December 15, 2023:

• Congratulations CSE graduates! Graduates from Fall Commencement join Spring Commencement combine as the Class of 2023!
• Congratulations to CSE-BME Ph.D. candidate David Kartchner on his successful dissertation defense on Nov. 17! Kartchner defended Automated Extraction and Synthesis of Biomedical Data for AI-Driven Systematic Review and Mata-Analysis.
• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. candidate Kaan Sancak for successfully proposing his Ph.D. thesis on Nov. 21! Sancak is advised by School of CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek.
• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. candidate Md Abdur Rahaman for successfully proposing his Ph.D. thesis on Nov. 30! Rahaman is advised by School of CSE Adjunct Professor Vince Calhoun.
• Congratulations to School of Physics Ph.D. candidate Zhixin (Jack) Song for successfully proposing his Ph.D. dissertation! Song is advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson.
• Congratulation to School of CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry for election as a council member-at-large for SIAM!
• Congratulations to Andrew Rush on his acceptance to Georgia Tech, announced Dec. 8 during release of Early Action 1 decisions. Andrew is the son of School of CSE Research Operations Program Manager Holly Rush, and he intends to major in computer engineering.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student ShengYun (Anthony) Peng for winning the best poster award at BMVC 2023. Advised by Associate Professor Polo Chau, Peng, accepted the award for the group’s work on Robust Principles: Architectural Design Principles for Adversarially Robust CNNs.
• A paper first authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo published Nov. 6 in Nature Machine Intelligence. The work introduces KDBNet, a deep learning algorithm that incorporates 3D protein and molecule structure data to predict binding affinities.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar published Nov. 20 in Nature Human Behaviour. The paper introduces counter measures to AI-generated disinformation.
• A paper first authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie published Dec. 4 in Nature Machine Intelligence. The work presents a physics-enhanced deep-surrogate approach toward developing fast surrogate models for complex physical systems.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang’s group has been accepted for publication to Nature Communications. Authors include Ph.D. students Xinhai Pan, Hechen Li, and undergraduate student Pranav Putta.
• Ajay Bati, an undergraduate student studying under School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, published their work on RoseNNa in the journal Computer Physics Communications. RoseNNa is a non-invasive, lightweight (1000 lines), and performant tool for neural network inference.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam is co-PI of a $750K NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase I grant. Imam will work with researchers at Cornell University to develop signal processing algorithms and hardware for chemosensory applications. 
• Subramanyam Mullangi, an undergraduate student studying under School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, won a President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) Salary Award for Spring 2024. He will use the $1,500 award for research on the mechanics of sickle cell disease and blood flow.
• School of CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek served as co-chair of the technical papers committee and the steering committee at SC23.
• School of CSE Professor Edmond Chow and Ph.D. student Hua Huang have been invited to present research at a mini-symposium during the 2024 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP24). They will present research March 7 at the mini-symposium on Advancements in Sparse Linear Algebra: Hardware-Aware Algorithms and Optimization Techniques.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk Dec. 15 at a NeurIPS 2023 workshop. He discussed reliability and security of LLMs and LMMs at the workshop RO-FoMo: Robustness of Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Learning in Foundation Models.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Conlain Kelly and School of ME Ph.D. candidate Adam Generale presented research Dec. 15 at a NeurIPS 2023 workshop. Their group’s work discussed Bayesian inversion for materials science at the AI for Accelerated Materials Design workshop.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave a virtual talk Dec. 7 at Google Research, Applied Science. Bryngelson presented work on coarse grained turbulence models.
• Students in School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s research group presented papers at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, held Nov. 19-21 in Washington D.C. Presenters included Ph.D. students Jesus Arias and Anand Radhakrishnan and undergraduate student Sriharsha Kocherla.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Raphael Pestourie co-organized the inaugural Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) Symposium at Georgia Tech. The student-led symposium hosted virtual sessions and invited talks Nov. 16, 21, and 30.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited talk Nov. 15 at the optimization in Oslo (OiO) seminar at Simula. Schäfer presented on the convergence of scientific computing with statistics and machine learning.
• GTRI Research Scientist Bryan Gard is collaborating with School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his student School of Physics Ph.D. candidate Zhixin (Jack) Song on a project to use quantum computing in computational fluid dynamics simulations.
• HotCSE, the School of Computational Science and Engineering’s student-run seminar series, is seeking speakers for Spring 2024. If you are interested in giving a presentation/tutorial, please email the 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.
• Jan. 11 is the deadline for graduate students to apply for graduation in Spring 2024.
• The window for online application for graduation in Summer 2024 opens Jan. 22. The deadline for applications is May 24.
• All PACE managed clusters will be down for maintenance Jan. 23 – 25. 

