December 6:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Rafael Orozco on his successful dissertation defense on Nov. 18. Advised by School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint Professor Felix Herrmann, Orozco defended Generative Models for Uncertainty Quantification of Medical and Seismic Imaging.
• Congratulations to School of CSE alumnus Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML 2024) for being named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science for 2025. Forbes selected Wang for his work in making artificial intelligence accessible, interpretable, and accountable.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Zhiyuan (Leo) Zhao and Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash for winning one of four awards at the data.org Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETS) Public Health Challenge. Zhao and Prakash collaborated with University of Virginia and University of Arizona researchers on the project on the joint deep learning and epidemic model for public health analyses with differential privacy.
• Congratulations to Irene Simó Muñoz for placing second in the ACM Student Research Competition at SC24. Muñoz is an M.S. student from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and studied at CSE in Spring 2024 under Assistant Professor Peng Chen as an exchange student.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yiqiao (Ahren) Jin was selected as one of eight finalists for the Roblox Graduate Fellowship. Jin was a finalist among hundreds of applicants for the prize of academic funding worth $70,000 over two years.
• School of CSE M.S. student Grace Driskill was among the Georgia Tech Women’s Cross Country team that placed seventh at the NCAA Women’s Cross Country South Regionals on Nov. 15. Driskill was the fourth faster runner from Georgia Tech and placed 41st overall, helping Georgia Tech finish seventh out of 31 teams.
• One-third of School of CSE faculty have papers selected for presentation next week at NeurIPS 2024. The faculty make the School of CSE the most represented School from Georgia Tech at the international conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning research. Visit the GT @ NeurIPS 2024 website for a full listing of Georgia Tech researchers and work at the conference.
• Several School of CSE researchers attended SC24, held Nov. 17-22 in Atlanta. Check out the GT @ SC24 website for a full listing of abstracts and news from the conference.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group participated in the JUPITER Research and Early Access Program (JUREAP) where their ExaMFlow project received the JUREAP certificate for scaling efficiency and node performance. Running the group’s code on JUPITER’s JUWELS Booster and JETI early access systems help prepare JUPITER to come online in 2025, becoming Europe’s first exascale supercomputer.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group presented research at the 77th Annal Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD), held Nov. 24-26 in Salt Lake City. The group presented work on multiphase flow, FSI, particle-laden flow, material characterization, and more.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidates Kaan Sancak and M. Fatih Balin and Professor Ümit Çatalyürek authored a poster presented on Nov. 27 at the virtual Learning on Graphs Conference. The group’s paper investigates whether complicated methods are necessary if foundational and scalable models can achieve better quality on large datasets.
• School of CSE Regents’ Professor Emeritus Richard Fujimoto published a paper in the journal Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation Intl. The paper documents the development of the parallel and distributed simulation field and commemorates the 100th volume of the journal that features former editors-in-chief.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo is co-author of a paper published in Nature Communications Chemistry on Dec. 4. Luo partnered with Bioinformatics Ph.D. student Li-Yen (Zoey) Yang, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Assistant Professor Andrew McShan, and Virginia Tech Ph.D. candidate Kaike Ping on BioDolphin, a curated database of over 127,000 lipid-protein interactions.
• School of Physics Ph.D. candidate Zhixin (Jack) Song and School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a paper accepted for publication in the journal Computers & Fluids. The pair collaborated with GTRI Research Scientist Bryan Gard and undergraduate student Robert Deaton on the work about quantum solves of the Navier-Stokes equations using current quantum devices.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen co-authored a paper published in the journal Physical Review D. Chen partnered with University of Texas at Austin Researchers Bassel Saleh, Aaron Zimmerman, and Omar Ghattas on the paper that reveals properties of colliding black holes.
• School of CSE alumnus Ziyi (Francis) Yin (Ph.D. CSE 2024), Ph.D. candidate Rafael Orozco, and School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint Professor Felix Herrmann authored a paper published in the journal Geophysics. The work on WISER, an algorithm that uses sound waves to analyze underground structures.
• School of CSE alumnus Koby Hayashi (Ph.D. CSE 2024) and Regents’ Professor and Chair Haesun Park co-authored a paper accepted for publication to the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. Hayashi and Park collaborated with Wake Forest University Associate Professor Grey Ballard and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Senior Data Scientist Sinan Aksoy on the work on randomized algorithms for symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen, Ph.D. student Phillip Si, and undergraduate student Pengpeng Xiao submitted a paper on Nov. 28. The work introduces a new method, called LD-EnSF, for fast data assimilation of complex physical systems with sparse observations by integrating latent dynamics and diffusion model-based ensemble score filter.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam published a preprint on Nov. 19 in collaboration with neuroscientists at Cornell University. The paper investigates information representation in macroscopic networks of the brain, and provides a computational account of a 550-million-year-old essential duality in brain evolution.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave an invited talk on Dec. 9 at Georgia Tech’s School of Mathematics. Tang presented work on learning dynamical systems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium at Columbia University on Dec. 3. Chen presented his work on neural surrogates for fast and scalable Bayesian optimal experimental design.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited guest lecture on Nov. 21 at MIT. Dai presented his work on representation-based reinforcement learning. 
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave a virtual talk on Nov. 19 at the Southern University of Science and Technology. Tang presented work on learning dynamical systems at the Computational and Applies Math Seminar.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk at the MATH4UQ Seminar at RWTH Aachen University on Nov. 19. Chen presented his work on neural surrogates for fast and scalable Bayesian optimal experimental design.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson spoke at ART@SC24 on Nov. 16. Bryngelson gave a talk on high-performance computing for partial differential equations solves and large-scale training.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk on Nov. 12 at ETH Zurich. Dai presented his work on representation-based reinforcement learning.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Dec. 12, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE maintenance is scheduled to start at 6:00 a.m., Jan 13, and continue through Jan. 16 at 11:59 p.m. All headnodes and clusters will be unavailable while PACE makes upgrades to improve overall experience.

