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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Observation of string breaking on a (2+1)D Rydberg quantum simulator
Torsten Zache - University of Innsbruck
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Using AI Assistants in Software Development: A Qualitative Study on Security Practices and Concerns
Miuyin Yong
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 11, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Games, Graphs, and Gödel
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Quantum Games, Graphs, and Gödel
Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi
ATL 3100A
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hybrid Quantum Networking: Towards Interfacing Ions with Neutral Atoms
Brennan Romanoff - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
Lost, but not forgotten: Extracting quantum information in noisy systems
Shiv Akshar Yadavalli - Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Is detecting AI-generated text a fool's errand?
Mohit Iyyer - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Private and Trustworthy Generative Models
Yuxin Wen
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4139538360
Monday, April 7, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Visual Content Synthesis at Scale
Songwei Ge
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9316628340
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Modeling Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing Applications
Brittany Richman - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Applying Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains
Ryan Sullivan
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93063337480
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Towards resource efficient large neural networks
Bryan Plummer
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Applying Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains
Ryan Sullivan
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93063337480
Friday, April 4, 2025
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Learning Non-Spurious Functions: From Representation to Decision Through Data and Model Design
Xiaoyu Liu
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93564298810 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Practical Multiparty Protocols from Lattice Assumptions: Signatures, Pseudorandom Functions, and More
Kamil Doruk Gur
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/kdgur?pwd=S0ZEWHJWdC94M3RhNXZtK3NFcE41UT09&omn=92635440474
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Complexity-constrained quantum thermodynamics
Anthony Munson - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 3, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: New Efficient Algorithms for Nested Machine Learning Problems
Junyi Li
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization for LLMs: Progress and Challenges
Sicheng Zhu
IRB-4137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7541393444
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum codes as robust phases of matter
Andrew Lucas - University of Colorado, Boulder
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Akari Asai 
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Dissecting "Hidden-State Proofs of Quantumness"
Carl Miller, Konstantina Trivisa, & Daniel Enrique Serrano - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Minimalist Sensing Toward Ubiquitous Perception
Yang Bai
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Code Generation Towards Software Engineering: Advancing Code Intelligence w/ Language Models
Yangruibo (Robin) Ding
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advancing Visual Assets: Taming Deep Priors for Editing and Enhancement
Yiran Xu
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9373888068 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Building Haystacks to Find Needles
Erik Rye
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Breath Analytics: A Sensor-Driven Study of Day-to-Day Human
Faizan Wajid
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7472180327
Monday, March 31, 2025
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Building Reliable AI under Distribution Shifts
Bang An
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7345152267 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Modeling Human Factors and Traffic Dynamics for Generalization in Autonomous Driving
Laura Zheng
IRB-5105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/94667161518?pwd=qBhj3htYDRewRcwPVgVQW0Y4TrZy0d.1
Friday, March 28, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: A Good Translation Is One That Can Win a Polish Game Show: Expanding Modalities & Evaluation for Robust, Trustworthy, and User-Centric Translation
HyoJung Han
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:10 am
-11:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Optimizing Communication in Parallel Deep Learning on Exascale-class Supercomputers
Siddharth Singh
IRB-5237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Program Synthesis For Quantum Computation
Haowei Deng - University of Maryland
Iribe 5107 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5833533442?pwd=V0hBZHo2SDNnaUxKMzNValZ1RFo1Zz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Program Synthesis for Quantum Applications
Haowei Deng
IRB-5107 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/5833533442?pwd=V0hBZHo2SDNnaUxKMzNValZ1RFo1Zz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Microwave Control of Rydberg-Rydberg Interactions
Deniz Kurdak - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Adaptive and Efficient Visual Generation of Color, Motion, and Video
Yixuan Ren
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
9:00 am
-11:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Tailoring Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Socially Consequential Domains
Aviva Prins
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Understanding and Modeling Explicit and Implicit Representations of the Visual World
Matthew Gwilliam
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
Challenges and Opportunities in Open Generative Models
Aaron Gokaslan
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/s/2203990027
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
USAID Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Ukraine
Doug White
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CBCB Seminar
Understanding Aging at Multi-scale using Explainable AI
Wei Qiu - University of Washington
IRB-4105
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Understanding Aging at Multi-scale
 Using Explainable AI
Wei Qiu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, March 24, 2025
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models: Evaluation, Mitigation, and Future Directions
Fuxiao Liu
IRB-4109 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/6148747387?pwd=VEtTU1NNTkYzYlU5YnJKL2piNURIQT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: On Learning Behaviours of Parallel Code and Systems Across Modalities
Daniel Nichols
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Interpreting Deep Learning Models and Unlocking New Capabilities With It
Samyadeep Basu
