Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in AI at UC Berkeley, co-advised by Joseph Gonzalez (in machine learning systems) and by Trevor Darrell (in computer vision). I'm fortunate to be part of the RISE lab (Real-Time Intelligent Secure Explainable Systems) as well as BAIR (Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research). Before coming to Berkeley, I obtained my B.S. in computer science at Cornell University.
My research interests are in reliability of vision and language models, as well as biases in vision datasets.
Research
Publications
- Reliable Visual Question Answering: Abstain Rather Than Answer Incorrectly
Spencer Whitehead*, Suzanne Petryk*, Vedaad Shakib, Joseph Gonzalez, Trevor Darrell, Anna Rohrbach, Marcus Rohrbach
ECCV 2022 - On Guiding Visual Attention with Language Specification
Suzanne Petryk*, Lisa Dunlap*, Keyan Nasseri, Joseph Gonzalez, Trevor Darrell, Anna Rohrbach
CVPR 2022 - Remembering for the Right Reasons: Explanations Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting
Sayna Ebrahimi, Suzanne Petryk, Akash Gokul, William Gan, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell
ICLR 2021 - NBDT: Neural-Backed Decision Tree
Alvin Wan, Lisa Dunlap, Daniel Ho, Jihan Yin, Scott Lee, Suzanne Petryk, Sarah Adel Bargal, Joseph E. Gonzalez
ICLR 2021 - Estimation of arterial traffic flow fundamental diagrams using data from advance loop detectors
Qijian Gan, Suzanne Petryk
Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2019. - Enhancement in surface mobility and quantum transport of Bi2-xSbxTe3-ySey topological insulator by controlling the crystal growth conditions
Kyu-Bum Han, Su Kong Chong, Akira Nagaoka, Suzanne Petryk, Michael A Scarpulla, Vikram V. Deshpande, and Taylor D. Sparks.
Nature Scientific Reports 8, Article number: 17290 (2018).
Presentations
- Lane Blockage Detection Using Loop Detector Data
Ivy League Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2018. Oral Presentation. - Growth of Single Crystal Topological Insulators and Dirac Semimetals
National Conference on Undergraduate Research, 2017. Poster Presentation. Sponsored as winner of poster competition in materials science summer research program at University of Utah.
Teaching
- Computer Vision (CS 4670), Cornell University, Spring 2019. Teaching Assistant.
- Operating Systems (CS 4410), Cornell University, Fall 2018. Teaching Assistant.
- Girls Who Code, Cornell University, 2016-2019. Volunteer Instructor.