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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Understanding and Connecting Fairness, Copyright, and Watermarking Through a Security Lens
Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9779607555?pwd=bFN5ZVJtcXJBLzlPUTIxUkpramZxUT09
Monday, May 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Simulating and Imagining the World with Generative Foundation Models
Jingxi Chen
IRB-3137
Friday, May 8, 2026
9:45 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: The Boundaries of Computational Hardness in Noisy Quantum Circuits Joel Rajakumar
Joel Rajakumar
PSC 3150 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3010642404?pwd=5Bwsxvwne0QwXBs5ra9d4wr4J56OTi.1&omn=96440539296
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Post-Training of Vision-Language Agents for Decentralized Autonomous Vehicle Coordination Using Generalizable Multi-Agent Rewards
No speaker yet
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8508847508?omn=95691030591
Thursday, May 7, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Sustainable Electronics through Computational Refabricatio
Zeyu Yan
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96272454305
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Trust and Transparency in Language Model Development and Deployment
John Kirchenbauer
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/93826897686, Passcode: tandt4llms
Monday, May 4, 2026
5:00 pm
- 6:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Physical Intelligence from Constrained Observations: Rethinking the Wireless-to-Information Pipeline
Aritrik Ghosh
IRB-4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2107569329?pwd=bti4AdGUi7aD3Gr0tbjTBa05beobhy.1&omn=99995458172&jst=2
Thursday, April 30, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Robust Machine Learning for Biomedical Data: Efficiency, Reliability, and Generalizability
Chenyu You
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Robustness of Prompt-Based Adaptation in Large Language Models
Kwesi Cobbina
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2101892313?pwd=b0R5V1NzQjdTU2xZYWZrWURGbE1GZz09&omn=91516498257
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Hardware-Efficient Noise Suppression and Error Correction for Near-Term Quantum Computing
Yingkang Cao
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7031888774
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Beyond Domain Boundaries: Enhancing The Generalizability of Event Sequence Analytics
Kazi Tasnim Zinat
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8037389295?pwd=VFIwcllnQ1FDQXBhZUZiTThtSHl0dz09
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Spatial Reasoning Through Artificial Intelligence
Nicole Schneider
IRB-4237
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Trust and the future of mathematics, software, and science
Patrick Shafto
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
2:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Practical fault tolerance with quantum error-correcting codes: logical protocols, decoders, and code design
Shi Jie Samuel Tan
ATL-3100A or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3144621979?pwd=Y2lWYWhJWm5rU2pjdWl3QnRTSmRLUT09&omn=93025505672&jst=2urQY64iTr-eH6qegJDNP
Monday, April 27, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Cognitive science for, and using, large language models
Tal Linzen
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Thursday, April 23, 2026
8:00 am
-10:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Speech-Driven Immersive Analytics: GenAI-grounded Sensemaking Perspective
Hyemi Song
[Remote] https://umd.zoom.us/my/varshney
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Multi-Modal Fault Tolerant Learning
Isabelle Rathbun
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6018401674?pwd=S2ZSOGpvRzhTUWsrUFg4cUFRQmUvdz09&omn=92955667678
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
AI Alignment through Participation and Evaluation: Promises and Pitfalls
Michael Feffer
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
Immersive Visual Interface Advances Through Viewpoint Generalization
Voicu Popescu - Purdue University
IRB-4105
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Well-Separation Heuristics for the Metric Traveling Salesman Problem
Addison Hanrattie
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8277636096
Monday, April 20, 2026
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advancing Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models
Sreyan Ghosh
Friday, April 17, 2026
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Steering Generative AI on the fly: Inference-time Approaches for Safe, Reliable and Inclusive Language Models
Soumya Suvra Ghosal
IRB-5105 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Thursday, April 16, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Your host is a distributed system!