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/2029529447?pwd=WThzQmpuMmJpL2ZSd2trL1lJQWlNdz09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, March 20, 2025
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Exploring the Power of Machine Learning in Medical Research: A Focus on Movement Disorder Diagnosis and Age-Related Hearing Loss
Rana Khalil
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, March 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Complexity of Thermalization in Finite Quantum Systems
Dhruv Devulapalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 13, 2025
8:30 am
-10:30 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Codes from Symmetry
Eric Kubischta - University of Maryland
MTH 3206
9:00 am
-11:00 am
PhD Defense: Methods for efficient processing and uncertainty aware analysis of high-throughput genomic and transcriptomic data
Noor Pratap Singh
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Vector Kernel Representation Theory, Applications to Point Clouds and Event Cameras
Dehao Yuan
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Equivariant Policy Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Dian Wang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
3:10 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Toward Resource-efficient Implementations of Quantum Algorithms on Near-term Quantum Hardware
Joseph Li
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Fast and Efficient Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and Architectures
Can Firtina - ETH Zurich
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Constructive Approach to Zauner’s Conjecture via the Stark Conjectures
Steven Flammia - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92433688344 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Fast and Efficient Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and Architectures
Can Firtina
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Multi-Party Vocal Entrainment and the Correlates of Cooperation: An Exploration of Model Architectures
Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy - University of Arizona
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Alternate perspectives on quantum query complexity
Amin Shiraz Gilani - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Alternate perspectives on quantum query complexity
Amin Shiraz Gilani
ATL-3100A
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Generative Computer Vision for the Physical World
Ruoshi Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Toward Reliable and Scalable Network Algorithms
Pooria Namyar
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Understanding Quantum Systems via the Algorithmic Lens
Ainesh Bakshi
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, March 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Learning to Perceive the 4D World
Qianqian Wang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Friday, March 7, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Continuously tunable surface code logicals via syndrome-adaptive transversal operations
Eric Huang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 6, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Data Science for Human-level Robotic Manipulation
Haoshu Fang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Codes, Transversal Gates, and Representation Theory
Ian Teixeira - University of Maryland
MTH 3206
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Glasses: From Physical Hamiltonians to Neural Networks and Back
Victor Galitski - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Next Generation Operating Systems for the Cloud
Joshua Fried
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Shor's Algorithm, Part II (of II)
Larry Washington - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Embodied Intelligence Through Reinforcement Learning
Younggyo Seo
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Commercial LLM Agents Are Already Vulnerable to Simple Yet Dangerous Attacks
Julio Poveda
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Conditional lower bounds for algorithms with pre-processed advice
Manideep Manindlapally - CWI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92180232850?pwd=wyWrdzwErCEG61aG9MgvbcCLiJa8xE.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, March 3, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Topological stabilizer models on continuous variables
Julio C. Magdalena de la Fuente - Freie Universität Berlin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98728198714 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, February 28, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A cryogenic optical cavity for trapped Yb+ quantum networking
Wance Wang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 27, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Taking off the compute-colored glasses: Storage is vital to datacenter sustainability
Sara McAllister
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Demystifying the Inner Workings of Language Models
Sarah Wiegreffe
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Shor's Algorithm, Part I (of II)
Larry Washington - University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Developing Robots that Autonomously Learn and Plan in the Real World
Glen Berseth
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
‘Do Anything Now’: Characterizing and Evaluating In-The-Wild Jailbreak Prompts on Large Language Models
Patrick Gough
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Advancing Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models
Sreyan Ghosh
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
From Learning through Labels to Learning through Language
Kai-Wei Chang
4105
Monday, February 24, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Enhancing Foundation Models Through Interaction
Wenhu Chen
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Friday, February 21, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid
Yanda Geng - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 20, 2025
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CBCB Seminar
Machine learning for spatial and network biology
Uthsav Chitra - The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Machine learning for spatial and network biology
Uthsav Chitra
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Universal Adapters between quantum LDPC codes
Esha Swaroop - University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Statistical Challenges in Modern Machine Learning and their Algorithmic Consequences
Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Chasing the "Tail at Scale": Toward Cloud-Native Architectures
Jovan Stojkovic
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, February 17, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Permutation-invariant quantum error correction codes: from theory to practice
Yingkai Ouyang - University of Sheffield
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=97107155089 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Privacy, Copyright, and Data Integrity: The Cascading Implications of Generative AI
Niloofar Mireshghallah
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
Towards Secure Large Language Models: From Model to System
