PhD Thesis Defense

This thesis develops and analyzes principled, efficient, and scalable algorithms for answering marginal queries.

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

In this thesis, I focus on three connected challenges concerning information integrity.

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

This dissertation addresses potential failure points in artificial agents.

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

This dissertation studies algorithmic methods for constructing and optimizing threshold-logic circuits.

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

This dissertation makes generative retrieval scalable and practical.

This dissertation develops a comprehensive framework for high-fidelity motion characterization, addressing challenges of sensitivity, robustness, and privacy.

This dissertation advances the design of practical privacy-preserving machine learning systems.

This thesis develops control frameworks for legged robots that bridge model-based trajectory optimization and data-driven learning