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