January 10:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Regents’ Professor Srinivas Aluru and Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Cherry on their selection as associate deans of the College of Computing! Aluru will serve as senior associate dean and Cherry will serve as associate dean for graduate education. Aluru and Cherry are the first School of CSE faculty to ever serve as associate deans.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow on his election as vice chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG/CSE)! Chow’s two-year term started on Jan. 1, 2025, after serving as the group’s program director.
• Congratulations to School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and CSE joint appointment Regents’ Professor C. David Sherrill on his appointment as interim executive director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)! Sherrill has served as associate director for IDEaS since its founding in 2016, and now steps in for Regents’ Professor Srinivas Aluru who is the new senior associate dean for the College of Computing.
• School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Cherry gave a plenary talk at Dynamics Days US 2025, held Jan. 3-5 in Denver. Cherry presented work on predicting complex spatiotemporal cardiac voltage dynamics using reservoir computing.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Lu Mi gave invited talk on Dec. 16 at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. Mi presented Bridging the Gap between the Structure and Function in the Age of AI.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian chaired four sessions at AIAA SciTech, held Jan. 6-10 in Orlando, Florida. Topics in Qian’s sessions included aerodynamic design optimization, material engineering, design under uncertainty, and  model order reduction and surrogate modeling.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai is a co-organizer of the NSF Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, occurring Jan. 23-24 at Harvard University. The workshop is open to the public for free registration, which is open until Jan. 15.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a recent manuscript on a parsimonious scheme for high-fidelity material inference that cuts the cost of experimentation/simulation by two orders of magnitude. Bryngelson collaborated on the work with University Michigan researchers Zhiren Zhu, Bachir Abeid, and Jonathan Estrada, Brown University researchers Sawyer Remillard and Mauro Rodriguez, and University of Texas at Austin researchers Danila Frolkin and Jin Yang.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Kaan Sancak is first author of a paper accepted for presentation at the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), occurring Feb. 25-March 4 in Philadelphia. School of CSE co-authors include Ph.D. candidate Muhammed Fatih Balin and Professor Ümit Çatalyürek. Sancak’s work was partially done while interning at Meta AI, and collaborators include Zhigang Hua, Jin Fang, Yan Xie, Andrey Malevich, and Bo Long.
• Two papers from School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo’s group has been accepted for presentation at the 29th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2025), occurring April 26-29 in Seoul, South Korea. School of CSE Ph.D. student Jiaqi Luo authored Learning Maximally Spanning Representations Improves Protein Function Annotation. School of CSE Ph.D. student Ziang Li authored Rewiring Protein Sequence and Structure Generative Models to Enhance Protein Stability Prediction.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Lu Mi co-authored two papers accepted for presentation at Cosyne 2025, occurring March 27-30 in Montreal. Mi partnered with MIT collaborators on Presynaptic Input Synchrony at Scale. Mi co-authored Interpretable Netformer to Recover Dynamical Neuronal Connectivity with collaborators at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the University of Washington.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian co-authored a paper published in the journal Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Fulbright visiting Ph.D. student Josie König led the collaboration with her home institution, the University of Potsdam.
• A project from School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang’s group has been selected by Georgia Tech’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO). The project aims to make a MFEM-based plasma shape control solver open-source. A research assistant position is available for the spring semester, ideal for an undergraduate or master's student. If you are interested in fusion energy, open-source software development, and/or scientific computing, please reach out to qtang@gatech.edu for more details.
• A project from School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang’s group has been selected for the 2025 Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The project focuses on kinetic plasma simulations using super-particles.
• HotCSE, the student-run seminar series led by CSE GSA, is seeking speakers for Spring 2025. 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.
• Georgia Tech’s Quantum Computing Association invites students to its intro meeting on Thursday, Jan. 16. The meeting is at 6:30-7:30 p.m. in Van Leer C457. Email zsong300@gatech.edu or rdevkota@gatech.edu with any questions and other inquiries.
• PACE maintenance is scheduled to start at 6:00 a.m., Jan 13, and continue through Jan. 16 at 11:59 p.m. All headnodes and clusters will be unavailable while PACE makes upgrades to improve overall experience.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series restarts on Jan. 17, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host University of Washington Professor Nathan Kutz.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Jan. 22, 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 Jan. 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 Using Containers at PACE workshop on Jan. 24, 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 Jan. 28, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.