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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Ignacio Gavier, Overcoming Data and Energy Challenges in Wearable IMU-based Learning
This thesis addresses IMU data scarcity and energy constraints.