March 21:

• Congratulations to Coulter Department of BME and School of CSE joint Regents’ Professor Mark Borodovsky on his selection to receive the 2025 Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award! Borodovsky received the award for his work on GeneMark-ETP.
• Congratulations to School of CSE alumnus Zijie (Jay) Wang on his selection to receive the 2025 Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D! Thesis Award. Wang received the award for his dissertation on democratizing human-centered AI with visual explanation and interactive guidance.
• Congratulations to Kevelyn Cormier on her reclassification from Faculty Support Coordinator I to Faculty Support Coordinator II!
• School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash co-authored of a paper published in npj Digital Medicine. Prakash collaborated with alumnus Jiaming Cui (Ph.D. CS 2024), University of Virginia researchers Jack Heavey, Gragory Madden, Costi Sifri, and Anil Vullikanti, and Johns Hopkins University Associate Professor Eili Klein on the work that proposes NeurABM, a model that identifies and forecasts importation and asymptomatic spreaders of multi-drug resistant organisms in hospital settings.
• School of CSE Ph.D. students Jiaqi Luo and Kerr Ding co-author a paper published in the journal iScience. Advised by Assistant Professor Yunan Luo, the group introduce MosPro, an efficient machine learning algorithm for property-guided protein sequence design.
• School of CSE alumnus Jinwoo Go (Ph.D. CSE 2024) and Assistant Professor Peng Chen wrote a paper published in the journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. The pair propose using derivative-informed neural operators to make Bayesian optimal experimental design more accurate, scalable, and efficient.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group updated their Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC) in a recently submitted manuscript. MFC 5.0 is a many-physics multiphase compressible flow solver that scales ideally on exascale machines, including LLNL El Capitan and OLCF Frontier. Group members involved on the project are Ben Wilfong, Henry Le Berre, Anand Radhakrishnan, Ansh Gupta, Dimitrios Adam, and Haocheng Yu. Collaborators include Diego Vaca-Revelo, , Hyeosu Lee, Jose Rodolfo Chreim, Mirelys Carcana Barbosa, Yanjun Zhang, Esteban Cisneros-Garibay, Aswin Gnanaskaandan, Mauro Rodriguez Jr., Reuben Budiardja, Stephen Abbott, and Tim Colonius.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave two talks at the American Physical Society (APS) Global Physics Summit, held March 16-21 in Anaheim, California. Bryngelson discussed exascale compressible flow simulation on El Capitan and GPU-based compact finite difference algorithms.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave an invited talk on March 21 as part of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar Series at Auburn University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Tang talked about structure-preserving machine learning for learning dynamical systems.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is collecting responses to 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.
• The College of Computing Space Analysis Study is conducted by LS3P, a consultant for Georgia Tech, to provide a framework and roadmap for CoC growth. The purpose of this survey is to collect data on College of Computing spaces to inform design recommendations. All responses will be kept confidential and anonymous. Participation is entirely voluntary. Aggregated results may be shared in reports or publications, but individual responses will not be identifiable. Survey responses will be collected from March 5 to March 26, 2025.
• 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.
• CSE GSA is seeking seminar speakers for Fall 2025. Use this form to submit your recommendation for who the School of CSE should invite as seminar speakers. These can be researchers from any area relevant to the CSE community.
• The Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is hosting speakers for weekly seminars. Visit the seminar schedule for upcoming events and to send research to be accepted for presentation.
• Registration for the inaugural Workshop on AI for Maternal and Child Health (AI4MCH) closes on March 23. School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is co-organizer of the workshop, occurring April 1 at Emory University.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on March 25, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Tech AI at Georgia Tech is hosting Tech AI Fest 2025 on March 26-28 at the Historic Academy of Medicine. Tech AI Fest is Georgia Tech’s premier AI event, bringing together researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and students for three days of discussions on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Registration can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host Texas A&M University Ph.D. candidate Keqiang Yan for a faculty candidate seminar on March 27 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on March 28, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Researcher Eli Chien.
• The SIAM Chapters for Emory University, Georgia State University, and Georgia Tech are hosting a SIAM Student Chapter Conference on March 29 at Emory University’s Math Science Center. The event celebrates the collaborative spirit and shared passion for applied and computational mathematics among the three institutions. There is no registration fee and registration can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering an Applications of Machine Learning workshops on March 31, 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 Caltech Postdoctoral Researcher Jiayun (Peter) Wang for a faculty candidate seminar on April 1 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on April 4, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Harvard University Professor Na Li.
