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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)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Using LLMs to Measure and Improve the Quality of Open-Ended Survey Responses
Masha Krupenkin - University of Maryland
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant protocols through spacetime concatenation
Yichen Xu - Cornell University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5356797043?pwd=b1OnafMkEt6s4gbFfL4gqFKxUbaVLU.1&omn=96911691897 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Watermarking for Transparent Large Language Model Development and Deployment
John Kirchenbauer
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97837256573 (Passcode: wm4attr)
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble
ATL 3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Rearchitecting cloud telemetry through approximation-first techniques
Zeying Zhu
IRB-5161 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95503569537?pwd=7cqT8mNQ2OFDh3YqEBoCGbxnROH8ba.1
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Free fermions beyond Jordan-Wigner
Sam Elman - University of Technology Sydney
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4139825524?omn=95620093490 Meeting ID: 413 982 5524 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, November 7, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Anonymous Programmable Identities and Credentials
Maurice Shih
IRB-5165
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking Cloud-Scale Telemetry from an Approximation-First Perspective
Alan Zaoxing Liu
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantized topological phases beyond square lattices in Floquet synthetic dimensions
Samarth Sriram - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: On the Robustness of Large Lange Model pipelines
Pankayaraj Pathmanathan
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8590171525?pwd=VdlBg46vs8c8hRbUydgI5gH5SEbDMO.1&omn=93403349692&jst=2
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: From Hardness to Structure: Algorithmic Insights from SAT, Diversity, and Connectivity
Ali Ahmadi
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/97264199383?pwd=cvGsOuEInoevnkQuLtPb8hYxrwWG6G.1
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Mechanistic and Black-Box Interpretability for Attribution in Neural Networks
Sriram Balasubramanian
IRB 5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9500203024
Thursday, November 6, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Machine Learning through Data-Centric Approaches: Efficiency, Generalization, and Trustworthiness
Mucong Ding
IRB-4107
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Trustworthiness and Safety in Foundation Models
Yihan Wu
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum algorithms through graph composition
Arjan Cornelissen - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94466915159?pwd=Vd2kQMT3VdnMrne1ixo670ohuhTapo.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
VCAI
Operationalizing Optimism: Defining and Measuring Pro-Social Information Access
Michael Ekstrand - Drexel University
HBK 4115 & Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/98406913491?pwd=ggaEPgCQ1b4XWfkO9B8JDbbHLnsPRH.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Modeling implicit othering in sociopolitical discourse
Julia Mendelsohn - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Private and Trustworthy Generative Models
Yuxin Wen
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4139538360?pwd=gb0KNkfRLeWiiDGqobcr4aPEeX0cuY.1&omn=97450556970 (Passcode: umd)
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Embodied Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8756553504?pwd=Q01uai83UkhnVVBOQXhXSVRwNERHdz09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
A Study of Multi-Factor and Risk-Based Authentication Availability
Kyungchan Lim
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 31, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Human-Model Interaction in Public Sectors
Fumeng Yang
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
Ruijie Zheng
IRB-4109
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Semi-Quantum Cryptography: Designing Protocols with Classical Verification
Yusuf Alnawakhtha - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/my/nawakhtha?omn=92116776053 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
No-go theorems for logical gates on product quantum codes
Xiaozhen Fu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 30, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Large-Scale Deployment
Kasra Abbaszadeh
IRB-5137
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Quantum Shared Memory
Le Chang
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Studying Tumor Evolution with Emerging Sequencing Technology
Yuelin Liu
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95969182993?pwd=0hbHY991IvqEDHdKXgmtY8NUe3oQ07.1
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Rethinking One-Size-Fits-All: Designing Cognitively Accessible Visualizations
Keke Wu - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Augmenting Communication in Extended Reality through Multimodal Systems for Humans and Agents
Geonsun Lee
IRB-3137 https://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
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)
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
A tutorial on garbled circuits
Kanav Gupta
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient String and Graph Algorithms in Modern Settings
Jacob Gilbert
Iribe-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6248158247?pwd=VnVKQnpYcmhWZnUzVlA4YW9IWjJ5QT09
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Safety and Trustworthy in Biomedical AI
Yifan Yang
IRB-4109
Monday, October 27, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: ENABLING SAFE ROBOTIC COMPANIONS THROUGH HUMAN-AWARE SIMULATION, NATURAL COMMUNICATION, AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE
James Mullen
IRB-4109 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Empowering Business Professionals with Interactive What-If Analysis: From Conceptual Framework to LLM-Powered Automation
Sneha Gathani
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9371793618?pwd=OXhhOXFBUG5uU3dUVndSai9mUWtzdz09&omn=98929182380&jst=2
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Powerful Open-Weight AI Models: Wonderful, Terrible, and Inevitable — How Can We Make Them Safer?
