Siebel School Speakers Calendar

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Instructional Seminar Series, Dr. Kevin Lin, "Reimagining CS Education: Agentic Engineering, Authentic Assessment, and Human-Centered Design for Learner Agency."

  Time

  10:00 am

  Location

  2405 Siebel Center

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• Machine Learning Seminar: Dr. Lisha Chen, "Preference-Guided Model Steering to Explore Trade-offs on the Pareto Front."

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  1302 Siebel Center

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Robotics Seminar @ Illinois: Structure-Preserving Learning for Autonomy in Complex Physical Environments

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  CSL Studio Room 1232

  Structure-Preserving Learning for Autonomy in Complex Physical Environments by M. Ani Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• Alumnus DAIS Seminar: Prof. Yu Meng, "Beyond Brute-Force Compute: Training Light and Thinking Deep for LLM Reasoning."

  Time

  2:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, February 12, 2027

• Mind in Vitro Seminar: Haohan Wang

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  612 Conf. Center, Carl R. Woese Institute

  Haohan Wang, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will give the next Mind in Vitro seminar February 12 at 4:00pm in 612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology on "Agentic AI for Genomic Science: Searching for Shared Mechanisms Across Diseases, Patients and Tissues."

  • Lecture