{"688549":{"#nid":"688549","#data":{"type":"event","title":"XR Bytes: Alex Yang (ADC XR Makerspace)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXR Bytes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a graduate-student-led initiative dedicated to\u0026nbsp;showcasing\u0026nbsp;the trajectory of Extended Reality (XR) research across the Institute. Our goal is to highlight the versatile ways XR technologies are applied across various disciplines and majors, fostering\u0026nbsp;an\u0026nbsp;interdisciplinary community of innovation at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPresenter: Alex Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ELitForager: Exploring Multimodal Literature Foraging Strategies in Immersive Sensemaking\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAffiliation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIVI Lab (Immersive Visualization \u0026amp; Interaction Lab), School of Interactive Computing (Georgia Tech College of Computing)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe actively encourage cross-departmental participation and welcome engagement from both internal academic units and external industry partners. 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Nowhere is this shift more consequential than in mental health, where large language models (LLMs) are increasingly mediating help-seeking, shaping perceptions of care, and producing guidance at scale. This talk positions digital mental health as a critical testbed for interrogating the foundations of generative AI, where questions of reliability, alignment, and human impact are especially salient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDrawing on empirical research, I describe how LLMs participate in mental health discourse: as conversational agents, sources of guidance, and mediators of support. While these systems demonstrate remarkable fluency and scalability, they also exhibit important limitations: variability in correctness and consistency, cultural and therapeutic misalignment, and challenges in capturing the nuance of lived experience. I further discuss emerging risks associated with generative systems in this context, including over-reliance, sycophantic responses, and the potential erosion of human agency and social connection. These findings underscore a broader tension in generative AI: systems optimized for engagement and responsiveness may not align with the goals of care, safety, and long-term wellbeing. I conclude by outlining a human-centered foundation for generative AI \u2014 one that foregrounds identity, agency, and institutional context, and advances toward systems that are not only capable of generating language, but are accountable to the human conditions they shape.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio: \u003C\/strong\u003EMunmun De Choudhury is J. Z. Liang Professor at the School of Interactive Computing and Co-Lead of Patient-Centered Care Delivery at the Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta-Pediatric Technology Center in Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. De Choudhury is known for her contributions to the fields of computational social science, human-computer interaction, and digital mental health. Through fostering interdisciplinary collaborations, Dr. De Choudhury and her collaborators have contributed significantly to advancing the development of computational techniques for early detection and intervention in mental health, as well as in unpacking how social media use benefits or harms mental well-being.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury\u0027s contributions have been recognized through awards like the 2023 SIGCHI Societal Impact Award, the 2023 ICWSM and the 2022 Web Science Trust Test-of-Time Awards, the 2021 ACM-W Rising Star Award, as well as nearly two dozen paper awards. In 2024, she was inducted into the SIGCHI Academy and in 2025 was named an ACM Distinguished Member. 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By aligning structural embeddings with biological response similarity, the model captures meaningful relationships between drugs while remaining independent of cell line features at inference. This enables zero-shot (cold-start) prediction, allowing similarity estimation and downstream prioritization for previously unseen drugs using only their molecular graphs. Our model was evaluated on the data from the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) datasets accessed via PyTDC v1.1.15. 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Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) can power and sustain biomedical implants and IoT microsensors in medical and industrial applications where light and motion are inaccessible. Millimeter-scale TEGs, however, are resistive, intermittent, low-voltage, and as a result, also low-power. An energy-harvesting system for this type of imperfect source must not only track the maximum power point (MPP) but also include and replenish a small battery, regulate and supply a load, wake from no-charge conditions, and coordinate and control several intertwined feedback loops. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art TEG systems are largely incomplete. Some can wake and track the MPP, but not include or replenish a battery or supply a load, or the other way around. And when tracking the MPP is included, it is often suboptimal. This research proposes to develop a CMOS power-supply system that can track the MPP, replenish and draw assistance from a small battery, supply and regulate a load, and wake from no-charge conditions. Two fundamental goals for this research are to develop an accurate MPP model that can be used to optimize the system and build a harvester that outputs the highest maximum power possible. One way to improve the performance of the system is by improving the efficacy of the switched-capacitor circuit used to wake the harvester. Another way is to design circuit components so they duty-cycle and require little quiescent current to operate. 