• PACE, in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is hosting a HPC GPU Programming using OpenACC Workshop on April 9. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on April 10, 10:00-11:45 a.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

March 7:

• Congratulations to School of CSE faculty who earned promotions announced on Feb. 28! B. Aditya Prakash will be promoted to full professor. Chao Zhang and Xiuwei Zhang both will be promoted to associate professor with tenure. These promotions represent all three RPT cases up for review and approved this year from the School of CSE.
• Congratulations to School of CSE alumnus Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML 2024) for receiving an ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2025! Advised by School of CSE Professor Polo Chau, Wang will formally accept the award at CHI 2025, occurring April 16 – May 1 in Yokohama, Japan.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Yiqiao (Ahren) Jin for first-authoring a paper that received the Best Paper Award at the Good Data Workshop, held in conjunction with the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025). Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar and co-authoring with Ph.D. student Yiyang (Diana) Wang, UCLA Ph.D. student Yijia Xiao, and William & Mary Assistant Professor Jindong Wang, the group introduce a new dataset of over 2 million pieces of scientific literature spanning 30 years to identify trends and disparities in research.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang has been selected as an oral presentation (top 1.8%) at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Tang collaborated with University of Utah Ph.D. students Shih-Hsin Wang, Yuhao Huang, and Yuan-En Sun, Assistant Professor Bao Wang, and UCLA Assistant Professor Justin Baker on the work that proposes a new graph representation of geometric data with 3D coordinates.
• Georgia Tech’s M.S. Analytics (MSA) degree program has been named a finalist for the UPS Smith Prize, awarded for innovative and effective preparation of students in any area of operations research, management science, analytics, or data science at any level (bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D.). The final award competition is on April 6 and the winner will be announced on April 7. The MSA is one of eight M.S. degree programs the School of CSE participates in. School of CSE Professor Polo Chau is the MSA associate director.
• One-third of the School of CSE’s faculty presented 15 papers at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25), held March 3-7 in Fort Worth, Texas. This year, School of CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry co-chaired the CSE25 organizing committee and Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow served as vice chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering. This news story includes a full listing of School of CSE papers, authors, and links to abstracts.
• School of CSE students and faculty shared work on March 6 at the Open Source and Scientific Software Workshop hosted by the Georgia Tech Open Source Program Office. Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave a talk on harnessing scalable open-source packages for magnetic confinement fusion modeling. Ph.D. student Ben Wilfong, who studies under Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, gave a lightning talk on the group’s work on Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC).
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang and alumnus Alexander Rodríguez (Ph.D. CS 2023) presented a tutorial at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), held Feb. 25 – March 4 in Philadelphia. The pair collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student Ananya Joshi and Google DeepMind Researcher Aparna Taneja on the tutorial on data-driven decision-making in public health and its real-world applications.  
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Max Hawkins presented a poster and lightning talk on Feb. 26 at the Energy HPC Conference held Feb. 25-27 at Rice University. Co-advised by Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and Professor Rich Vuduc, Hawkins’ poster focused on runtime and energy analysis of sparse matrix-vector product hardware execution choice.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Vijay Thakkar presented work on Feb. 14 at Georgia Tech’s CRNCH Summit 2025. Thakkar presented work he has done at NVIDIA on CUTLASS 3.x.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang co-authored a recent manuscript with Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers Allen Alvarez Loya and Daniel Serino on learning stiff dynamics using structure-preserving neural ODEs and exponential integrators. Loya is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow who Tang mentors.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 7th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC 2025), occurring June 4-6 at the University of Michigan. Dai collaborated with Harvard University researchers Yang Hu, Haitong Ma, and Na Li on the work on efficient duple perturbation robustness in low-rank MDPs.
• The advanced computing workshop co-organized by Assistant Professor Qi Tang has placed a call for poster and talk submissions. The workshop will take place June 2-13 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first week’s theme is “Multiphysics Modeling Beyond the Exascale,” followed by “Scale-Bridging in Models of Physical Systems” in the second week. Students and faculty interested in presenting their work can submit abstracts using this form by the March 16 deadline.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is collecting responses to 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.
• The College of Computing Space Analysis Study is conducted by LS3P, a consultant for Georgia Tech, to provide a framework and roadmap for CoC growth. The purpose of this survey is to collect data on College of Computing spaces to inform design recommendations. All responses will be kept confidential and anonymous. Participation is entirely voluntary. Aggregated results may be shared in reports or publications, but individual responses will not be identifiable. Survey responses will be collected from March 5 to March 26, 2025.
• The School of CSE is seeking candidates for its vacant Assistant to the Chair I position. Help spread the word by sharing CAREERS link and reposting on LinkedIn.
