Sophia Zorek

  • Program Year: 1
  • Academic Institution: Rice University
  • Field of Study: Computer Vision and Applied Probability
  • Academic Advisor: Frederi Viens
  • Practicum(s): Practicum Not Yet Completed
  • Degree(s):
    B.A. Mathematics, and B.M. Music Performance, Rice University, 2020

Publications

1) Zorek S*, Luo S*, Aguiar-Pulido V (2023). Few-Shot Image Classification for Rare Ocular Disease with an Ensemble of Pretrained Feature Extractors and a Statistical Classifier. 22nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) at Jacksonville, FL (USA).

Awards

Graduate Academic, Research and Music Performance Awards:
1st place research prize (Frost Institute for Data Science and
Computing, University of Miami) for work on Generalized Zero Shot Learning via Generative Transfer and Style Transformation for Ocular Disease Classification, April 2023

Frost School of Music Percussion Fellowship, University of Miami, 2021-2023

Undergraduate Academic and Music Performance Awards:
Matt McCarthy and Anna Kern Prize in Percussion Rice University, 2015-2016

Denson Endowed Music Scholarship, Rice University, 2016-2017

Frederic J. Attermeier Endowed Scholarship for Undergraduate Percussion Studies, Rice University, 2017-2020