Computer Science Student Presentations
2024-2025 Graduate Student Presentations
My Dinh: PhD Proposal Presentation
Monday, November 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM in Rice 103
Title:
Jack Heavey: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Monday, September 30, 2024 at 1:00PM in Rice 303 & Zoom
Title: Optimizing Pool Testing for Epidemic Surveillance
Yan Pang: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 10:00AM in Rice 109
Title: Mitigating Misuse of Video Generative Models A Multi-Faceted Approach through Fake Video Detection, Tracing, and Prevention
John Shen: MS Thesis Defense Presentation
Monday, August 26, 2024 at 10:30AM in Rice 540
Title: Reinforcement Learning Based Scheduling for the Next-Generation Astronomy Observation
Beenish Gul: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Monday, August 5, 2024 at 10:00AM in Rice 109
Title: Accelerated Community Detection Algorithm using Graphs on GPUs
Meriel von Stein: PhD Proposal Presentation
Monday, July 29, 2024 at 1:00 PM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Improving Robustness of DNN-Dependent ADS: Transforming Input Distributions to Account for Inference and System State
Aparna Kishore: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Electric Vehicle Adoption and Residential Charging Modelling
Zhepei Wei: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: InstructRAG: Instructing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Explicit Denoising
Zheng Chai: PhD Defense Presentation
Monday, July 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title:
Anshuman Suri: PhD Defense Presentation
Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM in Rice 128 & Zoom
Title: Inference Privacy in Machine Learning
Jiechao Gao: PhD Defense Presentation
Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Rice 103 & Zoom
Title: Towards Private and Accurate IoT Applications
William Leeson: PhD Defense Presentation
Monday, July 8, 2024 at 11:00 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Learning to Improve Program Analysis using Graph Representations
Trey Woodlief: PhD Proposal Presentation
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 3:00 PM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: BRIDGES: Bridging the Semantic Gap between Safety-Critical Autonomous System Requirements and Semantically-Rich Sensor Data
Dane Williamson: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Characterizing Explanation Inconsistency amid Semantic Out-of-Distribution Shifts: An Image Classification Case Study
Erzhen Hu: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: InSight: Reframing Spatial Boundaries for Out-of-View Information in VR Collaboration
Carl Hildebrandt: PhD Defense Presentation
Monday, June 3, 2024 at 10:00 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Autonomous System Testing: Incorporating Physical Environments and Physical Semantics
Matthew Clark: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Friday, May 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Mining Multimodal and Multidimensional Patterns of Trustworthy Behavior
Kayla Boggess: PhD Proposal Presentation
Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 1:00 PM in Link Lab 211
Title: Explanations for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Tao Jin: PhD Proposal Presentation
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Efficient Rank Elicitation from Pairwise Comparisons
Lahiru Nuwan Senarathna Wijayasingha: PhD Defense Presentation
Monday, May 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM in Thornton Hall, Rodman Room
Title: Towards A Cognitive Assistant for Emergency Medical Service Providers
Previous years' presentation listings
Logan Moody: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Friday, May 17, 2024 at 10:00 AM in Rice 108
Title: Accelerating the Recovery Path through Criticality-Driven Micro-Op Cache Optimizations
Galen Harrison: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Private Privacy Evaluations: Synthetic Data for PETs Red-teaming
Arnabjyoti Kalita: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 2:00 PM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Ceviche: Capability-Enhanced Virtualization of Caches
Morteza Baradaran: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: PARMIK: PArtial Read Matching with Inexpensive K-mers
Soneya Binta Hossain: PhD Proposal Presentation
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM in Rice 414 & Zoom
Title: Assessing and Improving Critical Properties of Test Oracles for Effective Software Bug Detection
James Kotary: PhD Proposal Presentation
Friday, May 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Rice 204 & Zoom
Title: End-to-End Learning for Constrained Optimization
Dung Nguyen: PhD Proposal Presentation
Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Differentially Private Graph Analysis
Hannah Chen: PhD Proposal Presentation
Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Sensitivity Auditing for Trustworthy Large Language Models
Yuqi Fu: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: SEALS: A Self-Adaptive, Learned Schedule for Serverless Functions
Korakit Seemakhupt: PhD Proposal Presentation
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Characterizing and Mitigating Communication Overhead in a Cloud System
Zhifan Lu: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Monday, April 29, 2024 at 3:30 PM via Zoom
Title: I Can Still See You: Layer 2 Correlation Attack in the LTE Tor Network
Tanmoy Sen: PhD Proposal Presentation
Monday, April 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM in Rice 103 & Zoom
Title: Enhancing Performance of Deep Learning Training and Inference on Resource-constrained Edge Devices
Md Aashikur Rahman Azim: PhD Defense Presentation
Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 11:00 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Toward Designing Usable Body-Based Gesture Interactions
Zhendong Chu: PhD Defense Presentation
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Developing Adaptive Information Systems: Learning and Evolving Human Feedback
Nabeel Nasir: PhD Defense Presentation
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 10:00 AM in The Rotunda Dome Room & Zoom
Title: Untangling the Cloud from Edge Computing for the Internet of Things
Aidan San: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Friday, April 12, 2024 at 11:00 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Evaluating Large Language Model Consistency Under Language Style Variation
Jiayi Chen: PhD Defense Presentation
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 8:00 AM via Zoom
Title: A Journey of Personalization-aware Collaborative Multimodal Machine Learning