Chaowei Xiao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Hierarchical Goal Decomposition for Probabilistic Planning
David Chan
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Non-Abelian transport distinguishes three usually equivalent notions of entropy production
Twesh Upadhyaya - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 13, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Language to Silicon: Programming Systems for Sparse Accelerators
Olivia Hsu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hidden-State Proofs of Quantumness and the Discrete Fourier Transform
Carl Miller - University of Maryland
Virtual Via Zoom: umd.zoom.us/my/dserranov
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building Safe and Trustworthy Generative Models
Neel Jain
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code Using LLM
Xuheng Li - Columbia University
IRB 5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/91477081269?pwd=Zia5u3gDaI87nbIEz0FstJqb4vUuP0.1
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Thinking Outside the GPU: Systems for Scalable Machine Learning Pipelines
Mark Zhao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Monday, February 10, 2025
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Two principle-based formulations of quantum theory
Howard Barnum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94291869736?pwd=phbbyGHG3wNcUD3gFoNtA97uYyAyKX.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Aleksander Kubica at Yale University
Aleksander Kubica - Yale University
402, YQI Seminar Room (Yale University) and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99617879814
Friday, February 7, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Autonomous quantum refrigerator resets superconducting qubit
Jose Antonio Marin Guzman - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 6, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Feel, Think, Act: Tactile Perception for Robotics
Amir Hossein Shahidzadeh
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement in dual-unitary quantum circuits with impurities
Shachar Fraenkel - Tel Aviv University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93193341356?pwd=eP1zjLaqybtvE4n9ozwR3cfxqZVbEb.1 Meeting ID: 931 9334 1356 Passcode: 760966 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Information RIT Spring 2025: Intro and Logistics
Konstantina Trivisa & Carl Miller - IPST & QuICS, University of Maryland
Kirwan 3206
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Steiner Forest and Hard Instances
Ali Ahmadi
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Snowflake, a censorship circumvention system using temporary WebRTC proxies
Sadia Nourin
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, February 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Scalable methods for k-mer based biological sequence analysis
Paul Medvedev - Penn State
IRB-4105
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Scalable methods for k-mer based biological sequence analysis
Paul Medvedev
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Friday, January 31, 2025
10:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
Big AI for Small Devices
Hai (Helen) Li - Duke University
IRB 4105
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Parallel-sequential circuits for quantum state preparation
Zhi-Yuan Wei  - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, January 30, 2025
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes in lattice gauge theories
Greeshma Shivali Oruganti - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91598475595?pwd=qZyWafZEggSpDuIxwNnlwxMbnEkb5Z.1 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Quantifying semantic predictability and its role in language comprehension and production
Cassandra Jacobs - University of Buffalo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Toward More Inclusive Security and Privacy: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities in the 'Majority World'
Collins Munyendo - The George Washington University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, January 27, 2025
5:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Lightsynq at Princeton University
Mihir Bhaskar - Lightsynq
J401 Engineering Quadrangle (Princeton) and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98405552114
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hardware-efficient quantum error correction using concatenated bosonic qubits
Connor Hann - AWS Center for Quantum Computing
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99877904585?pwd=o9UmbJQ0Czqzxu8sr5GoIuw0AqlfiV.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, January 17, 2025
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
Roundtable Talk: Reflections on the research/product design process
Vyas Sekar
IRB 2107 or virtual https://umd.zoom.us/j/6278045369?_x_zm_rtaid=EsyM5UhERGiO1fHGkTRPCw.1736949470612.3de551ac6410d7fedf03b34ca30938cd&_x_zm_rhtaid=231#success
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Pruning for Efficient Deep Learning: From CNNs to Generative Models
Alireza Ganjdanesh
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
9:30 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: NEXT-GEN AI : ADVANCING WATERMARKING, ALGORITHM SYNTHESIS, AND DIVERSE GENERATIVE STRATEGIES
Arpit Bansal
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Effective and Efficient Video Understanding
Xijun Wang
Remote
Friday, January 10, 2025
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Human-centric Acoustics: The interplay of opportunities and security
Irtaza Shahid
IRB-5105
4:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Learning Structured Alignment: From Visual Understanding to Robot Control
Shuaiyi Huang
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, January 9, 2025
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models: Evaluation, Mitigation, and Future Directions
Fuxiao Liu
Remote
5:00 pm
- 6:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Learning with Less Effort: Efficient Training and Generalization in (Multi-)Robot Systems
Peihong Yu
Remote
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Understanding and Modeling Explicit and Implicit Representations of the Visual World
Matthew Gwilliam
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, December 20, 2024
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting with Additional Work in AI for Social Good
Alex Hanson
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, December 19, 2024
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Experimental observation of symmetry-protected signatures of N-body interactions
Liudmila Zhukas - Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards scalability and efficiency in distributed systems
Jan Olkowski
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CLIP
Concealed Meaning: The Dynamics of Political Dogwhistles
Asad Sayeed - University of Gothenburg
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, December 12, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: End-to-End Certification of Cryptographic Primitives
Yi Lee
IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Catalysis of quantum entanglement and entangled batteries
