2026 graduate level students projects

Causal discovery in microbiome data with identifiable variational autoencoders

Evaluating whether questionnaire-guided iVAE representations support causal discovery in microbiome data with hidden confounding.

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Discovering financial factors with language model agents

This project compares language model agents, random search and genetic search for financial factor discovery, isolating the contribution of experimental memory under a common evaluation budget.

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Fraud Campaign Detection and Rule Learning for Card Payments

Investigate whether transaction groups and interpretable rules, including rules proposed by language models, improve future fraud detection beyond a LightGBM baseline.

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JEPA for Code Generation and Optimization

Investigating whether predictive world models in representation space can guide code generation and compiler optimization.

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Relational steering for tabular anomaly detection

Investigating whether context-dependent interventions in tabular models reveal anomalies that violate relationships between variables.

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