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

Fall 2026

Date Candidate Title Announcement
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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