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Submissions from 2025

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Convexity Helps Iterated Search in 3D, Peyman Afshani, Yakov Nekrich, and Frank Staals

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WIP: Computation and Student Engagement in First-Year Engineering, Susan L. Amato-Henderson, Jon Sticklen, Leo C. Ureel, and James Bittner

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Refinement or Disruption: Patterns of Critical Inquiry in Computing Ethics Assignments, Vincent Barfield and Charles Wallace

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Creativity and Curb Cuts: Experiences in Our First Offering of a Front End Development and Accessibility Focused CS Course, Briana C. Bettin, Tony Garnett, Alex Gore, and Andrea Llanas

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Legends and Maps: Efforts to Reveal Hidden Curricula Knowledge Within Our Institution and Its Computing Courses, Briana C. Bettin, Joseph R. Teahen, Isabella Gatti, Andrea Llanas, Tony Garnett, Tim Perr, Leo Ureel, and Laura Brown

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Aggregate-Superpose-Project: A Cognitive Model for Quantum Problem Solving, Ali Ebnenasir and Charles Wallace

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Distributing Quantum Circuits Using Formal Methods, Ali Ebnenasir, Kieran Young, and Ronald Stempien

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A Survey on the Scheduling of DL and LLM Training Jobs in GPU Clusters, Tianhao Fu, Zehua Yang, Zhisheng Ye, Chenxiang Ma, Yang Han, Yingwei Luo, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenlin Wang, and Xiujuan Lei

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Identifying the Desired Word Suggestion in Simultaneous Audio, Dylan Gaines and Keith Vertanen

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Perceptions of Blind Adults on Non-Visual Mobile Text Entry, Dylan Gaines and Keith Vertanen

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Incremental Planar Nearest Neighbor Queries with Optimal Query Time, John Iacono and Yakov Nekrich

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Incubation assay metrics describe different aspects of dissolved carbon degradation, Michelle Kelly, Isaac Bigcraft, Prajakta P. Kokate, Laura E. Brown, Evan S. Kane, Stephen M Techtmann, Trista J. Vick-Majors, and Amy M. Marcarelli

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SPDK+: Low Latency or High Power Efficiency? We Take Both, Endian Li, Shushu Yi, Li Peng, Qiao Li, Diyu Zhou, Zhenlin Wang, and et al.

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Guest Editorial Special Issue on Security and Privacy of Intelligent Vehicles, Chung Wei Lin, Bo Chen, Weizhi Meng, Yu Chen, and Qi Zhu

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Gene regulatory network prediction using machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid approaches, Sai Teja Mummadi, Md Khairul Islam, Victor Busov, and Hairong Wei

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Top-k Document Retrieval in Compressed Space, Gonzalo Navarro and Yakov Nekrich

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Faster Range LCP Queries in Linear Space, Yakov Nekrich and Sharma V. Thankachan

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Using Confidence Scores to Improve Eyes-free Detection of Speech Recognition Errors, Sadia Nowrin and Keith Vertanen

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RSVP Keyboard with Inquiry Preview: mixed performance and user experience with an adaptive, multimodal typing interface combining EEG and switch input, Betts Peters, Basak Celik, Dylan Gaines, Deirdre Galvin-McLaughlin, Tales Imbiriba, Michelle Kinsella, Daniel Klee, Matthew Lawhead, Tab Memmott, Niklas Smedemark-Margulies, Jack Wiedrick, Deniz Erdogmus, Barry Oken, Keith Vertanen, and Melanie Fried-Oken

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Advances in Prediction of Posttranslational Modification Sites Known to Localize in Protein Supersecondary Structures, Pawel Pratyush and Dukka KC

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LMPTMSite: A Platform for PTM Site Prediction in Proteins Leveraging Transformer-Based Protein Language Models, Pawel Pratyush, Suresh Pokharel, Hamid D. Ismail, Soufia Bahmani, and Dukka B. Kc

