NMSU/UTEP 2025

The 33rd Joint NMSU/UTEP Workshop 
on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences

New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Workshop Location: Science Hall 107 

Program

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9:00AM-10:50AM Morning session - 1
9:00AM-9:05AM Opening
9:05AM-9:20AM Jianjun Paul Tian
Evolution Coalgebra
9:20AM-9:35AM Gabriel Agnew, Uzias Gutierrez-Hougardy, John Harding, Ilya Shapirovsky, and Jackson West
Modal Logic of Closeness in Real and Rational Spaces
9:35AM-9:50AM Sobita Alam, Arman Hossain, Samin Islam, Arin Rahman, and Vladik Kreinovich
Attention in machine learning: how to explain the empirical formula
9:50AM-10:05AM Jhonny Gonzalez, Jose Gonzalez, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why burst of physical activity is good for your health: a possible explanation
10:05AM-10:20AM Jahangir Alam, Ismail Hossain, Tausif Hossain, Md Nuruzzaman Sojib, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to compare situations in which we measure different quantities with different uncertainty
10:20AM-10:35AM Christina A. Carreon-Jimenez, Claire MacDonald, James Newson, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Paradox of love and how religion seems to avoid it
10:35AM-10:50AM Victor Hermosillo, Sariyah Russell, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to describe commonsense implication: between conditional probability and logical approach
Coffee break
11:10AM-12:40PM Morning session - 2
11:10AM-11:25AM Yifan Hsu
Integrating AI into Imbalanced data learning
11:25AM-11:40AM Chen (Emily) Liu
Stochastic Frontier Models: Measuring Efficiency in Cross-Sectional Data
11:40PM-11:55PM Zak Zapata
Neural Networks based Stochastic Frontier Model for efficiency analysis with Panel Data
11:55PM-12:10PM Sandeep Mudhurakola
Endogeneity in Stochastic Frontier Model Using Neural Networks in the LIML Approach
12:10PM-12:25PM Zheng Wei
Recent development in Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Model for efficiency analysis
12:25PM-12:40PM Yejin Hwang
Comparing Statistical and Transformer-Based Models for Stock Price Forecasting: ARIMA vs. TimesFM and Chronos-T5
Lunch break
2:10PM-3:55PM Afternoon session – 1
2:10PM-2:25PM Behzad Djafari Rouhani
Asymptotics of a General Class of Nonlinear Nonhomogeneous Evolution Equations of Monotone Type in a Hilbert Space
2:25PM-2:40PM Behzad Djafari Rouhani, Vahid Mohebbi
Approximation of solutions of variational inequalities in Hilbert spaces
2:40PM-2:55PM Feng Yu
Fréchet Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Metric Space-Valued Data via Distance Covariance
2:55PM-3:10PM David A. Davis, Nestor A. Escobedo, Laura A. Guevara, Brian G. Rodiles Delgado, Alejandro Rodriguez, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Precision, Recall, and Accuracy – and Not Some Other Characteristics?
3:10PM-3:25PM Damian Lorenzo Gallegas Espinosa, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Skew-Normal Distributions and How They Are Related to ReLU Activation Function in Deep Learning
3:25PM-3:40PM Khodeza Begum, Melanie Sosa, Jonathon Mohl, and Ming-Ying Leung
GPCR-PEn: A Database and Computational Framework for Prediction and Classification of G Protein-Coupled Receptors
3:40PM-3:55PM Ziyuan Wang
Bridging Theory and Practice: Gain-Probability Analysis for Gamma Distributions
Coffee break
4:15PM-6:00PM Afternoon session - 2
4:15PM-4:30PM Andrew Pownuk
Leveraging Autonomous Self-Improving Computational Methods to Enhance Probabilistic Engineering Analysis
4:30PM-4:45PM Fernando De Santiago, Nicole Favela, Christian Garcia, Dimitri Lyon, Emilia Rivas, and Vladik Kreinovich
Reversible and quantum computing involving random processes: local time naturally appears
4:45PM-5:00PM Sebastian Balderrama, Daniel Marin, and Vladik Kreinovich
Hypothetic Paraparticles and How They Can Potentially Speed Up Computations
5:00PM-5:15PM Yifan Wang
An explainable and interpretable method for phosphorylation prediction
5:15PM-5:30PM Jose Vega, Arin Rahman, Betül Aslantas, Krissel Marin, Alex Mayer, and Martine Ceberio
Resilient Energy Generation for Hybrid Floating Photovoltaic-Hydropower Systems
5:30PM-5:45PM Padmore Nana Prempeh
Adaptive estimation of the Tuning Parameters of the Structured Screen-and-Select Variable Selection (S3VS) Framework
5:45PM-6:00PM Christoph Q Lauter, C. Alejandra Carreon-Jimenez, Gabriel Miki-Silva
Software-Defined Reference-Signal-Independent Implementation of Phase-Locked Loop (PLL): Initialization using AI Model
6:00PM Discussion and closing