Wanyu Du: PhD Defense Presentation
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 3:00 PM in Rice 103 & Zoom
Title: Towards Controllable and Data-Efficient Natural Language Generation
Zhe Wang: PhD Defense Presentation
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Toward Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Deep Learning Models
Ingy El Sayed-Aly: PhD Defense Presentation
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Safe Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Environments
Dong Xu: PhD Defense Presentation
Friday, March 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Understanding and Enhancing Neural Network Verification Performance
Galen Harrison: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Monday, March 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Private Privacy Evaluations: Synthetic Data for PETs Red-teaming
Fateme Nikseresht: PhD Proposal Presentation
Friday, March 22, 2024 at 3:00 PM in Rice 128
Title: Advancing Sensing Capabilities by Employing Ubiquitous Radio Frequency Signals
Matthew Landers: PhD Qualifying Exam Presentation
Friday, March 22, 2024 at 9:30AM in Rice 108
Title: Parameter Transfer forSingle-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning
Josephine Lamp: PhD Defense Presentation
Monday, March 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support Systems for Medical Trajectories
Guangtao Zheng: PhD Proposal Presentation
Monday, March 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM in Rice 414 & Zoom
Title: Building Robust Machine Learning Models Against Spurious Bias
JING MA: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 11:30AM in Rice 504 & Zoom
Title: When Causal Inference Meets Graph Machine Learning: Unleashing the Potential of Mutual Benefit
NUSRAT MOZUMDER: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 11:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Identification of Relevant Latent Subspace for Efficient Neural Network Validation
ALI AHAD: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, May 8, 2023 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Hardening Data Processing Software via Framework-based Partitioning and Isolation
INGY ELSAYED-ALY: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Safe Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Environments
SANCHIT SINHA: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 3:45 PM in Rice 504 & Zoom
Title: Improving Global Interpretability of DNNs using Generalizable Concept Learning
JOSEPHINE LAMP: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 11:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support Systems for Medical Trajectories
JOSEPH SPAETH: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 2:30 PM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Improving Digital Object Alignment and Real-Time Visualization Via Real-Life Object Tracking
ASHLEY GAO: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 9:00 AM in Link Lab (Olsson) 217
Title: Addressing Realisms Faced by Deep Learning Models in Cyber Physical Systems
BORA LEE: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 14, 2023 at 3:00 PM in Link Lab (Olsson) 211
Title: Towards Program Transformation Assisted Static Analysis
CHRISTOPHER MORSE: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 14, 2023 at 11:00 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: SpRInG: A Spatial Relation Inference for Robot Systems
RYAN PHILPPE LENFANT: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 14, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Olsson 211
TItle: Understanding Plant Communication with Commercial Sensors
SPENCER KEEFER: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 12:30 PM in Rice 107 & Zoom
Title: A Toolkit for Creating Tangible Interfaces with Dynamic States using Compliance Illusion
NAN WANG: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 9:00 AM in Rice 504 & Zoom
Title: Towards Transparent and Fair Personalization Systems
JIAYI CHEN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, April 7, 2023 at 4:30 PM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Collaborative Multimodal Learning with Partial Observations and Spatio-temporal Task Heterogeneity
JIAN WANG: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 7, 2023 at 10:30 AM in Rice 540 & Zoom
Title: Deep Image Analysis Based on Deformable Shapes and Its Applications to Neuroimaging
DUNG NGUYEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Differently Private Community Detection for Stochastic Block Models
KAYLA BOGGESS: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 3:15 PM in Link Lab (Olsson) 211
Title: Explainable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Queries
JIANHUI SUN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 11:00 AM in Rice 504 & Zoom
Title: Efficient Federated Optimization Algorithms with Extreme Client Heterogeneity and Complex Objective Functions
MARSHALL CLYBURN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 3:30 PM in Rice 504
Title: Accounting Simultaneous Peripheral Usage in Multi-tenant Embedded Systems
ABTIN AFSHAR: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:00 PM in Rice 414 & Zoom
Title: On the Complexity of Multi-Party Non-Interactive Key-Exchange
VANAMALA VENKATASWAMY: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, February 6, 2023 at 3:00 PM in Rice 107 & Zoom
Title: Scheduling to Ensure Performance and Cost Effectiveness in Power-Modulated Datacenters
MD FAZLAY RABBI MASUM BILLAH: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 10:15 AM in Rice 108 & Zoom
Title: Enhancing the Human-IoT Interaction Experience through Deep Multimodal Sensor Fusion
JING MA: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Bridging the Gap Between Causal Inference and Graph Machine Learning
YINZHU JIN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM in Rice 514
Title: Measuring Feature Dependency of Neural Networks by Collapsing Feature Dimensions in the Data Manifold
ALIF AHMED: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, December 16, 2022 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Understanding and Optimizing Memory Access Behaviors via Hardware/Software Co-design
TU LE: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Ensuring User Privacy in the World of Internet-of-Things
FATEME NIKSERESHT: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 11:30 AM in Link Lab (Olsson) 211
Title: Adaptable Sensor-free Occupancy Detection Using WiFi Fine Time Measurement
FELIPE TOLEDO: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 10:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Towards Verification of Natural Language Processing Models
LAHIRU NUWAN SENARATHNA WIJAYASINGHA
