April 10:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Xinhai Pan on his successful dissertation defense on April 7! Advised by School of CSE J.Z. Liang Early-Career Associate Professor Xiuwei Zhang, Pan defended Computational Modeling of Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Single-Cell Omics Data.
• Melody Lee, an undergraduate student in School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group, received a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship program identifies, encourages, and financially supports outstanding undergraduates interested in pursuing research careers in science, engineering, and mathematics. Lee aspires to obtain a Ph.D. and study quantum information science, quantum simulation, and error mitigation algorithms.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group received a compute allocation through the AMD University Program AI and HPC Cluster. The allocation provides 1,550 node hours on MI300X and MI350X 8-way GPU nodes.
• Students and alumni in Professor Polo Chau’s group represent the School of CSE at the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026), occurring April 13-17 in Barcelona. The group will present Transformer Explainer, a free online tool that shows nonexperts how large language models process language. First authors include Ph.D. students Aeree Cho, Alexander Karpekov, and B.S./M.S. student Grace Kim. Co-authors include Ph.D. students Alec Helbling, Seongmin Lee, Ben Hoover, and alumnus Zijie (Jay) Wang.
• School of CSE faculty Peng Chen, Edmond Chow, Felix Herrmann, and Elizabeth Qian and their groups presented research at the 2026 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ26), held March 22-25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk at the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, held March 20-22 in Atlanta. Dai spoke on exploration from a primal-dual optimization lens in reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk on April 2 at the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) Frontiers in Online Reinforcement Learning workshop, held March 30-April 3 in Chicago. Dai spoke on optimization-friendly exploration in the face of uncertainty.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave an invited talk on March 27 at the Courant Institute for the Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar series. Tang spoke on scalable solvers and structure-preserving algorithms for fusion plasma modeling.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. student Yiqiao Jin first authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), occurring July 2-7 in San Diego. Jin and co-author Ph.D. student Kartik Sharma are advised by Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, and the group collaborated with Visa Research scientists on SARA, a unified RAG framework that improves language model answer relevance and correctness.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. student Yiqiao Jin first authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), occurring July 2-7 in San Diego. Advised by Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, and the pair collaborated with JP Morgan AI Research scientists on SlideAgent, a versatile agentic framework for understanding multi-modal, multi-page, and multi-layout documents, like slide decks, manuals, brochures, and posters.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. student Yiqiao Jin co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), occurring July 2-7 in San Diego. Jin collaborated with School of Interactive Computing students, faculty, and alumni on MedAgent, a framework for generating realistic mental health sensemaking conversations used to create a Mental Health Sensemaking Dialogue (MHSD) dataset.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Ben Wilfong co-authored a paper published in International Journal of Multiphase Flow. Advised by Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, the pair collaborated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers Aswin Gnanaskandan and Diego Vaca-Revelo on hardware-accelerated phase averaging for cavitating bubbly flows.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a paper published in the journal Soft Matter. Bryngelson collaborated with researchers from Brown University, University of Michigan, and University of Texas on hierarchical Bayesian constitutive model selection for high-strain-rate soft material characterization.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a paper published in the AIAA Journal. Bryngelson collaborated with School of Aerospace Engineering researchers Bailey Goldstein, David Ramsey, K.K. Ahuja, and Haocheng Yu on performance of sharply bent acoustic resonators at high sound levels.
• School of AE and CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian co-authored a paper published in the journal Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. Visiting Ph.D. student Jakob Scheffels led the work with Technical University of Munich researchers Iason Papaioannou and Elisabeth Ullmann on likelihood-informed model reduction for Bayesian inference of static structural loads.
• School of CSE Ph.D. students Anand Radhakrishnan and Ben Wilfong led work on a new preprint. Advised by Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, the group collaborated with Courant Institute Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer on an information geometric regularization-based approach to compressible flows.
