Academic Paper-Cuts

Dustin Pulver sits down with hosts David Ifergan and Aaron Gotkin to break down his academic paper on how he used machine learning to decipher what brain waves can tell us about mental effort.

Dustin's paper is called: "EEG-based Cognitive Load Classification using Feature Masked Autoencoding and Emotion Transfer Learning"

And can be found at this link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00246

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Jacob Schulman sits down with hosts David Ifergan and Aaron Gotkin to break down his academic paper on his research into how patients can hold their breath in MRIs to be able to see how blood flows through their brains in a non-invasive way.

Jacob's paper is called: "Non-invasive perfusion MR imaging of the human brain via breath-holding"

And can be found at this link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58086-8

*Correction*: 4% with kidney disease develop a condition (nephrogenic systemic fibrosis) which results in death 21% of the time when they're given gadolinium.

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Dean Sacoransky sits down with hosts David Ifergan and Aaron Gotkin to break down his academic paper on how he used robots, AI, and retro-reflectors to develop a method for self-driving cars to navigate in bad weather conditions like rain and snow.

Dean's paper is called: "Radar-Based Autonomous Vehicle Localization
using Reflective Roadside Landmarks"

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The preceding paper to this one can be found at these two links:
1) https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/items/dc30e61c-09e6-42e4-8db2-b8d8defd40e0
2) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10161274

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Podcast launch & intro of ‪Academic Paper-Cuts featuring David Ifergan and Aaron Gotkin.

The episodes in our podcast will feature researchers breaking down their academic papers in the simplest way possible.

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