Student Presentations

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: PdD 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

For our student presentations from 2015 - 2016, please visit this page.