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Wednesday, November 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
MS Thesis Defense: RSS and RTT Fusion for WiFi-Based Indoor Localization
Mehak Gupta - CS Department, University of Maryland
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum error correction: from physical encodings to fault-tolerant gates
Shubham Jain - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=99562405612 Meeting ID: 913 788 7602 Passcode: 542956 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
AI for Real-World Visual Intelligence: Seeing, Reasoning, and Synthesis
Yu Gan and Ming Lin
Register https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWYA7fGGp5FcS-pXsIQJFHBZE4sSQ7lPz-1QJYS1AVi5_z6A/viewform
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Towards (More) Principled Decision-making LLM Agents: A Regret-based Perspective
Kaiqing Zhang - UMD ECE
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Monday, November 9, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Auditing and Steering Foundation Models for Safety and Reliability
Mehrdad Saberi Kamarposhti
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3139558953
Friday, November 6, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
What We Leave Behind: Delegating Sensemaking in the Age of Generative AI
Niklas Elmqvist - Aarhus University
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Learning Many-Body Hamiltonians Using a Local Probe
Zitai Xu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 5, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: Theory And Efficient Methods For Differential Privacy And Homomorphic Encryption
Yvonne Zhou
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3725013839?pwd=cXhEajJiU3lUYUI3eTcybDFOMldjdz09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Topolor: A Hybrid Algorithm for Incremental Computation
Justus Croskery
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
LEARNING WITH DIFFERENTIABLE PHYSICS PRIORS
Yiling Qiao - GAMMA
https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=Wfyb6OqJwv9TYpUCTMxhJs8L1w7RYp.1&omn=99366114241
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
On the (co-)evolution of universal written, spoken, and signed language processing
Karen Livescu
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Long-Form Text Generation with Intermediate Structures
Chau Pham
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5680013724?pwd=fbn9em4Y16i2yPoGqF6mtJTq7aOp9C.1&omn=93463585165&jst=2
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Mechanistic and Functional Interpretability for Attribution in Neural Networks
Sriram Balasubramanian
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9500203024
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Image-based 3D Reconstruction: From Geometry to Foundation Models
Dongki Jung
IRB-5107 UMD.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
AI, No Matter What Language You Speak? Supporting Communication with Imperfect Models
Marine Carpuat - UMD CS
https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Monday, November 2, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
MS Defense: Structured World Models: Predict, Remember, Act
Tan Dat Dao - CS Department, University of Maryland
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Towards Human-Level Audio Intelligence: Improving Audio Understanding with Large Audio-Language Models
Sakshi
Remote umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Friday, October 30, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Physics for Physical Intelligence: From Inference to Precision Design
Nirupam Roy
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Ordering-aware theory of Trotter error
Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 29, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Logical Teleportation Experiments with 41 Superconducting Qubits
Andreas Wallraff - ETH Zurich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=95233736860 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Smart Levels: Deferring Work in ML Type Inference, Correctly
Justus Croskery
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Beyond Surface-Level Safety: Uncovering Implicit Biases
Sharon Levy - Rutgers University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum score matching with applications to learning thermal states
Jiaqi Leng - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98531138611 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections Seminar
Elmer Guardado Sanchez - Logiqal
Virtual Via Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97409229281
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Formal Methods for Safe and Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
Calin Belta - UMD ECE / CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Friday, October 23, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
Specifications, Tests, and Audits: the Building Blocks of First-Year CS in an Agentic Era
Kathi Fisler - Brown University
IRB 1116 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/99365998212?pwd=CEJUNoBeooaDkYchGXoRdmGyCMESLM.1
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
The Three P’s of Modern Computer Vision: Pixels, Perception and Physics
Anand Bhattad
4105
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Pixels to Physics: Learning to Reason, Act, and Explore
Jia-Bin Huang
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Learning Noise-Robust Stabilizer Structure via Bell Sampling
Thomas Steckmann - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 22, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Property-Based Testing in Vest
Samuel Hongang Lam
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Relational Biosecurity: Observability in Connected AI-Bio Systems
Michelle Holko - Computercraft
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Getting to Know QuICS
Various Speakers - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems
Matt Sinclair - University of Wisconsin-Madison
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
1:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: The Anatomy of Trust in Foundation Models: Representations, Reasoning, and Alignment
Atoosa Malemir Chegini
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Privacy Protection and Reliable Evaluation in Multimodal AI
Paola Cascante-Bonilla - Stony Brook University
https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Friday, October 16, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Exploring quantum dynamics with analog quantum simulators
Elizabeth Bennewitz - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2305684852?pwd=czBlbjREek1kQVRITEtmZmhlUHg1dz09&omn=95394874358 Meeting ID: 230 568 4852 Passcode: 3fZcEv Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Toward a Haptic Codec: Composing Perceptual Mechanisms Into a Programmable Haptic Medium
Zining Zhang
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Detecting and Characterizing AI Use in Writing
Mohit Iyyer
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hybrid continuous-discrete variable quantum computing on trapped-ion platforms
Anton Than - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Improving Deep Networks by Learning from Their Failures and Successes
Matthew Walmer
Thursday, October 15, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Video Intelligence for Understanding Behavior and Guiding Action
Gedas Bertasius
IRB 3137 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/96493448884?pwd=BbMnNBIgpzBaWEMlpBkPNGj47aIR0V.1&jst=2
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
ZX Calculus: Untangling the Spider’s Web of Quantum Circuits
Lucas Silver - JHU APL
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
(beyond) k-mer sketching: applications to metagenomic alignment and comparison
Yun William Yu - Carnegie Mellon University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Architecting The Future Of Scientific Discovery: Unleashing Frontier Artificial Intelligence And Advanced Simulation For The Doe Genesis Mission
Han-Wei Shen - Ohio State University and National Science Foundation
IRB 2207
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Beyond Brute-Force Compute: Training Light and Thinking Deep for LLM Reasoning