Midhul Vuppalapati
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Speech and Audio Developments and Challenges in Industry
Sefik Emre Eskimez
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=EitPbAg5hk05MV1yh7Zby0Ej5UF5mP.1&omn=97688642680
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Principled Frameworks for AI Alignment: From Post-Training to Inference
Souradip Chakraborty
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: 3D Reconstruction in Challenging Environments
Kevin Zhang
IRB-3137
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Inference as Measurement: Models and Systems for Auditing the Internet
Loqman Salamatian
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Adaptive and Efficient Visual Synthesis of Appearance, Dynamics and Semantics
Yixuan Ren
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/yxren?pwd=CgvbcCPbywlw1yleeeKe6xpmzreDq4.1
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Adaptive and Efficient Visual Synthesis of Appearance, Dynamics and Semantics
Yixuan Ren
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/yxren?pwd=CgvbcCPbywlw1yleeeKe6xpmzreDq4.1
Monday, April 13, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking AI Model Storage with Model-aware and Tensor-centric Compression
Yue Cheng
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning the Physical World Structure from Data
Hadi Alzayer
IRB 5105
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Designing and Evaluating Capable, Safe, and Trustworthy Generative AI Systems
Neel Jain
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4106837750?pwd=ZEZxbG9UT2dHMTNhK0MxbDQwbGwvZz09&omn=98770465780&jst=2
Friday, April 10, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Scaling Agent-based Epidemic Diffusion on HPC Clusters
Joy Kitson
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7678805793?pwd=a09qSWI5VFdiY0hPRVVVUW8zQ0tYZz09
12:40 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fine-Grained Control for Video Editing
Yao-Chih Lee
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4410993015
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Hyperdimensional Computing As A Basis For Constructing Artificial Intelligence
Peter Sutor
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4187498378?omn=95933894398
Thursday, April 9, 2026
9:00 am
-10:30 am
CS Department
MS Defense: Vantage Point Path Planning for Efficient UAV Coverage Control
Alec Luterman
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4074500437?omn=93914316921
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Making Robust AI Safeguards Run Deep
Stephen Casper
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: DATA-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING FOR SOCIETAL SYSTEMS: AUDITING MOBILITY, CONTEXTUAL DATA AND MODELS FOR HIGH-STAKES APPLICATIONS
Saad Mohammad Abrar
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3781038639?omn=97483647707
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy Distributed Quantum Computing: From Programming, Semantics, and Verification to Executable Programs
Le Chang
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4087857922
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Distributed Swarm Formation Recognition via Local Features and Gossip-Averaged Graph Neural Networks
Samuel Badalov
IRB-5105
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Safety, Robustness and Reliability of AI
Gaurang Sriramanan
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/gaurangs
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Demystifying Property-Based Testing through Evaluation & Visualization
Ceren Mert
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95950618771
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient Geometric Algorithms for Stochastic and Categorical Data
Aditya Acharya
RB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2666211831
5:00 pm
- 6:15 pm
CS Department
Optimal-distance atom-loss correction via the Pauli Envelope?
Pengyu Liu
IRB 1207
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Principled and Generalizable Intelligence for Engineering Design
Lyle Regenwetter
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi
Atlantic Building 3100A
Monday, April 6, 2026
5:00 pm
- 6:15 pm
CS Department
From Algorithms to Fault-Tolerant Execution: Advances in Quantum Approximate Optimization
Zichang He
Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/99511466935?pwd=3C2nIEb2HkX62xsKG5Uae9XcrZ8cNS.1
Friday, April 3, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Investigating Reasoning Model: Overthinking and Thinking Episode Theory
Chenrui Fan
IRB-4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7644695948?pwd=EBpu4TsE5FGh3bXRSrECeht6bfYzvH.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: A Systems Perspective on Interconnects for Quantum Computing
Connor Clayton
ATL-3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/98645006306?pwd=WPL4bhZtqvHib5jPLPbYEihNToZtZe.1
Thursday, April 2, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking AI Systems Through Efficient Model Communication
Yuhan Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Architecting Physical Intelligence: Cross-Stack Co-Design from Systems to Silicon
Zishen Wan
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
MS Defense: seqproc: Toward A Declarative Geometry Specification Language for Protocol-Agnostic Read Preprocessing for Genomics
Elan Fisher
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6743871408?omn=92699675447
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Instance-Customizable Operating Systems
Jing Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Monday, March 30, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Architectural Approaches to Reasoning in Language Models