• School of AE and CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian co-authored a new preprint on arXiv. Ph.D. student Atticus Rex led the work with David Peterson from Air Force Research Lab on Multifidelity-Augmented Gaussian Process Inputs (MAGPI) for surrogate modeling from scarce data.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Phillip Si first authored a submitted paper. Advised by Assistant Professor Peng Chen, the pair propose an ensemble-space variational smoother that operates in the low-dimensional latent space of a pretrained differentiable neural dynamics surrogate.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen co-authored a submitted paper. Chen collaborated with University of Texas researchers Nick Alger, Blake Christerson, and Omar Ghattas on Tucker Tensor Train Taylor series (T4S) surrogate model for covariance preconditioned high dimensional mappings.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is an organizer of the AIxHealth Research to Impact Collaborative. The group hosts virtual seminars on Thursdays at 10:00. Sign up to the group’s mailing list to receive invitations to each seminar and updates on future initiatives.
• The CSE Graduate Student Associations (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.
• Georgia Tech’s Center for Scientific Software Engineering (CSSE) and Open Source Program Office (OSPO) are offering a summer fellowship for M.S. and Ph.D. students interested in open-source GenAI with IBM’s Mellea project. The fellowship will host up to two students for a paid internship starting in May 2026. The application deadline is April 12, and full details and application can be found here.
• PACE is offering a MATLAB Parallel Computing workshop on April 15, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The next HotCSE seminar of the semester is on April 15, 12:00 – 1:45 p.m. in Coda 114. Ph.D. student Alec Helbling will present A Visual Introduction to Flow-Based Generative Models.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on April 15, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a MATLAB Parallel Computing workshop on April 16, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Using Containers at PACE workshop on April 17, 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 on April 17, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host University of Maryland Associate Professor Abhinov Bhatele.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session 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 clusters orientation on April 28, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on April 29, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Students are invited to apply for the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for U.S. graduate awardees (U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents) to conduct part of their Ph.D. thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE National Laboratory scientist within a defined award period. The application deadline is May 6.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang will host the next MFEM Community Workshop, occurring Sept. 22-25 at Georgia Tech. The first day of the workshop will be reserved for a free hands-on MFEM tutorial for interested students. Students are also welcome to present in a poster session and contributed talk sessions. This is a good opportunity to learn scalable finite elements, differentiable programming, GPU acceleration, preconditioning and iterative solvers, and many advanced features of high-performance computing. MFEM (https://github.com/mfem/mfem) is a free, open-source C++ library for finite element methods and the winner of 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. The details of the registration information will be available soon. The workshop permits in-person and virtual participation, and registration is open until Sept. 11.

March 20:

• Congratulations to School of CSE ML Ph.D. candidate Agam Shah on his successful dissertation defense on March 13! Co-advised by Scheller College of Business Professor Sudheer Chava and School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, Shah defended Language Modeling in Finance: Evaluation, Extraction, and Economic Insight.
• Congratulations to School of CSE faculty who earned promotions, announced on March 11! Elizabeth Cherry will be promoted to full professor and Srijan Kumar will be promoted to associate professor with tenure. These promotions represent both RPT cases from the School of CSE up for review and approved this year.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu for receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant! The $1.3 million award will support Wu’s lab in studying multi-animal social behavior with advanced representation learning and reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu and her group presented six papers at Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2026 (COSYNE), held March 12-15 in Lisbon, Portugal. School of CSE researchers who authored accepted work include Ph.D. students Jingyang Ke, Feiyang Wu, Jiyi Wang, Yule Wang, Chengrui Li, Weihan Li, and Assistant Professor Bo Dai. A full list of their papers and abstracts can be found in the conference’s main program.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and Ph.D. student Zhixin (Jack) Song presented group work at the American Physical Society (APS) Global Physics Summit, held March 15-20 in Denver. Bryngelson discussed shocks without tracking or capturing at exascale. Song presented on efficient reconstruction for real-valued quantum states.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited seminar on March 12 at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. Bryngelson presented group work on the simulation of many-engine rocket boosters.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited seminar on March 11 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Bryngelson presented group work on benchmarking scientific workloads and the scientific use of exascale machines in practice.
