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  • January 2026

  • Thu 22

    HSI Equity Talk

    January 22 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

    Title: Understanding the advising praxes central to student success at a four-year Hispanic-Serving Research Institution Presenter: Dr. Lydia Iyeczohua Zendejas Location: Via Zoom (link provided via RSVP) Abstract: Higher education […]

  • Fri 23

    Sharma, R. (CSE) – Automatically Evolving GPU Libraries for Performance Portable AI Kernels

    January 23 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    GPUs are the workhorses of modern AI, widely deployed and developed by many vendors including Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA. While these GPUs all offer high compute potential, programming […]

  • February 2026

  • Fri 6

    Johnstone, J. (AM) – The Effects of Asymmetry on Overshooting and Magnetic Pumping from Compressible Convection Zones

    February 6 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    We present a comprehensive numerical investigation examining how vertical asymmetry in compressible convection affects overshooting and the transport of large-scale magnetic fields from convective to stably stratified regions. Using three-dimensional […]

  • Fri 6

    Yang, J. (CSE) – Towards Controllable and Compositional Generative Vision

    February 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Diffusion-based text-to-image models can generate impressive images, but they largely treat an image as a single, flat output, which makes precise editing of individual elements difficult. This proposal studies layered […]

  • Mon 9

    Li, X. (CSE) – Compute-Efficient Scaling of Fully-Open Visual Encoders

    February 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
    Virtual Event

    Vision encoders have demonstrated significant performance gains in visual generation and multimodal reasoning. These improvements are primarily attributed to the scaling of data, model capacity, and compute. However, this progress […]

  • Wed 11

    Centering the Experiences of Undocumented Transfer Students at HSIs: A Brown Bag Presentation by Valeria Alonso Blanco

    February 11 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Huerta Center Conference Room (Casa Latina) 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA

      The Huerta Center is proud to present a brown bag presentation by Graduate Student Research Awardee Valeria Alonso Blanco. She will present on a qualitative study that explores how […]

  • Thu 12

    Sambamurthy, A. (AM) – Lazy Diffusion: Resolving Spectral Collapse in Generative Models for Turbulence

    February 12 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Diffusion-based generative models offer a principled framework for probabilistic forecasting, but we show they suffer from a fundamental spectral collapse when applied to turbulent flows. A Fourier-space analysis of the […]

  • Fri 20

    Fredrickson, K. (CSE) – Practical Anonymity with Formal Resistance to Traffic Analysis

    February 20 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Anonymous communication systems hide who is talking to whom, not just what is said. However, existing systems are either vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks–attacks where adversaries observe and correlate the […]

  • Wed 25

    Liu, C. (CSE) – Enabling LLM Unlearning at Inference Time by Decomposing Detection and Intervention

    February 25 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Machine unlearning addresses the “right to be forgotten” under GDPR and enables privacy, copyright, and safety compliance in large language models. Training-based unlearning can remove targeted behavior on benchmarks, but […]

  • March 2026

  • Wed 4

    Shields, S. (CM) – Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing

    March 4 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Merrill College College Office, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Game balance is a term widely used among players, researchers, and designers of games. It is a concept that feels vitally important to how we make and play games – […]

  • Thu 5

    Xu, Y. (CSE) – Right Place, Right Time: Accelerating Edge Computation on Modern Heterogeneous SoCs

    March 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Modern edge computing increasingly relies on heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures. These chips tightly integrate general-purpose CPUs with various specialized accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, and AI accelerators, all under a shared […]

  • Mon 9

    Hendawy, M. (CM) – Autonoming Child Online Safety in the Age of AI: From Control to Digital Co-Agency Across Cultures

    March 9 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
    Virtual Event

    Children’s lives are now inextricably linked with AI-driven digital systems that shape learning, social interaction, and development. This has elevated child online safety to a central concern for families, policymakers, […]

  • Mon 9

    Robbins, A. (ECE) – How to train your organoid: goal-directed learning in biological neural networks

    March 9 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    Hybrid Event

    Artificial neural networks can now learn to play games, control robots, generate language, and solve complicated reasoning tasks, yet we still lack a clear understanding of how to directly guide […]

  • Mon 9

    Harrison, D. (CS) – Multi-Level Control in Neural Dialogue Generation: Style, Semantics, and Selection through Over-Generation and Ranking

    March 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    End-to-end neural generation models have largely displaced the modular architectures that once gave dialogue system designers explicit control over what is said and how it is said. While these models […]

  • Tue 10

    Mashhadi, N. (CSE) – Compositional, Clinically Conditioned, and Confound-Aware Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging

    March 10 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
    Virtual Event

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and a leading cause of dementia. Neuroimaging and clinical biomarkers can reveal early disease changes, but building reliable machine learning models is […]

  • Wed 11

    Yang, S. (CSE) – Beyond Image Editing: Building Generalized Image Customization Systems

    March 11 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Current generative vision models struggle with image customization that requires multi-step reasoning or real-world knowledge. This proposal introduces generalized image customization, enabling systems to execute complex, inferential modifications rather than […]

  • Fri 13

    Fan, Y. (CSE) – Building Human-Centered Multimodal AI Agents

    March 13 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am
    Virtual Event

    As multimodal artificial intelligence systems become increasingly embedded in everyday technology, there is a growing need to design human-centered AI agents that support and amplify human capabilities rather than replace […]

  • Fri 13

    Moghadam, M. (CE) – Constraint-Aware Scene Understanding and Trajectory Generation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicles

    March 13 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are commonly organized as modular pipelines that transform raw sensor measurements into low-level actuation commands through perception, planning, and control. While learning-based methods have achieved state-of-the-art […]

  • Fri 13

    Wang, H. (CSE) – Accelerating RTL Simulation with Specialized Graph Partitioners

    March 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Register transfer level (RTL) simulation is an invaluable tool for developing, debugging, verifying, and validating hardware designs. However, the performance of RTL simulation has long been a limiting factor in […]

  • Mon 16

    Teng, Z. (CM) – Visualizing Player Processes: Towards Design Guidelines for Interactive Process Visualization Tools in Game Analytics

    March 16 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am
    Virtual Event

    Game analysts face a significant challenge in understanding problem-solving and decision-making processes from the vast and complex sequential data generated by modern video games. Existing visualization tools often fail to […]

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