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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

Nadya Peek

Former Research Affiliate

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Pat Pataranutaporn's PhD Dissertation Defense

Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human FlourishingCommittee members:Prof. Pattie Ma…

Tuesday
July 23, 2024
11:00am — 1:00pm ET
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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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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
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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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PhD Dissertation Defense - Pranam Chatterjee

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

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Lisa Nip Dissertation Defense

Lisa Nip defends her dissertation on Tuesday, April 16.

Tuesday
April 16, 2019
10:00am ET
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Raechel Walker Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Title: A Crown vs A Question Mark: Integrating Liberatory AI Principles into Responsible AI

Monday
June 8, 2026
2:00pm ET
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Miana Smith Dissertation Defense

Scalable Robotic Voxel Construction

Tuesday
July 28, 2026
2:30pm ET
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Jack Forman Dissertation Defense

Electric Textures: Synthesizing Cyber-Physical Material Interfaces

Wednesday
July 15, 2026
12:30pm ET
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Kevin Dunnell Dissertation Defense

Seeing Yourself in Latent Space: Human-AI Interaction Beyond Chat

Thursday
July 23, 2026
2:00pm ET
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Sean Hickey Dissertation Defense

The Zone of Syntonicity: Learning Plateaus and Occasions for Growth

Friday
July 10, 2026
3:00pm ET
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Fangzheng Liu Dissertation Defense

Sensing Beyond the Cradle - Miniature Wireless Sensor Systems for Future Space Exploration

Friday
July 31, 2026
12:30pm ET
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Caitlin Morris Dissertation Defense

Re-Imagining AI for the Social Ecology of Learning

Tuesday
June 30, 2026
11:00am ET
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Ayush Chopra Dissertation Defense

Population AI: Modeling Societies of Autonomous Agents

Monday
April 27, 2026
11:00am ET
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Camron Blackburn Dissertation Defense

Zeptojoule Computing: Superconducting adiabatic logic for scalable energy-efficient hardware

Friday
April 10, 2026
11:00am ET
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Shayne Longpre Dissertation Defense

From Data to Intelligence: Shaping, Scaling, and Scrutinizing AI Systems

Friday
May 1, 2026
2:00pm ET
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Jocelyn Shen Dissertation Defense

Human-AI Interaction for Human Connection

Monday
April 6, 2026
12:00pm ET
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Jason Hou Dissertation Defense

Seeing and Shaping: Advanced Theranostic Ultrasound Modalities for Imaging, Neural Modulation, and Drug Delivery

Tuesday
April 21, 2026
12:15pm ET
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Wonjune Kang Dissertation Defense

Voice-Centered AI Systems for Analyzing and Exploring Spoken Discourse

Tuesday
April 21, 2026
10:00am ET
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Maggie Hughes Dissertation Defense

Rendering Relationships: Infrastructuring Relational Civic Practice

Friday
April 10, 2026
2:00pm ET
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Jake Read Dissertation Defense

The End of GCode: Intelligent Modular Machines with Model Based Control

Monday
March 30, 2026
1:00pm ET
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Manvitha Ponnapati Dissertation Defense

AI-Driven Protein Design: Predictive Modeling, Generative Design, and Agentic Workflows

Wednesday
March 25, 2026
2:00pm ET
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Shivam Kajale Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Title: Field-free Room Temperature van der Waals Spintronics Abstract: The sustained growth of computation is colliding w…

Tuesday
January 13, 2026
11:00am ET
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Nick Barry Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Title:  Tandem Display for Library-vs-Libary ScreeningAbstract: Protein-protein interactions underpin a broad a…

Wednesday
January 7, 2026
3:00pm ET
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Sebastian Kamau Dissertation Defense

Towards Genetic Biocontrol

Friday
December 12, 2025
11:00am ET
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Suyash Fulay Dissertation Defense

Language Models to Understand, Reflect, and Address Social Fragmentation

Tuesday
December 16, 2025
9:00am ET
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Kettner Griswold Dissertation Defense

Tandem Display for Library-on-Library Protein Interactions Screens

Monday
December 8, 2025
10:00am ET
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Allan Costa Dissertation Defense

A Geometric Deep Learning Framework for 3D Biomolecular Compression, Generation and Accelerated Simulation

Friday
October 24, 2025
9:00am ET
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Shubham Yadav Dissertation Defense

Bridging the Invasiveness–Precision Gap: Autonomous Biohybrid Nanoelectronics Enable Surgery-Free Focal Neuromodulation

Wednesday
October 8, 2025
1:30pm ET
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Naroa Coretti Dissertation Defense

