June 23, 2023:

• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, GTRI Research Scientist Dr. Bryan Gard, and School of Physics Ph.D. student Zhixin Song won “GTRI IRAD of the Year” for research conducted in collaboration with Georgia Tech faculty. The project focused on hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for solving partial differential equations. 
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and GTRI Research Scientist Dr. Bryan Gard were awarded a DARPA grant titled Quantum Eigensolvers in Fluid-Dynamic Computations and Applications.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar contributed to June 20th’s edition of the newspaper Deccan Chronicle where he discussed challenges and potential solutions facing AI generated fake images, audio, and videos.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group was accepted for publication in July’s edition of The Leading Edge. First authors are postdoctoral researcher Mathias Louboutin and Ph.D. student Ziyi (Francis) Yin.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group was accepted for publication in September’s edition of Computers & Geosciences. Ph.D. student Thomas Grady is the first author.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and collaborators at UCSD published a paper in September’s edition of the Journal of Computational Physics. Their paper discusses simulating electrohydrodynamic flows in viscous drops.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar attended ACM FAcct 2023 as an area chair. The cross-disciplinary conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems occurred June 12-15 in Chicago.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco presented a paper June 7 at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference 2023 held at Georgia Tech. There, he presented research on learned surrogates for geological carbon storage from School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s group.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar was an invited speaker for a fireside chat hosted by the Wharton Business School on June 13. He spoke about large language models, generative AI, and AI use in businesses.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Mikhail Isaev presented Scaling Infrastructure to Support Multi-Trillion Parameter LLM Training June 17 at ASSYST 2023. School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc and NVIDIA researcher Nic McDonald co-author presented at the workshop held during ISCA 2023.  
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian attended the workshop on Scientific Machine Learning held June 18-23 at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Benjamin Cobb presented Distributed-Memory Parallel JointNMF at ICS 2023 held June 21-23 in Orlando, Florida. Co-authors include School of CSE Regents’ Professor and Chair Haesun Park, Professor Rich Vuduc, Ph.D. student Koby Hayashi, and alumni Srinivas Eswar and Ramki Kannan.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson traveled to San Diego this week to give a talk for the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Bryngelson spoke about sub-grid models of cavitation inception and their computation at leadership-class scale.
• A paper by School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai has been accepted for presentation at ICSP 2023. He will present Learning to Optimize with Stochastic Dominance Constraints at the conference held July 24-28 in Davis, California.
• Several papers by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group have been accepted for presentation at the International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy (IMAGE) 2023. The conference will occur Aug. 28 – Sept. 1 in Houston.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation June 27, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 102 workshop June 28, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session June 29, 10:30 – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Pace is hosting an ACCESS GPU Programming using OpenACC workshop June 29, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

June 9, 2023:

• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave a webinar June 6 hosted by OpenACC. There, he shared his group’s work on MFC, an open-source multi-phase flow solver.
• Numerous School of CSE faculty and students presented at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS23), held May 14-18 in Portland, Oregon. CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry presented research and chaired a session on nonlinear dynamics of the heart, which included paper presentations by CSE Ph.D. students Darby Cairns and Max Comstock. Their collaborators included CSE alumnus and postdoctoral researcher Shahrokh Shahi and School of Physics Professor Flavio Fenton. School of CSE Assistant Professor Nisha Chandramoorthy also presented a paper on an algorithm for Bayesian filtering in uniformly hyperbolic dynamics.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen presented a paper at a conference and workshop. First, he presented Derivative-Informed Neural Operator for PDE-Constrained Optimization under Uncertainty at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23) held May 31 – June 3 in Seattle. Then, he presented the paper at Brown University’s Mathematical and Scientific Machine Learning workshop June 5 – 9.
• School of CSE Associate Professor Edmond Chow gave an invited seminar June 6 at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. There, he discussed preconditioning kernel matrices for iterative solvers.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited talk May 25 at Ecole Polytechnique.
• A paper by School of CSE Ph.D. student Agam Shah was accepted as a long paper at ACL 2023, occurring July 9-14 in Toronto. Co-authors include Suvan Paturi and Sudheer Chava in their work that introduces a new financial dataset.
• Two papers by School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai have been accepted to conferences. Dai will present at UAI 2023, held in Pittsburgh July 31 – August 4, and at ICML 2023, occurring July 23 – 29 in Honolulu.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group published two preprints on arXiv. First was a collaborative work with ORNL and GTRI on a lattice-based quantum algorithm for fluid flows, and the second was a strategy for performant simulation of multiphase flows approaching exascale.
• School of CSE students and faculty published on May 26 a joint paper on large language models research. Co-authors include Haotian Sun, Yuchen Zhuang, Lingkai Kong, Bo Dai, and Chao Zhang.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen recently published two papers. First, Chen published Efficient PDE-Constrained optimization under high-dimensional uncertainty using derivative-informed neural operators. Second, Chen published Bayesian model calibration for deblock copolymer thin film self-assembly using power spectrum for microscopy data.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation June 14, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session June 15, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session June 20, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual Optimization 101 workshop June 21, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 101 workshop June 23, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

