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.