Sean McLeish
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95765075269?pwd=8CSiFgr2JEKK4KBPHAyKMi1agxAeKt.1
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Improving the Scalability and Applicability of Cryptographic Proof Systems
Kasra Abbaszadeh
Remote (http://meet.google.com/oor-qivy-iai)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
The loss of control of AI: which training paradigms do or don't encourage advanced AI to take over
Michael Cohen
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Thursday, March 26, 2026
9:45 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Quantum Advantage via Physics-Inspired Methods in Optimization: Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
Yufan Zheng
ATL-3100A
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Data-Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Exascale Computing
Yafan Huang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Longitudinal Data Analytics of HPC Systems and Applications
Onur Cankur
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3309400543?pwd=c01CL1VqUk8vS2NObHNEYk5zNlZnZz09&omn=93479749930&jst=2
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking Trust in the Modern Cloud
Quinn Burke
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Universality (or lack thereof) in Quantum Computation
Chaitanya Karamchedu
ATL - 3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/3069845073?pwd=NU5SZ0lxbVZRa0NDM1phblVWaVpHZz09
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: LLM-driven Development of Performant and Portable GPU Codes
Joshua Davis
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/jhdavis
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Goal Decomposition for Probabilistic Planning
David Chan
IRB 4237 https://umd.zoom.us/j/97330849312?pwd=AYabkfZIgcEXQmjr6ZansBjypdyMvN.1
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
The Missing Science of AI Evaluation
Sayash Kapoor
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Monday, March 23, 2026
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Mediating Complexity: Reasoning Layers from Embodied Interaction to Agentic Systems
Yuran Ding
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6166878962?pwd=UGdyNjk2WStINWg3MWViZThnUHRCZz09&omn=92010137247
Thursday, March 12, 2026
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
ML for Systems in the Real World: Challenges Beyond Training the Models
Jiayi Chen
CSI 1121
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
3:50 pm
- 6:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Algorithmic Delegation: From Classic Auctions to the Modern Digital Economy
Suho Shin
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4325803726?pwd=ellsd1RwQmdwWEJrR29LaXV2eERtZz09#success
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Advancing Fully-Open Audio General Intelligence
Sreyan Ghosh
IRB 2207
Monday, March 9, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: I’ll take it, if you throw in a Solar Panel! Learning how to engage in Productive and Fair-Minded Intergroup Communications via Human-LLM Role Play
Sandra Sandoval
IRB-4109 or umd.zoom.us/my/haliii
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Human-centric Acoustics: The Interplay of Opportunities and Security
Irtaza Shahid
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5727215450?pwd=VU9KTHFOenRaOUVVS2VSNE9mM0V4UT09&omn=95010039071
Friday, February 13, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Beyond Debiasing: Designing for Fair Human-AI Collaboration
Connor Baumler
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/91681312959?pwd=FwUyktfQ5CEBzrnyVUCO4orreBiQpM.1
Monday, February 9, 2026
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Computational Geometry in the Funk and Hilbert Metrics
Auguste Gezalyan
IRB-4105
Thursday, February 5, 2026
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Topology-aware modeling of terrains and volumetric data: from discrete to neural implicit representations
Haoan Feng
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6162286107?pwd=VWZaR1FGbkdrYnBJbUhvUFFlQ2p6UT09&omn=91814598591&jst=2
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: From Measurement to Discovery: Comparing Text in Computational Social Science
Paiheng Xu
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96651894054
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Revisiting Motion: Leveraging Point Tracking for Efficient Video Understanding
Pulkit Kumar
IRB -4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/pulkit
5:30 pm
- 7:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Aligning and Evaluating Artificial Intelligence with Human Expertise
Feng Gu
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95712588309?pwd=nw75UN5CWSxxEJCNGdCbRrVibOb7u2.1
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advances in Fourier Ptychography for High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Imaging
Matthew Chan
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2148418519
Friday, January 30, 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Disentangling Internal Factors and Mechanisms for Interpreting and Steering Language Model Behavior
Navita Goyal
REMOTE https://umd.zoom.us/my/navita?pwd=N0FlbzJVUGQ0RzRLZ1F3R0NCOXdmdz09
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Unifying Multimodel: Perception, Reasoning, Generation
Jiuhai Chen
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8501825249?omn=91672049201&jst=2
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building Efficient, Robust and Trustworthy AI Agents for Network and Systems
Lesley (Yajie) Zhou
