Ph.D. Presentations

Dec 2025
- Mon 8
  - 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Wang, Y. (CSE) – Toward Practical and Effective Large Language Model Unlearning
- Tue 9
  - 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Zhu, R. (ECE) – From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures
- Wed 10
  - 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Singh, A. (ECE) – Quantum Key Distribution Using Entangled Pairs with Random Grouping
- Thu 11
  - 9:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Tran, L. (BMEB) – Polysome Shadowing: A Long-Read Sequencing Approach to Study Translation
  - 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Chambers, K. (BMEB) – Using Genomics and Artificial Intelligence to improve prognosis for osteosarcoma patients
  - 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Laffan, N. (CM) – Digital Memory Tools and Their Impact On Collective Remembering
Jan 2026
- Thu 22
  - 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
    
    HSI Equity Talk
- Fri 23
  - 9:30 am – 11:00 am
    
    Hybrid Event
    Sharma, R. (CSE) – Automatically Evolving GPU Libraries for Performance Portable AI Kernels
Feb 2026
- Fri 6
  - 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Johnstone, J. (AM) – The Effects of Asymmetry on Overshooting and Magnetic Pumping from Compressible Convection Zones
  - 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Yang, J. (CSE) – Towards Controllable and Compositional Generative Vision
- Mon 9
  - 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Li, X. (CSE) – Compute-Efficient Scaling of Fully-Open Visual Encoders
- Wed 11
  - 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    
    Centering the Experiences of Undocumented Transfer Students at HSIs: A Brown Bag Presentation by Valeria Alonso Blanco
- Thu 12
  - 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Sambamurthy, A. (AM) – Lazy Diffusion: Resolving Spectral Collapse in Generative Models for Turbulence
- Fri 20
  - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Fredrickson, K. (CSE) – Practical Anonymity with Formal Resistance to Traffic Analysis
- Wed 25
  - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Liu, C. (CSE) – Enabling LLM Unlearning at Inference Time by Decomposing Detection and Intervention
Mar 2026
- Wed 4
  - 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Shields, S. (CM) – Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing
- Thu 5
  - 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Xu, Y. (CSE) – Right Place, Right Time: Accelerating Edge Computation on Modern Heterogeneous SoCs
- Mon 9
  - 7:00 am – 8:00 am
    
    Virtual Event
    Hendawy, M. (CM) – Autonoming Child Online Safety in the Age of AI: From Control to Digital Co-Agency Across Cultures
  - 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Hybrid Event
    Robbins, A. (ECE) – How to train your organoid: goal-directed learning in biological neural networks
  - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    
    Harrison, D. (CS) – Multi-Level Control in Neural Dialogue Generation: Style, Semantics, and Selection through Over-Generation and Ranking

Last modified: Mar 26, 2026