Speaker Series

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Developing your Professional Persona - Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Mashfiqui Rabbi and Jule Schatz

• July 7, 2026
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program Community Building: Board Games

• July 7, 2026
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• Siebel Center, room 2405

Summer Research Program Community Building: Kayaking at Sugar Valley

• July 10, 2026
• Friday, All Day
• Sugar Valley Marshall, IN

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Presentation and Other Verbal Communication Skills - Nancy Amato, Ruby Tahboub, Gang Wang

• July 14, 2026
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program Community Building: Brazilian Dinner at Gies Stadium

• July 16, 2026
• Thursday, 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• Gies Stadium

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Preparing a Competitive Application for Graduate School and External Fellowships - Max Fowler, Aishwarya Ganesan and Lana Lazebnik

• July 21, 2026
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program Community Building: Bowling

• July 21, 2026
• Tuesday, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• Illini Union Rec Room

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Siebel School Summer Research Program Symposium

• July 28, 2026
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Siebel Center, Lower Level

Google DeepMind's Anand Rangarajan Talk + Q&A

• August 24, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Siebel 2124

IQUIST Town Hall: IQUIST Director Elizabeth Goldschmidt

• August 25, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Theory Seminar: Andrei Staicu, "Proving Algebraic Independence in Zero-Knowledge."

• August 31, 2026
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Amorphous Defects and Superconducting Control of Scaled Quantum Systems," Bradley Christensen, Physicist, Northrop Grumman

• September 1, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Aleksandra Faust, "The Synthetic Flywheel: Self-Improvement and Simulation in Foundation Models"

• September 2, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Machine Learning Seminar: Sagnik Mukherjee, "Optimization Geometry in LLM post-training."

• September 4, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1302 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "A unifying tool for stabilizer codes beyond the qubit model", Lane Gunderman, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois - Chicago

• September 8, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Machine Learning Seminar Series: Yian Wang, “Unlearning Isn’t Forgetting: Revealing Hidden Leakage in Class Unlearning Evaluations.”

• September 11, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1302 Siebel Center

Theory Seminar Series: Stephen Arndt, "Approximation Algorithms for Matroid-Intersection Coloring with Applications to Rota's Basis Conjecture."

• September 14, 2026
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3403 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "From Logical Spectroscopy to Hardware-Aware qLDPC Compilation," Jong Yeon Lee, Assistant Professor of Physics, UIUC

• September 15, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PL/FM/SE Seminar Series: Adharsh Kamath, "Agent-C: Runtime enforcement for LLM agents."

• September 16, 2026
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Moshe Mahler, "Artist-Driven Design Concepts and Principles."

• September 17, 2026
• Thursday, 3:30 PM
• 3403 Siebel Center

Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Dravyansh Sharma, "New Frontiers for Data-driven Algorithm Design."

• September 18, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM

Jörn Davidsen, University of Calgary

• September 18, 2026
• Friday, 4:15 PM
• 4100 LuMEB

Security and Privacy Seminar Series: Wenhao Zhang, "BitGC made (more)efficient."

• September 18, 2026
• Friday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• 2013 ECEB

Theory Seminar Series: Hanwen Zhang, "Minimum Star Partitions of Simple Polygones in Polynomial Time."

• September 21, 2026
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3403 Siebel Center

CAP Seminar Series: Dr. Nandita Vijaykumar, "Architecting Efficient and Scalable Systems for Physical Intelligence and Visual Computing."

• September 22, 2026
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Zoom

IQUIST Seminar: "Tackling Heterogeneity for Practical Quantum Systems," Kate Smith, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University

• September 22, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PL/FM/SE Seminar Series: Prof. Darko Marinov - ISSTA'26 Papers

• September 23, 2026
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Shm Garanganao Almeda, "The Design of Technology by, and for, Artistic Worlds."

• September 23, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar: Heidi Phillips & Janet Sinn-Hanlon - The Virtual Canine Spay: Creating Multipurpose Reusable Assets for VR and Online Courses

• September 24, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 0216

Machine Learning Seminar: Jeonghwan Kim, "Learning to See, Integrate, and Act: Visual Grounding for Multimodal Foundation Models."

• September 25, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 1302 Siebel Center

Dean Pospisil, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• September 25, 2026
• Friday, 4:15 PM
• 4100 LuMEB

Theory Seminar Series: Dr. Lin An, "Near-Optimal Real-Time Personalization with Simple Transformers."

• September 28, 2026
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3403 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Magnetism: The Two-Way Street Between Quantum Materials and Quantum Hardware," Arnab Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

• September 29, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PL/FM/SE Seminar Series: Shuyang Liu, "Process-Centric Analysis of Agentic Software Systems," and Dr. Darko Marinov, "Re-evaluating Detection of Equivalent Mutants Using LLMs: We Should Properly Measure How Far We Are."

• September 30, 2026
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, "Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System."

• September 30, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Arnav Mishra, "Building an AI-Native Company: Databases, Distributed Systems, and other Founder Stories"

• September 30, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IMMERSE Seminar - Jason Climer - Memories in motion: using mouse virtual reality to probe representational drift

• October 1, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Qixing Huang, "Enforcing 3D Inductive Bias via Network Design and Regularization Losses."

• October 2, 2026
• Friday, 12:00 PM
• CSL B02 Auditorium

Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Yining Hong, "Bridging Mind and World through Embodied Foundation Models."

• October 2, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM

Distinguished DAIS Alumni Speaker Seminar: Dr. Yu Shi, "Scaling Up Recommendation Systems in the Age of AI."

• October 2, 2026
• Friday, 2:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Hao Wang, "Bayesian Deep Learning: From Reliable Neural Networks to Interpretable Foundation Models"

• October 5, 2026
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in a Cavity Vacuum." Ceren Dag, Assistant Professor of Physics, Indiana University

• October 6, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PL/FM/SE Seminar Series: Chentian Wu, "Efficient Meta-Synthesis for Finite-Aspect Checkable Languages."

• October 7, 2026
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar: Ismini Lourentzou - Generative Models for Interactive Worlds

• October 8, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Huaizu Jiang, "Do 3D Vision Models Still Need Geometric Principles?"

• October 9, 2026
• Friday, 12:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Machine Learning Seminar: Debangshu Banerjee, "Formal Constraint-Guided Generative Modeling."

• October 9, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 1302 Siebel Center

Theory Seminar Series: Dr. Sariel Har-Peled, "The Prophet and the Voronoi Diagram."

