Ph.D. Dissertations - 2025
A 140 GHz FMCW Radar with RF Self-Interference Cancellation
Yikuan Chen [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Adopting and Scaling Secure Systems with Distributed Trust
Vivian Fang [advisor: Raluca Ada Popa]
Advancing Large Language Models for Code Using Code-Structure-Aware Methods
Linyuan Gong [advisor: Alvin Cheung]
Algebraic Approaches to Distributed Data Systems
Conor Power [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]
Application Specific and Resolution Reconfigurable Neural Recording Devices
Aviral Pandey [advisor: Rikky Muller]
Automating Contract-based Design for Cyber-Physical Systems
Sheng-Jung Yu [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]
Compact Device Technologies for Compact Integrated Systems
Lars Tatum [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]
Computational Hyperspectral Microscopy for Bioimaging
Neerja Aggarwal [advisor: Laura Waller]
Dynamic Multi-agent Autonomous Systems for Societal Transformation
Chinmay Maheshwari [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry]
Dynamical Modeling and Control of the Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter
Rahul Iyer [advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski]
Enabling Robot Autonomy Through Real-World Practice
Laura Smith [advisor: Sergey Levine]
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]
FogROS: A Cloud Robotics System
Eric Chen [advisor: John D. Kubiatowicz]
Fundamental Resolution Limits of Magnetic Particle Imaging
Chinmoy Saayujya [advisor: Steven Conolly]
Generalizing Beyond the Training Data: New Theory and Algorithms for Optimal Transfer Learning
Reese Pathak [advisor: Michael Jordan and Martin Wainwright]
Interpretable Quantification of Molecular Heterogeneity and Sample Effects in Single-cell Omics
Pierre Boyeau [advisor: Michael Jordan and Nir Yosef]
Interpreting the Inner-Workings of Vision Models
Yossi Gandelsman [advisor: Alexei (Alyosha) Efros]
Large-Scale Silicon Photonic Switches with Sub-Microsecond Switching Time
Johannes Henriksson [advisor: Ming C. Wu]
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]
On Proofs and Translation
Orr Paradise [advisor: Shafi Goldwasser and Avishay Tal]
Predicting and regulating gene expression using sequence-based deep learning models
Aniketh Janardhan Reddy [advisor: Nilah Ioannidis]
Pre-Training on Observational Data with Reinforcement Learning
Dibya Ghosh [advisor: Sergey Levine]
Programming Models for Correct and Modular Distributed Systems
Shadaj Laddad [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein and Alvin Cheung]
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]
Scalable Verification with Applications to Hardware Security
Sushant Dinesh [advisor: Christopher Fletcher]
Scaling Graph Neural Networks for Sciences
Alok Tripathy [advisor: Katherine A. Yelick and Aydin Buluç]
Steering How Deep Neural Networks Generalize
Katie Kang [advisor: Claire Tomlin and Sergey Levine]
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]
Tips and Tricks for Building Controllable Artificial Intelligence
Norman Mu [advisor: David A. Wagner and Trevor Darrell]
Topics in Extreme System Design
Zhihong Luo [advisor: Scott Shenker and Sylvia Ratnasamy]
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]
Transmission Line Transformers for Broadband K/Ka Power Amplifiers in Bulk CMOS
Rohit Braganza [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
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]