Graduate Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models 

      Kumar, Akarsh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      With the recent Nobel Prize awarded for radical advances in protein discovery, foundation models (FMs) for exploring large combinatorial spaces promise to revolutionize many scientific fields. Artificial Life (ALife) has ...

    • Uncertainty-aware Joint Physical Tracking and Prediction 

      Dasgupta, Arijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      Humans possess a remarkable capacity to track and predict the motion of objects even when visual information is temporarily absent. This thesis investigates how missing sensory evidence—such as during occlusion—alters ...

    • Toward an Age-Ready Suburbia 

      Du, Minghao; Zhuang, Kaicheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      As America’s population ages, suburban neighborhoods face urgent challenges. Originally designed for young, car-dependent families, the suburban landscape today often presents barriers to aging in place, including poor ...