• October 12, 2026
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3403 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Hybrid Superconducting Photonic Circuits," Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Yale University

• October 13, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PL/FM/SE Seminar Series: Dr. David McAllester, "Understanding Dependent Type Theory."

• October 14, 2026
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center

CS Compiler Seminar: Devansh Jain, "Automatically Generating ML Compiler Backends from Tensor Accelerator ISA Descriptions."

• October 15, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• 0220 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Chen Sun, "Force-Conditioned Video Models as Physical Worlds Models."

• October 16, 2026
• Friday, 12:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Machine Learning Seminar: Yikang Chen and Zhengkang Guan, "Foundation Models for Causal Discovery."

• October 16, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM

Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

• October 16, 2026
• Friday, 4:15 PM
• 4100 LuMEB

Robotics Seminar @ Illinois: Learning, Hierarchies, and Reduced Order Models

• October 16, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

COLLOQUIUM: Yoav Artzi, "Sparks of New Pre-Training"

• October 19, 2026
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Xin (Eric) Wang, "Think, Act, Evolve: Building Self-Improving AI Agents."

• October 21, 2026
• Wednesday, 12:30 PM

PL/FM/SE Seminar Series: Dushyant Bharadwaj, "RuleFlow: Generating Reusable Program Optimizations with LLMs."

• October 21, 2026
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Michelle Jensen, "Starting Where Students Are: Learning & Integrating Computer Security."

• October 21, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

CS Compiler Seminar: Naifeng Zhang, "Semantics Lifting for Legacy Code Modernization and AI-Generated Code Verification."

• October 22, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• 0220 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar - Minjia Zhang: Towards High-Performance and Cost-Effective LLM Inference

• October 22, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Security and Privacy Seminar Series: Dr. Umar Iqbal, "Building Reliable Systems from Unreliable Models."

• October 23, 2026
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• 2013 Electrical and Computing Engineering Building

Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Yaqi Xie, "Compositional Generalization in Long-Horizon Robotics: From Undertstanding to Learning Structure."

• October 23, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM

CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. Prasanth Chatarasi, "Compiler Techniques for Energy-Efficient Dataflow AI Accelerators: Lessons from IBM Spyre."

• October 23, 2026
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 4403 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: Hannah Manetsch, Senior AMO Physicist, Oratomic

• October 27, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IMMERSE Seminar - Deana McDonagh

• October 29, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

IQUIST Seminar: Chong Wang, Research Faculty, Perimeter Institute

• November 3, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Aprita Patra, "The Landscape of Exact Round Complexity in Secure Multi-Party Computation"

• November 4, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Learning Ground State Observables from Quantum Experiments," Kunal Sharma, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

• November 10, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IMMERSE Distinguished Speaker- Barry Silverstein

• November 12, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Haohan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• November 13, 2026
• Friday, 4:15 PM
• 4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building, 1206 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

IQUIST Seminar: "Scanning NV Microscopy for Quantum Materials: From Magnetic Imaging to Nanoscale EPR", Huan Zhao, Eugene Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• November 17, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IMMERSE Seminar - Avinash Gupta

• November 19, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

IQUIST Seminar: Charlotte Bottcher, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University

• December 1, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IMMERSE Seminar - Shenlong Wang: May the Force Be with Your Pixels

• December 3, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

IQUIST Special Seminar: "Organic Molecules and Ultracold Atoms for a Hybrid Network," Jonathan Hood, Purdue University

• December 4, 2026
• Friday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Supercon 1002

COLLOQUIUM: Yilun Du

• January 20, 2027
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Princeton University

• January 22, 2027
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

L. Mahadevan, Harvard University

• April 23, 2027
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute

• April 30, 2027
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

SSCDS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Grad School 101 & Career Paths with MS or PhD

• July 1, 2025
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

SSCDS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Developing Your Professional Persona

• July 8, 2025
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

COLLOQUIUM: Melkior Ornik, "Autonomy at the Frontier: Limited Resources, Complex Missions, Uncertain Environments"

• July 14, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM

SSCDS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Presentation and Other Verbal Communication Skills

• July 15, 2025
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

SSCDS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Preparing a Competitive Application for Grad School & Fellowship Apps

• July 22, 2025
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

DBSP: Incremental Computation on Streams and Its Applications to Databases

• August 18, 2025
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3124

Xujie Si "The Science and Engineering of Autoformalizing Mathematics: A Case Study in Euclidean Geometry"

• August 26, 2025
• Tuesday, 10:30 AM
• 2124 SC

MiV Seminar: Shriya Srinivasan, Harvard University - "Unlocking the Gut's Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics"

• August 29, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

AImpact Seminar: Dr. Jason Hartline, "Regulation of Algorithmic Collusion."

• September 4, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

MiV Seminar: Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zürich - "Adaptive Biomolecular Networks: From Emergent Living Computation to Cybergenetic Cell Therapy"

• September 5, 2025
• Friday, 3:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Theory Seminar: Haotian Jiang, "Beck-Fiala and Koml\'os Bounds Beyond Banaszczyk"

• September 8, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum science and technology with rare earth ions and nano-photonics", Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

• September 9, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Tom Hope, "LLM Systems for Literature-Based Scientific Discovery"

• September 10, 2025
• Wednesday, 2:00 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

On the Brittleness of Evaluation in NLP

• September 10, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:00 PM
• Siebel Center 2405

COLLOQUIUM: Gabi Stanovsky, "On the Brittleness of Evaluation in NLP"

• September 10, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:00 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

When Literacies Collide: Challenges for CS Education in Music and Art

• September 10, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center for Comp Sci

COLLOQUIUM: Roy Schwartz, "On the Secret Language of Large Language Models"

• September 10, 2025
• Wednesday, 4:00 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Zhongtang Luo : "Securing Data Integrity in Modern Overlay Networks with Cryptography: an Integrated Perspective from Theory to Practice"

• September 11, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• SC 0216

IMMERSE Seminar: Growing XR Development at Illinois: Inside the stu/dio

• September 11, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Multiple Covering Constraints: Geometry to Submodularity

• September 15, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

Through the Looking Glass: Semantic Analysis of Neural Networks

• September 16, 2025
• Tuesday, 5:00 PM
• Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3102

IQUIST Seminar: "Building better superconducting qubits", Angela Kou, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

• September 16, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

TAU-UIUC Workshop on AI & Engineering

• September 17, 2025
• Wednesday, All Day
• NCSA, 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL

DAIS Seminar: Dr. Quanquan Gu, "Unleashing the power of variance reduction for training large models."