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4113216129
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Connectivity, Committees, and Quiet Planting: Algorithms and Hardness
Iman Gholami
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7910582359?pwd=OTNYL0FSMVpiM0xTUk5kb2JIV09hQT09&omn=98679014671&jst=2
Thursday, January 22, 2026
1:00 am
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Steering Foundation Models toward Reliability and Efficiency: An Interplay of Data and Modeling
Xiyao Wang
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7912392035?pwd=OThCdVJJM0lLL1JDK0UxbUxJeGgxdz09&omn=97352779958
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Embodied Non-Visual Interaction: Tangible, Haptic, and Robotic Mediation of Graphical User Interface for Blind Individuals
Jiasheng Li
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/meetings/9658765398/
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS AND ONLINE DECISION MAKING IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION AND UNSUPERVISED LEARNING
Sharmila Venkata Sathya Duppala
IRB-4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8734204280?pwd=bmJjWVNLMHV4L1ZlQTA4TU9jZ242UT09&omn=96524744557
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Look, Listen, and Reason: Advancing Fine-Grained, Robust, and Efficient Audio-Visual Perception in Foundational Models
Sanjoy Chowdhury
IRB-5107 or umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Monday, January 12, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Elevating Data Systems: A Cost-Driven Architectural Approach to Query Processing and Schema Compilation
Hasara Kalumin
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7123055142
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: PHOTOREALISTIC 3D MAPPING OF REAL-WORLD SCENES: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Jaehoon Choi
IRB-5107 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Monday, January 5, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Generative Visual Understanding: From Emergence to Application
Soumik Mukhopadhyay
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4393962416?pwd=QAcw7m1elrY9r0H5RTsrsS8PJxq71y.1&omn=96441740152
Friday, December 19, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Uncovering the Tactics Scammers Use to Deceive Older Adults
Julio Poveda
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/91677695828?pwd=bMpONb70CBEwEAi0yb22MtOS5MUCXe.1
Thursday, December 18, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Measuring What Matters in Trustworthy AI: Certified Robustness to Agentic Safety
No speaker yet
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8566872628?pwd=VDJ1WWZCamE2Ym9ZcGh2RjZ6YVY1Zz09&omn=97071414122&jst=2
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fast personalization of language models via personalized preference modeling and hyper-adaptation
John Kanu
IRB-4107
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Reliable Reasoning and Alignment in Large Models
Aakriti Agrawal
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6421587304?pwd=c3JYSno4SExVVnEvZkNpcFhMOFBVQT09
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Generating Visual Content: From Pixel Orders to Videos and Beyond
Hanyu Wang
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/91998449224?pwd=eikLLACYfbt3Za5sNlfRlhnJUbU1Ee.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Distinguishing classical and quantum systems through the computational lens
Jon Nelson
ATL 3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/3080179084
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Integrated Numeric Planning and Scheduling of Distributed Pipelined Workflows
Taylor Paul
IRB-5105
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Measuring gravitational lensing time delays with quantum information processing
Zhenning Liu
ATL-3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/92746313746
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Baby VLM: Democratizing Research on the Pretraining of Vision Large Language Models
Boqing Gong
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/92499087387?pwd=V576oxa5ktSyfEbmT9RiIldaPlutHd.1&jst=2
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advancing Responsible Societal-Scale Use of Mobility Data in High-Stakes Settings
Naman Awasthi
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Understanding and Connecting Fairness, Copyright, and Watermarking Through a Security Lens
Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9779607555?pwd=bFN5ZVJtcXJBLzlPUTIxUkpramZxUT09
Monday, December 15, 2025
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy AI-Mediated Communication Across Languages and Cultures
Dayeon Ki
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2376625512?pwd=ekxUV1Q0TENZdHordGIrUjQrQlZEZz09
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: The Missing Why: Building Generative AI That Understands Purpose, Audience, and Context
Ishani Mondal
IRB-4145 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2820324243?pwd=cjZzdlpLNThwVGMyaGZjdFg4d1pEQT09
Friday, December 12, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: End-to-end measurement and analysis of real-time communication systems
Peiqing Chen
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4733622168?pwd=Nk9Xd0Zzb2tPUmZpQzhoRFAzd3FNdz09
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Sparse Patterns to Smart Acceleration: Machine Learning Methods for the Future of Computing
Bahar Asgari
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Quantum Query Algorithms: Design, Optimality, Complexity
Matt Kovacs-Deak
ATL-3100A
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Physical Intelligence - Embedded, Embodied, And Everywhere
