Dissertation Defense

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

Dec 16

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Decarbonizing Power System: The Roles of Wind Power and Energy Storage in Phasing out Fossil Fuels

Dec 17

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Enhancing Video Understanding Through Deep Generative Models and Task Comprehension

Jan 6

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Design of Flexible Domain-Specific Accelerators for Diverse and Dynamic Computation

Jan 9

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Practical Verification of Distributed Systems: Streamlining Safety Proofs Using Invariant Taxonomies, and Verifying Latency Properties Using Symbolic Latency

Jan 13

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Exploring the Effects of Memory Vulnerabilities Across the Computer Architecture Stack

Jan 16

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Learning Dense Visual Features for the Sun and Natural Scenes

Jan 16

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

High-Performance ADCs Using Floating Ring Amplifiers and Negative-C

Jan 17

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Data-Aware Computing for Efficient Extended Reality Systems

Jan 20

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Low Noise Frequency Synthesis Techniques

Jan 21

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Online Learning and Decision Making for Resource Allocation

Mar 13

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Tool-Use Robot Manipulation Tasks for Cooperative and Explainable Operations in Safety-Critical Domains

Mar 14

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Chip-Scale Spectropolarimetric and Quantum Optical Phase Sensing with Semiconductor Nanostructures

Mar 14

1:35 pm - 3:35 pm

Streaming Sketching: Mathematical Theory and Practical Algorithms

Mar 18

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Increasing The Practicality Of Verification Using Incomplete Solutions

Mar 18

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Algorithm-Hardware Co-design For Efficiency Optimization Of Machine Learning Workloads

Mar 21

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Leveraging Data Semantics for Relational Data Management Tasks

Mar 24

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

III-Nitride Nanostructures for Optoelectronic and Artificial Photosynthesis Applications

Mar 25

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Unfairness Detection and Evaluation in Data-driven Decision-making Algorithms

Mar 27

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Resource-constrained Intelligent Edge Systems for Internet-of-Things Applications

Apr 2

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Situated Language Grounding for Multimodal AI Assistant Modeling

Apr 3

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Usable and Ubiquitous Privacy-Aware Sensing Devices

Apr 7

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Leveraging Priors of Generative Models

Apr 10

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

User-Centric Machine Learning Systems

Apr 11

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Efficient Band Diagram Computation for Periodic Structures using Multiple Scattering Theory and Broadband Green’s Function (MST-BBGF)

Apr 14

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Domain-specific Benchmarks and Architectures for Applications using Graph-based Data

Apr 14

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Towards Having Personalized, Situated, and Grounded Conversations with Human Like Human

Apr 15

9:00 am - 11:00 am

C1-Smooth Multi-Contact Dynamics for Robotics

Apr 18

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Performance Scaling of Polygonal Chirally-Coupled-Core (CCC) Fibers for Coherently Combined Fiber Laser Arrays

Apr 18

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Variational Bayesian Methods for Discovering Gene Expression Mechanisms from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data