Monday, December 12, 2022 at 3:00 PM in Link Lab (Olsson) 211
Title: Smart Glasses as Support for Training First Responders
CHUANHAO LI: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, December 12, 2022 at 3:00 PM in Rice 204 & Zoom
Title: Decision Making in Multi-agent Systems: from Cooperation to Competition
LINGXI WU: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Designing Near-data-processing Solutions for Data-intensive Applications
ANSHUMAN SURI: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM in Rice 504 & Zoom
Title: Distribution Inference
SIKUN GUO: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, December 2, 2022 at 4:00 PM in Rice 504 & Zoom
Title: Robust Graph Neural Networks via Adaptive Aggregator Selection and Long-range Dependency Modeling
BARGAV JAYARAMAN: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, December 2, 2022 at 3:00 PM in Rice 107 and Teams
Title: Analyzing the Leaky Cauldron: Inference Attacks on Machine Learning
ELIZABETH PALMIERI: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, December 2, 2022 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: An Empirical Study on Readers' Intuition of the Political Stances in News Headlines
CONNER WARD: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 10:00 AM in Rice 109 & Zoom
Title: Speculative Super-optimization: Dynamic Binary Vector Widening
SWAPNA THORVE: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, November 28, 2022 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Data-Driven Scalable AI for Addressing Problems in the Study of Smart Grids
RITWICK MISHRA: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Reconstructing an Epidemic Outbreak using Steiner Connectivity
DAVID SHRIVER: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, November 18, 2022 at 11:00 AM in Rice 032 & Zoom
Title: Increasing the Applicability of Verification Tools for Neural Networks
NAN WANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, November 17, 2022 a 3:00 PM in Rice 204 & Zoom
Title: Building Transparent and Fair Personalization Systems
WEN YING: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 1:00 PM in Rice 504 & Zoom
Title: VRScroll: A Shape-Changing Device for Precise Sketching in Virtual Reality
JIECHAO GAO: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 10:00 AM in Rice 109 Zoom
Title: Towards Private and Accurate IoT Applications
ZIROU QIU: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, November 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Finiding Nontrivial Minimum Fixed Points in Discrete Dynamical Systems
LIWEI GUO: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, September 16, 2022 at 3:00 PM via Zoom and in Olsson 211
Title: Operating and Runtime Systems Toward an Efficient and Secure Edge
TU LE: PHD QUALIFICATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Exploring Smart Commercial Building Occupants' Perceptions and Notification Preferences of IoT Data Collection
ASHLEY YE GAO: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Addressing Realisms Faced by Deep Learning Models in Cyber Physical Systems
KISHLAY JHA: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, July 25, 2022 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: A Continual Machine Learning Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
XIAO ZHANG: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, July 22, 2022 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: From Characterizing Intrinsic Robustness to Adversarial Robust Machine Learning
MENGDI HUAI: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, July 18, 2022 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Fostering Trustworthiness in Machine Learning Algorithms
SIHANG LIU: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, July 18, 2022 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: A Holistic System Support for Persistent Memory
TAMJID AL RAHAT: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 3:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Efficient Security Checking for OAuth Service Provider Implementations
JIANFANG CHI: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Towards Understanding and Practices of Ethical Artificial Intelligence
WENQIANG (WINSTON) CHEN: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 10:00 AM in Link Lab 211
Title: ViWatch: Harness Vibrations for Fine-grained On-body Interfaces with a Commodity IMU Sensor
LU LIN: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Graph Structure as a Double-Edge Sword in Machine Learning
ARSHDEEP SEKHON: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Relational Structure Discovery for Deep Learning
HANJIE CHEN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
TItle: Neural Model Interpretability for Natural Language Processing
SWAPNA THORVE: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 10:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Data-Driven Scalable AI Techniques for Addressing Problems in the Study of Smart Grids
INGY ELSAYED-ALY: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, June 10, 2022 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Logic-based Reward Shaping for Multi-Agent Reinforced Learning
ADIL RAHMAN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Frappe: An Ultra Lightweight Mobile Application Framework for Rapid API-based Prototyping and Environmental Deployment
MD FAZLAY RABBI MASUM BILLAH: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Towards Multimodal Sensor Fusion for Deep Learning Models
YASUNARI KATO: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 3:00 PM in Olsson Hall 211 & Zoom
Title: Crash Consistency for Parallel Persistent Memory Programs
ABDOLRASOUL SHARIFI: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 11:30 AM via Zoom
Title: A Capability-Based Type Checking Engine for Enforcing Memory Safety and Type Safety
FARZANA AHMED SIDDIQUE: QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, May 6, 2022 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Evaluating Deterministic vs. Non Deterministic Finite Automata Model for Automata Processing
CHIJUNG JUNG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 9:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Swarm Mission Slicing for Effective and Focused Testing
JIANHUI SUN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Close the Robust Generalization Gap via Manipulating Diffusion
AMAN SHRIVASTAVA: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, April 25, 2022 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Estimating and Maximizing Mutual Information for Knowledge Distillation
NICHOLAS MOHAMMAD: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 5:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Occlusion-aware Motion Planning of Autonomous Robots in Cluttered and Unknown Environments