November 15:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Yue Yu on his successful dissertation defense on Nov. 6. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, Yu defended Towards Efficiently and Reliably Harnessing Pre-trained Language Models: A Data-centric Lens.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Conlain Kelly on their successful dissertation defense on Nov. 11. Advised by School of ME/MSE/CSE joint Regents’ Professor Surya Kalidindi, Kelly defended Thermodynamically-Informed Iterative Neural Operators for Heterogeneous Elastic Localization.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Regents’ Professor Srinivas Aluru for receiving the 2025 Charles Babbage Award. Presented by the IEEE Computer Society, Aluru received the award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the field of parallel computational biology. Aluru will present his work in June 2025 at the annual IEEE-CS International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) in Milan.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Professor Polo Chau for winning the Innovator Award at the M.S. Analytics Ten Year Anniversary Celebration on Nov. 7. Chau has served as the program’s associate director since 2014 and over 1,000 students have taken his CSE 6242 Data and Visual Analytics course each semester in recent years.
• School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann and CSE Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie gave invited talks at the Workshop on Cross-Disciplinary Challenges and Opportunities in AI Applications to Science and Engineering, held Nov. 6-8 at the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI). Herrmann discussed digital twins in the era of generative AI for applications in geological carbon dioxide storage and Pestourie spoke on scientific machine learning for optimization via surrogate models.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave an invited presentation on Nov. 7 as part of the Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Seminar series at the University of Delaware’s Department of mathematical Science. Tang talked about learning dynamics by leveraging low dimensional structures.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk on Nov. 12 at ETH Zurich. Dai presented work on representation-based reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang presented three papers at EMNLP 2024, held Nov. 12-16 in Miami. Zhang was among eight College of Computing faculty presenting research at the conference on empirical methods in natural language processing.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Agam Shah presented a paper at EMNLP 2024, held Nov. 12-16 in Miami. First authors included undergraduate students Arnav Hiray, Yunsong Liu, and Mingxiao Song.
• Research groups under School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann and School of ECE Professor Ghassan AlRegib hosted their annual ML4Seismic Partners Meeting Nov. 13-15. The meeting hosts visitors from the energy industry and major Cloud providers for research presentations from the groups.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie will present research on Nov. 19 at the Duke Advanced Multifunctional Metamaterials (AMM) Workshop at Duke University. Pestourie will discuss parameterization of metamaterials’ geometry and effects on computation costs of inverse design.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai will give a guest lecture on Nov. 21 at MIT. Dai presented work on representation-based reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Sophie Bekerman and Assistant Professor Raphaël Pestourie are organizing the 2nd Student-Focused Scientific Machine Learning Symposium at Georgia Tech, occurring Nov. 19 and Nov. 21. Originating from the graduate special topics course on scientific machine learning at Georgia Tech, the symposium showcases development and applications of scientific machine learning methodologies led by current students in a wide array of applications.
• CSE GSA is seeking seminar speakers for Fall 2025. Use this form to submit your recommendation for who the School of CSE should invite as seminar speakers. These can be researchers from any area relevant to the CSE community.
• PACE is offering a Using Containers at PACE workshop on Nov. 22, 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 Nov. 22, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host School of ISyE Professor Spyros Reveliotis.
• PACE is offering an Applications of Machine Learning workshop on Nov. 25, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Dec. 3, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Dec. 3, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.

November 1:

• Georgia Tech’s Institute for Matter and Systems (IMS) has selected School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer as the lead for one of seven new interdisciplinary research initiatives for 2024. Schäfer will lead the initiative on Matter and Information. Initiative leads were selected based on their innovative approaches, potential impact, and alignment with IMS’ mission to push the boundaries of science and technology, and winners receive $10,000, access to state-of-the-art facilities, and other support from IMS to bring their projects to life.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen is a collaborator on a project that collected essential data from hurricanes Helene and Milton. Chen partnered with University of South Florida and Georgia Tech researchers on CRIS-HAZARD, an app that gathers crowdsourced data to identify flooding and inform policy in coastal communities.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty presented research at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24), held Oct. 21-25 in Atlanta. Faculty who represented the School of CSE included: Peng Chen, Elizabeth Cherry, Edmond Chow, Felix Herrmann, Surya Kalidindi, Raphaël Pestourie, Elizabeth Qian, Florian Schäfer, and Xiuwei Zhang.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group were awarded an ACCESS-CI Accelerate annual allocation of 3 million credits for developing sub-grid physics models. The credits equate to 45,000 GPU hours on the NVIDIA A100.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk on Oct. 25 at the at the University of Texas at Austin. Dai presented work on representation-based reinforcement learning as part of a seminar series at the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML).
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang presented a paper at the 4th Modular Finite Element Methods (MFEM) Community Workshop held Oct. 22-24 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tang presented a summary of research led by his former postdoc, Daniel Serino, on scalable solvers for fusion whole device modeling and recent work on an MFEM-based MHD equilibrium solver.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai presented a paper at INFORMS 2024, held Oct. 20-23 in Seattle. Dai presented work on diffusion spectral representation for reinforcement learning in a session on generative AI for decision making. 
