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

Spring 2026

Date Candidate Title Announcement
22 May 2026 Mr. Zhenxing MI 3D and 4D Reconstruction and Generation for World Modeling PhD Thesis Defence
21 May 2026 Mr. Jiayang CHENG Grounding LLM Agents in Knowledge, Context, and Action PhD Thesis Defence
19 May 2026 Mr. Zhili CHEN Learning Representations for Efficient Data Processing, 3D Perception, and Planning in Autonomous Driving PhD Thesis Defence
19 May 2026 Mr. Zhili LIU Safe, Scalable Transfer with Dynamic Experts: Mitigating Negative Transfer PhD Thesis Defence
12 May 2026 Mr. Ning LU Towards Efficiently Building Trustworthy Language Models PhD Thesis Defence
8 May 2026 Mr. Xinhang LIU Scalable 3D/4D Scene Representations for Grounded Spatial Intelligence PhD Thesis Defence
6 May 2026 Mr. Fating HONG Photorealistic Digital Humans: From Controllable Talking Heads to Free‑Viewpoint 4D Avatars PhD Thesis Defence
5 May 2026 Mr. Man Ting WONG Sparse Signal Recovery PhD Thesis Defence
29 April 2026 Mr. Tianyi ZHANG A Dual-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Controllable and Adaptive Synthetic Data Generation MPhil Thesis Defence
28 April 2026 Mr. Leixian SHEN Human Agency in the Age of AI: Towards Human-AI Co-Creation with High Control and High Automation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
28 April 2026 Mr. Guangxin HE Discrete Diffusion Language Models: Standalone Alternatives and Complementary Drafts for Autoregressive Decoding PhD Qualifying Examination
28 April 2026 Mr. Kentaro TAKAHIRA Turning the Physical World into a Data Interface: Augmenting Situated Visualization and Data Storytelling through Physical Affordances PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 April 2026 Mr. Zipeng QIU Audit-on-Demand Correctness for ANN-Based Vector Search: A Survey and Review of Zero-Knowledge Proof Techniques PhD Qualifying Examination
24 April 2026 Mr. Xuezhen WANG A Survey of 4D Reconstruction and Rendering PhD Qualifying Examination
24 April 2026 Mr. Yunfan ZENG Large-scale Gaussian Splatting PhD Qualifying Examination
23 April 2026 Mr. Haobo LI Multimodal Understanding for Earth Science: Bridging Multimodal Data and Human Insight with MLLMs PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
23 April 2026 Mr. Adriel Abraham INTAN IMU-Assisted RSSI Vector Prediction under Android Wi-Fi Scan Throttling MPhil Thesis Defence
23 April 2026 Mr. You PENG Towards Data Agents at Scale: A Survey of Benchmarking, Workflow Design, and Serving Infrastructure PhD Qualifying Examination
23 April 2026 Mr. Weile TAN A Survey on Session-Based Recommendation PhD Qualifying Examination
22 April 2026 Miss Runyi YU Learning Robustness and Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Human Demonstration PhD Qualifying Examination
22 April 2026 Mr. Kaican LI Towards Reliable Multimodal Agents: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
21 April 2026 Miss Maryam Alsadat MASOUDIAN TARGHI Semantic-Aware Android Crash Reproduction PhD Thesis Defence
21 April 2026 Mr. Chenyue LI Agentic Systems for Earth Science: From Tool-Augmented Assistants to Self-Evolving Scientific Agents PhD Qualifying Examination
20 April 2026 Miss Yizhen ZHANG Sensing and Analysis Systems for Parkinson's Disease Management: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
20 April 2026 Mr. Wei CHEN From Textual Chain-of-Thought to Interleaved Image-Text CoT for Multi-modal Reasoning PhD Qualifying Examination
16 April 2026 Mr. Zizheng LIN Constraint Modeling in Natural Language Processing in the Era of Deep Learning PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
15 April 2026 Mr. Lunxi CAO A Survey on Systems for RL Post-Training of LLMs PhD Qualifying Examination
14 April 2026 Mr. Jiazhen LIU Towards Unified Visual Intelligence: Bridging Dense Perception and Complex Reasoning in Multimodal Foundation Models PhD Qualifying Examination
9 April 2026 Mr. Siyuan ZHOU Modeling the Physical World: Generative World Models for Robot Learning PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
9 April 2026 Mr. Xi ZHAO Efficient High-Dimensional Search in Modern Vector Databases PhD Thesis Defence
2 April 2026 Miss Qiaoyi CHEN From Analysis to Engagement: AI-Supported Performance Feedback in Sport PhD Qualifying Examination
2 April 2026 Mr. Weijie SHI A Survey of Data Selection Strategies for Large Language Model Training PhD Qualifying Examination
1 April 2026 Mr. Zichen LIU Towards Precise and Controllable Co-creation: Multi-modal Interaction in Visual Generative Models PhD Qualifying Examination
1 April 2026 Miss Chenhan JIANG Scalable 3D Generation: From Leveraging Foundation Models to Building Data Engines PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
30 March 2026 Mr. Shixu ZHOU A Survey on AI and Self-Regulated Learning in Computer Science Education PhD Qualifying Examination
26 March 2026 Mr. Soroush FAROKHNIA Scalable Algorithms for Gas Analysis and Optimization in Smart Contracts PhD Thesis Defence
26 March 2026 Miss Lu LIU Enhancing Smart Contract Security: Empirical Characterization, Fault Analysis, and Vulnerability Detection PhD Thesis Defence
26 March 2026 Mr. Weiqi WANG From Conceptualization to Metaphysical Reasoning: Frameworks and Benchmarks Towards Generalizable Reasoning PhD Thesis Defence
23 March 2026 Mr. Meng CHU From Agentic AI toward Reliable Visual World Modeling for Long-Horizon Decision Making PhD Qualifying Examination
20 March 2026 Miss Assem ZHUNIS A Survey on the Speculative Design Techniques in Future Studies and Potential for AI PhD Qualifying Examination
19 March 2026 Mr. Jiayang CHENG Grounding LLM Agents in Knowledge, Context, and Action PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
12 March 2026 Mr. Zhili LIU Safe, Scalable Transfer with Dynamic Experts: Mitigating Negative Transfer PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
11 March 2026 Mr. Shuhan ZHONG Multivariate Time Series Analysis with Deep Learning PhD Thesis Defence
11 March 2026 Mr. Weijie SUN Towards Robust Blockchain Systems: From Fair Consensus to Verifiable Data Access PhD Thesis Defence
10 March 2026 Mr. Shih-yang LIU Advancing Training and Inference Efficiency in Large-Scale Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
10 March 2026 Miss Xuanhui YANG A Survey of Handling Heterogeneous Spaces in Extended Reality PhD Qualifying Examination
6 March 2026 Mr. Cheng JIN A Survey of Multimodal Foundation Models in Computational Pathology PhD Qualifying Examination
5 March 2026 Mr. Siyuan HAN Learned Structures: Data-Aware Primitives for State Management PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
5 March 2026 Mr. Kangyu YUAN A SURVEY ON INTERVENTION FOR ONLINE AGGRESSION: RESEARCH LANDSCAPE, DESIGN MECHANISM AND EVALUATION PhD Qualifying Examination
4 March 2026 Mr. Weiyan XIE Controllable Image Generation: Foundations, Methodologies, and Emerging Frontiers PhD Qualifying Examination
2 March 2026 Mr. Juyoung BAE Deep Generative Models in Biomedical Imaging: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
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
27 February 2026 Mr. Yujia HE From Data to Coaching: A Survey of AI-Mediated Feedback Loops in Adventure Sports Training PhD Qualifying Examination
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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