G. MICHAEL FITZGERALD II: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 1:00 PM In Olsson Hall 211
Title: A New Approach For Designing Time Series Data Storage Systems
FAN YAO: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 10:45 AM via Zoom
Title: Recommendation Algorithm Design for Learning Users
JOSIE LAMP: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 9:30AM via Zoom
Title: Differentially Private Learning for Logic-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems
YILING JAI: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 15, 2022 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Toward Reliable Decision-Making in Information Systems
LIWEI GUO: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 8:30 AM in Olsson 211 (Link Lab)
Title: Turbocharging NLP Cold Start Inference at the Edge
MARZIEH LENJANI: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 11, 2022 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Rethinking Control, Access, and Communication Mechanisms for Data-Intensive Applications
A S M AHSAN-UL HAQUE: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Rethinking Conversational Recommendations: Is Decision Tree All You Need
JIAN WANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, April 1, 2022 at 9:00 AM in Thornton D115 & Zoom
Title: Deep Image Analysis Based on Deformable Shapes and Its Applications to Neuroimaging
TREY WOODLIEF: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, March 25, 2022 at 8:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Foundations for Fault Analysis for Robotic Systems
JI GAO: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, March 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: On Security and Privacy Implications of Modifying Machine Learning Datasets
LU LIN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, February 14, 2022 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Graph Structure as a Double-Edged Sword in Machine Learning
JIANFENG CHI: PHD DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, February 2, 2022 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Towards Understanding and Practices of Ethical Artificial Intelligence
HANNAH CHEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, January 28, 2022 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Balanced Adversarial Training: Balancing Tradeoffs Between Oversensitivity and Undersensitivity in NLP Models
PRATHYUSH SAMBATURU: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Controlling Epidemicson Networks Using Stochastic Optimization Techniques
PENG WANG: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Graph-based Extractive Explainer for Recommendations
JASPREET RANJIT: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, December 6, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Analyzing Biases in Visual Recognition Models
DAVID SHRIVER: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, November 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Increasing the Applicability of Verification Tools for Neural Networks
ARSHDEEP SEKHON: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, November 5, 2021 at 11:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Relational Structure Discovery for Deep Learning
ZHE WANG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, November 5, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: ST-MAML: A Stochastic-Task based Method for Task-Heterogeneous Meta-Learning
WANYU DU: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, November 1, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Controlled Open-domain Dialogue Generation via Additive Side Networks
JIBANG WU: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, October 11, 2021 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Auctioning with Strategically Reticent Bidders
SONEYA BIOTA HOSSAIN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Measuring Structural Code Coverage Based on Test Assertions
ASHLEY GAO: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: The Enforced Transfer: A Novel Transfer Learning Solution Applied to Interpersonal Conflict Detection and More
ANSHUMAN SURI: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Formalizing and Estimating Distribution Inference Risks
JI GAO: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: On Security and Privacy Implications of Modifying Machine Learning Datasets
YILING JIA: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, August 2, 2021 at 1:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Toward Reliable Interactive Learning for Search and Recommendation Systems
RENQIN CAI: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 2:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Exploit the Structure of User Feedback in Recommender Systems
SIRAT SAMYOUN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 2:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Toward Intelligent Monitoring and Assistive Technologies for Healthcare using Smartwatches
HUAZHENG WANG: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 2:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Learning by Exploration with Information Advantage
JACK LANCHANTIN: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Modeling interactions with Deep Learning
JIAYI CHEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, July 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Adaptive Topological Transduction for Imbalanced Multimodal Few-shot Learning
LIJING WANG: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 5:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Reliable Epidemic Forecasting
MEIYI MA: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Formal Methods Enhanced Deep Learning for Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems
GUANGTAO ZHENG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, July 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Meta-Learning Class Structures for Improved Few-Shot Classification
MITCH GERRARD: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, July 12, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Alternating Conditional Analysis
ARON HARDER: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Scenario2Vector - Scenario Description Language Based Embeddings for Traffic Situation
WILLIAM LEESON: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Algorithm Selection for Program Verification using Graph Neural Networks
LIUWANG KANG: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, June 21, 2021 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Data-Driven Battery Attack Detection and Control Behavior Determination for Vehicle Driving Safety