• September 17, 2025
• Wednesday, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
• 4124 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar - Joshua Danish: Designing for Iterative Sequences of Embodied Learning Activities

• September 18, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Beckman Institute Room 2269 (updated location)

Theory Seminar: Dr. Sidhanth Mohanty, "Explicit Lossless Vertex Exanders."

• September 22, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "New opportunities in quantum simulation with ultrapolar molecules," Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago

• September 23, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IMMERSE Seminar- Colter Wehmeier: Propositional Modeling: Participatory Visualization for the Architectural Digital Humanities

• September 25, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

CS Compiler Seminar: Damitha Lenadora, "GALA: A High Performance Graph Neural Network Acceleration Language and Compiler," and Heng Zhong, "First-Class Verification Dialects for MLIR."

• September 25, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Fabio Ramos, "Diversity in Motion Planning via Parallel Probablistic Inference

• September 26, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Theory Seminar: Dr. Leonardo Nagami Coregliano, "Tamer regularity lemmas and PAC learning theory."

• September 29, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Studying multipartite entanglement through the lens of symmetries," Felix Leditzky, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• September 30, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Prof. Ranjitha Kumar

• September 30, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Mashfiqui Rabbi, "Computational Interventions for Behavior Change."

• October 1, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Zhengyuan Yang, "Post-Training for Long-Horizon Multimodal Reasoning."

• October 2, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM

AImpact Center Seminar: Dr. Kate Donahue, "Opportunities and Challenges in Human-AI Systems."

• October 2, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar- Shuang Zhao: Physics-Based Differentiable and Inverse Rendering

• October 2, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

CS Compiler Seminar: Yifan Zhao, "Neptune: Advanced ML Operator Fusion for Locality and Parallelism on GPUs."

• October 2, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, "Engineering Better Robot Learners: Exploration and Exploitation

• October 3, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Systems Research Mini Workshop: Dr. Jing Liu, "Transparently Enhancing Applications through Operating System Architectures and Mechanisms."

• October 3, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Systems Research Mini Workshop: Xiangpeng Hao, "LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics."

• October 3, 2025
• Friday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Systems Research Mini Workshop: Ao Li, "[Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency Testing Platform for the JVM]."

• October 3, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Theory Seminar: Soumik Ghosh, "Peaked quantum advantage using error correction."

• October 6, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

CAP Seminar: Dr. Brandon Reagen, "Towards Practical Cryptographic Computing."

• October 7, 2025
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum computing and simulation with multimode superconducting random-access memories," Srivatsan Chakram, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University

• October 7, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Vijay Chander

• October 7, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Physics-guided mmWave/sub-THz Wireless Systems: From Energy-Aware PHY Layer to Exotic Beam Shaping

• October 8, 2025
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel Center 2405

Human-Computer Interaction Lightning Talks

• October 8, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar Series: Dr. Katryna Starks, "The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good."

• October 9, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Jieneng Chen, "Towards Generative Worlds for Deeper Reasoning and Informed Embodiment."

• October 9, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• 2244 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar- Katryna Starks - The PLAYlab: Games and Interactive Research for Social Good

• October 9, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

CS Compiler Seminar: Avaljot Singh, "Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers."

• October 9, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

CS Compiler Seminar: Arya Vohra & Leo Seojun Lee, "Mind the Abstraction Gap: Bringing Equality Saturation to Real-World ML Compilers."

• October 9, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Farshid Alambeigi, "Surgineering Using Intelligent and Flexible Robotic Systems."

• October 10, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Systems Research Seminar Series: Dr. Bogdan "Bo" Stoica, "Bug finding at the mechanism level."

• October 10, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Dean Pospisil, "Understanding Neural Representations and Inferring How They Are Generated"

• October 13, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Theory Seminar: Nikhil Shagrithaya, "Probabilistic Guarantees to Explicit Constructions: Local Properties of Linear Codes."

• October 13, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Broadband quantum-limited amplification and near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling with superconducting circuits", Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• October 14, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Sudip Chakrabarti

• October 14, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya, "Path to Artificial General Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future"

• October 15, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."

• October 15, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Zhuang Liu, "A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet?"

• October 16, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM

DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""

• October 17, 2025
• Friday, 11:00 AM
• 4124 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Yu She, "Toward Intelligent Manipulation: From Multimodal Sensing to Neural-Symbolic Control."

• October 17, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• 1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory

MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"

• October 17, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Machine Learning Seminar: Jiacheng Lin, "LLMs, RL, and the Rise of Self-Evolving Agents in Real-World Healthcare."

• October 17, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Theory Seminar: Ian Mertz, "How to Reuse Space."

• October 20, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

• October 21, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers

• October 21, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Pedro Lopes, "Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body."

• October 22, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"

• October 22, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Rasoul Mahdavi - "InsPIRe: Communication-efficient PIR with Server-side Preprocessing"

• October 23, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM
• SC 0216

CS Compiler Seminar: Adharsh Kamath and Jai Arora

• October 23, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Machine Learning Seminar: Tianyu Liu, "Pioneering Biological Discoveries with a Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence System."

• October 24, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

Systems Research Seminar Series: Dr. Li Chen, "Heterogeneity-aware Efficient and Adaptive Learning at Clusters and Edges."

• October 24, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani, "Learning the Physical World: Neural Models for Data, Simulation, and Design"

• October 27, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Theory Seminar: Dr. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, "Towards a Theory of Equilibrium in Data Markets."

• October 27, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

• October 28, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing Startup Seminar Series: PhD Student Startup Panel

• October 28, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Shuang Zhao, "Physics-based differentiable and inverse rendering."

• October 29, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Hermann Blum, "Robotic Scene Understanding in the Era of Foundation Models."

• October 30, 2025
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. Charith Mendis, "Agile and evolvable software construction in the era of rapidly evolving hardware accelerator designs."

• October 30, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar- Mingyuan Wu, Lingzhi Zhao, and Klara Nahrstedt: Trinity and miVirtualSeat - Low latency Streaming and Content Distribution in Immersive Contexts

• October 30, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Robotics Seminar: Alexander Smith and Neeloy Chakraborty

• October 31, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• 1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory

Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Haoxiang Wang, "Beyond Diffusion: The Rise of LLM-Native Image Generation."

• October 31, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

COLLOQUIUM: Sarah Lawsky, "Formalization and Rule-Intensive Law"

• November 3, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Theory Seminar: Dr. Daniel Alabi, "Existence of Error-Correcting Codes Imply Privacy Lower Bounds."

