Skip to main content
The University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Give
  • Search UMass.edu
Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

Main navigation

  • Academics

    Programs

    Undergraduate Programs Master's Programs Doctoral Program Graduate Certificate Programs

    Curriculum

    Academic Policies Courses

    Academic Support

    Advising Career Development Scholarships and Fellowships Commencement
  • Research

    Research

    Research Areas Research Centers & Labs Undergraduate Research Opportunities

    Faculty & Researchers

    Faculty Directory Faculty Achievements Turing Award

    Engage

    Research News Distinguished Lecturer Series Rising Stars in Computer Science Lecture Series
  • Community

    On-Campus

    Community, Outreach, and Organizational Learning Student Organizations Massenberg Summer STEM Program Awards Programs

    External

    Alumni Support CICS
  • People
    Full A-Z Directory Faculty Staff
  • About

    Overview

    College Overview Leadership Our New Building The Manning Gift

    News & Events

    News & Stories Events Calendar Significant Bits Magazine

    Connect

    Visiting CICS Contact Us Employment Offices & Services
  • Info For
    Current Undergraduate Students Current Graduate Students Faculty and Staff Newly Accepted Undergraduate Students

PhD Thesis Defense

PhD Thesis Defense: Mashrur Rashik, Human-Centered Design of Contextually Appropriate Conversational Agents for Enhancing Public Interaction, Engagement, and Multimodal Experiences

This dissertation advances conversational AI by showing how multi-agent chatbots, thoughtful avatar design, and personalized interactions enhance engagement...
Event date Friday, August 8, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

PhD Thesis Defense: Miguel Fuentes, Synthetic Data with Applications to Privacy and Ecology 

The central task developed in this work is to learn a global probabilistic model, often a graphical model, that is consistent with these observed marginals.
Event date Thursday, May 14, 2026 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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: Ankita Gupta, Understanding Argumentative Texts at Scale for High-Stakes Decision-Making in Social Contexts

In this thesis I present computational methods for transforming large-scale, unstructured data into rich semantic structures to support human decision-making.
Event date Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Event time 12:00 pm 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: Amir Reza Ramtin,Statistical Analysis of Covert Cybersecurity Activities: Scaling Laws and Detection Methodologies

This dissertation studies the fundamental limits of covert activity across communication, network attack, and sequential detection settings.
Event date Tuesday, June 16, 2026 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: Nelson Evbarunegbe, Machine Learning Techniques for Molecular Property Prediction and Applications to Mycomembrane Permeation

This dissertation explores machine learning techniques for molecular property prediction, with a focus on modeling and understanding mycomembrane permeability.
Event date Monday, July 6, 2026 Event time 10:00 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: Purity Mugambi, Identifying and Intervening on Treatment Disparities in Electronic Health Record Data

This thesis seeks to understand the extent of health inequity captured in EHR data and investigate how ML models can be redesigned.
Event date Monday, July 20, 2026 Event time 10:00 am 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: Hunter McNichols, Potentials and Pitfalls of AI-Mediated Learning: Understanding How Students Use AI and Grounding AI Feedback in Student Work

In this thesis, the author investigates the capabilities of LLMs to understand student behavior and provide appropriate feedback.
Event date Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

Pagination

  • First page First page
  • Previous page Previous page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Current page 4
  • Page 5
  • Next page
  • Last page

Site footer

Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
  • Find us on Facebook
  • Find us on YouTube
  • Find us on LinkedIn
  • Find us on Instagram
  • Find us on Flickr
  • Find us on Bluesky Social
  • Find us on Tiktok
Address

140 Governors Dr
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

  • Visit CICS
  • Give
  • Contact Us
  • Employment
  • Events Calendar
  • Offices & Services

Info For

  • Current Undergraduate Students
  • Current Graduate Students
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Newly Accepted Undergraduate Students
University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • ©2026 University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Site policies
  • Privacy
  • Non-discrimination notice
  • Accessibility
  • Terms of use