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited talk on Oct. 14 at the Level-Set Seminar at UCLA. Schäfer presented his group’s work on information geometric mechanics.
• Joint research between School of CSE Assistant Professors Florian Schäfer and Spencer Bryngelson published in the journal Physical Review Fluids. They co-author the work with Ph.D. student Jesse Liu and Associate Professor Ali Mani, both from Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University Professor Tamer Zaki.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Dayoung Kang and School of AE/CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian are first-authors of a paper accepted for publication in the journal Foundations of Data Science. Oden Institute for Computational Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Vignesh Sella and Research Associate Anirban Chaudhuri co-author the paper on multifidelity linear regression for scientific machine learning from scarce data.
• Research groups under School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann and School of ECE Professor Ghassan AlRegib will host their annual ML4Seismic Partners Meeting Nov. 13-15. The meeting hosts visitors from the energy industry and major Cloud providers for research presentations from the groups.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang is co-author of three papers accepted for presentation at EMNLP 2024, occurring Nov. 12-16 in Miami. Zhang is among eight College of Computing faculty presenting research at the conference on empirical methods in natural language processing.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Agam Shah is corresponding author of a paper accepted at the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024), occurring Nov. 12-16 in Miami. First authors include undergraduate students Arnav Hiray, Yunsong Liu, and Mingxiao Song.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Lu Mi is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mi co-authored the paper with Andrew Wagenmaker, Marton Rozsa, Matthew Bull, Karel Svoboda, Kayvon Daie, Matthew Golub, and Kevin Jamieson, all colleagues from the University of Washington and Allen Institute for Brain Science.
• School of CSE Professor Polo Chau’s group collaborated on a paper with the School of Interactive Computing and Stanford University that was accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ph.D. student Mansi Phute co-authored the paper with Anisha Pal (M.S. CS 2024), Julia Kruk (M.S. CS 2024), Manognya Bhattaram (M.S. CS 2022), Stanford University Assistant Professor Diyi Yang, and IC Assistant Professor Judy Hoffman.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Kai Wang is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Wang co-authored the paper with Weizmann Institute of Technology Ph.D. student Guy Kornowski, MIT Postdoctoral Researcher Swati Padmanabhan, Purdue University Assistant Professor Zhe Zhang, and MIT Professor Suvrit Sra.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Harshavardhan Kamarthi is the author of a paper accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Advised by School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash, the paper introduces a large pre-trained time series models for cross-domain time series analysis tasks.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Victor Fung is co-authored a paper with ECE Assistant Professor Pan Li that accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Fung co-authored the paper with University of Science and Technology of China undergraduate student Deyu Zou, Ph.D. students Shikun Liu and Siqi Miao, and UC Santa Barbara Assistant Professor Shiyu Chang.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Ben Hoover is first author of a paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Advised by School of CSE Professor Polo Chau, Hoover led the work with IBM researchers Hendrik Strobelt, Parikshit Ram, and Dmitry Krotov.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Agam Shah is co-first author of a paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Co-advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang and Scheller College of Business Professor Sudheer Chava, Shah led the work with undergraduate students Huzaifa Pardawala and Siddhant Sukhani. Co-authors include CS undergraduate students Veer Kejriwal, Abhishek Pillai, Rohan Bhasin, Andrew DiBiasio, Tarun Mandapati, and Dhruv Adha.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dai collaborated with Hanjun Dai, Bethany Wang, Xingchen Wan, Sherry Yang, Azade Nova, Pengcheng Yin, Mangpo Phothilimthana, Charles Sutton, and Dale Schuurmans on a query engine for unstructured databases.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dai collaborated with Jincheng Mei, Alekh Agarwal, Sharan Vaswani, Anant Raj, Csaba Szepesvari, and Dale Schuurmans on stochastic gradient bandits for arbitrary learning rates.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai is co-author of a paper accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dai collaborated with Dmitry Shribak, Chen-Xiao Gao, Yitong Li, and Chenjun Xiao on diffusion spectral representation for reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang co-authored a recently submitted paper. Tang co-authored the paper with Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Golo Wimmer and Ben Southworth on a structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the phase field model.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer gave an invited talk on Sept. 16 at the PSU-Purdue-UMD Joint Seminar on Mathematical Data Science. Schäfer presented his group’s work on information geometric mechanics.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk on Sept. 13 at a machine learning seminar hosted by the School of Mathematics. Dai presented work on representation-based reinforcement learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai gave an invited talk on Sept. 10 as part of the Safe Reinforcement Learning Online Seminar series. Dai presented work on representation-based reinforcement learning.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop on Nov. 4, 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Nov. 5, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Using Containers at PACE workshop on Nov. 7, 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 Nov. 8, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Boston University Assistant Professor Boqing Gong.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is hosting a workshop on Optimizing the Advisor-Advisee Relationship led by Jana Stone, director of Professional Development and Postdoctoral Services within the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development at Georgia Tech. The workshop is on Nov. 11 at 11:00 at a location TBD in Coda.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop on Nov. 12, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Nov. 13, 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 Nov. 15, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Cornell University Assistant Professor Giulia Guidi.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Nov. 22, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host School of ISyE Professor Spyros Reveliotis.

October 18:

• School of CSE Professor Polo Chau and his group presented two papers and two posters at IEEE VIS 2024, held virtually Oct. 13-18. Their work on Transformer Explainer won the best poster award and over 128,000 people have used it since its recent launch. Ph.D. students Aeree Cho, Alex Karpekov, and undergraduate student Grace Kim co-led the work. Ph.D. students Alec Helbling, Seongmin Lee, Ben Hoover, and alumnus Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML 2024) collaborated on the paper.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu co-authored a paper that won an Outstanding Student Paper at IEEE HPEC 2024, held virtually Sept. 23-27. Xu co-authored the paper with University of Chicago postdoctoral researcher Brian Wheatman on the work on a locality-optimized dynamic-graph representation.
