A Data Converter Assisted Beamforming Technique
Zhenghan Lin [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]

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

Agile Hardware/Software Co-Design for Hyperscale Cloud Systems
Sagar Karandikar [advisor: Krste Asanović]

Algorithms for Learning and Incentive Design in Societal-Scale Systems
Kshitij Kulkarni [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry]

Algorithms for Robust and Memory-Efficient Learning
Fred Zhang [advisor: Jelani Nelson]

An Extensible Architecture for Distributed Heterogeneous Processing
Frank Luan [advisor: Ion Stoica]

Automated Testing, Verification and Repair of RTL Hardware Designs
Kevin Laeufer [advisor: Koushik Sen]

Backyard-Degradable Interactive Electronics
Katherine Song [advisor: Eric Paulos]

Bridging Gaps Between Metrics and Social Outcomes in Multi-Stakeholder Machine Learning
Serena Lutong Wang [advisor: Michael Jordan]

Building Agentic Systems in an Era of Large Language Models
Charles Packer [advisor: Joseph Gonzalez]

Circuit Design for Scalable and Fast Optical Circuit Switching
Erik Anderson [advisor: Vladimir Stojanovic]

Co-Designing Cryptographic Systems with Resource-Constrained Hardware
Jean-Luc Watson [advisor: Raluca Ada Popa and Prabal Dutta]

Collaborative Learning: Aligning Goals and Outcomes
Mariel Werner [advisor: Michael Jordan]

Compact Device Technologies for Compact Integrated Systems
Lars Tatum [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]

Cryogenic Optical Link: Device, Circuit, and System
Bozhi Yin [advisor: Vladimir Stojanovic]

Discovering the 4D World Behind Any Video
Vickie Ye [advisor: Angjoo Kanazawa]

Disentangled Visual Generative Models
Dave Epstein [advisor: Alexei (Alyosha) Efros]

Drawing Biological Understanding From Machine Learning
Forest Yang [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui]

Eco-friendly and Scalable Fabrication of Organic Optoelectronic Sensors
Jasmine Jan [advisor: Ana Claudia Arias]

Efficient and Scalable Large Multimodal Models
Sheng Shen [advisor: Kurt Keutzer and Trevor Darrell]

Efficient 3D Vision for Autonomous Driving
Philip Jacobson [advisor: Ming C. Wu]

Efficient 3D Vision for Autonomous Driving
Philip Jacobson [advisor: Ming C. Wu]

Empowering Large Language Models with Efficient and Automated Systems
Zhuohan Li [advisor: Ion Stoica]

Enabling Efficient and Reliable Robot Manipulation Through Optimization, Interactive Perception and Self-Supervised Learning
Yahav Avigal [advisor: Ken Goldberg]

Enabling Full-Stack DNN Accelerator Design and Evaluation on Synthesizable Hardware
Hasan Genc [advisor: Krste Asanović]

Ensuring Data Freshness Across Clouds for Model Serving
Sarah Wooders [advisor: Ion Stoica and Joseph Gonzalez]

Environment Generation for Autonomous Agents for Sequential Decision Making
Abdus Salam Azad [advisor: Ion Stoica]

Feedback Driven Dynamics in Socio-Algorithmic Systems
Mihaela Curmei [advisor: Benjamin Recht]

Foundation Models for Decision Making: Algorithms, Frameworks, and Applications
Sherry Yang [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]

From Simulation to the Real World: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Training Robust, Wave-Smoothing Policies for Autonomous Vehicles
Kathy Jang [advisor: Alexandre Bayen]

Full Stack Approach for Efficient Deep Learning Inference
Sehoon Kim [advisor: Kurt Keutzer]

Hardness of Approximation Across Different Models of Computation
Seri Khoury [advisor: Shafi Goldwasser]

High-Performance Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Power Converters: Circuit Topologies, Control Techniques, and Analytical Models
Yicheng Zhu [advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski]

Implicit Learning in Deep Models: Enhancing Extrapolation Power and Sparsity
Alicia Tsai [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui]

Learning About The World Through Video Generation
Wilson Yan [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]

Learning Efficiently with Trajectory Data for Real World Robotics
Philipp Wu [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]

