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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
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Polarization-Preserving Quantum Frequency Conversion for Trapped-Ion Quantum Networking
Michael Kwan - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics
Lin Lin - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96428021347?pwd=wAV09WU7OsAy3P8pLoF1wWpirg5AyY.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Characterizing Mosaicing Inference Risk
Nathaniel Rollings - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Is Nobody There? Good! Globally Measuring Connection Tampering without Responsive Endhosts
Sadia Nourin
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 18, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Error-corrected fermionic quantum processors with neutral atoms
Robert Ott - University of Innsbruck
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Observation of string breaking on a (2+1)D Rydberg quantum simulator
Torsten Zache - University of Innsbruck
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Using AI Assistants in Software Development: A Qualitative Study on Security Practices and Concerns
Miuyin Yong
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 11, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Games, Graphs, and Gödel
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Quantum Games, Graphs, and Gödel
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi
ATL 3100A
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hybrid Quantum Networking: Towards Interfacing Ions with Neutral Atoms
Brennan Romanoff - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
Lost, but not forgotten: Extracting quantum information in noisy systems
Shiv Akshar Yadavalli - Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Is detecting AI-generated text a fool's errand?
Mohit Iyyer - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Modeling Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing Applications
Brittany Richman - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Complexity-constrained quantum thermodynamics
Anthony Munson - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
QuICS Seminar
Quantum codes as robust phases of matter
Andrew Lucas - University of Colorado, Boulder
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Dissecting "Hidden-State Proofs of Quantumness"
Carl Miller, Konstantina Trivisa, & Daniel Enrique Serrano - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
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)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Building Haystacks to Find Needles
Erik Rye
5105 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
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Program Synthesis For Quantum Computation
Haowei Deng - University of Maryland
Iribe 5107 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5833533442?pwd=V0hBZHo2SDNnaUxKMzNValZ1RFo1Zz09 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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Microwave Control of Rydberg-Rydberg Interactions
Deniz Kurdak - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
USAID Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Ukraine
Doug White
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CBCB Seminar
Understanding Aging at Multi-scale using Explainable AI
Wei Qiu - University of Washington
IRB-4105
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)
Friday, March 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Complexity of Thermalization in Finite Quantum Systems
Dhruv Devulapalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 13, 2025
8:30 am
-10:30 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Codes from Symmetry
Eric Kubischta - University of Maryland
MTH 3206
9:00 am
-11:00 am
PhD Defense: Methods for efficient processing and uncertainty aware analysis of high-throughput genomic and transcriptomic data
Noor Pratap Singh
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
CBCB Seminar
Fast and Efficient Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and Architectures
Can Firtina - ETH Zurich
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Constructive Approach to Zauner’s Conjecture via the Stark Conjectures
Steven Flammia - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92433688344 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Multi-Party Vocal Entrainment and the Correlates of Cooperation: An Exploration of Model Architectures
Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy - University of Arizona
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Alternate perspectives on quantum query complexity
Amin Shiraz Gilani - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Friday, March 7, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Continuously tunable surface code logicals via syndrome-adaptive transversal operations
Eric Huang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Codes, Transversal Gates, and Representation Theory
Ian Teixeira - University of Maryland
MTH 3206
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Glasses: From Physical Hamiltonians to Neural Networks and Back
Victor Galitski - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Shor's Algorithm, Part II (of II)
Larry Washington - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
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
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Commercial LLM Agents Are Already Vulnerable to Simple Yet Dangerous Attacks
Julio Poveda
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Conditional lower bounds for algorithms with pre-processed advice
Manideep Manindlapally - CWI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92180232850?pwd=wyWrdzwErCEG61aG9MgvbcCLiJa8xE.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, March 3, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Topological stabilizer models on continuous variables
Julio C. Magdalena de la Fuente - Freie Universität Berlin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98728198714 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, February 28, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A cryogenic optical cavity for trapped Yb+ quantum networking
Wance Wang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Shor's Algorithm, Part I (of II)
Larry Washington - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
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
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
‘Do Anything Now’: Characterizing and Evaluating In-The-Wild Jailbreak Prompts on Large Language Models
Patrick Gough
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
Friday, February 21, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid
Yanda Geng - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 20, 2025
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CBCB Seminar
Machine learning for spatial and network biology
Uthsav Chitra - The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
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
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Universal Adapters between quantum LDPC codes
Esha Swaroop - University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
QuICS Seminar
