Upcoming Doctoral Dissertations

School of Engineering and Science

DISSERTATIONS IN JULY

July 17, 2026 - Hanfei Yu

Candidate

Hanfei Yu

Date

Friday, July 17, 2026

Time

09:00 AM (Eastern)

Title

Co-Designing Infrastructure, Runtime, and Model Serving for Efficient AI Systems

Location

Zoom

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed scientific research, industry, and everyday life. The rapid evolution of AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), has dramatically increased the computational and memory demands of modern AI workloads. As AI models continue to grow in scale and complexity, performance bottlenecks increasingly arise across multiple layers of the AI systems stack" Read more

July 20, 2026 - Tongze Zhang

Candidate

Tongze Zhang

Date

Monday, July 20, 2026

Time

110:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern)

Title

Human-Centered Clinical AI: From Passive Sensing to Explainable, Emotion-Adaptive Decision Support

Location

Babbio 503

"Artificial intelligence (AI) has growing potential to support clinical decision-making by detecting health risks, interpreting predictive patterns, and enabling timely personalized interventions. However, many clinical AI systems remain limited by black-box predictions, static explanations, and limited adaptation to users' emotional and cognitive states. These limitations are especially critical in behavioral health, where risk states fluctuate in daily life and effective support requires transparent, emotionally appropriate, and shared understanding between patients and clinicians. " Read more

DISSERTATIONS IN AUGUST

August 17, 2026 - Zitao Tang

Candidate

Zitao Tang

Date

Monday, August 17, 2026

Time

11:00 AM (Eastern)

Title

Magnetotransport Properties in Two-Dimensional Materials and Field-free Orbital-Torque Switching in a Symmetry-Engineered Monolayer van der Waals Ferromagnet

Location

EAS 230

"Electron transport in semiconductors can be significantly influenced by external magnetic fields, giving rise
to magnetotransport phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect, spin–orbit coupling, and magnetoresistance.
These effects have attracted considerable interest due to their potential applications in next-generation
optoelectronic and spintronic devices. Among semiconducting systems, two-dimensional (2D) materials are
particularly promising because of their tunable electronic and magnetic properties, strong spin-orbit coupling,
and diverse crystal symmetries." Read more

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