CGSW 12.0 Agenda

CISE Graduate Student Workshop

Event Date: Friday, January 30th, 2026
Workshop Research Presentations: 8 St Mary’s St., PHO 906 (9:00am-5:15pm)
Award Reception: BU Castle, 225 Bay State Rd (5:30-7:30PM)

9:15am – 9:45am: Breakfast & Registration
9:45am – 9:55am: Opening Remarks: Ayse K. Coskun, CISE Director
9:55am – 10:00am: Welcome: CGSW 12.0 Student Organizers: Abin Binoy George, Beste Oztop, Kamran Vakil, Zeynep Ece Kizilates

Plenary Speaker
10:00am – 10:30am: Rania Khalaf, Chief AI Officer, WSO2

Session 1: Application Oriented Machine Learning
10:30am – 10:45am: Ran Jing (Advisor: Andrew Sabelhaus), Fault Detection and Response for Safe Control of Artificial Muscles in Soft Robots
10:45am – 11:00am: Damola Ajeyemi (Advisor: Emiliano Dall’Anese), Learning to Pursue AC Optimal Power Flow Solutions with Feasibility Guarantees
11:00am – 11:15am: Chen Yao (Advisors: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos and Samuel A. Issacson), Neural Approximation of Moment OIDEs for Antigen–Antibody Binding Dynamics

11:15am – 11:30am: BREAK

Session 2: Large Data Monitoring and Control

11:30am – 11:45am: Prateek Jain (Advisor: Abraham Matta), Design and Modeling of a New File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors Evaluated in the FABRIC Testbed
11:45am -12:00pm: FNU Syed Mohammad Qasim (Advisor: Ayse K. Coskun), Limitations of Large Language Models in Classifying and Localizing Latency Anomalies in Distributed System Traces
12:00pm -12:15pm: Nicholas Sacco (Advisor: Bobak Nazer), The Power Method with Row Erasures

12:15pm – 1:15pm: Lunch 

Plenary Speaker
1:15pm – 1:45pm: Rahul Chandan, Research Scientist, Amazon Robotics

Session 3: Safety and Control
1:45pm – 2:00pm: Abdelrahman Abdelgawad (Advisor: Sean Andersson and Roberto Tron), Accelerating Lyapunov-Stable Neural Control using Fulfillment Priority Logic
2:00pm – 2:15pm: Akua Kodie Dickson (Advisor: Andrew Sabelhaus), Safe Autonomous Environmental Contact for Soft Robots using Control Barrier Functions
2:15pm – 2:30pm: Md Faysal Hossain (Advisor: Sean Andersson), Double-Helix Point Spread Function based Real-Time Single Particle Tracking
2:30pm – 2:45pm: Mohammad Merati (Advisor: David Castañón), Exhaustive-Serve-Longest Control for Multi-robot Scheduling Systems

2:45pm – 3:00pm: BREAK

Session 4: Security Through LLMs and Software
3:00pm – 3:15pm: Olawale Akanji (Advisors: Gianluca Stringhini), The Cost of Convenience: Identifying, Analyzing, and Mitigating Predatory Loan Applications on Android
3:15pm – 3:30pm: Miray Ayerdem (Advisor: Gianluca Stringhini), MIMOSA: Multimodal and Source-Aware Detection of Misleading Content on Twitter
3:30pm – 3:45pm: Alireza Roshandel (Advisor: Manuel Egele), Zeus-IoT: Comprehensive Code Signing to Prevent IoT Device Weaponization

Session 5: Application Specific: A Hardware Perspective
3:45pm – 4:00pm: Alp Eren Yilmaz (Advisor: Sabrina Neuman), Automatic generation of safe and efficient accelerators
4:00pm – 4:15pm: Farbin Fayza  (Advisor: Ajay Joshi), Photonics for Sustainable AI

4:15pm – 4:30pm: BREAK  

Alumni Panel
4:30pm – 5:15pm: BU Alumni Panel
5:15pm – 5:30pm: Closing Remarks: Ayse K. Coskun, CISE Director, and CGSW 12.0 Student Organizers: Abin Binoy George, Beste Oztop, Kamran Vakil, Zeynep Ece Kizilates

5:30pm – 7:30pm: Awards Reception (The BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road)