• School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann gave an invited talk to Purdue University’s Institute for Control, optimization, and Networks (ICON) on Sept. 27. Herrmann presented his group’s work in developing a digital twin for geological carbon storage. 
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen served on the scientific committee at the conference on Reduced Order Modeling and Machine Learning for Large Eddy Simulation and Related Topics (ROM+ML4LES+). The conference occurred Oct. 13-15 at Emory University.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Raphaël Pestourie and Peng Chen are organizing a mini symposium at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics and Data Science (MDS 24), occurring Oct. 21-25 in Atlanta. The mini symposium focuses on data-driven scientific machine learning for the optimization of complex systems, and will include a presentation from School of AE/CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang presented two posters at the 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (APS DPP), held Oct. 7-11 in Atlanta. Tang presented a poster on an implicit, adaptive, scalable solver for a relativistic Fokker-Planck-Boltzmann model. Tang collaborated with LANL researchers on a poster on physics studies using this code and their VPIC code.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen co-authored a paper published in the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science. Chen with researchers from Stanford University and the University of South Carolina on the work on convex optimization for optimal neural network approximation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang is a co-author of a submitted paper on runaway electrons through wave-wave and wave-particle interactions. The group used LANL’s VPIC code to conduct large-scale Particle-in-Cell simulations to discover new physics related slow-X modes.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen and alumnus Jinwoo Go (Ph.D. CSE 2024) submitted a paper on Bayesian optimal experimental design.
• A paper from School of CSE Professor Polo Chau’s group was accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ph.D. students ShengYun (Anthony) Peng, Matthew Hull, and IBM Research principal research staff member Pin-Yu Chen co-author the paper with Chau.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen’s group was accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ph.D. student Yuan Qiu and undergraduate student Nolan Bridges co-author the paper with Chen.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu’s group was accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ph.D. students Yule Wang, Chengrui Li, and Weihan Li co-author the paper with Wu.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professors Chao Zhang and Kai Wang and their groups was accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Alumnus Lingkai Kong (Ph.D. CSE 2024) and graduate students Haorui Wang and Wehnao Mu are first authors of the paper. Ph.D. students Yuchen Zhuang and Rongzhi Zhang, Cornell University Ph.D. student Yuanqi Du, UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Yifei Zhou, and Caltech postdoctoral researcher Yue Song collaborated on the work.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professors Chao Zhang and Bo Dai and their groups was accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ph.D. student Yuchen Zhuang is first author of the paper. Ph.D. students Haotian Sun and Yue Yu, Tsinghua University student Rushi Qiang, and Meta AI research scientist Qifan Wang collaborated on the work.
• A paper from School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash and Assistant Professor Chao Zhang and their groups was accepted at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ph.D. student Haoxin Liu is first author of the paper. Graduate students Shangqing Xu, Zhiyuan Zhao, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, and alumni Lingkai Kong (Ph.D. CSE 2024) and Megha Sharma (M.S. CS 2024) collaborated on the work.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Yue Yu is first author of a paper accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Yu worked on the paper while interning at NVIDIA where he collaborated with Wei Peng, Zihan Liu, Boxin Wang, Jiaxuan You, Mohammad Shoeybi, and Bryan Catanzaro. Yu is advised by Assistant Professor Chao Zhang.
• A paper from School of CSE Professor Polo Chau’s group was accepted to the 3rd Table Representation Learning Workshop (TRL) at NeurIPS 2024, occurring Dec. 10-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ph.D. students ShengYun (Anthony) Peng, Seongmin Lee, undergraduate student Aishwarya Chakravarthy, and ADP Inc. researchers Xiaojing Wang and Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan co-author the paper with Chau.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Oct. 22, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Oct. 22, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a Using Containers at PACE  workshop on Oct. 25, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on Oct. 28, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The next HotCSE seminar of the semester is on Oct. 30 at 12:00 in Coda 230. Ph.D. candidate Conlain Kelly will present Embedding Thermodynamics into Neural Operators for Variable-Coefficient PDEs.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Nov. 8, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Boston University Assistant Professor Boqing Gong.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Nov. 15, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Cornell University Assistant Professor Giulia Guidi.

September 20:

• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group received an ACCESS-CI Maximize allocation from NSF. The award amounts to 225,000 GPU hours per year and focuses on algorithms for direct simulation of compressible and multiphase flow.
• Collaborative research from School of CSE Professor Polo Chau’s group and Google has been accepted for presentation at IEEE VIS 2024, occurring Oct. 13-18 in St. Pete Beach, Florida. LLM Attributor visualizes training data points responsible for large language models’ generated text, and was developed by Ph.D. students Seongmin Lee, Alec Helbling, ShengYun (Anthony) Peng, and Mansi Phute, undergraduate student Aishwarya Chakravarthy, and alumni Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML 2024) and Minsuk Kahng (Ph.D. CS 2019).
