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Thursday, April 25, 2024

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Human-centered Explainable AI: Expanding Explainable & Responsible AI

Upol Ehsan

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

MS Defense: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Filters

Ben Landrum

5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Enhancing Multi-user Experiences in XR: Interface Design for Workspace Awareness

Geonsun Lee

5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:30 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

MS Defense: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering with Dynamic Optics and Event Cameras

Sachin Shah

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

12:30 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Visual Content Synthesis at Scale

Songwei Ge

IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, April 18, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Adaptive Low Probability of Detection Radar Waveform Design with Generative Deep Learning

Matthew Ziemann

LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740

Monday, April 15, 2024

3:30 pm

- 4:10 pm

CS Department

Integrating interactive devices with the user’s body

Pedro Lopes

IRB 4105

4:15 pm

- 4:45 pm

CS Department

Toward Human-Computer-World Interaction

Seongkook Heo

IRB 4105

Thursday, April 11, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Accessible Foundation Models: Systems, Algorithms, and Science

Tim Dettmers

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Defense: Towards Immersive Streaming for Videos and Light Fields

David Li

IRB 4107

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Foundations of Multisensory Artificial Intelligence

Paul Liang

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Next-Gen AI: Advancing Watermarking, Algorithm Synthesis, and Diverse Generative Strategies

Arpit Bansal

IRB-5105

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

9:30 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Defense: Machine Learning for Non-photorealistic Illustration, Animation, and 3D Characters

Shuhong Chen

IRB 3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Practical(ish) Multiparty Protocols from Lattice Assumptions

Kamil Doruk Gur

IRB 5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, April 8, 2024

10:30 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Interpretability of Deep Models Across different Architectures and Modalities

Hamid Kazemi

IRB 5165

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Toward End-to-end Reliable Robot Learning for Autonomy and Interaction

Glen Chou

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Friday, April 5, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Zero-knowledge proofs for programmable anonymity, moderation, and reputation

Michael Rosenberg

IRB 5165

2:30 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Towards scalability and efficiency in distributed systems

Jan Olkowski

IRB 5165

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Theoretical and Practical High-Assurance Software Tools for Quantum Applications

Yuxiang Peng

IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, April 4, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Flow models with applications to cell trajectories and protein design

Alex Tong

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Generative Models AAA: Acceleration, Application, Adversary

Amin Karbasi

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Analysis and Synthesis of Repetitive Patterns in Digital Images

Peihan Tu

IRB-5105

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Frameworks for Efficient Algorithms for Learning: Robustness and Data Compression

Abhishek Shetty

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Monday, April 1, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Unleashing the Power of Data through Neurosymbolic Program Synthesis

Jocelyn (Qiaochu) Chen

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Architecture-Tailored Parallelization for Accessible Large Model Era

Xupeng Miao

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Foundations of Trustworthy Deep Learning: Fairness, Robustness, and Explainability

Vedant Nanda

IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, March 28, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Towards Principled Sequential Decision-Making

Qinghua Liu

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Empowering Large Language Models with Efficient and Automated Systems

Zhuohan Li

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

4:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning

Haizhao Yang

IRB 4105

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Designing Reliable Human-AI Interactions: Translating Languages and Matching Students

Niloufar Salehi

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

11:30 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Towards Effective and Inclusive AI: Aligning AI Systems with User Needs and Stakeholder Values Across Diverse Contexts

Yang Cao

Hornbake 0108

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Quantum Computational Advantages in Energy Minimization

Leo Zhou

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: On Utilizing Learning Shortcuts for Robustness and Dataset Security

Pedro Sandoval Segura

IRB 4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Designing efficient and scalable cache management systems

Juncheng Yang

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Examining the roles of Internally and Externally Learned Priors for Video Modeling

Gaurav Shrivastava

IRB 4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Making and measuring progress in long-form language processing

Mohit Iyyer

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Monday, March 25, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Trustworthy Machine Learning under Social and Adversarial Data Sources

