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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

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: Fadhil Kurnia, Flexible and Secure Replication of Blackbox Stateful Services at the Edge

This dissertation presents a new foundation for flexible and secure replication of blackbox stateful services.
Event date Thursday, December 4, 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: Boming Zhang, Reimagining Computer Science Education in the Age of Large Language Models

This dissertation addresses how computer science instructors can redesign course structures and pedagogy in response to the widespread availability of LLMs.
Event date Thursday, December 18, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm 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: Mengxue Zhang, AI-Driven Analysis, Scoring, and Generation for Open-Ended Mathematical Reasoning

This thesis addresses these limitations by developing a comprehensive framework for the automated assessment of open-ended mathematical responses. 
Event date Friday, September 5, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Juan Altmayer Pizzorno, Efficient and Effective Test Generation and Type Inference for Python Applications

In this dissertation, I explore how lightweight dynamic analysis can be used to improve the reliability of Python software.
Event date Friday, September 19, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Ashish Singh, Side-Information Guided Open-World Novelty Detection

In this thesis, I address this challenge across several computer vision problems by developing methods that adapt standard models to the open world.
Event date Friday, October 10, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Purva Pruthi, Compositional Models for Causal Reasoning

In this thesis, Pruthi will propose a compositional framework for causal reasoning in modular, heterogeneous systems.
Event date Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Ignacio Gavier, Overcoming Data and Energy Challenges in Wearable IMU-based Learning

This thesis addresses IMU data scarcity and energy constraints.
Event date Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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