Extending and Deploying the Social CheatSheet Plugin

This project will expose the intern to key design, implementation, and evaluation research activities in human-computer interaction (HCI). We have recently started exploring the concept of social curation of software help content by developing a novel web-based platform, Social CheatSheet, that overlays relevant community-curated instructions and multi-step tutorials atop any web application and offers an […]

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Understanding Systematic and Firm-Specific Components in Credit Risk

Credit risk—the potential that a borrower will fail to make required payments—is the oldest risk in our economy. It may arise in a number of circumstances, for example, a consumer failing to make the minimum payment due on a credit card or a company defaulting on its debt. Our main goal in this summer project […]

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Extending Automated Segmentation methods for Body Composition Analysis

Body composition, i.e., the proportion of fat and muscle tissues in the human body is related to the risk factors associated with a host of medical conditions. The muscle and fat tissues are target locations for the water- and fat-soluble drugs respectively used for cancer treatment. Consequently, the proportions of these tissues are believed to […]

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Robotics navigations in indoor and structured environment.

I will be working on the current project going on which involves studying the Robotics navigations in indoor and structured environment. Apart from that, we will be also looking into the SLAM problem in a humanoid robot (NAO). We are studying two approaches: (i) integration of SLAM with augmented reality, and (ii) SLAM via bio-inspired […]

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