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.