Dissertation Defense

Nov 6

9:30 am - 11:30 am

Improving Web Automation Tools through UI Context and Demonstration

Nov 7

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Aligning Objectives of Machine Learning with Clinical Care

Nov 7

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Exploiting Structure in Safety Control

Nov 14

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Design and Implementation of Domain-Specific Programmable Spatial Accelerators

Nov 15

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Monolithic integration and advancement of micro-gas chromatography – from components to systems and from 1D to 2D

Nov 16

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Human-Centered Natural Language Processing for Countering Misinformation

Nov 20

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Energy Efficient Circuit Design Techniques and Beyond CMOS Exploration for Internet of Things (IoT)

Nov 21

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Optimization of Direct Laser Acceleration and the Characterization of Scintillators for Proton Imaging

Dec 5

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Data-driven Solutions for Blood Glucose Management

Dec 6

8:30 am - 10:30 am

Long-Term Non-Bleaching Nanoscale Imaging by Plasmonic Nanoscope

Dec 6

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Electromagnetic modeling for the active and passive remote sensing of polar ice sheet and for Signal of Opportunity (SoOp) land observation

Dec 7

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Solving Poisson Inverse Problems in Phase Retrieval and Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography

Dec 8

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Advances in Image Reconstruction for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

Dec 8

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Advanced Noise-Shaping SAR ADC Techniques

Dec 11

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Neural Network Implementations on Titled In-Memory-Computing Systems

Dec 20

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Geometric Effects in Radiative Heat Transfer

Jan 9

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Optical Resonators for Photoacoustic Applications

Jan 11

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Exploring In-Context Reinforcement Learning

Jan 12

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Advances in Myelin Water Imaging and Stack-of-Spirals MRI: Image Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation

Jan 16

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Systems and Debugging Supports for Hardware Designs

Jan 16

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Arrayed Integrated Photoionization Detectors for Highly Integrated Microscale Gas Chromatography Systems

Jan 17

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

On the Importance of Inherent Structural Properties for Learning in Markov Decision Processes

Jan 17

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Multifunctional Ferroelectrics based Devices for Next Generation RF Front-ends

Jan 17

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

High-Performance Process-in-Memory Architectures Design and Security Analysis

Jan 17

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Large Economic and Computer Games

Jan 18

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Towards Query Processing in Video Database Management Systems

Jan 19

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Design Techniques for Scalable Fully Integrated CMOS Digital Beamforming Receivers

Jan 22

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Learning Visual Representations from Cross-Modal Correspondence

Jan 24

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Language Supervision for Computer Vision

Feb 12

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Power-Efficient Neural Interface Circuits for Multi-Channel Deep-Brain Opto-Electrophysiology

Feb 16

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Low-Power RF Integrated Circuit Receivers: Phase Noise Cancelling, Cellular IoT, and QAM/OFDM Techniques

Mar 4

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Improving Articulated Pose Tracking and Contact Force Estimation for Qualitative Assessment of Human Actions

Mar 5

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Deep Signal Compression with Feature Representation Learning

Mar 8

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Privacy and Utility in Dynamic Systems: Verification and Enforcement

Mar 8

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Technological and Computational Approaches for Large Count High-Density Neural Probes

Mar 11

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Next-generation Michigan Probes: Flexible and Multi-color micro-LED Optoelectrodes

Mar 26

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Narrowband Localization Circuits and Systems

Apr 17

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Modeling and Mitigating Side Channels in Optical and Embedded Sensing Systems

Apr 17

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Sequential Learning for Nanophotonics Inverse Design

Apr 22

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Improving Select Applications of Long-Read DNA Sequencing

Apr 29

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Enabling Direct Bluetooth-WiFi Communications

Apr 29

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Understanding understanding: How do we reason about computational logic?

May 1

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Exploiting mm-Wave and Terahertz Bands for Ultra-Wideband Communication and Sensing

May 1

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Antennas and Dielectric Characterization Techniques for Future Automotive Communications and Driving Assistance Systems

May 3

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Hardware-Software Co-design for Reliable and Efficient Heterogeneous Systems

May 6

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Global and Longitudinal Investigation of Network Connection Tampering

May 6

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Coordination among Strategic Agents with Asymmetric Information

May 8

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Responsible Machine Learning: Fairness and Information Protection

May 9

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Hardware-Software Co-design of Sustainable AI: Neuromorphic Computing and Beyond

May 13

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Compute- and Processing-in-Memory Modules for Machine Learning on Plaintext and Ciphertext

May 15

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Aggregation of Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Fast Power System Services: From Theory to Practice

