April 19:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Sejoon Oh on his successful dissertation defense! Advised by Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, Oh defended Accurate and Trustworthy Recommender Systems: Algorithms and Findings on April 12.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Alec Helbling and undergraduate Mihir Bafna won NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards. Helbling studies machine learning in Associate Professor Polo Chau’s group, and Birfna studies computer science in Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang’s group.
• Congratulation to School of CSE M.S. student Grace Driskill for her selection to the 2024 All-ACC Indoor Track and Field Academic Team.
• Suzan Manasreh, an undergraduate student advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s, won a President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA).
• School of CSE J.Z. Liang Early Career Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang gave a keynote talk at the 2024 Atlanta Workshop on Single-cell Omics (AWSOM 2024), held April 11-12 at Georgia Tech. Zhang’s talk discussed her group’s work on scMoMat, scDisInFact, scHybridNMF, and scMultiSim.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam gave an invited talk on April 12 at a NSF Workshop on Co-Design for Neurosymbolic Systems. Imam spoke about randomized algorithms in fruit fly olfaction and participated in a panel discussion.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave a plenary talk at the Southeast Applied and Computational Math Student Workshop, held April 5-6 at Georgia Tech. Chen’s talk discussed his work with derivative-informed neural operators for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty. Ph.D. student Yuan Qiu presented a poster on derivative-enhanced deep operator networks.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Jiaming Cui presented a paper on April 19 at the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24), occurring April 18-20 in Houston. Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash, ML Ph.D. student Vivek Anand and University of Virginia researchers Jack Heavey and Anil Vullikanti co-author the work on heterogenous agent-based models on hypergraphs to capture group interactions.
• School of CSE M.S. student Anshuman Sinha and Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a paper published in March’s edition of Transactions on Machine Learning.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Pavlos Stavrinides presented research on April 16 at the Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods. Advised by School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian, Stavrinides presented Faster Solution of Linear Bayesian Smoothing Problems Using Model Reduction for Ensemble Kalman Inversion.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), occurring Aug. 25-29 in Guangzhou, China.
• Two papers by School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Md Abdur Rahaman have been accepted for presentation at two conferences. One paper will be presented at the Workshop on Domain Adaptation, Explainability, Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis (DEF-AI-MIA) in at the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), occurring June 17-21 in Seattle. The second paper will be presented at the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, occurring July 15-19 in Orlando, Florida.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Muhammed Fatih Balin is developing the dgl.graphbolt Python package in collaboration with AWS Shanghai AI Lab. The package designed for scalable graph neural network (GNN) data loading features a CUDA backend with the recent release of DGL 2.1. Users can learn more how GPUs can accelerate GNN training workloads through the release blog.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is collecting responses its annual survey. The survey audience is any Ph.D. student homed in the School of CSE and CSE Ph.D. program students. The survey requires GT login, all questions are optional, and responses are anonymous. The survey can be found at this link.
• PACE is offering a clusters orientation on April 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 on April 23, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop on April 26, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE is a sponsor of the International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications (Precond24), occurring at Georgia Tech June 10-12. Deadline for submissions is on April 29. Registration is open and scheduled to close on May 4. School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow co-chairs the conference’s program committee and is on the local organization committee. 
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on May 2, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• All PACE managed clusters will be down for maintenance 6:00 a.m. on May 7 to 11:59 p.m. on May 9.

April 5:

• Congratulations to CSE-CEE Ph.D. candidate Michael Thomas on his successful dissertation defense! Advised by Professor John Taylor, Thomas defended Investigating the Built Environment’s Role in Contemporary Public Health Outcomes on March 12.
• School of CSE J.Z. Liang Early Career Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang and her group presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS 2024), held on March 22-24 in Atlanta. Ph.D. student Ziqi Zhang won a best poster award for the group’s work on scDisInFact.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Nand Chandravadia won first place in the junior student category at the College of Computing’s Graduate Poster Symposium on Jan. 26. Advised by Assistant Professor Nabil Imam, Chandravadia received the award for his work on computing with neural assemblies.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Ziyi (Francis) Yin and Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco are first authors of a paper accepted for publication in GEOPHYSICS, a journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Co-authors include CSE alumnus Mathias Louboutin (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2020) and joint EAS/ECE/CSE Professor Felix Herrmann.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited talk on April 4 at Emory University. Qian presented her new paper on multifidelity linear regression as part of the CODES seminar series.  
• School of CSE Assistant professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk on March 23 at the 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society conference (IOS2024). Dai presented Stochastic Gradient Succeeds for Bandits at the conference held in Houston on March 22-24.
• Two papers from School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s group has been accepted for presentation as Tiny Papers at ICLR 2024, occurring May 7-11 in Vienna. Mansi Phute, Alec Helbling, Matthew Hull, and ShengYun (Anthony) Peng partner with researchers at Intel Labs on LLM Self-Defense. Matthew Hull and Zijie (Jay) Wang co-author REVAMP.
• Two papers from School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s group has been accepted as Late-Breaking Work at CHI 2024, occurring May 11-16 in Honolulu. Pratham Mehta, Harsha Karanth, and Haoyang (Alex) Yang partner with researchers from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta on ARCollab. Zijie (Jay) Wang, David Munechika, and Seongmin Lee co-author SuperNOVA.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Muhammed Fatih Balin is developing the dgl.graphbolt Python package in collaboration with AWS Shanghai AI Lab. The package designed for scalable graph neural network (GNN) data loading features a CUDA backend with the recent release of DGL 2.1. Users can learn more how GPUs can accelerate GNN training workloads through the release blog.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (CSE GSA) is hosting an informal dinner meetup on April 5 at 6:00 p.m. in the Coda Collective. Food and drinks will be at each person’s expense.
• The Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW), Latino Organization of Graduate Students (LOGRAS), and Grad Pride invite you to a Graduate Student Dance and Social occurring April 5 at 6:30 p.m. All graduate students are invited to enjoy an evening of dancing and socializing to finish off Graduate Student Appreciation Week 2024. You will also have the opportunity to learn more about graduate organization and grad student-friendly organizations across campus. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on April 9, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering an Introduction to Git workshop on April 12, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues on April 12, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host MIT Professor Youssef Marzouk. 
• PACE is hosting a Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB Workshop on April 16, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The next HotCSE seminar is on April 17 at 12:00 in Coda C1315. School of CSE Ph.D. student Koby Hayashi will present Scaling Constrained Low-rank Approximations.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on April 18, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The final School of CSE seminar series of the semester is on April 19, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host MIT Assistant Professor Adrian Lozano-Duran. 
• The School of CSE is a sponsor of the International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications (Precond24), occurring at Georgia Tech June 10-12. Deadline for submissions is on April 29. Registration is open and scheduled to close on May 4. School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow co-chairs the conference’s program committee and is on the local organization committee. 

March 22:

• Congratulations to School of CSE’s Polo Chau for his promotion to full professor! Chau joins eight other College of Computing faculty who received promotions and tenure.
• School of CSE Assistant professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk at the 58th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2024). Dai presented on foundation models for planning and reasoning at the conference held at Princeton University March 13-15.
• School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash was part of a group that give a virtual workshop on March 20 at the technical symposium for ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). The workshop focused on integrating topics from computational epidemiology into computer science courses.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Ziyi (Francis) Yin is first author of a feasibility study published on March 6 about time-lapse full-waveform permeability inversion. Co-authors include CSE alumnus Mathias Louboutin (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2020), joint Professor Felix Herrmann, and SINTEF Digital Senior Research Scientist Olav Moyner.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Muhammed Fatih Balin is developing the dgl.graphbolt Python package in collaboration with AWS Shanghai AI Lab. The package designed for scalable graph neural network (GNN) data loading features a CUDA backend with the recent release of DGL 2.1. Users can learn more how GPUs can accelerate GNN training workloads through the release blog.
• HotCSE, the School of Computational Science and Engineering’s student-run seminar series, is seeking speakers for Spring 2024. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please complete this form or email CSE GSA at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu. Seminars are free, open to the public, and lunch is provided. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss interesting topics, practice presentations for conferences, and network with colleagues.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop March 25, 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session March 26, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation March 27, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host MIT Ph.D. student Yuzhe Yang March 28 at 11:00 in for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• The School of CSE seminar hosting Harvard University Professor Na Li scheduled for March 29 has been postponed to the fall.
• Grad Student Appreciation Week is April 1-5. Festivities include Monday Funday, Grad Night at Georgia Tech baseball versus Presbyterian, goat yoga, and more. Check out the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education’s website for the full lineup of events!  
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop April 2, 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session April 4, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues April 5, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Carnegie Mellon University Professor Yuejie Chi. 
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session April 9, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering an Optimization 101 workshop April 11, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering an Introduction to Git workshop April 12, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues April 12, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host MIT Professor Youssef Marzouk. 
• The Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW), Latino Organization of Graduate Students (LOGRAS), and Grad Pride invite you to a Graduate Student Dance and Social occurring April 5 at 6:30 p.m. All graduate students are invited to enjoy an evening of dancing and socializing to finish off Graduate Student Appreciation Week 2024. You will also have the opportunity to learn more about graduate organization and grad student-friendly organizations across campus. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE is a sponsor of the International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications (Precond24), occurring at Georgia Tech June 10-12. Deadline for submissions is on April 29. Registration is open and scheduled to close on May 4. School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow co-chairs the conference’s program committee and is on the local organization committee.  

