Ph.D. Presentations

May 2026
- Tue 26
  - 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Hybrid Event
    Harsh, B. (CSE) – SUPERSCALAR, MULTIPLE TAKEN BRANCH PREDICTOR
  - 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
  - 9:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Virtual Event
    Tu, H. (CSE) – From Evaluation to Adaptation: Building Reliable Multimodal Intelligence
  - 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Zheng, Y. (CSE) – Extending eBPF Beyond Kernel Extensions: Verified Interfaces for Runtime System Extensibility
- Thu 28
  - 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Oh, S. (CSE) – Efficient Instruction Supply for Datacenter Processors
  - 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    
    Ortiz Barbosa, D. (CSE) – HARDENING AUTONOMOUS CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS AGAINST ADVERSARIAL CONDITIONS
  - 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
  - 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Qureshi, A. (ECE) – ISoC: A Universal Impedance Spectroscopy Instrument-on-Chip in SKY130 130 nm CMOS
  - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Zhu, R. (ECE) – From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures
Jun 2026
- Tue 2
  - 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Sheaves, T. (CSE) – Timing Side-Channels in Commercial ReRAM: Toward ReRAM Pentimenti
  - 1:45 pm – 3:30 pm
    
    Figuerres, S. (ECE) – Ion Transport Mechanisms for Bioelectronics
  - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Bose, S. (ECE) – Learning-Augmented Optimization, Control, and Inference in Modern Power Systems
- Wed 3
  - 9:00 am – 11:00 am
    
    Hybrid Event
    Morey, C. (BMEB) – Innovations in Interdependence: Genomic and Functional Evolution in Invertebrates and Their Intracellular Symbionts
  - 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    
    Featured 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium
    
    FREE
  - 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Xu, D. (BMEB) – Interplay Between CENP-A, DNA Methylation, and H3K9me3 in Defining Centromere Identity
- Thu 4
  - 9:30 am – 11:30 am
    
    Virtual Event
    Xie, Y. (CM) – Crop Circles of Play: Forces and Formation in the Dyadic Magic Circle
  - 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    Hybrid Event
    Kordonowy, S. (CS) – The Role of Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Computation

Last modified: May 18, 2026