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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

Fast, Scalable, Warm-start Semidefinite Programming with Application to Knowledge Editing and Mixed Integer Semidefinite Optimization

Semidefinite programming (SDP) has traditionally been limited to moderate-sized problems.
Event date Friday, September 6, 2024 Event time 9:00 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: 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: 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 Defense: Ankita Gupta, Understanding Argumentative and Persuasive Texts at Scale

Policy and legal argumentation spans thousands of public comments, book pages, and judicial opinions covering decades of United States public discourse.
Event date Thursday, December 12, 2024 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Purva Pruthi, Compositional Models for Causal Reasoning

In this thesis, Pruthi will propose a compositional framework for causal reasoning in modular, heterogeneous systems.
Event date Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Arisa Tajima, Advancing End-to-End Privacy in Machine Learning: Input, Output, and Beyond

This dissertation addresses key aspects of TCAP by proposing novel methodologies that enhance value estimation...
Event date Tuesday, March 11, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Mengxue Zhang, Scalable and Robust AI-Driven Scoring System for Open-Ended Mathematical Reasoning

This thesis explores AI-driven methods to improve the robustness and scalability of grading and feedback systems.
Event date Friday, April 11, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Prasanna Lakkur, A Computational Approach To Understanding Online Community Dynamics and Opinion

This research advances methodologies for analyzing textual content from large-scale online datasets, interpreting message intent, retrieving  knowledge...
Event date Thursday, May 15, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Xi Chen, Leveraging Large Language Models to Mine and Explain Global Media Coverage and Agenda Setting

This dissertation aims to utilize LLMs to mine, explain, and characterize global media coverage.
Event date Monday, May 12, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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