November 17, 2023:

• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. candidate Ziyi (Francis) Yin for successfully proposing his Ph.D. thesis on Oct. 30! Yin is advised by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann.
• Numerous School of CSE faculty and students attended and presented at SC23 Nov. 12-17 in Denver. Here is a total list of Georgia Tech presentations from the conference. School of CSE Professor Edmond Chow is a co-author of a paper that won the SC23 Test of Time Award. Srinivas Aluru, School of CSE Regents’ Professor and Executive Director of IDEaS, served on the best student paper award committee.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo published in nature machine intelligence. The work introduces KDBNet, a deep learning algorithm that incorporates 3D protein and molecule structure data to predict binding affinities.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen was published in the Journal of Computational Physics. The paper introduces a greedy sensor selection algorithm for hyperparameterized linear Bayesian inverse problems with correlated noise models.
• Research groups under School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann and School of ECE Professor Ghassan AlRegib hosted their annual ML4Seismic Partners Meeting Nov. 7-9. The meeting hosted visitors from the energy industry and major Cloud providers for research presentations from the groups.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer attended a workshop Nov. 11-12 held at Caltech. He spoke about information geometric regularization at the Workshop on Recent Developments in Applied Mathematics and its Applications.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk Nov. 8 at an AI workshop co-hosted by the Savannah River National Laboratory and Battelle Savannah River Alliance. Chen gave a presentation titled Scientific Machine Learning for Prediction, Inference, Experimental Design, and Control of Complex Systems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schäfer gave invited talks Nov. 6-7 at the Workshop on Compressible Multiphase Flows hosted Stanford University. Bryngelson spoke about stochastic sub-grid models and Schäfer spoke about information geometric regularization.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yuan Qiu presented a talk Nov. 5 at SIAM TX-LA 2023. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen, Qiu presented the group’s research on derivative-informed deep operator networks.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited talk Nov. 4 at the Workshop on Model Reduction and Numerical Linear Algebra hosted by Virginia Tech. Qian spoke about fundamental subspaces of ensemble Kalman inversion.
• A paper from School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group has been accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2023, occurring Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans. The work that introduces a visual encoders for table structure recognition is co-authored by ShengYun (Anthony) Peng, Seongmin Lee, Xiaojing Wang, and Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Nov. 21, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop Nov. 28, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Nov. 30, 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 Dec. 1, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host Emory University Associate Professor Rishi Kamaleswaran.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Dec. 5, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.

November 3, 2023:

