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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.
Event date Monday, December 15, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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
Event date Monday, June 30, 2025 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Thursday, February 5, 2026 Event time 9:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Event time 8:30 pm Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Wednesday, February 25, 2026 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Friday, August 22, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Wednesday, September 17, 2025 Event time 10:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, September 19, 2025 Event time 3:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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
Event date Friday, September 26, 2025 Event time 1:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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...
Event date Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Event time 11:00 am Go to all events list Event

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.
Event date Friday, October 10, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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