Siebel School Master Calendar

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 11:00 am
- Siebel 3401
THEORY SEMINAR: Zhengcheng Huang, "Faster Algorithms for Reverse Shortest Path in Unit-Disk Graphs and Related Geometric Optimization Problems: Improving the Shrink-and-Bifurcate Technique"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur, “ Equivalences for Causal Concurrency”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility | 0035
2025 Faculty Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- All Day
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
IMMERSE Annual Symposium 2025

The IMMERSE Symposium - combining immersive technologies, applications and human experience - is a unique meeting to showcase the work of our campus, engage with leaders from academia and industry, foster collaborations and build community to accelerate the era of immersive computing (including AR, VR, MR). Contribute to the program by March 31 and register by April 15.
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- All Day
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
IMMERSE Annual Symposium 2025

The IMMERSE Symposium - combining immersive technologies, applications and human experience - is a unique meeting to showcase the work of our campus, engage with leaders from academia and industry, foster collaborations and build community to accelerate the era of immersive computing (including AR, VR, MR). Contribute to the program by March 31 and register by April 15.
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies
- Meeting
- 4:00 - 4:45 pm
Tower Research Capital Information Session
- Informational

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- All Day
50 Years of the Morrill Engineering Program
- Festival/Celebration
- 2:00 pm
- Siebel Center 2405
Final Defense of Sourav Das
- Other

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 12:30 - 1:30 pm
- Siebel 4401
Postdoc Social Lunch

Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!
- Meeting
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - "Characterization of in vitro neuron behavior for biological computing"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
- Heritage Hall in the IHotel & Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois
10th Anniversary Celebration of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Sarah Sterman, "Designing for Ways and Whys: Transforming Process into a Material for Creative Reflection"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- Siebel 3401
Theory Seminar: Euiwoong Lee, "Theory and applications of complete Min-CSPs: A case study in Correlation Clustering"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2124 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models”
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 10:30 am
- Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401
Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems
- Lecture
- 10:30 am
- Siebel Center 201 N Goodwin Ave- Room 3401
Chengpeng Wang- Title: Neuro-Symbolic Static Analysis for Reliable Software Systems
- Lecture

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- 10:00 am
- Siebel Center 4124
Final Defense of Xudong Sun
- Other
- 10:00 am
Special Seminar: Fengyuan Zhu, "Navigating the Future of Extended Reality: Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Potential in Cross-Device Integration"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 pm
Webinar | Next Generation Multi-View Video Delivery Systems for AR/VR End Devices

Join us for the next Research Initiatives Webinar for an overview of Illinois Grainger Engineering's advancements in AR/VR research.
- Webinar
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Ilan Shomorony, "An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216
Haoqi Zhang "Computational Ecosystems: Tech-enabled Communities to Advance Human Values"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1218 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Coffee Hour with the Director of Graduate Studies
- Meeting

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- 3:00 pm
Special Seminar: Noman Bashir, "Rethinking Systems Design for Reliable and Sustainable Computing in a Constrained World"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 9, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
iCAN Q&A Event (online) - Registration Required
- Informational
- 12:30 - 1:30 pm
- Siebel 4401
Postdoc Social Lunch

Welcome to our new Postdocs, and welcome back to returning Postdocs! We are resuming weekly lunch meetings with Professor Mohammed El-Kebir. They will be held every Friday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Faculty/Staff Lounge on the 4th floor (SC 4401), barring campus holidays and breaks. Pizza will be served at every meeting!
- Meeting
- 1:00 pm
Final Defense of Zhe Xu
- Other
- 4:00 - 8:00 pm
- Analog Wind Library, 129 N Race St. Urbana, IL
Mind in Vitro featured in Art of Science show: "Aerenchyma"
- Exhibition

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

- 11:00 am
- CSL 301
Final Defense of Joao Marcos Correia Marques
- Other
- 2:00 pm
- Siebel Center 4407
Final Defense of Amit Agarwal
- Other

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
iCAN Q&A Event (online) - Registration Required
- Informational
- 3:30 pm
- HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
COLLOQUIUM: Masooda Bashir, "Privacy, Security, and Trust: Aligning Computing Solutions with Human Needs"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
Final Defense of Chulin Xie
- Other

Friday, May 16, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Let's Chat about iCAN (online): Dr. Tiffani Williams, iCAN Director
- Informational
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other
- 2:30 pm
Final Defense of Xiaomeng Jin
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
MiV Seminar: Hyegi Min - "Neuromuscular junction with a mechanical output"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 19, 2025

- 10:00 am
- Siebel Center 3102
Final Defense of Philip Amortila
- Other

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

- 10:00 am
- Siebel Center 3401
Final Defense of Shiliang Zuo
- Other

Thursday, May 22, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
iCAN Q&A Event (online) - Registration Required
- Informational

Friday, May 23, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Let’s Chat about iCAN (online): Dr. Tiffani Williams, iCAN Director
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
Final Defense of Lecheng Zheng
- Other

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

- 8:30 - 11:45 am
- 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
Mind in Vitro Program Overview

About Mind in Vitro: Can computing systems be built out of living neurons? Can they achieve basic hallmarks of cognition such as learning, attention, curiosity or creativity, so pervasive in biology yet elusive in modern computing? In this Expedition we imagine computers and robots that are human designed, but living. That can be programmed, but whose behaviors are not sp
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Let’s Chat about iCAN (online): Dr. Tiffani Williams, iCAN Director
- Informational

Thursday, May 29, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)
Welcome and Introductions: Brad Solomon
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 30, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Siebel Center 4124
Final Defense of Jovan Stojkovic
- Other
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
iCAN Q&A Event (online) - Registration Required
- Informational
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm
- Siebel Center Room 2248 or via Zoom
Office Hours w/ School Director Nancy Amato
- Other