May 5, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. candidate Fatima Chrit for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation. Chrit is advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and ME Professor Alex Alexeev.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang’s research group for winning awards at the Atlanta Workshop on Single-cell Omics (AWSOME2023). School of CSE Ph.D. student Ziqi Zhang won a best talk award for the group’s work on scDisInFact, and undergraduate student Mihir Bafna won a best poster award for their work on CLARIFY, a work on cell-cell interaction and gene regulatory network refinement from spatially resolved transcriptomics.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar and School of Computer Science Ph.D. student Bing He and Professor Mustaque Ahamad for receiving a best paper nomination at ACM’s International World Wide Web Conference. Their paper introduces MisinfoCorrect, a reinforcement learning-based framework that learns to generate counter-misinformation responses that are polite, factual, text fluent, and relevant.  
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo co-authored a paper published in eLife. Here, he collaborates with computer scientists and neuroscientists that use AI to decode the principal basis of odors, similar to the RGB basis of colors.
• Georgia Tech researchers are part of a team that won an Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative funding award. School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and School of Aerospace Engineering Professor Suresh Menon join collaborators in Combustion of Solid Fuels in High Enthalpy Flow, with PI Greg Young of Virginia Tech.  
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited talk May 5 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. There she presented work on the cost-accuracy trade-off in learning PDE operators with neural networks.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk May 4 at the South Big Data Hub working group on social cybersecurity. There, Kumar presented Advances in AI for Web Integrity, Equity, and Well-Being.
• A School of CSE group paper was presented at ICLR 2023 as a poster presentation. Undergraduate students Qi Zeng and Yash Kothari and Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schäfer presented Competitive Physics Informed Networks at the conference held May 1-5 in Kigali, Rwanda.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk on April 28 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences’ workshop on computational challenges and emerging tools. There, he presented Projected Variational Inference for High-Dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems.  
• A collaborative paper by School of CSE students and faculty has been accepted to ICML 2023, to be held July 23 – 29 in Honolulu. Lingkai Kong, Jiaming Cui, Haotian Sun, Yuchen Zhuang, B. Aditya Prakash, and Chao Zhang all co-author Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Graph Generation.
• Two papers by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar were accepted to ACL 2023. These papers investigate the robustness of large language models and multimodal models.
• A paper by School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group was accepted as a long paper at ACL 2023. Co-authors of DiffusionDB include: Zijie (Jay) Wang, Evan Montoya, David Munechika, Ben Hoover, and Polo Chau.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group was accepted to the Carbon Capture Expo 2023 to be held in Houston June 28-29. Co-authors include: Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix Herrmann.
• epiDAMIK, a workshop at ACM SIGKDD led by School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash and Ph.D. candidate Alexander Rodríguez, is accepting papers on topics relating to data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence within epidemiology and public health. The deadline is May 23.
• PACE maintenance is scheduled to start May 9 at 6:00 a.m. and will extend to May 11 at 11:59 p.m. All headnodes and clusters will be unavailable at that time.
• PACE, in collaboration with ACCESS and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is hosting a free HPC workshop on machine learning and big data May 23-24, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Preregistration is required by noon May 21 at the event website.