Alexander Streltsov - Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99921526411?pwd=cndbXdaCjBIv6k16fWPszhzoUTybaH.1 Meeting ID: 999 2152 6411 Passcode: 894844 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Parallel and External-Memory Algorithms for Large-Scale Genomic Sequence-Graph and -Index Construction
Jamshed Khan
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Scalable Epidemiological Agent-based Modeling with Dynamic Behaviors
Joy Kitson
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, December 9, 2024
9:30 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Supporting Data De-Identification in an Era of Open Science
Wentao Guo
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Career Connections: Google Quantum AI
Dr. Dripto Debroy - Google Quantum AI
Duke University, Chesterfield Building Room No. 4700 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/94160072430
Friday, December 6, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
How I stopped worrying and learned to love AI
William Regli
https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
When less is more; modelling and simulating new approaches in quantum sensing
Declan Daly - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 5, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
The Many Faces of Optimal Weak-to-Strong Learning
Michael Xie - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Adaptive Evolution of Continuous Traits and Interaction Modeling in Species and Tumors: Methods and Biology
MG Hirsch
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A General Quantum Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire
Barak Nehoran - Princeton University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93766584122?pwd=rwvOflvt8Nd9LdaQ5jfArBHjT1CRp9.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
DODFMiner: An Automated Tool for Named Entity Recognition from Brazilian Official Gazettes
Thiago de Paulo Faleiros - Universidade de Brasília
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: UNDERSTANDING FAILURE MODES OF DEEP LEARNING MODELS
Gowthami Somepalli
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
The Conflicted Relationship between Governments and the Internet
Esteban Carisimo - Northwestern University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, December 2, 2024
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Safety and Trust in Large Language Models in Medicine
Yifan Yang
IRB-4145 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
6:00 pm
- 7:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Generalizing Navigation on Language-Guided Embodied Agents
Vishnu Sashank Dorbala
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, November 22, 2024
10:00 am
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Inertially Constrained Ruled Surfaces for Egomotion Estimation
Chenqi Zhu
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Supporting Correct Intermittent Computing at the Extreme Edge
Milijana Surbatovich
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
MAViS: Modular Autonomous Virtualization System for Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Quantum Dot Arrays
Anantha Rao - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Measurement-induced entanglement and complexity in random constant-depth 2D quantum circuits
Daniel Malz - University of Copenhagen
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95583554326?pwd=iZC5M9UAO6mTxnqsCq1pHvK2MvFyzz.1 Meeting ID: 955 8355 4326 Passcode: 891546 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 21, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
RQS Career Connections: Postdoc Panel
Abhinav Anand, Aleksander Lasek, Ella Crane, Sean Muleady, Yifan Hong - Duke University, MIT, and University of Maryland
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98269159096
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Inertially Constrained Ruled Surfaces for Egomotion Estimation
Chenqi Zhu
IRB-4105
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
LLMs and Knowledge Graphs for Science: From Papers to Insights
Michael Färber - TU Dresden
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Stephen Jordan - Google Quantum AI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99146350096?pwd=Hq1aPPuiaH0TfmKZxa7I5Vavg5bD3S.1 Meeting ID: 991 4635 0096 Passcode: 253475 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Learning from Less Data: Perception and Synthesis
Divya Kothandaraman
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Understanding Legal Professionals’ Practices and Expectations in Data Breach Incident Reporting
Emma Shroyer
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Generating Novel Synthetic Photorealistic Data For Dynamic UAV Scenes Using Neural Radiance Fields
Christopher Maxey
IRB-4145 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Hyperfine Spin Control of SnV-117
Isaac Harris - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/s/94267886806 Meeting ID: 942 6788 6806 Passcode: "quantum" Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, November 18, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Robust sparse IQP sampling in constant depth
Louis Paletta - Inria
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2639797355 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, November 15, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Software Foundations Towards the Quantum Future
Runzhou Tao
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A Landau Level at Zero Flux, Magic, and Abelianization
Alireza Parhizkar - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 14, 2024
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponentially Reduced Circuit Depths Using Trotter Error Mitigation
James Watson - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Weak Generalized Bunching Conjecture
Shawn Geller - NIST
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92021171629?pwd=eZwubd5vdenSQK0Et1zOSpPYg3OWP5.1 Meeting ID: 920 2117 1629 Passcode: 838611 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Casual users and rational choices within differential privacy
David Miller
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, November 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Combinatorial Optimization for Barter Exchange and Tumor Phylogeny Inference
Juan Luque Chang
IRB-5237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Intelligent Robotic Companions: Improving Human User Interaction and Safety
James Mullen
IRB-5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, November 8, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Translating Natural Language to Visually Grounded Verifiable Plans
Angelos Mavrogiannis
IRB-4105
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Differentiable Approximations for Distance Queries
David Mount
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Routing and Entanglement Capacity Through Bottlenecks
Dhruv Devulapalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Role of Emotions in #SaveTheChildren Campaigns Across Parler, Gab, Twitter/X, and Facebook
Do Won Kim - University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
VoteXX: Extreme Coercion Resistance
Shayan Shabihi
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, November 4, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
An automata-based approach for quantum circuit/program verification
