PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Rumeng Li, AI for Aging: Longitudinal Disease Risk Modeling from Clinical Data
This dissertation addresses this limitation by developing AI and clinical natural language processing (NLP) methods that transform longitudinal narrative data.
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: An La, Data Structures for Dynamic Metric Spaces
In this proposal, we investigate properties in two challenging dynamic applications: consistent $k$-center clustering and light spanners in doubling metrics.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Charles Cao, Ultrasonic Sensing Systems: From Hardware Design to Interactive and Physiological Applications
This thesis explores the design and implementation of ultrasonic sensing systems allowing devices to perceive and interpret signals beyond the audible spectrum.
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 Defense: Rajarshi Bhattacharjee, Query Efficient Algorithms for Matrix Spectrum Approximation
This thesis develops and analyzes algorithms for several key problems related to eigenvalue and eigenvector estimation...
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: Ojaswi Acharya, Practical Advances in Modern Cryptographic Primitives
In this thesis, we identify and rectify some remaining limitations of such cryptographic constructions and their proofs of security.
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: Deep Chakraborty, Information-Theoretic Methods for Understanding and Improving Representations in Neural Networks
In the first part of this thesis, we formulate a general-purpose information-theoretic criterion that allows further improving SSL representations.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Vikas Thamizharasan, Generative Models for Parametric Curves and Surfaces
This thesis investigates generative models for parametric curves and surfaces.