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

Summer 2026

Date Candidate Title Announcement
25 August 2026 Mr. Rui SHENG Grounding AI-Driven Clinical Decision Support in Evidence-Based Medicine: Visual Analytics for Evidence Construction and Application PhD Thesis Defence
20 August 2026 Mr. Hongyi LU Memory Isolation in Modern Computing System PhD Thesis Defence
18 August 2026 Mr. Yanbin WEI Multimodal Graph Intelligence: Reasoning, Prediction, and Generation PhD Thesis Defence
17 August 2026 Mr. Tsz Ho LI Legal Data Augmentation in LLMs for Low-resourced Domains MPhil Thesis Defence
17 August 2026 Miss Xiaodong MEI Structured Scene Representation Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving PhD Thesis Defence
14 August 2026 Mr. Baichen YANG Multi-modal Sensing for Human Motor Understanding: From Clinic to the Sports Field. PhD Thesis Defence
12 August 2026 Mr. Zhe NIU Controlling Factors of Variation in Lip-to-Speech Synthesis: Space, Time, Content, and Speaker PhD Thesis Defence
11 August 2026 Mr. Weiyan XIE Understanding What Deep Vision and Multimodal Models Depend on and Guiding What They Should PhD Thesis Defence
10 August 2026 Mr. Dingdong LIU From Fluency to Communicative Competence: Designing Conversational Agents for High-Stakes Dialogue PhD Thesis Defence
7 August 2026 Mr. Hong Ting TSANG Neural Query Engines for Knowledge Hypergraphs: Complex Query Answering with Transformers MPhil Thesis Defence
7 August 2026 Mr. Chunyang LI Towards Meta-evaluation for LLM-as-a-judge in Web Development Quality MPhil Thesis Defence
6 August 2026 Mr. Luyu CHENG Improving the Expressiveness and Efficiency of Pattern Matching PhD Thesis Defence
6 August 2026 Mr. Junze LI Collaborative Sensemaking with AI: From In-Situ Context to Human Experience Understanding PhD Thesis Defence
31 July 2026 Miss Hanfang LYU Understanding and Supporting Human Feedback Elicitation for Human-Robot Interaction PhD Thesis Defence
30 July 2026 Miss Yehong XU Scalable Routing Optimization in Road Networks PhD Thesis Defence
30 July 2026 Mr. Kwun Hang LAU Context-Constrained Retrieval for Evidence-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Generation MPhil Thesis Defence
30 July 2026 Mr. Yuchong XIE A Survey of LLM Agents for Vulnerability Discovery PhD Qualifying Examination
29 July 2026 Mr. Shiwen WU Semantic Matching over Structured Data: From Data Preparation to Data Access in the Era of Language Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
29 July 2026 Mr. Baixuan XU From Acting to Accomplishing: A Survey of Language-Agent Autonomy in Digital Work PhD Qualifying Examination
28 July 2026 Mr. Zhantong XUE From Intent to Constraints: The Software Stack for ZK Computation PhD Qualifying Examination
28 July 2026 Miss Yue DENG From Risk Recognition to Recovery: A Human-Centered Approach to Supporting Digital Financial Safety Among High-Risk Populations PhD Thesis Defence
27 July 2026 Miss Togzhan BARAKBAYEVA Efficient and Trustless Algorithms for Blockchain Protocols: Decentralized Randomness, Optimal Mining, and Gas Optimization PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 July 2026 Mr. Zhengrui GUO Towards Clinical-Grade Pathology AI: From Whole-Slide Evidence Discovery to Clinical Translation and Decision Support PhD Thesis Defence
27 July 2026 Miss Yi XIN Generative AI-Enabled Virtual Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI for Breast Cancer Diagnosis MPhil Thesis Defence
23 July 2026 Mr. Yu Foon Darin CHAU Automatic Classical Music and Pop Song Mashup Systems MPhil Thesis Defence
23 July 2026 Miss Qing ZONG Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design PhD Qualifying Examination
22 July 2026 Mr. Huihao JING Isolation as a First-Class Principle for LLM-Agent System Safety: Concepts, Taxonomy, Challenges and Future Directions PhD Qualifying Examination
20 July 2026 Mr. Andong TAN Concept-Based Interpretability with Performance Guarantees: From Vision Models to Large Language Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
17 July 2026 Mr. Leong Chit Jeff KWAN Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Cardiac Function Estimation in Medical Imaging PhD Qualifying Examination
17 July 2026 Mr. Kai CHEN Multimodal Learning for Complex Visual Environments: From Multimodal Understanding to Controllable Data Synthesis PhD Thesis Defence
15 July 2026 Mr. Zongyi LYU Testing, Understanding, and Optimizing Coding Agents: A Survey on Multi-Agent Systems for Code Generation PhD Qualifying Examination
15 July 2026 Mr. Yin Lai Lyndon CHAN Deformable Medical Image Registration: From Classical Optimization to Learning-Based Frameworks PhD Qualifying Examination
14 July 2026 Mr. Kentaro TAKAHIRA Turning the Physical World into a Data Interface: Augmenting Situated Visualization and Data Storytelling through Physical Affordances PhD Thesis Defence
13 July 2026 Mr. Sergei NOVOZHILOV Quantitative Analysis of Complex Systems: From Program Termination to Blockchain Optimization PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
13 July 2026 Miss Tsz Ting CHUNG Can LLMs Truly Reason? From Stochastic Parrots to In-Context Learners PhD Thesis Defence
6 July 2026 Mr. Hao JIANG Deep Learning for Computational Cytopathology PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