• November 3, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "The Quantum Intranet", Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• November 4, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Dr. Mariana Silva, CEO, PrairieLearn

• November 4, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)

AICE Center, NLP Large Group Series: Sewoong Lee, "Sparse Autoencoders: Discoveries, Limitations, and the Bridge Between Experiement and Theory."

• November 5, 2025
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Yisen Wang, "Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Self-Supervised Learning in the Foundation Model Era."

• November 6, 2025
• Thursday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

IMMERSE Distinguished Lecture - Ali Israr: Feeling the Data: Haptics as Information Media in Immersive Environments

• November 6, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. Keshav Pingali, "A Graphical Model for Context-Free Grammar Parsing."

• November 6, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Andrea Bajcsy, "Towards Open World Robot Safety."

• November 7, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Machine Learning Seminar: Dylan Zhang, "Supervision Shall Fit the Model During Supervised Fine-tuning."

• November 7, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Nihar Shah, "Despicable Science? Autonomous AI Scientists and Lotteries for Funding"

• November 10, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Theory Seminar: Weihao Zhu, "Online Disjoint Spanning Trees and Polymatroid Bases."

• November 10, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Hidden time-reversal symmetry in dissipative quantum systems: from exact solutions to engineering many-body entanglement," Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

• November 11, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Rachel Adler, "Designing Accessible Health Technologies for Cancer Survivors with Disabilities"

• November 12, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Manish Raghavan, "AI & the role of heterogeneous information."

• November 13, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar- Dominic Kao: Virtual Futures: Creating Virtual Worlds

• November 13, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

CS Compiler Seminar: Chamika Sudusinghe and Bhavya Prakash Hirani

• November 13, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Wei Wang, "Toward Advanced Autonomy in Complex Aquatic Enviornments."

• November 14, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Ren Wang, "Population-Based Methods for Adversarially Resilient Deep Models."

• November 14, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

Special Theory Seminar: Dr. Thomas Rothvoss, "The Subspace Flatness Conjecture and Faster Integer Programming."

• November 17, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3403 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Dave Zhao, "Representation Learning in Computational Genomics"

• November 17, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• November 18, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Dr. Yongjoo Park, Co-Founder, Keebo: and introducing Lab2Launch

• November 18, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)

Security Seminar: Dr. Emiliano De Cristofaro, "Is Synthetic Data the New Hype?"

• November 19, 2025
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 301 Coordinated Science Lab

Special Seminar: Bin Hu, "Towards Building General-Purpose AI Engineers"

• November 19, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Yaman Yu, "Human-Centered AI Safety: Developing Inclusive Safeguards for At-Risk Users Across Emerging Technologies."

• November 19, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Dr. Abhishek Umrawal, "Trustworthy AI: Causal Control and Intent-Hiding Games in LLMs."

• November 19, 2025
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Avinash Collis, "Measuring the consumer benefits of AI."

• November 20, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Wayne Wu, "Scaling Physical AI via Reality World Simulators."

• November 20, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM

IMMERSE Seminar - Mike Yao: Immersion as a Lens: Using VR to Understand Human Experience

• November 20, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

CS Compiler Seminar: Santosh Nagarakatte, "Correctly Rounded Math Libraries with the RLIBM Approach."

• November 20, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Faizan Tariq, "Interaction-Aware Planning and Decision Making."

• November 21, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Cunjiang Yu, UIUC - "Optoelectronics On and In Tissue for Cardiac Modulation"

• November 21, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Systems Research Seminar Series: Siddhant Ray, "METIS: Fast Quality-Aware RAG Systems with Configuration Adaptation."

• November 21, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

Theory Seminar: Dr. Igor C. Olivera, "Meta-Mathematics of P vs NP."

• December 1, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Joe Jablonski, Co-Founder, Ocient

• December 2, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)

COLLOQUIUM: Shuo Chen, "The Web-Verbs Abstraction -- A Crucial Semantic Layer for A Reliable and Secure Agentic Web"

• December 3, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Karen M. Wickett, "Critical data studies and an ethics of care for data quality."

• December 3, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 1304 Siebel Center

IQUIST Special Seminar: "Floquet engineering qubits and couplers for fast, robust parametric gates," Jacob Repicky, Yale University

• December 3, 2025
• Wednesday, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
• 1002 Supercon

Computer Vision Seminar: Dr. Elliott Wu, "From Pixels to 3D Motion: Modeling the Physical Natural World from Images."

• December 4, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM

CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. John Regehr, "Translation Validation for LLVM's AArch64 and RISC-V Backends."

• December 4, 2025
• Thursday, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Janelle Clark, "Unraveling Haptic Acuity in Human-Robot Partnerships."

• December 5, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• 1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory

Anthony Jack, Case Western Rerserve University - "Ethics of biologically inspired AI - what is most likely to go wrong?"

• December 5, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Machine Learning Seminar: Calvin Xu, "Practical Trustworthy ML with Formal Guarantees."

• December 5, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Special Seminar: Gan Zhang, "History Rhymes: Revolutionizing Weather-Climate Prediction Again with New Computational Tools"

• December 8, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Theory Seminar: Dr. Shaddin Dughmi, "A Combinatorial Lens on Supervised Learning."

• December 8, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

Computing Startup Seminar: Dr. Rajesh Karmani, "Startups are Hard and Non-deterministic: Infinite Paths & Many Accept States."

• December 9, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:30 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Special Seminar: George Vasmatzis, "Personalized Cancer Care: The Critical Role of Data Science in Modern Clinical Practice"

• December 9, 2025
• Tuesday, 2:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Co-Designed Quantum Error Correction," Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

• December 9, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Chi Han, "Opening and Reprogramming The Black-Box of Large Language Models."

• December 10, 2025
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Philip Thomas, "Qualia Optimization: Exploring Mathematical Formulations of AI Experience"

• December 10, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Computer Vision Seminar: Dr. Ankit Goyal, "Towards Robotic Foundation Models via Joint Reasoning of Architecture and Data."."

• December 11, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM

Computer Vision Lunch Series: Dr. Liwei Wang, "Learning from Videos for 3D Spatial Understanding and Interaction."

• December 12, 2025
• Friday, 12:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

CANCELLED: Theory Seminar: Dr. David Heath, "Circut-Based RAM - Constructions and Applications."

• January 26, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering faster and warmer quantum photonic systems," Simeon Bogdanov, UIUC

• January 27, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Jennifer Cromley: "Using ChatGPT for Writing: When does it not harm learning?"

• January 28, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Security and Privacy Seminar: Dr. Chenghong Wang "Resolving the Privacy Performance Tension in Confidential Analytics: From Trusted Execution Enviornments to Oblivious Processing Accelerators."

