PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Jorge Murillo, Carbon-Aware Spatial Shifting for Internet-Scale Services
This thesis explores new spatial shifting techniques to reduce carbon emissions while maintaining performance.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Hansi Zeng, Generative Information Retrieval for the Real World
In this proposal our goal is to make generative retrieval scalable and practical for real-world information retrieval systems.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Xiao Liu, Communication-Efficient Multi-Device Inference for Transformer Models
This dissertation studies communication-efficient multi-device inference for Transformer models under bandwidth-limited settings.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Prateek Mantri, Large-Scale Quantum Networks: Architecture and Performance
This thesis investigates architectural principles for large-scale quantum networks across three settings.
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Vikas Thamizharasan, Generative Models for Parametric Curves and Surfaces
This thesis investigates generative models for parametric curves and surfaces.
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: Vignesh Viswanathan, Fair Allocation of Indivisible Items: New Algorithms and Hardness Results
In this thesis, I focus on the computability of allocations which maximize well known fairness objectives
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: Andrew Zane, Causal Analysis in Mechanistic Models
This proposal outlines a program for bringing that causal toolkit to mechanistic models.
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: Dhruv Agarwal, Epistemological LLMs for Search and Discovery under Evolving Beliefs
The central argument of this thesis is that effective search in these regimes requires evolving beliefs.