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.