April 21, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo for receiving the Amazon Research Award! Luo received the award in the AWS AI area for his title work, “Calibrated and interpretable geometric deep learning for robust drug screening.”
• Congratulations to School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group for receiving an honorable mention award for a paper presented at IMAGE 2022. Authors include Ph.D. Student Ziyi (Francis) Yin, School of CSE alumnus Ali Siahkoohi, and CSE Postdoctoral Scholar Mathias Louboutin.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar appeared as a guest commentator on the AI Podcast with Jay Shah on April 19. There he discussed topics on fixing fake news and misinformation online using robust AI models.
• Chemical sensing research from School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam has been selected from the ideation phase of the NSF Convergence Accelerator program. The goal of the program is to develop energy-efficient and miniaturized biological and chemical sensors building on foundational advances in olfactory sensing and processing technologies.
• Two School of CSE papers were accepted to ISMB 2023, to be held July 23-27 in Lyon, France. A paper on biological network alignment with graph neural networks will be presented by Kerr Ding, a first-year CSE Ph.D. student under Assistant Professor Yunan Luo. Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang’s group will present a paper on cell-cell interaction and gene regulatory refinement from spatially resolved transcriptomics.
• A School of CSE group paper was accepted to ICLR 2023 as a poster presentation. Undergraduate students Qi Zeng and Yash Kothari and Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schäfer will present Competitive Physics Informed Networks at the conference held May 1-5 in Kigali, Rwanda.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai is presenting several papers at two upcoming conferences. First, Dai is presenting two papers at AISTATS 2023, held April 25-27 in Valencia, Spain. Then, Dai co-authors four papers accepted for presentation at ICLR 20233.
• A computer tool develop by School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group was selected for demonstration at the ACM Web Conference to be held April 30 – May 4 in Austin, Texas. WebSHAP helps developers and end-users to explain any ML model anywhere.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung gave two invited talks at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting held April 10-14 in San Francisco. There he presented “Structure Generation in the Representation Space” and “Graph Neural Networks for Materials Chemistry.”
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited seminar talk April 21 at Auburn University’s Department of Mathematics. There he presented “Scalable Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Efficient Data Acquisition.”
• A paper by School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai was accepted for presentation at ISCP 2023 to be held July 24-28 in Davis, California. Here, Dai joins a team of researchers who introduce light-SD, an algorithm that handles general stochastic dominance constraints while maintaining memory and computational efficiency.
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association is hosting weekly meetings Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. located in CCB 340. The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students, all majors are welcome, and no prior experience is needed.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session April 25, 3:00 – 4:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a clusters orientation session May 2, 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session May 4, 10:30 a.m.  – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The College of Computing is hosting its Dean’s New Alumni Celebration for M.S. and Ph.D. Graduates May 4, 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. at Klaus Atrium. Attendees must RSVP by April 24.
• PACE maintenance is scheduled to start May 9 at 6:00 a.m. and will extend to May 11 at 11:59 p.m. All headnodes and clusters will be unavailable at that time.

April 7, 2023:

• School of Assistant Professor Bo Dai began work at Georgia Tech on March 1! Dai, Ph.D. CSE 2018, is an alumnus of CSE and focuses his research on developing principled and practical machine learning techniques for real-world applications. Welcome back to CSE, Bo!
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo for publishing a paper in Science about using AI to discover new functions of proteins. Luo conceived and led the AI model development in the collaborative research with chemists and biologists.
• Congratulations to a group led by ML Ph.D. student Pranav Shetty for publishing a paper in njp Computational Materials. CSE and MSE co-authors include: Chao Zhang, Rampi Ramprasad, Arunkumar Chitteth Rajan, Chris Kuenneth, Sonakshi Gupta, Lakshmi Prerana Panchumarti, and Lauren Holm.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen was published in the Journal of Computational Physics! The paper discusses fast algorithms for large-scale optimal design of self-assembly materials.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer was accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA T&M).
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his research group presented at the International Conference on Multiphase Flow held April 2-7 in Kobe, Japan. There, he, CSE Ph.D. student Anand Radhakrishnan, and undergraduate student Henry Le Berre presented papers on stochastic models for dispersed phase flows and their simulations at scale. Bryngelson also chaired the numerical methods and techniques session.
• School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann gave an invited seminar March 21 at the University of British Columbia as part of the Scientific Computing, Applied, and Industrial Mathematics series. There, he presented an overview of seismic inversion with normalizing flows and surrogate modeling.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited plenary at the MASCOT-NUM 2023 conference held April 3-6 in Le Croisic, France. There she presented a multifidelity Monte Carlo approach to estimating Sobol indices to achieve computational acceleration with guaranteed accuracy.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai has been invited to give two presentations. On April 7, Dai presented at a graduate seminar at CMU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In May, Dai will present Topics at the Intersection of Deep Learning and Computational Nonlinear Control at an AFOSR workshop.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nisha Chandramoorthy will give an invited talk April 14 at an HPC symposium hosted by the Georgia Tech Chapter of Women in HPC.
• A paper by School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai was accepted for presentation at SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23) held May 31 – June 3 in Seattle. There, Dai will present Reinforcement Learning via Fenchel Duality.
• A paper led by the research group under School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann was accepted for presentation at the Medical Imaging with Deep Learning conference to be held July 10-12 in Nashville, Tennessee. CSE co-authors include: Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco, Postdoctoral Scholar Mathia Louboutin, and alumnus Ali Siahkoohi.
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association is hosting weekly meetings Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. located in CCB 340. The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students, all majors are welcome, and no prior experience is needed.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session April 11, 3:00  – 4:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop April 13, 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop April 13, 2:30  – 4:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The Georgia Tech chapter of Women in HPC is hosting an HPC symposium April 14 in Klau 1116 E&W. The symposium welcomes posters for a session where there will be a best poster award. Lunch and parking pass will be provided, and attendees must register by April at the event link here.
• The 32nd Annual College of Computing Awards Luncheon will be April 20 at Klaus Atrium.
• The College of Computing is hosting its Dean’s New Alumni Celebration for M.S. and Ph.D. Graduates May 4, 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. at Klaus Atrium. Attendees must RSVP by April 24.

