Time and Location:

1 September 2016
ENGMC 11 (in the McConnell Engineering Building)

Workshop program:

This year's workshop will feature 17 presentations of undergraduate students about their summer research. Below the preliminary schedule. We will provide lunch to all workshop presenters. To sign up for lunch and choose between a vegetarian or non-vegetarian option, please sign the sheet we will pass around during the first session of the workshop.

Every presentation should be between 13-14 min leaving a minute after the presentation for a question or two, and for the next speaker to set up. After each block of talks, there are 10 minutes reserved for questions.

8:50am

Welcome!

9:00am

Maxim Gorshkov: SOCS Wayfinder: Using a Low Cost Solution for Geolocation and Pathfinding Indoors

9:15am

Hongji Chen: Creating a Robust AspectMATLAB compiler

9:30am

Franco La Braca: Texture Space Wrinkle Simulation: A 2DProof of Concept

9:45am

Monty Thibault: Centre of Pressure Capture & Reconstruction in Physically-Based Character Animation

10:00am

Xiaoye Ding and Jiajun Chen: Determining the Role of Unit Test in Software System

10:15am

Discussion first session

10:25am

Break

10:45am

Essma Akouri: Robotic Deployment Designer

11:00am

Victor Barbaros: Learned Behavior Control for Robotics

11:15am

Jin Yeong Ma: Modification on the cost function of PILCO

11:30am

Alexander Chatron-Michaud: Reinforcement Learning for Swimming Gaits

11:45am

Matthew Smith: Predictive Modeling of Primate Movement Data

12:00pm

Discussion second session

12:10pm

Lunch

1:15pm

Borna Ghotbi: Telepresence Robot Gaming

1:30pm

Pouriya Alikhani: Recurrent Interactive Networks: a key to predict RNA type

1:45pm

Jason Yao, Vladimir Reinharz: A Computational Platform to Predict RNA 3D Structures

2:00pm

James Bodzay: Probabilistic Inference of Ancient Transposable Elements

2:15pm

Discussion third session

2:25pm

Break

2:45pm

Philip Amortila: Learning Weighted Finite Automata with Turing Smoothing

3:00pm

Aina Linn Georges: Mechanization of Lincx: a Linear Logical Framework with First-class Contexts

3:15pm

Johannes Brustle: Approximation of Single-Variable Weighted Finite Automata

3:30pm

Discussion fourth session

3:40pm

PC Meeting

a bit after 4pm

Get to gether and Award announcement.

Questions: Send email to Bettina Kemme (kemme at cs.mcgill.ca)