Past Events

2025

• 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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• CS Colloquium: Dr. Jyotishman Pathak

  Oct 23, 2025 - 2:15 PM

  to Oct 23, 2025 - 3:15 PM

  Location

  Hoover 1213

  Improving Perinatal Mental Health in the Era of A.I.

  Perinatal depression impacts up to one in seven women in the United States.

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• PhD Preliminary Oral Exam: Quazi Ishtiaque Mahmud

  Oct 22, 2025 - 3:30 PM

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  Location

  Atanasoff 235

   AutoParLLM: GNN-guided Context Generation for Zero-Shot Code Parallelization using LLMs

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• CANCELED: Fall 2025 Industry Lecture: Juniper Mist

  Oct 20, 2025 - 4:30 PM

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• MS Final Oral Exam: Salil Purandare

  Oct 17, 2025 - 1:30 PM

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  Location

  Atanasoff 223

  Join on Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/96776547964 

  A Systematic Exploration of Configuration Failures in Flight Control Software

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• PhD Final Oral Exam: Ashutosh Kumar Nirala

  Oct 16, 2025 - 11:00 AM

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  Location

  Atanasoff 235

  Toward Reliable AI: Practical and Certified Defenses for Adversarially Robust Vision Systems

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• MS Final Oral Exam: Shakiba Khourashahi

  Oct 15, 2025 - 4:00 PM

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  Location

  Atanasoff 235

  Topology-Preserving Dimensionality Reduction 

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• Fall 2025 Industry Lecture: Dan Rediske, UiPath

  Oct 13, 2025 - 4:30 PM

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  Location

  Zoom

  Careers in Cybersecurity

  Cybersecurity is consistently highlighted as an important and rapidly growing field - but it can be difficult to understand how to get on the path to work in the industry in a cybersecurity role as a student.

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• Graduate Student Seminar: Chandeepa Dissanayake

  Oct 9, 2025 - 3:40 PM

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  Location

  0308 Elings Hall

  A Haskell Adiabatic DSL: Solving Classical Optimization Problems on Quantum Hardware

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• Fall 2025 Industry Lecture: Wells Enterprises

  Oct 6, 2025 - 4:30 PM

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  IT + Ice Cream: Technology Powers Ice Cream Production in Iowa

  Harnessing technology, Wells Enterprises, headquartered in Le Mars, Iowa for more than 110 years, stands as not only Iowa’s premier ice cream powerhouse, but an industry leader.

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