The Grainger College of Engineering School of Computing and Data Science

Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

COLLOQUIUM: Ruhi Sarikaya, "Path to Artificial General Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Ali Cem Kaynak, "Usability Problems in the digital application process for subsidized student loans in Germany."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

DAIS Distinguished Alumni Seminar: Dr. Jiaming Shen, "Identifying and Incentivizing Grounded Natural Language Generation.""

11:00 am

4124 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
MiV Seminar: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Lab - "Autonomous Laboratory for Accelerating Biotherapeutic Discovery"

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Computing Startup Seminar Series: Svetlana Vranic-Sowers

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

0216 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum trajectories and stochastic excursions of thermal machines," Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

COLLOQUIUM: Jason Xinyi Liu, "Robotic Language Grounding"

3:30 pm

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
- Seminar/Symposium
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Dr. Pedro Lopes, "Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body."

3:30 pm

1304 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 23, 2025

CS Compiler Seminar: Adharsh Kamath and Jai Arora

4:00 - 5:00 pm

3102 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium
IMMERSE Seminar - Mike Yao

4:00 - 5:00 pm

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

Monday, October 27, 2025

COLLOQUIUM: Hadi Meidani

3:30 pm

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

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

IQUIST Seminar: "Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies," Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

IQUIST Seminar: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 6, 2025

IMMERSE Distinguished Speaker - Ali Israr

4:00 - 5:00 pm

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

Monday, November 10, 2025

COLLOQUIUM: Nihar Shah

3:30 pm

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

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

IQUIST Seminar: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

COLLOQUIUM: Rachel Adler

3:30 pm

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

Thursday, November 13, 2025

IMMERSE Seminar- Dominic Kao

4:00 - 5:00 pm

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

Monday, November 17, 2025

COLLOQUIUM: Dave Zhao, "Representation Learning in Computational Genomics"

3:30 pm

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

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing," Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 21, 2025

MiV Seminar: Cunjiang Yu, University of Illinois - "Title TBD" - Nov 21, 2025

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 4, 2025

CS Compiler Seminar: Dr. John Regehr, "Translation Validation for LLVM's AArch64 and RISC-V Backends."

2:30 - 3:30 pm

2405 Siebel Center
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 5, 2025

MiV Seminar: Anthony Jack, Case Western Rerserve University - "Ethics of biologically inspired AI - what is most likely to go wrong?"

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

IQUIST Seminar: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

11:00 - 11:50 am

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

Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026

MiV Seminar: Vickie Webster-Wood, Carnegie-Mellon University - Title TBD

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 3, 2026

MiV Seminar: Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan - Title TBD

4:00 pm

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 17, 2026

MiV Seminar: L. Mahadevan, Harvard - Title TBD

8:30 am

2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 1, 2026

MiV Seminar: Rob Wood, Harvard - Title TBD

4:00 pm
- Seminar/Symposium

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