Oral Defence 2024

Oral Defense 2024
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NOV
21
Safety and Reliability in Bayesian Optimization: Algorithms and Regret Guarantees
Mr. Arpan Losalka
Thu 21 Nov 2024, 09:30am - 11:00am
Supervised By:
Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Non-stationary Processing in Deep Networks for Ecient Multimedia Applications
Mr. Zhou Yichen
Thu 21 Nov 2024, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ng Teck Khim, Associate Professor, School of Computing

DEC
18
Digital Face Synthesis: Safeguarding against Threats
Mr. Sanjay Saha
Wed 18 Dec 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Terence Sim Mong Cheng, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JAN
08
Machine Learning for Improving Social Science Research Methods
Ms. Liu Xuanqi
Mon 08 Jan 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Huang Ke-Wei, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JAN
16
Bayesian Optimisation Techniques for High-Dimensional and Adversarial Settings
Mr. Han Liang Wee Eric
Tue 16 Jan 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Towards Secure Smart Contracts: A Deep Learning Approach for Detecting Security Threats
Mr. Tamer Abdelaziz Abdelmegid Mohamed
Tue 16 Jan 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Khoo Siau Cheng, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JAN
31
A Learning Framework For Winning Like A Multi-Manager Hedge Fund
Mr. Cui Can
Wed 31 Jan 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Ooi Beng Chin, Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor, School of Computing

FEB
02
Toward General-Purpose Dynamic Dataflow Processing
Mr Lee Jinho
Fri 02 Feb 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Trevor Erik Carlson, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

FEB
05
Managing Platform Ecosystem: Two Empirical Studies on Platform Owner's Entry
Ms. Xu Yichao
Mon 05 Feb 2024, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Heng Cheng Suang, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Towards Human-Inspired Responsible AI
Mr. Zhang Wencan
Mon 05 Feb 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Brian Lim Youliang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

FEB
19
On Vertical Elasticity in the Cloud: A Framework for Stream Processing
Mr. Dou Rengan
Mon 19 Feb 2024, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Richard Ma Tianbai, Associate Professor, School of Computing

FEB
27
Gradient Ascent in Multi-Objective Minimization: Applications in Machine Learning
Mr Debabrata Mahapatra
Tue 27 Feb 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Dr Vaibhav Rajan, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

MAR
12
Toward Effective and Efficient Graph Neural Networks with Implicit Layers
Mr. Liu Juncheng
Tue 12 Mar 2024, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Xiao Xiaokui, Professor, School of Computing

MAR
14
Combined Risk Modeling and Subtyping in Intensive Care Units
Mr. Shivin Srivastava
Thu 14 Mar 2024, 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Vaibhav Rajan, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

MAR
21
Non-Parametric 3D Hand Shape Reconstruction From Monocular Image
Mr. Yu Ziwei
Thu 21 Mar 2024, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Angela Yao Yingjie, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAR
26
Principled Learning
Mr. Theivendiram Pranavan
Tue 26 Mar 2024, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Terence Sim Mong Cheng, Associate Professor, School of Computing

APR
01
Task-Oriented Dialogue Understanding and Evaluation using Minimal Data
Mr. Ibrahim Taha Aksu
Mon 01 Apr 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Kan Min Yen, Associate Professor, School of Computing

APR
22
Towards Robust-Deep Learning With Real-World Applications
Mr. Kiran Krishnamachari
Mon 22 Apr 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ng See Kiong, Professor, School of Computing

APR
25
Semantic Knowledge Representation and Acquisition
Ms. Guo Jia
Thu 25 Apr 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Stanley Kok, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

APR
30
Usage of very high-resolution optical RGB satellite imagery in geo-information extraction for fine-scale map-making
Ms. Hu Wenmiao
Tue 30 Apr 2024, 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Roger Zimmermann, Professor, School of Computing

MAY
02
Towards Fine-Grained Runtime Optimization for Stream Processing
Mr. Mao Yancan
Thu 02 May 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Richard Ma Tianbai, Associate Professor, School of Computing

