Dissertation Defense

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

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Efficiently Scaling Machine Learning Systems Across Heterogeneous Resources

May 9

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Mathematical Methods for Managing Distributed Energy Resources

May 12

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Towards Controllability, Efficiency, and Trustworthiness of Text Generation Systems

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 15

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Towards Scalable and Stable Machine Learning in Clinical Contexts: Addressing Computational Efficiency and Dataset Shift

May 16

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Fast Hybrid Multiple Scattering Theory Method Applied to Multiple Scattering Problems

May 20

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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

May 20

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Evaluating and Designing Defenses against Input Perturbation Attacks on Black-Box Machine-Learning Models

May 23

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

From THz to DUV: Exploring emission properties in biofilm and semiconductor structures with spectroscopy

May 27

9:30 am - 11:30 am

Codes & Lattices: Computational Complexity and Constructions

Jun 2

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Beyond Benchmarks: Human-Aligned Evaluation Frameworks for Large Language Models

Jun 3

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Conversational Modeling for Healthcare Communication