Pedro Velmovitsky, Public Health and Health Systems
University of Waterloo
Eitan Grinspun, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Columbia University
Blockbuster films depend on computational physics. The focus is on models that capture the qualitative, characteristic behavior of a mechanical system. Visual effects employ mathematical and computational models of hair, fur, skin, cloth, fire, granular media, and liquids. This is scientific computing with a twist. But techniques developed originally for film can also advance consumer products, biomedical research, and basic physical understanding.
Eunsol Choi, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science
University of Washington
Real world entities such as people, organizations and countries play a critical role in text. Reading offers rich explicit and implicit information about these entities, such as the categories they belong to, relationships they have with other entities, and events they participate in.
Xiao-Ping Zhang, Department of Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering
Ryerson University
Bahareh Sarrafzadeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Email triage involves going through unhandled emails and deciding what to do with them. This familiar process can become increasingly challenging as the number of unhandled email grows. During a triage session, users commonly defer handling emails that they cannot immediately deal with to later. These deferred emails, are often related to tasks that are postponed until the user has more time or the right information to deal with them.
Chang Ge, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