Han Shao

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Intelligent Systems that Perceive, Imagine, and Act Like Humans by Aligning Vision and Language Representations

Boyi Li

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Thursday, March 14, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

The Future is not Set: Visual Decision-Making with Predictive Models

Fumeng Yang

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Leveraging Multimodal Foundation Models for Exploring the 3D World

Hadar Averbuch-Elor

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Algorithms, Circuits and Learning with Quantum Computers

Luke Schaeffer

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Towards 4D Reconstruction in the Wild

Gengshan Yang

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

3:30 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Dissertation Defense: Efficient Models and Learning Strategies for Resource-Constrained Systems

Tahseen Rabbani

IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Towards Transparent Representation Learning

Yaodong Yu

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Monday, March 11, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Instance-Optimization: Rethinking Database Design for the Next 1000X

Jialin Ding - Applied Scientist, AWS

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP

Zhijing Jin

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Friday, March 8, 2024

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Bridging the gulf of evaluation in human-AI interaction for knowledge workers

Yuexi Chen

IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

9:30 am

-11:30 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Communication-efficient Hybrid Parallel Algorithms for Neural Network Training

Siddharth Singh

IRB 5165

Thursday, March 7, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Programmable Software Systems for Correct High-performance Applications

Konstantinos Kallas

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Dexterity: The Crucial Motion Intelligence for Future Robots

Xianyi Cheng

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Decoding Abusive Adversaries for Safer Digital Systems

Rosanna Bellini

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Making machine learning predictably reliable

Andrew Ilyas

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Theoretical understanding of learning through the computational lens

Binghui Peng

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Monday, March 4, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Building More Reliable and Scalable AI Systems with Language Model Programming

Omar Khattab

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Thursday, February 29, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Building Quantum Software with Trustworthiness

Runzhou Tao

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Modern Algorithms for Massive Graphs: Structure and Compression

Zihan Tan

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

"Parallelism First”: New Foundations for Provably Efficient and Safe Parallel Programming

Sam Westrick

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Monday, February 26, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Building Personalized and Efficient 3D Models

Roni Sengupta

CSI 1115 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

Thursday, February 22, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Toward Reliable Quantum Computing Systems with Intelligent Cross-Stack Co-Design

Hanrui Wang

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Evaluating and Designing Computing Systems for the Future of Work

Hancheng Cao

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Panning for gold: Interpretable and error-controlled hypothesis generation from biomedical data

Yang Lu - Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09

Monday, February 5, 2024

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Robots in Complex Indoor and Outdoor Scenarios

Jing Liang

IRB 5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, February 2, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Understanding and Enhancing Machine Learning Models with Theoretical Foundations

Zhengmian Hu

IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Learning Parallel Code and System Behaviors Across Modalities

Daniel Nichols

IRB 5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, January 26, 2024

10:00 am

-11:30 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Pruning for Efficient Deep Learning: From CNNs to Generative Models

Alireza Ganjdanesh

IRB-5105 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (KEB)

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

12:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING ONLINE TRACKING

Nathan Reitinger

https://umd.zoom.us/j/5255974788?pwd=L1AwbGdyOFlCWEc5ck5vZDZNSjE0Zz09&omn=94081502700

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Local Hamiltonians and the Quantum PCP Conjecture

Nolan Coble

https://umd.zoom.us/j/97946334970?pwd=TUpEV2FsZk12dVpmRGUwY0p0eDdmZz09

Monday, January 22, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Cryptography for Private and Secure Blockchain Applications

Noemi Glaeser

https://umd.zoom.us/my/jkatz

Thursday, January 18, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: Enhancing Modern Query Federation Systems: Execution Optimization, Performance Prediction, and Systems Assessment

Chujun Song

IRB-5165 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/my/cjsong

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: Developing and Measuring Latent Constructs with Natural Language Processing

Alexander Hoyle

IRB 4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: Everything efficient all at once - Compressing data and deep networks

Sharath Girish

IRB 4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, January 12, 2024

1:30 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: Supervision and Data Dynamics in Vision Across Recognition and Generation Landscapes

