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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

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

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Hao Shi, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Flexible Persistent Transactional WebAssembly Runtime System

This dissertation proposes integrating transactional memory directly into a WebAssembly runtime system for persistent memory programming.
Event date Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Event time 8:00 am Go to all events list Event

Calibrating Trust in Visualization through the Manipulation of Visual Complexity

Hamza Elhamdadi presents their PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense, "Calibrating Trust in Visualization through the Manipulation of Visual Complexity."
Event date Thursday, October 10, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Pracheta Amaranath, The Interface of Simulation and Causal Modeling

This thesis investigates the interplay between simulation and causal inference, focusing on how causal modeling can enhance simulation and vice versa.
Event date Thursday, September 18, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Alexandra Camero Bejarano, Crystal Network Comparison

This thesis will use topological information captured by bonds to compare crystal networks.
Event date Thursday, November 14, 2024 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Mengxue Zhang, AI-Driven Analysis, Scoring, and Generation for Open-Ended Mathematical Reasoning

This thesis addresses these limitations by developing a comprehensive framework for the automated assessment of open-ended mathematical responses. 
Event date Friday, September 5, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Zachary While, Toward Broadening Data Visualization Design to People in Late Adulthood

While's dissertation work lays the groundwork for this new subfield of visualization research called GerontoVis.
Event date Monday, November 25, 2024 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Juan Altmayer Pizzorno, Efficient and Effective Test Generation and Type Inference for Python Applications

In this dissertation, I explore how lightweight dynamic analysis can be used to improve the reliability of Python software.
Event date Friday, September 19, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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