PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Zhanna Kaufman, Measuring and Increasing Trust in Software Systems
This dissertation develops methods for accurately measuring user trust in software and creates automated techniques for making software more trustworthy.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Katherine Thai, Modeling Literary Interpretation: Benchmarks and Methods for Machine Understanding of Literature
This thesis argues that if LLMs are to engage meaningfully with the full spectrum of human language, they must also demonstrate proficiency in literary analysis
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Charles Cao, Ultrasonic Sensing Systems: From Hardware Design to Interactive and Physiological Applications
This thesis explores the design and implementation of ultrasonic sensing systems allowing devices to perceive and interpret signals beyond the audible spectrum.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Angela Upreti, Design and Implementation of optimizations for Web Assembly Extended with Transactions and Persistence
This thesis will explore optimizations related to these new opcodes and functionality.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Jorge Murillo, Carbon-Aware Spatial Shifting for Internet-Scale Services
This thesis explores new spatial shifting techniques to reduce carbon emissions while maintaining performance.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Shiv Shankar, Counterfactual Inference in the Era of User Privacy and Gen-AI Models
This dissertation addresses emerging challenges and proposes innovative approaches to adapt A/B testing methodologies to modern constraints while maintaining...
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Rajarshi Bhattacharjee, Query Efficient Algorithms for Matrix Spectrum Approximation
This thesis develops and analyzes algorithms for several key problems related to eigenvalue and eigenvector estimation...
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Ojaswi Acharya, Practical Advances in Modern Cryptographic Primitives
In this thesis, we identify and rectify some remaining limitations of such cryptographic constructions and their proofs of security.
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Deep Chakraborty, Information-Theoretic Methods for Understanding and Improving Representations in Neural Networks
In the first part of this thesis, we formulate a general-purpose information-theoretic criterion that allows further improving SSL representations.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Aparimit Chandra, Performance of Operational Quantum Network Processes
We focus on three fundamental processes: quantum teleportation with noisy memories, error correction in quantum storage, and distributed blind quantum computing
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Dhawal Gupta, Improving Temporal Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning
This dissertation addresses key aspects of TCAP by proposing novel methodologies that enhance value estimation...
PhD Dissertation Proposal: Elita Lobo, Robust Machine Learning Methods for Uncertain Environments
This thesis addresses challenges with robust algorithms tackling different aspects of uncertainty, including RL, resource allocation, explainability and LLMs.