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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense: Minhao Cui, Exploiting Pervasive Leakage EM Signals for Communication, Charging, and Sensing

Minhao Cui aims to leverage the pervasive ambient leakage signals, which are typically seen as detrimental, to enhance wireless communication performance.
Event date Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Shib Dasgupta, Learning Set Theoretic Representation With Box Embeddings

In this thesis, Dasgupta proposes a matrix completion framework that incorporates set-theoretic dependencies, using box embeddings to represent entities...
Event date Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Arjun Karuvally, Beyond the Hopfield Memory Theory: Dynamic Energy Landscapes and Traveling Waves in RNNs

In this thesis, Karuvally proposes two frameworks—Dynamic Energy Theory and Wave Theory—to explain RNN memory dynamics.
Event date Monday, December 2, 2024 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Tanya Chowdhury, Interpreting Ranking Models: From Feature Attributions to Mechanistic Comprehension

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Tanya Chowdhury
Event date Thursday, December 12, 2024 Event time 9:00 am 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 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 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 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 Defense: Katherine Thai, Modeling Literary Interpretation: Benchmarks and Methods for Machine Understanding of Literature

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
Event date Monday, June 30, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks

The primary responsibility of first and second-generation quantum networks will be to facilitate the delivery of bipartite quantum entanglements.
Event date Monday, September 9, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Angela Upreti, Design and Implementation of optimizations for Web Assembly Extended with Transactions and Persistence

This thesis will explore optimizations related to these new opcodes and functionality.
Event date Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Event time 8:30 pm Go to all events list Event

Carbon-Aware Resource Management for Cloud Computing Platforms

In this thesis, Hanafy proposes novel resource management techniques that allow cloud users and operators to reduce their operational carbon emissions.
Event date Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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