Seminar Series

The School of Computing hosts ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ faculty and PhD students in a series of seminars open to the department and university communities — students, staff and faculty alike. Please join us for an interesting and educational series of presentations.

Upcoming Seminars

October 23, 2025

Abdul Mannan Kitab
Graduate Student, School of Computing
Grover's Algorithm for Accelerated Biomarker Discovery: A Quantum Simulation Framework

Past Seminars

October 17, 2025

Vrushket Sanjay More
Graduate Student, School of Computing
TheraMind 2.0: A Multi-LLM Ensemble System for Accelerating Drug Repurposing in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

October 10, 2025

Kai-Cheng Yang
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
New Gatekeepers: News Source Citation Patterns in AI-Powered Search

September 19, 2025

Patrick Madden
Associate Professor, School of Computing
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Algorithms, AI, and Heuristics for VLSI Physical Design

September 12, 2025

Abeer Matar A Almalky
PhD Student, School of Computing
LLWRA: Large Language Models Weight Replacement Attack

April 30, 2025

Guoyu Lu
Associate Professor, School of Computing
Exploration of 3D Robot Vision Across Multiple Image Modalities

April 25, 2025

Ulugbek Ergashev
PhD Student, School of Computing
Resource selection in federated search

April 11, 2025

Xinbo Zhao
PhD Student, School of Computing
Urban-Centric Latent Multi-Task Offline Reinforcement Learning with Mask-Empowered Reward Learning


2024

November 15, 2024* 

Naman Shah Brown

Autonomously Learning World-Model Representations For Eficient Robot Planning
*Co-hosted by Bing-Robotics

November 1, 2024

Monika Roznere
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Underwater Perception: The Troubles of a Simple Underwater Robot

October 25, 2024

Zhaohan Xi
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
From Text to Impact: Large Language Models as Responsible Cross-Disciplinary Copilots

September 27, 2024

Nitish Kumar Panigrahy
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Network

September 20, 2024

Nancy Guo
Professor of Empire Innovation, School of Computing
Advancing AI in Precistion Medicine

September 13, 2024

Zain Nasir
MS Student, School of Computing
NetSLAM: Network-Aware Path Planning for Edge-Assisted UAV Swarms


2023

December 1, 2023

Senqi Cao
PhD Student, School of Computing
Uncertanty Quantification in Deep Learning

November 17, 2023

Kerem Arikan
PhD student, School of Computing
Secure Caches for Trusted Execution Environments

November 10, 2023

Zhen Xie
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Optimizing ML and HPC Applications on the Emerging Heterogeneous Systems via Undiscovered Performance Bottlenecks

November 3, 2023

Dali Ismail
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Versatility of Low-Power Wide-Area Network Applications

October 13, 2023

Sabbir Ahmed
PhD student, School of Computing, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
SSDA: Secure Source-Free Domain Adaptation

October 6, 2023

Sujoy Sikdar
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Randomized Mechanisms for Resource Allocation

September 29, 2023

Yan Ding  
PhD student, School of Computing
Task and Motion Planning for Robots in Open Worlds

September 22, 2023

Zongpai Zhang  
PhD student, School of Computing
Image Registration of Arterial Spin Labeling MRI Using Deep Learning Networks

September 8, 2023

Mingjie Yan  
PhD student, School of Computing
A Performance Study of Confidential VirtualMachines


2020

October 30, 2020

Peter Cavallo
Managing Director, Ernst & Young LLP
Impact of Computer Science on Industry and Employer Trends: What Businesses are Experiencing and Needing

October 22, 2020*

Rajesh Kanna Baskaran

Image Authentication from Perspective of Deep Learning Technique 
*A joint seminar with VIT Chennai

October 8, 2020*

B. Radhika Selvamani
Assistant Professor, Division of Advanced Data Science, VIT Chennai
Knowledge Management and Decision Support Systems forAgriculture 
*A joint seminar with VIT Chennai

September 10, 2020*

Lijun Yin
Suny Distinguished Professor, School of Computing
Computational Modeling of Human Affection and Its Applications
*A joint seminar with Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

February 28, 2020

Matthew Cole
PhD Candidate
Simplex: Repurposing Intel Memory Protection Extensions


2019

November 8, 2019

Junyang Shi
PhD Candidate
Dependable Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks

October 4, 2019

Raffi Khatchadourian
School of Computing
Hunter College
An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams

September 27, 2019

Madhu Mutyam
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Multi-Block Data Compression Techniques for Multi-Core Systems

May 10, 2019

Sean K. Banerjee
Assistant Professor, Clarkson University
Understanding and Using Interactions of People in Real and Virtual Environments

May 3, 2019

Zhiming Shen
CTO, Exotanium Inc.