Harshvardhan Takawale
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6888419958?pwd=rNCpC5Or2a8ka9S3yipzk9JV9I4CEH.1&omn=94135387952&jst=2
Thursday, December 11, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Improving Scalability of Transformer Methods for Tabular and Time Series Problems
Mayuka Jayawardhana
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2301256760?pwd=yEnbPucXOgRadvtKIGCybs1LVKj471.1 (Passcode: 529800)
Monday, December 8, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Structured Proof Editing
Henry Blanchette
IRB-2137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4802469877
Friday, December 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Analytic pipelines are impacted by and create errors in biological databases
Mihai Pop
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Analytic pipelines are impacted by and create errors in biological databases
Mihai Pop
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Monday, November 24, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Evaluating the trade-offs of Topic Models, Neural Models, and Large Language Models
Zongxia Li
IRB 5107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/maksimezhang
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advancing Audio Intelligence for Perception, Reasoning, and Generation
Sonal Kumar
https://umd.zoom.us/j/3073988210?pwd=OUpOeXhRN05ueXBwZ0JMNkRPbWZ6Zz09&omn=93052355706
Friday, November 21, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and Architectures
Can Firtina
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Differentiable Systems for Efficient Optimization: From Kinematics to Geometry
Sanghyun Son
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/6901467837?pwd=TOrh2XuywSgyNUnCm8BgX2Ax7UseJB.1&omn=97763577942&jst=2
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Robust Multimodal Learning for Autonomous Agents
Rui Liu
https://umd.zoom.us/my/tokekar
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Unified Metadata Management of Data Lake Systems
Keonwoo Oh
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6060059703?pwd=XijRCLNpxDIo1kUPoFbn3dYza0DQRS.1&omn=97508823749&jst=2
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Methods for Improving the Communication Efficacy of Language Models: Faithfulness and Pragmatics
Lingjun Zhao
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6758003397
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Model-free Stateful Random Testing
Ethan Chou
IRB-4105
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Computational methods for identifying single and combinatorial CAR T-cell targets from single-cell transcriptomics data
Sanna Madan
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4125988414?omn=95810114990
Monday, November 17, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: LEARNING ROBOT POLICIES FROM INTUITIVE HUMAN GUIDANCE
Amisha Bhaskar
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/tokekar
Friday, November 14, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline
Sarah Wiegreffe
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Improving Knowledge Discovery: Advanced Topic and Language Models
Kyle Seelman
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6439360497
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Watermarking for Transparent Large Language Model Development and Deployment
John Kirchenbauer
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97837256573 (Passcode: wm4attr)
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble
ATL 3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Rearchitecting cloud telemetry through approximation-first techniques
Zeying Zhu
IRB-5161 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95503569537?pwd=7cqT8mNQ2OFDh3YqEBoCGbxnROH8ba.1
Friday, November 7, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Anonymous Programmable Identities and Credentials
Maurice Shih
IRB-5165
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking Cloud-Scale Telemetry from an Approximation-First Perspective
Alan Zaoxing Liu
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: On the Robustness of Large Lange Model pipelines
Pankayaraj Pathmanathan
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8590171525?pwd=VdlBg46vs8c8hRbUydgI5gH5SEbDMO.1&omn=93403349692&jst=2
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: From Hardness to Structure: Algorithmic Insights from SAT, Diversity, and Connectivity
Ali Ahmadi
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/97264199383?pwd=cvGsOuEInoevnkQuLtPb8hYxrwWG6G.1
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Mechanistic and Black-Box Interpretability for Attribution in Neural Networks
Sriram Balasubramanian
IRB 5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9500203024
Thursday, November 6, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Machine Learning through Data-Centric Approaches: Efficiency, Generalization, and Trustworthiness
Mucong Ding
IRB-4107
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Trustworthiness and Safety in Foundation Models
Yihan Wu
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Private and Trustworthy Generative Models
Yuxin Wen
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4139538360?pwd=gb0KNkfRLeWiiDGqobcr4aPEeX0cuY.1&omn=97450556970 (Passcode: umd)
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Embodied Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8756553504?pwd=Q01uai83UkhnVVBOQXhXSVRwNERHdz09
Friday, October 31, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Human-Model Interaction in Public Sectors
Fumeng Yang
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
Ruijie Zheng
