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Dissertation Defense: Yitzchak Novick
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: An Analysis of the Friendship Paradox and Derived Sampling Methods
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 815 9491 5568
Passcode: 111905
Dissertation Proposal: Chunyu Yuan
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Tiny Square Artificial Intelligence
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 890 5633 8878
Passcode: 489353
Congratulations to Prof. Christina Hagedorn!
CUNY presented Christina with the Henry Wasser Award for Outstanding Research (https://csitoday.com/2022/05/two-csi-asst-profs-receive-gross-wasser-awards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-csi-asst-profs-receive-gross-wasser-awards)
Welcome to our Fall 2022 cohort!
PhD: Emmanuel Bawa, Ibrahim Abuelrob, Clara McMahon, Yana Miroshnychenko, Shane Quinn
MA: Zainab Akande, Nhia Borja, Rebekha Chavarin, Jalitza Gutierrez, Kaitlyn Massiah, Hui Lin Tan, Nishta Trivedi, Nicholas Uva, Kathryn Vincent, Yukun Zhang
Carolina Fraga gave an invited talk at the Cambridge University
Carolina Fraga gave an invited talk at the Cambridge University Romance Linguistics Circle (RoLinC: https://rolinc.org/) on May 10, 2022, on "Completive 'todo' in Rioplatense Spanish". RoLinC is jointly organized by the University of Cambridge and the University of Newcastle (UK).
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 graduates!
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 graduates!
PhD: Boram Kim, Susana Huidobro, Chaya Nove, SeJin Oh, and Jennifer Seale
MA: Kelsey Bourque, Matthew Kadish, Jonathan I. Manczur, Lara Novic, Yuying Ren, Yulia Spektor, and Natalia Tyulina
Congratulations to Prof. Kyle Gorman for receiving another PSC-CUNY grant!
Congratulations to Prof. Kyle Gorman for receiving another PSC-CUNY grant! See here details.
Prof. Gorman also gave two talks at:
Michigan State University on 3/3/2022, titled “Phonotactics in phonological theory”. See here for more info.
Johns Hopkins University on 4/1/2022, titles “Weighted finite-state transducers: the later years”. See here for more info.
Hooray for Mariana Graterol for securing a summer internship at Nvidia as a language specialist!
Prof. Irina Sekerina received 2 awards!
Prof. Irina Sekerina received 2 awards!
1. A senior fellowship at the University of Cologne (Germany) for October-November, 2022, in CRC 1252 project on prominence.
2. A Fulbright award to go to São Paulo (Brazil) in the spring-summer 2023.
Second Exam: Zhujun Li
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: 6D Rigid Objects Pose Estimation in Deep Learning
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 812 9626 6950
Passcode: 574374