Yu-Fang Chen - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93634867147?pwd=O8tRc7a21iCGkI8mcJ8MVvVHlIjXrh.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
CVSS
Computational Imaging on Shiny and Specular Surfaces: From Tablet-Based 3D Measurements to Accurate and Fast Eye Tracking
Florian Willomitzer - University of Arizona
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Analytics of Configuration Management for System Administration
Yehuda Katz
IRB-4105
Friday, November 1, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Preparing Cryptography for Deployment
Gabriel Kaptchuk
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fiber Bundle Fault Tolerance of GKP Codes
Angsar Burchards - Freie Universität Berlin
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 31, 2024
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Computational Geometry in the Hilbert Metric
Auguste Gezalyan
IRB-4107
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Affective Polarization in Online Discussions on COVID-19
Ashwin Rao - University of Southern California
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, October 28, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Robustness, Detectability, and Data Privacy in AI
Vinu Sankar Sadasivan
Remote
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Practical Cryptography for Blockchains: Secure Protocols with Minimal Trust
Noemi Glaeser
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 25, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Working on Products in Big Tech
Bill Pugh, Larry Davis, David Jacobs, Mike Hicks
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
Thursday, October 24, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponential Quantum Space Advantage for Approximating Maximum Directed Cut in the Streaming Model
Nadezhda Voronova - Boston University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99819547713?pwd=vtxWJqfcVK1iOY9bSH3GYFLWkrh7cf.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Empowering Workers in the Design and Implementation of Autonomous Agents
Anastasia Ostrowski - Purdue University
IRB 4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
PairScale: Analyzing Attitude Change with Pairwise Comparisons
Rupak Sarkar and Philip Resnik - University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum complexity in many-body physics: random circuits and thermodynamics
Philippe Faist - Freie Universität Berlin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98362178742 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Secret Key Recovery in a Global-Scale End-to-End Encryption System
Maurice Shih
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 18, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Sim2Real2Sim: Differentiable Physics-Based Modeling of Multisensory Objects
Ruohan Gao
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The State Hidden Subgroup Problem and How to Efficiently Locate Unentanglement
Tudor Giurgica-Tiron - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Towards a science of human-AI teams
Valerie Chen - Carnegie Mellon University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Bridging Biosecurity and Biosurveillance: Robust Nucleic Acid Screening for Sequences of Concern
Todd Treangen - Rice University
IRB 3137
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks
Julio Poveda
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, October 14, 2024
1:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Interpreting Visual Representations and Mitigating their Failures
Neha Kalibhat
IRB-3137
Friday, October 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Can you 4-color a 17x17 grid without getting four points the same color that form a rectangle?
William Gasarch
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Sensing, with Applications to Fundamental Physics
Anthony Brady - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 10, 2024
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Everything efficient all at once - Compressing data and deep networks
Sharath Girish
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Simulation of Spin-Boson Models with Structure Bath
Ke Sun - Duke University
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Context-Aware Computational Video Editing and Re-Editing
Pooja Guhan
https://umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Computer-enabled propagation of biological database errors
Mihai Pop - UMD
IRB 4105
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
Concentration of Submodular Functions and Read-k Families Under Negative Dependence
Renata Valieva - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Challenges in AI-assisted AI evaluation
Shi Feng - George Washington University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, October 7, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Depth Sensing and Photorealistic 3D Mapping of Real-World Scenes
Jaehoon Choi
IRB-4109
Friday, October 4, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
The Future of Parallel Code Development: Will AI Lead the Way
Abhinav Bhatele
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement witness for combined atom interferometer-mechanical oscillator system
Gaya Premawardhana - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 3, 2024
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY: ADVANCED TOPIC AND LANGUAGE MODELS
Kyle Seelman
IRB-5105
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
The popular assignment problem: when cardinality is more important than popularity
Nitya Raju - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Synthetic Data for Self-Evolving AI
Tianyi Zhou - University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Encoding and Exploiting Context in Logic-Based AI Systems
David Sekora
IRB-4107
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Encoding and Exploiting Context in Logic-Based AI Systems
David Sekora
IRB-4107
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
A qualitative analysis of practical de-identification guides
Wentao Guo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, September 27, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Engineering Bodies and Subjectivity
Jun Nishida
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Instability of steady-state mixed symmetry-protected topological order to strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 26, 2024
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Polynomial-Time Classical Simulation of Noisy IQP Circuits with Constant Depth
Joel Rajakumar - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
oarfish: Enhancing Long-Read Transcript Quantification Through Improved Probabilistic Modeling
Zahra Zare Jousheghani
IRB 4105
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Recalibrating Machine Learning for Social Biases
Lucy Havens
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
GKP Codes: A Rosetta Stone for Quantum Error Correction
Jonathan Conrad - Freie Universität Berlin & Helmholtz Zentrum
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=93295950255 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to Redress Predictive Privacy Harms
Tin Trung Nguyen
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, September 23, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
CVSS
Seeing 3D with Polarized Light
