Katz School faculty are at the forefront of innovative research that is addressing critical challenges across a range of disciplines, conducting pioneering studies and making presentations at prestigious conferences, showcasing their impact in both academic and applied fields.
The following is a comprehensive list of publications and presentations:
PUBLICATIONS
MARISSA BARRERA – Speech-Language Pathology
“.” Journal of Neurology.
“.ŨįMultiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders.
SERGEY BULDRYEV – Physics
Physical Review E.
MARIAN GIDEA – Mathematics
Talks on singularity perturbed systems, random dynamical systems, topological data analysis and computer assisted proofs in dynamics at the Equadiff 2024 conference in Karlstadt, Sweden.
“Why Topological Data Analysis Detects Financial Bubbles,” International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF) & Thalesian Seminar Series.
SAI PRAVEEN KADIYALA – Artificial Intelligence
“Accurate Body Pose Matching for Individuals with Stroke Using Siamese Networks.” IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), June 2024.
THOMAS KENNON – Digital Marketing and Media
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DAVID LI – Data Analytics and Visualization
“A Novel Data-Driven Mathematical Framework for Olympic Medal Counting System,” IEEE 4th International Conference on Digital Data Processing at the Katz School, September/October 2024.
“Dynamic Logistic Ensembles with Recursive Probability and Automatic Subset Splitting for Enhanced Binary Classification.” 2024 IEEE 15th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference. IBM Watson Research Center, N.Y.
“A Flexible Generalized Probability Core and Quantitative Strategy Analysis for Game Design.” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics in 2025 in Las Vegas.
“Optimizing Customer Targeting Using Reinforcement Learning and Neural Networks for Adaptive Marketing Strategies.” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics in 2025 in Las Vegas.
“Mutual Information Reduction Techniques and Its Applications in Feature Engineering.” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics in 2025 in Las Vegas.
“A Dual-Path Deep Learning Framework for Video Quality Assessment: Integrating Multi-Speed Processing and Correlation-Based Loss Functions,” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics in 2025 in Las Vegas.
PEGGY TALLIER and PATRICIA REINEKE - Nursing
“The Effect of an Educational Intervention on Perioperative Registered Nurse’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Towards Pressure Injury Prevention in Surgical Patients.” Applied Nursing Research, October 2024.
AMIYA WALDMAN-LEVI – Occupational Therapy
“.” Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders.
State of the Science: Editorial. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Special Issue: Play.
“.” Journal of Child and Family Studies.
HONGGANG WANG – Computer Science
“A New Choquet Activation Function Based Deep Neural Network for Drug Interaction Detection” and “Federated Choquet Regression with Categorical Variables for Outcome Prediction in Longitudinal Trial Data.” 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings conference in Portland, Ore., August 2024.
“A Choquet-Integral Based Approach to Identify Weight Loss Component Subsets,” was presented in June at the IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE).
CHENG XIE – Computer Science
, Network Security, 2024. Springer Nature Switzerland.
YOUSHAN ZHANG – Artificial Intelligence
Vision Transformer Segmentation for Visual Bird Sound Denoising.” .
PRESENTATIONS
ALEXANDER ABRAMOV - Cybersecurity
“.” 4th Annual FinCrime Leaders Summit, N.Y.
“Establish Strong Controls and Privacy in the Digital Age”; “Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions Through Strong Contingency Planning”; “Establish Regulatory Enforcement in Operation Risk Management.” , September 2024.
“.” 8th Annual New York CISO & Technology Summit, June 2024.
MARISSA BARRERA – Speech-Language Pathology
“PRO-MS: Provider Communication as the Key for Promoting Proactive Rehabilitation in MS.Ũį2024 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers, Nashville.
“Effective Dysphagia Management—An Introduction to Compensation, Rehabilitation & Modalities.” 3rd Annual Swallowing Summit. Dilgem Education. Istanbul, Turkey.
MELANIE EVANGELISTA – Occupational Therapy
OTs Role in the Phenomenon of Death. Occupational Therapy Association of California's Annual Conference, Pasadena, Calif. November 2024.
The Nature of Occupational Therapy within End-of-Life Care: A Scoping Review. New York Occupational Therapy Association’s Annual Conference, Albany, N.Y. November 2024.
CHRISTY JARED – Nursing
“The Meaning of Co-Occurring Obesity and Adverse Childhood Experiences for Adult Women.” The International Human Science Research Conference 2024. Malloy University, Rockville Centre, N.Y. June 2024.
DAVID SWEET – Artificial Intelligence
“Fast, Precise Thompson Sampling for Bayesian Optimization.” NeurIPS 2024, Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty Workshop. December 2024.
KATIE THRELKELD – Speech-Language Pathology
“Cognitive-communication Across the Continuum of Recovery in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury.” ASHA Convention. Seattle, Wash., December 2024.
AMIYA WALDMAN-LEVI – Occupational Therapy
“The Use of the Parent/Caregiver of Children Playfulness Scale.” Invited lecture, Ono Academic College, Israel, December 2024.
“The Co-occupation of Joint Play: Theory, Evaluation, and Intervention Workshop.” The American Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2025.
“Hear Their Voices: The Lived Experience and Occupational Engagement of On-campus Jewish Students.Ũį2024 Janet Falk-Kessler Distinguished Lectureship, Columbia University, and the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2025.
“Overcoming Social Isolation: Effectiveness of Healthy Aging Wellness Program.” 2024 Janet Falk-Kessler Distinguished Lectureship, Columbia University, and the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2025.
“Family Resilience: The Development of a Tier-1 Program for Parents of Neurodiverse Children.” Overcoming Social Isolation: Effectiveness of Healthy Aging Wellness program. New York State Occupational Therapy, Albany, N.Y., 2025, and the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2025.
“An Educational Module for Occupational Therapists Working with Victims of Trauma.” The American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2025.
“Mentalizing the Body: Antecedents and Consequences of Parental Embodied Mentalizing in the Prediction of Children’s Socio-emotional Development.ŨįInternational Attachment Conference, Rouen, France.
CHENG XIE – Computer Science
“Towards Contactless Human Concentration Monitoring Using mmWave Signals.” IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, October 2024, Washington, D.C.
“mmPalm: Unlocking Ubiquitous User Authentication through Palm Recognition with mmWave Signals.” IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, September 2024. Taipei, Taiwan.