March 8:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Mikhail (Michael) Isaev on his successful dissertation defense! Advised by Professor Rich Vuduc, Isaev defended Methodologies for Co-Designing Supercomputer-Scale Systems and Deep Learning Software on Feb. 20.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang for his selection as an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Sciences. Wang is the first faculty member from Georgia Tech to receive the AI2050 fellowship. He joins 18 other early career researchers in the fellowship’s second cohort, aimed at pursuing bold and multidisciplinary research in AI for society benefit.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Cherry for her selection to the 2024 ACC Academic Leaders Network (ACC ALN) Fellows program. Cherry is one of five Georgia Tech faculty selected this year for the program that fosters cross-institutional networking and collaboration between ACC schools. 
• Tianyi Chu joins School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group as a postdoc. Welcome to CSE, Tianyi!
• The School of CSE held Admitted Ph.D. Visit Day March 7 - 8. The School hosted visitors who met with CSE faculty and students, attended a poster session, and toured campus and Midtown Atlanta.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson joins the faculty at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering via a courtesy appointment (0%).
• Numerous School of CSE faculty, students, and alumni presented at the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ24), held Feb. 27 - March 1 in Trieste, Italy. Assistant Professor Peng Chen and all his Ph.D. students (Jinwoo Go, Sebastian Gutierrez Hernandez, Dingcheng Luo, Yuan Qiu, and Phillip Si) presented talks. Faculty speakers included Nisha Chandramoorthy, Felix Herrmann, Surya Kalidindi, Elizabeth Qian, and Florian Schäfer. Student speakers included Abhinav Gahlot, Conlain Kelly, Qi Luo, and Rafael Orozco. Alumni Srinivas Eswar (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2022) and Mathias Louboutin (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2020) also gave invited talks.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group presented at the 2024 APS March Meeting, held March 3-8 in Minneapolis. The group gave talks on simulating fluid flow on quantum devices and exascale machines, like Frontier.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang is co-author of a paper presented as a poster at AAAI 2024, held Feb. 20-27 in Vancouver. The work proposes a novel uncertainty modeling framework for self-explaining networks.
• Joint work by School of CSE Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco, Assistant Professor Peng Chen and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann has submitted work on probabilistic Bayesian optimal experimental design using conditional normalizing flows.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen’s group has submitted work on derivative-enhanced deep operator networks (DE-DeepONets). Ph.D. student Yuan Qiu and undergraduate student Nolan Bridges author the research that leverages derivative information to enhance prediction accuracy and provide a more accurate approximation of the derivatives.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Muhammed Fatih Balin is developing the dgl.graphbolt Python package in collaboration with AWS Shanghai AI Lab. The package designed for scalable graph neural network (GNN) data loading features a CUDA backend with the recent release of DGL 2.1. Users can learn more how GPUs can accelerate GNN training workloads through the release blog.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is seeking members to participate in activities, plan events, and represent the student body of the School of CSE. Students interested in joining CSE GSA should fill out the interest form or contact by email at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu.  
• HotCSE, the School of Computational Science and Engineering’s student-run seminar series, is seeking speakers for Spring 2024. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please complete this form or email CSE GSA at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu. Seminars are free, open to the public, and lunch is provided. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss interesting topics, practice presentations for conferences, and network with colleagues.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session March 12, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Georgia Tech Giving Day is March 12-13. For the first time ever this year, funds can be raised directly for students in the College of Computing. Consider donating between now and March 13 when the window closes.
• The School of CSE will host Allen Institute for Brain Science Shanahan Foundation Fellow Lu Mi March 14 at 11:00 in for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• PACE is offering an Application of Machine Learning workshop March 15, 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop March 24, 1:00 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session March 26, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues March 29, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Harvard University Professor Na Li. 
• The Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW), Latino Organization of Graduate Students (LOGRAS), and Grad Pride invite you to a Graduate Student Dance and Social occurring April 5 at 6:30 p.m. All graduate students are invited to enjoy an evening of dancing and socializing to finish off Graduate Student Appreciation Week 2024. You will also have the opportunity to learn more about graduate organization and grad student-friendly organizations across campus. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE is a sponsor of the International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications (Precond24), occurring at Georgia Tech June 10-12. Deadline for submissions is April 29. Registration is open and scheduled to close May 4. School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow co-chairs the conference’s program committee and is on the local organization committee.

