Upcoming Doctoral Dissertations
School of Engineering and Science
DISSERTATIONS IN FEBRUARY
February 24, 2026 - Haotian Gu
Candidate | Haotian Gu |
Date | Tuesday, February 24, 2026 |
Time | 10:00 AM (Eastern) |
Title | Robust Vision-Based Object Tracking System: Perturbation Generation, Adversarial Defense and Resilient Tracking |
Location | Gateway North 103 |
"Vision-based object detectors can enhance the safety of autonomous navigation systems by perceiving the
surrounding environment, but they could be susceptible to adversarial attacks generated by artificial
intelligence (AI). In this work, we developed novel detection and defense mechanisms against adversarial
perturbations in vision-based perception for autonomous robotic systems. Particularly, we proposed
approaches to defend against visible and invisible white-box image perturbations in robot navigation
scenarios." Read more
DISSERTATIONS IN MARCH
March 27, 2026 - Hanwen Shen
Candidate | Hanwen Shen |
Date | Friday, March 27, 2026 |
Time | 12:00 PM (Eastern) |
Title | Compression Technique for Word Problem in HNN Extensions |
Location | North Building, Room 316 |
"This research investigates computational complexity aspects of word problems in HNN extensions. The study builds upon Miller’s classical result demonstrating the existence of HNN extensions with decidable word problems but undecidable conjugacy problems." Read more
To view past Doctoral Dissertations, please visit this website.