PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

This thesis explores the design of a multimodal teacher dashboard that is not tied to a single activity or embodiment type.

This thesis presents a comprehensive framework for developing an autonomous quadruped guide dog robot while aligning with the practical needs of BLV users.

In this thesis, we explore how recent progress in generative modeling improves solutions to inverse problems.

This proposal provides a unified framework for developing more accurate, scalable, and privacy-aware personalized LLMs.

This thesis develops and analyzes principled, efficient, and scalable algorithms for answering marginal queries under differential privacy.

This dissertation evaluates curriculum aware adaptive tutoring systems and computational learning platforms.

This thesis investigates motion planning and learning based control methods with the goal of developing robust controllers for dynamic legged robots.

This thesis reframes low dimensional representation as a coordinate-learning problem.

This dissertation develops methods for accurately measuring user trust in software and creates automated techniques for making software more trustworthy.

This thesis argues that if LLMs are to engage meaningfully with the full spectrum of human language, they must also demonstrate proficiency in literary analysis

This thesis explores the design and implementation of ultrasonic sensing systems allowing devices to perceive and interpret signals beyond the audible spectrum.

This thesis will explore optimizations related to these new opcodes and functionality.