PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Abhinav Bhatia, Learning to Think about Thinking: Metareasoning with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient and Safe Decision-Making
This thesis significantly generalizes the scope of metareasoning by treating any factor that restricts an agent's ability to optimize its core objective.
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 Defense: Katherine Thai, Modeling Literary Interpretation: Benchmarks and Methods for Machine Understanding of Literature
This thesis argues that if LLMs are to engage meaningfully with the full spectrum of human language, they must also demonstrate proficiency in literary analysis
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 Defense: Angela Upreti, Design and Implementation of optimizations for Web Assembly Extended with Transactions and Persistence
This thesis will explore optimizations related to these new opcodes and functionality.
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.