Qualifying Exams, Proposal Defenses & Thesis Defenses (Fall 2025)

Fall 2025

Date Candidate Title Announcement
25 November 2025 Mr. Pavel HUDEC Parameterized Algorithms and Complexity Results for Wiener Index and Liquid Democracy PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
31 October 2025 Mr. Man Ting WONG Sparse Signal Recovery for Compressed Sensing PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 October 2025 Mr. Peng YE Learning with Differential Privacy PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
16 October 2025 Mr. Jaewoo SONG Integer-Only Training and Model Restructuring for Edge Artificial Intelligence PhD Thesis Defence
14 October 2025 Mr. Tianshi ZHENG From Automation to Autonomy: A Survey on Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery PhD Qualifying Examination
14 October 2025 Mr. Zian QIAN A Survey of Unified Multimodal Models for Text and Image Understanding and Generation PhD Qualifying Examination
10 October 2025 Mr. Shuoling LIU A Survey on Knowledge Transfer from Large Language Models to Small Language Models PhD Qualifying Examination
10 October 2025 Mr. Zengyang GONG Towards Efficient and Scalable Retrieval in Metric Spaces PhD Thesis Defence
9 October 2025 Mr. Anshunkang ZHOU Towards Industrial-Scale Software Binary Analysis PhD Thesis Defence
8 October 2025 Mr. Ao SUN Enabling Explainable AI with Transformer Models: Opportunities and Limitations in Visual and Textual Concept Generation MPhil Thesis Defence
8 October 2025 Mr. Zheng TANG Evaluation-Driven Intelligence: From Visual Captioning Metrics to Agentic Workflow Optimization MPhil Thesis Defence
6 October 2025 Mr. Hong SU A Survey on Session-Based Recommendation PhD Qualifying Examination
29 September 2025 Miss Lu LIU Enhancing Smart Contract Security: Empirical Characterization, Fault Analysis, and Vulnerability Detection PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
29 September 2025 Mr. Pengze CHEN A Survey on LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Document Mining PhD Qualifying Examination
26 September 2025 Mr. Yongchao WANG Scalable Value-Flow Analysis for Industrial Software PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
26 September 2025 Mr. Jiawei LI Spatial Reasoning in 3D Point Cloud Search from Geometry to Semantics and Beyond: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
26 September 2025 Mr. Yinan ZHU Towards Ubiquitous IoT Sensing: From Low-Cost Devices to Highly-Generalizable Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
25 September 2025 Mr. Xudong LIAO Application-Aware Communication Optimization for Distributed Systems PhD Thesis Defence
25 September 2025 Mr. Chun Yin CHAU Boolean Algebraic Subtyping PhD Qualifying Examination
25 September 2025 Miss Wenxue LI Towards Efficient and Scalable RDMA Networking for Datacenter Applications PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
24 September 2025 Mr. Changkun LIU Efficient and Accurate Visual Relocalization with Deep Neural Networks PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
24 September 2025 Mr. Sheng YAO SERVERLESS MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE WITH HETEROGENEITY PhD Qualifying Examination
19 September 2025 Mr. Peiyan ZHANG Learning in Flux: Continual and Efficient Representation Learning on Dynamic Graphs PhD Thesis Defence
19 September 2025 Mr. Liu YANG Improving the Efficiency of Federated Recommender System PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
19 September 2025 Mr. Siyuan HAN A Survey on Learned Data Structures for Database Management PhD Qualifying Examination
17 September 2025 Mr. Wai Kin WONG Enhance Binary Analysis Tooling PhD Thesis Defence
17 September 2025 Mr. Suyi LI Towards Efficient Resource Management for Cloud-Native Applications PhD Thesis Defence
15 September 2025 Miss Bingnan CHEN Efficient Processing of Acyclic Queries PhD Qualifying Examination
9 September 2025 Mr. Dongwei XIAO Improving the Reliability of Privacy-Enhancing Technology (PET) Systems PhD Thesis Defence
5 September 2025 Mr. Zijun CHEN Sample Complexity in Reinforcement Learning PhD Qualifying Examination

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