Permutation-invariant quantum error correction codes: from theory to practice
Yingkai Ouyang - University of Sheffield
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=97107155089 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Non-Abelian transport distinguishes three usually equivalent notions of entropy production
Twesh Upadhyaya - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hidden-State Proofs of Quantumness and the Discrete Fourier Transform
Carl Miller - University of Maryland
Virtual Via Zoom: umd.zoom.us/my/dserranov
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
Monday, February 10, 2025
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Two principle-based formulations of quantum theory
Howard Barnum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94291869736?pwd=phbbyGHG3wNcUD3gFoNtA97uYyAyKX.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Aleksander Kubica at Yale University
Aleksander Kubica - Yale University
402, YQI Seminar Room (Yale University) and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99617879814
Friday, February 7, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Autonomous quantum refrigerator resets superconducting qubit
Jose Antonio Marin Guzman - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement in dual-unitary quantum circuits with impurities
Shachar Fraenkel - Tel Aviv University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93193341356?pwd=eP1zjLaqybtvE4n9ozwR3cfxqZVbEb.1 Meeting ID: 931 9334 1356 Passcode: 760966 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Information RIT Spring 2025: Intro and Logistics
Konstantina Trivisa & Carl Miller - IPST & QuICS, University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
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)
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Snowflake, a censorship circumvention system using temporary WebRTC proxies
Sadia Nourin
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, February 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Scalable methods for k-mer based biological sequence analysis
Paul Medvedev - Penn State
IRB-4105
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Parallel-sequential circuits for quantum state preparation
Zhi-Yuan Wei  - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, January 30, 2025
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes in lattice gauge theories
Greeshma Shivali Oruganti - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91598475595?pwd=qZyWafZEggSpDuIxwNnlwxMbnEkb5Z.1 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Quantifying semantic predictability and its role in language comprehension and production
Cassandra Jacobs - University of Buffalo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Toward More Inclusive Security and Privacy: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities in the 'Majority World'
Collins Munyendo - The George Washington University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, January 27, 2025
5:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Lightsynq at Princeton University
Mihir Bhaskar - Lightsynq
J401 Engineering Quadrangle (Princeton) and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98405552114
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hardware-efficient quantum error correction using concatenated bosonic qubits
Connor Hann - AWS Center for Quantum Computing
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99877904585?pwd=o9UmbJQ0Czqzxu8sr5GoIuw0AqlfiV.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
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)
Thursday, December 19, 2024
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Experimental observation of symmetry-protected signatures of N-body interactions
Liudmila Zhukas - Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CLIP
Concealed Meaning: The Dynamics of Political Dogwhistles
Asad Sayeed - University of Gothenburg
4107 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)
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Catalysis of quantum entanglement and entangled batteries
Alexander Streltsov - Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99921526411?pwd=cndbXdaCjBIv6k16fWPszhzoUTybaH.1 Meeting ID: 999 2152 6411 Passcode: 894844 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Google Quantum AI
Dr. Dripto Debroy - Google Quantum AI
Duke University, Chesterfield Building Room No. 4700 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/94160072430
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
When less is more; modelling and simulating new approaches in quantum sensing
Declan Daly - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 5, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
The Many Faces of Optimal Weak-to-Strong Learning
Michael Xie - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
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)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A General Quantum Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire
Barak Nehoran - Princeton University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93766584122?pwd=rwvOflvt8Nd9LdaQ5jfArBHjT1CRp9.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
DODFMiner: An Automated Tool for Named Entity Recognition from Brazilian Official Gazettes
Thiago de Paulo Faleiros - Universidade de Brasília
4105 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)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
The Conflicted Relationship between Governments and the Internet
Esteban Carisimo - Northwestern University
5105 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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
MAViS: Modular Autonomous Virtualization System for Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Quantum Dot Arrays
Anantha Rao - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Measurement-induced entanglement and complexity in random constant-depth 2D quantum circuits
Daniel Malz - University of Copenhagen
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95583554326?pwd=iZC5M9UAO6mTxnqsCq1pHvK2MvFyzz.1 Meeting ID: 955 8355 4326 Passcode: 891546 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 21, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
RQS Career Connections: Postdoc Panel
Abhinav Anand, Aleksander Lasek, Ella Crane, Sean Muleady, Yifan Hong - Duke University, MIT, and University of Maryland
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98269159096
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
LLMs and Knowledge Graphs for Science: From Papers to Insights
Michael Färber - TU Dresden
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Stephen Jordan - Google Quantum AI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99146350096?pwd=Hq1aPPuiaH0TfmKZxa7I5Vavg5bD3S.1 Meeting ID: 991 4635 0096 Passcode: 253475 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Understanding Legal Professionals’ Practices and Expectations in Data Breach Incident Reporting
Emma Shroyer
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hyperfine Spin Control of SnV-117
Isaac Harris - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/s/94267886806 Meeting ID: 942 6788 6806 Passcode: "quantum" Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, November 18, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Robust sparse IQP sampling in constant depth
