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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Graded Judgments of Plausibility in Commonsense Reasoning
Shramay Palta
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93465250117
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Telemetry-based Insights and Predictive Analytics for High-performance Computing Systems
Onur Cankur
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, May 12, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Unifying Multimodal: Perception, Reasoning and Generation
Jiuhai Chen
IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
Ruijie Zheng
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/furongh?pwd=MDI4NFRBZXhjNGlCc3RKUThCTTlDUT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 9, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Trustworthy AI: Methods for Enhancing Robustness and Attribution
Vasu Singla
IRB-5137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/vsingla
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Enabling GPU Performance Portability
Joshua Davis
IRB-5237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Advancing Efficient and Trustworthy AI for Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Ju Sun
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Thursday, May 8, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Uncovering, Understanding, and Mitigating Social Biases in Language Models
Haozhe An
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
Reducing the Memory Cost of Long Context Transformers
Ryan Synk
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Bridging the gulf of evaluation in human-AI interaction for knowledge workers
Yuexi Chen
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/8497662263?pwd=ejJscElvelFzMnM4a2MzanNXTTJJdz09
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Higher-order Flow Analysis, Types, and Program Optimization
Benjamin Quiring
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Interactive Vision Systems with Visual and Textual Prompts
Chuong Huynh
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/chuonghm
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Embracing AI for Sustainable Computing
Tevfik Kosar
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: EXAMPLE-AIDED VISUALIZATION DESIGN: BRIDGING DATA AND HUMAN CREATIVITY
Hannah Bako
IRB-5165 or https://www.google.com/url?q=https://umd.zoom.us/j/8733212182?pwd%3DU2RSRkdNQjJiWEd0NlpXK3l0VHRrQT09%26omn%3D91371909355&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1745169704336291&usg=AOvVaw1yc4qGLZfE2NAVR-z7h3N4
Monday, May 5, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Geometric and Physical Inductive Biases for Neural Networks in Decision-Making, Prediction, and Control
Joshua McClellan
IRB-4145 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Differentiable Systems for Efficient Optimization: From Dynamics to Geometry
PhD Preliminary
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 2, 2025
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Designing Effective Property-Based Testing Frameworks
Alperen Keles
IRB-5105 or http://umd.zoom.us/my/leonidas
Thursday, May 1, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Advancing Discovery Through Transformative Leadership in Computing, Data, and Interdisciplinary Research
Michela Taufer
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Differentiable Systems for Efficient Optimization: From Dynamics to Geometry
Sanghyun Son
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Evaluating the Usability of Password Sharing Features in Password Managers
Phoebe Moh
Remote https://umd.zoom.us/j/93421424130?pwd=aDFBeXc0aGVHdW5zUFJ6ei8wOTZSZz09
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Making AI Work in the Crucible: Perception and Reasoning in Chaotic Environments
Ritwik Gupta
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, April 28, 2025
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Solving the data problem of inverse rendering
Jiaye Wu
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 25, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: 3D Reconstruction in Challenging Environments with Differentiable Rendering
Kevin Zhang
IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Algorithmic Delegation: from Classic Auctions to Modern Digital Economy
Suho Shin
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4325803726?pwd=ellsd1RwQmdwWEJrR29LaXV2eERtZz09#success Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, April 24, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Integrating Intelligence into Everything Around Us
Nakul Garg
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/98107720850?pwd=pQmN1UriXp6vFQUe8RmSqHv6LJYWPS.1
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
9:30 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advancing Object Understanding in Large Language Models
Mollie Shichman
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 18, 2025
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy AI: Model Interpretability, Failure Mitigation, Alignment, and Verification
Atoosa Malemir Chegini
IRB-4105 or https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86454639997?pwd=ya7FDm539ULa6TBg3Qw4oOdACsu756.1
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: A Principled Approach to AI Alignment: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Algorithms
Souradip Chakraborty
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, April 17, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Knowledge-guided and Trustworthy Decision Making for Practitioners
Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Bridging the Gap Between Biomechanics and Modern Computer Architecture: Analyzing Bottlenecks in a Human Eye Simulation
Hana Chitsaz
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9044992425?pwd=SnRpL3R0ams5T09ucW9HSjF2eGIxQT09&omn=93779044141
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Scaling Parallel Full-Graph GNN Training to Thousands of GPUs
Aditya Ranjan
IRB-5105 or Thursday, April 17 2:00:00 PM EST IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/aranjan2 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 11, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Quantum Games, Graphs, and Gödel
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi
ATL 3100A
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Private and Trustworthy Generative Models
Yuxin Wen
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4139538360
Monday, April 7, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Visual Content Synthesis at Scale
Songwei Ge
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9316628340
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Applying Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains
Ryan Sullivan
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93063337480
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Towards resource efficient large neural networks
Bryan Plummer
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Applying Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains
Ryan Sullivan
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93063337480
Friday, April 4, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Learning Non-Spurious Functions: From Representation to Decision Through Data and Model Design
Xiaoyu Liu
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93564298810 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Practical Multiparty Protocols from Lattice Assumptions: Signatures, Pseudorandom Functions, and More
Kamil Doruk Gur
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/kdgur?pwd=S0ZEWHJWdC94M3RhNXZtK3NFcE41UT09&omn=92635440474
Thursday, April 3, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: New Efficient Algorithms for Nested Machine Learning Problems
Junyi Li
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization for LLMs: Progress and Challenges
Sicheng Zhu
IRB-4137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7541393444
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Akari Asai 
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Minimalist Sensing Toward Ubiquitous Perception
Yang Bai
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Code Generation Towards Software Engineering: Advancing Code Intelligence w/ Language Models
Yangruibo (Robin) Ding
