PhD Thesis Defense

This dissertation categorizes skills that fall under computational thinking and describes our work towards improving student learning and engagement.

This dissertation argues for a different approach to sorting and filtering social media feeds.

The thesis is motivated by the challenge of extracting structured instances of action or relationship occurrences from large amounts of unstructured text to...

In this thesis, Wang addresses this gap by presenting model-driven resource allocation algorithms for latency-sensitive applications...

This thesis proposes an alternative path toward intelligent control by  drawing inspiration from biological systems and exploring the concept of time-aware...

This thesis focuses on addressing the challenges of sleep monitoring at the community level by developing scalable, personalizable, and robust sleep detection..

I develop a Gumbel random process-based approach that improves the optimization  landscape, resulting in a more stable and expressive variant of Box Embedding.

This thesis develops scalable, accurate tools and benchmarks for factuality assessment that set higher standards for AI evaluation.

This dissertation addresses challenges to encrypted databases through the following contributions: obliviousness and query expressiveness.

This thesis advances fine-grained reasoning under limited human supervision through several complementary approaches.

This dissertation examines techniques for learning structure and discusses how the resulting background knowledge is used in decision making under uncertainty.

This dissertation explores how low-overhead dynamic analysis can be used to improve the reliability of Python software.