Yu Meng - University of Virginia
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 9, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Computational Foundations of Tumor Evolution and Intratumor Heterogeneity Inference
S. Cenk Sahinalp
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Spectral transitions for OTOCs in random quantum circuits
Kai Klocke - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Trustworthy and Interpretable AI via Prediction Consistency
Sanghamitra Dutta - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Friday, October 2, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Data-Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Exascale Computing
Yafan Huang
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Blind Quantum Computing for Secure Quantum Chemistry
Sunny Kang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 1, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
The Past, Present, and Future of Roulette
Cameron Moy
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Toward Natural Metalanguage Processing
Nathan Schneider - Georgetown University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Like Nailing Jello to the Wall? Challenges for Evaluating Common Sense and Cultural Consensus
Rachel Rudinger - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Friday, September 25, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
OpenAI’s 2026 Summer of Misalignment
Yizheng Chen & William Pugh
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Pound-Drever-Hall Method for Superconducting-Qubit Readout
Won Chan Lee - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 24, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Testing and Fuzzing Formal Specifications
Leonidas Lampropoulos
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Locally Consistent Segmentation for DNA Language Models
Ege Sirvan - STORM Research Group, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
9:00 am
-10:00 am
QuICS Seminar
Hands-On Quantum Computing with IQM Resonance
Daniel Bulmash - IQM Quantum Computers
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=92012257919 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exploring Magic in Quantum Computers and Many-Body Systems
Tobias Haug - Technology Innovation Institute
https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=98865799545 Meeting ID: 587 187 5361 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections Seminar
Martin Schuetz - Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=94564542716 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Toward self-improving agentic systems: across thinking, actions and workflow
Furong Huang - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Friday, September 18, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Correct Compilation for Asynchronous Dataflow Architectures
Milijana Surbatovich
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Monolithic Blade Trap for Quantum Information Processing
Michael Straus - University of Maryland & Duke University
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
An Anonymous Social Contract: Zero-knowledge proofs for Private Payments, Credentials, and Accountability
Ian Miers
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponentially-improved effective descriptions of physical bosonic systems
Varun Upreti - École normale supérieure - Paris
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=97860117099 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Testing Theorems, Fully Automatically
Segev Elazar Mittelman
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Caveats of Metagenomic Assembly: The Secret Life of Mobile Genetic Elements
Nathalie Bonin - Pop Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Why precision medicine needs AI, PL, formal methods, scientific computing and security
Dr. Matt Might - University of Alabama
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
LLM Interpretability
Sarah Wiegreffe - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Monday, September 14, 2026
3:15 pm
- 4:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal spectroscopy via quantum sensing
Leo Liu - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=95212870971 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, September 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Transformers meet Scientific Computing
Ramani Duraiswami
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Probing Higgs oscillations across the BEC-BCS Crossover in a Cavity-QED Quantum simulator
Haoqing Zhang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Wigner crystal polarons & quantum anomalous Hall states
You Zhou - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99533468432 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
COGNAC: Circuit Optimization via Gradients and Noise-Aware Compilation
Finn Voichick
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The code intersection problem and its applications in quantum complexity theory
John Bostanci - Simons Institute and UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94359815285 Meeting ID: 943 5981 5285 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search at Billion Scale and Beyond
Tobias Janssen
IRB-5105
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
“CHAT WITH ME below as if I were a human”: Insights from Auditing AI Chatbots for Survivors of Domestic Violence
Julio Poveda
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Bias and Worldview in LLMs
Phillip Honenberger - Morgan State University
https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
A New Balancing Act: Reflections on Computational Linguistics and AI
Philip Resnik
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Hardware-Safety-Gated System for LLM-Written native ARTIQ control code on a Trapped Ion Platform
Yuanheng Xie - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Private and Verifiable Outsourcing of Open-Weight LLM Inference
Kanav Gupta
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Feature Selection from RNA-seq for Detection of UV-LabelledCells
Zhezhen Wang - COMBINE Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
Thursday, August 20, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Voice as a Scalable Biomarker for Health: Interpretable Modeling, Cross-Lingual Generalization, and Toward Translation into Practice
Roksana Khanom
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4716629213?pwd=M0lUZUVTM21ndy9HTUw5VVNQeUJ1UT09&omn=96616436916&jst=2
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Intelligent Sensing in Hostile Environments
Matthew Ziemann
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3237065901?omn=98058537599
Friday, August 14, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Foundation Models as Priors for Embodied, Language-Guided Navigation
Vishnu Sashank Dorbala
IRB-4105 or umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: An Intelligent Practice Assistant for Beginner Violin: Closing the Motor-Learning Loop with Typed, Pedagogically Grounded Feedback
Siyuan Peng
Monday, August 10, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Steepest Entropy Ascent, No-Signaling, and Non-Abelian Thermal States
Rohit Ray - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5972416689 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing for Biomolecular Structure Prediction and Design
Suchetan Dontha
https://umd.zoom.us/j/2217446206
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Implementation Aware Differential Privacy
Guanhong Wang
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3283610670?pwd=5mVaUOPUmBUpsb7kxiR0oaP6iy9y1b.1&omn=99519282771&jst=2
Monday, August 3, 2026
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Understanding and Exploiting What Neural Networks Learn: Unlearnable Datasets and Inactive Attention Heads
Pedro Sandoval Segura
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/psando
Thursday, July 30, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Towards Raw Nanopore de Bruijn Graph Assembly
Ulysse McConnell - STORM Research Group, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Toward Interpretable and Controllable Image Generation and Editing
