Spring 2026 CISE Seminars, Lectures, Workshops

FRI, January 23, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Jonathan Weare
Convergence of Unadjusted Langevin and HMC in High Dimensions: Delocalization of Bias
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, January 30, 2026
CISE Graduate Student Workshop
CGSW 12.0 Agenda
Time: 9:00PM-5:30PM
Location: 8 St Mary’s St., PHO 906

FRI, February 13, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Vassilis Digalakis Jr
ML Compass: Navigating Capability, Cost, and Compliance Trade-offs in AI Model Deployment
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, February 20, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Byung-Jun Yoon
Accelerating Molecular Design and Discovery Through Uncertainty-Aware AI
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, February 27, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Wei Xiao
Control Barrier Functions for Safe AI and Robotics
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, March 6, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Yigong Hu
Making Large-Scale Systems Self-Aware: AI-Assisted Performance Reasoning for Datacenter Applications
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, March 20, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Aditya Gangrade
Algorithmic Behaviours in In-Context Learning
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, April 3, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Shriya Srinivasan
Unlocking the Gut’s Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, April 10, 2026
CISE Best Paper Award Competition
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

Tues, April 14, 2026
CISE/Hariri Institute Distinguished Seminar
Speaker: Francesco Bullo
Contraction Theory for Optimization, Control and Neural Networks
Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, April 17, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Orly Shapira-Lishchinsky
Ethical Leadership in Cybersecurity Crises: Toward Trust Using Artificial Intelligence
Time: 3:00PM-4:30PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101

FRI, April 24, 2026
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Thomas Parisini
Control for Optimisation: from Centralised to Distributed, from Finite-Dimensional to Infinite-Dimensional
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1101