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CISE Graduate Student Workshop<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Event Date:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Friday, January 30th, 2026
\nWorkshop Research Presentations<\/strong>: 8 St Mary’s St., PHO 906 (9:00am-5:15pm)
\nAward Reception<\/strong>: BU Castle,\u00a0<\/span>225 Bay State Rd<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(5:30-7:30PM)<\/p>\n

9:15am – 9:45am: Breakfast & Registration
\n<\/strong>9:45am – 9:55am: Opening Remarks: Ayse K. Coskun<\/strong>, CISE Director
\n9:55am \u2013 10:00am: Welcome: CGSW 12.0 Student Organizers: Abin Binoy George, Beste Oztop, Kamran Vakil, Zeynep Ece Kizilates<\/b><\/p>\n

Plenary Speaker<\/strong><\/span>
\n10:00am – 10:30am: Rania Khalaf, <\/strong>Chief AI Officer, WSO2<\/p>\n

Session 1: Application Oriented Machine Learning
\n<\/span><\/strong>10:30am – 10:45am: Ran Jing<\/strong> (Advisor: Andrew Sabelhaus), Fault Detection and Response for Safe Control of Artificial Muscles in Soft Robots<\/em>
\n10:45am – 11:00am: Damola Ajeyemi <\/strong>(Advisor: Emiliano Dall’Anese), Learning to Pursue AC Optimal Power Flow Solutions with Feasibility Guarantees<\/em>
\n<\/em>11:00am – 11:15am:\u00a0<\/em>Chen Yao\u00a0<\/strong>(Advisors: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos and Samuel A. Issacson), Neural Approximation of Moment OIDEs for Antigen\u2013Antibody Binding Dynamics<\/em>
\n11:15am-11:30am: Zijian Guo<\/strong> (Advisor: Wenchao Li), One Sub-Goal at a Time: Zero Shot Generalization to Arbitrary Linear Temporal Logic Requirements in Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning<\/em><\/p>\n

11:30am – 11:45am: BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 2: Large Data Monitoring and Control<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

11:45am -12:00pm: FNU Syed Mohammad Qasim\u00a0<\/strong>(Advisor: Ayse K. Coskun), Limitations of Large Language Models in Classifying and Localizing Latency Anomalies in Distributed System Traces
\n<\/em>12:00pm -12:15pm: Nicholas Sacco <\/strong>(Advisor: Bobak Nazer), The Power Method with Row Erasures<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

12:15pm – 1:15pm: Lunch\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plenary Speaker<\/strong><\/span>
\n1:15pm – 1:45pm: Rahul\u00a0<\/strong>Chandan,<\/strong> Research Scientist, Amazon Robotics<\/p>\n

Session 3: Safety and Control
\n<\/strong><\/span>1:45pm – 2:00pm: Mohammad Merati <\/strong>(Advisor: David Casta\u00f1\u00f3n), Exhaustive-Serve-Longest Control for Multi-robot Scheduling Systems<\/em>
\n<\/em>2:00pm – 2:15pm: Akua Kodie Dickson<\/strong> (Advisor: Andrew Sabelhaus), Safe Autonomous Environmental Contact for Soft Robots using Control Barrier Functions
\n<\/em>2:15pm – 2:30pm: Md Faysal Hossain<\/strong> (Advisor: Sean Andersson),\u00a0Double-Helix Point Spread Function based Real-Time Single Particle Tracking<\/em>
\n2:30pm – 2:45pm: Abdelrahman Abdelgawad\u00a0<\/strong>(Advisor: Sean Andersson and Roberto Tron), Accelerating Lyapunov-Stable Neural Control using Fulfillment Priority Logic<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

2:45pm – 3:00pm: BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Session 5: Application Specific: A Hardware Perspective
\n<\/strong><\/span>3:45pm – 4:00pm: Alp Eren Yilmaz<\/b> (Advisor: Sabrina Neuman), Automatic generation of safe and efficient accelerators
\n<\/em>4:00pm \u2013 4:15pm: Farbin\u00a0<\/strong>Fayza<\/b> \u00a0(Advisor: Ajay Joshi), Photonics for Sustainable AI<\/em><\/p>\n

4:15pm – 4:30pm: BREAK<\/strong> \u00a0
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

CISE Alumni-Faculty Panel<\/strong><\/span>
\n4:30pm – 5:15pm: Panelists:\u00a0<\/strong>Burak Aksar, Mela Coffey, Ajay Joshi, Alyssa Pierson, Jimmy Queeney
\n5:15pm \u2013 5:30pm: Closing Remarks: Ayse K. Coskun<\/strong>, CISE Director, and CGSW 12.0 Student Organizers: Abin Binoy George, Beste Oztop, Kamran Vakil, Zeynep Ece Kizilates<\/b>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

5:30pm \u2013 7:30pm: Awards Reception <\/strong>(The BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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