• The School of CSE joined Georgia Tech’s Institute of Data Science and Engineering (IDEaS) in sponsoring the 2023 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Core Universities AI Workshop Oct. 31-Nov. 1. The workshop hosted participants from ORNL, eight universities, and the U.S. Department of Energy through 13 talks, three keynotes, and 2 panel discussions.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Hua Huang for receiving an honorable mention for the 2023 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship! He was recognized for contributions high performance parallel matrix algorithms and their application to quantum chemistry calculations.
• Congratulations to ML Ph.D. student Alec Helbling for winning the best poster award at IEEE VIS 2023. Advised by School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau, Helbling received the award for their work on ManimML.
• Congratulations to School of CSE faculty who received an IDEaS grant for Thematic Programs and Research in AI! Recipients include: Peng Chen, Raphaël Pestourie, Chao Zhang, Bo Dai, and Yunan Luo.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group was accepted at NeurIPS 2023 as a spotlight paper in the workshop Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. Authors include CSE Ph.D. students Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Rafael Orozco, and Ziyi (Francis) Yin.
• School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau moderated a panel at the 2023 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Core Universities AI Workshop. The panel discussed science in the age of generative AI.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen was published in the Journal of Computational Physics. The paper explores derivative-informed neural operators (DINOs).
• School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau was on a panel at IEEE VIS 2023. He spoke at the panel titled How should VIS4ML Redefine Itself in the Rapid Evolution of AI?
• Students in School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group presented a paper at IEEE VIS 2023. Georgia tech collaborators of VisGrader include: Matthew Hull, Vivian Pednekar, Hannah Murray, Nimisha Roy, Emmanuel Tung, Susanta Routray, Connor Guerin, Justin Chen, Zijie (Jay) Wang, Seongmin Lee, and Mahdi Roozbahani.
• Students in School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s research group presented a paper at IEEE VIS 2023. Georgia tech collaborators of Diffusion Explainer include: Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Hendrik Strobelt, Zijie (Jay) Wang, ShengYun Peng, Austin Wright, Kevin Li, Haekyu Park, and Haoyang Yang.
• School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau co-authored a paper presented as a poster at IEEE VIS 2023. Co-authors of TrafficBoard include: Catalina Vajiac, Andreas Olligschlaeger, Pratheeksha Nair, Meng-Chieh Lee, Mirela Cazzolato, Reihaneh Rabbany, Cara Jones, and Christos Faloutsos.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave a seminar Oct. 27 for Bayer’s Division of Data Science. Bryngelson presented work on partial differential equation surrogates derived from joint work with Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Agam Shah gave an invited talk Oct. 25 at the Georgia Tech Data Days 2023 conference held Oct. 23-25. There, he presented Natural Language Processing for Financial Markets.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Agam Shah led a workshop Nov. 3 at the inaugural Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Finance Conference. The workshop focused on introduction to NLP and finetuning pre-trained language models.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk Oct. 25 at the Optimization in Oslo (OiO) seminar series. He presented work on derivative-informed neural operator for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty.
• Polls are open for SIAM members to vote in the 2023 SIAM General Election. School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair Elizabeth Cherry is running for reelection as a Council Member-at-Large. The deadline for voting is Monday, Nov. 6.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Nov. 7, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Nov. 8, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop Nov. 9, 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering an Application of Machine Learning workshop Nov. 9, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Nov. 10, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 114. CSE will host University of Toronto Associate Professor Maryam Mehri Dehnavi.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Nov. 14, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host Coulter BME Assistant Professor Eva Dyer.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Nov. 17, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host Dr. Ryan F. Johnson from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Nov. 21, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.

October 20, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Haekyu Park for successfully defending her dissertation! Park defended Interactive Scalable Discovery of Concepts, Vulnerabilities, and Evolutions in Deep Learning on Oct. 11.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau for receiving a 2023 Google Award for Inclusion Research! Chau received the award in Impact of AI on Education category through his group’s work in automating visualization assessment using generative AI.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian is co-PI on the ROME: Reduced Modeling with Extreme Data, a project that will develop new model learning methods for Energy Earthshot applications. The project was one of 29 selected by the DoE through their $264 million Energy Earthshots Initiative.
• DiffusionDB, a project from School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s group that received a best paper nomination at ACL 2023, has been integrated into Google’s official tutorial on Vertex AI. Co-designers of DiffusionDB include: Zijie (Jay) Wang, Evan Montoya, David Munechika, Haoyang Yang, Ben Hoover.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar is a featured expert in Georgia Tech’s news campaign AI: Am I…?
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Peng Chen and Raphaël Pestourie have been selected by IDEaS to organize a workshop for their 2023-2024 Thematic Events in AI program. Chen and Pestourie partner with Ebenezer Fanijo (Building Construction) and Yan Wang (Mechanical Engineering) on Foundation of Scientific AI for Optimization of Complex Systems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen has been appointed as a faculty fellow to Georgia Tech’s Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.
• School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann authored the president’s page for November’s edition issue of the journal The Leading Edge. His article introduced the concept of digital twins and discussed how they are used for monitoring geological carbon storage.
• A paper by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group was accepted for publication as a journal article in Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences. Authors include CSE Ph.D. students, Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Rafael Orozco, and CSE alumnus Mathias Louboutin.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schäfer are co-authors of a manuscript submitted Oct. 12. The faculty join Jessie Liu (Stanford University), Ali Mani (Stanford University), and Tamer Zaki (Johns Hopkins) in the research on non-local operator recovery of turbulence closures.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk Oct. 12 at UCLA. There, he presented work on representation-based reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited seminar Oct. 10 at Johns Hopkins University as part of the Minds/CIS seminar series. There, he presented Solvers, Models, Learners: Statistical Inspiration for Scientific Computing.
• Polls are open for SIAM members to vote in the 2023 SIAM General Election. School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair Elizabeth Cherry is running for reelection as a Council Member-at-Large. The deadline for voting is Monday, Nov. 6.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Oct. 31, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host Coulter BME Assistant Professor Eva Dyer.
• IDEaS will host a Generative AI Seminar Oct. 31, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. in Clough 152. IDEaS will host Dr. Oliver Brdiczka, Director of Applied Science at Adobe Inc.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Nov. 2, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• CSE Programs will host its 2023 recruiting event Nov. 3. Please be mindful that the School of CSE space in Coda will be busier than usual hosting prospective students.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Nov. 3, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host UCSD Assistant Professor Mikio Aoi.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Nov. 7, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Nov. 8, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Nov. 3, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 114. CSE will host University of Toronto Associate Professor Maryam Mehri Dehnavi.

