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Ahmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Conformal prediction (CP) is a model-agnostic and distribution-free method for quantifying uncertainty in black-box machine learning (ML) models. CP can be used to construct prediction sets/intervals that covers the true labels with a pre-determined probability as long as the training and testing data are exchangeable...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Vision-Language Models (VLM) can support clinicians by analyzing medical images and engaging in natural language interactions to assist in diagnostic and treatment tasks. However, VLMs often exhibit "hallucinogenic" behavior, generating textual outputs not grounded in contextual multimodal information. This challenge is particularly pronounced in the medical domain, where we...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on large corpora of text have demonstrated incredible capabilities across with zero- or few-shot performance in new tasks that differ from their pre-training objectives. In this projects, we will study the zero-shot performance of LLMs for various clinical tasks using real...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAhmed Alaa - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Institutional constraints and concerns over patient privacy impedes sharing of clinical data among researchers. High-fidelity synthetic data that mimics the real data distribution without revealing real data for individual patients can help empower and democratize research applying machine learning models to clinical problems. In this project, we will use...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will evaluate the relationship between the responsiveness of politicians to individual requests for assistance and their future political performance. Specifically, we will merge previously collected experimental data on the response, or lack thereof, of politicians in India to requests for help accessing government services, with subsequent data on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the character of global clothing production and (re)use. At this stage of the project we will be collecting descriptive qualitative and quantitative data on (1) the political economy of clothing production and distribution, with an emphasis on fast fashion; (2) patterns of secondhand clothing trade, (3...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to understand the dynamics of the textiles industry in India, with special attention to the political economy of production. In this stage of the research, we will be focused on collecting background materials about the industry, including statistics on both small-and large-scale production, documentation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesRonald Fearing - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for students interested in robot design, fabrication, and testing of pouch-based robots, for applications in minimally invasive surgery and beyond. Current surgical tools cannot navigate tortuous anatomical corridors, and as a result, accessing certain locations requires extensive tissue removal, general anesthesia, and a full operating room...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesVenkatesan Guruswami - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Computer-assisted and automated theorem proving has been a longstanding goal of artificial intelligence and has gained increasing importance in recent years. Despite notable advancements, such as AlphaProof from Google DeepMind, which achieves silver-medal standard in solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems, challenges persist in obtaining machine-verifiable theorems and...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we plan to use two recently developed imaging tools to investigate the structure and composition of bone. State-of-the-art micro computed...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we will be performing advanced image processing and analysis on high resolution computed tomography (CT) images of the skeleton. These images are being...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Location: On Campus
A remarkable development in the recent years has been the demonstration that a nanoscale magnet can be switched by a spin-polarized current, without having to apply any external magnetic field. It is a fascinating phenomenon from two different perspectives. Firstly, this effect is purely mediated by quantum mechanics, but...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed
It is widely believed that the rate of change in current in conventional MOSFETs cannot be decreased below 60 mV/decade. This means that to change every decade of current one must apply at least 60 mV. As a result, the power supply voltage in modern MOSFETs cannot be reduced...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Artificial Intelligence is becoming prevalent in many applications. In this research effort we are investigating new ideas of learning and inference. In addition to develop fundamental understanding of the algorithms, we are also designing novel hardware solutions that are specifically suitable for these Learning Machines, going beyond mere implementation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesCarlo Sequin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Students will participate in the development of JIPCAD, a design environment that can describe geometrical shapes (e.g., abstract sculptures by famous artists such as Charles Perry, Eva Hild, or Robert Engman) either through a simple procedural language or through an interactive graphical user interface. The typical workflow would start with...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Secure computation is a powerful abstraction, protecting the integrity and confidentiality of computations over confidential data. While there are already many applications for secure computing, it is continuing to grow in importance. Secure enclaves can provide a solution to the challenge of secure computation with little or no performance overhead...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours
Deep-learning has revolutionized AI, and achieves human-level accuracies in many tasks such as image recognition. Development on the optimization techniques and the availability of large amount of data make training a large architecture possible, which also opens up many intriguing problems to answer. In this project, we are...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As we tread the path of rapid evolution in the domain of Language Learning Models (LLM), this project seeks to address the major challenges of integrating personal privacy into this rapidly expanding field. The critical question we aim to answer is: how can LLMs safely and effectively utilize private user...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Blockchain is an example of a fast-rising decentralized, autonomous system. There are new the opportunities this new model of computing brings us, including smart contracts, decentralized applications, etc...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLaura Waller - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are building new microscopes that use computation to do things that microscopes normally can't, like 3D imaging, gigapixel imaging or phase imaging. We need motivated people with at least two of these: 1) signal processing experience (EE120) for programming our image processing algorithms in Python, and/or machine learning...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In this project, we will develop methods to enable a drone to fly effortlessly among obstacles in outdoor environments such as forests. Our testing site is Cesar Chavez park in Berkeley Marina as well as Richmond Field Station. You will be working with an actual drone e.g. Bit Craze, or...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In this project, we will develop RL policies to teach a tracked robot equipped with a hose to vacuum a prespecified region which could be cluttered. As such the robot has to learn to navigate and move inside the cluttered region while it is vacuuming "junk" on the floor...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In this project, we will design mounts for a number of sensors to be added to a tracked robot. The design will be followed by fabrication and actual mounting. The sensors include a depth camera that does up and down and also traverses along the width and height of the...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours
In this project, we will design a microcontroller system, e.g. ARM, or ESP32 to run RL algorithms to control a robot. First order business is to reverse engineer the existing mechanism of human operated RC controller which gives velocity and angle commands to the robot. This mechanism will be replaced...
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