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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Tanya Chowdhury, Interpreting Ranking Models: From Feature Attributions to Mechanistic Comprehension

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Tanya Chowdhury
Event date Thursday, December 12, 2024 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Bhawana Chhaglani, Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Sensing Systems for Healthy Indoor Environments

In this thesis proposal, Chhaglani will present novel, privacy-preserving sensing systems designed to monitor ventilation rate and aerosol emissions.
Event date Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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 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 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

Fast, Scalable, Warm-start Semidefinite Programming with Application to Knowledge Editing and Mixed Integer Semidefinite Optimization

Semidefinite programming (SDP) has traditionally been limited to moderate-sized problems.
Event date Friday, September 6, 2024 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

Calibrating Trust in Visualization through the Manipulation of Visual Complexity

Hamza Elhamdadi presents their PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense, "Calibrating Trust in Visualization through the Manipulation of Visual Complexity."
Event date Thursday, October 10, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Cen Wang, Deep Learning for Discrete Event Simulations

This thesis explores how deep learning can solve existing problems and uncover new applications for simulation.
Event date Monday, November 18, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Aimen Gaba, Natural Language and Visual Design Can Influence Trust and Bias Perception in AI

Gaba's dissertation explores the role of natural language and visualization design in shaping users' perceptions of bias in ML systems and its impact on trust.
Event date Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Event time 2:30 pm Go to all events list Event

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

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