PhD Thesis Defense
PhD Thesis Defense: Forsad Al Hossain, Towards Privacy-Sensitive Edge-Based Crowd and Syndromic Signal Monitoring Contactless Systems
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 Thesis Defense: Devdhar Patel, Time Aware Intelligence for Efficient and Resilient Control
This thesis proposes an alternative path toward intelligent control by drawing inspiration from biological systems and exploring the concept of time-aware...
PhD Thesis Defense: Mengxue Zhang, AI-Driven Scoring System for Open-Ended Mathematical Reasoning
This thesis aims to address these challenges by developing a series of approaches for the automated assessment of open-ended mathematical responses.
PhD Thesis Defense: Shahrooz Pouryousef, Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks
The optimization of user experience through online A/B testing has long been a cornerstone of digital business strategy, driving revenue and...
PhD Thesis Defense: Avijit Mitra, Advancing the Knowledge of Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Using AI in Health Outcome Research
This dissertation explores the potential of NLP to extract, analyze, and apply SBDH information to advance clinical insights.
PhD Thesis Defense: Karine Karine, Methods and Tools for Learning from Uncertain and Incomplete Longitudinal Data
In this thesis, we study methods and tools for learning from uncertain and incomplete longitudinal data.
PhD Thesis Defense: Katherine Thai, Modes of Human–AI Collaboration in Text: Benchmarks, Metrics, and Interpretive Tasks
This thesis investigates how LLMs can assist, transform, and extend human work across three specific tasks: translation, editing, and literary interpretation.
PhD Thesis Defense: William Rebelsky, Working Towards Universal Computational Literacy
This dissertation categorizes skills that fall under computational thinking and describes our work towards improving student learning and engagement.
PhD Thesis Defense: Erica Cai, From Text to Networks: Enabling and Investigating Social Measurement via Low-Resource Knowledge Graph Extraction
The thesis is motivated by the challenge of extracting structured instances of action or relationship occurrences from large amounts of unstructured text to...
PhD Thesis Defense: Bin Wang, Resource Allocation for Latency-Sensitive Applications in Edge Environments
In this thesis, Wang addresses this gap by presenting model-driven resource allocation algorithms for latency-sensitive applications...
PhD Thesis Defense: Hamza Elhamdadi, Calibrating Trust in Visualization through the Manipulation of Visual Complexity
This thesis proposes an alternative path toward intelligent control by drawing inspiration from biological systems and exploring the concept of time-aware...
PhD Thesis Defense: Priyanka Mary Mammen, Enabling Scalable Sleep Monitoring with Mobile Sensing and Machine
This thesis focuses on addressing the challenges of sleep monitoring at the community level by developing scalable, personalizable, and robust sleep detection..