• HotCSE, the student-run seminar series led by CSE GSA, is seeking speakers for Spring 2026. 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 AIxHealth Research to Impact Collaborative is hosting its second AIxHealthxATL workshop on April 6 at Georgia Tech. The collaborative invites researchers at the intersection of AI and health to attend the workshop and participate in talks, an ideas clinic, and student poster session. Visit the workshop website for the full agenda and submit an expression of interest here.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is an organizer of the AIxHealth Research to Impact Collaborative. The group hosts virtual seminars on Thursdays at 10:00. Sign up to the group’s mailing list to receive invitations to each seminar and updates on future initiatives.
• The CSE Graduate Student Associations (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on March 26, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on April 1, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The next HotCSE seminar of the semester is on April 1, 12:00 – 1:45 p.m. in Coda 230. Ph.D. candidate Ben Cobb will present Fast Active-Set Thresholding Method for Nonnegative Least Squares.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on April 1, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on April 3, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on April 9, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop on April 10, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on April 10, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Oak Ridge National Laboratory Applied Mathematician Cory Hauck.
• Students are invited to apply for the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for U.S. graduate awardees (U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents) to conduct part of their Ph.D. thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE National Laboratory scientist within a defined award period. The application deadline is May 6.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang will host the next MFEM Community Workshop, occurring Sept. 22-25 at Georgia Tech. The first day of the workshop will be reserved for a free hands-on MFEM tutorial for interested students. Students are also welcome to present in a poster session and contributed talk sessions. This is a good opportunity to learn scalable finite elements, differentiable programming, GPU acceleration, preconditioning and iterative solvers, and many advanced features of high-performance computing. MFEM (https://github.com/mfem/mfem) is a free, open-source C++ library for finite element methods and the winner of 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. The details of the registration information will be available soon. The workshop permits in-person and virtual participation, and registration is open until Sept. 11.

March 6:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Chengrui Li on his successful dissertation defense on Feb. 16! Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu, Li defended Latent Variable Models and Inferencing Methods for Understanding Neural Functional Connectivity and Latent Dynamics.
• Congratulations and well wishes to Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of CSE joint Regents’ Professor Mark Borodovsky on his retirement! The School of CSE hosted a faculty and staff lunch on Feb. 19 in honor of Borodovsky and his remarkable career.
• Congratulations to School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of CSE joint Regents’ Professor C. David Sherrill on his appointment as executive director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)! Sherrill has served as associate director for IDEaA since its founding in 2016 and as interim director since January 2025.
• College of Computing Senior Associate Dean and School of CSE Professor Srinivas Aluru and Professor Rich Vuduc attended the invitation-only Genesis Mission University/Science Philanthropy Summit, held Feb. 18 in Arlington, Virginia. Four researchers represented the Georgia Tech delegation led by Executive Vice President for Research Tim Lieuwen. Aluru is also supporting Georgia Tech’s strategic plans for involvement in the Genesis Mission in AI Cyberinfrastructure and AI for Science and Engineering.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson received a DOE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program award. Bryngelson receives 750,000 node hours on OLCF Frontier for the project Exascale-enabled Simulation of Cavitation for Medine and Beyond. Bryngelson will collaborate with co-PIs Tim Colonius, Mauro Rodriguez, Fang Liu, and Reuben Budiardja.
• School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow, Professor Rich Vuduc, and Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson presented at the 2026 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP26), held March 3-6 in Berlin. Chow co-authored and presented work on a multilevel solver for kernel matrices. Vuduc presented work on the effects of overlapping communication on the optimally conditions for communication-avoiding matrix multiply. Bryngelson presented group work on simulating one quadrillion degrees of freedom via regularization without loss of accuracy.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Max Hawkins gave a colloquium talk on March 3 at Reed College. Advised by School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc, Hawkins presented thesis work on proposing a computing performance framework based on information theory.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited talk at the RAeS Aerodynamics Workshop 2026, held Feb. 18-19 in London and virtually. Bryngelson discussed characterizing soft materials at high strain rates using high-fidelity constitutive models and Bayesian comparison experiments, as well as the use of surrogate models for turbulence and their utility from a computational budget approach.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu gave an invited talk on Feb. 17 as part of the Emory University Department of Biomedical Informatics BMI Seminar Series. Wu presented her talk Towards a Transformative Framework for Behavioral Analysis in Naturalistic Contexts.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Max Hawkins will give a talk at the 2026 Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference (NICE 2026), occurring March 24-26 at Georgia Tech’s Historic Academy of Medicine. Advised by School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc, Hawkins will present work on bridging traditional and neuromorphic computing performance evaluation.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Zhiyuan Zhao first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2026), occurring May 4-8 in Montreal. Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Char for Academic Affairs B. Aditya Prakash, the pair collaborated with Amazon researchers on Temporal-Aligned Transformer (TAT), a novel transformer-based framework aimed at improving demand forecasting accuracy during demand peaks by effectively leveraging known context features.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Kerr Ding first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 30th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB 2026), occurring May 26-29 in Thessaloniki, Greece. School of CSE Ph.D. students Ziang Li, Tony Tu, Jiaqi Luo, and their advisor Assistant Professor Yunan Luo co-authored with Ding on the group’s work on protein language model disentanglement.