Jinwei Ye - George Mason University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Improving Deep Networks by Learning from their Failures and Successes
Matthew Walmer
IRB-3137
Friday, September 20, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Closing the User Expectations Gap: Interpretability and Cultural Extensions to NLP Models
Fenfei Guo
Remote
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Securing AI Coding Assistants
Yizheng Chen
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Order-by-disorder in the antiferromagnetic J1-J2-J3 transverse-field Ising model on the ruby lattice
Patrick Adelhardt - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 19, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
Differentially private exact recovery for stochastic block models
Dung Nguyen - University of Virginia and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
The Double Edged Sword: Identifying Authentication Pages and their Fingerprinting Behavior
Alisha Ukani
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, September 16, 2024
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
On Building General-Purpose Home Robots
Lerrel Pinto - Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95527564297?pwd=VKvEJkTzBK7TvzXkRsDz1dmbrl7GvB.1
Friday, September 13, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Intelligence in Everything: How to Scale, Secure, and Sustain
Nirupam Roy
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Scaling Law of Quantum Confinement in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Ben Eller - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
The Submodular Adaptive Switching Problem
Alexander Estes - Assistant Professor, R. H. Smith School of Business and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
AI Resilient Interfaces for Code Generation and Efficient Reading
Jonathan Kummerfeld - University of Sydney
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Achieving low circuit depth with few qubits, for arithmetic and the QFT
Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Four approaches to blockchain rollups
Noemi Glaeser
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, September 6, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Learning the Dynamic World
Ming C. Lin
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entangling four logical qubits beyond break-even in a nonlocal code
Yifan Hong - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 5, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalisation group in the generalised Landau paradigm
Frank Verstraete - University of Cambridge
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Information in a Photon
Saikat Guha - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95621286471?pwd=tbhSkbaJ5CEyT9kGfEOt4AZ1ohhoH9.1 Meeting ID: 956 2128 6471 Passcode: 285935 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
3-minute madness
CLIP lab members
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
"It was honestly just gambling": Investigating the Experiences of Teenage Cryptocurrency Users on Reddit
Phoebe Moh
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, August 30, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Extracting Private Info from Public Services
Dave Levin
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A quantum monomer-dimer model on a Penrose tiling
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
3-minute madness
CLIP lab members
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, August 26, 2024
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quadratic lower bounds on the stabilizer rank: A probabilistic approach
Saeed Mehraban - Tufts University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97118160686 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, August 23, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building up more human-aligned foundational models: Data and Algorithms
Lichang Chen
Remote
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: New Efficient Bilevel Optimization Algorithms and their Applications in Federated Learning
Junyi Li
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, August 22, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Typed Embeddings for Metaprogramming
Jacob Prinz
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Privacy Implications of Large-Scale Network Address Enumeration
Erik Rye
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
Mara Levy
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: High Performance Distributed Transactions for Multi-region Database Systems
Cuong Nguyen
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Efficient and Robust Point Cloud Embedding: Theories, Algorithms and Applications
Dehao Yuan
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/8594561040
Thursday, August 15, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Stabilization of cat-state manifolds using nonlinear reservoir engineering
Ivan Rojkov - ETH Zurich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=96873377618 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Neural Networks as Databases - From data to model compression
Shishira R Maiya
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, August 9, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: On Provable Robustness against Data Poisoning
Wenxiao Wang
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, August 5, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Minimalist Sensing Toward Ubiquitous Perception
Yang Bai
https://umd.zoom.us/j/94236579484?pwd=ua1W20X3KPxtmd5wpaZonu0qSb5437.1
Friday, August 2, 2024
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Implementing Universal Design to Support Neurodivergent Students in Undergraduate Introductory Computer Science Classes
Emily Kaplitz
IRB-3137 or https://go.umd.edu/zoomWeintrop
Thursday, August 1, 2024
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Developing and Measuring Latent Constructs in Text
Alexander Hoyle
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9845968708
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Exploring How Third Parties Manipulate the Style and Information of Security Content to Influence Users
Richard Roberts
https://umd.zoom.us/j/6975862994?omn=93346301112
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Mosaicing Prevention in Declassification
Nathaniel Rollings
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, July 19, 2024
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Excursion in the Quantum Loss Landscape: Learning, Generating and Simulating in the Quantum World
Ali Izadi Rad - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5132784141?pwd=NUJaSXVBZmdMQkYxMFFxeHdiUmIzUT09 Meeting ID: 513 278 4141 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, July 18, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Extracting Private Info from Public Services
Dave Levin
LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Separating Quantum Black-Box Security Reductions for SNARGs from Falsifiable Assumptions
Manasi Shingane
Atlantic 3100A
Sunday, July 14, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Jonas Buchli - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, July 12, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Hybrid Memory Hierarchies for Next Generation HPC Systems