February 16:

• Research from School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group has moved on to the second round of the Oak Ridge Frontier Hackathon. Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC) scales to 100% of the world’s fastest supercomputer and the group will continue to extract maximum performance through the hackathon.
• The Center for Research into Novel Compute Hierarchies (CRNCH) held its annual summit Feb. 8-9 at the Tech Square Research Building. School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc is co-director of CRNCH in which he helped organize the summit and chaired three sessions. School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and Ph.D. candidate Mikhail Isaev each gave invited talks. Senior Research Scientist Jeff Young is a close colleague to CSE and led organization of the summit, including chairing two sessions and giving a talk.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar was featured in the second episode of “Tech Takes,” a video series produced by Georgia Tech Research. Kumar explains how bad actors and misinformation sources leverage AI in their schemes, and shares tactics to defend against malicious AI and his research that detects, mitigates, and prevent such harm.
• HotCSE, the School of Computational Science and Engineering’s student-run seminar series, is seeking speakers for Spring 2024. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please complete this form or email CSE GSA at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu. Seminars are free, open to the public, and lunch is provided. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss interesting topics, practice presentations for conferences, and network with colleagues.
• The School of CSE will host University of Washington Ph.D. student Tim Dettmers Feb. 20 at 11:00 in for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• HotCSE will host its next seminar of the semester Feb. 21, 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Coda, Room 114. CSE Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco will present Curing Cancer and Solving Climate Change: Practical Experimental Design with Normalizing Flows.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Feb. 22, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host MIT Research Scientist Christopher Cueva Feb. 22 at 11:00 in for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop Feb. 26, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Feb. 27, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host Yu Sun for a faculty candidate seminar March 5 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio will be posted to the School of CSE calendar soon when they become available.
• The School of CSE will host Chirag Agarwal for a faculty candidate seminar March 7 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio will be posted to the School of CSE calendar soon when they become available.
• The Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW), Latino Organization of Graduate Students (LOGRAS), and Grad Pride invite you to a Graduate Student Dance and Social occurring April 5 at 6:30 p.m. All graduate students are invited to enjoy an evening of dancing and socializing to finish off Graduate Student Appreciation Week 2024. You will also have the opportunity to learn more about graduate organization and grad student-friendly organizations across campus. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

February 2:

• School of CSE Ph.D. student Ziqi Zhang first-authored a paper that published in Nature Communications Jan. 30. Co-authors include School of CSE J.Z. Liang Early-Career Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang, ECE Ph.D. student Xinye Zhao, Bioinformatics M.S. student Mehak Bindra, and BME Associate Professor Peng Qiu.
• A joint School of CSE and School of IC paper was accepted for presentation at The Web Conference, occurring May 13-17 in Singapore. CSE Ph.D. student Yiqiao Jin and IC Ph.D. student Mohit Chandra are co first authors of the paper. Co-authors include Ph.D. student Gaurav Verma, postdoctoral scholar Yibo Hu, Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar (all with the School of CSE) and School of IC Associate professor Munmun De Choudhury.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo’s group was accepted to RECOMB 2024, a top conference in computational biology occurring April 29 - May 2 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The paper on contrastive fine-tuning of protein language models was led by Junming Zhao, a visiting undergraduate student in Luo’s group, and co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang.
• ML Ph.D. student Yuchen Zhuang is first author of a paper accepted for presentation at ICLR 2024, occurring May 7-11 in Vienna. He and School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang collaborate on the work with Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Saayan Mitra, Victor Bursztyn, Ryan Rossi, and Somdeb Sarkhel, all from Adobe Research.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group published a new preprint on Jan. 23. Sriharsha Kocherla, an undergraduate student who develops algorithm improvements and exposed parallelization for fluid flows problems on quantum devices with reduced gates, first-authored the work on quantum algorithms.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk Feb. 1 as part of Georgia Tech’s BBISS Seminar Series. Chen discussed using scientific machine learning for predictive digital twins in computer systems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited talk Feb. 1 at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock. Bryngelson presented on solving flow problems with current quantum devices.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk Jan. 23 at H2O.ai’s GenAI Day held in Atlanta. Kumar spoke at the summit’s academic panel on opportunities and challenges of generative AI.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk Jan. 23 at the January member meeting of the International Security Management Association (ISMA) held in Atlanta.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson has received an ONR grant, funding research for three years. Bryngelson’s group will work with Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering Professor Suresh Menon on solid fuel propellants and CFD.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson is co-PI of an ONR-funded Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) grant. Bryngelson joins Suresh Menon (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering) and PI Greg Young (Virginia Tech), and several other co-PIs in the collaboration on solid fuel ramjets and high-enthalpy flows.
• HotCSE, the School of Computational Science and Engineering’s student-run seminar series, is seeking speakers for Spring 2024. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please complete this form or email CSE GSA at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu. Seminars are free, open to the public, and lunch is provided. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss interesting topics, practice presentations for conferences, and network with colleagues.
• The School of CSE will host University of California, Santa Barbara Ph.D. student Yuke Wang Feb. 6 at 11:00 in for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• PACE is offering an Application of Machine Learning workshop Feb. 6, 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop Feb. 7, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• HotCSE will host its first seminar of the semester Feb. 7, 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Coda, Room 114. CSE Ph.D. candidate Michael Buzzy will present Generative Modeling for the Design of Polycrystalline Materials.
• PACE is offering a Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB workshop Feb. 8, 9:00-4:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and must be sent by Feb. 4. Workshop details and registration link can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Feb. 8, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School postdoctoral scholar Haoyu Cheng Feb. 8 at 11:00 in for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• Georgia Tech’s Center for Research into Novel Compute Hierarchies (CRNCH) is hosting its annual summit Feb. 8-9 at the Tech Square Research Building (TSRB). Event details, agenda, and registration can be found on the CRNCH Summit 2024 website.
• The School of CSE will host Rob Webber for a faculty candidate seminar Feb. 13 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio will be posted to the School of CSE calendar soon when they become available.
• The School of CSE will host Qi Tang for a faculty candidate seminar Feb. 15 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio will be posted to the School of CSE calendar soon when they become available.

January 19:

