Research Projects

Some recent theses and dissertations from the lab

 

Selected projects:

 

I.             TigerAware mobile survey and sensing platform

·         Paper: An Innovative Mobile Survey and Sensor Data Collection and Analytics System

·         Tasks: mobile, web, and server software development and AI/ML for data analysis

 

II.          Object recognition & segmentation in aerial images using deep learning

·         Paper: Performance Comparison of Deep Learning Techniques for Recognizing Birds in Aerial Images

·         Tasks: UAV (drones) path planning and data collection, object detection, object classification, image segmentation, deep learning

 

III.       LLM-based chatbots and AI agents

·         Paper: Development and evaluation of a healthy coping voice interface application using the Google home for elderly patients with type 2 diabetes

·         Tasks: Chatbots and AI agents for QA, survey, and data analysis

 

IV.       Audio/speech analysis

·         Paper: Toward Predicting Communication Effectiveness

·         Tasks: Audio/voice/text analysis, AI/ML

 

V.             Protein structure prediction using deep learning

·         Paper: MUFOLD-SS: New Deep Inception-Inside-Inception Networks for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction, New Deep Learning Methods for Protein Loop Modeling

·         Tasks: protein secondary and tertiary structure prediction, protein model quality assessment, protein model refinement, deep learning

 

Resources

*      How to read research papers (slides)

*      The Slide-Structure of a Technical 20-min Presentation 

*      How to give a good talk

*      How to write a good technical article