Background Many companies have made sustainability pledges like having net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and eliminating plastic waste. However, few tools are available to guide industry transition toward this future while remaining profitable. The complex multi-material structures of plastics and multilayer materials pose significant challenges for...

Background There have been growing concerns relating to public safety and law enforcement in urban environments, particularly in New York City. The interconnected nature of mass shootings, hate crimes, and criminal complains remains a matter of significant concern. This has prompted the need for a comprehensive and data-driven approach to understand...

Background Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safe-guarding classifiers against adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of the classifier. These techniques analyze and eliminate adversarial perturbations from the attacked inputs, and help to restore purified samples that retain similarity to the attacked...

Background Deep neural networks (DNNs) are an important tool in enhancing deep learning capabilities, but they have substantial computational and memory requirements. Quantization is one of the important model compression approaches to address the mismatch between resource-hungry DNNs and resource-constrained devices, by converting the full-precision...

Background In virtual reality, the utilization of technology that uses touch and vibrations to communicate with users, simulating tactile sensations like pressure, resistance, and texture (haptic feedback), is often quite unrealistic when users engage with virtual fluids. Vibrotactile actuators are small motors or vibrators that generate haptic feedback,...

Background The rapid dissemination of news is an important factor for the global population to stay up to date with current events, or to make well-informed decisions in dynamic sectors like the stock market. Journalists typically include large amounts of quantitative information using data visualization to help enhance accessibility and comprehension...

Background The rapid dissemination of news is an important factor for the global population to stay up to date with current events, or to make well-informed decisions in dynamic sectors like the stock market. Journalists typically include large amounts of quantitative information using data visualization to help enhance accessibility and comprehension...

Background Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) frequency bands are growing in prevalence in current and future communication systems. These frequency ranges provide higher bandwidths, which enable the communication systems to efficiently meet the higher data requirements of high speed applications including augmented or virtual reality, autonomous...

Understanding the relationship between protein sequence-structure and binding dynamics is not well understood. Of particular interest is the ability to relate foldability and function of a protein and the ability to characterize how foldability and binding change based on mutations in the protein sequence. WW domains are one of the most abundant independently...

Histological whole slide image (WSI) processing techniques are critical for identifying and classifying tissues, particularly cancerous tissues. AI-aided methods for analyzing these WSIs have become increasingly important to enhance diagnostic precision and high throughput processing. However, WSIs have gigapixel resolution, leading to computational...