TIANLU WANG: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Measuring and Mitigating Biases in Vision and Language Models
JIECHAO GAO: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 2:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Residential Energy Management System Using Personalized Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning
XIDA REN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, May 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Exploring New Attacks on the Intel/AMD Micro-Op Cache
WENQIANG CHEN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Vibration Intelligence: Bringing Machine Perception Beyond the Human-Like
MENGDI HUAI: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, May 10, 2021 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Fostering Trustworthiness in Machine Learning and Algorithms
HAOYU WANG: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 23, 2021 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Reducing Network Latency for Web Applications in a Datacenter
WILL XIAO: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 4:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Fashion Trend Detection
FUWEN TAN: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 5:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Learning Local Representations of Images and Text
KAI LIN: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: SenseBody: A Multi-agent Human Activity Recognition System Using Wearable Devices
AKHIL SAI PEDDIREDDY: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 4:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Real-time Epidemiological Workflows: From Surveillance to Forecasting for COVID-19 response
MOHIT SUDHAKAR: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 21, 2021 at 3:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Detoxification of Pretrained Language Models through Subspace Transformation
MANISHA SUDHIR: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Controlling Diffusion on Multi-Pathway Spatial Networks: Application to Biological Invasions
JIN YONG YOO: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 19, 2021 at 9:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Towards Improving Adversarial Robustness of NLP Models
HANG SU: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 16, 2021 at 5:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Shorter and Faster Post-Quantum Designated-Verifier zkSNARK from Lattices
SANCHIT SINHA: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 16, 2021 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Perturbing Inputs for Fragile Interpretations in Deep Natural Language Processing
ANIRUDDHA DAVE: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 16, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
TItle: Disentangling Representations in Pre-Trained Language Models
CHUANHAO LI: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: A Unified Approach to Clustered Non-stationary Linear Bandits
ANASTASIA LALAMENTIK: MS THESIS PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Tactile Glance: Encoding Notifications using Illusive Movement Constraints for Eyes- and Ears-free Interaction
RENQIN CAN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 3:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Exploit the Structure of User Feedback in Recommender Systems
RISHAB BAMRAMRA: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Poisoning Attacks on Online Learning to Rank
ZHENDONG CHU: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 10:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Learning from Crowds by Modeling Common Confusions
SIHANG LIU: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Title: A Holistic System Support for Persistent Memory
ALIF AHMED: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Fine Grained Shadow Workload Generation Preserving Memory Access Patterns
LIUWANG KANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, March 19, 2021 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Data-Driven Battery Attack Detection and Control Behavior Determination for Vehicle Driving Safety
ANSHUMAN SURI: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, March 19, 2021 at 9:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Property Inference Attacks on Deep Learning Models
HUAZHENG WANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 3:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Learning by Exploration with Information Advantage
MD FAZLAY RABBI MASUM BILLAH: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Indoor Occupancy Detection with Heterogeneous Smart Devices: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
SUYA: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Designing Better Attacks with Information about Data Distributions and Realistic Attacker Goals
JACK LANCHANTIN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, January 15, 2021 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Representation Learning for Biological Sequence Data
ANKUR SARKER: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Friday, January 15, 2021 at 9:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Data-Driven Misbehavior Generation and Detection Methodologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
GUANGXU XUN: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Monday, January 11, 2021 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Contextual Representation Learning for Text Data
BARGAV JAYARAMAN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Analyzing the Leaky Cauldron: Defending Machine Learning against Inference Attacks
TIANLU WANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, December 18, 2020 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Measuring and Mitigating Biases in Vision and Language Models
PRATHYUSH KUMAR KASYAP SAMBATURU: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, December 18, 2020 at 8:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Controlling Epidemics on Networks and Explaining Spatio-Temporal Clusters of Epidemic Spread
ZIYAN YANG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM
Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Using Visual Feature Space as a Pivot Across Languages
FUWEN TAN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Learning Local Representations of Images and Text
ZHENDONG CHU: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Learning from Crowds by Modeling Common Confusions
LIJING WANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, December 14, 2020 at 5:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Reliable Epidemic Forecasting