May 15

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis of Economic and Technological Changes in Financial Networks

May 20

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Overcoming the Limitations of Si-CMOS and Von Neumann Architectures by Adopting beyond-Si devices and Near-memory Computation

May 23

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Advanced Image Reconstruction and Sampling Pattern Optimization in Silent MRI

May 23

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Safe Coordination of Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Grid Services

May 29

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Cooperation for Better Competition: Group Formation Among Strategic Decision Makers

May 30

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Machine Learning Approaches for Quantitative Analysis and Characterization of Pathological Speech Disorders

May 30

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Learning Representations for Efficient Exploration and Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Jun 3

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Towards Clinically Applicable Reinforcement Learning

Jun 3

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Characterizing and Improving Next-Generation Network Infrastructures and Applications

Jun 3

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Towards Video Understanding through Language in Real-life Settings

Jun 4

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Advancing Graph Neural Networks for Complex Data: A Perspective Beyond Homophily

Jun 4

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Transforming Disfluency Detection: Integrating Large Language and Acoustic Models

Jun 5

9:30 am - 11:30 am

Predicting the Timing of Clinical Outcomes in the Presence of Multiple Events and Noisy Labels

Jun 5

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Domain-Specific Acceleration: From Efficient Vision Processing Hardware to High-Performance Quantum Computing Software

Jun 6

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Machine Learning Meets Analog Circuit Design: Intelligent Automation of IC Design

Jun 10

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

In-Pixel Processing and In-Memory Computing in CMOS Image Sensors for Augmented Reality

Jun 13

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Tactile Sensing Based on Gallium Nitride Light-Emitting Diodes

Jun 14

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Optimizing Graph Applications Through Graph Sparsification and Accelerator Design

Jun 14

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Interpretability, Controllability, and Expressivity in the Age of Language Models

Jul 9

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Quality of Service for Performance-Critical Cloud Applications

Jul 15

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Enabling Robot Arm Motion with Multiple Objectives Through Agent Representation and Reasoning

Jul 16

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Three Lenses on Improving Programmer Productivity: From Anecdote to Evidence

Jul 19

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Learning to Interact with the 3D World

Jul 29

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Nanoscale and Alloy Engineering of III-Nitride Semiconductors for High-Efficiency Solar Photocatalysis and Optoelectronics

Aug 2

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Growth and Characterization of Ultra-wide Bandgap III-N by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Aug 26

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Understanding and Identifying Challenges in Design of Safety-Critical AI Systems

Aug 27

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Toward Effective Neural Architectures and Algorithms for Generalizable Deep Learning

Aug 27

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Arbitrary Field Transformations Using Practical Cylindrical Metasurfaces

Aug 30

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Reconstructing Full 3D Geometry and Interaction Dynamics from Real World data

Sep 3

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Combating Randomness: Towards Efficient Data-Intensive Applications Using Software-Hardware Co-Design

Sep 4

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Coherent Physical Commonsense Reasoning in Foundational Language Models

Sep 5

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Novel Sensing Approach for Shoulder Kinematics – Exploring Kirigami-Inspired Sensing and Machine Learning Platforms for At-Home Joint Monitoring

Sep 10

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Towards Calibrated, Sharp, and Interpretable Probabilistic Prediction

Sep 23

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Sequential Decision Making in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems with Constraints

Oct 16

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Bridging Data and Hardware Gap for Efficient Machine Model Scaling

Oct 17

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Long-term Super Resolution on Cellular Dynamics Enabled by Phase Intensity Nanoscopy

Oct 21

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Exploiting Tree Structure in Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Extensive-Form Games

Nov 1

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Toward High Performance, Power Efficient Brain-Machine Interfaces

Nov 7

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Intelligent Edge Systems through Hardware-Algorithm Co-design

Nov 7

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Improving Graph Representation Learning with Augmentations, Uncertainty Quantification and Large Language Model Guidance

Nov 11

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Exploring Intersectionality in Responsible Data Management

Nov 22

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Deep Learning Models for Visual and Interoceptive Neural Processing

Nov 22

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Assisting Cloud System Development with Automated Insight Generation

Nov 26

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Application of Photoacoustic and Multimodality Imaging in Biomarker Detection

Dec 2

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Reliable and Adaptive Sensor Localization and Wireless Communications using Deep Learning

Dec 3

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Modeling and Control of Electric Loads for Ancillary Services and Decarbonization

Dec 3

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Towards Enhanced Human-AI Interaction: A Holistic Approach to Personalization in Natural Language Processing

Dec 16

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Leveraging Compositional Structure for Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Problems