Stephen Casper
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/2742814228?pwd=MDI4NFRBZXhjNGlCc3RKUThCTTlDUT09&omn=97071787820&jst=2
Friday, October 24, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Auditory General Intelligence
Ramani Duraiswami
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum-inspired Benchmark for Estimating Intrinsic Dimension
Aritra Das - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Optical Interconnects
Marco Loncar - Harvard University
Kay Boardrooms (1107/1111) - The Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building - and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94713331885?pwd=RG3W5dgoeorpYbXfbbgiNSDTrJ7uqL.1 Meeting ID: 947 1333 1885 Passcode: 646883 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (KEB)
Thursday, October 23, 2025
9:30 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Quantum End-to-end Solvers for Partial Differential Equations
Mahathi Vempati
ATL-3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/7474810823
9:30 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Quantum End-to-end Solvers for Partial Differential Equations
Mahathi Vempati - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7474810823 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations
Pierce Darragh
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant quantum input/output
Matthias Christandl - University of Copenhagen
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97579721804 Meeting ID: 975 7972 1804 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
AI Behavioral Science: Building A Mutual Understanding Between Humans and AI
Yutong Xie - University of Michigan
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: ADOPTING OPTIMISTIC CONCURRENCY CONTROL TECHNIQUES TO SCALE DISAGGREGATED-STORAGE SYSTEMS
Pooja Nilangekar
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7448093364
Monday, October 20, 2025
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Mechanisms for Quantum Advantage in Global Optimization of Nonconvex Functions
Shouvanik Chakrabarti - JPMorganChase
ATL 3100A (VIRTUAL ONLY) Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94443622917?pwd=VqDYvKLHfBVEb9rnYP3C8XobjCbq6K.1 Password: nonconvex Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Solving the data problem of inverse rendering
Jiaye Wu
IRB-4107
Friday, October 17, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advancing Object Understanding in Large Language Models
Mollie Shichman
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Probably Approximately Precision (Hallucination) and Recall (Mode Collapse) Learning
Han Shao
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Probing Criticality in Error Mitigated Quantum Circuits via heavily Truncated Matrix Product State
Jiayao Zhao - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 16, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Absorption-Emission Codes for Atomic and Molecular Quantum Information Platforms
Shubham Jain - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97311616882 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
A Monad for Nonconstructivity
Jacob Prinz
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Enhancing Human-AI Interactions through Reinforcement Learning
Wichayaporn Wongkamjan
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/94615978626
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Designing LLM-based Tools with Peer-Run Behavioral Health Organizations
Naveen Raman - Carnegie Mellon University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking Test-Time Thinking: From Token-Level Rewards to Robust Generative Agents
Furong Huang
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Nonlinear topological photonics
Lida Xu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
How does gradient descent work?
