PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
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: Aparimit Chandra, Performance of Operational Quantum Network Processes
We focus on three fundamental processes: quantum teleportation with noisy memories, error correction in quantum storage, and distributed blind quantum computing
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: Elita Lobo, Robust Machine Learning Methods for Uncertain Environments
This thesis addresses challenges with robust algorithms tackling different aspects of uncertainty, including RL, resource allocation, explainability and LLMs.
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: Miguel Fuentes, Synthetic Data with Applications to Privacy and Ecology
This dissertation shows that two distinct fields - differential privacy and computational ecology - can be addressed through a unified methodological framework.
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...
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: Alexandra Camero Bejarano, Crystal Network Comparison
This thesis will use topological information captured by bonds to compare crystal networks.