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Tiffany Tseng PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-341 DescriptionMuch of what we design today is mediated by digital processes, from digital tools and software us…

Friday
May 6, 2016
Person

Tiffany Tseng

Former Postdoctoral Associate

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Brian Allen PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT, Singleton Auditorium DescriptionA major hurdle to understanding how neural activity leads to behavior is determining which spi…

Friday
August 12, 2016
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Jie Qi PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos E15-070 DescriptionThe experience of wonder imbues the ordinary world around us with a magical sense of possi…

Friday
July 22, 2016
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Sayamindu Dasgupta PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionData is a powerful lens for learning about the world. Driven by advances in computational technol…

Tuesday
August 2, 2016
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Ricarose Roque PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe ability to create, design, and express oneself with technology is an important fluency for fu…

Friday
July 8, 2016
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Xiao Xiao PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis thesis introduces and examines methods for the capture and reproduction of music on the pian…

Thursday
July 7, 2016
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Niaja Farve PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionToday’s personal technologies are generally seen as reducing mindfulness. They introduce distract…

Monday
April 25, 2016
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Jacob Bernstein PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn order to map the dynamics of neural circuits in mammalian brains, we need tools that can recor…

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Nadya Peek PhD Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionRapid prototyping has been in the limelight for the past decade. 3D printers have an evocative na…

Monday
July 25, 2016
Person

Mitchell Tseng

Former Visiting Professor

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PhD Dissertation Defense - Pranam Chatterjee

Pranam Chatterjee defends his PhD thesis, entitled "Robust Genome Editing with Broad-Targeting CRISPR Enzymes", on April 28th, 2020.

Person

Tiffany Claiborne

Event

Lisa Nip Dissertation Defense

Lisa Nip defends her dissertation on Tuesday, April 16.

Tuesday
April 16, 2019
10:00am ET
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Praneeth Vepakomma Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Title: Connecting Silos for Distributed and Private Computation

Wednesday
November 1, 2023
9:15am ET
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Randi Williams Dissertation Defense

Impact.AI: Democratizing AI through K-12 Artificial Intelligence Education

Tuesday
December 19, 2023
11:00am ET
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David Ramsay Dissertation Defense

Designing for Deep Engagement

Tuesday
August 1, 2023
11:00am ET
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Chelsea Barabas Dissertation Defense

Un-inventing Carceral Technology: Four Experiments in Imagining the World More Rigorously

Wednesday
July 26, 2023
12:00pm ET
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Devora Najjar Dissertation Defense

CRISPR Biosensors for Resource-limited Nucleic Acid Detection

Thursday
June 23, 2022
11:00am ET
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Sam Rodriques Dissertation Defense

Sam Rodriques defends his dissertation on April 29, 2019.

Monday
April 29, 2019
10:00am ET
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Dan Calacci Dissertation Defense

Centering Communities in Research and Technology Design

Tuesday
April 11, 2023
12:00pm ET
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Nic Lee Dissertation Defense

Endless Ecosystems - Designing a world Without Waste

Friday
April 21, 2023
3:00pm ET
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Tay Shin Dissertation Defense

Ultrastructural membrane expansion microscopy

Friday
April 28, 2023
9:30am ET
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Misha Sra Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Defense for Misha Sra on November 17

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Ziv Epstein Dissertation Defense

The Dynamics of Attention in Digital Ecosystems

Friday
April 7, 2023
4:00pm ET
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Huili Chen Dissertation Defense

Robots as Social Catalysts: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Designing Embodied Social Agents that Foster Human Collaboration andConnection

Tuesday
May 30, 2023
9:00am ET
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Matt Groh Dissertation Defense

The Science and Art of Human-AI Collaboration

Thursday
April 6, 2023
9:30am ET
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Anastasia Ostrowski Dissertation Defense

Engaging design justice, design fictions, and co-design in human-robot interaction design and policymaking processes

Thursday
May 4, 2023
10:00am ET
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Jack Reid Dissertation Defense

Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making

Tuesday
April 11, 2023
9:00am ET
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Nan Zhao Dissertation Defense

This dissertation explores lighting and environment control for future workspaces with advanced sensing and output capabilities.

Tuesday
June 6, 2017
2:00pm — 4:00pm ET
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Laura Perovich Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Title: Experiencing data together: combining art, technology, and community to move towards collective action on environm…

Thursday
July 16, 2020
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
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Andrew Payne Dissertation Defense

Scalable Methods for In Situ Genomics

Friday
July 23, 2021
11:00am ET
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Christoph Bader Dissertation Defense

Translational Design Computation

Wednesday
January 27, 2021
2:00pm — 4:00pm ET
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Benjamin Jenett Dissertation Defense

Discrete Mechanical Metamaterials

Monday
August 3, 2020
4:00pm — 6:00pm ET
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Spencer Russell Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Title: Resynthesizing Volumetric Soundscapes: Low-rank Subspace Methods for Soundfield Estimation and ReconstructionParticipat…

Friday
April 24, 2020
4:00pm — 6:00pm ET
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Yan Leng Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Title: Collective behavior over social networks with data-driven and machine learning modelsAbstract: Individuals fo…

Wednesday
April 29, 2020
2:00pm — 4:00pm ET
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Ben Bloomberg Dissertation Defense

Making Musical Magic Live: Methodologies for Interweaving High-Value Production Technologies with Interactive Musical PerformanceFifty-two …

