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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

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.
Event date Thursday, September 25, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, October 17, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Juhyeon Lee, Advancing Objective Motor Severity Assessment in Cerebellar Ataxias Using Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning

Cerebellar ataxias are a group of etiologically diverse neurological diseases that cause dysfunction of the cerebellum and related pathways.
Event date Thursday, January 9, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Bhawana Chhaglani, Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Sensing Systems for Healthy Indoor Environments

In this thesis proposal, Chhaglani will present novel, privacy-preserving sensing systems designed to monitor ventilation rate and aerosol emissions.
Event date Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Thursday, October 16, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Janice Yu Zhen Chen, Toward Resource-Efficient Decision-Making for Networked Systems

This dissertation focuses on developing resource-efficient decision-making policies to address key challenges in various networked systems.
Event date Friday, February 28, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, November 7, 2025 Event time 2:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Yixiao Song, Advancing AI Factuality via Comprehensive Evaluation

This thesis addresses the urgent need for more robust evaluation methodologies by developing scalable, accurate tools and benchmarks for factuality assessment.
Event date Wednesday, May 7, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Edmond Cunningham, Orthogonal Coordinates for Representing Probability Density Functions

This thesis reframes low dimensional representation as a coordinate-learning problem.
Event date Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Abhinav Bhatia, Learning to Think about Thinking: Metareasoning with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient and Safe Decision-Making

This thesis significantly generalizes the scope of metareasoning by treating any factor that restricts an agent's ability to optimize its core objective.
Event date Tuesday, May 6, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Monday, December 15, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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