March 17, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar for receiving the NSF CAREER Award! Kumar will use the award to advance research using machine learning models to detect and correct online misinformation.
• Congratulations to Regents’ Professor C. David Sherrill for receiving the 2023 Charles H. Herty Medal! The American Chemical Society’s Georgia Section presents the annual award to recognize work and service by a chemist in the southeastern U.S.
• Congratulations to School of Physics Professor Flavio Fenton and team members of Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers that received a 2023 Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (CTSA) award! Fenton is a CSE programs faculty, and School of CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry is one of the researchers on the team.Congratulations to School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau for being selected as the recipient of Georgia Tech’s Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award! The award will be formally presented at the Faculty-Staff Honors Lunch on April 21.
• Join us in welcoming Iris Hamilton, the School of CSE’s new Academic Program Coordinator II! Iris comes to CSE after spending ten years with the School of Mathematics.
• Students from School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s research group gave an invited presentation March 7 at the American Physical Society’s monthly meeting. There, CSE Ph.D student Anand Radhakrishnan and CS undergraduate Henry Le Berre presented research on an exascale-ready multiphase flow simulation.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Alexander Rodríguez gave a talk March 9 at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science. There, Rodríguez presented AI for Public Health: Epidemic Forecasting Through a Data-Centric Lens.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang shared examples from her group’s research March 13 at the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre. There, she presented the group’s work on scDisInFact and scMultiSim in a discussion over single cell multi-omics data integration and evaluation.
• School of Aerospace Engineering and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave a virtual presentation March 14 at a postdoctoral seminar hosted by John Hopkins University Department of Applied Mathematics. There, Qian presented work on cost-accuracy tradeoff in learning PDE operators with neural networks.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung will present research March 31 at the 2023 Symposium on Materials Innovations hosted by the Institute for Materials (IMat). There, Fung will share research on using artificial intelligence and machine learning for materials discovery and design.
• A paper by CS Ph.D. student Bing He was selected for presentation at the ACM Web Conference to be held April 30 – May 4 in Austin, Texas. He is advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar and School of CS Professor Mustaque Ahamad who both co-author the paper introducing a counter-misinformation generation model.
• Congratulation to School of CSE Communications Officer I Bryant Wine on his promotion to the rank major in the U.S. Army National Guard!
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association is hosting weekly meetings Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. located in CCB 340. The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students, all majors are welcome, and no prior experience is needed.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation March 22, 1:15 – 3:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session March 23, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session March 28, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• March 30 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. GVU will host Mbali Hlongwane, the founder of Pink Codrs Africa.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation April 4, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering an application of machine learning workshop April 4, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. More information and prerequisites can be found here.
• PACE is hosting a virtual Open Science Grid (OSG) orientation April 5, 1:15 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is requires and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session April 6, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Mark your calendars, the 32nd Annual College of Computing Awards Luncheon will be April 20 at Klaus Atrium!

March 3, 2023:

• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. student Zijie (Jay) Wang for receiving the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship! Wang is one of only 22 young scholars from around the world to receive the fellowship that includes funding, internship opportunities, and mentorship with an Apple researcher.  
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo for having a paper published Feb. 20 in nature computational science! In this publication, Luo uses topology to sense the shape of functional proteins.
• School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau contributed to this article from Business Insider offering tips on getting a job working in artificial intelligence! Check it out!
• Join us Tuesday, March 7, for a CSE distinguished guest lecture from Dr. Doug Kothe! Dr. Kothe is Associate Laboratory Director of Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (ORNL) and Director of Exascale Computing Project (DOE). The lecture begins at 1:00 in TSRB Auditorium, and more details, abstract, and bio can be found here!
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk Feb. 21 to the IEEE Society San Diego chapter. There, he discussed advances in artificial intelligence for web integrity, equity, and well-being.
• Numerous School of CSE faculty and students had research accepted at SIAM CSE23 held Feb. 26 – March 3 in Amsterdam. CSE faculty with accepted papers and posters include: Spencer Bryngelson, Ümit Çatalyürek, Nisha Chandramoorthy, Peng Chen, Elizabeth Cherry, Edmond Chow, Felix Herrmann, Surya Kalidindi, Elizabeth Qian, Florian Schäfer, and Rich Vuduc. School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow is the program director for the SIAM Activity Group in Computational Science and Engineering.
• School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair Elizabeth Cherry was named co-chair of the organizing committee of SIAM CSE25! The 2025 conference will be held March 2 – 7 in Fort Worth, Texas!
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk as part of the School of Mathematics’ seminar series. There, he presented Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Efficient Data Acquisition.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen was accepted to the SIAM Journal on Optimization.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung will present at the 2023 Institute for Materials Symposium on Materials Innovations, held March 31 at the Global Learning Center. There, Fung will present research on artificial intelligence and machine learning for materials discovery and design.
• HotCSE is seeking speakers for Spring 2023! If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please fill out the survey found here. HotCSE seminars occur in-person Wednesdays at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in Coda 1315. Seminars are free and open to the public, and lunch is provided.
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association is hosting weekly meetings Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. located in CCB 340. The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students, all majors are welcome, and no prior experience is needed.
• March 9 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. Mustafa Naseem will give a presentation titled Patriarchy and Health: Designing Technologies for Men to Improve Women’s Health in Pakistan.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 101 workshop March 6, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation March 7, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is hosing its ACCESS Machine Learning and Big Data Workshop March 8 – 9. The workshop is in collaboration with ACCESS and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. March 5 is the registration deadline and details can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session March 9, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session March 14, 2:00  – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• GVU will have a Brown Bag seminar March 16 to recognize 2022 research and engagement grant winners.
• Mark your calendars, the 32nd Annual College of Computing Awards Luncheon will be April 20 at Klaus Atrium!

February 17, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu for being named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow! Wu is one of only two Georgia Tech faculty to receive the fellowship this year and joins a cohort of 124 early-career scholars to receive the competitive and prestigious award.
• Many School of CSE students and faculty presented at AAAI 2023, held Feb. 7 – 14 in Washington, D.C. CSE Ph.D. students include: Alexander Rodriguez, Jiaming Cui, Kartik Sharma, and Yue Yu. CSE faculty include: Victor Fung, B. Aditya Prakash, and Chao Zhang. Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk at for AAAI’s New Faculty Highlights, presenting "Advancements in AI for Web Integrity, Equity, and Well-Being.”
• Research by School of CSE Ph.D. student Max Comstock was featured Feb. 6 in a SIAM News blog. The story features an agent-based simulation Comstock developed that computes individual bird behavior within a flock to investigate how individual behavior affects collective behavior.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer co-authored a paper that propose a variational approximation based on a family of Gaussian distributions whose covariance matrices have sparse inverse Cholesky (SIC) factors.
• HotCSE is seeking speakers for Spring 2023! If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please fill out the survey found here. HotCSE seminars occur in-person Wednesdays at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in Coda 1315. Seminars are free and open to the public, and lunch is provided.
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association is hosting weekly meetings Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. located in CCB 340. The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students, all majors are welcome, and no prior experience is needed.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 102 workshop Feb. 21, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Feb. 22, 1:15 – 3:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• IDEaS will host a presentation Feb. 22, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. as part of its Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar Series. There, Ashok Litwin-Kumar will present Dimension of Activity In Random Recurrent Network Systems. Event details can be found here.
• Feb. 23 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. GVU will host Ph.D. students presenting dissertation research lightning talks.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Feb. 23, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual workshop on application of machine learning Feb. 24, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Feb. 28, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.

