PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

This thesis explores how to leverage uncertainty awareness to create more robust vision models for use in constrained environments.

Cloud computing and rapid data growth have driven many organizations to outsource large datasets to cloud databases in order to reduce management costs.

Minhao Cui aims to leverage the pervasive ambient leakage signals, which are typically seen as detrimental, to enhance wireless communication performance.

This thesis proposes resource management techniques that mitigate performance degradation caused by such real-world dynamics to ensure robust performance. 

In this thesis, Dasgupta proposes a matrix completion framework that incorporates set-theoretic dependencies, using box embeddings to represent entities...

Through a series of counterfactual “what-if” analyses, we show that changing current adoption trends could increase CO2 reduction by 40%.

In this thesis, Karuvally proposes two frameworks—Dynamic Energy Theory and Wave Theory—to explain RNN memory dynamics.

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

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Tanya Chowdhury

In this thesis proposal, Chhaglani will present novel, privacy-preserving sensing systems designed to monitor ventilation rate and aerosol emissions.

This dissertation focuses on developing resource-efficient decision-making policies to address key challenges in various networked systems.

This thesis addresses the urgent need for more robust evaluation methodologies by developing scalable, accurate tools and benchmarks for factuality assessment.