TRIADS Lightning Talk Competition

TRIADS is excited to announce the Spring 2024 Lightning Talk Competition. In this event, we aim to showcase the diversity of data-forward research across disciplines at WashU. We have selected eight PhD students across departments to each give a 3-minute talk on their research. The audience will then vote on the presentations, and the top speaker will receive a $100 prize!

This event will take place on Thursday, May 9th, from 3:00 to 4:30 pm, in the DUC Room 234. Presentations will start promptly at 3:15 pm, so please arrive on time. Food and drinks will be provided, please RSVP using the form below so we know how much to cater.

If you have any questions, please email saumik@wustl.edu.

List of Speakers:
- Taylor Damann, Political Science. Sexual Violence Spurs Wartime Assistance: Evidence from Ukraine.
- Tiana Johnson, Mathematics. Analyzing Neural Networks for Tsunami Prediction
- Prashant Kumar Kuntala, Genetics. Finding El's family secrets!
- Quan Nguyen, Computer Science. Making your experiments count with Bayesian experimental design
- Srikumar Sastry, Imaging Science. GeoSynth: Contextually-Aware High-Resolution Satellite Image Synthesis
- Lauren Treiman, DCDS/Psychological & Brain Sciences. The effects of AI training on human behavior
- Yuyi Yang, DCDS/Public Health. Build Deep Neural Network Models to Predict Momentary Affect and Emotion Differentiation with Passive Sensors
- Zihan Zhao, Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology. Algorithmic Self-Preferencing on E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from JD.COM