Past Events

2025

MS Final Oral Exam: Fatema Siddika

Dec 1, 2025 - 11:00 AM

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Location
Zoom

Dual Knowledge Distillation with Adaptive Class-wise Prototype Margins for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

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PhD Final Oral Exam: Qiao Qiao

Nov 20, 2025 - 1:00 PM

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Location
Zoom

Integrating Structural and Semantic Understanding for Robust Knowledge Graph Construction: from knowledge graph completion to zero-shot entity linking

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PhD Final Oral Exam: Yonas Sium

Nov 20, 2025 - 9:00 AM

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Location
Atanasoff 223

Join on Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/94871918940
Structure-aware Graph Representation Learning Using Graph Neural Networks

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PhD Preliminary Oral Exam: Abdurahman Ali Mohammed

Nov 19, 2025 - 3:00 PM

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Location
Zoom

Reliable and Explainable AI for Automated Cell Counting

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MS Final Oral Exam: Dylan Khor

Nov 19, 2025 - 9:30 AM

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Location
Atanasoff 235

Sampling-based Optimized Adaptive Discretization and its Applications in Robotics

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Faculty Research Networking for Graduate Students

Nov 17, 2025 - 4:25 PM

to Nov 17, 2025 - 5:15 PM

Location
Atanasoff 223

Are you looking for a major professor? The Faculty Research Networking event will have faculties in attendance that are looking for talented students to join their lab.

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PhD Preliminary Oral Exam: Xiaoyuan Li

Nov 17, 2025 - 3:00 PM

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Location
Atanasoff 235

Multihead Finite-State Dimension

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MS Final Oral Exam: Rohail Alam

Nov 17, 2025 - 2:00 PM

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Location
Atanasoff 231

Multi-Objective Planning for Autonomous Robots

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CS Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Lance Fortnow, Illinois Institute of Technology

Nov 14, 2025 - 3:25 PM

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Location
2019 Morrill Hall

Complexity in the Era of AI and Data-Driven Computing
We live in a new age of computing, driven by faster distributed computation, strong optimization, data-driven algorithms, and of course remarkable advances in artificial intelli

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MS Final Oral Exam: Syed Mujtaba Haider Sherazi

Nov 14, 2025 - 3:00 PM

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Location
Atanasoff 235

Robust and Leakage-Resilient Physical-Layer Security for BLE-Based Wireless Body Area Networks under Adversarial and Propagation-Driven Constraints

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PhD Research Proficiency Exam: Matt Rayman

Nov 11, 2025 - 10:00 AM

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Location
Atanasoff 213

Effective Versions of Strong Measure Zero and Borel’s Conjecture

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RESCHEDULED Graduate Student Seminar: Feifei Cheng

Nov 10, 2025 - 4:25 PM

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Location
0114 Student Innovation Center

Join on Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/98699358342
Embedding Quantum Program Verification into Dafny

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MS Final Oral Exam: Raja Sai Nandhan Kataru

Nov 10, 2025 - 10:00 AM

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Location
Zoom

Parallel, Lock-Free Framework for Decision Diagram (DD) based Search

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Responsible AI Student Research Symposium

Nov 7, 2025 - 10:00 AM

to Nov 7, 2025 - 12:30 PM

Location
Hach Hall 1101

About
10:00 - 11:15 - Lightning Talks
Short, engaging student research presentations exploring Responsible AI and Dependable Data Driven Discovery across disciplines.
11:15 - 12:30 - Poster Walk

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IE 5010 Seminar Series: Dr. Bowen Weng

Nov 5, 2025 - 4:25 PM

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Location
1311 Therkildsen Industrial Engineering Building

Abstract

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PhD Preliminary Oral Exam: Saptarshi Biswas

Nov 4, 2025 - 9:45 AM

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Location
Atanasoff 213

Oracle Pointer Machines for Simulating Chemical Reaction Network

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Fall 2025 Industry Lecture: Collins Aerospace

Nov 3, 2025 - 4:30 PM

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Location
Collins Aerospace Ames Site

The Perfect Airborne Navigation System Design
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry.

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PhD Research Proficiency Exam: Shaila Sharmin

Oct 31, 2025 - 2:00 PM

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Location
Atanasoff 217

Automatically Detecting Numerical Instability in Machine Learning Applications via Soft Assertions

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MS Final Oral Exam: Mahdi Banisharifdehkordi

Oct 31, 2025 - 10:30 AM

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Location
Atanasoff 223

Graph Neural Network Architectures for Interpretable I/O Bottleneck Analysis in High-Performance Computing Systems

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Fall 2025 Industry Lecture: Businessolver

Oct 27, 2025 - 4:30 PM

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Location
Atanasoff Hall 223

Exploring AI Orchestration in Healthcare Systems
This presentation will discuss agentic orchestration in multi-component AI chatbots, with a focus on applications in the healthcare and benefits domain.

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