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We use the volvocine green algae as a model system as this clade contains undifferentiated multicellular species, species with environmentally induced somatic differentiation, species with undifferentiated cells and developmentally regulated somatic cells, and species with germ-soma division of labor. We examine a multicellular volvocine algae species, \u003Cem\u003EEudorina,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewhich has been historically characterized as undifferentiated but can develop a small proportion of plastic somatic cells following exposure to cold shock. We exposed \u003Cem\u003EEudorina\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ecultures to repeated cold shock and characterized the differentiation status of our lines more than 30 generations after the cessation of the cold treatment. Somatic differentiation evolved rapidly, with most lines showing changes in the regulation of somatic cell development and several lines evolving obligate somatic cells. 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While the genetic basis of LM is increasingly understood, the role of biomechanical factors in disease progression remains poorly characterized. Healthy LECs continuously sense fluid shear stress generated by lymph flow, and proper mechanosensing is essential for vascular quiescence. Thus we want to answer the question of how LM cells respond to shear stress and how this mechanical clue contributes to disease progression. We first hypothesized that LM derived cells exhibit impaired mechanotransduction compared to healthy human dermal lymphatic endothelial cells (HDLECs) under wall shear stress. Patient-derived LM cells with PIK3CA mutations and HDLECs were subjected to controlled steady laminar wall shear stress using an in vitro microfluidic flow system. Cytoskeletal responses were quantified by actin fiber orientation, alignment index, and deviation angle relative to flow direction. 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In particular, distributed training of deep neural networks (DNNs) relies on scalable matrix multiplication algorithms and efficient communication on high-speed interconnects. Pre-training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with hundreds of billions to trillions of parameters and graph neural networks (GNNs) on extremely large graphs requires hundreds to tens of thousands of GPUs. However, such training often suffers from significant scaling bottlenecks such as high communication overheads and load imbalance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will present several systems research directions that directly impact AI model training. First, I will describe my group\u0027s work in using a three-dimensional parallel algorithm for matrix multiplication in large-scale LLM training.\u0026nbsp; Second, I will demonstrate the application of the same algorithm to full-graph and mini-batch GNN training when working with extremely large graphs. Finally, I will also discuss the need for scalable collective communication routines for large-scale DNN training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abhinav Bhatele is an associate professor in the department of computer science, and director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pssg.cs.umd.edu\/\u0022\u003EParallel Software and Systems Group\u003C\/a\u003E at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are broadly in systems and AI, with a focus on parallel computing and distributed AI. He has published research in parallel programming models and runtimes, network design and simulation, applications of machine learning to parallel systems, parallel deep learning, and on analyzing\/visualizing, modeling and optimizing the performance of parallel software and systems. Abhinav has received best paper awards at Euro-Par 2009, IPDPS 2013, IPDPS 2016, and PDP 2024, and a best poster award at SC 2023. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr\u003EDr. Seong-Hee Kim, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr\u003EDr. Eunhye Song, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr\u003EDr. Guanghui Lan, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr\u003EDr. David Eckman, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis dissertation studies simulation-based decision making in the presence of streaming data and model uncertainty. 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Prior work has largely focused on improving measurement scale and speed, with elements of reliability and correctness being largely neglected. In particular, censorship measurement has frequently observed non-determinism and inconsistency that has not been systematically explained. In this thesis, we develop empirical methods and systems to evaluate factors that influence censorship measurement results, showing that routing dynamics, packet parameters, measurement direction, and IP version all significantly influence censorship results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe begin by showing that external DNS censorship measurement in China is directly impacted by Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing induced by packet header fields like source IP and port. We find that 37% of IPs across 56% of ASes exhibit changes in observed censorship, and magnitude of censorship differences can more than double based on part of the source IP, consistent with known router load balancing techniques. 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