On May 7, 2025, we held our fourth annual WS-DL Research Expo. We continued the same format as the prior years (2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short overview of their research. Links to all the materials (slides, papers, software, data) are gathered in the GitHub repo, but repeated here are the links for the students and their presentations:
- Kritika Garg: Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web
- Kumushini Thennakoon: Beyond Gaze Overlap: Analyzing Joint Visual Attention Dynamics Using Egocentric Data
- Lamia Salsabil: A Context-Based Ensemble Classifier for Open Access Dataset and Software URLs in Scholarly Documents
- Akshay Nayak: Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
- Jhon G. Botello: Exploring Large Language Models for Analyzing Changes in Web Archive Content: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach
We were fortunate enough to welcome back some of our alumni, including: Chuck Cartledge (PhD, 2014), Gavindya Jayawardena (PhD, 2024), Mat Kelly (PhD, 2019), and Sawood Alam (PhD, 2020). We really appreciate the ongoing relationship we have with our alumni -- WSDL is for life!
If you were unable to attend, we recorded the students' presentations and have embedded the video below.
--Michael
The @WebSciDL 2025 Research Expo is happening now! @phonedude_mln initiated the session followed by faculty and alumni intros!
— Himarsha R. Jayanetti (@HimarshaJ) May 7, 2025
Check out the event details here: https://t.co/klzPAyB9dI
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