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Understanding the Influence of Image Enhancement on Underwater Object Detection: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study, Ashraf Saleem, Ali Awad, Sidike Paheding, Evan Lucas, Timothy C. Havens, and Peter C. Esselman

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SAR ATR Performance Evaluation on Spatially Perturbed Synthetically Generated Signatures, Steven A. Senczyszyn, Ian Helman, Adam Webb, Timothy C. Havens, and Steven R. Price

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Machine learning for Parkinson’s disease: a comprehensive review of datasets, algorithms, and challenges, Sahar Shokrpour, Amir Mehdi MoghadamFarid, Sepideh Bazzaz Abkenar, Mostafa Haghi Kashani, Mohammad Akbari, and Mostafa Sarvizadeh

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Examining Student and Faculty Perspectives on Hidden Curriculum in Computing Education, Joseph R. Teahen

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Automated Library Shelf Management System with Programmable Logic Controller and Humanmachine Interface, Ravi Thakur, Abhinav Arumilli, Sai Bhargava Korrapati, Sai Kiran Chittapuram, Sasank Rithwak Reddy Nakka, and Nathir A. Rawashdeh

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Dual-modality Encoder-decoder Framework for Urban Real-time Rainfall-runoff Prediction, Yuan Tian, Ruonan Cui, Wenlong Fu, Zhenyu Ao, Qi Han, Yi Xiang, and Xinyu Lei

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Global to local: a novel encoder-decoder framework for urban real-time rainfall-runoff forecasting, Yuan Tian, Wenlong Fu, Yajing Dong, Qi Han, Qian Xiong, Ruonan Cui, Zhenyu Ao, and Xinyu Lei

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Urban real-time rainfall-runoff prediction using adaptive SSA-decomposition with dual attention, Yuan Tian, Wenlong Fu, Yi Xiang, Qian Xiong, Ruonan Cui, Zhenyu Ao, and Xinyu Lei

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Enforcing cryptographic distributed-VCS access control with no trust on servers, Xin Xu, Zhen Yang, Quanwei Cai, Jingqiang Lin, Liangqin Ren, Bo Chen, and Yongfeng Huang

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Entity Backdoor Attacks Against Fine-Tuned Models, Ting Yang, Jinxue Zhao, Xinyu Lei, Hongyu Huang, Nankun Mu, Xu Zhou, and Mahabubur Rahman Miraj

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Ginkgo: A Learned Index Enhanced Tiered Memory System, Xiran Yang, Yifei Yu, Chuandong Li, Jianqiang Zeng, Ke Zhou, Diyu Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenlin Wang, and Yingwei Luo

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Forecasting leading economic indicators in the US from financial news using multi-task learning, Josh Jia Ching Ying, Chia Chen Liu, Vincent S. Tseng, Wenbin Zhang, and Ji Zhang

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Cheetah: Accelerating Dynamic Graph Mining with Grouping Updates, Yi Zhang, Xiaomeng Yi, Yu Huang, Jingrui Yuan, Chuangyi Gui, Dan Chen, Long Zheng, Jianhui Yue, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, and Jingling Xue

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Criticality-Aware Instruction-Centric Bandwidth Partitioning for Data Center Applications, Liren Zhu, Liujia Li, Jianyu Wu, Yiming Yao, Zhan Shi, Jie Zhang, Zhenlin Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Yingwei Luo, and Diyu Zhou

Submissions from 2024

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Work-in-Progress: Preliminary Work Introducing Automated Code Critiques in First-Year Engineering MATLAB Programming, Laura Albrant, Pradnya Pendse, Laura Brown, Jon Sticklen, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, and Leo C. Ureel II

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Work-in-Progress: Python Code Critiquer, a Machine Learning Approach, Laura Albrant, Pradnya Pendse, Danieal Dasker, Laura Brown, Jon Sticklen, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, and Leo C. Ureel II

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Exploring consequences of statutory law through lightweight modeling, Joshua T. Alele-Beals, Nathan Englehart, Ishaq Kothari, Ali Ebnenasir, and Charles Wallace

