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Qualifying Exams, Proposal Defenses & Thesis Defenses (Spring 2026)
Spring 2026
| Date | Candidate | Title | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 March 2026 | Mr. Weiqi WANG | From Conceptualization to Metaphysical Reasoning: Frameworks and Benchmarks Towards Generalizable Reasoning | PhD Thesis Defence |
| 11 March 2026 | Mr. Weijie SUN | Towards Robust Blockchain Systems: From Fair Consensus to Verifiable Data Access | PhD Thesis Defence |
| 5 March 2026 | Mr. Siyuan HAN | Learned Structures: Data-Aware Primitives for State Management | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 2 March 2026 | Miss Kexin ZHENG | PromptPoseFX: Authoring Dynamic Pose-Driven Visual Effects via Language and Multimodal Interaction | MPhil Thesis Defence |
| 27 February 2026 | Mr. Congying XU | Automated and Effective Metamorphic Testing: Relation Discovery, Deduction, and Generation. | PhD Thesis Defence |
| 26 February 2026 | Miss Yue DENG | Human-Centered Design of Digital Finance Security Identification and Intervention for High-Risk Populations | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 26 February 2026 | Mr. Yanbin WEI | LLMs and LVLMs-Driven Methods for Graph Processing | PhD Qualifying Examination |
| 25 February 2026 | Mr. Xinhang LIU | Effective 3D/4D Representations and Spatial Intelligence Built upon Them | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 13 February 2026 | Mr. Zhenxing MI | 3D and 4D Reconstruction and Generation for World Modeling | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 12 February 2026 | Mr. Ning LU | Towards Efficiently Building Trustworthy Language Models | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 12 February 2026 | Mr. Sixiang PENG | A Survey on Systems Support for Scalable Value-Flow Analysis | PhD Qualifying Examination |
| 9 February 2026 | Mr. Jiabo MA | Pathology Foundation Models for Precision Oncology | PhD Qualifying Examination |
| 6 February 2026 | Mr. Chenggao LI | Towards Robust and Unobtrusive Human-Centric Sensing via Intelligent Hardware | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 5 February 2026 | Mr. Mingkai TANG | Solving Scalability and Reality Gaps in Multi-Agent Pathfinding | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 5 February 2026 | Mr. Zhengjun HUANG | Beyond the Context Window: A Survey of Retrieval-Augmented Memory for Large Language Model Enhancement | PhD Qualifying Examination |
| 5 February 2026 | Mr. Tianlang HE | Overcoming Data Distribution Shift in AIoT Mobile Sensing | PhD Thesis Defence |
| 5 February 2026 | Mr. Bowen ZHANG | Enhancing Intermediate Representation Infrastructure for Static Analysis | PhD Qualifying Examination |
| 5 February 2026 | Mr. Weiqi WANG | From Conceptualization to Metaphysical Reasoning: Frameworks and Benchmarks Towards Generalizable Reasoning in Large Language Models | PhD Thesis Proposal Defence |
| 4 February 2026 | Mr. Jianzhe YU | A Survey of Secure and Private Data Sketching | PhD Qualifying Examination |
| 3 February 2026 | Mr. Zhoujin TIAN | From Single-Vector to Multi-Vector Retrieval: Toward Efficient and Scalable Indexing Methods | PhD Qualifying Examination |
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