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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Juhyeon Lee, Advancing Objective Motor Severity Assessment in Cerebellar Ataxias Using Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning

Cerebellar ataxias are a group of etiologically diverse neurological diseases that cause dysfunction of the cerebellum and related pathways.
Event date Thursday, January 9, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

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: 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 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 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

Uncertainty-Aware Computer Vision in Resource-Constrained Environments

This thesis explores how to leverage uncertainty awareness to create more robust vision models for use in constrained environments.
Event date Friday, September 27, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Statistical Analysis of Covert Cybersecurity Activities: Scaling Laws and Detection Methodologies

This dissertation conducts a comprehensive statistical analysis of covert cybersecurity activities, with a focus on volume-based attack detection.
Event date Monday, September 9, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense: Minhao Cui, Exploiting Pervasive Leakage EM Signals for Communication, Charging, and Sensing

Minhao Cui aims to leverage the pervasive ambient leakage signals, which are typically seen as detrimental, to enhance wireless communication performance.
Event date Tuesday, October 22, 2024 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

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Zachary While, Toward Broadening Data Visualization Design to People in Late Adulthood

While's dissertation work lays the groundwork for this new subfield of visualization research called GerontoVis.
Event date Monday, November 25, 2024 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Ankita Gupta, Understanding Argumentative and Persuasive Texts at Scale

Policy and legal argumentation spans thousands of public comments, book pages, and judicial opinions covering decades of United States public discourse.
Event date Thursday, December 12, 2024 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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