Talks

IRB 2107 or virtual https://umd.zoom.us/j/6278045369?_x_zm_rtaid=EsyM5UhERGiO1fHGkTRPCw.1736949470612.3de551ac6410d7fedf03b34ca30938cd&_x_zm_rhtaid=231#success

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

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

Alireza Ganjdanesh

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

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

9:30 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Defense: NEXT-GEN AI : ADVANCING WATERMARKING, ALGORITHM SYNTHESIS, AND DIVERSE GENERATIVE STRATEGIES

Arpit Bansal

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

1:00 pm

- 2:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Towards Effective and Efficient Video Understanding

Xijun Wang

Remote

Friday, January 10, 2025

1:00 pm

- 2:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Human-centric Acoustics: The interplay of opportunities and security

Irtaza Shahid

IRB-5105

4:30 pm

- 5:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Learning Structured Alignment: From Visual Understanding to Robot Control

Shuaiyi Huang

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

Thursday, January 9, 2025

10:00 am

-11:30 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models: Evaluation, Mitigation, and Future Directions

Fuxiao Liu

Remote

5:00 pm

- 6:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Learning with Less Effort: Efficient Training and Generalization in (Multi-)Robot Systems

Peihong Yu

Remote

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

12:00 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Understanding and Modeling Explicit and Implicit Representations of the Visual World

Matthew Gwilliam

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

Friday, December 20, 2024

10:30 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting with Additional Work in AI for Social Good

Alex Hanson

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

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Towards scalability and efficiency in distributed systems

Jan Olkowski

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

Thursday, December 12, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: End-to-End Certification of Cryptographic Primitives

Yi Lee

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

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Parallel and External-Memory Algorithms for Large-Scale Genomic Sequence-Graph and -Index Construction

Jamshed Khan

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

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Scalable Epidemiological Agent-based Modeling with Dynamic Behaviors

Joy Kitson

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

Monday, December 9, 2024

9:30 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Supporting Data De-Identification in an Era of Open Science

Wentao Guo

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

Friday, December 6, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

How I stopped worrying and learned to love AI

William Regli

https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Adaptive Evolution of Continuous Traits and Interaction Modeling in Species and Tumors: Methods and Biology

MG Hirsch

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

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: UNDERSTANDING FAILURE MODES OF DEEP LEARNING MODELS

Gowthami Somepalli

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

Monday, December 2, 2024

11:30 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Towards Safety and Trust in Large Language Models in Medicine

Yifan Yang

IRB-4145 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

6:00 pm

- 7:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Generalizing Navigation on Language-Guided Embodied Agents

Vishnu Sashank Dorbala

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

Friday, November 22, 2024

10:00 am

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

MS Defense: Inertially Constrained Ruled Surfaces for Egomotion Estimation

Chenqi Zhu

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

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Supporting Correct Intermittent Computing at the Extreme Edge

Milijana Surbatovich

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

MS Defense: Inertially Constrained Ruled Surfaces for Egomotion Estimation

Chenqi Zhu

IRB-4105

1:00 pm

- 2:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Learning from Less Data: Perception and Synthesis

Divya Kothandaraman

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

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Generating Novel Synthetic Photorealistic Data For Dynamic UAV Scenes Using Neural Radiance Fields

Christopher Maxey

IRB-4145 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, November 15, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Software Foundations Towards the Quantum Future

Runzhou Tao

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Monday, November 11, 2024

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Combinatorial Optimization for Barter Exchange and Tumor Phylogeny Inference

Juan Luque Chang

IRB-5237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Towards Intelligent Robotic Companions: Improving Human User Interaction and Safety

James Mullen

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

Friday, November 8, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Translating Natural Language to Visually Grounded Verifiable Plans

Angelos Mavrogiannis

IRB-4105

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Differentiable Approximations for Distance Queries

David Mount

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Monday, November 4, 2024

3:00 pm

- 4:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Analytics of Configuration Management for System Administration

Yehuda Katz

IRB-4105

Friday, November 1, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Preparing Cryptography for Deployment

Gabriel Kaptchuk

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Thursday, October 31, 2024

4:00 pm

- 5:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Computational Geometry in the Hilbert Metric

Auguste Gezalyan

IRB-4107

Monday, October 28, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Robustness, Detectability, and Data Privacy in AI

Vinu Sankar Sadasivan

Remote

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Practical Cryptography for Blockchains: Secure Protocols with Minimal Trust

Noemi Glaeser

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

Friday, October 25, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Working on Products in Big Tech

Bill Pugh, Larry Davis, David Jacobs, Mike Hicks

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Friday, October 18, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Sim2Real2Sim: Differentiable Physics-Based Modeling of Multisensory Objects

Ruohan Gao

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Monday, October 14, 2024

1:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Interpreting Visual Representations and Mitigating their Failures

Neha Kalibhat

IRB-3137

Friday, October 11, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Can you 4-color a 17x17 grid without getting four points the same color that form a rectangle?