Richard Johnson
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Hybrid Memory Hierarchies for Next Generation HPC Systems
Richard Johnson
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, July 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Simulating Meson Scattering on Spin Quantum Simulators
Elizabeth Bennewitz - University of Maryland
PSC 2134 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fairness and Equity in Machine Learning for Healthcare
Daniel Smolyak
IRB-4105
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Nonconvex Machine Learning Problems
Wenhan Xian
IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Learning shallow quantum circuits and quantum states prepared by shallow circuits in polynomial time
Yunchao Liu - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98607076942?pwd=o98gU8L1qeYS2jmMAvWrZZ77Qzr3YI.1 Meeting ID: 986 0707 6942 Passcode: 850846 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Spin Chains and Symmetric Functions
Marcos Crichigno - Phasecraft
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=95220137852 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Modern Query Federation Systems: Execution Optimization, Performance Prediction, and Systems Assessment
Chujun Song
IRB-5165
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhanced Robot Planning and Perception through Environment Prediction
Vishnu Sharma
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, July 8, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Planning and Perception for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Object and Environmental Monitoring
Harnaik Dhami
IRB-5105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Auditing the Accuracy and Fairness of COVID-19 Forecasting and Modeling Tasks with Mobility and Contextual Data
Saad Mohammad Abrar
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, July 5, 2024
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Distribution-Preserving Watermarks for Large Language Models
Yihan Wu
Remote
Friday, June 28, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Enabling Ubiquitous Analytics through Physical Computing
Biswaksen Patnaik
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Dynamical Memory in Deep Neural Networks - A Pathway Towards Embodied Connectionist Systems
Matthew Evanusa
IRB-4105
Thursday, June 20, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Trustworthy AI Even When We Don’t Understand It
Hal Daumé III
LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740
Monday, June 17, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Automating Hierarchical Task Network Learning
Ruoxi Li
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Improving and validating computational algorithms for the assembly, clustering, and taxonomic classification of microbial communities
Tu Luan
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
Time-Space Trade-Offs and Lower Bounds in Quantum Ideal Models
Kaiyan Shi
5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, June 14, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Machine Learning with Differentiable Physics Priors
Yiling Qiao
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Machine Learning with Differentiable Physics Priors
Yiling Qiao
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, June 13, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
Efficient Rendering, Display, and Compression Techniques for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Susmija Jabbireddy
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Near-optimal simulation of quantum field theory
Michael Kreshchuk - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:45 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Seyed A. Esmaeili - University of Chicago
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, June 10, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Circuits for Chiral Topological Order
Su-Kuan Chu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92795095725?pwd=NVFLb2prWXNXMDFGR2lnbVh0Rzg5dz09 Meeting ID: 927 9509 5725 Passcode: 019031 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Simulation, Representation, and Automation: Human-Centered AI for Augmenting Visualization Design
Sungbok Shin
5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: DATA-DRIVEN ALGORITHMS FOR CHARACTERIZING STRUCTURAL VARIATION IN METAGENOMIC DATA
Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 31, 2024
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Algorithmic Decision-making and Model Evaluation in Socially Consequential Domains
Christine Herlihy
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Recent Developments in Coalition Formation Theory
Niclas Boehmer - Harvard University
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, May 23, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Simulation, Representation, and Automation: Human-Centered AI for Augmenting Visualization Design
Sungbok Shin
IRB-5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Harnessing Quantum Systems for Sensing, Simulation, and Optimization
Jake Bringewatt - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97331537883?pwd=cUJMcWRuaVdBd0VIWkNzTmhEUWZuUT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Tight Lower Bound on Equivalence Testing in Conditional Sampling Model
Diptarka Chakraborty - National University of Singapore
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Controlling quantum ergodicity in molecules large and small: From C60 to ultracold alkali dimers
Timur Tscherbul - University of Nevada, Reno
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=95385603985 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Foundation Models and Generative AI for Medical Imaging Segmentation in Ultra-Low Data Regimes
Pengtao Xie
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617
Monday, May 20, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Generalizable Computational Representations for Data Visualizations
Chen Chen
https://umd.zoom.us/j/7496374091?pwd=YXU5ZmNsWUxMajE1d1ROd2lPclRTdz09
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Learning with Incomplete Information
Kiarash Banihashem
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Probabilistic notions of Fairness for problems in Combinatorial Optimization
Sharmila Duppala
4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, May 16, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Speeding up Density Functional Theory with Machine Learning
Phillip Pope
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Taming Generative Priors for Consistent and Faithful Video Processing
Yiran Xu
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Robust and Interpretable Deep Learning: Understanding the Role of Data and Architecture
Vasu Singla
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Obtaining Fine-Grained Control over Large Language Models
Sicheng Zhu
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: On Quantum Query Complexity, Divide-and-Conquer, and Regular Languages
Matt Kovacs-Deak
ATL 3100A
Monday, May 13, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advanced Techniques for Reconstructing Objects and Scenes from Variations in Lighting and Viewpoint
Daniel Lichy
4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 10, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A DMRG Study of Excitons in the 2D t-J Model
