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CS Graduate Office
Proposals, defenses, and other Grad Office-related talks
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Past talks
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Navigating Neural Landscapes: Curvature Dynamics and Scaling
Dayal Singh Kalra
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6615193287?pwd=VC9jZ0EyVmtPK0xuVU9pUEpGVG5EZz09&omn=96742625735&jst=2
Friday, September 18, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Segmentation Before Structure: Real-Time Moving-Object Segmentation and Egomotion Estimation with Event Cameras
Zhiyuan Hua
IRB-3137 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/8068627637?omn=93580426659
Thursday, September 17, 2026
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Localize, Edit, Unlearn: Structural Interventions and Data-Level Control in Foundation Models
Keivan Rezaei
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9719759070
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Realizing Conceptual Databases: Query Optimization, Schema Compilation, and Constraint Enforcement
Hasara Kalumin
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7123055142
Thursday, September 10, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Trustworthy and Efficient AI Agents
Monte Hoover
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/s/94156175987?pwd=eHaQBci14km4O06ZF9g5KivovyfIrq.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: REAL-TIME PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING FOR CYBERSICKNESS
Mattie Johnson
IRB-3137 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/2782388197?omn=97645862002
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: A Multi-Stakeholder Qualitative Analysis of the Current and Future Role of AI in Security and Privacy Education
Sridevi Suresh
https://umd.zoom.us/my/sridevis
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search at Billion Scale and Beyond
Tobias Janssen
IRB-5105
Friday, September 4, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Towards Efficient LLM Post-training and Reasoning
Yanjun Fu
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/sanghamd?pwd=OEhISW9hZTV6M0JDRG16YTIzN2JJdz09
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Towards Efficient LLM Post-training and Reasoning
Yanjun Fu
Friday, September 4 11:00:00 AM EST IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/sanghamd?pwd=OEhISW9hZTV6M0JDRG16YTIzN2JJdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Human-Centered NLP Under Verification Barriers: Designing for Appropriate Reliance
Calvin Bao
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4921309992?pwd=dkFNU29XQ2FPcGowazNKcDl1U3VwZz09&omn=94450383659
Thursday, September 3, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Embodied Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene
IRB-4105
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Response Behavior in Large Language Models: Data Selection, Gradient Analysis, and Reasoning Evaluation
Ming Li
ttps://umd.zoom.us/j/2762491074?omn=91264661808
Monday, August 31, 2026
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Robot Learning from Physical Interactions: Perceiving, Acting and Learning from Contact Force
Botao He
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5334794974?pwd=cHU5MW01ZjhxcTNkME5BOUxoSklBZz09
Friday, August 28, 2026
9:00 am
-10:30 am
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Towards Validity and Fairness in AI-Assisted Assessment Development
Christabel Acquaye
IRB-5111 https://umd.zoom.us/my/rudinger
Thursday, August 27, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Music as Structured Prior over Human Motion: Inference, Generation, and Control
Seong Yoo
IRB 4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4523376959?pwd=dk42ZFpzY0psWGRRK0hCclQ0NjVOUT09&omn=98400435203
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Designing Interactive Systems for Live Environments: In Situ Sensemaking Through Ad Hoc Analytical Interaction
Biswaksen Patnaik
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/huaishu
Monday, August 24, 2026
9:15 am
-11:00 am
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: 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-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7909253004?pwd=ck9mT1JSTEJ0RGpnU0VrNmNLVHdlUT09&omn=95012302462&jst=2
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