Jeremy Cohen
Remote
Thursday, October 9, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Random Testing Databases with SQLancer
Alperen Keles
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Effects of GenAI on Computing Education
Leo Porter
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/94000057891?pwd=CrHip56PERaFOhLBYw7yqRWy2e4lms.1
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
When LLMs Go Online: The Emerging Threat of Web-Enabled LLMs
Alan Luo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, October 6, 2025
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
We Are (Still!) Not Giving Data Enough Credit
Alexei (Alyosha) Efros
IRB 4105 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
5:00 pm
- 6:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Interactive Vision Systems with Visual and Textual Prompts
Chuong Huynh
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/abhinavumd Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Example-Driven Data Visualization in the Age of Human-Centered AI
Leo Zhicheng Liu
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Learning About Quantum States and Processes: A Modern Approach
Jonathan Kunjummen - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: umd.zoom.us/j/5518192201 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Adaptive Syndrome Extraction
Shi Jie Samuel Tan - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
10:00 am
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Motion Modeling from Human to the World Around Us
Ting-Hsuan Liao
IRB-5137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
Robust, Fair, and Culturally-Aware Commonsense Reasoning for NLP
Rachel Rudinger
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
An Exploratory Study of Pig Butchering Scams
Julio Poveda
5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
5:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Experts discuss non-technical writing skills for researchers at Princeton
Alaina O’Regan & Nicole Yunger Halpern - Princeton University & University of Maryland
Princeton University [EQuad room J40] and Virtual Via Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97559729542
Monday, September 29, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
CVSS
Programmable Radio Environments for Communication and Sensing
Kun Woo Cho - Rice University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, September 26, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Training at Scale: GPU Systems Driving Advances in LLMs and GNNs
Abhinav Bhatele
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Interacting electrons in silicon quantum interconnects: From Wigner Crystals to long-range capacitive coupling
Anantha Rao - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 25, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Cost analysis via types
Sai Divvela
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Outlining the Borders for LLM Applications in Patient Education: Developing an Expert-in-the-Loop LLM-Powered Chatbot for Prostate Cancer Patient Education
Yuexing Hao - MIT and Cornell University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Software Correctness through Testing and Verification
Leonidas Lampropoulos
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
Computing Tutorial
TBD
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Auditing Memorization, Dissecting Mechanisms, and Evaluating Behavior of Large Language Models
Robin Jia - University of Southern California
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Uplifted Attackers, Human Defenders: The Cyber Offense-Defense Balance for Trailing-Edge Organizations
Susan Collins
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, September 19, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
A Human-Centered Approach to Trustworthy Machine Translation
Marine Carpuat
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hiding in Gaussian Boson Sampling
Laura Shou - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 18, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Gauge‑theory dynamics with tensor networks
Navya Gupta - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/8233244123?omn=98015207563 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Program Generation with Sized Types
Caspar Popova
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Generalized quantum signal processing and non-linear Fourier transform are equivalent
Lorenzo Laneve - Università della Svizzera Italiana
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98702890920 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Redo Electronics: Designing Reusable, Reconfigurable, and Dissolvable Circuits
Huaishu Peng
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Slow Down to Speed Up: Toward Deliberative AI Systems for Human Collaboration
Nikhil Krishnaswamy - Colorado State University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Phishing Attacks against Password Manager Browser Extensions
Phoebe Moh
5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, September 15, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fine-grained control for editing casual video
Yao-Chih Lee
IRB-3137 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/4410993015
Friday, September 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Imaging and Sensing in Extreme Conditions
Christopher Metzler
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
When can we reach the quantum Fisher information for multiparameter estimation?
Lorcan Conlon - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fairly Law-informed Distribution of Human-AI Deserts
Tin Trung Nguyen
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/haliii
Thursday, September 11, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Programming Languages and the No-Cloning Theorem
Finn Voichick - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
What Are 2D and Topological Materials Good For?
