Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Safety Constraints 

      Feng, Meng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      Safety is a critical concern in reinforcement learning (RL) and learning-based systems more broadly, as ensuring reliable and safe decision-making is essential for their deployment in real-world applications. Traditional ...

    • Obscured universality in Mandarin 

      Chen, Fulang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)
      In this dissertation, I investigate the apparently distinctive syntactic properties associated with the BEI-construction, the BA-construction, and resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese, which I argue obscure ...

    • How Joint Inference of the Lexicon and Phonology Affects the Learnability of Process Interactions 

      Yang, Christopher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)
      Contemporary phonological research has increasingly become interested in exploring the topic of learnability through the use of computational models. However, many of the proposed models lack one or more of the following ...