Qualifying Exams, Proposal Defenses & Thesis Defenses (Fall 2026)

Fall 2026

Date Candidate Title Announcement
29 October 2026 Mr. Xichen ZHANG Learning from Interaction for Long-Horizon AI Agents PhD Qualifying Examination
28 October 2026 Mr. Yunxuan ZHANG KV-Cache Infrastructure Optimization for LLM Inference Systems PhD Qualifying Examination
28 October 2026 Miss Qijing LI Efficient KV Cache Management for LLM Serving Systems PhD Qualifying Examination
27 October 2026 Mr. Xiaochen MA Scalable Data Systems for Foundation-Model Data Preparation: Programming, Execution, and Large-Scale Data Curation PhD Qualifying Examination
27 October 2026 Mr. Shuoling LIU Data-Based Knowledge Transfer for Large-Small Model Collaboration: From Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Knowledge Graphs and Executable Skills PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 October 2026 Mr. Junteng LIU From Long-Horizon Coding to Recursive Self-Improvement: A Survey of LLM Agents for AI Development PhD Qualifying Examination
27 October 2026 Mr. Sheng WAN Improving Privacy and Efficiency of Federated Knowledge Distillation PhD Thesis Defence
26 October 2026 Mr. Yuxiang NIE A Survey on Explainability in Biomedical Vision-Language Foundation Models PhD Qualifying Examination
26 October 2026 Mr. Yanwei HUANG Bridging Intent, Execution, and Evaluation in Human-Agent Collaboration: A Two-Sided Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
26 October 2026 Miss Zhenqi HE Open-World Learning: From limited observations to an unbounded world PhD Qualifying Examination
26 October 2026 Miss Yuxuan LI Congestion Control for AI Workloads in Packet-Sprayed Datacenter Networks PhD Qualifying Examination
26 October 2026 Mr. Ran YAN Efficient and Adaptive Systems for Large Language Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
26 October 2026 Mr. Xiangzhou LIU Multipath Transport for RDMA Networking PhD Qualifying Examination
23 October 2026 Mr. Siyuan HAN Learned Structures: Data-Aware Primitives for State Management PhD Thesis Defence
23 October 2026 Mr. Pengbo LI Evolving LLM Reinforcement Learning Workloads: Toward RL-Native Training Engines PhD Qualifying Examination
21 October 2026 Mr. Xinyang HUANG Toward Next-Generation Host Networking for Cloud and AI: Efficiency, Scalability, and Flexibility PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
21 October 2026 Mr. Wei FAN Towards Autonomous Legal Intelligence: Case-Based Learning, Legal Rule Induction and Agentic Reasoning PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
20 October 2026 Mr. Ka Shun SHUM From Code to Capability: Data-Centric Training of Coding Agents PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
16 October 2026 Mr. Wei LIU Reinforcement Learning for Language Models That Think and Act PhD Qualifying Examination
15 October 2026 Miss Yingxue XU Towards Robust Multimodal AI for Precision Oncology: From Heterogeneous Data to Generalizable Representations PhD Thesis Defence
13 October 2026 Mr. Kaican LI Seeing What Matters: Building Reliable Multimodal Intelligence PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
12 October 2026 Mr. Kaikai ZHANG Cybersecurity with and against LLM Agents: Capabilities, Evaluation, and Countermeasures PhD Qualifying Examination
6 October 2026 Mr. Zhongwei XIE Beyond the Model: A Survey of Agent Harnesses for Long-Horizon LLM Agents PhD Qualifying Examination
6 October 2026 Mr. Peng XIE Beyond Turn Taking: A Survey of Full-Duplex Speech Models PhD Qualifying Examination
5 October 2026 Mr. Yue MA Controllable Video Generation and World Simulation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
5 October 2026 Mr. Qiqi ZHOU Leveraging Approximation for Efficient and Effective Graph Neural Network Inference and Training PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
5 October 2026 Mr. Zelin QIU Towards Generalizable Multi-sequence MRI Analysis: From Specialist to Foundation Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
29 September 2026 Miss Zirui WANG Evaluating Privacy Compliance with LLMs: a Cross-Jurisdictional Multi-Law Reasoning Framework Based on Contextual Integrity Theory MPhil Thesis Defence
29 September 2026 Mr. Bolin ZHAO A Survey of Representation Learning for Volumetric Scalar Fields PhD Qualifying Examination
28 September 2026 Mr. Fangyu DING A Survey of Diffusion Language Models: From Modeling to Scaling PhD Qualifying Examination
28 September 2026 Mr. Jiaxin ZHUANG Generalizable AI for Computed Tomography: From Volumetric Pretraining to Clinical Validation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
23 September 2026 Mr. Chenyang SUN A Survey of Quality Risks and Software Assurance Techniques for AI-Generated Code PhD Qualifying Examination
23 September 2026 Mr. Tsz On LI LLM-based Failing Test Generation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
22 September 2026 Mr. Pavel HUDEC Parameterized Algorithms and Complexity Results for Wiener Index and Liquid Democracy PhD Thesis Defence
21 September 2026 Miss Shiwen WU Data Matching in the Era of Language Models: From Data Preparation to Data Access PhD Thesis Defence
21 September 2026 Mr. Tao FAN Federated Knowledge Transfer and Co-Optimization of Large and Small Language Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
18 September 2026 Mr. Kerim KOCHEKOV Leveraging Graph Decompositions for Faster Program Analysis and Compiler Optimization PhD Thesis Defence
18 September 2026 Miss Yeongseo JUNG Incremental Context and User Adaptation for Large Language Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
17 September 2026 Mr. Andong TAN Concept-Based Interpretability with Performance Guarantees: From Vision Models to Large Language Models PhD Thesis Defence
16 September 2026 Mr. Zheye DENG Grounding Judgement in Structure and Evidence: From Structured Generation to Agentic Reasoning PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
10 September 2026 Mr. Zelin QIU Foundation Models in Multi-sequence MRI Analysis PhD Qualifying Examination
9 September 2026 Miss Togzhan BARAKBAYEVA Achieving Efficiency, Security, Trustlessness and Optimality in Blockchain-Based Protocols PhD Thesis Defence
8 September 2026 Miss Xiaomeng ZHU Proactive Response from Video in Human-Centric Embodied Interaction PhD Qualifying Examination
3 September 2026 Mr. Sergei NOVOZHILOV Algorithmic Optimization and Verification for Decentralized and Probabilistic Systems PhD Thesis Defence
2 September 2026 Mr. Yang CAO A Survey on Open-World Spatial Perception and Reasoning PhD Qualifying Examination

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