Saksham Suri

IRB-4105 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/98653959669?pwd=NWN0TTMrOHJNTzFnZE0xMjRHbU4yUT09

Thursday, January 4, 2024

2:30 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: High Performance Distributed Transactions for Multi-region Database Systems

Cuong Nguyen

IRB-5165 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4894262225?omn=97322941406 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, December 18, 2023

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: Towards Reliable Deep Learning via Efficient Interpretation and Intervention

Mazda Moayeri

IRB-4105 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/5680985925 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Preliminary: Interpreting Visual Representations and Mitigating their Failures

Neha Kalibhat

IRB-4105 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/6732901799 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, December 11, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Dissertation Defense: Ray Chen

Ray Chen

IRB-5165

Friday, December 8, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Robust AI for Security

Yizheng Chen

IRB 0318 or via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Monday, December 4, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Achieving Codec Telepresence

Michael Zollhoefer

IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

Friday, December 1, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

How Hard Is It for Networks to Run Themselves?

Alan Zaoxing Liu

IRB 0318 or via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Friday, November 17, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Reconstructing Reality: Creating Digital Twins for the Metaverse

Ming C. Lin

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

4:30 pm

- 5:30 pm

CS Department

Research at Dolby Laboratories - Where Art and Technology Intersect

Brett Crockett and Samir N. Hulyalkar

IRB 4105 or Zoom: umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha

Monday, November 13, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Plastic Dynamism: Delightful Decomposition, Destruction, Decay, Deformation, and Digestive Designs

Eric Paulos

IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/my/huaishu

Friday, November 10, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Revisiting what it means to be usable: Usable security beyond end users

Michelle Mazurek

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

Robot Foundation Models: Training Robots with Internet Scale Data

Jie Tan - Google

JMP 2116 or https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=66a19ef9-e9cd-434e-b0f3-b06000fc2ff5

Thursday, November 9, 2023

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

Remote Procedure Call as Managed System Service

Prof. Danyang Zhuo - Duke University

IRB 5105

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

Unlocking Optimization with Generative AI: Reward-Directed Conditional Diffusion

Mengdi Wang - Princeton University

IRB 4105

Friday, November 3, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Towards Controllable and Personalized AI Models

Tianyi Zhou

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Friday, October 27, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Neural Wavefront Shaping

Christopher Allan Metzler

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

Enabling Collaboration between Human Creators and Generative Visual Models

Jun-Yan Zhu - Carnegie Mellon University

IRB 4105

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department ⋅ DBChat

Texera: Supporting Collaborative ML-Centric Data Science for All

Prof. Chen Li - UC Irvine

IRB 5165 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/98138228458?pwd=eE0wczU2eDZmR1AzTEtSY2c3a1cvdz09

Thursday, October 26, 2023

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

Attaining Sparsity in Large Language Models: Is it Easy or Hard?

Atlas Wang - University of Texas at Austin

2460 A. V. Williams

Monday, October 23, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

From Sparse to Dense, and back to Sparse again?

Prof. Fuxin Li - Oregon State University

IRB 4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

Friday, October 20, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Leveraging Learning and Combinatorial Optimization for Advancing Multi-Robot Systems

Pratap Tokekar

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Friday, October 13, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Generative AI Unveiled: Detection, Interpretation and Robustness

Soheil Feizi

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Thursday, October 12, 2023

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

Differentiable Material Point Method’s Recent Connections to Real World

Chenfanfu Jiang - University of California at Los Angeles

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=d1pKVndXWFhkb1JNaEhJY05CU2ZiQT09

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Entity-centric Understanding of Long Documents

Abhilasha Sancheti

4109 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9216050397?pwd=aTdlMXc4UWFnemdKbXlZdWxTYXBDQT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

Computing in Miniature: Differentiable Representations for Simulating and Optimizing Small Physical Systems

Bo Zhu - School of Interactive Computing College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=d1pKVndXWFhkb1JNaEhJY05CU2ZiQT09