Arman Zarei
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6114120899?omn=95737716056
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Dimer Models and Mixed-State Topological Phases: Geometry and Stability
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6022663536?omn=92882108272&jst=2 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Monday, July 27, 2026
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Exploiting Formally Characterizable Properties of Large Language Models
Jie Li
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96024552819?pwd=Z77D0rvy5OmBfUqnfK52pFvVaOi6r4.1
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Exploiting Formally Characterizable Properties of Large Language Models
Jie Li
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96024552819?pwd=Z77D0rvy5OmBfUqnfK52pFvVaOi6r4.1
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
On State Distinguishing Without Inverse Queries
Emma Wang - White Station High School
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3202954736?pwd=l66vevFdsmXkvyZWBKjx4i1MPwQKaw.1&omn=93036842485 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, July 24, 2026
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Measuring What Matters in Trustworthy AI: Certified Robustness to Agentic Safety
Shoumik Saha
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8566872628?pwd=VDJ1WWZCamE2Ym9ZcGh2RjZ6YVY1Zz09&omn=99899553792&jst=2
Thursday, July 23, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Selecting, Generating, and Targeting: Gradient-Based Pretraining Data Curation at Scale
Hong-Min Chu
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9158660494
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Selecting, Generating, and Targeting: Gradient-Based Pretraining Data Curation at Scale
Hong-Min Chu
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9158660494
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: A Network Model for the Automated Planning and Scheduling of Pipelined Workflows
Taylor Paul
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4032787668?pwd=O0aGbW7fXhnPC5bHFb68FDBMmVafml.1&omn=92844839203&jst=2
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: A Network Model for the Automated Planning and Scheduling of Pipelined Workflows
Taylor Paul
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4032787668?pwd=O0aGbW7fXhnPC5bHFb68FDBMmVafml.1&omn=92844839203&jst=2
Monday, July 20, 2026
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Rethinking Question Answering Evaluation: Human-Centered Benchmarks for Reasoning, Learning, and Multimodal Understanding
Tasnim Kabir
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6679711521?omn=99856035574
Friday, July 17, 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Reliable Supervision for Foundation Models
Aakriti Agrawal
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6421587304?pwd=c3JYSno4SExVVnEvZkNpcFhMOFBVQT09
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
8:00 am
- 9:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: On the Robustness of Large Lange Model pipelines
Pankayaraj Pathmanathan
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8590171525?pwd=VdlBg46vs8c8hRbUydgI5gH5SEbDMO.1&omn=92227136146&jst=2
Monday, July 13, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Understanding Implicit Content in Language and Language Models
Rupak Sarkar - CS Department, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, July 10, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Security in Informal, Multi-User Settings
Phoebe Moh
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/99105589537?pwd=hR8mAbDcv7dPwk9TKgR4lahiow7sbm.1
Thursday, July 9, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Does tree shape impact methods for species tree reconstruction?
Yunzhuo Liu - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Disclosure avoidance in open science: Addressing sociotechnical privacy challenges with a human-centered approach
Wentao Guo - CS Department, University of Maryland
5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Toward real-time hadronic physics with quantum computers
Chung-Chun Hsieh - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/8862981837?pwd=a4BYSI7r83l9URCNch1jc2RboYglGZ.1&omn=93095432067 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Thursday, July 2, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
"Adjacent Token Prediction for Motif Scaffolding" & "From Survey to Syllabus: Evidence‑Informed Integration of Bioinformatics into Required Undergraduate Biology Courses"
Rain Haworth & Adena Collens - Pop Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: From 3D Reconstruction to Usable Scene Representations
Alex Hanson
IRB-5165 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/alex.hanson Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, June 29, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Web-Based Flow-Directed Transformations and Type-Preserving Compilation
Benjamin Quiring - PLUM lab, University of Maryland
1310 Mathematics Building (MTH)
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Designing Effective Property-Based Testing Frameworks
Alperen Keles
IRB-4109 http://umd.zoom.us/my/leonidas
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Robust Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Quantum Control and Error Suppression
Suying Liu
Remote https://umd.zoom.us/j/9887301993?pwd=JOWWE0yvvIUP4aXLz03zo7zgt6oIHI.1&omn=92108639141&jst=2
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning Robot Policies from Intuitive Human Guidance
Amisha Bhaskar
IRB 4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6319739372?pwd=1aDsXO4mgX91LPQotgBGgDCCNBsvav.1&omn=99254268313&jst=2
Monday, June 22, 2026
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Profiling tumor evolution and enabling variant discovery with long-read sequencing
Anton Goretsky
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97629563264?pwd=Aa1w5bLTpFfOOJbCbGY8jRLvdcs0Ss.1
Thursday, June 18, 2026
11:59 am
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Addressing Pitfalls of Societal-Scale Mobility Data use in Urban Computing: Privacy, Bias and contamination of systems and models
Naman Awasthi
IRB-4109
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Clustering Instability in Spatial Transcriptomics
Wenshan Wu - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, June 12, 2026
9:30 am
-11:30 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Cryptography in the Presence of Side Information
Manasi Shingane - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4408046564?pwd=jxxFPSb0TCV3qYiZv6WbLncFIvVyPX.1 Password: 628758 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A whole new woRLD of Fisher information
Sujay Kazi - Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/93506619765?pwd=2YW3yHGiPeqXI71VtWVUq68qmvvaOb.1 Meeting ID: 935 0661 9765 Passcode: 857763 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, June 11, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Finding and Wielding Sparse Functional Motifs in Biopolymer Sequences
Rain Haworth
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/92274874863?pwd=MaduSSfhaIpNZYc5ahlbIBTa3m6uYE.1
Friday, June 5, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A complexity phase transition at the EPR Hamiltonian
James Sud - University of Chicago
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3010642404?pwd=5Bwsxvwne0QwXBs5ra9d4wr4J56OTi.1&omn=96345801307 Meeting ID: 301 064 2404 Passcode: 590870 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, June 4, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
From Preparing Quantum Spin Lakes to Measuring Chaos with Hamiltonian Learning: Quantum Simulation Beyond the Ground State
Nik Gjonbalaj - Harvard University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5871875361?omn=98612137949 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Assembly graph bouillabaisse
Marcus Fedarko - Pop Lab, University of Maryland
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Beyond Descriptive xAI: Cross-Domain Methods for Converting Interpretability into Model Improvement
Sai Yerramreddy
University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing - Meeting Room 4 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3473881918
