Dissertation Defense

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

Apr 24

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Automated ELISA and Machine Learning-Enhanced Precision in Biosensing and Colorimetric Measurements

Apr 24

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Network Models for Learning Uncertain and Multimodal Data

Apr 28

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Streamlining High-Performance Heterogeneous Hardware Design

Apr 29

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

New Directions In Millimeter-Wave Imaging: Systems, Circuits and Algorithms

May 5

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Signal Detection with High-Dimensional Random Matrix Models

May 8

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Connecting Sight and Sound through Space, Time and Language

May 9

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Mathematical Methods for Managing Distributed Energy Resources

May 13

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Towards Generalist Vision-Language Models for Videos in Embodied AI

May 14

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Enhancing Security, Safety, and Reliability of Modern Cyber-physical Systems

May 20

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

A Qualitative Exploration of Programming Instruction for Alternative Endpoints in Post-Secondary Computing Education