April 12, 2019

Karthik Kuber
Senior Data Scientist, Royal Bank of Canada
Recent Advances in Machine Learning: A Practitioner’s Perspective

March 29, 2019

Spoorti Doddamani
PhD student, School of Computing
VFresh: Fast and Live Replacement of Hypervisor

March 8, 2019

Anthony Canino
PhD student, School of Computing
Application-Level Energy Accounting with Chappie

March 1, 2019

Xi Peng
Assistant Professor
Toward Robust, Efficient, and Explainable AI: Structural, Model- Oriented Deep Learning

February 22, 2019

Ozgur Kilic
PhD Student, School of Computing
Overcoming Virtualization Overheads for Large-vCPU Virtual Machines

February 8, 2019

Kevin Cheng
PhD Student, School of Computing
Virtualization Support for Bare-Metal Cloud Computing

February 1, 2019

Anh Quach
PhD Student, School of Computing
Debloating Software through Piece-Wise Compilation and Loading


2018

November 16, 2018*

Ankur Vora
PhD student, School of Computing
Enhancing 5G Wireless Communications via Reinforcement and Deep Learning
*Cancelled due to weather

November 9, 2018

Robert "Bob" Wright
Assured Information Security
Advanced Machine Learning Research for Cyber Security

November 2, 2018

Yao Liu
Assistant Professor
Improving Bandwidth-Efficiency of 360-Degree Video Steaming: Two Approaches

October 26, 2018

Diuni Fernando
PhD student, School of Computing
Live Migration Ate my VM: Recovering a Virtual Machine After Migration Failure

October 5, 2018

Seunghee Shin
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Neighborhood-aware address translation for irregular GPU applications

September 21, 2018

Guanhua Yan
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Towards Automation of Cyber Defense: Vulnerability, Malware, and Human

September 7, 2018

Shiqi Zhang
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Knowledge-based Robot Sequential Decision-making under Uncertainty

April 27, 2018

Marcus Pendleton
Cybersecurity Researcher at Air Force Research Laboratory
System Call Anomaly Detection in Multi-Threaded Programs

April 13, 2018

Yongshu Bai
PhD Candidate
A Case for Web Service Bandwidth Reduction on Mobile Devices with Edge-hosted Personal Services

March 26, 2018

Tianming Zhao
PhD Candidate
PPG-based Finger-level Gesture Recognition Leveraging Wearable

March 16, 2018

Mu Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Towards a Timely Causality Analysis for Enterprise Security

March 2, 2018*

Patrick Madden
Associate Professor, School of Computing
Dynamic Programming for the Masses
*Cancelled due to weather

February 16, 2018

David Liu
Associate Professor, School of Computing
Programming Language Support for Sustainable Software

February 9, 2018

Thomas Bartenstein
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Computing
Rate Types for Stream Programs

February 2, 2018

Daniel Townley
PhD Candidate

January 26, 2018

Hui Lu
Assistant Professor
Rethinking Cloud Storage System Software under Multi-Tenancy


2017

November 3, 2017

Atul Pawar
Goldman Sachs
Application of Engineering in Finance

October 6, 2017

Lukasz Ziarek
Assistant Professor
RTDroid: Toward Dynamic Real-Time Systems

September 15, 2017

Anand Seetharam
Assistant Professor
Efficient Scheduling, Routing and Caching in Wireless Networks

September 8, 2017

Arti Ramesh
Assistant Professor
A Probabilistic Approach to Modeling Socio-Behavioral Interactions

September 1, 2017

Yao Liu
Assistant Professor
Bandwidth-efficient 360-degree video streaming: Challenges and Approaches

April 28, 2017

Yifan Zhang
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Improving Cloud Storage Services for Mobile Applications

May 5, 2017

Shuangfei Zhai
PhD Candidate
Generative Adversarial Networks as Variational Training of Energy Based Models

April 7, 2017

Aravind Prakash
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
On the dissection and instrumentation of a commercial Android application

March 24, 2017

Jesse Elwell
Vencore Labs
Runtime Attestation for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds

February 17, 2017

Weiying Dai
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Advancing Brain Functional Imaging in Early Diagnosis and Treatment Therapy

February 10, 2017

Mo Sha
Assistant Professor
Resilient Wireless Sensor Networking in Challenging Environments

February 3, 2017

Yan Wang
Assistant Professor
Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN

January 27, 2017

Dmitry Evtyushkin
PhD Candidate
Securing Systems with Isolated Execution