• 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.
• CSE GSA is seeking seminar speakers for Fall 2025. Use this form to submit your recommendation for who the School of CSE should invite as seminar speakers. These can be researchers from any area relevant to the CSE community.
• The Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is hosting speakers for weekly seminars. Visit the seminar schedule for upcoming events and to send research to be accepted for presentation.
• The Institute. For Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) is hosting a guest seminar on Tuesday, March 11, 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Coda C1115. Stevens Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Nikhil Muralidhar will give a talk on parsimonious machine learning.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on March 11, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host Caltech Ph.D. candidate Zongyi Li for a faculty candidate seminar on March 13 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• PACE is offering a Using Containers at PACE workshop on March 14, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and even link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on March 14, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Google Engineering Director Guy Lebanon.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on March 20, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Registration for the inaugural Workshop on AI for Maternal and Child Health (AI4MCH) closes on March 23. School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is co-organizer of the workshop, occurring April 1 at Emory University.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on March 25, 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 Texas A&M University Ph.D. candidate Keqiang Yan for a faculty candidate seminar on March 27 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• Tech AI at Georgia Tech is hosting Tech AI Fest 2025 on March 26-28 at the Historic Academy of Medicine. Tech AI Fest is Georgia Tech’s premier AI event, bringing together researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and students for three days of discussions on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Registration can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on March 28, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Researcher Eli Chien.
• The SIAM Chapters for Emory University, Georgia State University, and Georgia Tech are hosting a SIAM Student Chapter Conference on March 29 at Emory University’s Math Science Center. The event celebrates the collaborative spirit and shared passion for applied and computational mathematics among the three institutions. There is no registration fee and registration can be found at the event website.

February 21:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash on his appointment as Associate Chair for Academic Affairs of the School of CSE! Prakash steps into the role previously filled by Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry, who will continue serving as Director of CSE Programs and is the new Associate Dean for Graduate Programs of the College of Computing. Congratulations, Aditya and Elizabeth!
• School of CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek began work serving on the steering committee for SC25, occurring Nov. 16-21 in St. Louis.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Lu Mi has been selected as a spotlight paper (top 5.1%) at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Mi collaborated with researchers from the Allen Institute and the University of Washington on NetFormer, an interpretable model for recovering dynamical connectivity in neuronal population dynamics.
• The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrote an article featuring School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group. The story chronicles how partnerships with collaborators and persistent work led to state-of-the-art performance results on new exascale supercomputers, including OLCF Frontier and LLNL El Capitan. Bryngelson’s group has the first published, academic scaling results on El Capitan, demonstrating ideal weak scaling to 40,000 AMD MI300A APU devices (better than 1 ExaFLOP in seen performance). Bryngelson gratefully acknowledges permission of LLNL, HPE, and AMD for permission to disseminate their results.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is co-organizing the inaugural Workshop on AI for Maternal and Child Health (AI4MCH), occurring April 1 at Emory University. The workshop is accepting abstracts for consideration as presentations at the workshop. Researchers with expertise in AI, public health, medicine, and social sciences are encouraged to submit an abstract by March 2 at the event website.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty are presenting at the Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium on Feb. 24 at Emory University. Assistant Professor Peng Chen will give a plenary talk on derivative-informed neural operators for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty. Ph.D. candidate Grant Bruer, Ph.D. student Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Professor Felix Herrmann, and Professor Edmond Chow will present a poster on seismic monitoring of carbon dioxide using ensemble Kalman filtering.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yuchen Zhuang is first-author of a paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025), occurring April 29-May 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, Zhuang led the work on Hephaestus while interning at Amazon.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Muhammed Fatih Balin first-authored a paper published in the open journal Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). Advised by School of CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek, Balin collaborated with NVIDIA Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer Dominique LaSalle on the work on graph neural networks while interning at NVIDIA.
• School of CSE Postdoctoral Fellow Tianyi Chu first-authored a paper published in the journal Computation Mechanics. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, the pair collaborated with University of Michigan Assistant Professor Jon Estrada on the work on optimal discovery of soft material properties via targeted deformations.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave a virtual seminar on Feb. 14 at Penn State University. Qian presented a new multifidelity training approach for scientific machine learning as part of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Computing Laboratory (ISCL) Seminar Series.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited seminar on Feb. 11 at the Institute of Computational Engineering at the University of Florida. Bryngelson talked about scalable and efficient use of exascale resources for complex flow simulations that link together convoluted algorithms and simulation tools.