Monday, October 9, 2023

2:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

Challenges in Augmenting Large Language Models with Private Data

Ashwinee Panda

IRB 4105

Friday, October 6, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Large-Scale Machine Learning Model Computing and Compression

Heng Huang

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Friday, September 29, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

If We Want AI to be Interpretable, We Need to Measure Interpretability

Jordan Boyd-Graber

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Monday, September 25, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Visual Imagination in the 3D Physical World

Shenlong Wang - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

IRB 4105 or zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

Friday, September 22, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Compositional Learning for Object-centric Attributes and Relations

Abhinav Shrivastava

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Thursday, September 21, 2023

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

Learned Optics — Improving Computational Imaging Systems through Deep Learning and Optimization

Wolfgang Heidrich - KAUST Visual Computing Center

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=aVkyTksvS1dGNXN2Kzk1K0xZU2pDZz09

3:30 pm

- 5:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Understanding the Interplay of Fairness, Robustness, and Efficiency in Deep Learning

Vedant Nanda

Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5422705818

Monday, September 18, 2023

2:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Less Labeling Cost

Tuo Zhao - Georgia Tech

https://go.umd.edu/MTHDataScience

Friday, September 15, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Trustworthy Machine Learning in an Ever-Changing World

Furong Huang

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Monday, September 11, 2023

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Improving Reliability of Machine Learning Models

Ping-yeh Chiang

IRB-4109 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5472767808 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, September 8, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Trust in the Absence of Verifiability

Hal Daumé

IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Zero-knowledge proofs for programmable anonymity, moderation, and reputation

Michael Rosenberg

Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96440864624

Friday, September 1, 2023

11:00 am

-11:55 am

CS Department

Quantum algorithms and the power of forgetting

Andrew Childs

IRB 1116- Zoom Link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09

Thursday, August 31, 2023

1:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Analyzing and indexing huge reference sequence collections

Jason Fan

3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93457774326

Monday, August 28, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: A Virtual Human Visual System for Visualization Design

Sungbok Shin

https://umd.zoom.us/my/sbshin90

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Marrying Vision and Language: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship?

Prof. Hadar Averbuch-Elor - Tel-Aviv University

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

Thursday, August 24, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Studying tumor evolution with emerging sequencing technology

Yuelin Liu

3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/92228180555?pwd=WE9wcW80bzd5c1BQVEljcWo3WE5idz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Extending the Scope of Provable Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

Aounon Kumar

4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95880348520?pwd=cUFMTURWQ1h1YmU2bzNDYVhOYjlMZz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, August 14, 2023

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: LEARNING-BASED AUTONOMOUS DRIVING WITH ENHANCED DATA EFFICIENCY AND POLICY TRAINING

Yu Shen

4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4603492472?pwd=ODBpeVVucU5tSTZmblkxb0JBQnZmdz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, July 31, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Exploring the Power of Machine Learning in Medical Research: A Focus on Movement Disorder Diagnosis and Age-Related Hearing Loss

Rana Khalil

3256 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, July 28, 2023

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Algorithms and Data Structures to Organize, Index, and Search High-throughput Genomic Data

Jamshed Khan

3137 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/7464632053 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Scalable Methods for Robust Machine Learning

Alexander Levine

4105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/5680985925 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, July 17, 2023

2:30 pm

- 3:20 pm

CS Department

Is this the beginning or is this the end for end-to-end vision models?

Ani Kembhavi

IRB 4105, Zoom link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/99048512875

2:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

Is this the beginning or is this the end for end-to-end vision models?