October 6, 2023:

• Join us in welcoming Mary High to the School of CSE! Mary is our new Assistant to the Chair!
• Congratulations to School of Mechanical Engineering and CSE joint appointment Regents’ Professor Surya Kalidindi for being named a fellow to 2023 class of the Department of Defense’s Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative (LUCI).
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo has received a National Institutes of Health grant totaling $1.8 over five years. The Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) will fund Luo’s research in developing algorithms to understand protein sequence-structure-function relationships.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his research group have been accepted to participate in ORNL’s Frontier Hackathon, to be held Oct. 31 – Nov. 3. Only ten teams were selected, including Cabana, Chimera, E3SM, Lammps, and other software mainstays. Bryngelson’s group will test their Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC) at exascale speeds.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo is one of three recipients of the 2023 Molecule Maker Lab Institute (MMLI) seed grant. Luo’s group will use the grant to collaborate with chemists and biologists at MMLI in developing models for enzyme engineering. Luo also gave an invited talk at MMLI on Sept. 12.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo is a recipient of an Azure AI Cloud grant, funded through Microsoft’s Accelerating Foundation Models Research program. The grant will fund Luo’s research toward models to accelerate prediction and optimization of protein functions.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson, Florian Schäfer, and Stanford University Associate Professor Ali Mani organized a mini-symposium held Sept. 24-27 at the IACM MMLDE-CSET conference in El Paso, Texas. Titled Statistical Methods for Closure Operators, presentations included work from Ruijia Cao, a CS undergraduate advised by Schäfer, and joint work by Bryngelson, Schäfer, Mani, Stanford University Ph.D. student Jessie Liu, and Johns Hopkins Professor Tamer Zaki.
• A paper by School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer and Caltech Professor Houman Owhadi has been accepted for publication in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC). The work exponentially reduces the sample complexity of provably learning elliptic solution operators from input-output pairs.
• School of CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry co-authored a paper published Sept. 27 in the journal Chaos. Collaborators include Durham University Assistant Professor and former School of CSE postdoctoral scholar Christopher Marcotte, School of Physics Professor Flavio Fenton, and Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Matthew Hoffman.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar interviewed on a recent episode of the podcast Boomer Living Broadcast. He shared insight and research pertaining to trust, threats, and trends in artificial intelligence.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Conlain Kelly gave a presentation about their doctoral research Sept. 28 during Novelis Scholars Day.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited virtual seminar Sept. 21 at UCLA as part of their Math Machine Learning seminar series.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation as a spotlight paper at NeurIPS 2023, occurring Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans. The work discusses diffusion models for molecular linker design.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang is co-author of five papers accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2023, occurring Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans. Co-authors of the papers include: Georgia Tech Ph.D. students Alexander Bukharin, Rui Feng, Lingkai Kong, Haotian Sun, Aubrey Toland, Kuan Wang, Yue Yu, Qingru Zhang, and Yuchen Zhuang; Georgia Tech alumni Binghong Chen, Zhehui Chen, Yan Li, and Simiao Zuo; Georgia Tech faculty Bo Dai, Rampi Ramprasad, Huan Tran, and Tuo Zhao; and collaborators Jieyu Zhang, Alexander Ratner, and Ranjay Krishna (University of Washington), Yu Meng (UIUC), Jiaming Shen (Google Research), Qi Zhu (Northwestern University), and Songan Zhang (University of Michigan).
• Polls are open for SIAM members to vote in the 2023 SIAM General Election. School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair Elizabeth Cherry is running for reelection as a Council Member-at-Large. The deadline for voting is Monday, Nov. 6.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Oct. 10, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The School of CSE will host two virtual information sessions Oct. 12 and Oct. 13. CSE will also have an information session Oct. 20 during the Virtual Graduate School Showcase. More information and registration can be found at the CSE Information Sessions webpage.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Oct. 13, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host UCSD Assistant Professor Yuanyuan Shi.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Oct. 17, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Oct. 19, 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 Optimization 101 workshop Oct. 19, 1:00  – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop Oct. 20, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Oct. 20, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host University of Florida Distinguished Professor Sanjay Ranka.

