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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

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
Event date Friday, September 26, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, October 10, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, April 11, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Thursday, November 13, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Thursday, April 24, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Fadhil Kurnia, Flexible and Secure Replication of Blackbox Stateful Services at the Edge

This dissertation presents a new foundation for flexible and secure replication of blackbox stateful services.
Event date Thursday, December 4, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Boming Zhang, Reimagining Computer Science Education in the Age of Large Language Models

This dissertation addresses how computer science instructors can redesign course structures and pedagogy in response to the widespread availability of LLMs.
Event date Thursday, December 18, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Monday, June 30, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Roozbeh Bostandoost, Principled Cloud Resource Allocation: From Multi-Objective Trade-offs to Verifiable Learning-Augmented Systems

This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation into the design, implementation, and analysis of resource allocation systems for modern datacenters.
Event date Thursday, February 12, 2026 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Event time 8:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Alex Scarlatos, Creating Realistic Simulated Students: Fine-Tuning LLMs with Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge and Behavior Alignment

This thesis presents multiple approaches for aligning LLMs with realistic student behavior.
Event date Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Event time 2:30 pm Go to all events list Event

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