Ani Kembhavi

IRB 4105, Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99048512875

Thursday, July 13, 2023

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: The Limitations of Deep Learning Methods in Realistic Adversarial Settings

Yigitcan Kaya

5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93466835534?pwd=OWVnMjl1SFRESVJpNWxiN3F0cEVNZz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, July 10, 2023

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Understanding and Enriching Algorithmic Reasoning Capabilities of Deep Learning Models

Jingling Li

4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3855080995?pwd=VUlIVlBCTlVMRUZ3NXBISnYvZWM1QT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, June 30, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Expanding Robustness in Responsible AI for Novel Bias Mitigation

Samuel Dooley

5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/99363925797?pwd=NTFpd2NCYTVXaUlYSjFlaDdKMDFxZz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

2:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Detecting Fine-Grained Semantic Divergences to Improve Translation Understanding Across Languages

Eleftheria Briakou

4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3651772247?pwd=NUFKS1pReXZvcGxNSHBoakJyVlAxZz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, June 29, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Mining Specifications From System Executions Using Temporal Logic

Rance Cleaveland

LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Learning-based Physics Simulation with Collision Handling

Qingyang Tan

4107 OR http://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, June 26, 2023

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Complexity Controlled Natural Language Generation

Sweta Agrawal

4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4248677097?pwd=N2FLQWx3S2RsTzdDTUMyMER6aGZUdz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

Minimal Perception: Enabling Autonomy on Resource-Constrained Robots

Chahat Deep Singh

3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/chahatdeep Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: On Algorithms, Fairness, and Incentives

Seyed Esmaeili

4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7925198972?pwd=NGFPNHlVTGVOMFI3R1ppek9MVGI1Zz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, June 12, 2023

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Analyzing Communicative Choices To Understand Their Motivations, Context-Based Variation, And Social Consequences

Pranav Goel

3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9845968708 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Understanding and Improving Secure Development from a Human-Centered Perspective

Kelsey Fulton

5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95348382172?pwd=S3p2QzlaN2c4aWNxTkpGZVUyTlRNQT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Moving Towards Natural Human-Machine Collaborations

Jaime Ruiz

https://umd.zoom.us/j/94329685985?pwd=cDBqcllxL3VsaDVQRXkrRk1hSmtxdz09

Thursday, May 25, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Foundation Models and 3D Computer Vision

Srinath Sridhar

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: A Category Theoretic Approach to Planning in a Complex World

Angeline Aguinaldo

4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/98992145630?pwd=WjR1VUltUFFQMUNGbFdYTm9iWjhqUT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Data Structures and Protocols for Scalability and Security of Distributed Consensus

Shravan Srinivasan

5165 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/shravan Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Resilient and Efficient Consensus under Unknown Network Conditions

Erica Blum

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Towards Generalized and Scalable Representation Learning on Graphs

Kezhi Kong

5137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/kezhi?pwd=K2xDbjVqdEU5WEVuWmpLcXJJWVd4UT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Methods for Natural Walking in Virtual Reality

Niall Williams

5137 or https://umd-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2JibVrlQ5HLDtc0g91AhIwj1CsXiw3_qaAIVwDd4Rt17bZTK5hwEfuTzgwqPSVScfWY392u-qc-N7LPP19KFDsqiu3-ENThFz3YrtlqDB5A1TF61Y5RKhjKl8Ai6eBxpwpq_KnC-nccHwjKEcKw-ZU-11BQPuYwb0auCIDgLOHpFdEv2x-V_3jtfav9tE Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, May 5, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Program Synthesis with Lightweight Abstractions

Sankha Guria

5105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/92697004946?pwd=NjNYOXM3aUhibklBRTVXNUFGLy92dz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

Recent progress on the butterfly factorization

Sam Potter (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

MATH1310, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/7523175184

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Program Synthesis for Quantum Applications

Haowei Deng

5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5833533442?pwd=V0hBZHo2SDNnaUxKMzNValZ1RFo1Zz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

The Past, Present and Future of Immersive Technologies

Mahmud Hasan

AV Williams 3258 zoom link-

Thursday, May 4, 2023

9:30 am

-11:30 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Recognizing Object-Centric Attributes and Relations

Khoi Pham

4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/2313749016?pwd=UjZMZFEwejM0d28wamVaWU5aalphdz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, April 27, 2023

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Towards Immersive Visual Content with Machine Learning

Brandon Feng

3137 Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3278993944 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Towards Multimodal and Context-Aware Emotion Perception

Trisha Mittal

4105 http://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

This list is organized by Richa Mathur and Sharron McElroy