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

Summer 2026

Date Candidate Title Announcement
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
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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