Monday, June 1, 2026
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Principled AI Agents with Asymmetric and Decentralized Information
Xiangyu Liu
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7269246363#success
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
3:15 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Navigating Neural Landscapes at Large Step Sizes and Scales
Dayal Singh Kalra
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/dayal?pwd=VC9jZ0EyVmtPK0xuVU9pUEpGVG5EZz09
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Mitigating Reasoning-Induced Hallucination in Large Reasoning Models via Trace Condensation
Yubin Qin
IRB-4145
Monday, May 18, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Learning Representations for Audio
Siddhi Patil
IRB 4137
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: From Simulation to Surrogate: Differentiable Physics and Neural Operators for Engineering Design
Samuel Audia
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2988843397?pwd=Y1pudklBR25aZEVnQmNqdktpYkV2Zz09&omn=98948015743&jst=2
Thursday, May 14, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
Pranshoo Upadhyay - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94259669724 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Adapting Next-Token Prediction for Practical Domains and Training Regimes
Alexander Stein
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/alexstein
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Understanding and Connecting Fairness, Copyright, and Watermarking Through a Security Lens
Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9779607555?pwd=bFN5ZVJtcXJBLzlPUTIxUkpramZxUT09
Monday, May 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Simulating and Imagining the World with Generative Foundation Models
Jingxi Chen
IRB-3137
Friday, May 8, 2026
9:45 am
-11:45 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: The Boundaries of Computational Hardness in Noisy Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3010642404?pwd=5Bwsxvwne0QwXBs5ra9d4wr4J56OTi.1&omn=96440539296 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
9:45 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: The Boundaries of Computational Hardness in Noisy Quantum Circuits Joel Rajakumar
Joel Rajakumar
PSC 3150 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3010642404?pwd=5Bwsxvwne0QwXBs5ra9d4wr4J56OTi.1&omn=96440539296
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Post-Training of Vision-Language Agents for Decentralized Autonomous Vehicle Coordination Using Generalizable Multi-Agent Rewards
No speaker yet
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8508847508?omn=95691030591
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exactly Solvable Topological Phase Transition in a Quantum Dimer Model
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, May 7, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Sustainable Electronics through Computational Refabricatio
Zeyu Yan
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96272454305
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections Seminar
Joe Iosue - Microsoft Quantum
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98782095372 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Leveraging Types and Typestate for Peripheral Cost Analysis
Sai Divvela
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Liz Hunter - COMBINE Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Trust and Transparency in Language Model Development and Deployment
John Kirchenbauer
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/93826897686, Passcode: tandt4llms
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CLIP
Using Data from Diverse Sources to Understand the Health and Wellbeing of People and Communities
Anietie Andy - Howard Univesrity
4137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, May 4, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Scalable Quantum Dynamics under Noise: Error-Mitigation Thresholds and Bosonic Error Correction
Jiayao Zhao - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2646398485?pwd=VkNNUjBKTERYTFBhRnE4a1hSTEw0UT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
5:00 pm
- 6:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Physical Intelligence from Constrained Observations: Rethinking the Wireless-to-Information Pipeline
Aritrik Ghosh
IRB-4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2107569329?pwd=bti4AdGUi7aD3Gr0tbjTBa05beobhy.1&omn=99995458172&jst=2
Friday, May 1, 2026
10:15 am
-11:30 am
CLIP
Using video games to reverse engineer human intelligence
Samuel J. Gershman - Harvard University
1103 Biosciences Research Building (BRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Strategic Codes: The Universal Spatio-temporal Framework for Quantum Error-Correction
Kishor Bharti - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 30, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Preparation of Ground-State Ultracold Lithium Dimers and Coherent Control of Their Reactions: A Theoretical Study
Jing-Chen Zhang - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3161863135?pwd=Mmh0bm12aUpPYk1pMzFvS1UxbWh2UT09&omn=93159059288 Meeting ID: 316 186 3135 Passcode: morecoffee Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Robust Machine Learning for Biomedical Data: Efficiency, Reliability, and Generalizability
Chenyu You
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Samaya: Safe Memory Accesses to Expand Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Array Adoption
Jeremy Sha
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Nathalie Bonin - Pop Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Robustness of Prompt-Based Adaptation in Large Language Models
Kwesi Cobbina
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2101892313?pwd=b0R5V1NzQjdTU2xZYWZrWURGbE1GZz09&omn=91516498257
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Hardware-Efficient Noise Suppression and Error Correction for Near-Term Quantum Computing
Yingkang Cao
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7031888774
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Beyond Domain Boundaries: Enhancing The Generalizability of Event Sequence Analytics
Kazi Tasnim Zinat
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8037389295?pwd=VFIwcllnQ1FDQXBhZUZiTThtSHl0dz09
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Spatial Reasoning Through Artificial Intelligence
Nicole Schneider
IRB-4237
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Train, Reason, and Act Under Value Function Guidance
Kianté Brantley - Harvard Univesrity
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum witnesses with no classical substitutes (i.e., QMA vs QCMA)
Chinmay Nirkhe - University of Washington
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91231569930 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Trust and the future of mathematics, software, and science
Patrick Shafto
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
2:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Practical fault tolerance with quantum error-correcting codes: logical protocols, decoders, and code design
Shi Jie Samuel Tan
ATL-3100A or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3144621979?pwd=Y2lWYWhJWm5rU2pjdWl3QnRTSmRLUT09&omn=93025505672&jst=2urQY64iTr-eH6qegJDNP
2:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Practical fault tolerance with quantum error-correcting codes: logical protocols, decoders, and code design
Shi Jie Samuel Tan - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3144621979?pwd=Y2lWYWhJWm5rU2pjdWl3QnRTSmRLUT09&omn=93025505672&jst=2urQY64iTr-eH6qegJDNP Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, April 27, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Cognitive science for, and using, large language models
Tal Linzen
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
AI-Guided Design of Compositionally Complex Alloys with Targeted Properties
Shunshun Liu - University of Virginia
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=99440594483 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, April 24, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Compressed unitary learning from non-markovian interactions
