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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

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

Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense: Zafeiria (Iro) Moumoulidou, Fair and Diverse Data Selection Schemes for Data Management and Visualization

Data is generated and collected from all aspects of human activity as well as scientific measurements, simulations, and environmental monitoring.
Event date Friday, November 1, 2024 Event time 2:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Aimen Gaba, Natural Language and Visual Design Can Influence Trust and Bias Perception in AI

Gaba's dissertation explores the role of natural language and visualization design in shaping users' perceptions of bias in ML systems and its impact on trust.
Event date Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Event time 2:30 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 Defense: Yunda Liu, Advancing Objective Assessment of Physical and Behavioral Phenotypes Using Wearable and Mobile Technologies

This dissertation focuses on advancing wearable technology-based models for assessing physical and behavioral phenotypes.
Event date Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Dhawal Gupta, Improving Temporal Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning

This dissertation addresses key aspects of TCAP by proposing novel methodologies that enhance value estimation...
Event date Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Event time 11:00 am 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 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 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 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

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