Qualifying Exams, Proposal Defenses & Thesis Defenses (Fall 2025)

Fall 2025

Date Candidate Title Announcement
12 December 2025 Mr. Jingye CHEN Rendering Text in Images in the GenAI Era PhD Thesis Defence
11 December 2025 Mr. Yue MA Controllable Video Generation: Flexible and Fine-grained Generation PhD Qualifying Examination
10 December 2025 Mr. Zhonghan CHEN Cardinality Estimation for Similarity Search: A Locality Sensitive Hashing Approach MPhil Thesis Defence
5 December 2025 Mr. Jianming WANG Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)-Based Rehabilitation for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (pDoC) PhD Qualifying Examination
3 December 2025 Mr. Yibo JIN Enhancing Static Call Graph Construction: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
2 December 2025 Mr. Shuangjie YAO Symbolic Execution: Its Rise and Resurgence PhD Qualifying Examination
2 December 2025 Mr. Haoyang MA Fault Characterization and Testing for Domain-Specific Compilers PhD Thesis Defence
2 December 2025 Mr. Zhenlan JI Causality-Driven Interpretation and Inspection of Deep Learning Systems PhD Thesis Defence
1 December 2025 Mr. Qingyan BAI Consistent and Controllable Visual Generation in Diffusion Era PhD Qualifying Examination
28 November 2025 Mr. Enze MA A Survey on Token-Level KV Cache Optimization for Efficient LLM Inference PhD Qualifying Examination
28 November 2025 Miss Tong LI Table Extraction from Texts: A Literature Review PhD Qualifying Examination
28 November 2025 Mr. Qiqi ZHOU Efficient Training and Inference of Graph Neural Networks: A Literature Review PhD Qualifying Examination
28 November 2025 Mr. Tianlang HE Overcoming Data Distribution Shift in AIoT Mobile Sensing PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 November 2025 Miss Wenxue LI Towards Efficient and Scalable RDMA Networking for Datacenter Applications PhD Thesis Defence
27 November 2025 Mr. Shuhan ZHONG Multivariate Time Series Analysis with Deep Learning PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 November 2025 Mr. Zhenghang REN Towards Efficient GPU Interconnect for AI-centric Systems PhD Thesis Defence
27 November 2025 Mr. Weiyu CHEN Efficient Multi-Objective Optimization for Deep Learning PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 November 2025 Miss Liwenhan XIE Designing Interactive Scaffolds for Steering VLM-Powered Visualization Generation PhD Thesis Defence
26 November 2025 Mr. Xiaocheng LU Unifying Understanding and Generation in Vision Language Models: A Survey of Vision View PhD Qualifying Examination
26 November 2025 Mr. Zhili CHEN Learning Representations for Efficient Data Processing, 3D Perception, and Planning in Autonomous Driving PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
26 November 2025 Mr. Haoxi LI Beyond Static Chain-of-Thought: Learning to Control Reasoning in Large Language Models PhD Qualifying Examination
26 November 2025 Mr. Shuchang XU AI-Powered Interactive Systems that Improve Video Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Viewers PhD Qualifying Examination
26 November 2025 Mr. Tao HAN Beyond Physics: The AI-Driven Revolution in Numerical Weather Prediction PhD Qualifying Examination
25 November 2025 Mr. Pavel HUDEC Parameterized Algorithms and Complexity Results for Wiener Index and Liquid Democracy PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
24 November 2025 Mr. Hyeonjae KIM Orchestrating Multi-Agent Systems for End-to-End Climate Data Science Workflows MPhil Thesis Defence
24 November 2025 Mr. Luyu CHENG Improving the Expressiveness and Efficiency of Pattern Matching PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
18 November 2025 Mr. Vlasios KOUTSOS System-wide auditability through cryptographic techniques PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
17 November 2025 Mr. Yanghao WANG Diffusion-based Controllable Image Generation: Methods, Applications and Future Directions PhD Qualifying Examination
14 November 2025 Mr. Zeyu HUANG Serendipitous Togetherness: Multimodal Designs for Shared Experiences across Time and Space PhD Thesis Defence
12 November 2025 Mr. Hengcheng ZHU Towards Emulating Interactions for Effective Software Testing PhD Thesis Defence
12 November 2025 Miss Jinghan ZHANG Inference-Time Learning for LLMs: A Survey of In-Context, Retrieval-Augmented, and Test-Time Training PhD Qualifying Examination
10 November 2025 Mr. Congying XU Towards Automated and Effective Metamorphic Testing: Relation Discovery, Deduction, and Generation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
5 November 2025 Mr. Hongyu LIU MULTIMODAL 2D/3D/4D AVATAR GENERATION AND EDITING: A SURVEY PhD Qualifying Examination
31 October 2025 Mr. Zeyu QIN Scalable Oversight for Large Language Models PhD Qualifying Examination