September 22, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of Chemistry & Biochemistry and CSE joint appointment Regents’ Professor C. David Sherrill for receiving the 2023 Charles H. Herty Medal at a reception held Sept. 21. The American Chemical Society’s Georgia Section presents the annual award to recognize work and service by a chemist in the southeastern U.S.
• Congratulations to School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian for being awarded a Hans Fischer Fellowship by the Institute for Advance Study at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The fellowship will support research collaborations with TUM researchers on reduced modeling for structural reliability analysis.
• The Robust Principles work from School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau’s group is currently leads the RobustBench leaderboard. Led by Ph.D. student ShengYun (Anthony) Peng, CSE co-authors include Matthew Hull, Kevin Li, Rahul Duggal, Mansi Phute, and Weilin Xu and Cory Cornelius, and Jason Martin from Intel.
• A paper co-authored by School of Chemistry & Biochemistry and CSE joint appointment Regents’ Professor C. David Sherrill published Sept. 12 in the journal nature. The group introduces Splinter, a dataset created to facilitate the development and improvement of methods for performing intermolecular interaction energies calculations.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai authored three papers accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2023, occurring Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans. One was selected for oral presentation (top 0.5-1%) and another spotlight (top 3%).
• Two papers from School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu’s research group have been accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2023, occurring Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans. Inverse Reinforcement Learning with the Average Reward Criterion will be presented as a poster, and Extraction and Recovery of Spatio-Temporal Structure in Latent Dynamics Alignment with Diffusion Model was selected as a spotlight.
• A paper by School of CSE Ph.D. student Ben Hoover and Associate Professor Polo Chau has been accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2023, occurring Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans. They co-author with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Yuchen Liang, Bao Pham, and Mohammed Zaki, and IBM researchers Rameswar Panda, Hendrik Strobelt, and Dmitry Krotov on the work that introduces a new transformer architecture.
• A paper by School of CSE Ph.D. student M. Fatih Balin and his advisor Professor Ümit Çatalyürek has been accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2023, occurring Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans. Their fully GPU-accelerated GNN sampling code is already part of the Deep Graph Learning (DGL) framework, called LaborSampler.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited seminar Sept. 15 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, he presented Multi-Scale Modeling of Complex Flows at Extreme Computational Scales.
• School of Physics Ph.D. student Zhixin (Jack) Song and his advisor School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave a tutorial Sept. 22 during IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering. Their tutorial demonstrated how to solve partial differential equations with quantum computers.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited seminar Sept. 12 at the University of Michigan’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, he presented research on derivative-informed neural operators.
• Computing in Cardiology 2023 (CINC 2023) comes to Atlanta Oct. 1-4 at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center. School of CSE Ph.D. students Darby Cairns and Max Comstock, alumnus Shahrokh Shahi, and Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry will present eight total papers and posters.
• Polls opened Sept. 12 for SIAM members to vote in the 2023 SIAM General Election. School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair Elizabeth Cherry is running for reelection as a Council Member-at-Large.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Sept. 26, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop Sept. 27, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Georgia Tech’s newest signature event, Avant South, is occurring Sept. 28-29. The inaugural theme is Artificial Intelligence, and Atlanta hosts visionaries and experts in AI to discuss the future and importance of creating responsible AI.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Sept. 29, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 114. CSE will host ETH Zurich Assistant Professor Rasmus Kyng.
• PACE is offering a application of machine learning workshop Oct. 4, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Oct. 4, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE seminar series continues Oct. 6, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host Texas A&M University Professor Jean-Luc Guermond.
• CSE Programs will host a recruiting event Nov. 3. Registration is open with deadlines set Oct. 12 (if requesting travel support) and Oct. 23 (no travel support requested). More information and registration form can be found at event link.
• The School of CSE will host two virtual information sessions Oct. 12 and Oct. 13. CSE will also have an information session Oct. 20 during the Virtual Graduate School Showcase. More information and registration can be found at the CSE Information Sessions webpage.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Oct. 15, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.