• January 30, 2026
• Friday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• 2013 Electrical and Computer Engineering Building

Theory Seminar: Dr. Nikhil Bansal, "Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration and Discrepancy."

• February 2, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Designing for Connection: Social-Physical Human–Robot Interaction and Emotionally Intelligent Technology

• February 6, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) Studio 1232

PILOT Seminar: Chunqiu Steven Xia, "Transforming Software Development in the Era of LLMs"

• February 6, 2026
• Friday, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Online

Theory Seminar: Sidharth Iyer, "XOR Lemmas and a Lifting Theorem in Communication Complexity."

• February 9, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

CS Compiler Seminar: Presentation by Ahan Gupta

• February 9, 2026
• Monday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Outlining Parts of the Quantum-Classical Border", Bryan Clark, Associate Professor of Physics, UIUC

• February 10, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PILOT Seminar: Ziqi Zhang, "Hardware-Rooted Secure LLM Systems"

• February 12, 2026
• Thursday, 3:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dashun Wang, "Airplanes for the mind."

• February 12, 2026
• Thursday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 4045 School of Information Sciences

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Sareum Kim, "Designing Living Machines from Dead Matter of Crustacean Exoskeleton."

• February 13, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM

IQUIST Special Seminar: Sam Garratt, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University

• February 13, 2026
• Friday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PILOT Seminar: Yinfang Chen, "Agentic AI for Cloud Reliability"

• February 13, 2026
• Friday, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
• 4124 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Machine Learning Seminar: Ziqi Zhang "Hardware-Rooted Secure LLM System."

• February 13, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

IMMERSE Seminar - Craig Shultz: Building Spatial Haptic Interfaces

• February 13, 2026
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Hong-Xing (Koven) Yu, "Physics-Grounded World Models."

• February 13, 2026
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Theory Seminar: Han Zhao, "Explainable Machine Learning through Efficient Data Attribution."

• February 16, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering atomic networks in crystals," Daniel Shoemaker, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC

• February 17, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

CAP Seminar: Jianming Tong, "FEATHER: A Reconfigurable Accelerator with Data Reordering Support for Low-Cost On-Chip Dataflow Switching."

• February 17, 2026
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Denghui Zhang, "Mechanism Understanding as Prerequisite for Responsible AI"

• February 18, 2026
• Wednesday, 2:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

COLLOQUIUM: Manling Li, "Mechanistic Science of Multimodal Models"

• February 18, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Dr. Sarita Adve, "IMMERSE Center for Immersive Computing: Enabling a New Era of Computing."

• February 18, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

CS Compiler Seminar: Jianming Tong, "Leveraging AI ASICs for Cryptography Acceleration."

• February 19, 2026
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 4403 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Prof. Tucker Hermans, "Learning and Planning with Relational Dynamics Models for Robot Manipulation."

• February 20, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM

MiV Seminar: Bumsoo Han, UIUC - "Information Flow at Biological Interfaces: Microphysiological Models of Neuroinflammation and Cancer Cell Migration"

• February 20, 2026
• Friday, 4:15 PM
• 4100 LuMEB

Machine Learning Seminar: Yuji Zhang "Knowledge is Power, But Power Casts Shadows?"

• February 20, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Bhuwan Dhinga, "Language Models as Epistemic Interfaces"

• February 23, 2026
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Theory Seminar: Rhea Jain, "Fault-Tolerance in Length-Constrained and Buy-at-Bulk Network Design."

• February 23, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: Qian Xu, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, California Technical Institute of Technology

• February 24, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

CSL Student Conference: Prof. Jia-Bin Huang, "Controllable Visual Imagination."

• February 24, 2026
• Tuesday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• CSL B02

COLLOQUIUM: Kai-Wei Chang, "Mathematical Reasoning in Visual Contexts"

• February 25, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Computer Vision Lunch Series: Prof. Jia-Bin Huang, "Effective Visual Communication."

• February 25, 2026
• Wednesday, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Theory Seminar: Arkopal Dutt, "Learning stabilizer structure of quantum states."

• March 2, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center

COLLOQUIUM: Carl Yang, "Expediting Next-Generation AI for Health via KG and LLM Co-Learning"

• March 2, 2026
• Monday, 3:30 PM

CS Compiler Seminar: Bhavya Hirani, "VFlatten: Selective Value-Object Flattening using Hybrid Static and Dynamic Analysis."

• March 2, 2026
• Monday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar Series: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley

• March 3, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Joel Waldfogel, "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?"

• March 5, 2026
• Thursday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
• 4045 School of Information Sciences

IQUIST Special Seminar: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University

• March 5, 2026
• Thursday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Dongho Kang, "Motion Imitation for Adaptive and Lifelike Control of Legged Robots."

• March 6, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM

MiV Seminar: Suyi Li, Virginia Tech - "Folding Intelligent Machines: Exploiting Geometry and Mechanics of Origami to Build Intelligence in the Mechanical Domain"

• March 6, 2026
• Friday, 3:00 PM
• 2005 Mechanical Engineering Lab - MEL (John Deere Pavilion)

Systems Research Seminar: Jiayi (Jane) Chen, "ML for Systems in the Real World: Challenges Beyond Training the Models."

• March 6, 2026
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Emanuele Marconato, "Symbol Grounding in Neuro-Symbolic AI: A Gentle Introduction to Reasoning Shortcuts."."

• March 6, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

IMMERSE Distinguished Lecture - Voicu Popescu: Efficient and Effective Immersive Visual Interfaces Through Viewpoint Generalization

• March 6, 2026
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

Theory Seminar: Kent Quanrud, "Approximating Directed Connectivity in Almost-Linear Time."

• March 9, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 3401 Siebel Center

CS Compiler Seminar: Dushyant Bharadwaj, "RuleFlow: Generating Reusable Optimizations with LLMs."

• March 9, 2026
• Monday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Information on Quantum Matter," Dafei Jin, University of Notre Dame

• March 10, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Kowe Kadoma: "A Human-centered Understanding of Differential Outcomes in AI-Mediated Work Settings."

• March 11, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Wanxin Jin, "Physics as the Backbone of Dexterity: Scalable Contact Simulation, Contact-Aware Control, and Physics-Grounded Learning."

• March 13, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Machine Learning Seminar: "Surgical Machine Unlearning: Decoupling Targets, Diagnosing Fragility, and Latent Intervention."

• March 13, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Theory Seminar: Dr. Jannis Blauth, "A Constant-Factor Approximation for Directed Latency."