Shared Autonomous Micro-Mobility: Evaluating Fleet Performance, Operational Strategies, and Sustainability

Thursday
July 31, 2025
8:00am ET
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Prathima Muniyappa Dissertation Defense

Designing the ChutluCosmos: Toward a Speculative Cosmo-politics of Indigenous Epistemology in Space

Tuesday
July 22, 2025
6:00pm ET
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Patrick Chwalek Dissertation Defense

A New Lens on Life: Cross-Contextual Sensing Technologies from Human Insights to Wildlife Conservation

Thursday
July 10, 2025
3:00pm ET
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Ishaan Grover Dissertation Defense

Learning to Teach: Models for Semantic and Adaptive Personalization of AI Tutors

Monday
June 2, 2025
2:00pm ET
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Yasushi Sakai Dissertation Defense

In Search of New Township Democracy: Propagational Voting for Urban Development

Wednesday
June 25, 2025
2:30pm ET
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Abhishek Singh Dissertation Defense

Decentralized Machine Learning over Fragmented Data

Monday
May 5, 2025
12:00pm ET
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Tobin South Dissertation Defense

Private, Verifiable, and Auditable AI Systems

Friday
April 18, 2025
3:00pm ET
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Tara Boroushaki Dissertation Defense

RF-Visual Perception with Applications to Mobile Sensing, Robotics, & Augmented Reality

Wednesday
May 28, 2025
11:00am ET
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Hang Jiang Dissertation Defense

Fostering Pluralism with Language Models

Tuesday
April 15, 2025
3:00pm ET
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Will Brannon Dissertation Defense

Language Models as Opinion Models: Techniques and Applications

Tuesday
May 13, 2025
3:00pm ET
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Carmelo Presicce Dissertation Defense

Facilitating Creative Learning: Cultivating Caring Communities of Practice, Reflection, and Human Connection

Friday
May 2, 2025
10:00am ET
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Robert Mahari Dissertation Defense

Toward the computational transformation of legal theory and practice

Friday
April 18, 2025
9:00am ET
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Ali Shtarbanov Dissertation Defense

Modular Development Platforms and Creative Ecosystems: Design & Deployment for Wide Impact Across Fields

Friday
March 21, 2025
4:00pm ET
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Francesca Riccio-Ackerman Dissertation Defense

An Integrated Methodology for Prosthetic and Orthotic System Strengthening in Weak and Destroyed Health Systems

Monday
July 13, 2026
11:00am ET
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Ruihan Zhang Dissertation Defense

Mapping the Spatial Transcriptome Across Whole Organisms

Tuesday
October 29, 2024
12:00pm ET
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Alex Berke Dissertation Defense

Transforming digital traces into public goods in the age of commercial surveillance

Monday
November 25, 2024
3:30pm ET
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Nikhil Singh Dissertation Defense

Bridging the Gap: Generative Machines and Inventive Minds

Tuesday
December 3, 2024
12:30pm ET
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Guy Zyskind Dissertation Defense

Secure Computation in Decentralized Systems

Thursday
August 15, 2024
11:00am ET
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Abhinandan Jain Dissertation Defense

Interoceptive Interventions: Interfacing with Inner States

Wednesday
July 31, 2024
3:00pm ET
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Joanna Buchthal Dissertation Defense

Establishing Peromyscus leucopus as a Model Organism using Novel Camera-Based Reproductive Techniques

Monday
August 19, 2024
3:00pm ET
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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos Dissertation Defense

Building a digital nervous system: Bioengineering neuromuscular interfaces for biohybrid closed-loop brain-body neural prostheses

Tuesday
December 16, 2025
12:00pm ET
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Angela Vujic Dissertation Defense

Wearable Gut and Brain Interfaces for Modulating Good and Bad Emotions

Tuesday
July 30, 2024
4:00pm ET
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Neil Gaikwad Dissertation Defense

Public Interest Computing: A Pluralistic Design Language Foundation for Societal-Machine Alignment

Monday
July 29, 2024
11:00am ET
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Mina Khan Dissertation Defense

Investigating Interventions in Fine-grained Contexts for Habit Formation

Friday
July 26, 2024
11:00am ET
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Keeley Erhardt Dissertation Defense

Hidden Influence in Dynamic Networks

Wednesday
May 1, 2024
10:30am ET
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Grace Woo Dissertation Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab (E14-525), Nagashima Conference Room DescriptionWe envision a public space that is populated with active visual surfa…

Friday
August 24, 2012
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Jaleesa Trapp Dissertation Defense

Creativity and Justice: Leveraging Creative Learning Principles to Co-Design Just Futures With and For Young People

Friday
July 19, 2024
2:00pm 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