The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce the Spring 2025 winners of the Martin D. Fraser Graduate Student Conference Travel Award:
Victor Solomon for the paper “Time Series Decomposition Using Wavelet and Fourier Transforms for Enhanced Solar Flare Forecasting,” 38th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-38), Daytona Beach, May, 2025. All authors: Victor Solomon, Rafal Angryk, Omkar Rayala, Manya Rampuria, Abdul Afrid, and Junzhi Wen.
Prakash Chourasia for the paper “Position Specific Scoring Is All You Need? Revisiting Protein Sequence Classification Tasks,” 22nd RECOMB Satellite Conference on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG 2025), Seoul, South Korea, April, 2025. All authors: Sarwan Ali, Taslim Murad, Prakash Chourasia, Haris Mansoor, Imdad Ullah Khan, Pin-Yu Chen, and Murray Patterson.
Badhan Mazumder for the paper “Genetics Encoded Joint Embedding of Multimodal Connectomes With Explainable Graph Neural Network for Schizophrenia Classification,” 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2025), Houston, April, 2025. All authors: Badhan Mazumder, Lei Wu, Vince Calhoun, and Dong Hye Ye.
John “Jack” Morris for the paper “MamBEV: Enabling State Space Models to Learn Birds-Eye-View Representations,” Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore, April, 2025. All authors: Hongyu Ke, Jack Morris, Kentaro Oguchi, Xiaofei Cao, Yongkang Liu, Haoxin Wang, and Yi Ding.
M.S. and Ph.D. students are eligible to apply for Fraser Travel Awards, which provide financial support for travel to a conference where they will present a paper. Awards are granted twice a year, in April and October. Funding is provided by the Martin D. Fraser Endowed Fund for Graduate Student Travel. The fund was established in 2021 by associate professor emeritus K. N. King and his wife Susan Cole to honor the memory of Dr. Fraser, the founding chair of the Department of Computer Science and a key contributor to the establishment of the department’s Ph.D. program.