News
Welcome to our lab’s news page. Here, we highlight recent research activities, student achievements, academic presentations, and publications from our team. This section provides updates on our ongoing work and reflects our commitment to advancing research, innovation, and collaboration.
2025
9/5/2025 [PhD defense] Kushagra Tiwari is thrilled to announce that he has successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “SOCIO–SPATIAL NETWORK DYNAMICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH CRISES IN THE US.”
8/1/2025 [Internship] Abdulrahman Ahmed completed his role as Data Science Intern at Citizens Bank, Columbus, OH, during June–Aug 2025. Congratulations to Abdulrahman!
8/1/2025 [Internship] Ben Panny completed a Summer Research Internship at the Honda Research Institute in San Jose, working with Shashank Mehrotra, Kumar Akash, and Zahra Zahedi during May–Aug 2025. Congratulations to Ben!
7/16/2025 [Project] Ethan Furr presented at the MCSI Summer Sustainability Research Symposium, sharing his work titled: Techno-Economic and Environmental Impact Analysis of Solar Panel End-of-Life. Congratulations to Ethan!
7/1/2025 [Project] Ben Panny joined the AI-READI program for a one-year term (Aug 2025–July 2026). From the AI-READI page: AI-READI is one of the data generation projects of the NIH-funded Bridge2AI Program. The project aims to create and share a flagship dataset on type 2 diabetes, optimized for AI/ML analysis to uncover critical insights and illuminate salutogenic pathways from diabetes to health. Congratulations to Ben!
7/1/2025 [Internship] Owen Spencer - attends the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School in Computer Science (CMMRS 2025) Date: July–August 2025
6/30/2025 [Publications] Yuxin Liu - Structural Dynamics of Harmful Content Dissemination on WhatsApp accepted at ICWSM May 28 2026.
6/30/2025 [Travel Grant] Yuxin Liu - 22nd INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, June,30, 2025.
6/30/2025 [Presentations / Conferences] Yuxin Liu - Differentially Private Sequential Learning - 22nd INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, June,30, 2025.
6/4/2025 [Travel Grant] Yuxin Liu - Symposium on the Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC), June, 4, 2025.
6/4/2025 [Presentations / Conferences/Publications] Yuxin Liu - Differentially Private Sequential Learning - Symposium on the Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC), June, 4, 2025.
5/12/2025 [PHD Proposal Exam] Abdulrahman Ahmed - Passed the proposal exam
The title "Addressing computational burdens in agent-based simulation and optimization of interventions for the opioid epidemic in the US".
3/3/2025 [Presentations / Conferences] Yuxin Liu - Differentially Private Sequential Learning - The 6th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence, March,3, 2025, Philadelphia, PA.
3/3/2025 [Travel Grant] Yuxin Liu - The 6th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence (2025).
2024
8/23/2024 [Presentations / Conferences] Yuxin Liu -Virality of Information Diffusion on WhatsApp - 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), July, 18, 2024, Philadelphia, PA.
8/20/2024 [Presentations / Conferences] Yuxin Liu - Differentially Private Sequential Learning - Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP), Aug, 20, 2024, Boston, MA.
7/18/2024 [Presentations / Conferences] Yuxin Liu -Virality of Information Diffusion on WhatsApp - 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), July, 18, 2024, Philadelphia, PA