PhD Dissertation Defense: An Analysis of Algorithms with Discrete Choice Models Berkan Kadioglu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: In the first half of our work, we consider a rank regression setting, in which a dataset of $N$ samples with features in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is ranked by an oracle via $M$ pairwise comparisons. Specifically, there exists a latent […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Active Resource Partitioning and Planning for Storage Systems using Time Series Forecasting and Machine Learning Techniques Maher Kachmar Location: Zoom Abstract: In today's enterprise storage systems, supported data services such as snapshot delete or drive rebuild can result in tremendous performance overhead if executed inline along with heavy foreground IO, often leading […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Can We Trust AI? Towards Practical Implementation and Theoretical Analysis in Trustworthy Machine Learning Kaidi Xu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has achieved extraordinary performance in many application domains recently. It has been well accepted that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which raises concerns of DNNs in security-critical applications and […]