PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Nathan Kwan-Ho Ng, Dynamic Resource Management For Edge Computing Platforms
This thesis proposes resource management techniques that mitigate performance degradation caused by such real-world dynamics to ensure robust performance.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Tessa Masis, Mainstream Englishes Are Not the Only Fruit: Towards Reasonable Understanding of Multilingual User-Generated Text
This thesis addresses the need for better understanding of non-ME user-generated data.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Cooper Sigrist, The New Way Forward: A Learning-Augmented Approach to Sustainable and Cost-Effective Rooftop PV Deployment
In this thesis, we show that changing current adoption trends could increase CO2 reduction by 40%, using multi-objective evolutionary learning.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Marisa Hudspeth, Considerations for Low-Resource Language Modeling: a Case Study on Latin
This thesis examines such language-specific considerations through case studies on Latin.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Allison Poh, A Multimodal Dashboard for Real-Time Teacher Support During Embodied Learning Activities
This thesis explores the design of a multimodal teacher dashboard that is not tied to a single activity or embodiment type.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Hochul Hwang, Human-Centered Quadruped Robot for Navigation Assistance for Blind and Low-Vision Individuals
This thesis presents a comprehensive framework for developing an autonomous quadruped guide dog robot while aligning with the practical needs of BLV users.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Fabien Delattre, Diffusion Priors for Inverse Problems in Computer Vision
In this thesis, we explore how recent progress in generative modeling improves solutions to inverse problems.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Brett Mullins, Practical Algorithms for Differentially Private Marginal Query Answering
This thesis develops and analyzes principled, efficient, and scalable algorithms for answering marginal queries under differential privacy.
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.
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Edmond Cunningham, Orthogonal Coordinates for Representing Probability Density Functions
This thesis reframes low dimensional representation as a coordinate-learning problem.
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.