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Full paper: Exploring Instructors Insight’ to a MATLAB Code Critiquer, Mary Benjamin, Laura Albrant, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Jon Sticklen, Laura E. Brown, and Leo C. Ureel II

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Engaging Novice Programmers: A Literature Review of the Effect of Code Critiquers on Programming Self-efficacy, Mary E. Benjamin, Laura E. Brown, Jon Sticklen, Leo C. Ureel II, and Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart

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Size-Constrained Weighted Ancestors with Applications, Philip Bille, Yakov Nekrich, and Solon P. Pissis

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Bringing Our Full Selves Into Computing: Designing, Building, and Fostering Equitable Computing Education Communities, Francisco Enrique Vicente Castro, Earl W. Huff, Amber Solomon, and Briana Christina Bettin

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Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles, Yu Chen, Chung-Wei Lin, Bo Chen, and Qi Zhu

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A hybrid memory architecture supporting fine-grained data migration, Ye Chi, Jianhui Yue, Xiaofei Liao, Haikun Liu, and Hai Jin

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Generative EO/IR multi-scale vision transformer for improved object detection, Jonathan Christian, Max Bright, Jason Summers, Ashley Olson, and Timothy C. Havens

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The role of peer dialogue as disruptor in critical ethical analysis for computing students, Andrew Ciminski and Charles Wallace

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Enabling per-file data recovery from ransomware attacks via file system forensics and flash translation layer data extraction, Josh Dafoe, Niusen Chen, Bo Chen, and Zhenlin Wang

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Enabling Real-Time Restoration of Compromised ECU Firmware in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Josh Dafoe, Harsh Singh, Niusen Chen, and Bo Chen

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PATROL: Privacy-Oriented Pruning for Collaborative Inference Against Model Inversion Attacks, Shiwei Ding, Lan Zhang, Miao Pan, and Xiaoyong Yuan

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Generating the Convergence Stairs of the Collatz Program, Ali Ebnenasir

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TPGen: A Self-stabilizing GPU-Based Method for Test and Prime Paths Generation, Ebrahim Fazli and Ali Ebnenasir

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Beyond Summer Reading: Enabling Covert Student Learning Through a Cross-Campus Connecting Theme, Laura Fiss, Brett Hamlin, Heather Love, Linda Ott, Charles Wallace, and Steven A. Walton

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Improving FlexType: Ambiguous Text Input for Users with Visual Impairments, Dylan Gaines and Keith Vertanen

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Benchmarking a Wide Range of Unsupervised Learning Methods for Detecting Anomaly in Blast Furnace, Kendai Itakura, Dukka Bahadur, and Hiroto Saigo

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FSPDE: A Full Stack Plausibly Deniable Encryption System for Mobile Devices, Jinghui Liao, Niusen Chen, Lichen Xia, Bo Chen, and Weisong Shi

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Taming Hot Bloat Under Virtualization with HugeScope, Chuandong Li, Sai Sha, Yangqing Zeng, Xiran Yang, Yingwei Luo, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenlin Wang, and Diyu Zhou

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SeGDroid: An Android malware detection method based on sensitive function call graph learning[Formula presented], Zhen Liu, Ruoyu Wang, Nathalie Japkowicz, Heitor Murilo Gomes, Bitao Peng, and Wenbin Zhang

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A New Data-Free Backdoor Removal Method via Adversarial Self-Knowledge Distillation, Xuexiang Li, Yafei Gao, Minglin Liu, Xu Zhou, Xianfu Chen, Celimuge Wu, and Jie Li

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Using Reinforcement Learning to Escape Automatic Filter-based Adversarial Example Defense, Yantao Li, Kaijian Dan, Xinyu Lei, Huafeng Qin, Shaojiang Deng, and Gang Zhou

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On the Inference of Original Graph Information from Graph Embeddings, Yantao Li, Xinyang Li, Xinyu Lei, Huafeng Qin, Yiwen Hu, and Gang Zhou