MARZIEH LENJANI: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 3:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Breaking the Memory Wall: Light-weight Compression and Near-data Processing for Data-intensive Applications
FAYSAL HOSSAIN SHEZAN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM
Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 12:30 PM via Zoom
Title: VerHealth: Vetting Medical Voice Applications through Policy Enforcement
ANASTASIA LALAMENTIK: MASTER'S THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Tactile Glance: Encoding Notifications using Illusive Movement Constraints for Eyes- and Ears-free Interaction
GUANGXU XUN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
TItle: Contextual Representation Learning for Text Data
SANXING CHEN: MASTER'S THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Contextualizing Language Understanding wiht Graph-based Knowledge Representations
NABEEL NASIR: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: An Architecture for Edge Computing over Underutilized Gateways
WENQIAN CHEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, September 4, 2020 at 8:30 AM via Zoom
Title: Continuous Micro Finger Writing for AR/VR Interaction Using Vibration on a Commodity Smartwatch
SARAH MASUD PREUM: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Monday, August 31, 2020 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Information Extraction and Fusion for Improving Health Safety
WEN YING: MASTER'S (MS) THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 2:30 PM via Zoom
Title: Evaluation of Touch Gesture Performance on Surfaces in Virtual Reality
RYAN MCCAMPBELL: MATER'S (MS) THESIS PRESENTATION
Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 12:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Towards Probabilistic Reasoning for Autonomous Vehicles
MAGGIE GATES: MASTER'S (MS) THESIS PRESENTATION
Friday, July 17, 2020 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Towards Trustworthy Swarming of Autonomous Vehicles
SAEED MAHLOUJIFAR: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 10:30 AM via Zoom
Title: A Formal Approach to Adversarial Machine Learning
KISHLAY JHA: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 10:30 AM via Zoom
Title: LifelongTextMiner: A Continual Machine Learning Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery from Biomedical Corpus
MD AASHIKUR RAHMAN AZIM: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 20, 2020 at 9:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Handling Conflicts Between Foot Gestures and Daily Foot Activities
QINGYUN WU: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Interactive Online Learning with Incomplete Knowledge
MINBIAO HAN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 9:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Be Careful When Learning to Price: A Theory of Learning from Strategically Revealed Preferences
JIANFENG CHI: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 4:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Trade-offs and Guarantees in Adversarial Representation Learning for Attribute Obfuscation and Inference
LAHIRU NUWAN WIJAYASINGHA: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Frequency Domain Features and Their Robustness for Spoken Emotion Classification with CNN
VANAMALA VENKATASWAMY: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Scheduling to ensure performance and cost effectiveness in data centers running on renewable energy
TANMOY SEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, May 29, 2020 at 10:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Hybrid and Compressed DNN Ensemble Models on Edge Devices for Handling Diverse Noises
JIAN WANG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Predictive Modeling for Regularization Estimation in Image Registration
LINGXI WU: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Sieve: Scalable In-situ DRAM-based Accelerator Designsfor Massively Parallel k-mer Matching
CARL HILDEBRANDT: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, May 4, 2020 at 2:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Automated Shielding using Kinematic and Dynamic Models for Feasible and Safe Reinforcement Learning
HANJIE CHEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, April 27, 2020 at 11:00 AM via Zoom
Title: Generating Hierarchical Explanations on Text Classification via Feature Interaction Detection
XIAO ZHANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 1:00 PM via Zoom
Title: Adversarial Defenses and Intrinsic Robustness: Bridging the Gap
HAOYU WANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM in Rice 107
Title: Reducing Network Latency for Web Applications in a Datacenter
NAN WANG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 11:00 AM in Rice 107
Title: Unbiased Learning to Rank via Propensity Ratio Scoring on Implicit Feedback
LU LIN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 10:30 AM in Rice 514
Title: Graph Attention Networks over Edge Content-Based Channels
ANKUR SARKER: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 2:00 PM in Rice 504
Title: Data-Driven Misbehavior Generation and Detection Methodologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
MD ABU SAYEED MONDOL: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, January 10, 2020 at 11:00 AM in Link Lab 211
Title: Movement Visualization and Activity Recognition using Smart Wearables
AVINASH KALYANARAMAN: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 3:00 PM in Rice 242
Title: Radar Sensing Systems for Smarter Indoor Human Environments
HYUN JAE CHO: MASTER'S THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 9:00 AM in Olssen 104
Title: Toward Automated Safety Coverage and Testing for Autonomous Vehicles
ANKUR SARKER: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 12:00 PM in Rice 24
Title: Data-Driven Misbehavior Generation and Detection Methodologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
ARSHDEEP SEKHON: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 9:00 AM in Rice 504
Title: InteractChrome: Combining Graphical Models and Graph Neural Networks to Identify Expression Guided Epigenetic Interactions
MARZIEH LENJANI: PHD QUALIFCATION EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, November 18, 2019 at 9:30 AM in Rice 242
Title: Fulcrum: a Simplified Control and Access Mechanism toward Flexible and Practical in-situ Accelerators
M ARIF IMTIAZUR RAHMAN: PHD QUALIFICATION EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, November 15, 2019 at 12:30 PM in Rice 204
Title: GRACE: Generating Summary Reports Automatically for Cognitive Assistance in Emergency Response
CHUNKUN BO: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, November 4, 2019 at 3:00 PM in Rice 242
Title: Automata Processing: from Application Acceleration to Hardware Design