• March 23, 2026
• Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

MiV Seminar: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University - "Understanding and implementing biological intelligence through bioinspired and biohybrid robotics"

• March 27, 2026
• Friday, 4:15 PM
• 4100 LuMEB

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Gupta, "Building Generalizable Mobile Manipulation Systems."

• March 27, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 1232 CSL

Machine Learning Seminar: Kumar Kshitij Patel, "When do Score-based Data Valuation Methods Work and Why?"

• March 27, 2026
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

CS Compiler Seminar: Zirui Zhou and Yipeng Xin

• March 30, 2026
• Monday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3102 Siebel Center

Computer Vision Seminar Series: Dr. Ayush Tewari, "Physical Inductive Biases for World Models."

• March 30, 2026
• Monday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 3403 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "The marvelous world of quantum position verification," Henry Yuen, Columbia University

• March 31, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IQUIST Seminar: Dr. Henry Yuen, "The marvelous world of quantum position verification."

• March 31, 2026
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building

COLLOQUIUM: Xifeng Yan, "Adaptive Inference in Large Language Models"

• April 1, 2026
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Navigating AI in Learning and Coding

• April 2, 2026
• Thursday, 5:00 PM
• 1404 Siebel Center for Computer Science

John Langford "Learning Compact World Models (in the pursuit of smarter models)"

• April 3, 2026
• Friday, 3:00 PM
• Sibel Center 4124

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Grad School 101 & Career Paths with MS or PhD

• July 2, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Developing your Professional Persona

• July 9, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Presentation and Other Verbal Communication Skills

• July 16, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Preparing a Competitive Application for Graduate School and External Fellowships

• July 23, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

CS Summer Research Program Poster Session

• July 30, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
• Siebel Atrium

COLLOQUIUM: David Keyes, "Efficient Computation through Tuned Approximation "

• August 9, 2024
• Friday, 12:30 PM
• HYBRID: NCSA 1040 or online

COLLOQUIUM: Yihan Sun, "Scalable Parallel Algorithms"

• August 12, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

COLLOQUIUM: Yan Gu, "Recent Advances in Parallel Algorithm Design"

• August 13, 2024
• Tuesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Special Seminar: Mashfiqui Rabbi, "Computational Interventions for Behavior Change"

• August 22, 2024
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

Fair core imputations in flow games

• August 26, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, 61801

IQUIST Seminar: "Entanglement-enhanced learning of quantum processes at scale," Alireza Seif, Quantum Staff Researcher, IBM

• September 3, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Distinguished Lecture: Casey Fiesler, "Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech"

• September 4, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Corruption-Robust Lipschitz Contextual Search

• September 9, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, room# 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Dong Wang, "Harnessing the Power of Crowd for Human-centric Computing and Information Systems"

• September 9, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Tackling interface challenges for near-surface quantum emitters in diamond," Jennifer Choy, University for Wisconsin - Madison

• September 10, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Jiaqi Ma, "Data Attribution: A Principled Data-Centric Approach for Trustworthy AI"

• September 16, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Exploring selective radiance with trapped atoms on a nanophotonic resonator," Chen-Lung Hung, Purdue University

• September 17, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Bridging the Socio-Technical Gap: Towards Explainable and Responsible AI

• September 18, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 0218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

COLLOQUIUM: Zhiyong Lu, "Navigating Complexity: Opportunities and Risks of AI and Large Language Models in Medicine"

• September 19, 2024
• Thursday, 2:00 PM
• HYBRID: 3124 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Exploring the Implications of AI Tools on the Design Process

• September 20, 2024
• Friday, 1:30 PM
• Siebel School for Computing and Data Sciences, Room 1404

MiV Seminar: Jordi Soriano-Fradera "Neuronal cultures, a fascinating toolbox: from complex systems and neuroengineering to medicine"

• September 20, 2024
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• NCSA Building - Room 1040

COLLOQUIUM: Chenyang Lu, "AI for Health with Wearables"

• September 23, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Full-Stack Quantum Resource Estimation for Materials Science and Quantum Chemistry," Matthew Otten, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• September 24, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Thodoris Lykouris, "Learning to Defer in Content Moderation: The Human-AI Interplay"

• September 25, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Enabling Memory Safety of C Programs using LLMs

• September 27, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 0222 Siebel Center and Zoom

IQUIST Seminar: "Device Independence Day: Using Distributed Entanglement to Achieve a Quantum Advantage," Krister Shalm, University of Colorado Boulder

• October 1, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Danny Halperin, "From Snapping Fixtures to Multi-Robot Coordination: Geometry at the Service of Robotics"

• October 2, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Contemporary Visual Computing for 6G Semantic Communications

• October 3, 2024
• Thursday, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

FM/SE seminar

• October 4, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• CSL Studio 1232

Robotics Seminar @ Illinois: Reducing Wishful Assumptions for Increasing Robustness in Robot Manipulation

• October 4, 2024
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• CSL Studio 1232

AlphaTrans: A Neuro-Symbolic Compositional Approach for Repository-Level Code Translation and Validation

• October 4, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 0222 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Developing quantum technologies through materials design and integration," Joseph Heremans, Argonne National Laboratory

• October 8, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Daniel Kroening "AI Accelerators 101"

• October 9, 2024
• Wednesday, 12:30 PM
• SC 2405

Understanding Online Attention: From Items to Markets

• October 10, 2024
• Thursday, 3:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, room# 2405

Robotics Seminar @ Illinois: Reducing Wishful Assumptions for Increasing Robustness in Robot Manipulation

• October 11, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Horizon-Length Prediction: Advancing Fill-in-the-Middle Capabilities for Code Generation with Lookahead Planning

• October 11, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 0222 Siebel Center and Zoom

IQUIST Seminar: "Subspace-thermal discrete time crystals from phase transitions between different n-tuple discrete time crystals," Tzu Chieh Wei, Stony Brook University

• October 15, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

FM/SE seminar

• October 18, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 0222 Siebel Center and Zoom

COLLOQUIUM: Yihan Sun, "Scalable Parallel Algorithms"

• October 21, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Open Quantum Dynamics and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, " Jong Yeon Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• October 22, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Juggernaut: Efficient Crypto-Agnostic Byzantine Agreement

• October 23, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• SC 3401

Towards Human-Centered Evaluation of Generative Models

• October 23, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 0218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

ROBOTICS SEMINAR: A multi-path approach to making robots useful in the real world, Dr. Lukas Kaul, Toyota Research Institute

