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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Yunda Liu, Advancing Objective Assessment of Physical and Behavioral Phenotypes Using Wearable and Mobile Technologies

This dissertation focuses on advancing wearable technology-based models for assessing physical and behavioral phenotypes.
Event date Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Aparimit Chandra, Performance of Operational Quantum Network Processes

We focus on three fundamental processes: quantum teleportation with noisy memories, error correction in quantum storage, and distributed blind quantum computing
Event date Friday, September 26, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Dhawal Gupta, Improving Temporal Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning

This dissertation addresses key aspects of TCAP by proposing novel methodologies that enhance value estimation...
Event date Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Elita Lobo, Robust Machine Learning Methods for Uncertain Environments

This thesis addresses challenges with robust algorithms tackling different aspects of uncertainty, including RL, resource allocation, explainability and LLMs.
Event date Friday, October 10, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Oindrila Saha, Fine-Grained Recognition with Limited Supervision

This thesis advances fine-grained recognition under limited supervision  through several complementary approaches.
Event date Friday, April 11, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Miguel Fuentes, Synthetic Data with Applications to Privacy and Ecology

This dissertation shows that two distinct fields - differential privacy and computational ecology - can be addressed through a unified methodological framework.
Event date Thursday, November 13, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Purity Mugambi, Leveraging Data Science and Machine Learning to Discover and Intervene on Treatment Disparities Captured in EHR Datasets

This thesis seeks to understand the extent of health inequity captured in EHR data and investigate how ML models can be redesigned to ensure they maintain...
Event date Thursday, April 24, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Cecilia Ferrando, Differentially Private Statistical Learning: Uncertainty Estimation and Utility Preservation

This thesis contributes novel methods for differentially private statistical learning, with a focus on improving the usability of private inference...
Event date Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Sandeep Polisetty, Abstractions to Eliminate Redundancy in Training Graph Neural Networks on GPUs

In the first part of my thesis, I introduce split parallelism, a novel  abstraction that addresses the limitations of traditional data parallelism on GPUs.
Event date Monday, June 30, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Hao Shi, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Flexible Persistent Transactional WebAssembly Runtime System

This dissertation proposes integrating transactional memory directly into a WebAssembly runtime system for persistent memory programming.
Event date Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Event time 8:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Pracheta Amaranath, The Interface of Simulation and Causal Modeling

This thesis investigates the interplay between simulation and causal inference, focusing on how causal modeling can enhance simulation and vice versa.
Event date Thursday, September 18, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Alexandra Camero Bejarano, Crystal Network Comparison

This thesis will use topological information captured by bonds to compare crystal networks.
Event date Thursday, November 14, 2024 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

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