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PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Shreyas Chaudhari, Compact Reinforcement Learning: Resource-Efficient Formulations for Large-Scale Decision Making

This thesis develops and analyzes compact formulations for decision-making problems characterized by large action and large state sets.
Event date Monday, November 17, 2025 Event time 10:00 am 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: Jinlin Lai, Efficient Bayesian Inference with Automatic Marginalization

In this thesis, we identify and rectify some limitations of cryptographic constructions and their proofs of security.
Event date Monday, November 17, 2025 Event time 10:00 am 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: Matheus Guedes de Andrade, Performance, Control, and Characterization in Quantum Networks

In my dissertation, I propose to explore the vast landscape of quantum networks by devising analytical models for network performance.
Event date Monday, December 8, 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

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Nelson Evbarunegbe, Machine Learning Techniques for Molecular Property Prediction and Applications to Mycomembrane Permeation

This dissertation explores machine learning techniques for molecular property prediction, with a focus on modeling and understanding mycomembrane permeability.
Event date Wednesday, February 4, 2026 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Nicholas Perello, Towards Fair and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

In this thesis, we first focus on discrimination in supervised learning.
Event date Monday, July 21, 2025 Event time 8:30 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Weiqi Feng, Practical Encrypted Databases with Oblivious and Expressive Query Processing

Cloud computing and rapid data growth have driven many organizations to outsource large datasets to cloud databases in order to reduce management costs.
Event date Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Nathan Kwan-Ho Ng, Dynamic Resource Management For Edge Computing Platforms

This thesis proposes resource management techniques that mitigate performance degradation caused by such real-world dynamics to ensure robust performance. 
Event date Friday, August 29, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Cooper Sigrist, The New Way Forward: A Learning-Augmented Approach to Sustainable and Cost-Effective Rooftop PV Deployment

In this thesis, we show that changing current adoption trends could increase CO2 reduction by 40%, using multi-objective evolutionary learning.
Event date Thursday, September 25, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Dissertation Proposal: Allison Poh, A Multimodal Dashboard for Real-Time Teacher Support During Embodied Learning Activities

This thesis explores the design of a multimodal teacher dashboard that is not tied to a single activity or embodiment type.
Event date Friday, October 17, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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