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: Alireza Salemi, Personalizing Large Language Models
This proposal provides a unified framework for developing more accurate, scalable, and privacy-aware personalized LLMs.
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: Edmond Cunningham, Orthogonal Coordinates for Representing Probability Density Functions
This thesis reframes low dimensional representation as a coordinate-learning problem.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Zhanna Kaufman, Measuring and Increasing Trust in Software Systems
This dissertation develops methods for accurately measuring user trust in software and creates automated techniques for making software more trustworthy.