February 3, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Conlain Kelly for being named a 2022-2023 Novelis Scholar! Georgia Tech’s Novelis Innovation Hub connects Novelis’ technical and business innovators with Georgia tech students and faculty.
• Nature Communications published a paper by School of CSE Xiuwei Zhang and her group on Jan. 24. Their paper on scMoMat presents an improved method able to integrate single cell multi-omics data under the mosaic integration scenario using matrix tri-factorization.
• School of CSE faculty comprised a large presence at CRUNCH Summit 2023. Professor Rich Vuduc is CRNCH’s co-director in which he opened the summit and chaired two sessions. CSE assistant professors Spencer Bryngelson, Peng Chen, Victor Fung, Nisha Chandramoorthy, and Professor Felix Herrmann formed a panel on scientific artificial intelligence. Assistant Professor Nabil Imam presented his research in computational neuroscience. School of CSE graduate students also shared their research at a poster session during the summit.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson organized a virtual open hackathon that finished Jan. 26. Six teams spanning academia, national laboratories, and industry participated in the event co-sponsored by NVDIA and the OpenACC Organization. Read all about it here.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group published in January’s edition of The Leading Edge. Authors include: Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, and Mathias Louboutin.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen published in SIAM’s Journal on Scientific Computing. A second paper co-authored by Chen was also accepted to be published in the same journal.
• A paper by CS undergraduate student Qi Zeng was accepted for presentation at ICLR 2023. Zeng is advised by School of CSE Assistant Professors Florian Schäfer and Spencer Bryngelson.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen was submitted to the Journal of Computational Physics.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited talk Jan. 27 at the Lawrence Livermore DDPS Webinar discussing competitive optimization methods.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer is invited to give an invited talk Feb. 18 at the Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium.
• HotCSE is seeking speakers for Spring 2023! If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please fill out the survey found here. HotCSE seminars occur in-person Wednesdays at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in Coda 1315. Seminars are free and open to the public, and lunch is provided.
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association is hosting weekly meetings Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. located in CCB 340. The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students, all majors are welcome, and no prior experience is needed.
• Feb. 10 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. GVU will host Marynel Vazquez and her presentation Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction: Towards Robots with Increased Social Context Awareness.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Feb. 14, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual Optimization 101workshop Feb. 15, 10:30 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Python 101workshop Feb. 15, 1:15 – 3:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual OSG Orientation Feb. 16, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 102 workshop Feb. 21, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

January 20, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar for being selected as a 2022 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences! Kumar is one of 185 young scientists from industry, academia, and government selected by NAS for the fellowship.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang and her group for having a paper on scMoMat accepted by Nature Communications!
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo for receiving the Top Reviewer Award for the 2022 Learning on Graphs Conference, held Dec. 9-12!
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson being awarded a subcontract from Sandia National Lab on direct numerical simulation of multiphase flows!
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo gave a presentation at the 2023 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing held Jan. 3-7 in Hawaii. There, he and visiting undergraduate student Jiaqi Luo, presented a paper on contrastive protein representation learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk at the 2022 Indian Symposium on Machine Learning, held Dec. 15 – 17 in Gandhinagar, India. There, he presented Advances in AI for Web Integrity.
• Two papers from School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s research group were accepted and published in the Journal of Computational Physics. One presents subgrid models for cavitation, and the other studies numerical methods for resolve velocity disequilibria.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar was selected to give an invited talk at AAAI 2023 as part of the conference’s New Faculty Highlights program.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson is hosting an HPC OpenHackathon that began Jan. 18 and continues through Jan. 24-26. Brygelson is collaborating with NVIDIA and NASA for the event, which has representation from Georgia Tech’s Schools of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, Physics, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering with Emory University.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group was accepted into January’s edition of The Leading Edge in the special section in seismic resolution. Authors include: Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, and Mathias Louboutin.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar will give an invited talk at the 2023 Social Media and Society in India conference held April 7- 8 at the University of Michigan.
• School of Aerospace Engineering and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian will present work on multifidelity global sensitivity analysis for the James Webb Space Telescope at SIAM CSE 23 held in Amsterdam Feb. 26 – March 3.
• HotCSE is seeking speakers for Spring 2023! If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please fill out the survey found here. HotCSE seminars occur in-person Wednesdays at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in Coda 1315. Seminars are free and open to the public, and lunch is provided.
• January 26 is GVU Center’s next Brown Bag seminar. GVU will host Mary Ann Weitnauer and her presentation An Electrical Engineer’s First Effort at Interactive Multimedia Digital Art.
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association is hosting weekly meetings Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. located in CCB 340. The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students, all majors are welcome, and no prior experience is needed.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Jan. 26, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual Clusters Orientation Jan. 30, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual Linux 101workshop Jan. 30, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) is hosting their 2023 summit Feb. 3 – 4 at the Marcus NanoTechnology Building. CSE Professor Rich Vuduc is co-director of CRNCH where he will give remarks at the summit, and CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam will give an invited presentation.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Feb. 14, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.