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 |
"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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