IRB-4109
Thursday, October 30, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Large-Scale Deployment
Kasra Abbaszadeh
IRB-5137
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Studying Tumor Evolution with Emerging Sequencing Technology
Yuelin Liu
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95969182993?pwd=0hbHY991IvqEDHdKXgmtY8NUe3oQ07.1
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Augmenting Communication in Extended Reality through Multimodal Systems for Humans and Agents
Geonsun Lee
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient String and Graph Algorithms in Modern Settings
Jacob Gilbert
Iribe-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6248158247?pwd=VnVKQnpYcmhWZnUzVlA4YW9IWjJ5QT09
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Safety and Trustworthy in Biomedical AI
Yifan Yang
IRB-4109
Monday, October 27, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: ENABLING SAFE ROBOTIC COMPANIONS THROUGH HUMAN-AWARE SIMULATION, NATURAL COMMUNICATION, AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE
James Mullen
IRB-4109 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Empowering Business Professionals with Interactive What-If Analysis: From Conceptual Framework to LLM-Powered Automation
Sneha Gathani
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9371793618?pwd=OXhhOXFBUG5uU3dUVndSai9mUWtzdz09&omn=98929182380&jst=2
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Powerful Open-Weight AI Models: Wonderful, Terrible, and Inevitable — How Can We Make Them Safer?
Stephen Casper
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/2742814228?pwd=MDI4NFRBZXhjNGlCc3RKUThCTTlDUT09&omn=97071787820&jst=2
Friday, October 24, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Auditory General Intelligence
Ramani Duraiswami
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Thursday, October 23, 2025
9:30 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Quantum End-to-end Solvers for Partial Differential Equations
Mahathi Vempati
ATL-3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/7474810823
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: ADOPTING OPTIMISTIC CONCURRENCY CONTROL TECHNIQUES TO SCALE DISAGGREGATED-STORAGE SYSTEMS
Pooja Nilangekar
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7448093364
Monday, October 20, 2025
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Solving the data problem of inverse rendering
Jiaye Wu
IRB-4107
Friday, October 17, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advancing Object Understanding in Large Language Models
Mollie Shichman
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Probably Approximately Precision (Hallucination) and Recall (Mode Collapse) Learning
Han Shao
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Thursday, October 16, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Enhancing Human-AI Interactions through Reinforcement Learning
Wichayaporn Wongkamjan
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/94615978626
Friday, October 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking Test-Time Thinking: From Token-Level Rewards to Robust Generative Agents
Furong Huang
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
How does gradient descent work?
Jeremy Cohen
Remote
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Effects of GenAI on Computing Education
Leo Porter
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/94000057891?pwd=CrHip56PERaFOhLBYw7yqRWy2e4lms.1
Monday, October 6, 2025
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
We Are (Still!) Not Giving Data Enough Credit
Alexei (Alyosha) Efros
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
5:00 pm
- 6:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Interactive Vision Systems with Visual and Textual Prompts
Chuong Huynh
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/abhinavumd Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Example-Driven Data Visualization in the Age of Human-Centered AI
Leo Zhicheng Liu
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
10:00 am
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Motion Modeling from Human to the World Around Us
Ting-Hsuan Liao
IRB-5137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
Robust, Fair, and Culturally-Aware Commonsense Reasoning for NLP
Rachel Rudinger
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Friday, September 26, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Training at Scale: GPU Systems Driving Advances in LLMs and GNNs
Abhinav Bhatele
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Software Correctness through Testing and Verification
Leonidas Lampropoulos
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Friday, September 19, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
A Human-Centered Approach to Trustworthy Machine Translation
Marine Carpuat
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Redo Electronics: Designing Reusable, Reconfigurable, and Dissolvable Circuits
Huaishu Peng
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Monday, September 15, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fine-grained control for editing casual video
Yao-Chih Lee
IRB-3137 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/4410993015
Friday, September 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Imaging and Sensing in Extreme Conditions
Christopher Metzler
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fairly Law-informed Distribution of Human-AI Deserts
Tin Trung Nguyen
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/haliii
Thursday, September 11, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
What Are 2D and Topological Materials Good For?
