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 Alberta

Jingyuan Cao

Insurance framework in actuarial and epidemiology modeling

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Evženie Čoupková

Minimal complexity and asymptotic optimality of random projections

Supervisor: Mireille BoutinPurdue University

Sam Scott

The Generational Gap: Are Personalities to Blame?

Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort Wayne

Samuel Dick

Data collection for machine design of novel antibiotics against ESKAPE bacteria

Supervisors: Dr. Tanya Soule, Dr. Liliya FrolovaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Kamran Veliyev

Loan All

Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort Wayne

Savannah Farney

Classification of Income Data using a Logistic Model

Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort Wayne

Karun Jason Franklin

The Grinnell System and modern basketball analytics

Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort Wayne

Deanne 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 Wayne

Michael Li

Rain in Australia

Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort Wayne

Mason Lary

Neural network analogs for rat brains

Supervisor: Pedro Maia & Yuan PengUniversity of Texas at Arlington

Kashyab 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 Wayne

Brian Olagoke, Kamorudeen Taiwo, Suleimana Mohammed, and Asenath Odondi

Epsilon-greediness in competing and non-competing bandit problem

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Leah 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 Wayne

Isabella Haraguchi and Allison Hauter

Statistical shape analysis of MRI: An application to the study of schizophrenia

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Emily Brink, Galen Burrell, Nicki Felger, and Emmanuel Green

Genetic Connectivity in a Montane Salamander (Pseudoeurycea leprosa)

Supervisor: Mark JordanPurdue University Fort Wayne

Elle 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 Wayne

Noel 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 Wayne

Michael Holdgreve

Estimation of survival times for lung cancer patients via Kaplan -Meier

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

David Caudillo, Matthew Bennett, and Abu Yahya

Modeling and testing the presence of autocorrelation in time series models and residuals: The example of the initial trajectory of COVID-19 cases in the US

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Carlyn 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 Wayne

Charissa Hoang

Does the COVID Vaccine Reduce Hospitalization Rates?

Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort Wayne

Sam Brown and Reuben Moser

Best covering, sensor networks, and maximum polarization

Supervisor: Peter DragnevPurdue University Fort Wayne

Pete Dragnev

Hierarchical time series models for the onset of COVID-19 in Northeast Indiana

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Kashyab 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 Wayne

Derek Brown, Dariya Mamyrbek, Hong Nguyen, and Margo Thompson - Poster

Data augmentation with Möbius transformations

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Derek Brown, Dariya Mamyrbek, Hong Nguyen, and Margo Thompson - Short Talk

Data augmentation with Möbius transformations

Supervisor: Alessandro Maria SelvitellaPurdue University Fort Wayne

Tanaka Nhenga

Data breaches

Supervisor: Yvonne ZubovicPurdue University Fort Wayne

Wisdom Aselisewine

Decision trees-based EM algorithm for semi-parametric mixture cure rate model

Supervisor: Suvra PalUniversity of Texas at Arlington