Anantha Rao - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 23, 2026
8:00 am
-10:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Speech-Driven Immersive Analytics: GenAI-grounded Sensemaking Perspective
Hyemi Song
[Remote] https://umd.zoom.us/my/varshney
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Metrology Enhanced by Effective Time Reversal
Yuxin Wang - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99758309213 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Multi-Modal Fault Tolerant Learning
Isabelle Rathbun
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6018401674?pwd=S2ZSOGpvRzhTUWsrUFg4cUFRQmUvdz09&omn=92955667678
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Sketching and matching in the brain
Saket Navlakha - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
TBD
Yasmine Kotturi - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
BizChat: Scaffolding AI-Powered Business Planning for Small Business Owners Across Digital Skill Levels
Yasmine Kotturi - University of Maryland Baltimore County
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
AI Alignment through Participation and Evaluation: Promises and Pitfalls
Michael Feffer
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
Immersive Visual Interface Advances Through Viewpoint Generalization
Voicu Popescu - Purdue University
IRB-4105
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Well-Separation Heuristics for the Metric Traveling Salesman Problem
Addison Hanrattie
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8277636096
Monday, April 20, 2026
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advancing Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models
Sreyan Ghosh
Friday, April 17, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement and circuit complexity in finite-depth random linear optical networks
Laura Shou - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Steering Generative AI on the fly: Inference-time Approaches for Safe, Reliable and Inclusive Language Models
Soumya Suvra Ghosal
IRB-5105 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Thursday, April 16, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Your host is a distributed system!
Midhul Vuppalapati
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Speech and Audio Developments and Challenges in Industry
Sefik Emre Eskimez
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=EitPbAg5hk05MV1yh7Zby0Ej5UF5mP.1&omn=97688642680
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Type-Based Techniques for the Design and Correctness of Programming Language Implementations
Benjamin Quiring
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Principled Frameworks for AI Alignment: From Post-Training to Inference
Souradip Chakraborty
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: 3D Reconstruction in Challenging Environments
Kevin Zhang
IRB-3137
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Research updates on interpretability of language models
Sarah Wiegreffe - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Memory as a resource for sampling and parameter estimation
Felix Binder - Trinity College Dublin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91830212793?pwd=DfBquKW9eSy8b9NJkC4mtJFSONB3NM.1 Meeting ID: 918 3021 2793 Passcode: 028955 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Inference as Measurement: Models and Systems for Auditing the Internet
Loqman Salamatian
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Adaptive and Efficient Visual Synthesis of Appearance, Dynamics and Semantics
Yixuan Ren
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/yxren?pwd=CgvbcCPbywlw1yleeeKe6xpmzreDq4.1
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Adaptive and Efficient Visual Synthesis of Appearance, Dynamics and Semantics
Yixuan Ren
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/yxren?pwd=CgvbcCPbywlw1yleeeKe6xpmzreDq4.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
The Impact of Emerging AI Practices on the Cybersecurity Workforce
Miuyin Yong
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 13, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking AI Model Storage with Model-aware and Tensor-centric Compression
Yue Cheng
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning the Physical World Structure from Data
Hadi Alzayer
IRB 5105
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Public-Key Quantum Fire and Key-Fire From Classical Oracles
Alper Çakan - Carnegie Mellon University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/4992673461?pwd=ZlEK5cTdd0MBUBqpsF0zQXE6uqb0pB.1 Meeting ID: 499 267 3461 Passcode: 2341459 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Designing and Evaluating Capable, Safe, and Trustworthy Generative AI Systems
Neel Jain
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4106837750?pwd=ZEZxbG9UT2dHMTNhK0MxbDQwbGwvZz09&omn=98770465780&jst=2
Friday, April 10, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Scaling Agent-based Epidemic Diffusion on HPC Clusters
Joy Kitson
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7678805793?pwd=a09qSWI5VFdiY0hPRVVVUW8zQ0tYZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Robustness-Runtime Tradeoff for Quantum State Transfer
Twesh Upadhyaya - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:40 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fine-Grained Control for Video Editing
Yao-Chih Lee
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4410993015
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Hyperdimensional Computing As A Basis For Constructing Artificial Intelligence
Peter Sutor
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4187498378?omn=95933894398
Thursday, April 9, 2026
9:00 am
-10:30 am
CS Department
MS Defense: Vantage Point Path Planning for Efficient UAV Coverage Control
Alec Luterman
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4074500437?omn=93914316921
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Making Robust AI Safeguards Run Deep
Stephen Casper
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: DATA-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING FOR SOCIETAL SYSTEMS: AUDITING MOBILITY, CONTEXTUAL DATA AND MODELS FOR HIGH-STAKES APPLICATIONS
Saad Mohammad Abrar
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3781038639?omn=97483647707
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Testing Theorems, Fully Automatically
Segev Elazar Mittelman
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Unsupervised Learning for DNA Modification Profiles from Nanopore Sequencing Data
Bhargav Srinivasan - STORM Research Group, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Transversal non-Clifford logical gates for quantum error-correcting codes
Eric Huang - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5143281910?pwd=yVnFnQ8H1qenNqHjvVDuNeoMsufWko.1&omn=99297334957 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy Distributed Quantum Computing: From Programming, Semantics, and Verification to Executable Programs
Le Chang
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4087857922
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Safety, Robustness and Reliability of AI
Gaurang Sriramanan
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/gaurangs
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Distributed Swarm Formation Recognition via Local Features and Gossip-Averaged Graph Neural Networks
Samuel Badalov
IRB-5105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Demystifying Property-Based Testing through Evaluation & Visualization
Ceren Mert
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95950618771
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient Geometric Algorithms for Stochastic and Categorical Data
Aditya Acharya
RB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2666211831
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Achieving Optimal-Distance Atom-Loss Correction via Pauli Envelope
Pengyu Liu - Carnegie Mellon University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7031888774?omn=91328805747 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
5:00 pm
- 6:15 pm
CS Department
Optimal-distance atom-loss correction via the Pauli Envelope?
