Computer Science Student Presentations

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