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson is co-author of a published preprint that constructs a shock-stable scheme that achieves near 5th order accuracy from a three-point stencil. Collaborators include Shantanu Shahane, Sheide Chammas, Yi-Fan Chen, Qing Wang, Fei Sha, and Leonardo Zepada-Núñez from Google Research and Deniz Bezgin, Aaron Buhendwa, Steffen Schmidt, and Nikolaus Adams from the Technical University of Munich.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group has been accepted for presentation at SC24 workshop on compiler directives, occurring Nov. 17-22 in Atlanta. Ph.D. students Ben Wilfong and Anand Radhakrishnan, and undergraduate student Henry Le Berre collaborate with Steve Abbot from HPE and Reuben Budiardja from ORNL on work that achieves performant compute kernels on AMD GPU devices via OpenACC offloading and use them to efficiently scale to all of OLCF Frontier.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian is co-author of a published preprint. The joint work with Virginia Tech Professor Christopher Beattie provides a new analysis of Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EKI) for solving linear least-squares problems that illuminates six fundamental subspaces of EKI analogous to the famous four fundamental subspaces of linear algebra.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is seeking members to participate in activities, plan events, and represent the student body of the School of CSE. Students interested in joining CSE GSA should fill out the interest form or contact by email at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu.  
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.   
• The School of CSE has a new page on LinkedIn! Be sure to follow to keep up our latest news and network with our colleagues!
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Sept. 24, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The College of Computing is hosting a college-wide Graduate Welcome Event on Sept. 24, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Tech Green. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on Sept 25, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Optimization 101 workshop on Sept 26, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The first HotCSE seminar of the semester is on Sept. 25 at 12:00 in Coda C1115. Ph.D. student Zhixin (Jack) Song will present Scientific Computation on Quantum Computers.
• PACE is offering a Using Containers at PACE  workshop on Sept 27, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Sept. 27, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Oak Ridge National Laboratory Senior Staff Scientist Guannan Zhang.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Oct. 4, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host University of Washington Associate Professor Jingwei Hu.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Oct. 11, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Los Alamos National Laboratory Senior Staff Scientist Luis Chacon.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Oct. 18, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Senior Scientist Aydin Buluc.

September 6:

• School of CSE alumnus Alexander Rodríguez (Ph.D. CS 2023) won an outstanding dissertation award runner-up at the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024), held Aug. 25-29 in Barcelona, Spain. Advised by Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash, Rodríguez defended Artificial Intelligence for Data-centric Surveillance and Forecasting of Epidemics in August 2023. Rodríguez's dissertation also earned him the College of Computing's Outstanding Dissertation Award in April 2024.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Ben Wilfong is a recipient of the 2024-2025 CRNCH Fellowship. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, Wilfong received the fellowship for application optimization on superchip architectures, like NVIDIA Grace Hopper and AMD MI300A.
• A manuscript from School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s group was the most downloaded paper in 2023 from The Leading Edge, a journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). Authors include School of CSE alumni Mathias Louboutin (Ph.D. CS 2020), Ali Siahkoohi (Ph.D. CSE 2022), Philipp Witte (Ph.D. CSE 2020), and Ziyi (Francis) Yin (Ph.D. CSE 2024), Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco, Thomas Grady, Shearwater Research Geophysicist Gabrio Rizzuti, SINTEF Research Scientist Olav Møyner, and Imperial College of London Professor Gerard Gorman.  
• Collaborative research from School of CSE Professor Polo Chau’s group and IBM Research has achieved viral success with 60,000 users in just ten days. Ph.D. students Aeree Cho, Alec Helbling, Seongmin Lee, Alex Karpekov, and Ben Hoover, undergraduate student Grace Kim, alumnus Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML 2024) are contributors toward Transformer Explainer, which will be presented at IEEE VIS 2024, occurring Oct. 13-18 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group have started a collaborative project with Saad Bhamla, associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Bryngelson’s group and the Bhamla Lab will work on bio-inspired propulsion that is funded by DARPA.
• Coulter Department of BME and School of CSE joint Regents’ Professor Mark Borodovsky gave a plenary talk at the 14th International Conference of the Georgian Mathematical Union (Batumi 2024), held Sept. 2-7 in Batumi, Georgia. Borodovsky presented work on mathematical modeling of genome organization and algorithms of gene prediction.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty presented research at the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024), held Aug. 25-29 in Barcelona, Spain. Check out the GT @ KDD 2024 interactive graphic for more on the researchers and their papers.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty presented research at the International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE 2024), held Aug. 26-29 in Houston. Check out the GT @ IMAGE 2024 interactive graphic for more on the researchers and their papers.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson participated in the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), held Aug. 25-30 in Daegu, South Korea. Bryngelson moderated a session on drops, bubbles, and interfaces and presented work on sub-grid cavitation models and their computation on exascale machines.
• School of CSE Postdoctoral Fellow Tianyi Chu is first author of a published manuscript preprint on inferring rheological properties via Bayesian optimal design and bubble dynamics. School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and University of Michigan Assistant Professor Jonathan Estrada co-authored the manuscript.
• A paper from School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann’s group was featured in the Geophysics Bright Spot in the September issue of The Leading Edge, a journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). Authors of the work on WISE include School of CSE alumni Mathias Louboutin (Ph.D. CS 2020) and Ziyi (Francis) Yin (Ph.D. CSE 2024), and Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam gave an invited talk on Aug. 26 at the Center for Cyborg and Biorobotic Research (CyBoR) at Washington University in St. Louis. Imam spoke about his group’s research on computational models of locust olfactory-motor control.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Phillip Si and Assistant Professor Peng Chen submitted a paper on generative AI-enabled data assimilation with application to medium range weather prediction.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is seeking members to participate in activities, plan events, and represent the student body of the School of CSE. Students interested in joining CSE GSA should fill out the interest form or contact by email at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu.  
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.   
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is hosting a hike at Sweetwater Creek State Park on Sept. 14. Visit the event page for more information and sign up.   
