In today's age, huge data sets are becoming ubiquitous. In addition to their size, most of these data sets are often noisy, have outliers, and are incomplete. Hence, analyzing such data is challenging. We look at applying ...

In today's fast-paced developing digital world, a wide range of services such as web services, social networks, and mobile devices collect a large amount of personal data from their users. Although sharing and mining large-scale ...

To improve efficiency and amortize cost over more computation, resource sharing has become vital in high performance computing systems. In such systems, the conventional wisdom assumes that users have to share, regardless ...

In this thesis, we consider two classes of problems where algorithms are increasingly used to make, or assist in making, a wide range of decisions. The first class of problems we consider is the allocation of jointly owned ...

Companies such as Google or Facebook collect a substantial amount of data about their users to provide useful services. The release of these datasets for general use can enable numerous innovative applications and scientific ...

As more services have come to rely on sensor data such as photos and audio collected by mobile phone users, verifying the authenticity of this data has become critical for service correctness. At the same time, contributors ...

Providing a satisfactory quality of experience (QoE) to Internet users is crucial for content and service providers. When users get bad QoE from an application, such as the videos they are watching on a streaming provider ...

Video cameras have become increasingly prevalent, with higher resolution and frame-rates. Humans are often the focus of these videos, making human motion analysis an important field. This thesis explores the level of detail ...

Deformable image registration is fundamental and critical to both diagnostics and therapeutics in precision and personalized medicine. Existing software packages for deformable registrations either provide only a forward ...

A process can voluntarily set memory protections to different portions of its address space. As threads in a process share the same address space, they are equally bound to its protections. In this dissertation, we explore ...