Events

  • Apr
    17
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense, Peter Zaffetti
    Homer Babbidge Library
    10:00 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

  • Apr
    20
    Master Thesis Defense, Zixu Shen
    Homer Babbidge Library
    10:00 AM

    Title: SAVIOR : Learning-Based Admission Control for Mitigating Decode-Phase Instability in LLMs

    M.S. Candidate: Zixu Shen

    Major Advisor: Dr. Wei Zhang

    Associate Advisors: Dr. Jinbo Bi & Dr. Jonathan Shihao Ji

  • Apr
    23
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense, Haotian Zhang
    Homer Babbidge Library
    9:30 AM

    Title: Accurate and Efficient Algorithms for Analyzing Large-Scale Single-Cell Data

    Ph.D. Candidate: Haotian Zhang

    Major Advisor: Dr. Yufeng Wu

    Associate Advisors: Dr. Derek Aguiar, Dr. Mukul Bansal

    Date/Time: Thursday, April 23, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

    Location: HBL1947 room and Webex

  • Apr
    24
    Master’s Thesis Defense, Ella Veiner
    Homer Babbidge Library
    2:00 PM

    Title: Bayesian Assembly and Uncertainty Quantification of Polyploid Haplotype Phase

    M.S. Candidate: Ella Veiner

    Major Advisor: Dr. Derek Aguiar
    Associate Advisors: Dr. Alexander Russell, Dr. Yufeng Wu, Dr. Pavel Skums

    Date/Time: Friday, April 24th, 2026, 2:00 pm
    Location: HBL1102 and WebEx

  • Apr
    27
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal, Qing Su
    Homer Babbidge Library
    11:30 AM

    Title: Learning and Knowledge Transfer of Vision Foundation Models

    Ph.D. Candidate: Qing Su

    Major Advisor: Dr. Shihao Ji

    Associate Advisor: Dr. Fei Miao, Dr. Dongjin Song

    Date/Time: Monday, April 27th, 2026, 11:30 am
    Location: HBL1947 room and Webex

  • Apr
    29
    Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal, Jiazheng Li
    ITE Building
    2:00 PM

    Title: Graph Structure Enhanced Large Language Models

    PhD Candidate: Jiazheng Li

    Major Advisor: Dr. Chuxu Zhang

    Associate Advisors:

    Dr. Jonathan Shihao Ji

    Dr. Jundong Li (University of Virginia)

    Date/Time: Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 2:00–3:30 pm

    Location: ITE 201 and Webex