• The School of CSE has a new page on LinkedIn! Be sure to follow to keep up our latest news and network with our colleagues!
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Sept. 10, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The College of Computing's Office of Community and Student Engagement is hosting a time management presentation for students on Sept. 10 at 11 a.m. in the College of Computing Building, room 017. Pizza will be provided for attendees.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Sept. 10, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The College of Computing's Office of Community and Student Engagement hosts Self-Care Thursday on Sept. 12 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tech Rec. Massages, bowling, pool, and pizza will be available.
• PACE is offering a Python 101 workshop on Sept 12, 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Sept. 13, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Emory University Assistant Professor Carl Yang.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Sept. 19, 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 Sept. 20, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host University of Delaware Professor Jingmei Qiu.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Sept. 27, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host Oak Ridge National Laboratory Senior Staff Scientist Guannan Zhang.
• The School of CSE Seminar Series continues Oct. 4, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. CSE will host University of Washington Associate Professor Jingwei Hu.

August 23:

• School of CSE Assistant Professors Lu Mi and Qi Tang are on campus and have begun work at Georgia Tech! Welcome to Atlanta, Lu and Qi!
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Grant Bruer on successfully proposing his Ph.D. dissertation on Aug. 22! Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow, Bruer proposed Sequential Data Assimilation for Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Reservoirs.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group achieved the first open-source computational fluid dynamics result on the AMD MI300A superchip with MFC (Multi-Component Flow Code) through an early access system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL). The MI300A will be the primary accelerator on El Capitan at LLNL when it deploys next year. The group achieved a two-times speedup over their tests of the AMD MI250X, which they use on Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited talk at the Second USACM Thematic Conference on Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning Integrated Physics Modeling (UQ-MLIP 2024), held Aug. 12-14 in Arlington, Virginia. Qian presented her group’s work on multifidelity machine learning from scarce data.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen gave an invited talk at the 2024 Data-Driven PDE-Based Inverse Problems in Theory and Practice workshop, held Aug. 19-21 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Peng presented work on neural surrogates for large-scale Bayesian experimental design.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen co-authored a paper published in the Journal of Open Source Software. The work on SOUPy implements scalable algorithms for the optimization of large-scale complex systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) under high-dimensional uncertainty.  
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer published a paper connecting Möbius inversion to bootstrap bias correction. The work derives new nonasymptotic bounds on bootstrap bias correction by understanding the combinatorial properties of the resampling operator.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen has been selected to serve on the scientific committee at the conference on Reduced Order Modeling and Machine Learning for Large Eddy Simulation and Related Topics (ROM+ML4LES+). The conference will be held Oct. 13-15 at Emory University.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen is co-author of a recently published paper. The work considers the computation of risk measures for quantities of interest governed by PDEs with Gaussian random field parameters using Taylor approximations.
• The Georgia Tech Career Center is hosting several workshops and seminars for resume building, internships, and careers. Check out the Fall 2024 Program Guide for a listing of all workshops, programs specifically for M.S. and Ph.D. students begin on page 4.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty are presented research at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), held Aug. 11-16 in Bangkok. Check out the GT @ ACL website for more on the researchers and their papers.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty are presenting research next week at the 2024 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024). Check out the GT @ KDD interactive graphic for more on the researchers and their papers.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty are presenting research next week at the 2024 International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE 2024). Check out the GT @ IMAGE 2024 interactive graphic for more on the researchers and their papers.
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is seeking members to participate in activities, plan events, and represent the student body of the School of CSE. Students interested in joining CSE GSA should fill out the interest form or contact by email at cse-gsa@cc.gatech.edu.  
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) hosts coffee hour every Wednesday at 3:00 in the CSE Workshop Room in Coda.   
• The CSE Graduate Student Association (GSA) is hosting a bowling night on Sept. 6. The reservation is 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Tech Rec in the John Lewis Student Center.   
• The School of CSE has a new page on LinkedIn! Be sure to follow to keep up our latest news and network with our colleagues!
• The College of Computing is hosting the 2024 GT Computing Community 5K run on Saturday, Aug. 24. More information and preregistration can be found at the event website. Late registration will take place on-site starting at 7:30 a.m. The run starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building courtyard.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on Aug. 26, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Aug. 27, 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. 28, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop on Sept. 3, 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Sept. 5, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.

August 9:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Shikhar Shah on his successful dissertation defense on July 12. Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow, Shah defended Block Iterative Methods with Applications to Density Functional Theory.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Jiaming Cui on his successful dissertation defense on July 19. Advised by School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash, Cui defended Fine-Grained Modeling for Clinical Decisions via Machine Learning.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Jinwoo Go on his successful dissertation defense on Aug. 5. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen, Go defended Efficient and Scalable Machine Learning Methods for Robust Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Lu Mi began work at Georgia Tech on Aug. 1. Lu arrives from the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the University of Washington where she was a Shanahan Foundation Fellow. Lu is teaching a course this fall on brain-inspired machine intelligence that students can register for and which she is seeking TAs. Join us in welcoming Lu to CSE!
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Austin Wright is first-author of a paper that won Best Paper, Runner-Up at KDD 2024, occurring Aug. 25-29 in Barcelona, Spain. School of CSE Professor Polo Chau and JPL Research Scientist Scott Davidoff co-author the paper presented on the Applied Data Science track.
• School of CSE researchers authored a paper published in Nature Communications on July 29. Ph.D. student Kerr Ding first authored the paper with Michael Chin and Yunlong Zhao from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ding is advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo who was a paper author. Co-authors include Wei Huang, Huanan Wang, and Yang Yang from UCSB, and Binh Khanh Mai and Peng Liu from the University of Pittsburgh.
