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.
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.
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...
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.
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Alexandra Camero Bejarano, Crystal Network Comparison
This thesis will use topological information captured by bonds to compare crystal networks.
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.
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.