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For those who don't know (how) to ask: Building a dataset of technology questions for digital newcomers, Evan Lucas, Kelly S. Steelman, Leo Ureel, and Charles Wallace

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Sum-of-Local-Effects Data Structures for Separable Graphs, Xing Lyu, Travis Gagie, Meng He, Yakov Nekrich, and Norbert Zeh

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Towards the Development of an Automated Assessment System for the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Tests, Mohsen Mohaidat, Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi, Koloud Alkhamaiseh, Janos Grantner, Saad A. Shebrain, and Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

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A Novel Approach for Specification and Verification of Symmetric Distributed Algorithms Using SPIN, Leila Namvaritazehkand and Ali Ebnenasir

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FlashGNN: An In-SSD Accelerator for GNN Training, Fuping Niu, Jianhui Yue, Jiangqiu Shen, Xiaofei Liao, and Hai Jin

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LEVERAGING LARGE PRETRAINED MODELS FOR LINE-BY-LINE SPOKEN PROGRAM RECOGNITION, Sadia Nowrin and Keith Vertanen

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Leveraging Large Pretrained Models for Line-by-Line Spoken Program Recognition, Sadia Nowrin and Keith Vertanen

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LMCrot: An enhanced protein crotonylation site predictor by leveraging an interpretable window-level embedding from a transformer-based protein language model, Pawel Pratyush, Soufia Bahmani, Suresh Pokharel, Hamid D. Ismail, and Dukka Bahadur

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StegoType: Surface Typing from Egocentric Cameras, Mark Richardson, Fadi Botros, Yangyang Shi, Bradford Snow, Pinhao Guo, Linguang Zhang, Jingming Dong, Keith Vertanen, Shugao Ma, and Robert Wang

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Reversing File Access Control Using Disk Forensics on Low-Level Flash Memory, Caleb J. Rother and Bo Chen

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Hardware-Software Collaborative Tiered-Memory Management Framework for Virtualization, Sai Sha, Chuandong Li, Xiaoying Lin Wang, Zhenlin Wang, and Yingwei Luo

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Board 348: Poster - Unified Regular Expression Antipattern Language (UREAL), Joseph Teahen, Daniel Masker, Leo Ureel, Laura Brown, Michelle Jarvie-Eggart, and Jon Sticklen

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Extending the Usability of WebTA with Unified ASTs and Errors, Joseph Roy Teahen, Daniel T. Masker, Leo C. Ureel II, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Jon Sticklen, and Laura Brown

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Breaking Digital Barriers: Designing a Sociotechnical System for Remote Digital Assistance, Kirk Thelen, Timothy Lawrence Perr, Briana C. Bettin, Kelly S. Steelman, Leo C. Ureel, and Charles Wallace

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Current Progress of Providing Rich Immediate Critique of Anti-patterns in Student Code, Leo Ureel, Laura E. Brown, Michelle Jarvie-Eggart, Jon Sticklen, Laura Albrant, Mary Benjamin, and et. al.

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A Simple Mobile Plausibly Deniable System Using Image Steganography and Secure Hardware, Lichen Xia, Jinghui Liao, Niusen Chen, Bo Chen, and Weisong Shi

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Influence of room-temperature oxidation on stability and performance of reactively sputtered TaN thin films for high-precision sheet resistors, Mingzhen Zhang, Yue Wang, Shangzhi Song, Ruiqiang Guo, Wenbin Zhang, Chengming Li, Junjun Wei, Puqing Jiang, and Ronggui Yang

Submissions from 2023

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Language Model Personalization for Improved Touchscreen Typing, Jiban Krishna Adhikary and Keith Vertanen

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Challenges, Choice, & Change: Experiences and Reflections from the First Semester of a Technology and Human Futures Course, Briana Christina Bettin

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Pedagogical Prisms: Toward Domain Isomorphic Analogy Design for Relevance and Engagement in Computing Education, Briana Christina Bettin and Linda Ott