Eric Pop
1410 John S. Toll Bldg
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
"It sounded like a good idea" -- Non-asymptotic running-time analysis of quantum convex optimization algorithms
David Gross - University of Cologne, Germany
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92806012793&jst=2, ID: 9893676372, Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
n-Minute Madness
CLIP Lab Members
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Pixels to Systems: How Generative and Agentic Techniques Reshape Computational Imaging, and Beyond
Zhengzhong Tu
IRB 4105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Spatial Reasoning through Artificial Intelligence
Nicole Schneider
IRB-4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
How to factor a genome for fun and profit: De Bruijn’s legacy and the mathematical models, data structures, and algorithms at the core of modern genomics
Rob Patro
IRB 4150 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Discovering Latent Structures in Data through Learning Disentangled Representations
Vaishnavi Patil
IRB-4107
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversations
Wentao Guo
5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, September 8, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Understanding Implicit Content in NLP
Rupak Sarkar
IRB 4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/rupak
Friday, September 5, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Generative Operators: Diffusion Models as Data Processing Machines
Hadi Alzayer
IRB 3137
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Human-Centered Security Beyond End Users
Michelle Mazurek
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Breakdown of the thermodynamic limit in quantum spin and dimer models
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 4, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building Trust in GenAI: Robust Provenance, AI-Detection Limits, and Multimodal Reliability
Mehrdad Saberi
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5680985925
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Robot Navigation in Complex Scenarios
Jing Liang
IRB-5165 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
4:30 pm
- 6:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Knowledge Localization, Editing, and Unlearning in Foundation Models
Keivan Rezaei
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9719759070
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
n-Minute Madness
CLIP Lab Members
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Mediating Cognition: Intent-Driven Agentic Workflows for Iterative, Multi-Stage Problem-Solving
Yuran Ding
IRB-5165
Friday, August 29, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Scalable error correction strategies and the memory capacity of open quantum neural networks
Lukas Bödeker - Forschungszentrum Jülich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95105272821?pwd=DWsCPV31ldla5y8ZGwbMAI08N6XBIa.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Using neuromorphic sparsity for perception and AI inference
Tobi Delbruck
IRB 4105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Computational Photography in Challenging Conditions via Physical Cues and Generative Priors
Mingyang Xie
Remote https://umd.zoom.us/my/mingyang?pwd=WOfak3cyrgS7c7crjmXjy4sB1rDpLL.1
Thursday, August 21, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Context-Aware and Efficient Audio-Visual Perception
Sanjoy Chowdhury
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum polylog-LDPC error correcting codes achieving the hashing bound on the depolarizing channel
Thomas Van Himbeeck - INRIA
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97629964395?pwd=ZXBUTZ3pgxeRk530gMabDxOqrvQ0Wv.1 Meeting ID: 976 2996 4395 Passcode: 869509 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, August 15, 2025
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Toward Efficient Language Models: Structural Insights and Scalable Designs
Shwai He
[Remote] https://umd.zoom.us/j/3923137959?pwd=MStSWTgwSEJCNUQ2ZEMxSjFwOFdyQT09&omn=97956216946
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Steering Generative AI on the fly: Inference-time Approaches for Safe, Reliable, and Inclusive Language Models
Soumya Suvra Ghosal
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Thursday, August 7, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy and Capable Language Models
Abhimanyu Hans
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6266008577?pwd=UlFQSDJMMmVoNzlJQzRXWVpmZXZhUT09&omn=92409753644&jst=2
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Investigating and Tackling Bias and Hackings in AI
Lichang Chen
IRB 4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96431729723?pwd=ZVV1TU5RaC9RQ3Y1L2p0ZlFZcjJEZz09
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Dynamics, Non-Classicality, and a Unified Framework
Andrew Tanggara - National University of Singapore
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=97873044341 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Modeling Human Factors and Traffic Dynamics for Generalization in Autonomous Driving
Laura Zheng
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2736097828?pwd=N1VyTVhtejJRdDlCbzRvVVcvVTZxZz09
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Plug and Predict: Generative Recognition and Surrogate Training for VLMs
Kaiyu Yue
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7173057078
Friday, July 25, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Computational Problems on Depth Measures Combining Combinatorics and Geometry
Shuhao Tan
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/92313815902
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Fairness and Uncertainty in Graph Matching
Nathaniel Grammel
IRB-3137 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/9398853433
Monday, July 21, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning with Less Effort: Efficient Training and Generalization in (Multi-)Robot Systems
Peihong Yu
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/tokekar
Friday, July 18, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum error corrections for fermionic and bosonic systems