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advancing Visual Assets: Taming Deep Priors for Editing and Enhancement
Yiran Xu
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9373888068 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Breath Analytics: A Sensor-Driven Study of Day-to-Day Human
Faizan Wajid
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7472180327
Monday, March 31, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Building Reliable AI under Distribution Shifts
Bang An
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7345152267 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Modeling Human Factors and Traffic Dynamics for Generalization in Autonomous Driving
Laura Zheng
IRB-5105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/94667161518?pwd=qBhj3htYDRewRcwPVgVQW0Y4TrZy0d.1
Friday, March 28, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: A Good Translation Is One That Can Win a Polish Game Show: Expanding Modalities & Evaluation for Robust, Trustworthy, and User-Centric Translation
HyoJung Han
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:10 am
-11:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Optimizing Communication in Parallel Deep Learning on Exascale-class Supercomputers
Siddharth Singh
IRB-5237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Program Synthesis for Quantum Applications
Haowei Deng
IRB-5107 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/5833533442?pwd=V0hBZHo2SDNnaUxKMzNValZ1RFo1Zz09
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Adaptive and Efficient Visual Generation of Color, Motion, and Video
Yixuan Ren
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
9:00 am
-11:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Tailoring Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Socially Consequential Domains
Aviva Prins
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Understanding and Modeling Explicit and Implicit Representations of the Visual World
Matthew Gwilliam
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
Challenges and Opportunities in Open Generative Models
Aaron Gokaslan
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/s/2203990027
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Understanding Aging at Multi-scale
 Using Explainable AI
Wei Qiu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, March 24, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models: Evaluation, Mitigation, and Future Directions
Fuxiao Liu
IRB-4109 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/6148747387?pwd=VEtTU1NNTkYzYlU5YnJKL2piNURIQT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: On Learning Behaviours of Parallel Code and Systems Across Modalities
Daniel Nichols
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Interpreting Deep Learning Models and Unlocking New Capabilities With It
Samyadeep Basu
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/2029529447?pwd=WThzQmpuMmJpL2ZSd2trL1lJQWlNdz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, March 20, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Exploring the Power of Machine Learning in Medical Research: A Focus on Movement Disorder Diagnosis and Age-Related Hearing Loss
Rana Khalil
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, March 13, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Vector Kernel Representation Theory, Applications to Point Clouds and Event Cameras
Dehao Yuan
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Equivariant Policy Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Dian Wang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
3:10 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Toward Resource-efficient Implementations of Quantum Algorithms on Near-term Quantum Hardware
Joseph Li
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Fast and Efficient Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and Architectures
Can Firtina
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Alternate perspectives on quantum query complexity
Amin Shiraz Gilani
ATL-3100A
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Generative Computer Vision for the Physical World
Ruoshi Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Toward Reliable and Scalable Network Algorithms
Pooria Namyar
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Understanding Quantum Systems via the Algorithmic Lens
Ainesh Bakshi
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, March 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Learning to Perceive the 4D World
Qianqian Wang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Thursday, March 6, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Data Science for Human-level Robotic Manipulation
Haoshu Fang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Next Generation Operating Systems for the Cloud
Joshua Fried
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Embodied Intelligence Through Reinforcement Learning
Younggyo Seo
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Thursday, February 27, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Taking off the compute-colored glasses: Storage is vital to datacenter sustainability
Sara McAllister
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Demystifying the Inner Workings of Language Models
Sarah Wiegreffe
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Developing Robots that Autonomously Learn and Plan in the Real World
Glen Berseth
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advancing Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models
Sreyan Ghosh
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
From Learning through Labels to Learning through Language
Kai-Wei Chang
4105
Monday, February 24, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Enhancing Foundation Models Through Interaction
Wenhu Chen
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Thursday, February 20, 2025
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Machine learning for spatial and network biology
Uthsav Chitra
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Statistical Challenges in Modern Machine Learning and their Algorithmic Consequences
Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Chasing the "Tail at Scale": Toward Cloud-Native Architectures
Jovan Stojkovic
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, February 17, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Privacy, Copyright, and Data Integrity: The Cascading Implications of Generative AI
Niloofar Mireshghallah
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Towards Secure Large Language Models: From Model to System
Chaowei Xiao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Hierarchical Goal Decomposition for Probabilistic Planning
David Chan
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, February 13, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Language to Silicon: Programming Systems for Sparse Accelerators
Olivia Hsu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building Safe and Trustworthy Generative Models
Neel Jain
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code Using LLM
Xuheng Li - Columbia University
IRB 5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/91477081269?pwd=Zia5u3gDaI87nbIEz0FstJqb4vUuP0.1
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Thinking Outside the GPU: Systems for Scalable Machine Learning Pipelines
Mark Zhao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Thursday, February 6, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Feel, Think, Act: Tactile Perception for Robotics
Amir Hossein Shahidzadeh
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Steiner Forest and Hard Instances
Ali Ahmadi
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, February 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Scalable methods for k-mer based biological sequence analysis
Paul Medvedev
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Friday, January 31, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Big AI for Small Devices
Hai (Helen) Li - Duke University
IRB 4105
Friday, January 17, 2025
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
Roundtable Talk: Reflections on the research/product design process
Vyas Sekar
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
This list is organized by Richa Mathur and Sharron McElroy