ELAHE SOLTANAGHAEI: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 2:00 PM in Link lab 211
Title: Sensing the Physical World Using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure
MOHSIN YUSUF AHMED: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 12:00 PM in Rice 242
Title: Real-Time Dynamic Physical Phenomenon Adapted Machine Learning Pipeline for Smart Acoutsics
ERIN GRIFFITHS: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, July 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM in Rice 504
Title: Solving Human Centric Challenges in Ambient Intelligence Environments to Meet Societal Needs
ASIF SALEKIN: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM in Rice 504
Title: Human Vocal Event Detection for Realistic Healthcare Applications
LIN GONG: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM in Rice 504
Title: Insights: From Social Psychology to Computation User Modeling
LI YAN: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, May 13, 2019 at 8:30 AM in Rice 504
Title: Data Driven Modeling and Scheduling of Hybrid Wireless Power Transfer Charging Systems
AHMADREZA RAHIMI: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 12:00 PM in Rice 504
Title: Registration-Based Encription: Definitions, Constructions, and Lower Bounds
ASHLEY GAO: MS THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 22, 2019 at 1:30 PM in Rice 504
Title: Acoustic Pipeline for Speech-Based Emotion Detection
FUWEN TAN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, April 22, 2019 at 12:00 PM in Rice 514
Title: Text2Scene: Generating Compositional Scenes from Textual Descriptions
YILING JIA: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, April 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM in Rice 504
Title: Active Collaborative Sensing for Household Energy Breakdown
MASTER'S THESIS DEFENSE: HANNAH LEUNG
Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 5:00 PM in Rice 504
The Physical Semantics of Code
ELAHEH SADREDINI: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 4:00 PM in Olsson 104
Title: Accelerating Pattern Recognition Processing with In-Memory Architectures
WEILIN XU: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 15, 2019 at 11:00 AM in Rice 504
Title: Improving Robustness of Machine Learning Models Using Domain Knowledge
MEIYI MA: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 11:30 AM in Rice 504
Title: Conflict Detection and Resolution among Smart Services in Smart Cities
LU LIN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 1:00 PM in Rice 536
Title: Modeling User-generated Content with Item Response Theory
MD ANINDYA PRODHAN: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 10:30 AM in Rice 504
Title: Campus Compute Co-Operative (CCC): A Service Oriented Cloud Federation
MITCHELL GERRARD: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, March 1, 2019 at 2:00 PM in Rice 314
Title: Alternating Conditional Analysis
SHRIRAG KODOOR: MASTER'S PROJECT PRESENTATION
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 3:00 PM in Rice 204
Title: Fly-by-pixels: End-to-end Learning for Autonomous FPV Drone Flight
CHUNKUN BO: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, December 10, 2018 at 1:00 PM in Rice 242
Title: Automata Processing: from Application Acceleration to Hardware Design
VANAMALA VENKATASWAMY: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM in Rice 504
Title: Pratikriti - An Asynchronous Data Replication Service in the GFFS
LIUWANG KANG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Friday, November 30, 2018 at 1:00 PM in Rice 108
Title: Attack Detection and Mitigation for Sensor and CAN Bus Attacks in Vehicle Anti-lock Braking Systems
MD MASUDUR RAHMAN: MASTER'S PROJECT PRESENTATION
Monday, November 19, 2018 at 9:30 AM in Rice 504
Title: How do Developers Use General-Purpose Web-Search Engine for Code Retrieval?
ELAHEH SADREDINI: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, November 19, 2018 at 3:00 PM in Rice 242
Title: Accelerating Complex Pattern Recognition Processing with In-Memory Accelerator Architectures
JINGHUI CHEN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, November 9, 2018 at 12:00 PM in Rice 242
Title: Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Deep Learning: An Optimization Perspective
DEZHI HONG: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Monday, October 15, 2018 at 3:00 PM in Rice 404
Title: Towards Automatic Context Inference for Sensors in Commercial Buildings
FNU SUYA: PHD QUALYING EXAM PROPOSAL
Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:00pm in Rice 108
Title: Adversaries Don't Care About Averages: Batch Attacks Against Deep Learning Models
CHONG TANG: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Friday, August 31, 2018 at 2:00pm in Rice 504
Title: Improving System Performance via Design and Configuration Space Exploration
NING YU: MASTERS PROJECT PRESENTATION
Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 1:00pm in Rice 404
Title: User-Controlled Texture Synthesis and Interpolation via Deep Variational Autoencoder
QINGYUN WU: PHD PROPOSAL
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 1:00pm in Rice 414
Title: Interactive Online Learning with Incomplete Knowledge
BEILUN WANG: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, July 20, 2018 at 9:00am in Rice 242
Title: Fast and Scalable Joint Estimators for Learning Sparse Gaussian Graphical Models from Heterogeneous Data with Additional Knowledge
JOHN HOTT: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, July 13, 2018 at 10:00 am in Rice 242
Title: Evolving Networks: Structure & Dynamics
LU TIAN: MASTER'S THESIS DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, June 4, 2018 at 10:00am in Rice 404
Title: Distributed and Secure Sparse Machine Learning
JINGHUI CHEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 9:30am in Rice 204
Title: Closing the Generalization Gap of Adaptive Gradient Methods in Training Deep Neural Networks
HUAZHENG WANG: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 10:00am in Rice 514
Title: Efficient Exploration of Gradient Space for Online Learning to Rank
LIN GONG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, April 27, 2018 at 10:00am in Rice 103
Title: Insights: From Social Psychology to Computational User Modeling
ANUDEEP KONDA: MASTER'S THESIS
Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 11:00am in Rice 108
Title: Automatic Quantification of Cardiac MRI for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
WEILIN XU: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 8:00am in Rice 304
Title: Improving Robustness of Machine Learning Models using Domain Knowledge
IN KEE KIM: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, April 13, 2018 at 1:00pm in Rice 204
