Advancements in Efficient Training Strategies for Modern Deep Learning: From Implicit Deep Learning to Language Models and Beyond
Tanmay Gautam [advisor: Somayeh Sojoudi]

New Perspectives on Adversarially Robust Machine Learning Systems
Chawin Sitawarin [advisor: David A. Wagner]

Object-Centric Perception for Real-World Robotics
Nikhil Mishra [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]

Scalable and Efficient Systems for Large Deep Learning Models
Lianmin Zheng [advisor: Ion Stoica and Joseph Gonzalez]

Solving Matrix Sensing to Optimality under Realistic Settings
Ziye Ma [advisor: Somayeh Sojoudi]

Understanding, Building, and Evaluating Models for Context Aware Conditional Natural Language Generation
David Chan [advisor: John F. Canny]