CS 591RS: Research Seminar for First Year Graduate Students (Fall 2026)

Schedule:
  • Time: Monday and Wednesday (03:30 pm - 04:20 pm)
  • Location: Lawson Computer Science Bldg 1142
  • Dates: 10/21/2026 to 12/09/2026
Instructor:

Date Speaker Topic
October 21 Hemanta K. Maji Introduction + Geometry of Cryptography and Hydrodynamics
October 26 Ilia Sucholutsky AI Thought Partners that think with people
October 28 Jason Wu Reinforcement Learning from Designer Feedback
November 02 Ahmed Qureshi Physics-informed Learning for Robot Autonomy
November 04 Daisuke Kihara AI for biological structure modeling and design
November 09 Aniket Kate Preparing for a post-quantum world
November 11 Mahimna Kelkar Economic Security for Decentralized Systems
November 16 Suresh Jagannathan The Role of Programming Languages in an AI Era
November 18 Snehasis Mukhopadhyay Interactive Human-in-the-Loop AI with Applications
November 23 Midhul Vuppalapati "Operating systems" for Modern Datacenters
November 25 --- THANKSGIVING BREAK
November 30 Haoran You Machine Learning System Co-Design
December 02 Anne Carpenter Cell images for disease and drug discovery
December 07 Eugene Spafford What is a science?
December 09 Eugene Spafford Research ethics

Attendance Policy:
  • December 07 and 09 lectures are mandatory
  • Overall, attendance in 12 or more classes is needed to pass