• School of CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek served on a panel at the Northwest Database Society (NWDS) Annual Meeting, held Feb. 7 at the University of Washington. The panel focused on graph data management.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Lu Mi gave an invited talk on Feb. 7 at the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), a joint research center between Georgia State University, Georgia Tech, and Emory University. Mi’s talk discussed accelerating scientific discovery in the brain with machine learning.
• 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.
• CSE GSA is seeking seminar speakers for Fall 2025. Use this form to submit your recommendation for who the School of CSE should invite as seminar speakers. These can be researchers from any area relevant to the CSE community.
• The Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is hosting speakers for weekly seminars. Visit the seminar schedule for upcoming events and to send research to be accepted for presentation.
• The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) is hosting a coffee panel on Feb. 24 at 2:00-3:00 p.m. in Coda 1370. The topic this week is The Future of AI.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Feb. 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 Using Containers at PACE workshop on Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and even link can be found at the event website.
• Feb. 25 is the deadline to submit a poster for the Spring 2025 College of Computing Graduate Poster Symposium. The symposium is on Feb. 27 in the Klaus Atrium.
• The School of CSE will host University of California Ph.D. candidate Chenfeng Xu for a faculty candidate seminar on Feb. 27 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on Feb. 28, 12:00 - 1:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Tech AI at Georgia Tech is hosting Tech AI Fest 2025 on March 26-28 at the Historic Academy of Medicine. Tech AI Fest is Georgia Tech’s premier AI event, bringing together researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and students for three days of discussions on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Registration can be found at the event website.
• The SIAM Chapters for Emory University, Georgia State University, and Georgia Tech are hosting a SIAM Student Chapter Conference on March 29 at Emory University’s Math Science Center. The event celebrates the collaborative spirit and shared passion for applied and computational mathematics among the three institutions. There is no registration fee and registration can be found at the event website.

February 7:

• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group attained a one-day dedicated access time (DAT) to use the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The group used the DAT to measure performance of MFC, their flagship open-source solver, and evaluate the readiness of El Capitan before it moves to the classified network.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited seminar on Jan. 28 at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Bryngelson gave a presentation on solving partial differential equations on quantum devices.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung gave an invited talk at EnergyHack, Georgia Tech’s first energy and sustainability hackathon organized by the Energy Club, held Jan. 17-19. Fung’s talk explored the role of AI in advancing sustainable materials.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Haoxin Liu is first-author of a paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025), occurring April 29-May 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Advised by School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash, the group partnered with Salesforce Senior Applied Scientist Chenghao Liu on the work on TimerBed.
• School of CSE alumnus Jiaming Cui (Ph.D. CS 2024) and Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash authored of a paper accepted for presentation at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM25), occurring May 1-3 in Alexandria, Virginia. The group partnered with University of Virginia researchers Arash Haddadan, A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque, and Anil Vullikanti and University of Iowa Assistant Professor Bijaya Adhikari on the work for model selection for estimating unreported Covid-19 infections.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yue Yu first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025), occurring April 29-May 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, Yu led the work on Critic-RM while interning at Meta GenAI.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Kuan Wang first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025), occurring April 29-May 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, the group partnered with Microsoft researchers Yadong Lu, Michael Santacroce, Yeyun Gong, and Yelong Shen on the work that introduces Learning through Communication (LTC) for large language models.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Kerr Ding first-authored a paper selected for presentation in the Highlights Track at the 29th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2025), occurring April 26-29 in Seoul, South Korea. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo, Ding’s paper was one of only ten Highlights selected this year, and comes after the paper was featured in Nature.  
• BME-CSE Ph.D. student Jiajia Xie first-authored a paper published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Advised by BME Associate Professor Cassie Mitchell, the group collaborated with alumnus Raghav Tandon (Ph.D. ML 2024) on the work on network diffusion-constrained variational generative models for investigating the molecular dynamics of brain connectomes under neurodegeneration.
• 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.
• CSE GSA is seeking seminar speakers for Fall 2025. Use this form to submit your recommendation for who the School of CSE should invite as seminar speakers. These can be researchers from any area relevant to the CSE community.
• PACE is offering an Applications of Machine Learning workshop on Feb. 10, 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 Feb. 11, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The first HotCSE seminar of the semester is on Feb. 12 at 12:00 in Coda 230. Ph.D. student Vijay Thakkar will present CUTLASS 3.x: A Microkernal Abstraction for GPU Linear Algebra.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop on Feb. 14, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering an Optimization 101 workshop on Feb. 18, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here. 

