Ph.D. Presentations

Apr 2026
- Fri 24
  - 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Zheng, Z. (STATS) – Semi-Supervised Statistical Learning for Oceanographic Data
May 2026
- Wed 6
  - 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Wang, Q. (STAT) – Modern Statistical Methods for Modeling Spatial and Temporal Processes
- Mon 11
  - 8:00 am – 10:00 am
    
    Hybrid Event
    Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design
- Tue 12
  - 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Chen, Q. (CSE) – New Approximation and Online Algorithms using Novel Combinatorial Structures
- Wed 13
  - 7:00 am – 9:00 am
    
    Virtual Event
    Ehrlich, D. (CM) – Designing Open Microscopy Tools for Neuroscience Research
  - 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    
    Between Forest and City: Stable Isotope Evidence for Anthropogenic Impacts on the Dietary Ecology of the Vulnerable Wied’s Marmosets in Brazil
  - 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Zheng, K. (CSE) – Towards Generalist Embodied World Models: From Neuro-Symbolic Interaction to Self-Evolving 3D World Generation
- Thu 14
  - 9:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Hybrid Event
    Shadmon, R. (CS) – Proximal Byzantine Agreement
- Tue 19
  - 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Paul Pena, D. (CSE) – Efficient Pattern Counting in Sparse Graphs and Hypergraphs
  - 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Bai, G. (BMEB) – Long-read single-molecule chromatin architecture and its role in transcriptome regulation
- Wed 20
  - 8:00 am – 10:00 am
    
    Virtual Event
    Maram, S. (CM) – Scripture To Console: The Nexus between Religion and Digital Play
  - 9:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Hybrid Event
    Lucas, J. (BMEB) – Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity
- Tue 26
  - 7:00 am – 9:00 am
    
    Virtual Event
    Chou, Y. (CM) – Exploring Future AI-Mediated Health Creator–Audience Interactions on Social Media: Transparency, Care, and Accountability
  - 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Castro, S. (CSE) – Agentic AI for Security: Adversarial Foundations for Autonomous Cyber Operations
  - 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Liu, P. (CM) – Reimagining Workplace Concern Reporting: From Emotional Harm to Co-Designed Futures
- Wed 27
  - 9:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Virtual Event
    Baskaran, D. (CM) – More than Just Fun: Exploring Meaningful Play, Communities of Play, and Relatedness of Play
- Thu 28
  - 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Yang, D. (CSE) – Inner Monologue: a Pathway to Human-Like Reasoning for Complex Tasks
- Fri 29
  - 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Zhou, K. (CSE) – Toward Safer Frontier AI: From Evaluation and Red-Teaming to Alignment and Oversight
  - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Zhu, R. (ECE) – From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures
Jun 2026
- Thu 4
  - 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Kordonowy, S. (CS) – The Role of Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Computation

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