PhD Dissertation Defense: Interpretable Machine Learning for Retinopathy of Prematurity Muhamed Yildiz Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), a leading cause of childhood blindness, is diagnosed by clinical ophthalmoscopic examinations or reading retinal images. Plus disease, defined as abnormal tortuosity and dilation of the posterior retinal blood vessels, is the most important feature […]

MS Thesis Defense: A Framework for Denoising Two and Three-dimensional Monte CarloPhoton Transport Simulations Using Convolutional Neural Networks Matin Raayai Ardakani Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The Monte Carlo (MC) method is considered to be the gold standard for modeling light propagation inside turbid media, proving superior to other Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE) solvers relying on […]

MS Thesis Defense: Optimizations of Caching Networks: Fairness and Application to Mobile Networks Yuezhou Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: In-network caching is playing a more and more important role in today's network architectures, because of the explosive growth of data traffic due to the proliferation of mobile devices and demands for high-volume media content, as […]