The Thesis Review

Oct 27 2024 49 ep. 69 mins 102

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Each episode of The Thesis Review is a conversation centered around a researcher's PhD thesis, giving insight into their history, revisiting older ideas, and providing a valuable perspective on how their research has evolved (or stayed the same) since.

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[48] Tianqi Chen - Scalable and Intelligent Learning Systems

Oct 27 2024 46 mins

Tianqi Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University and the Chief Technologist of OctoML. His research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and systems. Tianqi's PhD thesis is titled "Scalable and Intelligent Learning Systems," which he completed in 2019 at the University of Washington. W

[47] Niloofar Mireshghallah - Auditing and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models

Oct 14 2024 77 mins

Niloofar Mireshghallah is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on privacy, natural language processing, and the societal implications of machine learning. Niloofar completed her PhD in 2023 at UC San Diego, where she was advised by Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. Her PhD thesis is titled "Auditing and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Model

[46] Yulia Tsvetkov - Linguistic Knowledge in Data-Driven NLP

Aug 11 2023 59 mins

Yulia Tsvetkov is a Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on multilingual NLP, NLP for social good, and language generation. Yulia's PhD thesis is titled "Linguistic Knowledge in Data-Driven Natural Language Processing", which she completed in 2016 at CMU. We discuss getting started in research, then

[45] Luke Zettlemoyer - Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form

Jul 24 2023 59 mins

Luke Zettlemoyer is a Professor at the University of Washington and Research Scientist at Meta. His work spans machine learning and NLP, including foundational work in large-scale self-supervised pretraining of language models. Luke's PhD thesis is titled "Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form", which he completed in 2009 at MIT. We talk about his PhD work, the path to the fou

[44] Hady Elsahar - NLG from Structured Knowledge Bases (& Controlling LMs)

Aug 22 2022 65 mins

Hady Elsahar is a Research Scientist at Naver Labs Europe. His research focuses on Neural Language Generation under constrained and controlled conditions. Hady's PhD was on interactions between Natural Language and Structured Knowledge bases for Data2Text Generation and Relation Extraction & Discovery, which he completed in 2019 at the Université de Lyon. We talk about his phd w

[43] Swarat Chaudhuri - Logics and Algorithms for Software Model Checking

Jun 27 2022 66 mins

Swarat Chaudhuri is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas. His lab studies problems at the interface of programming languages, logic and formal methods, and machine learning. Swarat's PhD thesis is titled "Logics and Algorithms for Software Model Checking", which he completed in 2007 at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss reasoning about programs, formal method

[42] Charles Sutton - Efficient Training Methods for Conditional Random Fields

Apr 18 2022 78 mins

Charles Sutton is a Research Scientist at Google Brain and an Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on deep learning for generating code and helping people write better programs. Charles' PhD thesis is titled "Efficient Training Methods for Conditional Random Fields", which he completed in 2008 at UMass Amherst. We start with his work in the thes

[41] Talia Ringer - Proof Repair

Mar 29 2022 79 mins

Talia Ringer is an Assistant Professor with the Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Software Engineering group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on formal verification and proof engineering technologies. Talia's PhD thesis is titled "Proof Repair", which she completed in 2021 at the University of Washington. We discuss software verification

[40] Lisa Lee - Learning Embodied Agents with Scalably-Supervised RL

Mar 08 2022 46 mins

Lisa Lee is a Research Scientist at Google Brain. Her research focuses on building AI agents that can learn and adapt like humans and animals do. Lisa's PhD thesis is titled "Learning Embodied Agents with Scalably-Supervised Reinforcement Learning", which she completed in 2021 at Carnegie Mellon University. We talk about her work in the thesis on reinforcement learning, includin

[39] Burr Settles - Curious Machines: Active Learning with Structured Instances

Feb 01 2022 66 mins

Burr Settles leads the research group at Duolingo, a language-learning website and mobile app whose mission is to make language education free and accessible to everyone. Burr’s PhD thesis is titled "Curious Machines: Active Learning with Structured Instances", which he completed in 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We talk about his work in the thesis on active learn