PhD Student Talks, Department of Computer Science, Spring 2026, Mondays 5-6 pm, location: UB305
| # | Title | Date and Time | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MS Thesis defense: Particle Filter for Indoor Robot Self-Localization on the Toyota HSR | 03/16, 5:00 pm | Christopher Duarte |
| 2 | PhD proposal: Anatomical Mesh Reconstruction of Medical Images | 03/25, 11:00 am | Linchen Qian |
| 3 | Sum of Squares Proofs for Quantum Games | 03/30, 5:00 pm | Kareem Diab |
| 4 | Improving XAI alignment with human relevance using Astrocytes | 03/30, 5:30 pm | Nicolas Echevarrieta-Catalan |
| 5 | HiC4D-SPOT: a spatiotemporal outlier detection tool for Hi-C data | 04/06, 5:30 pm | Bishal Shrestha |
| 6 | Inferring the qualities of protein-RNA models with graph transformers | 04/13, 5:30 pm | Andrew Siciliano |
| 7 | MS Thesis Defense: Synthetic-to-Real Kidney Stone Segmentation for Autonomous Robotic Ureteroscopy Using a High-Fidelity Digital Twin | 04/15, 10:00 am | Julio Ojalvo |
| 8 | Toward Lifelong Perception-Driven Manipulation for Humanoid Robots | 04/20, 5:00 pm | Dewan Tauhid Rahman |
| 9 | Enhancing Vision Transformer explainability using artificial astrocytes | 04/20, 5:30 pm | Katarzyna (Kasia) Pasternak |
| 10 | PhD proposal: Patient-Specific Computational Pipeline for Finite Element Analysis from Medical Imaging | 04/22, 10:30 am | Jiasong Chen |
| 11 | Classification of Artificial Reverberation Algorithms to Semantics using CNNs | 04/27, 5:00 pm | Satyarth Arora |
| 12 | Family Caregiver Education with Robotic Assistance | 04/27, 5:30 pm | Jamie Deng |
| 13 | Cognitive Appraisal Engineering: Steering Multimodal Diffusion Transformers via Lazarus’s Transactional Model | 05/04, 5:00 pm | Shengxin (Tony) Luo |
| 14 | TBA | 05/04, 5:30 pm | Parniyan Farvadin |
| 15 | Retinal Hemodynamic Quantification through Vessel Segmentation and Radon-Based Space–Time Analysis | 05/11/, 5:00pm | Syed Shah |