Nikko Pomata - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, May 9, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Participant Data Considerations for the Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA)
Greg Welch - University of Central Florida
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/niallw
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Accurate and Scalable Phylogenetic Tree Estimation via Graph Cuts
Yunheng Han
IRB 3137
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
QCVV: Making Quantum Computers Less Broken
Kenneth Rudinger - Sandia National Laboratory
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92105995014 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Efficiently verifiable quantum advantage on near-term analog quantum simulators
Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Symmetric-Key Cryptography and Query Complexity in the Quantum World
Chen Bai - University of Maryland
AV Williams 2460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Translating AI to Impact in Public Health
Aditya Mate - Microsoft
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, May 6, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
EXAMPLE AIDED DESIGN: A PATH TO AUTOMATING EXPRESSIVE VISUALIZATION DESIGN
Hannah Bako
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 3, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Electron-Photon Exchange-Correlation Functional in the Weak and Strong Light–Matter Coupling Regimes
Iman Ahmadabadi - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 4:45 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in Artificial Intelligence
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, May 2, 2024
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Towards AI Alignment: Advancing Fairness, Reliability, and Human-Like Perception in AI
Bang An
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Tailoring Fault-Tolerance to Quantum Algorithms
Narayanan Rengaswamy - University of Arizona
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98060507945 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Towards Responsible Human-AI Collaboration
Maria De-Arteaga - University of Texas - Austin
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96972699892?pwd=ak43dmhIYy8ybEdnRUVRUkNnb3lNZz09
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
How to relate quantum position verification to information-theoretic cryptography, and new steps towards practical implementation
Florian Speelman - University of Amsterdam
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96834502660 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Advantage in Sensing and Simulation
Adam Ehrenberg - University of Maryland
ATL 3332 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2144033185?pwd=TVNvWERUeHlpRUlybW10b20rV1UyUT09&omn=94991888500 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Scaling Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains
Ryan Sullivan
2137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Feedback for Vision
Michael Maynord
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
AI Empowered Music Education
Snehesh Shrestha
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Trustworthy Models in Machine Learning
Xiaoyu Liu
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Incentives, Expertise, and Capacity: Unlocking the Power of Professionals to Protect Users’ Security and Privacy
Wentao Guo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions
Micah Carroll - University of California, Berkeley
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 29, 2024
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
Introduction to Quantum Error Correction Part 2: Geometrically Local Quantum Codes
Xiaozhen Fu - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, April 26, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Towards Experimental Realization of Topological Floquet Models in Circuit QED
Martin Ritter - JQI
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards the Verification of Quantum Networks
Yusuf Alnawakhtha
ATL 3100A
Thursday, April 25, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Human-centered Explainable AI: Expanding Explainable & Responsible AI
Upol Ehsan
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
AI in Public Services: Local Justice, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Scarce Societal Resource Allocation
Sanmay Das - George Mason University
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94550653164?pwd=cDUzR1hzMG9USkw5R2ozdFlFUFFtUT09
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Filters
Ben Landrum
5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Enhancing Multi-user Experiences in XR: Interface Design for Workspace Awareness
Geonsun Lee
5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering with Dynamic Optics and Event Cameras
Sachin Shah
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
10:30 am
-11:30 am
QuICS Seminar
Dynamic codes and quantum computation
Margarita Davydova - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95804820261?pwd=cXNvU0JyemhLbjBuMWtGdmQ0MjhWdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Visual Content Synthesis at Scale
Songwei Ge
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:15 pm
- 3:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
On the optimal error exponents for classical and quantum antidistinguishability
Hemant Mishra - Cornell University
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5972416689?omn=92004592340 Meeting ID: 597 241 6689 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
FreePart: Hardening Data Processing Software via Framework-based Partitioning and Isolation
Ali Ahad
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CVSS
Asymptotically Free Sketching and Applications in Ridge Regression
Daniel LeJeune - Stanford University
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
CleanRL / Cleanba: The most readable and hackable RL codebase
Costa Huang - HuggingFace
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 22, 2024
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
Minimizing Resources for Cryptographic Proofs of Quantumness
Carl Miller - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, April 19, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Reducing circuit depth of commuting Pauli Strings diagonalization
Edison Murairi - George Washington University
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Adaptive Low Probability of Detection Radar Waveform Design with Generative Deep Learning
Matthew Ziemann
LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Growing the MARL software ecosystem in JAX
Ruan de Kock & InstaDeep Team - InstaDeep
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Large Language Models for Teacher Feedback
Dora Demszky - Stanford University
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94590804477?pwd=Ym9RWjJNK3F6cm1kclNXMXpQTjhxUT09
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
One-shot quantum information theory and quantum gravity
Chris Akers - IAS
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96272644488?pwd=cCtXejhUV0ttMmhVQjkyUFJ5cG9jQT09 Meeting ID: 962 7264 4488 Passcode: 573131 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)