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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Janice Yu Zhen Chen, Toward Resource-Efficient Decision-Making for Networked Systems

This dissertation focuses on developing resource-efficient decision-making policies to address key challenges in various networked systems.
Event date Friday, February 28, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Daniel Marew, From Optimization to Learning: Developing Controllers for Dynamic Legged Robots

This thesis investigates motion planning and learning based control methods with the goal of developing robust controllers for dynamic legged robots.
Event date Friday, November 7, 2025 Event time 2:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Yixiao Song, Advancing AI Factuality via Comprehensive Evaluation

This thesis addresses the urgent need for more robust evaluation methodologies by developing scalable, accurate tools and benchmarks for factuality assessment.
Event date Wednesday, May 7, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Edmond Cunningham, Orthogonal Coordinates for Representing Probability Density Functions

This thesis reframes low dimensional representation as a coordinate-learning problem.
Event date Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Abhinav Bhatia, Learning to Think about Thinking: Metareasoning with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient and Safe Decision-Making

This thesis significantly generalizes the scope of metareasoning by treating any factor that restricts an agent's ability to optimize its core objective.
Event date Tuesday, May 6, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Zhanna Kaufman, Measuring and Increasing Trust in Software Systems

This dissertation develops methods for accurately measuring user trust in software and creates automated techniques for making software more trustworthy.
Event date Monday, December 15, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Katherine Thai, Modeling Literary Interpretation: Benchmarks and Methods for Machine Understanding of Literature

This thesis argues that if LLMs are to engage meaningfully with the full spectrum of human language, they must also demonstrate proficiency in literary analysis
Event date Monday, June 30, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Angela Upreti, Design and Implementation of optimizations for Web Assembly Extended with Transactions and Persistence

This thesis will explore optimizations related to these new opcodes and functionality.
Event date Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Event time 8:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Shiv Shankar, Counterfactual Inference in the Era of User Privacy and Gen-AI Models

This dissertation addresses emerging challenges and proposes innovative approaches to adapt A/B testing methodologies to modern constraints while maintaining...
Event date Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Rajarshi Bhattacharjee, Query Efficient Algorithms for Matrix Spectrum Approximation

This thesis develops and analyzes algorithms for several key problems related to eigenvalue and eigenvector estimation...
Event date Friday, August 22, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Ojaswi Acharya, Practical Advances in Modern Cryptographic Primitives

In this thesis, we identify and rectify some remaining limitations of such cryptographic constructions and their proofs of security.
Event date Wednesday, September 17, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Deep Chakraborty, Information-Theoretic Methods for Understanding and Improving Representations in Neural Networks

In the first part of this thesis, we formulate a general-purpose information-theoretic criterion that allows further improving SSL representations.
Event date Friday, September 19, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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