Pengyu Liu
IRB 1207
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum simulation of dissipative non-Markovian dynamics
Abtin Ameri - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92255190173?pwd=hfjVBcWXsfBKqvW3dJkjDVFxzbzrbi.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Principled and Generalizable Intelligence for Engineering Design
Lyle Regenwetter
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Making a Difference: Values and Social Impact in Human-Centered Security and Privacy Research
Daniel Zappala - Brigham Young University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi
Atlantic Building 3100A
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2846460812?pwd=VDEvNmowQ0UrNzRNb1NYTlpFLzJHUT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, April 6, 2026
5:00 pm
- 6:15 pm
CS Department
From Algorithms to Fault-Tolerant Execution: Advances in Quantum Approximate Optimization
Zichang He
Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/99511466935?pwd=3C2nIEb2HkX62xsKG5Uae9XcrZ8cNS.1
Friday, April 3, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Measurement-enhanced entanglement in monitored superconductors
Zhi-Yuan Wei - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Investigating Reasoning Model: Overthinking and Thinking Episode Theory
Chenrui Fan
IRB-4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7644695948?pwd=EBpu4TsE5FGh3bXRSrECeht6bfYzvH.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: A Systems Perspective on Interconnects for Quantum Computing
Connor Clayton
ATL-3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/98645006306?pwd=WPL4bhZtqvHib5jPLPbYEihNToZtZe.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: A Systems Perspective on Interconnects for Quantum Computing
Connor Clayton - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98645006306?pwd=WPL4bhZtqvHib5jPLPbYEihNToZtZe.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 2, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking AI Systems Through Efficient Model Communication
Yuhan Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Circuit Optimization via Gradients and Noise-Aware Compilation
Finn Voichick
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
How and Why Speakers Code-Switch: Insights for Naturalistic Multilingual Speech Generation
Debasmita Bhattacharya - Columbia University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Architecting Physical Intelligence: Cross-Stack Co-Design from Systems to Silicon
Zishen Wan
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
MS Defense: seqproc: Toward A Declarative Geometry Specification Language for Protocol-Agnostic Read Preprocessing for Genomics
Elan Fisher
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6743871408?omn=92699675447
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Instance-Customizable Operating Systems
Jing Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Safe Memory Access on Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays
Jeremy Sha
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, March 30, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Architectural Approaches to Reasoning in Language Models
Sean McLeish
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95765075269?pwd=8CSiFgr2JEKK4KBPHAyKMi1agxAeKt.1
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Improving the Scalability and Applicability of Cryptographic Proof Systems
Kasra Abbaszadeh
Remote (http://meet.google.com/oor-qivy-iai)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
The loss of control of AI: which training paradigms do or don't encourage advanced AI to take over
Michael Cohen
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Friday, March 27, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Efficiency of retrieving light stored in Rydberg media
Alexandra Behne - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 26, 2026
9:45 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Quantum Advantage via Physics-Inspired Methods in Optimization: Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
Yufan Zheng
ATL-3100A
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Advantage via Physics-Inspired Methods in Optimization: Empirical and Theoretical Analysis
Yufan Zheng - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Data-Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Exascale Computing
Yafan Huang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Zeroette: The Essence of Zero-Knowledge Computation
Oliwia Kempinski
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Longitudinal Data Analytics of HPC Systems and Applications
Onur Cankur
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3309400543?pwd=c01CL1VqUk8vS2NObHNEYk5zNlZnZz09&omn=93479749930&jst=2
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Robust state certification from simple measurements
Joseph Slote - University of Washington
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91497937249?pwd=3KQXRPWoCxzvrF3P5LMQgHxEUiayji.1 Meeting ID: 914 9793 7249 Passcode: 078601 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking Trust in the Modern Cloud
Quinn Burke
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Universality (or lack thereof) in Quantum Computation
Chaitanya Karamchedu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Universality (or lack thereof) in Quantum Computation
Chaitanya Karamchedu
ATL - 3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/3069845073?pwd=NU5SZ0lxbVZRa0NDM1phblVWaVpHZz09
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: LLM-driven Development of Performant and Portable GPU Codes
Joshua Davis
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/jhdavis
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Goal Decomposition for Probabilistic Planning
David Chan
IRB 4237 https://umd.zoom.us/j/97330849312?pwd=AYabkfZIgcEXQmjr6ZansBjypdyMvN.1
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
The Missing Science of AI Evaluation
Sayash Kapoor
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Scalable testing of quantum error correction
Jens Palsberg - UCLA
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94312853353?pwd=VgBur73rCVz1G1NLv7BqsRkdKl3xW0.1 Meeting ID: 943 1285 3353 Passcode: 643528 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Tracing Back the Malicious Clients in Poisoning Attacks to Federated Learning
Kamala Varma
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, March 23, 2026
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Mediating Complexity: Reasoning Layers from Embodied Interaction to Agentic Systems
Yuran Ding
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6166878962?pwd=UGdyNjk2WStINWg3MWViZThnUHRCZz09&omn=92010137247
Friday, March 13, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Disclinations, Dislocations, and Emanant Flux at Dirac Criticality
Chris Fechisin - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 12, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Let it Flow: Design and Verify a Compiler for Asynchronous Dataflow
Yi Cai
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Quartet-based species tree methods enable fast and consistent tree of blobs reconstruction under the network multispecies coalescent
Junyan Dai - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
ML for Systems in the Real World: Challenges Beyond Training the Models
Jiayi Chen
CSI 1121
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Incompressibility of random quantum circuits
Tony Metger - ETH Zürich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95163429896 Meeting ID: 951 6342 9896 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
What does accessible AI look like in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)?