• School of CSE Ph.D. students Shitong Dai and Jiaqi Luo first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 30th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB 2026), occurring May 26-29 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo, the group will present work on protein function annotation.
• HotCSE, the student-run seminar series led by CSE GSA, is seeking speakers for Spring 2026. 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.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is an organizer of the AIxHealth Research to Impact Collaborative. The group hosts virtual seminars on Thursdays at 10:00. Sign up to the group’s mailing list to receive invitations to each seminar and updates on future initiatives.
• The CSE Graduate Student Associations (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on March 12, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The College of Computing is hosting a Women’s History Month brunch and panel on March 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in the KACB Atrium.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on March 13, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor Stefan Radev.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on March 18, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on March 26, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Students are invited to apply for the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for U.S. graduate awardees (U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents) to conduct part of their Ph.D. thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE National Laboratory scientist within a defined award period. The application deadline is May 6.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang will host the next MFEM Community Workshop, occurring Sept. 22-25 at Georgia Tech. The first day of the workshop will be reserved for a free hands-on MFEM tutorial for interested students. Students are also welcome to present in a poster session and contributed talk sessions. This is a good opportunity to learn scalable finite elements, differentiable programming, GPU acceleration, preconditioning and iterative solvers, and many advanced features of high-performance computing. MFEM (https://github.com/mfem/mfem) is a free, open-source C++ library for finite element methods and the winner of 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. The details of the registration information will be available soon.

February 20:

• School of CSE Ph.D. student Hyunju Kim first-authored a paper posted on bioRxiv on Feb. 7. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam, the pair collaborated with University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Michael Arcaro to develop an algorithmic growth model of the primate visual cortex. The model is embedded in the folded surface geometry of the cortex (measured with fMRI) and explains how topographic maps of visual space emerge in the brain.
• School of AE Ph.D. student Tomoki Koike first-authored a preprint posted on arXiv. Advised by School of AE and CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian, the pair collaborated with researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies on streaming operator inference for model reduction of large-scale dynamical systems.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. student Zihao Zhao first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang, the pair collaborate with Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow and alumnus Lingkai Kong (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024) on Diffusion-DFL, the first diffusion-based DFL approach for stochastic optimization, which trains a diffusion model to capture complex uncertainty in problem parameters.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. candidates Kartik Sharma and Yiqiao (Ahren) Jin first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, the group collaborated with Visa researchers on Sysformer, a transformer-based mechanism that dynamically adapts the system prompt based on the use input to enhance the safety of frozen LLMs.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Nima Shoghi first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Co-advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung and School of ECE Assistant Professor Pan Li, Shoghi collaborated with ByteDance Seed researchers on STAR-MD, a scalable diffusion model that generates physically plausible protein trajectories over microsecond timescales.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. candidate Kartik Sharma first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Co-advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar and MIT Postdoctoral Fellow Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik introduces COLD-Steer, a training-free framework that steers LLM activations by approximating the representational changes that would result from gradient descent on in-context examples.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. candidate Kartik Sharma co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, Sharma worked on OpenThoughts, a state-of-the-art open-data SFT reasoning dataset, composed of science, math, and code data.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Alec Helbling co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Advised by School of CSE Professor Polo Chau, Helbling collaborated with Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers on LORE (Low Rank Ordinal Embedding), a framework for jointly learning the intrinsic rank and the true perceptual latent space via an ordinal embedding.
