Conference Program
CompSust DC 2019 will take place at Newell-Simon Hall at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU campus maps are available at https://www.cmu.edu/visit/maps-parking-transportation.html.
Friday, October 18, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Newell-Simon Hall room 1305 (basement)
| 8:30am – 9:00am |
Registration |
| 9:00am – 9:30am |
Breakfast / Introduction & Welcome
Fei Fang: Introduction to CompSust
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| 9:30am – 11:00am |
- Student Presentations
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- Probabilistic Inference with Generating Functions for Population Dynamics of Unmarked Individuals
Kevin Winner (15 minutes)
- Illegal Wildlife Poaching Prediction and Patrol Planning Under Uncertainty
Lily Xu (5 minutes)
- MIPaaL: Mixed Integer Program as a Layer
Aaron M Ferber (5 minutes)
- Control-Theoretic Models of Environmental Crime
Elliot Cartee (5 minutes)
- Monitoring Forest and Land Cover Change from Satellite Observations: A Machine Learning Approach
Srija Chakraborty (15 minutes)
- Insights and Challenges from Developing Bayesian Models of Inland Water Bodies
Christopher Krapu (5 minutes)
- Triangulating Historical, Real-Time, and Environmental Grab Sample Data to Track River Water Quality in the Western PA Rivershed
David Sanchez (5 minutes)
- Predicting Bird Occurrences with High-Resolution Aerial Images
Laurel Hopkins (15 minutes)
- Avicaching: Reducing Bias in Citizen Science with a Scalable Principle-Agent Game
Anmol Kabra (5 minutes)
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| 11:00am – 12:00pm |
Tutorial 1: Genevieve Flaspohler
Gaussian Processes for Environmental Data in Space and Time |
| 12:00pm – 12:30pm |
Coffee Break / Poster Session
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| 12:30pm – 1:30pm |
Lunch (at venue)
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| 1:30pm – 2:30pm |
Keynote Presentation: Zico Kolter
Incorporating decision-making into deep learning
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| 2:30 – 3:30pm |
- Student Presentations
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- Adaptive Resilience Through Real Options and Deep Reinforcement Learning
James Doss-Gollin (15 minutes)
- Decision Support System Framework for Self-Healing and Reconfiguration in Power Distribution Networks with Distributed Energy Resources
Laiz Souto (5 minutes)
- Teaching Robots to Interact with Humans in a Smart Home Environment
Shivam Goel (5 minutes)
- Active Learning for Scientific Discovery
Sebastian E Ament (5 minutes)
- Application of Computational Topology in Identifying Brain Functional Connectivity
Berhanu Wubie (15 minutes)
- A Bioinformatic Pipeline for the Analysis of Low-Coverage Whole Genome Sequencing Data and Its Applications in Biodiversity Conservation
Runyang N Lou (5 minutes)
- Multi-Armed Bandits for Verifying Medication Adherence
Aditya S Mate (5 minutes)
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| 3:30pm – 4:00pm |
Coffee Break / Poster Session
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| 4:00pm – 5:00pm |
Tutorial 2: Bryan Wilder
Submodular Optimization
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| 5:00pm – 6:00pm |
Collaborathon: Brainstorm and Idea Generation
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| 7:00pm |
Dinner @ The Porch
221 Schenley Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Saturday, October 19, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Newell-Simon Hall room 3305 (main floor)
| 8:30am – 9:00am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00am – 10:00am |
Keynote Presentation: Doug Fisher
Mechanisms for Advancing Broader Impacts of Computational Sustainability
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| 10:00am – 11:00am |
Tutorial 3: Aditya Grover
Taming the Supervision Bottleneck for Computational Sustainability |
| 11:00am – 11:30am |
Coffee Break / Poster Session
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| 11:30am – 1:00pm |
- Student Presentations
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- Optimization Model for Spoilage Reduction in the Milk Supply Chain
Forough Enayaty Ahangar (15 minutes)
- Contiguity Networks as a Vulnerability Index for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Cattle: The 2018 Outbreak Case in Cesar, Colombia.
Jeisson Prieto (5 minutes)
- A Computational Model to Understand Wind Development and Pollution Dispersion over Complex Terrain
Zhihao Li (5 minutes)
- An Agent-Based Model to Explore the Impact of Risk-Sharing Mechanisms on Smallholder Farmer Climate Adaptation Strategies
Nicolas Choquette-Levy (15 minutes)
- Improving Probabilistic Bounds on Mean Estimation of Economic Wealth with a Semisupervised Method
Christopher Yeh (5 minutes)
- Forecast of Copper Demand in the U.S.
Rui He (5 minutes)
- An Initial Simulation Model Framework for Predicting Fresh Spinach Spoilage
Sarah I Murphy (15 minutes)
- Green Economy and Nations Sustainable Development
Seyyedmilad Talebzadehhosseini (5 minutes)
- Design, Benchmarking and Graphical Lasso Based Segmentation Analysis of an Energy Game-Theoretic Framework
Hari Prasanna Das (5 minutes)
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| 1:00pm – 2:00pm |
Lunch (at venue)
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| 2:00pm – 3:00pm |
Tutorial 4: Dr. James Broda
Convergence and Equilibrium for Stochastic Models of Ecological Disturbances
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| 3:00pm – 4:30pm |
- Student Presentations
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- A Data-Driven Approach to Investigating the Impacts of Ambient Temperature on Thermoelectric Generators
Measrainsey Meng (15 minutes)
- Electricity Systems: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
Priya L Donti (5 minutes)
- Identifying Potentially Vulnerable Communities to Extreme Heat Events by Characterizing Air Conditioning Penetration Patterns in the Southern California Region
Mo Chen (15 minutes)
- Energy Consumption Patterns of U.S. Households
Diren Kocakusak (5 minutes)
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Amazon Hydropower with Strategic Dam Planning
Qinru Shi (15 minutes)
- Computational Analysis of the Future of Electric Mobility: Electric Cars, Trucks and Planes
Venkat Viswanathan (15 minutes)
- The Environmental Consequences of Autonomous Transport
Parth Vaishnav (5 minutes)
- Characterising Temporal Aspects of Residential Electricity Consumption Using Statistical Learning
Aven Satre-Meloy (5 minutes)
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| 4:30pm – 6:00pm |
Collaborathon: Write-Up and Project Proposal
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| 7:00pm |
Dinner @ The Yard
736 Bellefonte Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
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Sunday, October 20, 9:00am – 1:00pm (half day)
| 9:30am – 10:00am |
Breakfast |
| 10:00am – 1:00pm |
Optional Field Trip: Phipps Conservatory
Lunch provided; no advance RSVP needed
1 Schenley Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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