Graduate Symposium

Every person in the symposium MUST register at the registration table before attending talks or consuming coffee and food. Information on this page:

Symposium Schedule

Start End Event Location Description
9:00 9:05 Welcome and Logistics Room 1: 1069 Graduate Symposium Chair: Ethan Dickey
Graduate Symposium Planning & Program Committee: Marc Tunnell, Jacob White, Sai Coumar, Ajay Rawat
9:05 9:30 Keynote Kent Quanrud: Recent Developments in Negative Length Shortest Paths
9:35 12:00 Morning
Research Talks		 Room 1: 1069,
Room 2: 1004		 1069: Advances in Machine Learning Methods and Analysis
1004: Theory, Security, and AI in Modern Computing Systems
See below for more info.
12:00 1:00 Lunch Room 1: 1069
2nd Floor Dining Area
3rd Floor Dining Area		 Faculty, grad students, and prospective students check in to pick up your requested meal in 1069.
1:00 2:30 Poster Session Commons
2:30 5:00 Afternoon
Research Talks		 Room 1: 1069,
Room 2: 1004		 1069: Learning and Intelligence for Motion Planning and Control
1004: Advances in Quantum and Theoretical Computing
See below for more info.
Registration + Coffee
8:30 5:00 Registration Table North Entrance (Parking Lot Side)
Look --> Coffee + Tea Table East Entrance (Side
Entrance near
Engineering Fountain)		 Faculty, prospective students, and grad students get first dibs for 10 min at each delivery time, then all other registered participants can join.
Format: "first delivery time::time general registration can consume":
8:15::8:30, 1:30::1:45

Talk Schedule

Location Domain and Hosts Start End Talk Speaker Collaborators Field
Room 1: 1069 AI 9:35 9:55 Candi: Hybrid Continuous and Discrete Diffusion Patrick Pynadath Patrick Pynadath, Jiaxin Shi, Ruqi Zhang AI, ML, NLP
Morning Host: Hasan Mahmood 9:56 10:16 On The Efficiency of Test-Time Scaling Methods Bolian Li Bolian Li AI, ML, NLP
10:17 10:37 Robust Estimation of a Sparse Linear Model: Provable Guarantees with Non-convexity Deepak Maurya Deepak Maurya, Adarsh Barik, Jean Honorio AI, ML, NLP
10:48 11:08 The Shape of Learning: How Data Geometry Governs Stability, Generalization, and Unlearning Rajiv Khanna - AI/Theory
11:09 11:29 Multimodal Fusion via Mixture-of-Experts for Disease Progression Prediction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Christopher Farber, Madison Sullivan Madison Sullivan, Chris Farber AI, ML, NLP
11:30 11:50 Window-based Membership Inference Attacks Against Fine-tuned Large Language Models Yuetian Chen Yuetian Chen, Yuntao Du, Kaiyuan Zhang, Ashish Kundu, Charles Fleming, Bruno Ribeiro, Ninghui Li AI, ML, NLP
11:50 12:00 Lunch Prep
Afternoon Motion Planning 2:30 -- Frontiers of Embodied Intelligence Panel Aniket Bera, Joseph Campbell
Zachary Kingston, Rohan Paleja
Host: Sai Coumar -- 3:20 Panel
Panel Host: Sai Coumar 3:30 3:50 Parallel Heuristic Search as Inference for Actor-Critic Models Hanlan Yang Hanlan Yang, Itamar Mishani, Luca Pivetti AI, ML, NLP,Robotics and Computer Vision
3:51 4:11 Vectorized Manifold-Constrained Motion Planning for Real-Time Whole-Body Control Shrutheesh Iyer Shrutheesh R Iyer, I-Chia Chang, Andrew Z Liu, Yan Gu, Zachary Kingston Robotics and Computer Vision
4:12 4:32 Physics-informed Learning for Robot Motion Planning Ruiqi Ni Ruiqi Ni, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Yuchen Liu, Zherong Pan, Vittorio Giammarino and Hanwen Ren Robotics and Computer Vision
4:33 4:53 Towards Multi-person Human Motion Intelligence: Modelling and Generation Prerit Gupta MDD: Prerit Gupta, Jason Alexander Fotso-Puepi, Zhengyuan Li, Jay Mehta, Aniket Bera; DualFlow: Prerit Gupta, Shourya Verma, Ananth Grama, Aniket Bera AI, ML, NLP,Graphics, Visualization, and Geometric Modeling
Room 2: 1004 Theory/Security 9:35 9:55 V3rified: Revelation vs Non-Revelation Mechanisms for Decentralized Verifiable Computation Athina Terzoglou Athina Terzoglou, Tiantian Gong, Aniket Kate, Alexandros Psomas Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
Morning Host: Dante Basile 9:56 10:16 Extending self-issued and expressive identity metadata to PrivacyPass for online authentication Saurav Chittal Saurav Chittal, Jacob White, Christina Garman Other
10:17 10:37 Secure Convertible Erasure Codes Justin Zhang Justin Zhang Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
10:48 11:08 "All Our TeX Source Are Not Belong to You:" PDF Obfuscation against arXiv's TeX Source Policies Zhongtang Luo Zhongtang Luo, Jianting Zhang, Zheng Zhong Information Security and Assurance
11:09 11:29 Decoupling Variance and Scale-Invariant Updates in Adaptive Gradient Descent for Unified Vector and Matrix Optimization Zitao Song Zitao Song AI, ML, NLP
11:30 11:50 Lit-PFP: Leveraging Biomedical Literature for Protein Function Prediction Swagarika Giri Swagarika Giri, Nabil Ibtehaz, Pranav Punuru, and Dr. Daisuke Kihara AI, ML, NLP,Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
11:50 12:00 Lunch Prep
Afternoon Quantum/Theory 2:30 -- Panel in 1069
Host: Athina Terzoglou -- 3:30 Panel in 1069
3:30 3:50 Computing with and for topological quantum matter Eric Samperton -- Quantum Computing
3:51 4:11 A Pulse-Level DSL for Real-Time Quantum Control with Hardware Compilation and Emulation Yu-Hsuan Wu Yu-Hsuan Wu, Yue Shi, Junyi Liu, Yuxiang Peng PL and Compilers,Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
4:12 4:32 Programmable Quantum Like-bits from Signed Regular Graphs Ethan Dickey Ethan Dickey, Abhijeet Vyas, Sabre Kais Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
4:33 4:53 New Bounds for Circular Trace Reconstruction Arnav Burudgunte Arnav Burudgunte, Paul Valiant, Hongao Wang Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing

