Ph.D. Dissertations - 2025
A 140 GHz FMCW Radar with RF Self-Interference Cancellation
Yikuan Chen [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Advancing Large Language Models for Code Using Code-Structure-Aware Methods
Linyuan Gong [advisor: Alvin Cheung]
Compact Device Technologies for Compact Integrated Systems
Lars Tatum [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]
Enhancing User Interface Design Tools with AI-Driven Evaluation
Peitong Duan [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
Exploring the Security and Privacy Impacts of Using 2FA Apps
Conor Gilsenan [advisor: David A. Wagner and Serge Egelman]
Fundamental Resolution Limits of Magnetic Particle Imaging
Chinmoy Saayujya [advisor: Steven Conolly]
Interpreting the Inner-Workings of Vision Models
Yossi Gandelsman [advisor: Alexei (Alyosha) Efros]
Modeling and Design Enablement for Future Computing
Chien-Ting Tung [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Multi-Modal Perception with Vision, Language, and Touch for Robot Manipulation
Huang Huang [advisor: Ken Goldberg]
Natural Language Explanations of Dataset Patterns
Ruiqi Zhong [advisor: Daniel Klein and Jacob Steinhardt]
Quantum Advantages via Fourier Growth Analysis of Boolean Functions
Kewen Wu [advisor: Avishay Tal]
Recovering and Creating 3D Experiences from Casual Data
Ethan Weber [advisor: Angjoo Kanazawa]
Resonant Switch Receivers
Qiutong Jin [advisor: Clark Nguyen]
Safety, Robustness, and Interpretability in Machine Learning
Samuel Pfrommer [advisor: Somayeh Sojoudi]
Scalable and Accurate Models of Molecular Evolution
Sebastian Prillo [advisor: Yun S. Song and Nir Yosef]
Scalable Auditing for AI Safety
Erik Jones [advisor: Anca Dragan and Jacob Steinhardt]
Steering Machine Learning Ecosystems of Interacting Agents
Meena Jagadeesan [advisor: Michael Jordan and Jacob Steinhardt]
The Alignment Problem Under Partial Observability
Scott Emmons [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]
Toward Trustworthy Language Models: Interpretation Methods and Clinical Decision Support Applications
Aliyah Hsu [advisor: Bin Yu]
Towards Principled Training and Serving of Large Language Models
Banghua Zhu [advisor: Michael Jordan and Jiantao Jiao]
Towards Vision-LanguageFoundationModels: Limitations,Improvements, and Generalization
Simon Zhai [advisor: Sergey Levine and Yi Ma]
Video Models of People and Pixels
Jathushan Rajasegaran [advisor: Jitendra Malik]
Vulnerabilities of Language Models
Eric Wallace [advisor: Daniel Klein and Dawn Song]
Wearable, Integrated Sparse-SPECT for Continuous, Real-Time Dosimetry in Cancer Radiopharmaceutical Therapy
Rahul Lall [advisor: Ali Niknejad and Mekhail Anwar]