Tuesday
November 5, 2019
9:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Natasha Jaques Dissertation Defense

Towards Social and Affective Artificial IntelligenceSocial learning is a crucial component of human intelligence, allowing us to rapidly ad…

Wednesday
July 31, 2019
12:00pm — 2:00pm ET
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Prashant Patil Dissertation Defense

Direct-Write Fabrication of Laminate Micro-electromechanical SystemsMicro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have many applications in fields…

Friday
July 12, 2019
10:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Sam Calisch Dissertation Defense

Folded Functional FoamsMaterials with effective properties dominated by geometric structure rather than composition, or architected materia…

Friday
July 12, 2019
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
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Artem Dementyev Dissertation Defense

Dynamic Wearable Technology: Designing and Deploying Small Climbing Robots for Sensing and Actuation on the Human BodyThis thesis introduce…

Friday
June 28, 2019
3:00pm — 5:00pm ET
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Kevin Hu Dissertation Defense

Automating Data Visualization through RecommendationDemand for data visualization has exploded in recent years with the increasing availabi…

Wednesday
May 1, 2019
4:15pm ET
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Noah Jakimo Dissertation Defense

Precise and Expansive Genome Positioning for CRISPR EditsNew insights on microbial adaptive immune systems, known as CRISPR, have brought a…

Thursday
May 2, 2019
10:00am ET
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David Hill Dissertation Defense

A 3D Neuromuscular Model of the Human Ankle-Foot Complex Based on Multi-Joint Biplanar Fluoroscopy Gait AnalysisCommitteeHugh Herr, Ph.D. …

Thursday
May 3, 2018
10:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Sunny Jolly Dissertation Defense

​Holographic Augmented Reality: Towards Near-to-Eye Electroholography via Guided-Wave Acousto-Optics CommitteeV. Michael Bove, Jr. Princi…

Monday
May 14, 2018
1:30pm — 3:30pm ET
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Jia Zhang Dissertation Defense

The Constant Atlas: Mapping Public Data for Individuals and Their CitiesCommitteeEthan ZuckermanThesis SupervisorAssociate Professor of the…

Tuesday
May 1, 2018
3:00pm — 5:00pm ET
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Otkrist Gupta Dissertation Defense

Unlocking the potential of neural networks in resource and data constrained environmentsCommittee:Ramesh Raskar, PhDAssociate Professor of …

Tuesday
March 6, 2018
10:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Valentin Heun Dissertation Defense

The Reality Editor: An Open and Universal Tool for Understanding and Controlling the Physical WorldCommittee:Prof. Pattie MaesProfessor of …

Monday
July 17, 2017
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
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Nick DePalma Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-341 DescriptionIn this thesis, DePalma presents an interactive robotic agent that follows pointing gestures and …

Friday
December 2, 2016
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Tristan Swedish Dissertation Defense

Computational Discovery of Hidden Cues in Photographs

Tuesday
June 14, 2022
11:00am ET
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Nicole L'Huillier Dissertation Defense

Membranas

Friday
May 6, 2022
2:00pm ET
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Eric Chu Dissertation Defense

Learning Human Beliefs with Language Models

Friday
January 14, 2022
3:00pm ET
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Dan Oran Dissertation Defense

Implosion Fabrication – Rethinking 3D Nanofabrication from First Principles

Monday
June 7, 2021
1:00pm ET
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Asma Ghandeharioun Dissertation Defense

Towards Human-Centered Optimality Criteria

Friday
April 23, 2021
10:00am — 12:00pm ET
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Nabeel Gillani Dissertation Defense

Designing for a new "ZIP code destiny"

Tuesday
May 4, 2021
9:00am — 11:00am ET
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Michael Lin Dissertation Defense

Affordable Autonomous Lightweight Personal Mobility

Tuesday
December 15, 2020
2:00pm — 4:00pm ET
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Juliana Nazaré Dissertation Defense

Technology-Assisted Coaching: A System for Children’s Literacy Learning

Thursday
October 1, 2020
9:00am — 11:00am ET
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Nazmus Saquib Dissertation Defense

Embodied Mathematics by Interactive Sketching

Thursday
August 6, 2020
1:30pm — 3:30pm ET
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Pranam Chatterjee Dissertation Defense

Robust Genome Editing with Broad-Targeting CRISPR Enzymes

Tuesday
April 28, 2020
9:00am — 11:00am ET
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Dhaval Adjodah Dissertation Defense

Social Inductive Biases for Decentralized Reinforcement Learning

Tuesday
July 2, 2019
10:00am — 11:30am ET
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Morgan Frank Dissertation Defense

The Complexity of the Future of Work

Monday
April 1, 2019
11:00am ET
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Jifei Ou Dissertation Defense

Mesomatters: Design, Manufacturing, and Interaction with Mesoscopic Materials

Wednesday
March 13, 2019
3:00pm ET
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Jennifer Groff Dissertation Defense

Reengineering Education: Systems Engineering and the LearningGraph as a Means to Developing a Coherent Learning Data ArchitectureCOMMI…

Monday
August 13, 2018
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
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Natasha Jaques wins AAAC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award 2021

Natasha Jaques, an alum of the Affective Computing group, has won this year's award for her thesis: "Social and Affective Machine Learning"

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Juliana Cherston Dissertation Defense

The Well-Dressed Spacecraft: Textiles for Cosmic Dust Metrology

Friday
August 12, 2022
11:00am ET