Title: Proactive Resource Management to Ensure Predictable End-to-End Performance for Cloud Applications
ZHUOZHAO LI: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 9, 2018 at 4:00pm in Rice 242
Title: Scheduling Techniquess in Different Architectures of Data-parallel Clusters for High Performance
JACK WADDEN: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 9, 2018 at 2:00pm in Rice 128
Title: Accelerated Automata Processing Using Hybrid Spatial/von Neumann Architectures
RITAMBHARA SINGH: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, April 9, 2018 at 12:00pm in Rice 504
Title: Fast and Interpretable Classification of Sequential Data in Biology
JI GAO: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 10:00am in Rice 504
Title: Black-box Generation of Adversarial Text Sequences to Evade Deep Learning Classifiers
ELAHE SOLTANAGHAEI: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, April 2, 2018 at 10:00am in Link Lab 211
Title: Wireless Mulitpath: From a Challenge to an Opportunity for Sensing and Localization
AVINASH KALYANARAMAN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 10:00am in Rice 504
Title: Sherlock Homes : Towards Practical Person Tracking in Homes
AMEER MOHAMMED: PHD DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, March 2, 2018 at 12:15pm in Rice 504
Title: The Computational Complexity of Program Obfuscation
BARGAV JAYARAMAN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAMINATION PRESENTATION
Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 10:30am in Rice 109
Title: Combining Differential Privacy and Multi-Party Computation for Distributed Machine Learning
WILLIAM HAWKINS: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Monday, January 15, 2018 at 9:00am in Rice 404
Title: Static Binary Rewriting to Improve Software Security, Safety, and Reliability
ASIF SALEKIN: PHD DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 2:30pm in Rice 204
Title: Human Vocal Event Detection for Realistic Applications
LI YAN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, December 4, 2017 at 10:00am in Rice 404
Title: Leveraging Large-scale Urban Data Analysis in Designing Intelligent Urban Transportation Systems
BEILUN WANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 11:00am in Rice 504
Title: Fast and Scalable Joint Estimators for Learning Sparse Gaussian Graphical Models from Heterogeneous Data
WILLIAM YOUNG: MCS PROJECT PRESENTATION
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 1:00pm in Rice 204
Title: DAMON - Data Authenticity Monitoring Systems for Diabetes Management
ZEYA CHEN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, November 20, 2017 at 9:00am in Rice 204
Title: An Indoor Distant Speaker Identification System
MEYI MA: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 10:00am in Rice 514
Title: CityGuard - A Watchdog for Safety-Aware Conflict Detection in Smart Cities
ZHUOZHAO LI: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, November 6, 2017 at 3:30pm in Rice 204
Title: Improving the Performance of Applications in Cloud Environments
YUCHI TIAN: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, September 18, 2017 at 10:00am in Rice 204
Title: Automatically Diagnosing and Repairing Error Handling Bugs in C
LILIYA MCLEAN BESALEVA: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Friday, August 25, 2017 at 10:00am in Rice 242
Title: Smart E-Commerce Personalization Using Customized Algorithms
LILIYA MCLEAN BESALEVA: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Friday, August 25th, 2017 at 10:00 am in Rice 242
Title: Smart E-Commerce Personalization Using Customized Algorithms
NATHAN BRUNELLE: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Monday, July 31, 2017 at 9:00 am in Rice 242
Title: Superscalable Algorithms
JONATHAN DORN: PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 12:30 pm in Rice 536
Title: Optimizing Tradeoffs of Non-Functional Properties in Software
AMEER MOHAMMED: PHD PROPOSAL
Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 3:00 pm in Rice 536
Title: The Computational Complexity of Program Obfuscation
RITAMBHARA SINGH: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, May 1, 2017 at 11:00 am in Rice 504
Title: Fast and Interpretable Classification of Sequential Data in Biology
NING YU: PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 10:00 am in Rice 404
Title: Learning to Detect Multiple Photographic Defects
PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION: IFAT EMI
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 10:00 am in Rice 404
ZACK VERHAM: MASTER’S PROJECT PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
JACK WADDEN: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 at 2:00 pm in Rice 128 (Young Board Room)
CHONG TANG: PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10:00 am in Rice 536
QIANG LI, PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 7:30 am in Rice 536
Title: Multi-Body, Multi-Function Body Sensor Networks
WILL HAWKINS, PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Monday, March 20, 2017 at 10:00 AM in Rice 414
QINGYUN WU, QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Date: Monday, March 27, 2017 at 3:00 PM in Rice 404
HAINA LI, PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 12:00 PM in Rice 204
ERIN GRIFFITHS, PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Date: Friday, March 10, 2017 at 11:00 am in Rice 536
ELAHEH SADREDINI, PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 10:00 AM in Rice 242
SARAH PREUM, PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Friday, December 9, 2016 at 10:00AM in Rice 204
MUHAMMAD YANHAONA, PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Friday, December 2, 2016 at 10:00 am in Rice 242
Title: PCubeS Type Architecture and IT Programming Language
NATHAN BRUNELLE, PHD PROPOSAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 9:30 am in Rice 242
Title: Scalable Algorithms for the Post Moore’s Law Era
JUHI RANJAN, PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE PRESENTATION
Friday, October 21, 2016 at 8:30 am in Rice 204
Title: It Takes Two: Exploring Interactions between Smart Objects and Wearables to Implicitly Identify and Authenticate Object Users
JACK LANCHANTIN, PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, September 26, 2016 at 1:30 pm in Rice 504
Title: Deep Motif: Visualizing and Understanding Genomic Sequences Using Deep Neural Networks
ELAHE SOLTANAGHAEI, PHD QUALIFYING EXAM PRESENTATION
Monday, September 19, 2016 at 3:00 pm in Rice 504
Title: Classifying Home Occupancy States Using Walkway Sensing
JIAN XIANG, DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM in Rice 242
Title: Interpreted Formalism: Towards System Assurance and the Real-World Semantics of Software