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PhD Thesis Defense

Advancing Precision Health with Clinical Foundation Models

This dissertation explores the development and application of clinical foundation models (FMs).
Event date Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Abhinav Agrawal, Towards Reliable Black-Box Variational Inference

Probabilistic models are essential for understanding complex systems across various fields, but inference in these models is often intractable.
Event date Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Pratheba Selvaraju, Exploring Representations for 3D Reconstruction From Impaired Real-World

This thesis addresses reconstruction tasks for static and dynamic structures, focusing on buildings and human faces exploring representations...
Event date Friday, December 6, 2024 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Iman Deznabi, Adaptive Deep Learning Models for Personalized Modeling of Heterogeneous Time-series Data

This thesis focuses on the development and application of adaptive machine-learning models.
Event date Tuesday, February 4, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Jared Yeager, Machine Checked Verification of Validation Tests for Seldonian Algorithms

In this work we produce verified code for a Seldonian algorithm validation test.
Event date Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Event time 3:30 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Lijun Zhang, Advanced Resource-Efficient Multi-Task Learning

This thesis addresses these challenges through a series of innovations in multi-task learning.
Event date Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Zack While, Broadening Data Visualization Design to People in Late Adulthood

This research advances methodologies for analyzing textual content from large-scale online datasets, interpreting message intent, retrieving  knowledge...
Event date Monday, May 19, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Dmitry Petrov, Structure-Aware Shape and Image Synthesis

This thesis proposes an alternative path toward intelligent control by  drawing inspiration from biological systems and exploring the concept of time-aware...
Event date Monday, May 19, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Blossom Metevier, Fair Algorithms for Sequential Learning Problems

This proposal addresses three problems in fair ML.
Event date Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Data Driven Expert Assignment

Our algorithms, Greedy Expert Round Robin and FairSequence, assign experts in such a way that no request "envies" another request's assigned experts.
Event date Friday, October 11, 2024 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Zitian Chen, Toward Unified Expertise: One Model for All Tasks

In this PhD Thesis Defense, Chen will explore neural network architectures that facilitate joint learning across varied tasks.
Event date Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Russell Lee, Learning-Augmented Online Algorithms for Energy Optimization

In this proposal, Lee will present optimal online algorithms for energy optimization in the competitive analysis setting.
Event date Tuesday, November 12, 2024 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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