Louis Paletta - Inria
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2639797355 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Landau Level at Zero Flux, Magic, and Abelianization
Alireza Parhizkar - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 14, 2024
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponentially Reduced Circuit Depths Using Trotter Error Mitigation
James Watson - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Weak Generalized Bunching Conjecture
Shawn Geller - NIST
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92021171629?pwd=eZwubd5vdenSQK0Et1zOSpPYg3OWP5.1 Meeting ID: 920 2117 1629 Passcode: 838611 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Casual users and rational choices within differential privacy
David Miller
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Routing and Entanglement Capacity Through Bottlenecks
Dhruv Devulapalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Role of Emotions in #SaveTheChildren Campaigns Across Parler, Gab, Twitter/X, and Facebook
Do Won Kim - University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
VoteXX: Extreme Coercion Resistance
Shayan Shabihi
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, November 4, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
An automata-based approach for quantum circuit/program verification
Yu-Fang Chen - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93634867147?pwd=O8tRc7a21iCGkI8mcJ8MVvVHlIjXrh.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
CVSS
Computational Imaging on Shiny and Specular Surfaces: From Tablet-Based 3D Measurements to Accurate and Fast Eye Tracking
Florian Willomitzer - University of Arizona
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fiber Bundle Fault Tolerance of GKP Codes
Angsar Burchards - Freie Universität Berlin
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 31, 2024
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Computational Geometry in the Hilbert Metric
Auguste Gezalyan
IRB-4107
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Affective Polarization in Online Discussions on COVID-19
Ashwin Rao - University of Southern California
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
Thursday, October 24, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponential Quantum Space Advantage for Approximating Maximum Directed Cut in the Streaming Model
Nadezhda Voronova - Boston University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99819547713?pwd=vtxWJqfcVK1iOY9bSH3GYFLWkrh7cf.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Empowering Workers in the Design and Implementation of Autonomous Agents
Anastasia Ostrowski - Purdue University
IRB 4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
PairScale: Analyzing Attitude Change with Pairwise Comparisons
Rupak Sarkar and Philip Resnik - University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum complexity in many-body physics: random circuits and thermodynamics
Philippe Faist - Freie Universität Berlin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98362178742 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Secret Key Recovery in a Global-Scale End-to-End Encryption System
Maurice Shih
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The State Hidden Subgroup Problem and How to Efficiently Locate Unentanglement
Tudor Giurgica-Tiron - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Towards a science of human-AI teams
Valerie Chen - Carnegie Mellon University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Bridging Biosecurity and Biosurveillance: Robust Nucleic Acid Screening for Sequences of Concern
Todd Treangen - Rice University
IRB 3137
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks
Julio Poveda
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Sensing, with Applications to Fundamental Physics
Anthony Brady - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Simulation of Spin-Boson Models with Structure Bath
Ke Sun - Duke University
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668
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
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Computer-enabled propagation of biological database errors
Mihai Pop - UMD
IRB 4105
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
Concentration of Submodular Functions and Read-k Families Under Negative Dependence
Renata Valieva - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Challenges in AI-assisted AI evaluation
Shi Feng - George Washington University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement witness for combined atom interferometer-mechanical oscillator system
Gaya Premawardhana - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
The popular assignment problem: when cardinality is more important than popularity
Nitya Raju - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Synthetic Data for Self-Evolving AI
Tianyi Zhou - University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
A qualitative analysis of practical de-identification guides
Wentao Guo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Instability of steady-state mixed symmetry-protected topological order to strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 26, 2024
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Polynomial-Time Classical Simulation of Noisy IQP Circuits with Constant Depth
Joel Rajakumar - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
oarfish: Enhancing Long-Read Transcript Quantification Through Improved Probabilistic Modeling
Zahra Zare Jousheghani
IRB 4105
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Recalibrating Machine Learning for Social Biases
Lucy Havens
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
GKP Codes: A Rosetta Stone for Quantum Error Correction
Jonathan Conrad - Freie Universität Berlin & Helmholtz Zentrum
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=93295950255 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to Redress Predictive Privacy Harms
Tin Trung Nguyen
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, September 23, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
CVSS
Seeing 3D with Polarized Light
Jinwei Ye - George Mason University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Order-by-disorder in the antiferromagnetic J1-J2-J3 transverse-field Ising model on the ruby lattice
Patrick Adelhardt - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 19, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
Differentially private exact recovery for stochastic block models
Dung Nguyen - University of Virginia and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
The Double Edged Sword: Identifying Authentication Pages and their Fingerprinting Behavior
Alisha Ukani
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Scaling Law of Quantum Confinement in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Ben Eller - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
The Submodular Adaptive Switching Problem
Alexander Estes - Assistant Professor, R. H. Smith School of Business and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
AI Resilient Interfaces for Code Generation and Efficient Reading
Jonathan Kummerfeld - University of Sydney
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Achieving low circuit depth with few qubits, for arithmetic and the QFT
Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Four approaches to blockchain rollups
Noemi Glaeser
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entangling four logical qubits beyond break-even in a nonlocal code
Yifan Hong - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 5, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalisation group in the generalised Landau paradigm
Frank Verstraete - University of Cambridge
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Information in a Photon
Saikat Guha - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95621286471?pwd=tbhSkbaJ5CEyT9kGfEOt4AZ1ohhoH9.1 Meeting ID: 956 2128 6471 Passcode: 285935 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
3-minute madness
CLIP lab members
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
"It was honestly just gambling": Investigating the Experiences of Teenage Cryptocurrency Users on Reddit
Phoebe Moh
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A quantum monomer-dimer model on a Penrose tiling
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
3-minute madness
CLIP lab members
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, August 26, 2024
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quadratic lower bounds on the stabilizer rank: A probabilistic approach
Saeed Mehraban - Tufts University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97118160686 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Thursday, August 15, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Stabilization of cat-state manifolds using nonlinear reservoir engineering
Ivan Rojkov - ETH Zurich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=96873377618 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
Friday, July 19, 2024
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Excursion in the Quantum Loss Landscape: Learning, Generating and Simulating in the Quantum World
Ali Izadi Rad - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5132784141?pwd=NUJaSXVBZmdMQkYxMFFxeHdiUmIzUT09 Meeting ID: 513 278 4141 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Sunday, July 14, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Jonas Buchli - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Simulating Meson Scattering on Spin Quantum Simulators
Elizabeth Bennewitz - University of Maryland
PSC 2134 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
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)
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Learning shallow quantum circuits and quantum states prepared by shallow circuits in polynomial time
Yunchao Liu - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98607076942?pwd=o98gU8L1qeYS2jmMAvWrZZ77Qzr3YI.1 Meeting ID: 986 0707 6942 Passcode: 850846 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Spin Chains and Symmetric Functions
Marcos Crichigno - Phasecraft
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=95220137852 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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 12, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Near-optimal simulation of quantum field theory
Michael Kreshchuk - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:45 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Seyed A. Esmaeili - University of Chicago
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, June 10, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Circuits for Chiral Topological Order
Su-Kuan Chu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92795095725?pwd=NVFLb2prWXNXMDFGR2lnbVh0Rzg5dz09 Meeting ID: 927 9509 5725 Passcode: 019031 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Recent Developments in Coalition Formation Theory
Niclas Boehmer - Harvard University
IRB-5105 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)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Harnessing Quantum Systems for Sensing, Simulation, and Optimization
Jake Bringewatt - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97331537883?pwd=cUJMcWRuaVdBd0VIWkNzTmhEUWZuUT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Tight Lower Bound on Equivalence Testing in Conditional Sampling Model
Diptarka Chakraborty - National University of Singapore
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Controlling quantum ergodicity in molecules large and small: From C60 to ultracold alkali dimers
Timur Tscherbul - University of Nevada, Reno
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=95385603985 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
Friday, May 10, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A DMRG Study of Excitons in the 2D t-J Model
Nikko Pomata - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
QCVV: Making Quantum Computers Less Broken
Kenneth Rudinger - Sandia National Laboratory
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92105995014 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Efficiently verifiable quantum advantage on near-term analog quantum simulators
Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Symmetric-Key Cryptography and Query Complexity in the Quantum World
Chen Bai - University of Maryland
AV Williams 2460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Translating AI to Impact in Public Health
Aditya Mate - Microsoft
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Electron-Photon Exchange-Correlation Functional in the Weak and Strong Light–Matter Coupling Regimes
Iman Ahmadabadi - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Tailoring Fault-Tolerance to Quantum Algorithms
Narayanan Rengaswamy - University of Arizona
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98060507945 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Towards Responsible Human-AI Collaboration
Maria De-Arteaga - University of Texas - Austin
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96972699892?pwd=ak43dmhIYy8ybEdnRUVRUkNnb3lNZz09
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
How to relate quantum position verification to information-theoretic cryptography, and new steps towards practical implementation
Florian Speelman - University of Amsterdam
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96834502660 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Advantage in Sensing and Simulation
Adam Ehrenberg - University of Maryland
ATL 3332 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2144033185?pwd=TVNvWERUeHlpRUlybW10b20rV1UyUT09&omn=94991888500 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Incentives, Expertise, and Capacity: Unlocking the Power of Professionals to Protect Users’ Security and Privacy
Wentao Guo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions
Micah Carroll - University of California, Berkeley
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 29, 2024
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
Introduction to Quantum Error Correction Part 2: Geometrically Local Quantum Codes
Xiaozhen Fu - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, April 26, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Towards Experimental Realization of Topological Floquet Models in Circuit QED
Martin Ritter - JQI
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards the Verification of Quantum Networks
Yusuf Alnawakhtha
ATL 3100A