• School of CSE researchers authored a paper published in the journal Chemistry of Materials. Alumnus Pranav Shetty (Ph.D. ML 2023) led the work on using natural language processing to accelerate materials discovery for polymer solar cells. Co-authors include undergraduate student Aishat Adeboye, Ph.D. student Sonakshi Gupta, Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, and Professor Rampi Ramprasad.
• School of CSE researchers authored a paper published in the journal The Leading Edge. Alumnus Ziyi (Francis) Yin (Ph.D. CSE 2024) first-authored the work on time-lapse full-waveform permeability inversion. Co-authors include alumnus Mathias Louboutin (Ph.D. CS 2020), EAS/ECE/CSE joint appointment professor Felix Herrmann, and Olav Moyner.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty presented research at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024). Check out the GT @ ICML website for more on the researchers and their papers.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang and her group presented papers at the 32nd Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2024), held July 12-16 in Montreal. Ph.D. students Macrina Lobo and Xinhai Pan attended the conference and presented a paper on using TemSOMap for mapping lineage-resolved scRNA.
• Ph.D. students in School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s research group presented papers at the AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition, held July 29-Aug. 2 in Las. Vegas. Ben Wilfong presented the group’s paper on two-phase interfacial instabilities and Haocheng Yu presented the group’s paper on sound generation through mildly misfit earplugs.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited talk on Aug. 2 for the Data-Driven Physical Simulation (DDPS) webinar series at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Qian presented her group’s work on multifidelity machine learning from scarce data.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu gave an invited talk on Aug. 7 at the Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (NeuroAI) at University of Washington Seattle workshop, held Aug. 6-8.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar is co-organizer of the Workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems (OARS) held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024). Aug. 16 is the deadline for paper submissions for the workshop occurring Oct. 25.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty are presenting research next week at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024). Check out the GT @ ACL website for more on the researchers and their papers.
• The School of CSE has a new page on LinkedIn! Be sure to follow to keep up our latest news and network with our colleagues!
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation Aug. 13, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Aug. 13, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• The Georgia Tech Grad Expo is on Aug. 15, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The Graduate Career Education Development Team welcomes new graduate students to learn about offered career programs and services. Check out the calendar event for more information.
• PACE is offering an Application of Machine Learning workshop on Aug. 15, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Aug. 22, 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 the 2024 GT Computing Community 5K run on Saturday, Aug. 24. The run starts at 8:30 a.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building courtyard. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni are invited to participate. More details and preregistration can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Aug. 27, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Georgia Tech is launching a sprint challenge from May 2 through August 18 – from Commencement to New Student Convocation – for new donors who support undergraduate scholarships for students with low or limited income. The sprint will ensure as much as $4 million is deployed immediately to provide critical support for incoming student in the Class of 2028 and beyond. Visit the sprint challenge website for more information and hot to donate.

July 19:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Hua Huang on his successful dissertation defense on July 10. Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow, Huang defended New Parallel Algorithms for Large-Scale Matrix Computations.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Zijie (Jay) Wang and Professor Polo Chau for winning a best paper honorable mention at SIGIR 2024, held July 14-18 in Washington, D.C. The team received the award for MeMemo, a work on on-device retrieval augmentation for private and personalized text generation.
• School of CSE Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Cherry’s group presented research at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN24) held July 8-12 in Spokane, Washington. Ph.D. student Max Comstock presented Waveform Relaxation Methods for Cardiac Simulations. Ph.D. student Darby Cairns presented Particle Swarm Optimization for Developing Populations of Models for Cardiac Simulations. Cherry co-chaired a three-part mini-symposium on Understanding Cardiac Arrythmia Mechanisms Using Dynamical Systems and Machine Learning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson gave an invited seminar on July 10 at the U.S. Naval Research Lab. He discussed exascale simulation of multiphase, shock-laden, and reacting flows.
• Several School of CSE students and faculty are presenting research next week at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024). Check out the GT @ ICML website for more on the researchers and their papers.
• The School of CSE has a new page on LinkedIn! Be sure to follow to keep up our latest news and network with our colleagues!
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on July 30, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is hosting a Big Data and Machine Learning Workshop July 31 – Aug. 1. The deadline to register is July 2026. Further information and preregistration can be found at the event website.
• PACE maintenance is scheduled to start at 6:00 a.m., August 6, and continue through August 8 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 clusters orientation Aug. 13, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Aug. 13, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Georgia Tech is launching a sprint challenge from May 2 through August 18 – from Commencement to New Student Convocation – for new donors who support undergraduate scholarships for students with low or limited income. The sprint will ensure as much as $4 million is deployed immediately to provide critical support for incoming student in the Class of 2028 and beyond. Visit the sprint challenge website for more information and hot to donate.

July 5:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Lingkai Kong on his successful dissertation defense on June 3. Advised by CSE Assistant Professor Chao Zhang, Kong defended Optimizing Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: A Data-Driven Perspective.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Koby Hayashi on his successful dissertation defense on May 24. Co-Advised by School of CSE Regents’ Professor and Chair Haesun Park and Professor Rich Vuduc, Hayashi defended Speeding Up Nonnegative Low-Rank Approximations: Parallelism and Radomization.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Ziyi (Francis) Yin on his successful dissertation defense on June 25. Advised by School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann, Yin defended Solving Geophysical Inverse Problems with Scientific Machine Learning.