Eric Pop
1410 John S. Toll Bldg
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Pixels to Systems: How Generative and Agentic Techniques Reshape Computational Imaging, and Beyond
Zhengzhong Tu
IRB 4105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Spatial Reasoning through Artificial Intelligence
Nicole Schneider
IRB-4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
How to factor a genome for fun and profit: De Bruijn’s legacy and the mathematical models, data structures, and algorithms at the core of modern genomics
Rob Patro
IRB 4150 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Discovering Latent Structures in Data through Learning Disentangled Representations
Vaishnavi Patil
IRB-4107
Monday, September 8, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Understanding Implicit Content in NLP
Rupak Sarkar
IRB 4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/rupak
Friday, September 5, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Generative Operators: Diffusion Models as Data Processing Machines
Hadi Alzayer
IRB 3137
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Human-Centered Security Beyond End Users
Michelle Mazurek
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Thursday, September 4, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building Trust in GenAI: Robust Provenance, AI-Detection Limits, and Multimodal Reliability
Mehrdad Saberi
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5680985925
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Robot Navigation in Complex Scenarios
Jing Liang
IRB-5165 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
4:30 pm
- 6:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Knowledge Localization, Editing, and Unlearning in Foundation Models
Keivan Rezaei
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9719759070
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Mediating Cognition: Intent-Driven Agentic Workflows for Iterative, Multi-Stage Problem-Solving
Yuran Ding
IRB-5165
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Using neuromorphic sparsity for perception and AI inference
Tobi Delbruck
IRB 4105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Computational Photography in Challenging Conditions via Physical Cues and Generative Priors
Mingyang Xie
Remote https://umd.zoom.us/my/mingyang?pwd=WOfak3cyrgS7c7crjmXjy4sB1rDpLL.1
Thursday, August 21, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Context-Aware and Efficient Audio-Visual Perception
Sanjoy Chowdhury
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Friday, August 15, 2025
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Toward Efficient Language Models: Structural Insights and Scalable Designs
Shwai He
[Remote] https://umd.zoom.us/j/3923137959?pwd=MStSWTgwSEJCNUQ2ZEMxSjFwOFdyQT09&omn=97956216946
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Steering Generative AI on the fly: Inference-time Approaches for Safe, Reliable, and Inclusive Language Models
Soumya Suvra Ghosal
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Thursday, August 7, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy and Capable Language Models
Abhimanyu Hans
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6266008577?pwd=UlFQSDJMMmVoNzlJQzRXWVpmZXZhUT09&omn=92409753644&jst=2
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Investigating and Tackling Bias and Hackings in AI
Lichang Chen
IRB 4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96431729723?pwd=ZVV1TU5RaC9RQ3Y1L2p0ZlFZcjJEZz09
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Modeling Human Factors and Traffic Dynamics for Generalization in Autonomous Driving
Laura Zheng
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2736097828?pwd=N1VyTVhtejJRdDlCbzRvVVcvVTZxZz09
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Plug and Predict: Generative Recognition and Surrogate Training for VLMs
Kaiyu Yue
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7173057078
Friday, July 25, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Computational Problems on Depth Measures Combining Combinatorics and Geometry
Shuhao Tan
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/92313815902
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Fairness and Uncertainty in Graph Matching
Nathaniel Grammel
IRB-3137 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/9398853433
Monday, July 21, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning with Less Effort: Efficient Training and Generalization in (Multi-)Robot Systems
Peihong Yu
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/tokekar
Thursday, July 17, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Flexible Input for Novel View Synthesis
Geng Lin
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93051409149?pwd=aQbQ7NZVbQLjuNtTHx2vL85aMUEamB.1
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Identifying and Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning for Healthcare
Daniel Smolyak
