August 8:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Max Comstock on his successful dissertation defense! Advised by College of Computing Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and School of CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry, Comstock defended Efficient Parallel Computation of Particle-Based Biological Systems: Applications to Simulations of Bird Flocks and Optimizing Models of Cardia Tissue on July 18.
• Congratulations to School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Harshavardhan Kamarthi on successfully proposing his Ph.D. dissertation on July 29! Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs B. Aditya Prakash, Kamarthi proposed Generalizable, Calibrated and Scalable Time-Series Forecasting in the Age of Large-Scale Neural Models.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo for receiving the NSF CAREER Award! Luo will use the award to develop machine learning algorithms for tackling annotation inequality in protein function characterization.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc on his selection as the next director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Scientific Software and Engineering (CSSE)! In this role, Vuduc will supervise CSSE’s focus on development and dissemination of software engineering best practices to accelerate both the quality and pace of scientific discovery at Georgia Tech and throughout the scientific community.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professors Peng Chen, Yunan Luo, Anqi Wu, and Associate Professor Chao Zhang on receiving seed grants from IDEaS under the Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) for Science call for proposals! Chen’s project focuses on generative AI for advanced Bayesian data assimilation in real-time flood prediction. Luo’s project focuses on programmable protein design with multi-modal generative AI models. Wu’s project focuses on diffusion-based discovery of semantic laten groups in higher visual cortex. Zhang’s project focuses on MM-ChemAgent, an agentic multi-modal foundation model for accelerating chemical discovery.
• NSF has granted Georgia Tech $20 million to build the Nexus AI supercomputer that will be a resource for researchers across the nation and at Georgia Tech. College of Computing Senior Associate Dean and School of CSE Regents’ Professor Srinivas Aluru envisioned the project and recruited the research team since 2023 while executive director of IDEaS.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory published this article on work from School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group. The researchers conducted the largest-ever CFD simulation. In this case, the team simulated an array of 1,500 Mach 14 rocket engines and their interacting exhaust plumes on the whole of OLCF Frontier. The simulation achieved a resolution of over 100 trillion grid points, surpassing former records of 10 trillion grid points set on previous CPU-only supercomputers.
• School of CSE J.Z. Liang Early Career Associate Professor Xiuwei Zhang and Assistant Professor Yunan Luo presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2025), held Aug. 3-5 in Columbus, Ohio. Zhang presented work on studying single cells through multi-omics and multi-condition scRNA-seq. Luo presented work on reprogramming protein language models for protein function annotation and engineering.
• School of CSE Assistant Professors Spencer Bryngelson and Florian Schäfer presented collaborative work at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings (AN25), held July 28-Aug. 1 in Montreal. In back-to-back talks, Schafer and former undergraduate student Ruijia Cao (CS 2024) presented work on Inviscid Geometric Regularization. Bryngelson presented on his collaboration with Schafer for application to high-speed multiphase fluid dynamics.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu co-organized the Workshop on Highlights of Parallel Computing (HOPC), in conjunction with the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures held July 28-Aug. 1 in Portland, Oregon. The workshop hosted nine oral presentations and six posters showcasing interesting work in parallel computing.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo gave a keynote talk at the Gordon Research Seminar on Protein Engineering, held July 26-27 at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Luo spoke about data-efficient AI-guided protein engineering by reprogramming protein language models.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen co-organized a minisymposium and gave an invited talk at the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18), held July 20-24 in Chicago. Chen’s minisymposium was on uncertainty quantification and scientific machine learning for predictive modeling and decision-making in complex systems.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson presented collaborative work at the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18), held July 20-24 in Chicago. Bryngelson talked about numerics for diverse exascale platforms for multi-species flow, joint work between Ph.D. students Ben Wilfong, Anand Radhahrishnan, and Assistant Professor Florian Schäfer.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam is giving an invited talk at the 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2025), held Aug. 12-15 in Amsterdam. Imam will speak about his group’s research on dual computational systems in brain evolution.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen co-authored a paper published in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. Chen collaborated with Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences researchers Dingcheng Luo, Thomas O’Leary-Roseberry, and Omar Ghattas on the work on efficient PDE-constrained optimization under high-dimensional uncertainty using derivative-informed neural operators.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a paper published in the journal Soft Matter. Bryngelson collaborated with University of Michigan, Brown University, and UT Austin researchers on a scheme for high-fidelity material inference that reduces the cost of experimentation or simulation by two orders of magnitude.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Max Hawkins first-authored a paper posted on arxiv. Co-advised by Professor Rich Vuduc and Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson, the work extends Shannon’s communication model to computing by introducing a new mutual information-based performance metric.
• ME Ph.D. candidate Pranoy Ray first-authored a paper published in npj Computational Materials. Advised by ME/MSE/CSE joint Regents’ Professor Surya Kalidindi, the work introduces a Bayesian Optimization-based approach to refine Martini3 topologies for specialized applications, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• School of AE/CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian is guest editor of the special issue “Reduced Order modeling, Generative AI, and SciML in Digital Twins” in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO). The issue is accepting submissions until Oct. 31 (extended from July 31).
• Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering has three student research opportunities open for students studying CSE. Assistant Professor Beckett Zhou leads all three projects, and details of each program can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual clusters orientation on Aug. 12, 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is hosting a Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center HPC MPI Workshop on Aug. 12 and 13, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on both days. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on Aug. 12, 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.
• Georgia Tech is hosting GradExpo, the Institute’s signature resource fair for new graduate students. The event takes place Aug. 14 at Exhibition Hall. The event is free, requires no registration, and more information can be found here.
