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Qualifying Exams, Proposal Defenses & Thesis Defenses (Summer 2026)
Summer 2026
| Date | Candidate | Title | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10 June 2026 | Mr. Haobo LI | Multimodal Understanding for Earth Science: Bridging Multimodal Data and Human Insight with MLLMs | PhD Thesis 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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