Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Bespoke Threat Models: Achieving Realistic Privacy Guarantees for Deployed Protocols 

      Hogan, Kyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      This thesis focuses on the question of what degree of privacy is achievable in the real world for long-running applications. We explore this question in two main settings: private advertising and anonymous communication. ...

    • Operationalizing Reliable Machine Learning: From Data Collection to Model Presentation 

      Balagopalan, Aparna (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      Automated systems driven by machine learning (ML) have made exciting progress across a spectrum of applications. Despite such progress, encoded biases and other failure modes may create barriers to the real-world utility ...

    • Anti-phage defense as a driver of molecular innovation 

      Doering, Christopher Ross (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      Bacteriophages, or phages for short, pose a near-constant threat to the bacteria they infect. Billions of years of conflict has been a catalyzing force for the creation of bacterial defense systems and corresponding phage ...