Cynthia Hom \u201923 and William Yik \u201924, both prolific members of the AMISTAD Lab at Harvey Mudd College, presented research at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics in Thessaloniki, Greece, last October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFinite-Sample Bounds for Two-Distribution Hypothesis Tests<\/a>,\u201d co-authored with computer science professor George Monta\u00f1ez, builds on previous work co-authored by Hom (\u201cThe Gopher\u2019s Gambit: Survival Advantages of Artifact-Based Intention Perception<\/a>\u201d) and Yik (\u201cIdentifying Bias in Data Using Two-Distribution Hypothesis Tests<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both earlier papers used two-distribution statistical hypothesis tests to investigate representational bias in machine learning training data (Yik) and to equip artificial agents with intention perception capabilities (Hom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis new work develops estimation procedures for applying such tests in cases where exact values cannot be computed,\u201d says Monta\u00f1ez. \u201cWe proved mathematical bounds showing that in many cases random sampling can be used to conduct the tests instead of explicit enumeration. The upside is that these tests become much more accessible, allowing researchers to apply the tests without having to perform advanced combinatoric analysis. It opens this class of tests to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The recent paper is Hom\u2019s fourth with AMISTAD Lab and Yik\u2019s second\u2014he has three more publications outside the lab. Hom, a computer science major, now works at Stripe as a software engineer. She was a 2023 Computer Science Department Don Chamberlin Award winner and earned a 2023 Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yik is a 2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate\u00a0Researcher Award finalist and is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship recipient. He is a CS\/mathematics major and plans to attend a graduate program in CS, climate and applied mathematics. \u201cMy current research focuses on applications of artificial intelligence in climate modeling,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m working with professors at USC and University of California, Davis, on deep learning for atmospheric science and physical oceanography, respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The October 2023 trip to Greece was funded by the National Science Foundation, the HMC Department of Mathematics, the Leeds Student Travel Grants and HMC faculty start-up funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGoing to Greece was an amazing experience,\u201d Yik says. \u201cAcademically, the highlight for me was seeing peoples\u2019 genuine interest in our research. After our talk, we had insightful conversations with some research scientists about potential applications of our work and the connections it had with the problems they were thinking about. It just was really encouraging to see their enthusiasm for the work we had done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cynthia Hom \u201923 and William Yik \u201924, both prolific members of the AMISTAD Lab at Harvey Mudd College, presented research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":12697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,11,967,30],"class_list":["post-12696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-computer-science","category-general-feed","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12698,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions\/12698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}