Stephanie Valencia Valencia - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Efficient classical algorithms for quantum Gibbs states up to phase transitions
Bobak Kiani - Bowdoin College
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91905196295?pwd=8Q3MlSG4HqkeVz2tSaVuUd50hcx1jQ.1 Meeting ID: 919 0519 6295 Passcode: 759102 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:50 pm
- 6:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Algorithmic Delegation: From Classic Auctions to the Modern Digital Economy
Suho Shin
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4325803726?pwd=ellsd1RwQmdwWEJrR29LaXV2eERtZz09#success
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant Fermionic Quantum Computing
Alexander Schuckert - École Normale Superieure
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97821701893 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Advancing Fully-Open Audio General Intelligence
Sreyan Ghosh
IRB 2207
Monday, March 9, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: I’ll take it, if you throw in a Solar Panel! Learning how to engage in Productive and Fair-Minded Intergroup Communications via Human-LLM Role Play
Sandra Sandoval
IRB-4109 or umd.zoom.us/my/haliii
6:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
ACM Talks
A Hands-On Workshop: Building Advanced AI Applications and Agents in One Hour
Dr. Mehdi Bahrami - ACM DSP, Fujitsu Research of America
2117 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSI)
Friday, March 6, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Symmetry-Protected Quantum Control of Ultracold Chemical Reactions
Jing-Chen Zhang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
9:45 am
-10:45 am
QuICS Seminar
Entangling logical qubits without physical operations
Shayan Majidy - Harvard University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5972416689 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Mesh Messaging for Large-Scale Protests: Cryptography Alone Won't Save Us
Tushar Jois - City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, February 27, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Readout-Free Majority Decoding via Asymmetric Rydberg Antiblockade
Thomas Steckmann - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 26, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Simulating Failure: Crash Recovery Systems
Justine Frank
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Correcting Errors In Segmented Nanopore Signals Using Hidden Markov Models
Simon Ambrozak - STORM Research Group, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Continually Editing Vision-Language Models
Tom Hartvigsen - University of Virginia
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
'I’m Pretty Expert and I Still Screw It Up': Qualitative Insights into Experiences and Challenges of Designing and Implementing Cryptographic Library APIs
Juliane Schmüser
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: In-situ benchmarking of fault-tolerant quantum circuits
Xiao Xiao - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6421864531 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
ACM Talks
The Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence: Neurosymbolic AI
Dr. Houbing Song - ACM DSP, NFS, UMBC
0324 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, February 20, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Crosstalk Insensitive Trapped-Ion Entanglement through Coupling Matrix Engineering
Vikram Kashyap - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
How can we enable LLM auditing?
Anjalie Field - Johns Hopkins University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Human-centric Acoustics: The Interplay of Opportunities and Security
Irtaza Shahid
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5727215450?pwd=VU9KTHFOenRaOUVVS2VSNE9mM0V4UT09&omn=95010039071
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Gandalf the Red: Adaptive Security for LLMs
Julio Poveda
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, February 13, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Beyond Debiasing: Designing for Fair Human-AI Collaboration
Connor Baumler
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/91681312959?pwd=FwUyktfQ5CEBzrnyVUCO4orreBiQpM.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Syndrome dynamics for some CSS codes
Adam Artymowicz - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 12, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Circuit-QED Lattice System with Flexible Connectivity and Gapped Flat Bands for Photon-Mediated Spin Models
Kellen O'Brien - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99942795838 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Logical Step-Indexed Logical Relations
Deena Postol
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
When AI Adapts, Teaches, and Trains: Open Challenges in Human–AI Interaction
Eugenia Rho - Virginia Tech
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Reflections on the Computer Network Operations Developmental Program
Susan Collins
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, February 9, 2026
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Computational Geometry in the Funk and Hilbert Metrics
Auguste Gezalyan
IRB-4105
Friday, February 6, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Two open problems in categorical quantum theory
Ariel Rosenfield - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 5, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Approximation and Optimization Problems in Quantum Information Science
Chi-Kwong Li - College of William and Mary
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97747371942 Meeting ID: 977 4737 1942 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Specifications are about to rule software
Liam DeVoe - Antithesis
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Topology-aware modeling of terrains and volumetric data: from discrete to neural implicit representations
Haoan Feng
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6162286107?pwd=VWZaR1FGbkdrYnBJbUhvUFFlQ2p6UT09&omn=91814598591&jst=2
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: From Measurement to Discovery: Comparing Text in Computational Social Science
Paiheng Xu
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96651894054
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Revisiting Motion: Leveraging Point Tracking for Efficient Video Understanding
Pulkit Kumar
IRB -4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/pulkit
5:30 pm
- 7:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Aligning and Evaluating Artificial Intelligence with Human Expertise
Feng Gu
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95712588309?pwd=nw75UN5CWSxxEJCNGdCbRrVibOb7u2.1
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Understanding noise-robustness in analog quantum simulation
Rahul Trivedi - Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92594095095 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advances in Fourier Ptychography for High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Imaging
Matthew Chan
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2148418519
Friday, January 30, 2026
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Disentangling Internal Factors and Mechanisms for Interpreting and Steering Language Model Behavior
Navita Goyal
REMOTE https://umd.zoom.us/my/navita?pwd=N0FlbzJVUGQ0RzRLZ1F3R0NCOXdmdz09
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Unifying Multimodel: Perception, Reasoning, Generation
Jiuhai Chen
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8501825249?omn=91672049201&jst=2
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building Efficient, Robust and Trustworthy AI Agents for Network and Systems
Lesley (Yajie) Zhou
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4113216129
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Connectivity, Committees, and Quiet Planting: Algorithms and Hardness
Iman Gholami