• School of CSE Assistant Professors Kai Wang and Helen Xu are on campus and have begun work at Georgia Tech! Welcome to Atlanta, Kai and Helen!
• A paper first-authored by School of CSE Ph.D. student Dongjin (Jin) Choi won the best paper award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, held Dec. 15-18, 2023, in Sorrento, Italy. School of CSE Regents’ Professor and Chair Haesun Park and GTRI Senior Research Scientist Barry Drake co-authored with Choi, and they partnered with Kaiser Permanente researchers on the paper.
• Nathan Gong, an undergraduate student advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen, won a President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for Spring 2024. He will use the $1,500 award for research on variational inference.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Phillip Si and Sebastian Gutierrez Hernandez, a CSE Ph.D. student in the School of Mathematics, received SIAM Student Travel Awards to present at SIAM UQ24, occurring Feb. 27-March 1 in Trieste, Italy. Si and Gutierrez Hernandez are advised by School of CSE Assistant professor Peng Chen.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian was awarded a Young Investigator Program grant for fiscal year 2024 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research! Qian is one of 48 scientists and researchers to receive the award totaling $21.5 million.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Peng Chen and Raphaël Pestourie partnered with Georgia Tech’s Ebeneser Fanijo and Yan Wang in organizing a workshop on Foundation of Scientific AI for Optimization of Complex Systems. The School of CSE and IDEaS jointly sponsored the workshop held Jan. 16.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang’s group has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Authors include Ph.D. students Ziqi Zhang, Xinya Zhao, and Coulter BME Associate Professor Peng Qiu.
• Joint work between School of CSE Assistant Professors Florian Schäfer and Spencer Bryngelson published in the Journal of Computational Physics. They co-author the work with Ph.D. student Jesse Liu and Associate Professor Ali Mani, both from Stanford University.
• Research led by School of CSE Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie that published in Nature Machine Intelligence was highlighted in an article featured by MIT News.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk Jan. 8 at the ISAIM Special Session on Deep Reinforcement Learning. Dai presented his research in how to make linear Markov decision processes more practical.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk Dec. 19, 2023, at the Workshop on Scientific Computing and Large Data held at the University of South Carolina. Chen presented work on his derivative-informed neural operator for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar will give a talk Jan. 23 at H2O.ai’s GenAI Day held in Atlanta. Kumar will speak at the summit’s academic panel on opportunities and challenges of generative AI.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu is co-author of two papers accepted for presentation at ICLR 2024, occurring May 7-11 in Vienna. Work on forward χ2 divergence based variational importance sampling was accepted as a spotlight paper. Wu co-authors with School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Hannah Choi and Emory University Assistant Professor Chris Rodgers on a poster on one-hot generalized linear model for switching brain state discovery.
• A paper first-authored by School of CSE Ph.D. student Qingru Zhang has been accepted for presentation at ICLR 2024, occurring May 7-11 in Vienna. Co-authors include ISyE Assistant Professor Tuo Zhao, Microsoft Research researchers Chandan Singh, Liyuan Liu, Xiaodong Liu, and Jianfeng Gao, and UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Bin Yu.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Kaan Sancak has been accepted as a poster paper at ICLR 2024, occurring May 7-11 in Vienna. Sancak developed this introduction of a mini-batch graph transformer via virtual connections during his internship at Meta AI.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang is co-author of a paper accepted to AAAI 2024, occurring February 22-25 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Co-authors include Wei Qian, Chenxu Zhao, Yangyi Li, and Mengdi Huai from, Iowa State University and Fenglong Ma from Penn State University.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu has been accepted for presentation at ACM’s Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programing, occurring March 2-6 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Co-authors joining Xu are Brian Wheatman and Randal Burns from John Hopkins University and Aydin Buluç from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• HotCSE, the School of Computational Science and Engineering’s student-run seminar series, is seeking speakers for Spring 2024. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please complete this form or email the CSE GSA at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu. Seminars are free, open to the public, and lunch is provided. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss interesting topics, practice presentations for conferences, and network with colleagues.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop Jan. 22, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE will host Princeton University Ph.D. student Angelina Wang Jan. 23 at 11:00 for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• All PACE managed clusters will be down for maintenance Jan. 23-25.
• The School of CSE will host Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Fellow Jingyan Wang Jan. 25 at 11:00 for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• PACE, in collaboration with ACCESS and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is hosting big data & machine learning workshops Jan. 29 and Jan. 31. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE will host Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student Shuyan Zhou Feb. 1 at 11:00 for a faculty candidate seminar. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• Georgia Tech’s Center for Research into Novel Compute Hierarchies (CRNCH) is hosting its annual summit Feb. 8-9 at the Tech Square Research Building (TSRB). Event details and registration can be found on the CRNCH Summit 2024 website.