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Wednesday, April 8, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Systems and Networking • AI Efficiency Across the Computing Stack: Model Efficiency, Software Tooling, and Hardware Architecture

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.

Mohamed Abdelfattah, Assistant Professor, Cornell Tech
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

Monday, April 13, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Post-Training Large Language Models as Software Engineering Agents

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Zhiheng Lyu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Thursday, April 16, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Understanding the Impact of Inputs on LLM-Based Automated Test Generation

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Saarang Agarwal, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Pengyu Nie, Mei Nagappan

Friday, April 10, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Root Cause Analysis in Networked Systems via Latent Cause Inference and Prior Knowledge

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1302.

Soheil Johari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • On the Complexity of Constrained Reconfiguration and Motion Planning

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Remy El Sabeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Naomi Nishimura

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Improving OOD Detection, Classification, and Reasoning via Multi-modal Feature Alignment

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Yimu Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki