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

Spring 2026

Date Candidate Title Announcement
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
19 March 2026 Mr. Jiayang CHENG Grounding LLM Agents in Knowledge, Context, and Action PhD Thesis Proposal Defence
17 March 2026 Mr. Meng CHU From Agentic AI toward Reliable Visual World Modeling for Long-Horizon Decision Making PhD Qualifying Examination
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. Jin CHENG 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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