Carnegie Mellon University

LTI Ph.D. Dissertations

Click on a year to see the dissertations completed at the LTI that year.

Name Dissertation Employer Upon Graduation
James Fiacco Functional Components as a Paradigm for Neural Model Explainability
Name Dissertation Employer Upon Graduation
Chaitanya Ahuja Communication Beyond Words: Grounding Visual Body Motion with Language

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Prakhar Gupta Improving Reliability in Dialogue Systems Research Scientist, Google
Sachin Kumar Optimization Methods For Modeling Diversity In Language Technologies Post-Doc AI2, Asst Professor, Ohio State University
Juncheng Billy Li Towards Robust Large-scale Audio/Visual Learning Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma Investment
Xinjian Li Low-Resource Speech Recognition for Thousands of Languages Research Scientist, Google
Kaixin Ma Hybrid Knowledge Architectures for Question Answering NLP Researcher, Tencent AI Lab
Salvador Bedredín Medina Maza Talking us into the Metaverse: Towards Realistic Streaming Speech-to-Face Animation Research Scientist, Epic Games
Sanket Vaibhav Mehta Efficient Lifelong Learning in Deep Neural Networks: Optimizing Architecture, Training, and Data Research Scientist, Google
Chirag Nagpal Leveraging Heterogeneity in Time-to-Event Predictions Research Scientist, Google
Raphaël Olivier Assessing and enhancing adversarial robustness in context and applications to speech security
Naoki Otani Leveraging Eventuality-Centric Implicit Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding Research Scientist, Megagon Labs
Hai Pham Towards Efficient and Scalable Representation Learning Technical Staff, Reka AI
Torsten Wörtwein Towards Improving Transparency in Multimodal Affect Perception
Donghan Yu Leveraging Textual Semantics for Knowledge Graph Acquisition and Application Senior Researcher, Microsoft
Shikun Zhang Understanding People’s Diverse Privacy Attitudes: Notification, Control, and Regulatory Implications TikTok
Zhisong Zhang Exploring Language Structured Prediction in Resource-limited Scenarios
Zhong Zhou Massively Multilingual Text Translation for Low-Resource Languages