Posters

Title Name Poster Number Poster authors Poster topics
Building Instance Segmentation for Dense Urban Regions Adnan Firoze 1 Adnan Firoze, Raymond Yeh, Daniel Aliaga AI, ML, NLP,Robotics and Computer Vision
Bayesian Online Parameter Estimation for Accelerated Functional Electron Microscopy Dante Basile 2 Dante Basile, Xavier Tricoche, Andy Mounce, Sam Lilak, Ezra Bussmann AI, ML, NLP,Computational Science and Engineering,Graphics, Visualization, and Geometric Modeling
Quantum Voting and Bypassing Gibbard-Satterthwaite's Impossibility Theorem Ethan Dickey 3 Aidan Casey, Ethan Dickey Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
Robust Estimation of a Sparse Linear Model: Provable Guarantees with Non-convexity Deepak Maurya 4 Deepak Maurya, Adarsh Barik, Jean Honorio AI, ML, NLP
Conformational heterogeneity analysis of proteins with Cryo-EM and AlphaFold Farhanaz Farheen 5 Farhanaz Farheen Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Lit-PFP: Leveraging Biomedical Literature for Protein Function Prediction​ Swagarika Giri 6 Swagarika Giri, Nabil Ibtehaz, Pranav Punuru, and Dr. Daisuke Kihara AI, ML, NLP,Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Unified Multi-Modal Interactive and Reactive 3D Motion Generation via Rectified Flow Prerit Gupta 7 Prerit Gupta, Shourya Verma, Ananth Grama, Aniket Bera AI, ML, NLP,Graphics, Visualization, and Geometric Modeling
DAGPA++: Scalable and Differentiable Constraint-Based Causal Discovery Edward Kelley 8 Jincheng Zhou, Atharva Thakur, Edward Kelley, Mengbo Wang, Murat Kocaoglu, Bruno Ribeiro AI, ML, NLP
Tuning-Free Amodal Segmentation via the Occlusion-Free Bias of Inpainting Models Jae Joong Lee 9 Jae Joong Lee, Bedrich Benes, Raymond A. Yeh Robotics and Computer Vision
Self-Supervised Large Scale Point Cloud Completion for Archaeological Site Restoration Aocheng Li 10 Aocheng Li, James R. Zimmer-Dauphinee, Rajesh Kalyanam, Ian Lindsay, Parker VanValkenburgh, Steven Wernke, Daniel Aliaga Robotics and Computer Vision
SlideTuner: PowerPoint Slide Design via XML Representation Learning and Preference Optimization Lixiang Li 11 Lixiang Li , Anjan Goswami , Md Muksitul Haque , Bharat Bhargava AI, ML, NLP
ICLR Points: How Many ICLR Publications Is One Paper in Each Area? Zhongtang Luo 12 Zhongtang Luo Information Security and Assurance
Random Robust Secret Sharing with Perfect Privacy and its Applications Mohammad Hassan Ameri Ekhtiarabadi 13 Mohammad Hassan Ameri, Jeremiah Blocki Information Security and Assurance
Entropy-Guided Sampling of Flat Modes in Discrete Spaces Pinaki Mohanty 14 Pinaki Mohanty, Riddhiman Bhattacharya, Rajiv Khanna, Ruqi Zhang AI, ML, NLP
Influence-Salient Coordination Shaping for Scalable Cooperative MARL Wei Sheng 15 Wei Sheng, Rohan Paleja AI, ML, NLP
U-TREE: Urban Tree Resilience and Environmental Effort​ Sashank Silwal 16 Zirui Zhang, Sashank Silwal AI, ML, NLP
Physics-Informed Diffusion Models for Inverse Vegetation Design in Urban Cooling Baris Tezcan 17 Baris Sarper Tezcan, Daniel Aliaga AI, ML, NLP,Robotics and Computer Vision
BoilerSketch: A TA-Supervised, Diagram-First GenAI Practice for Structured CS Diagrams in Introductory Programming Vivan Tiwari 18 Anvit Sinha, Vivan Tiwari AI, ML, NLP
URBANE: Urban Reasoning and Block Adjustment via Natural-Language Editing Tanner Waltz 19 Tanner Waltz, Julio Vera, and Daniel Aliaga AI, ML, NLP,Graphics, Visualization, and Geometric Modeling
ShellMaker: Language-Guided Exterior Synthesis under Structural Constraints Ruiqi Xu 20 Ruiqi Xu, Daniel Aliaga AI, ML, NLP,Graphics, Visualization, and Geometric Modeling,Robotics and Computer Vision

Contact

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