Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions
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The Causal Effects of Mandatory Quarterly Earnings Guidance on Corporate Information Environment and Corporate Short-Termism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)I examine the causal effects of mandatory quarterly earnings guidance using a regulatory mandate in China that required a subset of listed firms to issue bundled quarterly earnings guidance from 2007 to 2018. A ... -
Bespoke Threat Models: Achieving Realistic Privacy Guarantees for Deployed Protocols
(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
(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 ...