William Gasarch

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Thursday, October 10, 2024

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

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

Sharath Girish

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

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Context-Aware Computational Video Editing and Re-Editing

Pooja Guhan

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

Monday, October 7, 2024

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Depth Sensing and Photorealistic 3D Mapping of Real-World Scenes

Jaehoon Choi

IRB-4109

Friday, October 4, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

The Future of Parallel Code Development: Will AI Lead the Way

Abhinav Bhatele

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Thursday, October 3, 2024

10:00 am

-11:30 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY: ADVANCED TOPIC AND LANGUAGE MODELS

Kyle Seelman

IRB-5105

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Encoding and Exploiting Context in Logic-Based AI Systems

David Sekora

IRB-4107

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Encoding and Exploiting Context in Logic-Based AI Systems

David Sekora

IRB-4107

Friday, September 27, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Engineering Bodies and Subjectivity

Jun Nishida

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Monday, September 23, 2024

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Improving Deep Networks by Learning from their Failures and Successes

Matthew Walmer

IRB-3137

Friday, September 20, 2024

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Closing the User Expectations Gap: Interpretability and Cultural Extensions to NLP Models

Fenfei Guo

Remote

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Securing AI Coding Assistants

Yizheng Chen

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Monday, September 16, 2024

1:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

CS Department

On Building General-Purpose Home Robots

Lerrel Pinto - Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95527564297?pwd=VKvEJkTzBK7TvzXkRsDz1dmbrl7GvB.1

Friday, September 13, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Intelligence in Everything: How to Scale, Secure, and Sustain

Nirupam Roy

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Friday, September 6, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Learning the Dynamic World

Ming C. Lin

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Friday, August 30, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Extracting Private Info from Public Services

Dave Levin

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success

Friday, August 23, 2024

2:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Building up more human-aligned foundational models: Data and Algorithms

Lichang Chen

Remote

3:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: New Efficient Bilevel Optimization Algorithms and their Applications in Federated Learning

Junyi Li

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

Thursday, August 22, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Typed Embeddings for Metaprogramming

Jacob Prinz

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

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Privacy Implications of Large-Scale Network Address Enumeration

Erik Rye

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

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning

Mara Levy

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

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

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

Cuong Nguyen

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

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

12:00 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Efficient and Robust Point Cloud Embedding: Theories, Algorithms and Applications

Dehao Yuan

IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/8594561040

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Neural Networks as Databases - From data to model compression

Shishira R Maiya

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

Friday, August 9, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: On Provable Robustness against Data Poisoning

Wenxiao Wang

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

Monday, August 5, 2024

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Minimalist Sensing Toward Ubiquitous Perception

Yang Bai

https://umd.zoom.us/j/94236579484?pwd=ua1W20X3KPxtmd5wpaZonu0qSb5437.1

Friday, August 2, 2024

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Implementing Universal Design to Support Neurodivergent Students in Undergraduate Introductory Computer Science Classes

Emily Kaplitz

IRB-3137 or https://go.umd.edu/zoomWeintrop

Thursday, August 1, 2024

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Developing and Measuring Latent Constructs in Text

Alexander Hoyle

IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9845968708

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

4:00 pm

- 5:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Exploring How Third Parties Manipulate the Style and Information of Security Content to Influence Users

Richard Roberts

https://umd.zoom.us/j/6975862994?omn=93346301112

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Mosaicing Prevention in Declassification

Nathaniel Rollings

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

Thursday, July 18, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Extracting Private Info from Public Services

Dave Levin

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

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Separating Quantum Black-Box Security Reductions for SNARGs from Falsifiable Assumptions

Manasi Shingane

Atlantic 3100A

Friday, July 12, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Hybrid Memory Hierarchies for Next Generation HPC Systems

Richard Johnson

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

10:00 am

-11:30 am

CS Department

PhD Defense: Hybrid Memory Hierarchies for Next Generation HPC Systems

Richard Johnson

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

Thursday, July 11, 2024

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Fairness and Equity in Machine Learning for Healthcare

Daniel Smolyak

IRB-4105

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Nonconvex Machine Learning Problems

Wenhan Xian

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

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

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

Chujun Song

IRB-5165

1:30 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Enhanced Robot Planning and Perception through Environment Prediction

