Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions
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DePUDS: Decentralized Prosocial Urban Development System
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)Urban areas face severe socio-economic and environmental challenges like housing crises, inequity, and environmental degradation, often worsened by traditional zoning practices. These are typically rigid, inefficient, ... -
Biophysical specializations supporting efficiency in neural networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)Neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) research have long enjoyed a synergistic relationship. AI has drawn key inspiration from the organization and function of the brain, while our understanding of the biological ... -
On the Learnability of General Reinforcement-Learning Objectives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)Reinforcement learning enables agents to learn decision-making policies in unknown environments to achieve specified objectives. Traditionally, these objectives are expressed through reward functions, enabling well-established ...


