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