MAY
03
Towards Practical Vertical Federated Learning
Mr. Wu Zhaomin
Fri 03 May 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr He Bingsheng, Professor, School of Computing

MAY
09
Rigorous Security Analysis for Machine Learning Systems
Ms. Teodora Baluta
Thu 09 May 2024, 08:00am - 09:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Prateek Saxena, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Dr Kuldeep S. Meel, Associate Professor, School of Computing
Building Efficient and Secure Processors through Hardware/Software Co-design
Mr. Ali Hajiabadi
Thu 09 May 2024, 09:00am - 10:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Trevor Erik Carlson, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

MAY
20
Efficient Ledger Database System
Mr. Yue Cong
Mon 20 May 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Ooi Beng Chin, Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor, School of Computing
Making Edible Oils Safe: Authentication and Quality Assurance of Edible Oils
Ms. Alagappan Lakshmi
Mon 20 May 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Wong Lim Soon, KITHCT Chair Professor, School of Computing

MAY
31
Combining Planning and Learning to Improve Decision Making
Mr. Dixant Mittal
Fri 31 May 2024, 11:30am - 01:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Wee Sun, Professor, School of Computing

JUN
13
Blockchain Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Evolving Legitimacy in ICO-driven Entrepreneurship
Mr. Muhammad Nauman Shahid
Thu 13 Jun 2024, 12:00pm - 01:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Hahn Jungpil, Professor, School of Computing

JUN
19
Towards Intelligent Understanding of Table-Text Documents
Mr. Zhu Fengbin
Wed 19 Jun 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Chua Tat Seng, KITHCT Chair Professor, School of Computing

JUN
26
Privacy Preservation in Android Ecosystem
Mr. Mark Meng Huasong
Wed 26 Jun 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Dong Jin Song, Professor, School of Computing

JUN
27
Algorithms for Differential Privacy under Distributed Settings
Mr. Bao Ergute
Thu 27 Jun 2024, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Xiao Xiaokui, Professor, School of Computing

JUL
01
Novel Approaches and Evaluation for Robust Machine Reading Comprehension
Ms. Tang Yixuan
Mon 01 Jul 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Anthony Tung Kum Hoe, Professor, School of Computing
Dr Ng Hwee Tou, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

JUL
05
Revealing Privacy Risks in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: A Study of Data Inference Attacks
Mr. Luo Xinjian
Fri 05 Jul 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Xiao Xiaokui, Professor, School of Computing

JUL
09
Side-Channel Attacks and Mitigations on Modern Computer Systems
Mr. Chen Yun
Tue 09 Jul 2024, 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Trevor Erik Carlson, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

JUL
16
On Error Bounds for Kernel-Based Optimization and Integration with Black-Box Queries
Mr. Cai Xu
Tue 16 Jul 2024, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Jonathan Scarlett, Associate Professor, School of Computing

JUL
18
Testing Database Engines via Query Plans
Mr. Ba Jinsheng
Thu 18 Jul 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Manuel Rigger, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

JUL
22
Optimizing Transformer Models for Improved Inference Efficiency and Compactness
Mr. Zhang Zining
Mon 22 Jul 2024, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr He Bingsheng, Professor, School of Computing

JUL
29
Developing Data-Driven Information Systems for the Health Domain: Leveraging the Power of NLP
Mr. Prakash Chandra Sukhwal
Mon 29 Jul 2024, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Atreyi Kankanhalli, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

AUG
14
Understanding the Modern Internet's Heterogeneous Congestion Control Landscape
Mr. Ayush Mishra
Wed 14 Aug 2024, 03:30pm - 05:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ben Leong Wing Lup, Associate Professor, School of Computing

AUG
19
Applied Abstractive Summarization: Multiple Inputs, Controlled Outputs, And Evaluation
Ms. Shen Chenhui
Mon 19 Aug 2024, 03:30pm - 05:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr You Yang, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

