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PhD Thesis Defense

PhD Thesis Defense: Zafeiria Moumoulidou, Fair and Diverse Data Selection Schemes for Data Management and Visualization

In this thesis, we revisit the task of data selection through the lens of social-oriented metrics like diversity and fairness.
Event date Friday, September 19, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Ojaswi Acharya, Practical Advances in Modern Cryptographic Primitives

In this thesis, we identify and rectify some limitations of such cryptographic constructions and their proofs of security.
Event date Thursday, December 11, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Ignacio Gavier, Overcoming Data and Energy Challenges in Wearable IMU-Based Learning

This thesis addresses challenges of dataset scarcity and energy efficiency.
Event date Thursday, December 18, 2025 Event time 8:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Kunjal Panchal, Advancing Machine Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments

The dissertation addresses the fundamental challenge of deploying machine learning models on resource-constrained autonomous systems
Event date Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Jin Huang, Computation-Communication Co-Design for Efficient Deployment of Deep Learning and Vision-Language Models on Resource-Constrained IoT Devices

This dissertation presents five systems that jointly optimize computation and communication across two workload regimes.
Event date Wednesday, April 15, 2026 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Alex Scarlatos, Towards Realistic Simulated Students: Aligning Language Models with Student Knowledge and Behavior

In this thesis, I address this problem by introducing multiple approaches for aligning LLMs with student behavior and knowledge.
Event date Wednesday, April 29, 2026 Event time 3:30 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Tuesday, May 13, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Juhyeon Lee, Advancing Objective Motor Severity Assessment in Cerebellar Ataxias Using Sensors and Machine Learning

This dissertation develops analytic pipelines and machine learning approaches to estimate ataxia severity.
Event date Wednesday, May 6, 2026 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Tuesday, May 27, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Cecilia Ferrando, Differentially Private Statistical Learning: Uncertainty Estimation and Utility Preservation

This thesis contributes novel methods for differentially private statistical learning, with a focus on improving the usability of private inference.
Event date Wednesday, April 29, 2026 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, June 13, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Thursday, July 31, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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