September 8, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Professor Ümit Çatalyürek for his selection as chair elect of the IPDPS steering committee. The symposium on parallel and distributed processing occurs May 27-31 in San Francisco.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson joins the faculty at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering via a courtesy appointment (0%).
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung published Aug. 31 in nature catalysis. In the research, Fung ran density-functional theory calculations in methane to methanol catalysis at room temperature.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen is principal investigator of a $300,000 NSF grant for variationally stable neural networks for simulation, learning, and experimental design of complex physical systems. The grant is part of a collaborative $1.5 million award shared with University of Texas- Austin, University of South Carolina, and Portland State University.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson was awarded a subcontract from Sandia National Lab for research on gas-liquid multiphase computational fluid dynamics.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung co-authored a paper published Aug. 15 in Machine Learning: Science and Technology. The paper discusses improving materials property predictions using graph neural networks.
• School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann and his research group gave nine total presentations at the 2023 International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE) conference. IMAGE 2023 occurred Aug. 28 – Sept. 1 in Houston.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian presented research at the European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH), held Sept. 4-8 in Lisbon, Portugal. Qian presented a paper on balanced truncation for Ensemble Kalman inversion.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited seminar Sept. 6 at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu gave an invited seminar Aug. 31 as part of AI4OPT’s seminar series. Wu gave a presentation on improving variational inference for complex probabilistic modeling.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam and School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Hannah Choi published a preprint on a new active sensing algorithm for embodied exploration. The preprint can be found here.
• Ajay Bati, an undergraduate student studying under School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, published the group’s work on RoseNNa, a library for fast, dependency-free neural network inference within HPC application codebases.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer and his research group began using a AFOSR grant Sept. 1. The grant is used toward information geometric regularization for simulation and optimization of supersonic flow.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai has been invited to give a talk at UCLA on Oct. 17.
• A paper by School of CSE Polo Chau’s research group has been accepted for presentation at the 34th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), occurring Nov. 20-24 in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Co-authors include: ShengYun (Anthony) Peng, Weilin Xu, Cory Cornelius, Matthew Hull, Kevin Li, Rahul Duggal, Mansi Phute, and Jason Martin.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Ben Hoover is on a panel for Associative Memory and Hopfield Networks workshop at NeurIPS 2023. The conference occurs Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans.
• Devito Codes and AMD collaborate with School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s group using one of their images as a figure in this article about using high-performance computing in geophysical exploration.
• Polls open Sept. 12 for SIAM members to vote in the 2023 SIAM General Election. School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair Elizabeth Cherry is running for reelection as a Council Member-at-Large.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop Sept. 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Sept. 12, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual OSG Orientation Sept. 14, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• CSE GSA is organizing a career panel Sept. 15, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in the CSE workroom. The topic is Navigating Academia After Ph.D. and panelists include School of CSE faculty Rich Vuduc, Edmond Chow, Nisha Chandramoorthy, Nabil Imam, and Raphaël Pestourie. Lunch will be provided and attendees can send dietary restrictions and submit questions using this form.  
• The School of CSE seminar series begins with the first seminar of the semester Sept. 15, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Coda 230. CSE will host Emory University Professor Alessandro Veneziani.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Sept. 19, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• Georgia Tech’s newest signature event, Avant South, is occurring Sept. 28-29. The inaugural theme is Artificial Intelligence, and Atlanta hosts visionaries and experts in AI to discuss the future and importance of creating responsible AI.