31 October 2025 Mr. Changkun LIU Efficient and Accurate Visual Relocalization with Deep Neural Networks PhD Thesis Defence
31 October 2025 Mr. Liu YANG Improving the Efficiency of Federated Recommender System PhD Thesis Defence
31 October 2025 Mr. Man Ting WONG Sparse Signal Recovery for Compressed Sensing PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 October 2025 Mr. Meiziniu LI Effective Testing of Functional Faults for Deep Learning Libraries PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
27 October 2025 Mr. Peng YE Learning with Differential Privacy PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
17 October 2025 Mr. Runtao LIU Post-Training for Visual Synthesis: Safe and Powerful Generation PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
17 October 2025 Mr. Yuzhen HUANG Toward Trustworthy Reasoning in Large Language Models: Data, Exploration, and Feedback PhD Qualifying Examination
16 October 2025 Mr. Jaewoo SONG Integer-Only Training and Model Restructuring for Edge Artificial Intelligence PhD Thesis Defence
16 October 2025 Mr. Kam-Kwai WONG Visual Analytics Approaches for Multimodal Temporal Data Analysis PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
14 October 2025 Mr. Tianshi ZHENG From Automation to Autonomy: A Survey on Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery PhD Qualifying Examination
14 October 2025 Mr. Zian QIAN A Survey of Unified Multimodal Models for Text and Image Understanding and Generation PhD Qualifying Examination
13 October 2025 Mr. Xubang XIONG Exploring Natural Language Interfaces for Data Visualization PhD Qualifying Examination
10 October 2025 Mr. Shuoling LIU A Survey on Knowledge Transfer from Large Language Models to Small Language Models PhD Qualifying Examination
10 October 2025 Mr. Zengyang GONG Towards Efficient and Scalable Retrieval in Metric Spaces PhD Thesis Defence
9 October 2025 Mr. Anshunkang ZHOU Towards Industrial-Scale Software Binary Analysis PhD Thesis Defence
8 October 2025 Mr. Ao SUN Enabling Explainable AI with Transformer Models: Opportunities and Limitations in Visual and Textual Concept Generation MPhil Thesis Defence
8 October 2025 Mr. Zheng TANG Evaluation-Driven Intelligence: From Visual Captioning Metrics to Agentic Workflow Optimization MPhil Thesis Defence
6 October 2025 Mr. Hong SU A Survey on Session-Based Recommendation PhD Qualifying Examination
29 September 2025 Miss Lu LIU Enhancing Smart Contract Security: Empirical Characterization, Fault Analysis, and Vulnerability Detection PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
29 September 2025 Mr. Pengze CHEN A Survey on LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Document Mining PhD Qualifying Examination
26 September 2025 Mr. Yongchao WANG Scalable Value-Flow Analysis for Industrial Software PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
26 September 2025 Mr. Jiawei LI Spatial Reasoning in 3D Point Cloud Search from Geometry to Semantics and Beyond: A Survey PhD Qualifying Examination
26 September 2025 Mr. Yinan ZHU Towards Ubiquitous IoT Sensing: From Low-Cost Devices to Highly-Generalizable Models PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
25 September 2025 Mr. Xudong LIAO Application-Aware Communication Optimization for Distributed Systems PhD Thesis Defence
25 September 2025 Mr. Chun Yin CHAU Boolean Algebraic Subtyping PhD Qualifying Examination
25 September 2025 Miss Wenxue LI Towards Efficient and Scalable RDMA Networking for Datacenter Applications PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
24 September 2025 Mr. Changkun LIU Efficient and Accurate Visual Relocalization with Deep Neural Networks PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
24 September 2025 Mr. Sheng YAO SERVERLESS MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE WITH HETEROGENEITY PhD Qualifying Examination
19 September 2025 Mr. Peiyan ZHANG Learning in Flux: Continual and Efficient Representation Learning on Dynamic Graphs PhD Thesis Defence
19 September 2025 Mr. Liu YANG Improving the Efficiency of Federated Recommender System PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
19 September 2025 Mr. Siyuan HAN A Survey on Learned Data Structures for Database Management PhD Qualifying Examination
17 September 2025 Mr. Wai Kin WONG Enhance Binary Analysis Tooling PhD Thesis Defence
17 September 2025 Mr. Suyi LI Towards Efficient Resource Management for Cloud-Native Applications PhD Thesis Defence
15 September 2025 Miss Bingnan CHEN Efficient Processing of Acyclic Queries PhD Qualifying Examination
9 September 2025 Mr. Dongwei XIAO Improving the Reliability of Privacy-Enhancing Technology (PET) Systems PhD Thesis Defence
5 September 2025 Mr. Zijun CHEN Sample Complexity in Reinforcement Learning PhD Qualifying Examination

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