PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
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...
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.
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.
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Nicholas Perello, Towards Fair and Explainable Artificial Intelligence
In this thesis, we first focus on discrimination in supervised learning.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Saaduddin Mahmud, Aligning Agentic Systems: Improving Specification and Scalability
This thesis addresses both specification and scalability challenges in agentic system alignment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Fabien Delattre, Diffusion Priors for Inverse Problems in Computer Vision
In this thesis, we explore how recent progress in generative modeling improves solutions to inverse problems.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Brett Mullins, Practical Algorithms for Differentially Private Marginal Query Answering
This thesis develops and analyzes principled, efficient, and scalable algorithms for answering marginal queries under differential privacy.