August 18, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE’s Srinivas Aluru, who has been appointed Regents’ Professor by the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents. Regents’ Professor is the highest academic recognition bestowed by the USG.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow for coauthoring a paper that will receive the SC23 Test of Time Award. The award recognizes the group for their paper Millisecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Anton, presented at SC09 in Portland, Oregon.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Associate Professor Polo Chau for receiving a seed grant from the Emory-Georgia Tech Health Care Innovation Program/Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance. The grant is for the group’s work on CardiacAR Evaluation, a prototype mobile AR surgical planning application.
• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. student Michael Thomas for being selected for the 2023 Public Health Informatics Fellowship at the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Viral Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch.
• Recent School of CSE alumni Tianfan Fu (Ph.D. CS 2023) and coauthors published a paper in nature. Published on Aug 2., the paper discussed scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence.
• School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann was interviewed in a podcast by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). In the podcast, Herrmann provides insights into why modernizing wave-equation inversion frameworks is important to geophysics, and why the future of the oil and gas industry depends on the democratization of technology design.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang organized the workshop InQuBATE: Computational Problems in Single Cell Transcriptions and Multi-omics, held Aug. 7-8 at Georgia Tech. Zhang is a faculty member of the InQuBATE Training Program, which integrates quantitative and data science methods into life science training.
• School of CSE faculty participated in the College of Computing’s 3-Minutes of Madness research pitching session held Aug. 17. Presenters included Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson, Peng Chen, Xiuwei Zhang, Bo Dai, and Associate Professor Polo Chau.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung gave an invited talk Aug. 15 at the American Chemical Society Fall 2023 meeting. He presented recent work on generative models for materials in data-driven design of energy materials.
• School of CSE researchers presented a tutorial on uncertainty quantification in deep learning at KDD 2023, held Aug. 6-10 in Long Beach, California. Presenters included Ph.D. students Lingkai Kong and Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Assistant Professors Peng Chen and Chao Zhang, and Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Jinwoo Go and Assistant Professor Peng Chen will present at ICIAM 2023, occurring Aug. 20-25 in Tokyo. Chen has four co-authored presentations and co-organizes a minisymposium on scientific machine learning for inverse problems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen’s research group released SOUPy, an open-source library on large-scale stochastic optimization for complex systems under uncertainty.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai was accepted for presentation at IEEE CDC 2023. The paper will be presented at the conference held Dec. 13-15 in Singapore.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Aug. 22, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Aug. 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 Aug. 29, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Sept. 6, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Sept. 7, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.

August 4, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Alexander Rodríguez for defending his dissertation! Next, Dr. Rodríguez will begin an assistant professor position at the University of Michigan’s Computer Science and Engineering Program.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie and his family have arrived in Atlanta to begin working on campus at Georgia Tech.
• School of CSE faculty and students were among numerous Georgia Tech researchers presenting papers at ICML 2023, held July 23-29 in Honolulu. The GT @ ICML microsite has more about the researchers and their presentations.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar contributed to this fastcompany.com article about fighting toxic speech using artificial intelligence.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung served on a panel and gave an invited talk at the Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) 2023 Workshop held virtually July 25-27. The workshop was hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory Aug. 1-3 where he also gave a talk during the ORNL Seminar Series.
• A paper co-authored by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen was published in the journal Computer Methods in Applies Mechanics and Engineering.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung has been invited to give a talk Aug. 13-17 at the American Chemical Society Fall 2023 meeting.
• PACE maintenance is scheduled to start at 6:00 a.m., August 8, and continue through August 10 at 11:59 p.m. All headnodes and clusters will be unavailable while PACE makes upgrades to improve overall experience.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Aug. 15, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Aug. 16, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

July 21, 2023:

• Congratulations School of CSE Ph.D. student Gaurav Verma for being selected as a 2023 J.P. Morgan Chase Ph.D. fellow! Verma is one of only 13 awardees from around the world to receive the fellowship!
• Congratulations to joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian for her invitation to the National Academy of Engineering’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2023 Symposium! Qian joins a cohort of 81 outstanding early-career engineers to the symposium held Sept. 10 – 13 at the University of Colorado.
• Congratulations to Team Phoenix for being selected to compete at the IndySCC competition, occurring November 3 – 5! Team Phoenix is Georgia Tech’s student cluster competition team, supported through the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program and coached by CSE faculty and students.
• A paper by joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s research group made the cover of the July edition of The Leading Edge. TLE is the journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and authors include: Mathias Louboutin, Ziyi (Francis) Yin, Rafael Orozco, Thomas Grady II, Ali Siahkoohi, Gabrio Rizzuti, Philipp Witte, Olav Møyner, and Gerard Gorman.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam is the Georgia Tech lead of a $4 million NSF grant provided to Washington University in St. Louis. The grant is funded through the Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) program. Imam will work with neuroscientists and engineers to build electronic interfaces to insect brains and investigate insect behavior during odor-driven navigation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen is co-principal investigator of an NSF grant awarding $1.5 million. The grant is in collaboration with College of Design Professor Subhrajit Guhathakurta and researchers from the University of South Florida in which Chen will develop fast and scalable computational methods for Bayesian data assimilation to achieve real-time flooding risk prediction.
• School of Physics Professor Flavio Fenton discusses in this Quanta Magazine podcast using supercomputers to study hearts and develop treatments for arrhythmias. Fenton is a CSE programs faculty member and collaborates with School of CSE faculty and students.
• Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Cassie Mitchell won two silver medals at the World Para Athletics Championships. Mitchell is a CSE programs faculty member and advisor to School of CSE students.
• PACE, in collaboration with ACCESS and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is hosting Big Data & Machine Learning Workshop July 31 – Aug. 1. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Aug. 1, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session Aug. 1, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering an instructional cluster (ICE) info session Aug. 2, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.

July 7, 2023:

• Congratulations to School of CSE instructors named in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Spring 2023 CIOS Honor Roll! Honorees include Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, (CSE 6240: Web Search & Text Mining), Lecturer Max Mahdi Roozbahani (CS 4641: Machine Learning), and CSE alumnus Mengmeng Liu (CSE 6242: Data & Visual Analytics)!
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Zijie (Jay) Wang for receiving a best paper nomination at ACL 2023! The paper ranked in the top 1.6% of all submissions and selected for oral presentation at the conference. Co-authors of DiffusionDB include: Evan Montoya, David Munechika, Haoyang Yang, Ben Hoover, and Polo Chau.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson won a four-year grant from the Army Research Office. It is titled Investigation and Inference of Soft Material Deformation Mechanisms Unlocked at Large Speeds, Finite Deformations, and Many Cycles.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk July 6 at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He discussed topics about security of AI models and how AI can improve internet security.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nisha Chandramoorthy spoke at three seminars to present her work on linear response computation, generalization, and sampling. These included a June 14 visit to the SIERRA Team at INRIA Paris, the CTCS Lab at IIT-Madras on July 3, and the Department of Data Science at IISER Pune on July 5.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen presented a webinar June 30 at the Data-Driven Physical Simulation (DDPS) series at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There, he presented work on derivative-informed neural operators.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar gave an invited talk June 21 at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He spoke on a panel that discussed misinformation, misconceptions, and bias.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen and his research group spoke at the workshop on Scientific Machine Learning June 21 at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada. They presented research on machine learning for Bayesian optimal experimental design, PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and Bayesian inference problems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nisha Chandramoorthy presented a poster June 14 at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference (FoCM 2023), held June 12-21 in Paris. Her poster introduced a score-based operator Newton construction of transport maps.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schäfer published a preprint June 23 introducing a fast macroscopic forcing method.
• A paper by School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Haekyu Park has been accepted to the ICML 2023 workshop on AI & HCI, to be held July 29 in Honolulu. Co-authors include: Seongmin Lee, Ben Hoover, Austin Wright, Omar Shaikh, Rahul Duggal, Nilaksh Das, Judy Hoffman, and Polo Chau.
• A paper by School of CSE Ph.D. student Seongmin Lee has been accepted to the ICML 2023 workshop on AI & HCI, to be held July 29 in Honolulu. Co-authors include Ali Payani and Polo Chau.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation July 12, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session July 13, 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 July 18, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering an instructional cluster (ICE) info session July 19, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.