AUG
22
Continual Mixture of Expert Learning Under Spatial & Temporal Concept Drift
Mr. Johan Kok Zhi Kang
Thu 22 Aug 2024, 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr He Bingsheng, Professor, School of Computing

AUG
23
Out-Of-Distribution Learning For Robust Vision Perception
Ms Zhang Can
Fri 23 Aug 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Lee Gim Hee, Associate Professor, School of Computing

AUG
26
Grasp, Feel, Act: Towards Object Manipulation Using Vision And Touch
Mr. Tasbolat Taunyazov
Mon 26 Aug 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Harold Soh Soon Hong, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

AUG
27
Going beyond ID-based Recommender Systems by Exploiting External Knowledge
Mr. Hu Hengchang
Tue 27 Aug 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Kan Min Yen, Associate Professor, School of Computing

AUG
28
From Black to White, From Passive to Proactive - Developing an Explainable Reference-Based System for Comprehensive...
Ms. Liu Ruofan
Wed 28 Aug 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Dong Jin Song, Professor, School of Computing

AUG
30
Scaling the Evolution of Verified Software
Kiran Gopinathan
Fri 30 Aug 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ilya Sergey, Associate Professor, School of Computing

SEP
02
Understanding Model Explainability and Privacy for Facial Recognition Applications
Ms.Zhao Xuejun
Mon 02 Sep 2024, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Brian Lim Youliang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

SEP
12
Generalizable Deep Learning: Addressing Distribution Shifts for Visual Recognition
Mr. Zhang Yifan
Thu 12 Sep 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Bryan Hooi Kuen Yew, Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Towards Efficient Transformer Scaling
Mr. Xue Fuzhao
Thu 12 Sep 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr You Yang, NUS Presidential Young Professor, School of Computing

SEP
13
Effective and Efficient Random Walk Proximity Measures for Graph Analytics
Mr. Zhang Shiqi
Fri 13 Sep 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Xiao Xiaokui, Professor, School of Computing

SEP
20
Efficient and Effective Bandit Algorithms
Mr. Jin Tianyuan
Fri 20 Sep 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Xiao Xiaokui, Professor, School of Computing

SEP
25
Scaling up decision-making under uncertainty
Mr.. Mohit Rajpal
Wed 25 Sep 2024, 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Low Kian Hsiang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

OCT
10
Towards Real-World Generalizability of Misinformation Detection
Ms. Wu Jiaying
Thu 10 Oct 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Bryan Hooi Kuen Yew, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

OCT
11
System Combination and Mixture of Experts for Grammatical Error Correction
Mr. Muhammad Reza Qorib
Fri 11 Oct 2024, 03:30pm - 05:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Ng Hwee Tou, Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing

OCT
15
Accelerating the Evaluation of Large Workloads on Post-Dennard Systems with Sampling
Mr. Alen Kandathumthodukayil Sabu
Tue 15 Oct 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Trevor Erik Carlson, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

NOV
06
Energy efficient spiking neural networks and their applications
Mr. Yan Zhanglu
Wed 06 Nov 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Wong Weng Fai, Associate Professor, School of Computing

NOV
08
Bayesian Optimization under Random and Adversarial Influences
Mr. Sebastian Tay Shenghong
Fri 08 Nov 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Low Kian Hsiang, Associate Professor, School of Computing

NOV
11
Fair Division of Resources: From Indivisible Goods to Cakes
Mr. Yuen Sheung Man
Mon 11 Nov 2024, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Supervised By:
Dr Warut Suksompong, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

NOV
15
Advancing Predictive Systems for Clinical Decision Support: Methods on Improving Predictions and Evaluating Explanations
Ms. Ghanvatkar Suparna Deepak
Fri 15 Nov 2024, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Supervised By:
Dr Vaibhav Rajan, Assistant Professor, School of Computing

NOV
18
Principled Analysis of Model Explanations
Mr. Martin Ruediger Strobel
Mon 18 Nov 2024, 10:00am - 11:30am
Supervised By:
Dr Reza Shokri, Dean's Chair Associate Professor, School of Computing

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