The Grainger College of Engineering School of Computing and Data Science

Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Computer Vision Lunch Series: Prof. Jia-Bin Huang, "Effective Visual Communication."

12:30 - 2:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
COLLOQUIUM: Kai-Wei Chang, "Mathematical Reasoning in Visual Contexts"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 26, 2026

IQUIST Special Seminar: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley

1:00 - 2:00 pm

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 2, 2026

Theory Seminar: Arkopal Dutt, "Learning stabilizer structure of quantum states."

11:00 am

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 5, 2026

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Joel Waldfogel, "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?"

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

4045 School of Information Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
IQUIST Special Seminar: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University

1:00 - 2:00 pm

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 6, 2026

Robotics Seminar: Dr. Dongho Kang, "Motion Imitation for Adaptive and Lifelike Control of Legged Robots."

2:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
MiV Seminar: Suyi Li, Virginia Tech - "Folding Intelligent Machines: Exploiting Geometry and Mechanics of Origami to Build Intelligence in the Mechanical Domain"

3:00 pm

location - To Be Ddtermined
- Seminar/Symposium
IMMERSE Distinguished Lecture - Voicu Popescu

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
- Seminar/Symposium
Systems Research Seminar: Jiayi (Jane) Chen, "ML for Systems in the Real World: Challenges Beyond Training the Models."

4:00 pm

1214 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: Dafei Jin, University of Notre Dame

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Human-Computer Interaction Talk Series: Kowe Kadoma: "A Human-centered Understanding of Differential Outcomes in AI-Mediated Work Settings."

3:30 pm

0216 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 23, 2026

Distinguished Lecture: Leonardo de Moura

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

MiV Seminar: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University - "Understanding and implementing biological intelligence through bioinspired and biohybrid robotics"

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 30, 2026

Theory Seminar: Dr. David Heath, "Circut-Based RAM - Constructions and Applications."

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

3401 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: Henry Yuen, Columbia University

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Henry Yuen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

COLLOQUIUM: Xifeng Yan, "Adaptive Inference in Large Language Models"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: Zheshen Zhang, University of Michigan

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 9, 2026

AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Alex Moehring, "Designing Human-AI Collaboration: A Sufficient Statistic Approach."

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

4045 School of Information Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

Woodrow Shew, University of Arkansas

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

COLLOQUIUM: Zhiyong Lu

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

IMMERSE Seminar - Cedric Dumas

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 20, 2026

COLLOQUIUM: Kenneth Forbus

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: Yuan Ping, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Yuan Ping, Associate Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026

Boxuan Zhao, UIUC

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

Rob Wood, Harvard University

4:15 pm
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

IQUIST Seminar: Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University

11:00 - 11:50 am

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Speaker: Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

HCI Seminar: Qianou (Christina) Ma, "Future-Proof Developers: Optimizing and Training for Human-AI Collaboration in Programming."

3:30 - 4:30 pm

0216 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 8, 2026

Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, August 28, 2026

Orit Peleg, University of Colorado Boulder

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2026

Abhishek Battacharjee, Yale University

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 16, 2026

Jason MacLean, University of Chicago

4:15 pm

4100 LuMEB
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 23, 2026

Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown

4:15 pm
- Seminar/Symposium

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