3 July 2026 Miss Luyu QIU Reliable and Generalizable AI through Prediction-Critical Information Identification and Preservation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
3 July 2026 Miss Tianyi BAI Towards Reliable Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models from a Data-Centric Perspective PhD Thesis Defence
30 June 2026 Miss Yan LUO StoryLensEdu: Personalized Learning Report Generation through Narrative-Driven Multi-Agent Systems MPhil Thesis Defence
29 June 2026 Mr. Chenggao LI Towards Robust and Unobtrusive Human-Centric Sensing via Intelligent Hardware PhD Thesis Defence
26 June 2026 Mr. Zhuoxuan PENG A Survey on Multi-Sensor 3D Human Pose Estimation PhD Qualifying Examination
25 June 2026 Mr. Leixian SHEN Human Agency in the Age of AI: Towards Human-AI Co-Creation with High Control and High Automation PhD Thesis Defence
24 June 2026 Mr. Ruixuan HUANG Jailbreak Attacks and Evaluations for Large Language Models PhD Qualifying Examination
24 June 2026 Mr. Yanbo DAI From Model Robustness to Harness-Level Protection: A Survey on Security of Long-Context LLM Agents PhD Qualifying Examination
23 June 2026 Miss Xiaodong MEI Structured Scene Representation Learning for End-to-End Navigation in Autonomous Driving PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
22 June 2026 Mr. Jinjian WANG Intelligent mmWave Sensing for Human-Centric Motor Analysis and Interaction: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
22 June 2026 Mr. Haochen SHI The Cost of Collaboration: A Survey of Efficiency-Aware Multi-LLM Systems PhD Qualifying Examination
18 June 2026 Mr. Christodoulos PAPPAS Post-Quantum and Transparent SNARKs PhD Qualifying Examination
17 June 2026 Mr. Rui MIN A Survey on the Trustworthiness of (Large) Machine Learning Models PhD Qualifying Examination
17 June 2026 Mr. Tanapoom SERMCHAIWONG Automatic and Robust Fingerprinting of In-browser Cryptominers MPhil Thesis Defence
17 June 2026 Mr. Shangyu LI Automated Program Verification with Large Language Models: A Survey and Review PhD Qualifying Examination
17 June 2026 Mr. Zizheng LIN Constraint Modeling in Natural Language Processing in the Era of Deep Learning PhD Thesis Defence
16 June 2026 Mr. Shih-yang LIU Advancing Training and Inference Efficiency in Large-Scale Models PhD Thesis Defence
15 June 2026 Mr. Zhitao HE From Self-Aware to Human-Aware: A Survey on Trustworthy LLM Agents PhD Qualifying Examination
15 June 2026 Mr. Hangyu LIN Grokking and Beyond Toward Understanding Generalization in Transformer Pretraining PhD Qualifying Examination
15 June 2026 Mr. Qi ZHANG Recovering High-Level Semantics from Software Binaries: From Symbolic Analysis To LLM-Assisted Reasoning PhD Qualifying Examination
15 June 2026 Mr. Yulong LIU Toward Generalizable and Interpretable Vision-language Decoding from the Human Brain: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
15 June 2026 Mr. Yanbin WEI Vision-Enhanced Graph Intelligence: Reasoning, Prediction, and Generation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
11 June 2026 Mr. Zixin CHEN Supporting Pedagogical Decision-Making in AI-Mediated Learning: Instructor-Centered Human-AI Systems and Evaluation Methods PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
10 June 2026 Mr. Dingdong LIU From Fluency to Communicative Competence: Designing Conversational Agents for High-Stakes Dialogue PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
10 June 2026 Mr. Jinxiang LAI From Virtual to Physical: Evolving Visual Generation Agents across Simulated, Real, and Physics-Aware Environments PhD Qualifying Examination
10 June 2026 Miss Yehong XU Global Routing Optimization in Road Networks PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
10 June 2026 Mr. Haobo LI Multimodal Understanding for Earth Science: Bridging Multimodal Data and Human Insight with MLLMs PhD Thesis Defence
9 June 2026 Mr. Rui SHENG Visual Analytics for Clinical Decision Support based on Evidence-based Medicine PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
9 June 2026 Mr. Junze LI Collaborative Sensemaking with AI: From In-Situ Context to Human Understanding PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
8 June 2026 Mr. Siyuan ZHOU Modeling the Physical World: Generative World Models for Robot Learning PhD Thesis Defence
4 June 2026 Mr. Shuhao FU Temporal Safety Checking via Typestate Analysis PhD Qualifying Examination
4 June 2026 Mr. Anh Dung DINH Video Game Music: A Potential Frontier for Creative Mashups and Remixes PhD Qualifying Examination
4 June 2026 Mr. Runtao LIU Post-Training for Visual Synthesis: Safe and Powerful Generation PhD Thesis Defence
3 June 2026 Mr. Jonas BALLWEG Fairness in Blockchain Protocols: A Survey of Definitions, Guarantees, and Limits PhD Qualifying Examination
2 June 2026 Mr. Boran SUN Cost-Efficient Execution of Large-Scale Generative AI on Rack-Scale Infrastructure PhD Qualifying Examination
2 June 2026 Miss Jieling YU Efficient Tool Use in LLM Agents: A Survey of Bottlenecks and Optimization PhD Qualifying Examination
1 June 2026 Mr. Yongjiang LIU Aligning With the Physical World: A Comprehensive Survey on Physically Grounded VLM Agents PhD Qualifying Examination

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