• School of CSE faculty Peng Chen, Edmond Chow, Felix Herrmann, and Elizabeth Qian will present group work at the 2026 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ26), occurring March 22-25, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• HotCSE, the student-run seminar series led by CSE GSA, is seeking speakers for Spring 2026. 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.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is an organizer of the AIxHealth Research to Impact Collaborative. The group hosts virtual seminars on Thursdays at 10:00. Sign up to the group’s mailing list to receive invitations to each seminar and updates on future initiatives.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.
• The Institute for Data engineering and Science is hosting IDEaS over Coffee: Tips for AI Tools on Feb. 23, 2:00-3:00 p.m., in the Coda 12th floor “chill space”. IDEaS will offer coffees, snacks, and informal open discussions about the direction and development of AI.
• Emory University’s Department of Mathematics will host the 4th Southeast Applied and Computational Math (ACM 2026) student workshop on April 3-4. This annual workshop brings together graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and researchers from across the Southeast U.S. to share research, exchange ideas, and foster collaborations in applied and computational mathematics. There is no fee, but registration is required and closes on Feb. 28.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Feb. 24, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering an Applications of Machine Learning workshop on Feb. 25, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Feb. 26, 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 on Feb. 27, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host University of Tennessee Assistant Professor Esteban Cisneros-Garibay.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop on March 4, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found here.
• The first HotCSE seminar of the semester is on March 4 at 12:00 p.m. in Coda 230. Ph.D. student Yanjie Tong will present From Sparse Sensors to Continuous Fields: STRIDE for Spatiotemporal Reconstruction.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on March 4, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Students are invited to apply for the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program provides supplemental funds for U.S. graduate awardees (U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents) to conduct part of their Ph.D. thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE National Laboratory scientist within a defined award period. The application deadline is May 6.

February 6:

• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang and alumnus Alexander Rodriguez (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2023) presented a tutorial at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), held Jan. 20-27 in Singapore. The pair presented work in the Generative AI in Healthcare: Casualty, Decision, and Real-World Case Study tutorial.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Ben Hoover presented a tutorial at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), held Jan. 20-27 in Singapore. The paper has also been accepted as a tutorial at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026), occurring May 4-8 in Barcelona.
• School of CSE students and faculty are invited to the 2026 Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium (GSCS), occurring Feb. 21 at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Registration is free and participants must register by Feb. 13. School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu is one of the five plenary speakers at this year’s symposium.
• A paper on Multicomponent Flow Code (MFC) 5.0 by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group was accepted for publication in Computer Physics Communications. MFC is the group’s flagship many-physics multiphase compressible flow solver that scales ideally on exascale machines, including LLNL El Capitan, OLCF Frontier, and JSC JUPITER.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai co-authored a paper accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Dai collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University researchers Shicong Cen and Yuejie Chi, Google researchers Jincheng Mei, Hanjun Dai, and Dale Schuurmans (also with University of Alberta) on the first attempt towards establishing a general framework of learning with stochastic dominance.
• Groups under School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai and Edenfield Early Career Associate Professor Chao Zhang and collaborated on a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. School of CSE Ph.D. student Rushi Qiang and alumnus Yuchen Zhuang (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2025) collaborated with Stanford University researchers Anikait Singh, Percy Liang, and Sherry Yang on MLE-Smith, a fully automated multi-agent pipeline that scales MLE tasks.
• School of CSE Ph.D. students Zhiyuan (Leo) Zhao and Haoxin Liu first-author a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs B. Aditya Prakash, the group introduces ShifTS: a method-agnostic framework designed to tackle temporal shift first and then concept drift with a unified approach.
• School of CSE Ph.D. students Zhiyuan (Leo) Zhao, Shangqing Xu, and Haoxin Liu led work on a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs B. Aditya Prakash, the group collaborated with Emory University researchers Juntong Ni and Wei Jin on TimeRecipe: a unified benchmarking framework that systematically evaluates time-series forecasting at the module level.
