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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