Tyler G
- Research Program Mentor
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Expertise
Computer Science (my focus is in Machine Learning); Psychology/Neuroscience (my focus is in cognitive computational neuroscience)
Project ideas
Introduction to Modern Deep Learning
In this project, you'll learn the fundamentals of the deep learning algorithms that power translation, text-to-speech, image recognition, and more. You'll apply a recent, state-of-the-art algorithm from Natural Language Processing or Computer Vision to a problem that interests you, and complete a technical whitepaper-style write-up. This will be a hands-on project that involves learning an open-source deep learning framework, such as TensorFlow, in Python.
The Psychology of Decision Making
In this project, you'll explore the growing field of decision making psychology, which focuses on the cognitive processes humans use to reason about the world. After reading papers in the field, you'll develop your own hypothesis and create a short experiment to test the hypothesis.
Maching Learning in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is getting transformed by machine learning. In this project, you'll conduct hands-on research into a security problem that machine learning can help address. Potential projects include: classifying network activity as typical vs dangerous; detecting fake images; and researching adversarial attacks on convolutional neural networks.