Research Updates

Adam Poliak co-authored two papers at the Widening Natural Language Processing workshop in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic with Barnard students and collaborators. Esha Julka ('24) and Olivia Kowalishin ('20) presented their work analyzing discussions of test anxiety online, work co-supervised with Jalisha Jenifer (Psychology). Noreen Mayat ('24) and Daphna Spira ('24) presented their work identifying changes in online narratives describing birthing experiences, work co-supervised Caitlin Dreisbach (Data Science Institute) (November 2021).

Adam Poliak gave an invited talk, Exploring Reasoning Capabilities of NLP systems using Recognizing Textual Entailment, at University of Gothenberg's Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP). https://gu-clasp.github.io/news/Seminar%20by%20Adam%20Poliak/ (June 2021).

Mark Santolucito gave a talk at the Simons Institute's Synthesis of Models and Systems event on Neural Network guided Grammar Filtering For Syntax-Guided Synthesis (February 2021).

Mark Santolucito published a paper, Analyzing Infrastructure as Code to Prevent Intra-update Sniping Vulnerabilities in the conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (February 2021).

Adam Poliak co-published Suicide-related internet searches during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US in JAMA Open Network with collaborators at Johns Hopkins University, University of California San Diego, and University of York. (January 2021)

Rebecca Wright published a monograph Accountability in Computing: Concepts and Mechanisms. This monograph is published as Volume 2, Number 4 of Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security, 2020. (December 2020)

Adam Poliak published three papers at the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and its collocated workshops. (November 2020)

Mark Santolucito published a paper, Towards checkpoint placement for dynamic memory allocation in intermittent computing, at the Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis. (November 2020)

Mark Santolucito and Seth Cluett (of the Columbia Computer Music Center) are awarded a grant from the Collaboratory Fellows Fund from the Columbia Data Science Institue and Columbia Entrepreneurship to develop interdisciplinary computing and arts curriculum. (November 2020)

Sarah Morrison-Smith published a conference paper in ICMI (Sarah Morrison-Smith, Aishat Aloba, Hangwei Lu, Brett Benda, Jesse Smith, Rejin Joy, Damon L. Woodard, Jaime Ruiz, Lisa Anthony. "MMGatorAuth: A Novel Multimodal Dataset for Authentication Interactions in Gesture and Voice." Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '20). 2020.) (October 2020)

Rebecca Wright gave a keynote talk, Accountability in Computing, at the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2020. (September 2020)

Sarah Morrison-Smith published a workshop paper in Microsoft's Symposium on the New Future in Work (Sarah Morrison-Smith, Lydia B. Chilton, Jaime Ruiz. Facilitating Team Awareness through Ambient Displays. In proceedings of Microsoft’s Symposium on the New Future in Work. 2020.) (July 2020)

Rebecca Wright published a paper Understanding Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Differentially Private Online Active Learning in the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, Vol. 10, No. 2. (June 2020)

Sarah Morrison-Smith published a journal paper in SN Applied Sciences (Sarah Morrison-Smith and Jaime Ruiz. "Challenges and barriers in virtual teams: a literature review." SN Applied Sciences 2: 1-33. 2020.) (April 2020)

Sarah Morrison-Smith published a conference paper in CHI (Nikita Soni, Schuyler Gleaves, Hannah Neff, Sarah Morrison-Smith, Shaghayegh Esmaeili Ian Mayne, Sayli Bapat, Carrie Schuman, Kathryn A. Stofer, and Lisa Anthony. "Mental Models for Gestural Interactions with Interactive Spherical Displays for Adults and Children". Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20), ACM. 2020.) (April 2020)