• October 25, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM

SmartAxe: Detecting Cross-Chain Vulnerabilities in Bridge Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Static Analysis

• October 25, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 0222 Siebel Center and Zoom

COLLOQUIUM: Yaoyao Liu, "Learning from Imperfect Data: Incremental Learning and Few-shot Learning"

• October 28, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

CS Compiler Seminar: TGLite: A Lightweight Programming Framework for Continuous-Time Temporal Graph Neural Networks

• October 28, 2024
• Monday, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Room 2406 (Siebel)

IQUIST Seminar: "Many-body dynamics in driven-dissipative superconducting quantum circuits," Alex Ruichao Ma, Purdue University

• October 29, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Distinguished Lecture: Per Stenstrom, "Enabling Efficient Memory Systems using Novel Compression Methods"

• October 30, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Experiences in Developing Robotics Solutions in a Startup Company

• November 1, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• CSL Studio 1232

AI-assisted User Intent Formalization for Programs: Problem and Applications

• November 1, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

THEORY SEMINAR: Sudarshan Shyam on "A new lower bound for multi-color discrepancy with applications to fair division, Sudarshan Shyam, Aarhus University

• November 4, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

Distinguished Lecture: Patrick McDaniel, "Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective"

• November 4, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

CS COMPILER SEMINAR: WhiteFox: White-Box Compiler Fuzzing Empowered by Large Language Models

• November 4, 2024
• Monday, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Room 2406 (Siebel)

IQUIST Seminar: "Thin film intermetallics: new structure-types and unconventional superconductivity," Joseph Falson, California Institute of Technology

• November 5, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing in an Ethical Pluriverse: Toward Incorporating Different Voices in Data, Development, and Sustainability

• November 6, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 0218 Siebel Center

Robotics Seminar @ Illinois: The Power of Contraction in Control, Learning, and Beyond: Toward Trustworthy Aerospace and Robotic Autonomy

• November 8, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• CSL Studio 1232

Generating Natural and Effective Unit Test Cases with Large Language Models

• November 8, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

 From Bots to Buddies: Making Conversational Agents More Human-Like via Expert Strategies and Multimodal Commonsense

• November 8, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
• Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main St. Urbana, IL 61801, B02 Auditorium

THEORY SEMINAR: Charlie Carlson, "Sampling Colorings with Markov Chains"

• November 11, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Adrianna Gillman, "Accurate and Efficient Solution Techniques for Helmholtz Problems in Variable Medium"

• November 11, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

CS COMPILER SEMINAR: Ajay Brahmakshatriya, "Democratizing High-Performance DSL Development with BuildIt"

• November 11, 2024
• Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• Room 3124 (Siebel)

IQUIST Seminar: "Thermally stabilized superconductivity and photon kinetics in Josephson junction arrays," Andrew Higginbotham, University of Chicago

• November 12, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Leia Stirling, "Moving, thinking, and wearing an exoskeleton: Examinations of exoskeleton interactions with human information processing"

• November 15, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM

FM/SE seminar Series

• November 15, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 0222 Siebel Center and Zoom

THEORY SEMINAR: Jamie Tucker-Foltz, "Sampling tree-weighted balanced graph partitions in polynomial time"

• November 18, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Michael Loui, "My Career in Computing: From Complexity Theory to Education Research"

• November 18, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Making and measuring quantum matters - some new spins," Yong Chen, Purdue University

• November 19, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

ROBOTICS SEMINAR: Siyi Xu, "Electrical actuation and control of soft fluidic robots: towards wearable and implantable soft robotic systems for daily purposes"

• November 22, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• CSL Studio 1232

Towards Code-Aware Code Models 

• November 22, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

THEORY SEMINAR: Michael A. Forbes, "Approximating Transcendence Degree in Medium Characteristic"

• December 2, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

IQUIST Seminar: "Algebras, CSPs, and Quantum Computing," Hamoon Mousavi, University of California, Berkeley

• December 3, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

FM/SE seminar

• December 6, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• 0222 Siebel Center and Zoom

Teaching Special Seminar: Linh Nguyen, "Effectively Teaching Computer Science Theory: Old and New Challenges"

• December 9, 2024
• Monday, 9:00 AM

THEORY SEMINAR: Abhranil Chatterjee, "Hitting Set Construction for Noncommutative Rational Formulas"

• December 9, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM

CS COMPILER SEMINAR: Shubham Ugare, "SynCode: LLM Generation with Grammar Augmentation"

• December 9, 2024
• Monday, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Room 2406(Siebel)

Teaching Special Seminar: Konstantinos Ameranis, "Consistency, Empathy, Knowledge: Instructor Qualities, Why and How"

• January 22, 2025
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM

Teaching Special Seminar: Harsha Tirumala, "A Holistic Approach to Teaching CS Theory"

• January 24, 2025
• Friday, 9:00 AM

THEORY SEMINAR: Arash Rafiey, "Approximability and In-approximability of H-coloring"

• January 27, 2025
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Meng Jiang, "Lessons Learned from Enhancing Knowledge and Reasoning for (Large) Language Models"

• January 27, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

PILOT Seminar: Paul Krogmeier, "Learning Symbolic Concepts and Domain-specific Languages"

• January 28, 2025
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: Hadiseh Alaeian, Purdue University

• January 28, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Special Seminar: Ram Kesavan, "My Teaching Experience & Scholarship"

• January 29, 2025
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM

Actuated Experience: Interactive ‘Actuated’ Interfaces that Actuate People

• January 29, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Teaching Special Seminar: Yining Liu, "Teaching Discrete Structures at Scale"

• February 3, 2025
• Monday, 9:00 AM

Distinguished Lecture: Ryan O'Donnell, "Wake Up Babe, New Probability Just Dropped"

• February 3, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

IQUIST Seminar | Siebel School Distinguished Lecture Series: Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University

• February 3, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Teaching Special Seminar: Emily Fox, "On Motivation: My Experiences Teaching a Growing Algorithms Course at UTD"

• February 4, 2025
• Tuesday, 9:00 AM

Teaching Special Seminar: Tamara Nelson-Fromm, "Designing Computing Education for the Arts and Sciences"

• February 5, 2025
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM

PILOT Seminar: Xudong Sun, "Improving Reliability of Modern Cloud Systems with Verification in the Loop"

• February 5, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IMMERSE Seminar: Steven Gao, Qinjun Jiang, Jeffrey Liu, Bakshree Mishra, Yihan Pang, Rahul Singh, "ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing"

• February 6, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

IQUIST Seminar: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO, Co-founder, Lightsynq

• February 6, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Robotics Seminar: Girish Krishnan, "Will Soft Robots Survive the Axe?"