• The College of Computing’s Welcome Back and Student Orgs Fair is on Aug. 22, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Klaus Advanced Computing Building Atrium. More information can be found at the event website.
• IDEaS and Georgia Tech’s Open Source Program Office are hosting an IBM TechXchange Dev Day on Aug. 21. More information and registration can be found at the event website. There will also be an evening meetup, which requires separate registration found here.
• The College of Computing is hosting a 2K/5K Fun Run on Aug. 30. Registration is free for College of Computing faculty, staff, and students, and $5 for non-Computing runners. More information and registration can be found at the event website.

July 11:

• Congratulations to School of CSE CS Ph.D. student Anurendra Kumar on his successful dissertation defense! Co-advised by Associate Professor Xiuwei Zhang and Coulter BME Professor Saurabh Sinha, Kumar defended Decoding Spatial Transcriptomics: Robust Computational Frameworks for Subcellular Spatial Patterns and Contact Mediated Signaling on July 1.
• Congratulations to School of AE/CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian for receiving the NSF CAREER Award! Qian will use the award to support research developing machine learning methods that learn from multifidelity data.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. student Max Hawkins on his selection to the OMSCS Pre-Doctoral Fellowship program for 2025-2026! The program provides Hawkins support to design and teach a one-credit, pass/fail or audit seminar course. Co-advised by Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and Professor Rich Vuduc, Hawkins will teach “Computing at Scale: The Design, Operation, and Societal Impacts of Data Centers” this fall and a research course in Spring 2026.
• Congratulations to alumnus Grace Driskill (M.S. CSE-CSE 2025) on her selection to the 2025 All-ACC Outdoor Track and Field Academic Team and the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team! Driskill was one of 25 Yellow Jackets from the track and field teams selected to the All-ACC team, and one of eight Yellow Jackets selected to the CSC team.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group received a DOE ALCC allocation of 495,000 node hours on OCLF Frontier for 2026. The group will use the allocation to collaborate with Sandia National Labs Aeronautical Engineer Ryan McMullen on their project, Multiphase Mixing Induced by Interface Breakup.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu contributed to this article from Communications of the ACM. Xu discussed a new algorithm for the list labeling problem.
• Quanta Magazine highlighted research by School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Ben Hoover and his advisor, Professor Polo Chau. The recent article discussed creativity of AI in which Hoover highlighted group work on diffusion models.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang gave an invited talk on June 26 at the Efficient and Reliable Deep Learning Methods and their Scientific Applications workshop, held June 22-27 at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery. Tang presented his group’s work on developing structure-preserving machine learning for learning dynamical systems.
• School of EAS/ECE/CSE joint Professor Felix Herrmann presented work on June 6 at the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in Geosciences. Herrmann presented his group’s work on Subsurface foundational model with AI-driven Geostatistical Extraction (SAGE), a novel diffusion-based generative modeling approach for synthesizing high-fidelity subsurface velocity models.
• School of CSE ML Ph.D. student Agam Shah co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2025), occurring Aug. 3-7 in Toronto. Co-advised by Assistant Professor Chao Zhang and Scheller College of Business Professor Sudheer Chava, Shah collaborated with ML Ph.D. student Michael Galarnyk, CS undergraduate student Veer Kejriwal, Research Intern Yash Bhardwal, alumnus Nicholas Meyer (ECE 2022, M.S. QCF 2024), and Stanford University student Anand Krishnan on the work on VideoConviction: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human Conviction and Stock Market Recommendations.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student ShengYun (Anthony) Peng co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2025), occurring Oct. 19-23 in Honolulu. The work introduced CompCap, a framework that improves multimodal LLMs with composite captions. Advised by School of CSE Professor Polo Chau, Peng collaborated with Tuft University Ph.D. candidate and Meta intern Xiaohui Chen and Meta researchers Satya Narayan Shukla, Mahmoud Azab, Aashu Singh, Qifan Wang, David Yang, Hanchao Yu, Shen Yan, Xuewen Zhang, and Baosheng He.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu co-authored a paper accepted for presentation at SC25, occurring Nov. 16-21 in St. Louis. Xu collaborated with UNC Charlotte Ph.D. candidate Abdullah Al Raqibul Islam, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Senior Scientist Aydin Buluc, and University of Delaware Associate Professor Dong Dai on the work that improves SpGEMM performance through matrix-reordering and cluster-wise computation.
• A paper from School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson’s group published in the journal Future Generation Computer Systems. Undergraduate students Melody Lee and Sriharsha Kocherla led the work on quantum-resource frugal algorithms for solving CFD problems with Ph.D. students Jack Song and Austin Adams, and School of ME Professor Alexander Alexeev.
• School of AE/CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian co-authored a preprint posted on arXive. Qian collaborated with Universität Potsdam researchers Josie König and Melina Feitag on the work on dimension and model reduction approaches for linear Bayesian inverse problems with rank-deficient prior covariances.
• School of CSE Ph.D. student Pavlos Stavrinides first authored a preprint posted on arXiv. Advised by School of AE/CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian, their work presents an ensemble Kalman approach to randomized maximum likelihood estimation.
• School of AE/CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian is guest editor of the special issue “Reduced Order modeling, Generative AI, and SciML in Digital Twins” in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO). The issue is accepting submissions until July 31.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on July 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 on July 16, 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 17, 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Further information and event link can be found here.
• PACE is hosting an HPC Machine Learning and Big Data Workshop on July 29-30. Further information and event link can be found at the event website.