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3183281812?omn=99478395069&jst=2
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Inverse Rendering with Global Illumination
Saeed Hadadan
IRB-4105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/6610989686
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Qunity and COGNAC: Finding the Right Abstractions for Quantum Programming
Finn Voichick
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/leonidas
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Neural networks as databases - From data to model compression
Shishira Raghunath Maiya
IRB-4109
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Speeding up Density Functional Theory Calculations With Machine Learning: A Density Learning Approach
Phillip Pope
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/davidjacobs
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Practical Applications for Partial Quantum Error Correction
Noah Berthusen
ATL 3100A or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3498884997?pwd=SURCT1ZkTTNaZzlzbmlaT2lrTVBaZz09
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Context-Aware Computational Video Editing and Re-Editing
Pooja Guhan
IRB-4105 OR http://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Improving Efficiency of Transformer Foundation Models
Armin Gerami
Remote https://umd.zoom.us/j/96431729723?pwd=ZVV1TU5RaC9RQ3Y1L2p0ZlFZcjJEZz09
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Accurate and Scalable Phylogeny Estimation via Graph Cuts
Yunheng Han
IRB 3137
Monday, June 23, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Repairing Temporal Hierarchical Task Networks
Paul Zaidins
IRB-5137
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Human-AI Integration
Jun Rekimoto - The University of Tokyo, Sony Computer Science Laboratories https://lab.rekimoto.org/
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94009626389?pwd=ISwA4IU3ylBVrp5dWaENxDG7BEcIYb.1
Friday, June 20, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning Structured Alignment: From Visual Understanding to Robot Control
Shuaiyi Huang
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Submodular Optimization in Learning
Samira Goudarzi
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/2456753152?pwd=cGVhd3R1cWRHUUxQYTVid2hGL2poQT09
Monday, June 16, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Small and Large Perception Models for robotic navigation
Tianrui Guan
IRB-3137 or http://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Thursday, June 12, 2025
2:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Understanding and Addressing Online Tracking
Nathan Reitinger
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/96505695990?pwd=uqQjOsSM33v1R5h2C5thanr4bkyA7a.1
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: DEEP LEARNING UNDER REAL-WORLD CONSTRAINTS: EFFICIENCY, STRUCTURE, AND ROBUSTNESS IN THE MODERN ML STACK
Alexander Stein
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5209864628?pwd=eU5kaEErcnVGZW1PdUdwWWgrenI0Zz09&omn=99225074436&jst=2
Monday, June 9, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Effective and Efficient Video Understanding
Xijun Wang
IRB-4105 or umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Monday, June 2, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Principled AI-Agents with Decentralized and Asymmetric Information
Xiangyu Liu
[Remote] https://umd.zoom.us/j/7269246363#success
Thursday, May 29, 2025
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Privacy Implications of Large-Scale Address Enumeration
Erik Rye
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3338335258?pwd=ZXRuTXJ0QlRCcklVSGFocUFqUDFHUT09&omn=99153349059&jst=2
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in Artificial Intelligence
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay
IRB-4107 OR https://meet.google.com/rkz-hect-guf
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Smart, Sparse, and Safe: Efficient Algorithms for Generative AI
Reza Shirkavand
IRB-4109 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Multi-Exit Design Across the Language Model Lifecycle: Toward Efficient, Robust, and Adaptive Models
Kamala Varma
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9512931330
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Safety, Robustness and Reliability of AI
Gaurang Sriramanan
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/gaurangs
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Robustness, Detectability, and Data Privacy in AI
Vinu Sankar Sadasivan
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/s/97500993852?pwd=Ah5JJzb6NGxunb5BMeJlMpFl9K0mfx.1
Thursday, May 15, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
Mara Levy
IRB 4105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/6692219114?omn=94335880707
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Long-read, assembly-based metagenomic and cancer phasing
Ataberk Donmez
IRB-3137
This list is organized by Richa Mathur and Sharron McElroy