Yijia Xu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2639797355 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, July 17, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Locality and Complexity in Quantum Information Dynamics
Dhruv Devulapalli - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94509639588?pwd=nCsEBo26jxvGa6wrw4syXkgKhvRQbE.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Flexible Input for Novel View Synthesis
Geng Lin
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93051409149?pwd=aQbQ7NZVbQLjuNtTHx2vL85aMUEamB.1
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Identifying and Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning for Healthcare
Daniel Smolyak
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3183281812?omn=99478395069&jst=2
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Inverse Rendering with Global Illumination
Saeed Hadadan
IRB-4105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/6610989686
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Qunity and COGNAC: Finding the Right Abstractions for Quantum Programming
Finn Voichick
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/leonidas
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Neural networks as databases - From data to model compression
Shishira Raghunath Maiya
IRB-4109
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Speeding up Density Functional Theory Calculations With Machine Learning: A Density Learning Approach
Phillip Pope
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/davidjacobs
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Discrete and continuous variable systems: Properties, protocols, and applications
Joseph T. Iosue - University of Maryland
ATL 3332 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98758996580?pwd=13URJiwygjYWbaMrymXARskJj0hIXv.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Practical Applications for Partial Quantum Error Correction
Noah Berthusen - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3498884997?pwd=SURCT1ZkTTNaZzlzbmlaT2lrTVBaZz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Practical Applications for Partial Quantum Error Correction
Noah Berthusen
ATL 3100A or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3498884997?pwd=SURCT1ZkTTNaZzlzbmlaT2lrTVBaZz09
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Context-Aware Computational Video Editing and Re-Editing
Pooja Guhan
IRB-4105 OR http://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Improving Efficiency of Transformer Foundation Models
Armin Gerami
Remote https://umd.zoom.us/j/96431729723?pwd=ZVV1TU5RaC9RQ3Y1L2p0ZlFZcjJEZz09
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Accurate and Scalable Phylogeny Estimation via Graph Cuts
Yunheng Han
IRB 3137
Monday, June 30, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
PhD Defense: Towards Reliable Agentic LLMs
Wenxiao Wang
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/wenxiao
Monday, June 23, 2025
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Repairing Temporal Hierarchical Task Networks
Paul Zaidins
IRB-5137
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Human-AI Integration
Jun Rekimoto - The University of Tokyo, Sony Computer Science Laboratories https://lab.rekimoto.org/
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94009626389?pwd=ISwA4IU3ylBVrp5dWaENxDG7BEcIYb.1
Friday, June 20, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning Structured Alignment: From Visual Understanding to Robot Control
Shuaiyi Huang
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Submodular Optimization in Learning
Samira Goudarzi
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/2456753152?pwd=cGVhd3R1cWRHUUxQYTVid2hGL2poQT09
Monday, June 16, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Small and Large Perception Models for robotic navigation
Tianrui Guan
IRB-3137 or http://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Thursday, June 12, 2025
2:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Understanding and Addressing Online Tracking
Nathan Reitinger
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/96505695990?pwd=uqQjOsSM33v1R5h2C5thanr4bkyA7a.1
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: DEEP LEARNING UNDER REAL-WORLD CONSTRAINTS: EFFICIENCY, STRUCTURE, AND ROBUSTNESS IN THE MODERN ML STACK
Alexander Stein
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5209864628?pwd=eU5kaEErcnVGZW1PdUdwWWgrenI0Zz09&omn=99225074436&jst=2
Monday, June 9, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Effective and Efficient Video Understanding
Xijun Wang
IRB-4105 or umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Monday, June 2, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Principled AI-Agents with Decentralized and Asymmetric Information
Xiangyu Liu
[Remote] https://umd.zoom.us/j/7269246363#success
Thursday, May 29, 2025
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Privacy Implications of Large-Scale Address Enumeration
Erik Rye
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3338335258?pwd=ZXRuTXJ0QlRCcklVSGFocUFqUDFHUT09&omn=99153349059&jst=2
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in Artificial Intelligence
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay
IRB-4107 OR https://meet.google.com/rkz-hect-guf
Thursday, May 22, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
Quantum Technologies in Communications and Sensing
Saikat Guha
LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Smart, Sparse, and Safe: Efficient Algorithms for Generative AI
Reza Shirkavand
IRB-4109 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Multi-Exit Design Across the Language Model Lifecycle: Toward Efficient, Robust, and Adaptive Models
Kamala Varma
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9512931330
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Safety, Robustness and Reliability of AI
Gaurang Sriramanan
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/gaurangs
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Robustness, Detectability, and Data Privacy in AI
Vinu Sankar Sadasivan
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/s/97500993852?pwd=Ah5JJzb6NGxunb5BMeJlMpFl9K0mfx.1
Thursday, May 15, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