• Congratulations to School of CSE and Chemistry and Biochemistry joint Regents’ Professor C. David Sherrill on his election as a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. Sherrill and five other scholars were elected at the IAQMS annual meeting held June 29-30 in Menton, France.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer co-authored a paper selected for one of five best technical paper awards at SIGGRAPH 24, occurring July 28 - Aug. 1 in Denver. Schäfer collaborated with Jiong Chen (GeomeriX) and Mathieu Desbrun (Inria and Ecole Polytechnique) on the work that uses KL-optimal Cholesky factorization as a preconditioner to greatly accelerate the method of fundamental solutions.
• School of CSE Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash attended the 2024 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (CAFOE), held June 17-20 in Irvine, California. Prakash was one of 60 engineers from the U.S. and China for the symposium on cutting edge developments in engineering technology focusing on nanotechnology for health, energy transitions and challenges, knowledge engineering and transportation, and a sustainable future for oceans.
• School of CSE Professor Polo Chau’s research group presented two papers at CVPR 2024, held June 17-21 in Seattle. M.S. students Justin Blalock and Harsha Karanth, Ph.D. students Alec Helbling and Seongmin Lee, and alumni David Munechika (CS 2024) and Pratham Mehta (CS 2024) co-authored Mobile Fitting Room: On-Device Virtual Try-On via Diffusion Models. Helbling and Lee co-authored ClickDiffusion: Harnessing LLMs for Interactive Precise Image Editing.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group presented work at the International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows (ICNMMFS-5), held June 26-28 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Ph.D. students Ben Wilfong and Anand Radhakrishnan presented Multiphase Flow Numerics: Perspectives from Exascale Simulation.
• School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow gave an invited talk on June 6 as part of the KAUST CEMSE (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering) Mathematics and Applications Colloquium. Chow presented Preconditioning for Kernal Matrices.
• School of CSE and EAS/ECE joint appointment Professor Felix Herrmann gave an invited talk on June 6 at the Imperial College of London’s Royal School of Mines. Herrmann presented work on digital twins in the era of generative AI with applications in geological carbon dioxide storage.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s work on Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC) has been accepted into JUREAP Phase I, the JUPITER Research and Early Access Program at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Through the program, Bryngelson’s group will run their software package on JUPITER, the first expected exascale supercomputer in Europe.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian gave an invited talk on June 20 at the Simons Collaboration on Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy as part of its Simons Hour Talk Series. Qian presented Multifidelity Linear Regression for Scientifc Machine Learning From Scarce Data.
• BME-CSE Ph.D. student Jiajia Xie first-authored a paper accepted for publication in the journal Energy and Buildings. Xie partnered with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers Han Li and Tianzhen Hong on the approach for learning deep grey-box representative thermal dynamics models for residential buildings.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Zijie (Jay) Wang authored a paper accepted for presentation at SIGIR 2024, occurring July 14-18 in Washington, D.C. Advised by School of CSE Professor Polo Chau, Wang will present the work on on-device retrieval augmentation for private and personalized text generation.
• School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Zijie (Jay) Wang first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at ACL 2024, occurring Aug. 11-16 in Bangkok. Undergraduate student Aishwarya Chakravarthy, alumnus David Munechika (CS 2024), and CSE Professor Polo Chau co-authored the work on social prompt engineering for large language models.  
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Austin Wright first-authored a paper accepted for presentation at KDD 2024, occurring Aug. 25-29 in Barcelona, Spain. School of CSE Professor Polo Chau and JPL Research Scientist Scott Davidoff co-author the work on learning high resolution structure of multi-scale measurement data on Mars.
• Two papers from School of CSE Professor Polo Chau’s group has been accepted for presentation at IEEE VIS 2024, occurring Oct. 13-18 in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Ph.D. students Seongmin Lee, Ben Hoover, Zijie (Jay) Wang, ShengYun (Anthony) Peng, Austin Wright, Haoyang (Alex) Yang, alumni Haekyu Park (Ph.D. CS 2023) and Kevin Li (CS 2024), and IBM Senior Researcher Hendrik Strobelt co-author Diffusion Explainer. Alumnus Pratham Mehta (CS 2024), M.S. student Harsha Karanth, Ph.D. student Haoyang (Alex) Yang, Rahul Narayanan, and cardiologists Timothy C. Slesnick and Fawwaz Shaw co-author Multi-User Mobile Augmented Reality for Cardiovascular Surgical Planning.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Bo Dai co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at IROS 2024, occurring Oct. 14-18 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dai partnered with Harvard University researchers Haitong Ma, Zhaolin Ren, and Na Li on sim-to-skill transfer and discovery in robotics.
• School of CSE researchers published a paper discussing using large language models to accelerate materials discovery. Ph.D. student Shuyi Jia and Assistant Professors Victor Fung and Chao Zhang co-author the work on LLMatDesign.
• School of AE and CSE joint appointment Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian published an update on a new multifidelity machine learning approach to learning from scarce data. Qian collaborated with School of AE Ph.D. student Dayoung Kang and UT Austin researchers Vignesh Sella and Anirban Chaudhuri on the work on more accurate and robust models combining high and low-fidelity data.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop on July 8, 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering an Optimization 101 workshop on July 9, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on July 11, 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 July 16, 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on July 16, 2:00 - 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.      
• Georgia Tech is launching a sprint challenge from May 2 through August 18 – from Commencement to New Student Convocation – for new donors who support undergraduate scholarships for students with low or limited income. The sprint will ensure as much as $4 million is deployed immediately to provide critical support for incoming student in the Class of 2028 and beyond. Visit the sprint challenge website for more information and hot to donate.