Metal Pad Sensing: Theory, Application, Design, and Algorithms
Alan Dong [advisor: Michael Lustig]

Modeling Social Interactions from Multimodal Signals
Evonne Ng [advisor: Trevor Darrell and Angjoo Kanazawa]

Modeling the Structure of the Human Semantic System
Catherine Chen [advisor: Daniel Klein and Jack Gallant]

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

Obfuscation of Quantum Computation
James Bartusek [advisor: Sanjam Garg]

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

On Planning and Control for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
Fangyu Wu [advisor: Alexandre Bayen]

PLL Design for FMCW Radar Systems
Benyuanyi Liu [advisor: Ali Niknejad]

Programming Abstractions & Systems for Autonomous Vehicles
Sukrit Kalra [advisor: Ion Stoica]

Providing Efficient Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems
Siyuan Zhuang [advisor: Ion Stoica and Dawn Song]

Quantum Photonics and Electronics on a CMOS Chip
Danielius Kramnik [advisor: Vladimir Stojanovic]

Re-examining Metrics for Success in Machine Learning, from Fairness and Interpretability to Protein Design
Frances Ding [advisor: Moritz Hardt and Jacob Steinhardt]

Reliable Representation Learning: Theory and Practice
Yaodong Yu [advisor: Michael Jordan and Yi Ma]

Representation Learning for Efficient Localized Image Retrieval
Lucas Jaffe [advisor: Avideh Zakhor]

Robust Task Specification for Learning Systems
Sam Toyer [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]

Rotary Inchworm Motor for Underwater Microrobot Propulsion
Mauricio Bustamante Eguiguren [advisor: Kristofer Pister and Michel Maharbiz]

Rotary Inchworm Motor for Underwater Microrobot Propulsion
Mauricio Bustamante Eguiguren [advisor: Kristofer Pister and Michel Maharbiz]

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

Scalable Lifelong Imitation Learning for Robot Fleets
Ryan Hoque [advisor: Ken Goldberg]

Secure Systems from Insecure Components
Emma Dauterman [advisor: Ion Stoica and Raluca Ada Popa]

Shallow Quantum Circuits: Algorithms, Complexity, and Fault Tolerance
Yunchao Liu [advisor: Umesh Vazirani]

Sky Computing with Intercloud Brokers
Zhanghao Wu [advisor: Ion Stoica]

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

Split-Phase and Multi-Resonant Operation of Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Converters
Rose Abramson [advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski]

Structure and Representation in Neural Networks
Daniel Filan [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]

Structured Contexts For Large Language Models
Kevin Lin [advisor: Daniel Klein and Joseph Gonzalez]

Teaching Large Language Models to Use Tools at Scale
Shishir Patil [advisor: Ion Stoica, Joseph Gonzalez and Prabal Dutta]

The Foundation Model Path to Open-World Robots
Dhruv Shah [advisor: Sergey Levine]

The Management of Context in the Machine Learning Lifecycle
Rolando Garcia [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]

Towards A Machine Capable of Learning And Discovering Everything
Hao Liu [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]

Towards a Wireless Fluorescence Microscope on A Chip
Rozhan Rabbani [advisor: Vladimir Stojanovic]

Towards Agents Which Can Understand Rich Communication
Olivia Watkins [advisor: Trevor Darrell and Pieter Abbeel]

Towards Reliable Causal Machine Learning for Macroeconomics
David Bruns-Smith [advisor: Jacob Steinhardt, Avi Feller and Emi Nakamura]

Towards Scalable Sub-THz Massive MIMO: Beamforming ASICs and 3D Die-to-Die Interconnects
Harrison Liew [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]

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

Venous Perfusion Source Mapping “in Reverse” with Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Ekin Karasan [advisor: Michael Lustig]

Wafer-Level Integrated Microlens Couplers for Efficient and Scalable Photonic Circuit I/O
Jianheng Luo [advisor: Ming C. Wu]

Wideband and Energy-Efficient Millimeter-Wave to Sub-THz CMOS Receivers and LO Generation for High-Capacity Wireless Communications
Ethan Chou [advisor: Ali Niknejad]