PhD Thesis Defense
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: Nikko Bovornkeeratiroj, Accelerating Sustainability of the Electric Grid Using Distributed Energy Resources
This thesis puts forth a central focus on sustainability in electricity grids with the presence of distributed energy resources.
PhD Thesis Defense: Sohaib Ahmad, Optimized Resource Allocation for Serving Deep Learning Models
This thesis aims to maximize the resource efficiency of DL model serving by
optimizing resource allocation.
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..
PhD Thesis Defense: Shib Dasgupta, Box Embeddings as Set-theoretic Representations for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems
I develop a Gumbel random process-based approach that improves the optimization landscape, resulting in a more stable and expressive variant of Box Embedding.
PhD Thesis Defense: Yixiao Song, Advancing AI Factuality via Comprehensive Evaluation
This thesis develops scalable, accurate tools and benchmarks for factuality assessment that set higher standards for AI evaluation.
PhD Thesis Defense: Weiqi Feng, Practical Encrypted Databases with Oblivious and Expressive Query Processing
This dissertation addresses challenges to encrypted databases through the following contributions: obliviousness and query expressiveness.
PhD Thesis Defense: Minhao Cui, Exploiting Pervasive Leakage EM Signals for Communication, Charging, and Sensing
In their thesis, Cui leverages the pervasive ambient leakage signals, which are typically seen as detrimental, to enhance wireless communication performance.