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More (Sema|Meta)phors: Additional Perspectives on Analogy Use from Concurrent Programming Students, Briana Christina Bettin, Linda Ott, and Julia Hiebel

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Say What You Meme: Exploring Memetic Comprehension Among Students and Potential Value of Memes for CS Education Contexts, Briana Christina Bettin, Andrea Sarabia, Maritza Chiolino Gonzalez, Isabella Gatti, Chethan Magnan, Noah Murav, Robin Vanden Heuvel, Duncan McBride, and Sophia Abraham

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A Usability Study of Nomon: A Flexible Interface for Single-Switch Users, Nicholas Bonaker, Emli Mari Nel, Keith Vertanen, and Tamara Broderick

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HiPDS: A Storage Hardware-Independent Plausibly Deniable Storage System, Niusen Chen and Bo Chen

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A Cross-layer Plausibly Deniable Encryption System for Mobile Devices, Niusen Chen, Bo Chen, and Weisong Shi

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A household-scale life cycle assessment model for understanding the food-energy-water nexus, Jessica Daignault, Charles Wallace, David Watkins, Robert Handler, Yi Yang, Danielle Heaney, and Sonya Ahamed

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FlexType: Flexible Text Input with a Small Set of Input Gestures, Dylan Gaines, MacKenzie M. Baker, and Keith Vertanen

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Establishing Physical and Chemical Mechanisms of Polymerization and Pyrolysis of Phenolic Resins for Carbon-Carbon Composites, Ivan Gallegos, Josh Kemppainen, Jacob R. Gissinger, Malgorzata Kowalik, Adri van Duin, Kristopher E. Wise, S. Gowtham, and Gregory Odegard

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Mitigating cross-client GANs-based attack in federated learning, Hong Huang, Xinyu Lei, and Tao Xiang

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Privacy-Preserving Travel Time Prediction for Internet of Vehicles: A Crowdsensing and Federated Learning Approach, Hongyu Huang, Cui Sun, Xinyu Lei, Nankun Mu, Chunqiang Hu, Chao Chen, Huaqing Li, and Yantao Li

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Fair-DSP: Fair Dynamic Survival Prediction on Longitudinal Electronic Health Record, Xin Huang, Xiangyang Meng, Ni Zhao, Wenbin Zhang, and Jianwu Wang

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Shortest Path Problems with a Crash Risk Objective, Qiong Hu, Amir Mehdizadeh, Alexander Vinel, Miao Cai, Steven E. Rigdon, Wenbin Zhang, and Fadel M. Megahed

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Regulation of regeneration in Arabidopsis thaliana, Md Khairul Islam, Sai Teja Mummadi, Sanzhen Liu, and Hairong Wei

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A Deep Neural Network-Based Communication Failure Prediction Scheme in 5G RAN, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Hisham Siddique, Wenbin Zhang, and Israat Haque

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Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis, Hamid D. Ismail

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Reconstructing 42 Years (1979–2020) of Great Lakes Surface Temperature through a Deep Learning Approach, Miraj Kayastha, Tao Liu, Daniel Titze, Timothy C. Havens, Chenfu Huang, and Pengfei Xue

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Two kinds of average approximation accuracy, Qingzhao Kong, Wanting Wang, Dongxiao Zhang, and Wenbin Zhang

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The Effects of Robot Voices and Appearances on Users' Emotion Recognition and Subjective Perception, Sangjin Ko, Jaclyn A. Barnes, Jiayuan Dong, Chung Hyuk Park, Ayanna Howard, and Myounghoon Jeon

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Understanding Adoption Barriers to Dwell-Free Eye-Typing: Design Implications from a Qualitative Deployment Study and Computational Simulations, Per Ola Kristensson, Morten Mjelde, and Keith Vertanen

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Experimental Study: Deep Learning-Based Fall Monitoring among Older Adults with Skin-Wearable Electronics, Yongkuk Lee, Suresh Pokharel, Asra Al Muslim, Dukka KC, Kyoung Hag Lee, and Woon Hong Yeo