January 24:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie on his selection to the Fall 2024 CIOS Honor Roll for outstanding teaching and educational impact. Pestourie was recognized for teaching CSE 8803: Scientific Machine Learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang is serving on the organizing committee of a two-week workshop occurring June 2-13 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The workshop focuses on multi-physics algorithms beyond exascale computing, bringing together leading experts to discuss advancements in the field and explore future directions.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen is co-organizing an Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) workshop, occurring Nov. 10-14. The workshop focuses on reduced order and surrogate modeling for digital twins.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Phillip Si and Assistant Professor Peng Chen authored a paper accepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Their paper introduces Latent-EnSF, a generative model-based method of data assimilation with application toward weather forecasting.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Haotian Sun is first-author of a paperaccepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai, Sun completed the work while interning at Apple, collaborating with Apple AI/ML researchers Tao Lei, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li, Haoshuo Huang, Ruoming Pang, and Nan Du.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yinghao Li is first-author of a paper accepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, Li collaborated with Amazon Web Services researchers Vianne Gao and Mohamad Ali Torkamani on the work that proposes Ensembles of Low-Rank Expert Adapters (ELREA) framework to improve LLM capabilities to handle diverse tasks.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Haorui Wang is co-first author of a paper accepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. School of CSE Ph.D. students Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu, and  Assistant Professor Chao Zhang co-author the paper in collaboration with researchers from the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, MIT, University of Wuppertal, Deep Principle, UCLA, Cornell University, Université de Montréal, and Mila-Quebec AI Institute.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Lu Mi co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Mi collaborated with researchers from the Allen Institute and the University of Washington on NetFormer, an interpretable model for recovering dynamical connectivity in neuronal population dynamics.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Tang collaborated with University of Utah Ph.D. candidate Shih-Hsin Wang and Assistant Professor Bao Wang on the work that proposes a new graph representation of geometric data with 3D coordinates.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), occurring April 24-28 in Singapore. Luo collaborated with Helixon Inc. and University of Washington researchers on the work on GroupBind, a molecular docking framework that simultaneously considers multiple ligands docking of a protein.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang’s group has been accepted for presentation at the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025), occurring May 3-5 in Mai Khao, Thailand. Alumnus Lingkai Kong (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024) led the work with co-authors M.S. student Wenhao Mu and Ph.D. student Haorui Wang. The group collaborated with researchers from Cornell University, Université de Montréal, Mila-Quebec AI Institute, Google DeepMind, and UCSD.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Tianyi Chen is co-first author of a paper accepted for presentation at the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025), occurring May 3-5 in Mai Khao, Thailand. School of CSE Assistant Professors Kai Wang and Bo Dai co-author the work, and the group collaborated with Harvard University researchers Yang Hu and Na Li.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Haotian Sun and Assistant Bo Dai are co-authors of a paper accepted for presentation at the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025), occurring May 3-5 in Mai Khao, Thailand. The group collaborated on the work with Tongzheng Ren from the University of Texas at Austin, Antoine Moulin from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Arthur Gretton from University College London and Google DeepMind.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025), occurring May 3-5 in Mai Khao, Thailand. Dai collaborated on the work with Harvard University researchers Zhaolin Ren, Runyu (Cathy) Zhang, and Na Li.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025), occurring May 3-5 in Mai Khao, Thailand. Dai collaborated on the work with Carnegie Mellon University researchers Tong Yang, Zixin Wen, Shicong Cen, and Yuejie Chi, and Google DeepMind researchers Jincheng Mei, Hanjun Dai, and Dale Shuurmans.
• 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.
• CSE GSA is seeking seminar speakers for Fall 2025. Use this form to submit your recommendation for who the School of CSE should invite as seminar speakers. These can be researchers from any area relevant to the CSE community.
• The School of CSE will host Stanford University Postdoctoral Scholar Zhecheng Wang for a faculty candidate seminar on Jan. 28 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• Jan. 30 is the deadline to submit a poster for the Spring 2025 College of Computing Graduate Poster Symposium. The symposium is on Feb. 4 in the Klaus Atrium.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on Jan. 31, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• CSE GSA is hosting a Spring Kickoff at Paper and Clay on Jan. 31, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Join GSA for building with clay, pottery painting, paper crafts, and more. Materials, food, and drinks will be provided.
• The 2025 College of Computing Spring Career Fair is on Feb. 4 in McCamish Pavilion. More information can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Feb. 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 will host University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Scholar Zhen Dong for a faculty candidate seminar on Feb. 4 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop on Feb. 5, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE will host Princeton University Postdoctoral Scholar Ming Yin for a faculty candidate seminar on Feb. 6 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on Feb. 7, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Brown University Assistant Professor Mauro Rodriguez.

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.