Vishnu Sharma

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

Monday, July 8, 2024

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Planning and Perception for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Object and Environmental Monitoring

Harnaik Dhami

IRB-5105

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Auditing the Accuracy and Fairness of COVID-19 Forecasting and Modeling Tasks with Mobility and Contextual Data

Saad Mohammad Abrar

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

Friday, July 5, 2024

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Towards Distribution-Preserving Watermarks for Large Language Models

Yihan Wu

Remote

Friday, June 28, 2024

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Enabling Ubiquitous Analytics through Physical Computing

Biswaksen Patnaik

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

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Dynamical Memory in Deep Neural Networks - A Pathway Towards Embodied Connectionist Systems

Matthew Evanusa

IRB-4105

Thursday, June 20, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Building Trustworthy AI Even When We Don’t Understand It

Hal Daumé III

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

Monday, June 17, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Automating Hierarchical Task Network Learning

Ruoxi Li

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

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Improving and validating computational algorithms for the assembly, clustering, and taxonomic classification of microbial communities

Tu Luan

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

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

Time-Space Trade-Offs and Lower Bounds in Quantum Ideal Models

Kaiyan Shi

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

Friday, June 14, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Machine Learning with Differentiable Physics Priors

Yiling Qiao

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

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Machine Learning with Differentiable Physics Priors

Yiling Qiao

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

Thursday, June 13, 2024

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

Efficient Rendering, Display, and Compression Techniques for Virtual and Augmented Reality

Susmija Jabbireddy

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

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Simulation, Representation, and Automation: Human-Centered AI for Augmenting Visualization Design

Sungbok Shin

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

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: DATA-DRIVEN ALGORITHMS FOR CHARACTERIZING STRUCTURAL VARIATION IN METAGENOMIC DATA

Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan

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

Friday, May 31, 2024

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Algorithmic Decision-making and Model Evaluation in Socially Consequential Domains

Christine Herlihy

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

Thursday, May 23, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Simulation, Representation, and Automation: Human-Centered AI for Augmenting Visualization Design

Sungbok Shin

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

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

Foundation Models and Generative AI for Medical Imaging Segmentation in Ultra-Low Data Regimes

Pengtao Xie

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617

Monday, May 20, 2024

9:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Towards Generalizable Computational Representations for Data Visualizations

Chen Chen

https://umd.zoom.us/j/7496374091?pwd=YXU5ZmNsWUxMajE1d1ROd2lPclRTdz09

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Learning with Incomplete Information

Kiarash Banihashem

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

3:00 pm

- 4:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Probabilistic notions of Fairness for problems in Combinatorial Optimization

Sharmila Duppala

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

Thursday, May 16, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Speeding up Density Functional Theory with Machine Learning

Phillip Pope

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

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Taming Generative Priors for Consistent and Faithful Video Processing

Yiran Xu

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

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Robust and Interpretable Deep Learning: Understanding the Role of Data and Architecture

Vasu Singla

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

1:00 pm

- 2:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Obtaining Fine-Grained Control over Large Language Models

Sicheng Zhu

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

3:00 pm

- 4:30 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: On Quantum Query Complexity, Divide-and-Conquer, and Regular Languages

Matt Kovacs-Deak

ATL 3100A

Monday, May 13, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Advanced Techniques for Reconstructing Objects and Scenes from Variations in Lighting and Viewpoint

Daniel Lichy

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

Thursday, May 9, 2024

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

CS Department

Participant Data Considerations for the Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA)

Greg Welch - University of Central Florida

IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/niallw

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Accurate and Scalable Phylogenetic Tree Estimation via Graph Cuts

Yunheng Han

IRB 3137

Monday, May 6, 2024

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

EXAMPLE AIDED DESIGN: A PATH TO AUTOMATING EXPRESSIVE VISUALIZATION DESIGN

Hannah Bako

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

Friday, May 3, 2024

3:00 pm

- 4:45 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in Artificial Intelligence

Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay

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

Thursday, May 2, 2024

12:30 pm

- 2:00 pm

CS Department

Towards AI Alignment: Advancing Fairness, Reliability, and Human-Like Perception in AI

Bang An

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

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Scaling Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains

Ryan Sullivan

2137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Defense: Feedback for Vision

Michael Maynord

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

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department

AI Empowered Music Education

Snehesh Shrestha

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

12:30 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

Towards Trustworthy Models in Machine Learning

Xiaoyu Liu

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

Friday, April 26, 2024

1:30 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

PhD Proposal: Towards the Verification of Quantum Networks

Yusuf Alnawakhtha

ATL 3100A

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

This list is organized by Richa Mathur and Sharron McElroy