Katz School faculty have been actively engaged in groundbreaking research, addressing critical challenges across various disciplines. Their work spans numerous fields, from speech-language pathology to cybersecurity, and has been presented at prestigious conferences worldwide.
Marissa Barrera contributed significantly to the field of speech-language pathology with her publications in journals such as the Journal of Neurology and Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. Sergey Buldryev's work on cascading failures in bipartite networks was published in Physical Review E. Marian Gidea delivered talks on mathematical topics at the Equadiff 2024 conference in Sweden.
In artificial intelligence, Sai Praveen Kadiyala presented research on body pose matching for stroke patients at an international conference. Thomas Kennon explored ethics in digital marketing through his publication "The Bigger Leap: An Ethics of NextCapitalism."
David Li made several contributions to data analytics and visualization, presenting a novel framework for Olympic medal counting systems and discussing advanced techniques for customer targeting using reinforcement learning.
Amiya Waldman-Levi's research focused on occupational therapy, with studies published in multiple journals. Honggang Wang introduced new neural network models for drug interaction detection at a statistical meetings conference.
Yucheng Xie and Youshan Zhang contributed to computer science and artificial intelligence respectively, with Xie's work on network security being featured by Springer Nature Switzerland.
Presentations were also a significant part of Katz School's academic activities. Alexander Abramov discussed cybersecurity risks at various summits, while Melanie Evangelista addressed occupational therapy's role within end-of-life care at conferences in California and New York.
Christy Jared explored the implications of obesity and childhood experiences on adult women during an international human science conference. David Sweet focused on Bayesian optimization methods at NeurIPS 2024.
Katie Threlkeld examined cognitive-communication recovery in children with traumatic brain injuries at the ASHA Convention. Amiya Waldman-Levi shared insights into playfulness scales and social isolation interventions across multiple conferences globally.
Finally, Yucheng Xie demonstrated advancements in contactless human concentration monitoring using mmWave signals during IEEE conferences held in Washington D.C. and Taipei.
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