Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Monday, November 17, 2025

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  Special Theory Seminar: Dr. Thomas Rothvoss, "The Subspace Flatness Conjecture and Faster Integer Programming."

  10:00 am

  3403 Siebel Center

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

  3:30 pm

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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  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

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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  Natural Language Processing Seminar: Dr. Abhishek Umrawal, "Trustworthy AI: Causal Control and Intent-Hiding Games in LLMs."

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center

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  Human-Computer Interaction Seminar Series: Yaman Yu, "Human-Centered AI Safety: Developing Inclusive Safeguards for At-Risk Users Across Emerging Technologies."

  3:30 pm

  1304 Siebel Center

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  Special Seminar: Bin Hu, "Towards Building General-Purpose AI Engineers"

  3:30 pm

  HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

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  AImpact Center Seminar Series: Dr. Avinash Collis, "Measuring the consumer benefits of AI."

  11:00 am

  2405 Siebel Center

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  CS Compiler Seminar: Santosh Nagarakatte, "Correctly Rounded Math Libraries with the RLIBM Approach."

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  3102 Siebel Center

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  IMMERSE Seminar - Mike Yao: Immersion as a Lens: Using VR to Understand Human Experience

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405

  Virtual reality (VR) and immersive media provide a unique experimental space for testing and extending psychological and communication theories. In this talk, I’ll walk through how immersive environments have been used to study human experience—not only as platforms for message delivery, but as media with their own psychological effects.

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Friday, November 21, 2025

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  Cunjiang Yu, UIUC - "Optoelectronics On and In Tissue for Cardiac Modulation"

  4:00 pm

  2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

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  Systems Research Seminar Series: Siddhant Ray, "METIS: Fast Quality-Aware RAG Systems with Configuration Adaptation."

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  1214 Siebel Center

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