• School of CSE M.S. student Lucheng Fu co-first authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. School of CSE Ph.D. students Haoxin Liu, Yiqiao (Ahren) Jin, and Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs B. Aditya Prakash collaborated with UCLA, University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, and Yale University researchers on Textual Sharpness-Aware Evolving (TARE).
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yule Wang first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Wang led the work with School of CSE Ph.D. students Chengrui Li, Weihan Li, M.S. student Joseph Yu, and Assistant Professor Anqi Wu on MIG-Vis, a method that leverages diffusion models to visualize and validate the visual-semantic attributes encoded in neural latent subspaces.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Ben Hoover co-first authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Hoover collaborated with researchers from IBM Research, Brown University, and MIT on eNeRgy-GPT (NRGPT), an energy-based alternative for Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT).
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Dai collaborated with Technion, Nvidia Research, and Google Research researchers on the work that introduces Spectral Bellman Method.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen’s group authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Pengpeng Xiao, a visiting undergraduate student admitted as a Ph.D. student at Yale University, first authored the work on LD-EnSF with CSE Ph.D. student Phillip Si.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo authored a paper accepted for presentation to the 30th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB 2026), occurring May 26-29 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Luo will present his group’s work on protein function annotation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai co-authored a paper accepted as a spotlight to the 29th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2026), occurring May 2-5 in Tangier, Morocco. Dai collaborated with Google DeepMind researchers Zhaohan Daniel Guo, Bernardo Avila Pires, Khimya Khetarpal, and Dale Schuurman on representation learning via non-contrastive mutual information.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave a talk on Jan. 5 at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JNN 2026), held Jan. 4-7 in Washington D.C. Tang presented Super-Particle Dynamics for the Vlasov-Poisson System through a Hamiltonian-Preserving Closure at the SIAM Minisymposium on Advances in Mathematical Developments for Computational Plasma Physics Enabling Fusion Relevant Applications.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yanjie Tong first authored a recently submitted manuscript. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen, the work introduces STRIDE, a two-stage framework for reconstructing spatiotemporal fields from sparse point-sensor measurements.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen presented a seminar talk on Feb. 5 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Chen presented work on real-time and robust digital twins for learning and optimizing complex physical systems at the Mathematics in Computation Section seminar series.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen will gave a talk on Jan. 21 as part of the Machine Learning Seminar Series. Chen presented work on scientific machine learning and uncertainty quantification for digital twins of physical systems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is an organizer of the AIxHealth Research to Impact Collaborative. The group hosts virtual seminars on Thursdays at 10:00. Sign up to the group’s mailing list to receive invitations to each seminar and updates on future initiatives.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.
• PACE is hosting an HPC Machine Learning and Big Data Workshop on Feb. 11 & 13. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Feb. 12, 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 Cornell University Postdoctoral Fellow Jason Kim for a faculty candidate seminar on Feb. 12 at 11:00. Talk location, abstract, and bio can be found on the event website.
• The Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) at Georgia Tech is hosting CRNCH Summit 2026 on Feb. 12-13 at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building Atrium. The summit will host speakers who come from industry, national laboratory, and academic backgrounds. Registration is free for Georgia Tech students and College of Computing affiliates, and can be found here.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on Feb. 13, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Emory University Assistant Professor Carl Yang.
• The School of CSE will host MIT Ph.D. Candidate Yuka Ikarashi for a faculty candidate seminar on Feb. 17 at 11:00.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Feb. 18, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow Jingfeng Wu for a faculty candidate seminar on Feb. 20 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 Feb. 20, 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 on Feb. 27, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host University of Tennessee Assistant Professor Esteban Cisneros-Garibay. 

January 16:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. Candidate Kaan Sancak on his successful dissertation defense on Dec. 10! Advised by School of CSE Professor Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Sancak defended Advancing Expressibility and Scalability in Graph Learning.
• School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc was an author of a recently published DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) technical report. Vuduc worked on the 2024 ASCR Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science that identified five priority research directions that promise to drive significant progress toward energy-efficient computing.
