All Events

Apr 8 - May 8

Wednesday, April 9

Final Defense of Shubhang Kulkarni
Special Seminar: Kazuki Irie, Rethinking Memory & Learning, from Artificial to Natural Intelligence and Back

Special Seminar: Kazuki Irie, "Rethinking Memory & Learning, from Artificial to Natural Intelligence and Back"

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89686164842?pwd=rO3pomyNYh0fbucSlhxGtdgEx8S2zW.1

Final Defense of David Smith

Final Defense of David Smith

Siebel Center 3102

Final Defense of Suyu Ge

Final Defense of Suyu Ge

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/5329980157?pwd=ZjllOURDL21XdHN5Y3l6MWU5UkhMQT09

Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Thursday, April 10

Final Defense of David Zheng

Final Defense of David Zheng

Siebel Center 3102

Friday, April 11

Fireside chat with Vilas Dhar: AI and data for the greater good
MiV Seminar:  Jakob Arend -  Full-stack support for high-performance neural experimentation
Final Defense of Zhuolin Yang

Final Defense of Zhuolin Yang

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/2530610336?pwd=WXVZYlkreDYyUjRNdFh0Qk1IMURjUT09

Postdoc Social Lunch

Postdoc Social Lunch

Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!

Siebel 4401

Monday, April 14

Special Seminar: Ananya Bhattarcharjee, Adaptive Narrative Interventions for Supporting Wellbeing

Special Seminar: Ananya Bhattarcharjee, "Adaptive Narrative Interventions for Supporting Wellbeing"

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82415616677?pwd=5yb6abq8sUDgTpblLKjYotjvE7MtJQ.1

COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying, A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models

COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying, "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Rex Ying A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models
Graduate Student Townhall: Focus for students in Research Programs (CS MS & PhD)
Graduate Student Townhall: Students in Coursework Programs (MCS and MS Bioinformatics)

Wednesday, April 16

Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken

Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken

https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87649116180?pwd=AdizgS8nu1IxjsU3jD8XHfjhItx3Tg.1

COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Friday, April 18

MiV Seminar: Xiaotian Zhang - topic TBD

MiV Seminar: Xiaotian Zhang - topic TBD

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Postdoc Social Lunch

Postdoc Social Lunch

Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!

Siebel 4401

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Monday, April 21

COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications

COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Wednesday, April 23

Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients Panel Discussion

Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients Panel Discussion

Meet the 2025 class of Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients!

NCSA Auditorium

Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Friday, April 25

2025 Celebration of Excellence

2025 Celebration of Excellence

This event honors Siebel School of Computing and Data Science students, faculty, staff, and alumni for their outstanding accomplishments of the past year.

Illini Union, Illini Room

Postdoc Social Lunch

Postdoc Social Lunch

Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!

Siebel 4401

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Monday, April 28

COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur

COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

2025 Faculty Awards Ceremony

2025 Faculty Awards Ceremony

Campus Instructional Facility | 0035

Tuesday, April 29

IMMERSE Annual Symposium 2025

IMMERSE Annual Symposium 2025

The IMMERSE Symposium - combining immersive technologies, applications and human experience - is a unique meeting to showcase the work of our campus, engage with leaders from academia and industry, foster collaborations and build community to accelerate the era of immersive computing (including AR, VR, MR). Contribute to the program by March 31 and register by April 10.

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Wednesday, April 30

Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Thursday, May 1

Final Defense of Sourav Das

Final Defense of Sourav Das

Siebel Center 2405

Friday, May 2

MiV Seminar:  Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - topic TBD

MiV Seminar: Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - topic TBD

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Postdoc Social Lunch

Postdoc Social Lunch

Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!

Siebel 4401

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato

Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom

Monday, May 5

COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov

COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Wednesday, May 7

Webinar |  Next Generation Multi-View Video Delivery Systems for AR/VR End Devices

Webinar | Next Generation Multi-View Video Delivery Systems for AR/VR End Devices

Join us for the next Research Initiatives Webinar for an overview of Illinois Grainger Engineering's advancements in AR/VR research.

COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies

1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science