• February 7, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• Room 1232

Teaching Special Seminar: Daniel Gonzalez Cedre, "The Role of Language in Discrete Math"

• February 10, 2025
• Monday, 9:00 AM

Teaching Special Seminar: James Perretta, "Feedback Loops: Strategies for Creating Adaptive & Engaging Learning Environments"

• February 11, 2025
• Tuesday, 9:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing & Data Science, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

• February 11, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PILOT Seminar: Chulin Xie, "Improving Trustworthiness in Foundation Models: Assessing, Mitigating, and Analyzing ML Risks"

• February 13, 2025
• Thursday, 9:30 AM

IMMERSE Seminar: Shayan Shayesteh, "Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction Through Immersive and Intelligent User Interfaces"

• February 13, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

Teaching Special Seminar: Anna Evtushenko, "The Networks Class and the Value of Interdisciplinary Courses"

• February 14, 2025
• Friday, 9:00 AM

Gunnar Martinsson "Randomization in computational linear algebra"

• February 14, 2025
• Friday, 11:00 AM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4124

Theory Seminar: Vishnu Narayan, "Fair Division via Quantile Shares"

• February 17, 2025
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

IQUIST Seminar: "Simulatability and Testability of Quantum States through an Algebraic Lens", Dr. Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Future Faculty Fellow and Postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• February 18, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Special Seminar: Mai Elkady, "Reflections on Teaching Computer Science: Experience, Challenges, and Insights"

• February 19, 2025
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM

IMMERSE Seminar: Kristen Schumacher, "Physics Outreach and Instruction through New Technologies (POINT): Using Virtual Reality to Visualize and Teach Gravity"

• February 20, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

IMMERSE Seminar: Kristen Schumacher, "Physics Outreach and Instruction through New Technologies (POINT): Using Virtual Reality to Visualize and Teach Gravity"

• February 20, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

CS Compiler Seminar: Vimarsh Sathia, Compiler Optimizations for Higher-Order Automatic Differentiation

• February 20, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Room 3102 (Siebel)

PILOT Seminar: Sourav Das, "Theory and Practice of Distributed Cryptographic Systems"

• February 21, 2025
• Friday, 10:00 AM
• 2407 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Robotics Seminar: Vatsal Patel, “Mechanically Intelligent Designs for Robot Manipulation”

• February 21, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Theory Seminar: Tomasz Ponitka, "The Panel Complexity of Sortition: Is 12 Angry Men Enough?"

• February 24, 2025
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Kojiro Sho, "Unveiling Urban Visitation Dynamics and Non-linear Relationships with the Built Environment Using Mobile Big Data"

• February 24, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: Joel I Wang, Research Scientist, Engineering Quantum Systems Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• February 25, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Benjamin Marlin, PhD "Machine Learning for Adaptive Interventions"

• February 26, 2025
• Wednesday, 2:00 PM
• CSL Studio- Room 1232 (HCESC - 1206 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL.)

COLLOQUIUM: Fred Kjolstad, "Domain-Specific Software, Hardware, and their Composition"

• February 26, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

John Marshall and Cézanne Charles "Designing More Inclusive Futures Through Participatory Practices"

• February 26, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216

IMMERSE Seminar: Katherine Mimnaugh, "Improving Experience in Virtual Reality: Measuring and Mitigating Cybersickness using Brain Activity" - Parasol Lab

• February 27, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

Theory Seminar: Sariel Har-Peled, "Orthogonal Emptiness Queries for Random Points"

• March 3, 2025
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

Special Seminar: Ritambhara Singh, "Towards Data Integration in Genomics Using Machine Learning"

• March 4, 2025
• Tuesday, 1:30 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum controls and error mitigation from geometric space curves", Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech University

• March 4, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Yizhou Sun, "AI for Science and Engineering: From Simulation to Design"

• March 5, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IMMERSE Seminar: Dan Cermak, "Foundational Elements of UX (User Experience) in VR Development"

• March 6, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

Robotics Seminar: Wenhao Luo, "Harmonizing Safety and Resilience for Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems"

• March 7, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM

PILOT Seminar: Mehrdad Tahmasbi, "Stimulability and Testability of Quantum States through an Algebraic Lens"

• March 7, 2025
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Special Seminar: Chang Xiao, "Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide with Tangible, Ambient and Context-Aware Interaction"

• March 10, 2025
• Monday, 10:00 AM

Theory Seminar: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Expanders in Coding Theory"

• March 10, 2025
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

IQUIST Seminar: "Approximate Unitary k-Designs from Shallow, Low-Communication Circuits", Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

• March 11, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Dominic Kao, "Virtual Futures: Exploring the Horizon"

• March 12, 2025
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

IMMERSE Seminar: Robb Lindgren, "Cultivating Learning with XR Technologies: Immersion, Embodiment, and Perspective-Taking"

• March 13, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405

Robotics Seminar: Dave Cappelleri, "Microrobotics to Agricultural Robots: Robots at Different Length-Scales Interacting with the Environment"

• March 14, 2025
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• CSL Studio Room 1232

THEORY SEMINAR: Vishwa Prakash HV, "EFX Exists for Three Types of Agents"

• March 24, 2025
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Makoto Yamada, "Approximating the 1-Wasserstein Distance: Applications in Self-Supervised Learning and Beyond"

• March 24, 2025
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Towards properties-on-demand in quantum materials", Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

• March 25, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Shirley Xue, "Reimagining Wearable Sensing for Health"

• March 26, 2025
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Charles Leiserson, "Setting a Course for Post-Moore Software Performance"

• March 26, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• NCSA auditorium and online

IMMERSE Seminar: Updates with IMMERSE Assistant Directors

• March 27, 2025
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• School of Information Sciences Room 4045 (614 E. Daniel St)

MiV Seminar: Frithjof Gressman and Ivan Raikov "Efficient multi-objective optimization of neural dynamical systems through joint learning of objectives, constraints and sensitivities"

• March 28, 2025
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

• April 1, 2025
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Amir Yazdanbakhsh, "Co-design for Intelligence: Rethinking Abstractions for Scalable and Adaptive Systems"

• April 2, 2025
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"

• April 2, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Mina Lee "Writing with AI: Capturing Its Influence, Designing Its Future"

• April 2, 2025
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216

Special Seminar: Subigya Nepal, "Leveraging Digital Behavioral Signals for AI-powered Mental Health Assessment, Prediction, and Intervention"

• April 3, 2025
• Thursday, 11:00 AM