Program Accomplishments

Cohort Time Frame	Type	Accomplishment Details
Cohort 1	Publication	E. Cardenas, C. Shorten, T.M. Khoshgoftaar, and B. Furht, “A Comparison of House Price Classification with Structured and Unstructured Text Data,” Conference Proceedings of FLAIRS-35 Conference, 2022.
Cohort 1	Poster Presentation 35th International FLAIRS Conference, May 16th 2022	Presentation by Erika Cardenas "A Comparison of House Price Classification with Structured and Unstructured Text Data"
Cohort 1	Provisional Patent	H. Kalva, V. Adzic, B. Furht, A. Krause, M.E.H. Elmon, and A. Perera, “Systems and Methods for Region Packing Based Compression,” Provisional patent 1097-072USP1, 2022.
Cohort 2	Poster Presentation NRT Annual Meeting at Virginia Tech, October 2022	Presentation by Juan Merlos, "Region Based Encoder for Video Coding for Machines"
Cohort 2	Award	Award of $5,000 to NRT Trainee, Yherzon Chura Ruiz, Business Pitch Competition, 2nd Place. He launched a company called aDubb’s, whose mission is to empower end-consumers of media content to access automatically generated dubs in their language of choice. This model is breaking the language barriers so that users have access to foreign language media with the help of proprietary AI models and systems
Cohort 2	Provisional Patent	H. Kalva, V. Adzic, B. Furht, A. Krause, M.E.H. Eimon, and A. Perera, “Systems and Methods for Video Packing, Encoding, and Decoding for Machine-Based Applications,” Provisional patent 1097-083USP1, 2023.
Cohort 2	Provisional Patent	H. Kalva, V. Adzic, J. Merlos, and B. Furht, “DCT Filtering for MAP in Video Coding for Machines,” Provisional patent 1097-086USP1, 2023.
Cohort 2	Provisional Patent	J. Merlos, H. Kalva, V. Adzic, and B. Furht, “Content Adaptive Multi-Scale Layer Filtering, Provisional patent 1097-0100USP1, 2023.
Cohort 2	Conference Presentation for Provisional Patent presented at the VCM Standard Committee Meeting, Geneve, Switzerland, July 2023.	J. Marlos, H. Kalva, V. Adzic, and B. Furht, “DCT-based Filtering for Improving Machine Task Performance, Provisional patent.
Cohort 2	Publication	C. Garbin, N. Marques, and O. Marques, “Machine learning for predicting opioid use disorder from healthcare data: a systematic review” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107573 Publication (Full text)
Cohort 3	Poster Presentation NRT Annual Meeting at Tempe, Arizona, October 29-31, 2023 Arizona State University	Presentation by Yherzon Chura Ruiz from Cohort 2. "Breaking the Language Barriers in Media on the Internet - aDubb"
Cohort 3	Presentation of Publication ICERI2023 Conference in Spain - Nov 13-15 2023	Report on NSF-Funded Graduate Traineeship in Data Science Technologies and Applications. B. Furht, R. Tappen, T. Khoshgoftaar, H. Kalva, O. Marques, X. Zhu, J. Jang, M.T. Jan, N. Romance, and M. Pinto Florida Atlantic University. Appears in: ICERI2023 Proceedings Publication year: 2023 doi: 10.21125/iceri.2023.1292
Cohort 3	Publication	Mohamed AA, Marques O. "Diagnostic Efficacy and Clinical Relevance of Artificial Intelligence in Detecting Cognitive Decline". Cureus. 2023 Oct 13;15(10):e47004. doi: 10.7759/cureus.47004. PMID: 37965412; PMCID: PMC10641267. Publication (Full Text)
Cohort 3 (Trainee from Cohort 2)	Patent Application	"Decoded Frame Augmentations for Video Coding for Machines", Hari Kalva, Borko Furht, Velibor Adzic, Juan Merlos. Application Serial No. US 63/524,455
Cohort 3	Publication	Elishakoff I, Zauder V. “IKEA Effect” and project-based instruction in intermediate strength of materials course. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/03064190241254033 Publication (Full Text)
Cohort 3 (Trainees from Cohort 1 & 2)	Award	NRT Trainees Win 2nd Place at AI Hackaton, Engineers Week Event 2024 - $3,000 prize for the team - Congratulations Juan Merlos, trainee from Cohort 2, and Ashan Perera, trainee from our first cohort!
Cohort 4 (Trainee from Cohort 3)	Award	NRT Trainee, Vinicius T Salgado received NSF Travel Award.
Cohort 4	Poster Presentation NRT Annual Meeting at Arlignton, VA October 21-23, 2024	Presentation by Vinicius T Salgado, “Text to Video Generators: Evaluation and Applications”.