Photo courtesy of Javier Garcia-Ramirez
First-generation student Javier Garcia-Ramirez received a lot more from the Catalyst Scholars Program than he was expecting when he came to Oregon State University in 2020.
“I knew I’d be getting financial support, but the program offered opportunities beyond that, opportunities that helped me develop as a whole person,” said Garcia-Ramirez, a senior in computer science and member of the scholarship program’s inaugural cohort.
Rebecca Hutchinson, who has appointments in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University, gives an AI seminar on cross-validation for geospatial problems.
A seminal advancement in mRNA vaccine technology, initially inspired by an academic inquiry at Oregon State University, has led to remarkable achievements in vaccine efficacy and stability. This breakthrough, published in May 2023 and featured in the Sept. 14, 2023 issue of Nature, includes the development of the “LinearDesign AI tool,” which is revolutionizing how vaccines are created. This novel approach has resulted in vaccines that generate antibody responses up to 128 times greater than traditional methods.
Eric Slyman presenting at the Graduate Research Showcase.
Eric Slyman builds tools to uncover where artificial intelligence makes mistakes.
Specifically, the Ph.D. student in artificial intelligence and computer science looks at how AI learns social biases. And they’ve built a tool to help AI auditors address it — quickly, accurately and economically.
Bias in AI can show up, for example, when a user asks it to find or create an image of a doctor.
Computer science students Jeff Huang, Sankalp Patil, Derek Williams, and Tom Nyuma work on a project they started at a hackathon.
A team of four Oregon State University students took first place at Cal Hacks 10.0, a technology-focused competition hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, in late October.
The faculty in the artificial intelligence research group specialize in various aspects of the field, including machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics.
Front row: V John Mathews, Fuxin Li, Bechir Hamdaoui, Rebecca Hutchinson, Maude David, David Hendrix, Huazheng Wang, Xiao Fu
Back row: Patrick Donnelly, Julie A. Adams, Prasad Tadepalli, Sandhya Saisubramanian, Karthika Mohan, Stefan Lee, Lizhong Chen, Weng-Keen Wong
Coral ecosystem under study in the lab of Rebecca Vega Thurber.
Zane Ma is an assistant professor in the School of EECS. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois and a B.A. in chemistry from Princeton University. Prior to joining Oregon State in 2023, he was a research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology working on network security for web servers and 5G technologies. Ma’s research interests are in applied network security, with a focus on web authentication, naming, and emerging internet technologies (e.g., 5G, blockchain, IoT).
