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Apr3Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense, Zhili ZhangHomer Babbidge Library1:45 PM
Title: Towards Safe and Robust Reinforcement Learning of Embodied AI
Ph.D. Candidate: Zhili Zhang
Major Advisor: Dr. Fei Miao
Associate Advisors: Dr. Chuxu Zhang, Dr. Jinbo Bi
Date/Time: Friday, April 3rd, 2026, 1:45 pm
Location: HBL 1102 room -
Apr6Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal, Yuan ZhuangHomer Babbidge Library10:30 AM
Title: Learning Good Policies Across Scales
Ph.D. Candidate: Yuan Zhuang
Major Advisor: Dr. Fei Miao
Associate Advisors: Dr. Jonathan Shihao Ji, Dr. Dongjin Song
Date/Time: Monday, April 6th, 2026, 10:30 am
Location: HBL1947 room
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Apr7Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal, Mohamed E. NajdHomer Babbidge Library9:00 AM
Title: Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchain Systems and Applications
Ph.D. Candidate: Mohamed E. Najd
Major Advisor: Dr. Ghada Almashaqbeh
Associate Advisors: Dr. Alexander Russell, Dr. Amir Herzberg
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 7th, 2024, 9:00 am
Location: HBL1947 room
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Apr8Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense, Marjan HosseiniITE Building1:30 PM
Title:Integrating Probabilistic and Algorithmic Graph Approaches for Latent Structure Discovery in DNA and RNA and transcriptomes
Ph.D. Candidate: Marjan Hosseini
Major Advisor: Prof. Derek Aguiar
Associate Advisors: Prof. Ion Mandoiu, Prof. Sheida Nabavi, Prof. Leighton Core
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, 1:30 pm
Location: ITE201 room and Webex -
Apr17Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense, Peter ZaffettiHomer Babbidge Library10:00 AM
Title: Ambient Isotopic Approximations of Bézier Curves Using Combinatorics
Ph. D. Candidate: Peter Zaffetti
Major Advisors: Dr. Thomas Peters, Dr. Horea Ilies
Associate Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Teitelbaum, Dr. Kirk Jordan
Date/Time: Friday, April 17th, 2026, 10:00am
Location: HBL1947 Meeting Room