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7910582359?pwd=OTNYL0FSMVpiM0xTUk5kb2JIV09hQT09&omn=98679014671&jst=2
Friday, January 23, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
PhD Proposal: Controllable Generative Visual Synthesis for Images and Videos
Quynh Phung
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020
Thursday, January 22, 2026
1:00 am
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Steering Foundation Models toward Reliability and Efficiency: An Interplay of Data and Modeling
Xiyao Wang
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7912392035?pwd=OThCdVJJM0lLL1JDK0UxbUxJeGgxdz09&omn=97352779958
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Embodied Non-Visual Interaction: Tangible, Haptic, and Robotic Mediation of Graphical User Interface for Blind Individuals
Jiasheng Li
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/meetings/9658765398/
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: ALGORITHMIC FAIRNESS AND ONLINE DECISION MAKING IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION AND UNSUPERVISED LEARNING
Sharmila Venkata Sathya Duppala
IRB-4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8734204280?pwd=bmJjWVNLMHV4L1ZlQTA4TU9jZ242UT09&omn=96524744557
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Look, Listen, and Reason: Advancing Fine-Grained, Robust, and Efficient Audio-Visual Perception in Foundational Models
Sanjoy Chowdhury
IRB-5107 or umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Monday, January 12, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Elevating Data Systems: A Cost-Driven Architectural Approach to Query Processing and Schema Compilation
Hasara Kalumin
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7123055142
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: PHOTOREALISTIC 3D MAPPING OF REAL-WORLD SCENES: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Jaehoon Choi
IRB-5107 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
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
CS Department
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
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Distinguishing classical and quantum systems through the computational lens
Jon Nelson - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3080179084 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
-11:30 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Measuring gravitational lensing time delays with quantum information processing
Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92746313746 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Andreev Optoelectronics: Absorption Spectroscopy and Microwave-Optical Transduction
Benyamin Remez - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Query Algorithms: Design, Optimality, Complexity
Matt Kovacs-Deak - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Polynomial-Time Classical Simulation of Noisy Circuits with Naturally Fault-Tolerant Gates
Joel Rajakumar - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92879287051 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
Ethan Lake - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=93545772585 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372, Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, December 8, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Structured Proof Editing
Henry Blanchette
IRB-2137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4802469877
5:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections at UMD: Meet RQS Postdocs and learn about their career journeys
Dr. Jacob Lin and Dr. Alexander Schuckert - University of Maryland & QuEra
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95165641180 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponential entanglement advantage in sensing spatially correlated noise
Yuxin Wang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 4, 2025
3:15 pm
- 4:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
Approximate Markovianity and the Classical Simulability of Noisy Quantum Circuits
Yifan Frank Zhang - Princeton University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94173454653 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Cost scaling for matrix-product and tree-tensor-network simulations of 2D and 3D systems with area-law entanglement
Thomas Barthel - University of Maryland/Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=91238398672 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum advantage in noisy simulations of random circuit OTOCs
Brayden Ware - Google Quantum AI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
We Have a Package for You! A Comprehensive Analysis of Package Hallucinations by Code Generating LLMs
Sungsu Kwag
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Asymptotically good CSS codes in which physical transversal T realizes logical transversal S^{\dag}
Navin Kashyap - IISC, Bangalore
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=98012977889 Meeting ID: 913 788 7602 Passcode: 542956 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, November 24, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
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
CS Department
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
CS Department
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Levin-Wen is a gauge theory: entanglement from topology
Kyle Kawagoe - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Robust Multimodal Learning for Autonomous Agents
Rui Liu
https://umd.zoom.us/my/tokekar
Thursday, November 20, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Formal Methods for Randomized Concurrent Algorithms
Noam Zilberstein - Cornell University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
CS Department
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
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal bounds and computational complexity of perfect quantum state classification
Jamie Sikora - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91679364399 Meeting ID: 916 7936 4399 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
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
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Blind Computation and Anonymous Credentials with Hidden State and Callbacks
Maurice Shih
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, November 17, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: LEARNING ROBOT POLICIES FROM INTUITIVE HUMAN GUIDANCE
Amisha Bhaskar
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/tokekar
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
MIPco=coRE
Junqiao Lin - CWI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92049544549 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, November 14, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
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
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal Distillation of Coherent states with Phase-insensitive operations
Shiv Akshar Yadavalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Improving Knowledge Discovery: Advanced Topic and Language Models
Kyle Seelman
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6439360497
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Code-switching revisited: high-fidelity logical magic state preparation using color codes
Lucas Daguerre - University of California, Davis
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95583554326?pwd=iZC5M9UAO6mTxnqsCq1pHvK2MvFyzz.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Divide-and-Conquer Termination Checking
Henry Blanchette
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Characterization of quantum states and dynamics
Srilekha Gandhari - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95990801447?pwd=wCgQLhUF4zpi3uQZyYqyzyRaGE68va.1 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Random Pulse Sequences for Quantum Noise Spectroscopy
Kaixin Huang - University of Maryland
PSC 2204 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/8902553848 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)