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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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."
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Alexandra Camero Bejarano, Crystal Network Comparison
This thesis will use topological information captured by bonds to compare crystal networks.
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.
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.
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.