July 10:

• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Ben Hoover on his successful dissertation defense on July 6! Advised by School of CSE Professor Polo Chau, Hoover defended Memory as Computation: Associative Memory as a Foundation for Modern AI.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Ph.D. candidate Ben Cobb on his successful dissertation defense on July 2! Co-advised by School of CSE Professor Rich Vuduc and Regents’ Professor and Chair Haesun Park, Cobb defended Factorization Algorithms and Applications.
• Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. candidate Haocheng Yu on his successful dissertation defense on July 1! Co-advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and School of AE Regents’ Professor Krishan Ahuja, Yu defended Impact of Leakage Due to Ill-Fitting Earplugs on the Dissipation of High-Amplitude Sound into Vorticity.
• Congratulations to School of CSE Assistant Professor Helen Xu for receiving the NSF CAREER Award! Xu will use the award to develop faster, more efficient data-management systems that support modern databases, AI applications, and other data-intensive computing.
• Georgia Tech Research and the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society wrote a story on School of CSE Assistant Professor Nabil Imam and research he led published in Science Advances. The paper and story discuss brain evolution and design of more efficient AI systems by looking at the limbic system and neocortex. 
• School of CSE faculty and students participated at the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN26), held July 6-10 in Cleveland. Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian served on the organizing committee as a representative from the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering. Assistant Professor Peng Chen and his Ph.D. students Wenbo Hao and Yuan Qiu presented two papers. Assistant Professor Qi Tang and Ph.D. student Tage Burnett presented a paper. School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair Edmond Chow servs as SIAM’s Vice President of Programs.
• School of CSE Ph.D. students Bethany Barnwell, Afrouz Delshad, and Cole Welch gave talks at the SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (LS26), held July 6-9 in Cleveland. All advised by College of Computing Associate Dean for Graduate Education and School of CSE Professor Elizabeth Cherry, Barnwell presented Predicting Conduction Velocity from Cardiac Ionic Models Using Machine Learning, Delshad presented Deep Echo State Networks Improve Cardiac Voltage Time Series Prediction, and Welch presented Learning Cardiac Action Potential Equations in the Presence of Unobserved Variables.
• School of CSE faculty and students presented research at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), held July 6-11 in Seoul, South Korea. Of the 18 College of Computing faculty presenting at the conference, Assistant Professors Bo Dai, Kai Wang, Anqi Wu, Edenfield Early-Career Associate Professor Chao Zhang, and Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs B. Aditya Prakash represented CSE. They and their students presented eight total papers, including Georgia Tech’s only oral paper from Wu’s group. Check out the Georgia Tech @ ICML 2026 website for a full listing of authors and papers.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his group participated at the 20th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC-TAM 2026), held June 21-25 in Pasadena, California. Bryngelson co-organized two mini-symposia on cavitation and bubble dynamics and on shock-laden flows. Ph.D. students Anand Radhakrishnan and Ben Wilfong gave a talk on extreme-scale spacecraft simulation. Postdoctoral Fellow Tianyi Chu gave a talk on constitutive evolution in laser-induced cavitation.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson co-authored a paper published in Communications Physics. Bryngelson collaborated with alumnus Zhixin (Jack) Song (Ph.D. PHYS 2026), undergraduate student Melody Lee, GTRI Research Scientist Bryan Gard, UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Hang Ren, and Nicolas Renaud from the Netherlands eScience Center and Quantum Application Lab on the work on Hadamard random forests, which reconstruct real-valued quantum state with exponentially fewer measurement settings. 
• School of CSE alumnus Ziqi Zhang (CSE-CSE Ph.D. 2025) first authored a paper published in the journal Bioinformatics. Advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Xiuwei Zhang, the pair partnered with alumnus Jongseok Han (M.S. CSE 2022) and MBZUAI Professor Le Song on CeSpGRN, a method that infers cell-specific GRNs from scRNA-seq, paired scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq, or spatial transcriptomic data.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson launched ANEForge, a project to program the Apple Neural Engine without CoreML. Code on Github, it includes a reverse-engineered guide to the engine’s datapath, compiler, program format, weight compression, kernel drive, and firmware, along with an open Python package and paper that run inference and training on the engine directly.
• The Center for Scientific Software Engineering at Georgia Tech (CSSE@GT) is offering engagement opportunities for principal investigators who wish to take their research software prototypes and transition them into production-quality, open-source research products. This expression of interest proposal process is our invitation to work with the CSSE team to create long-lasting and impactful software products, along with longer-term collaborations between you and your team. This expression of interest opportunity is currently scoped to full-time Georgia Tech and staff and is focused on supporting research software. If you are interested in working with CSSE@GT, we ask that you complete the EOI form on the Call for Georgia Tech Projects webpage by July 15.
• School of CSE Assistant Professor Qi Tang will host the next MFEM Community Workshop, occurring Sept. 22-25 at Georgia Tech. The first day of the workshop will be reserved for a free hands-on MFEM tutorial for interested students. Students are also welcome to present in a poster session and contributed talk sessions. This is a good opportunity to learn scalable finite elements, differentiable programming, GPU acceleration, preconditioning and iterative solvers, and many advanced features of high-performance computing. MFEM (https://github.com/mfem/mfem) is a free, open-source C++ library for finite element methods and the winner of 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. The details of the registration information will be available soon. The workshop permits in-person and virtual participation, and registration is open until Sept. 11.
• School of AE/CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian is co-sponsoring the workshop Frontiers of Uncertainty Quantification: Digital Twins and Model Reduction (FrontUQ 2026), occurring Dec. 1-4 at the Technical University of Munich in Garching, Germany. The workshop has an open call for paper and is currently accepting abstracts through the workshop website. 
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session 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 an HPC Machine Learning and Big Data Workshop on July 20-21, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a virtual consulting session on July 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 July 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 on Aug. 5, 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 on Aug. 6, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE is offering a Linux 101 workshop on Aug. 7, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Preregistration is required and can be found here.
• PACE maintenance is scheduled to start at 6:00 a.m., Aug. 11, and continue through Aug. 13 at 11:59 p.m. All headnodes and clusters will be unavailable while PACE makes upgrade to improve overall experience.
• PACE is offering a Linux 102 workshop on Aug. 14, 10:00 a.m. – 11:45. Preregistration is required and can be found here.