmentation with Möbius transformations
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneDerek Brown, Dariya Mamyrbek, Hong Nguyen, and Margo Thompson - Short Talk
Data augmentation with Möbius transformations
Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort WayneWisdom Aselisewine
Decision trees-based EM algorithm for semi-parametric mixture cure rate model
Supervisor: Suvra PalUniversity of Texas at Arlington