Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Learning to Tackle Task Variations in Control - A Transportation Context 

      Jayawardana, Vindula Muthushan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      Real-world control tasks are messy and often exhibit task variations. Practical solutions to these problems must exhibit generalization across task variations. For example, in the task of controlling traffic signals, control ...

    • Modern methods for causal inference and missing data 

      Xia, Eric (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      The proliferation of data-driven approaches in a wide array of settings is one of the defining characteristic of the modern era. With this rise, there has been much focus on using data to answer causal questions, e.g. ...

    • Steering Vision at Scale: From the Model Weights to Training Data 

      Materzyńska, Joanna (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      We study the interpretability and controllability of multimodal and generative models, with a particular focus on text–image representation models and text-to-image diffusion systems. We begin by addressing limitations in ...