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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.
Event date Monday, August 25, 2025 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, October 24, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Katherine Thai, Modes of Human–AI Collaboration in Text: Benchmarks, Metrics, and Interpretive Tasks

This thesis investigates how LLMs can assist, transform, and extend human work across three specific tasks: translation, editing, and literary interpretation.
Event date Monday, December 8, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: William Rebelsky, Working Towards Universal Computational Literacy

This dissertation categorizes skills that fall under computational thinking and describes our work towards improving student learning and engagement.
Event date Friday, January 2, 2026 Event time 2:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, February 14, 2025 Event time 11:00 am 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

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