• School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint Professor Felix Herrmann served on the organizing committee and was an author of a recently published DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) technical report. Herrmann worked on the 2025 Workshop on Inverse Methods for Complex Systems under Uncertainty that identified four priority research directions to address critical challenges toward inferring unknown properties of a system using experimental and observational data.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo has been selected to the publications committee of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Luo will serve a three-year term on the committee responsible for overseeing ISCB peer-reviewed journals and publications, and advises the ISCB Board of Directors on editorial matters.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Ziang Li and Assistant Professor Yunan Luo wrote a paper published in Nature Communications on Dec. 20. The pair introduced SPURS, a deep learning framework that rewires and integrates two complementary protein generative models (a protein language model and an inverse folding model) and reprograms this unified framework for stability prediction through supervised fine-tuning on mega-scale thermostability data.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group collaborated on a paper published in Computer Physics Communications. Ph.D. student Dimitrios Adam and alumnus Henry Le Berre co-authored the work with University of Tennessee Assistant Professor Esteban Cisneros-Garibay and UIUC Professor Jonathan Freund on Pyrometheus, a symbolic abstraction for XPU and automatic differentiation of thermochemistry/combustion.
• School of CSE CS Ph.D. candidate Kerr Ding presented work at the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation Conference (CAGI7), held Dec. 6-8 in Boston. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo, their AI model ranked among the top methods in the CAGI7 challenge for mutation effect prediction.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and Ph.D. student Dimitrios Adam presented a paper at the AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, held Jan. 12-16 in Orlando, Florida. The pair collaborated with University of Tennessee Assistant Professor Esteban Cisneros-Garibay on a symbolic computational abstraction of chemistry libraries.
• School of AE/CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian and Ph.D. candidate Tomoki Koike presented a paper at the AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, held Jan. 12-16 in Orlando, Florida. They presented work on learning stability regions for nonlinear dynamical systems.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Harshavardhan Kamarthi first authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026), occurring Aug. 9-13 in Jeju, South Korea. Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs B. Aditya Prakash, Kamarthi led work on a scalable alternative history analysis for operational timeseries applications.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Haocheng Yu and Postdoctoral Fellow Tianyi Chu led work on a preprint posted on arXiv. Advised by Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, the group used direct numerical simulations and spectral proper orthogonal decomposition to quantify how incident acoustic energy is converted into vortical motion and viscous dissipation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen co-authored two submitted papers. Ph.D. student Yuan Qiu led work in collaboration with University of South Carolina Professor Wolfgang Dahmen on a proposed Reduced Based Neural Operator (RBNO). Chen collaborated with School of Mathematics M.S. student Kaichen Shen on Sequential Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design (SBOED) in infinite dimensions via policy gradient reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang has been selected as a Summer Early Career Scholar to participate in the Digital Futures 2026 Summer Early programme at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Tang will spend part of summer in Stockholm collaborating with KTH faculty in data science and machine learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is an organizer of the AIxHealth Research to Impact Collaborative. The group hosts virtual seminars on Thursdays at 10:00. Sign up to the group’s mailing list to receive invitations to each seminar and updates on future initiatives.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen will give a talk on Jan. 21, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in the Coda 9th Floor Atrium as part of the Machine Learning Seminar Series. Chen will present work on scientific machine learning and uncertainty quantification for digital twins of physical systems.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Jan. 21, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The College of Computing will host the inaugural Sham Navathe Distinguished Lecture Series on Jan. 21, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in KACB 1116 E/W. The College will host Dr. Umeshwar Dayal, chief scientist and senior fellow at Hitachi America, Ltd.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Jan. 22, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 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. 23, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering an Applications of Machine Learning workshop on Jan. 28, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found here.  
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Jan. 29, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop on Feb. 3, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Feb. 4, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Feb. 4, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) at Georgia Tech is hosting CRNCH Summit 2026 on Feb. 12-13 at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building Atrium. The summit will host speakers who come from industry, national laboratory, and academic backgrounds. Registration is free for Georgia Tech students and College of Computing affiliates, and can be found here.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues on Feb. 13, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Emory University Assistant Professor Carl Yang.