Mara Levy
IRB 4105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/6692219114?omn=94335880707
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
PhD Proposal: The Boundaries of Computational Hardness in Noisy Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar
ATL-3100A
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Long-read, assembly-based metagenomic and cancer phasing
Ataberk Donmez
IRB-3137
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Graded Judgments of Plausibility in Commonsense Reasoning
Shramay Palta
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93465250117
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Telemetry-based Insights and Predictive Analytics for High-performance Computing Systems
Onur Cankur
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, May 12, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Unifying Multimodal: Perception, Reasoning and Generation
Jiuhai Chen
IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
Ruijie Zheng
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/furongh?pwd=MDI4NFRBZXhjNGlCc3RKUThCTTlDUT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 9, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Trustworthy AI: Methods for Enhancing Robustness and Attribution
Vasu Singla
IRB-5137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/vsingla
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Enabling GPU Performance Portability
Joshua Davis
IRB-5237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Advancing Efficient and Trustworthy AI for Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Ju Sun
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Probing Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 via Attractive Polaron Spectroscopy
Beini Gao - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, May 8, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Uncovering, Understanding, and Mitigating Social Biases in Language Models
Haozhe An
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid
Ian Spielman - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93242863741 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
Reducing the Memory Cost of Long Context Transformers
Ryan Synk
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Bridging the gulf of evaluation in human-AI interaction for knowledge workers
Yuexi Chen
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/8497662263?pwd=ejJscElvelFzMnM4a2MzanNXTTJJdz09
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
There and Back Again: Reflections for Students After 34 Years
Philip Resnik - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
9:00 am
-11:00 am
PhD Proposal: Teaching AI to Answer Questions with Reasoning that Actually Helps You
Nishant Balepur
IRB-4109 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/8837288561?omn=97151046631
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Higher-order Flow Analysis, Types, and Program Optimization
Benjamin Quiring
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Interactive Vision Systems with Visual and Textual Prompts
Chuong Huynh
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/chuonghm
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Embracing AI for Sustainable Computing
Tevfik Kosar
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Towards Poisoning Fair Representations
Zachary Lazri
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: EXAMPLE-AIDED VISUALIZATION DESIGN: BRIDGING DATA AND HUMAN CREATIVITY
Hannah Bako
IRB-5165 or https://www.google.com/url?q=https://umd.zoom.us/j/8733212182?pwd%3DU2RSRkdNQjJiWEd0NlpXK3l0VHRrQT09%26omn%3D91371909355&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1745169704336291&usg=AOvVaw1yc4qGLZfE2NAVR-z7h3N4
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Detecting emergent 1-form symmetries with quantum error correction
Michael Knap - Technical University of Munich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, May 5, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Geometric and Physical Inductive Biases for Neural Networks in Decision-Making, Prediction, and Control
Joshua McClellan
IRB-4145 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Differentiable Systems for Efficient Optimization: From Dynamics to Geometry
PhD Preliminary
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 2, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Origin of edge states in Pi-conjugated systems revealed by explicit Clar models
Ben Eller - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Certified Randomness from a Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor
Pradeep Niroula - Global Technology Applied Research, JPMorganChase
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Designing Effective Property-Based Testing Frameworks
Alperen Keles
IRB-5105 or http://umd.zoom.us/my/leonidas
Thursday, May 1, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Advancing Discovery Through Transformative Leadership in Computing, Data, and Interdisciplinary Research
Michela Taufer
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Differentiable Systems for Efficient Optimization: From Dynamics to Geometry
Sanghyun Son
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Evaluating the Usability of Password Sharing Features in Password Managers
Phoebe Moh
Remote https://umd.zoom.us/j/93421424130?pwd=aDFBeXc0aGVHdW5zUFJ6ei8wOTZSZz09
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Making AI Work in the Crucible: Perception and Reasoning in Chaotic Environments
Ritwik Gupta
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
AI Agents for Document Understanding
Jihyung Kil - Adobe Research
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CVSS
Synergizing microscopy and computation to advance life science research
Haowen Zhou - Caltech
IRB 3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/2148418519
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Information RIT Talks
Marianna Podzorova & Gengzhi Yang - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
RFC 6962 and Parakeet: Practical Key Transparency for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
Sasha Frolov
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)