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Time & Place Student & Advisor Title
11/25/2025
12:00 PM
PGH 501B
Matin Amoozadeh
Advisor: Amin Alipour
Ph.D. Proposal: Understanding Student-AI Interaction in Introductory Computing Courses
11/21/2025
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Aayush Gupta
Advisor: Gopal Pandurangan
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Fully-Distributed Protocol for Constructing Byzantine-Resilient Peer-to-Peer Networks
11/18/2025
1:30 PM
PGH 501B and Google Meet
Mohammad Javadi
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: Investigating Deep Learning for Low-Quality MRI Enhancement: From Loss Functions to Temporal Modeling
11/12/2025
1:00 PM
PGH 501B and MS Teams
Michail Koumpanakis
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Framework for Learning and Discovering Partial Differential Equations Using Meta-Learning and Physics-Informed Neural Networks
11/07/2025
1:00 PM
PGH 392
Khang Tran
Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos
Ph.D. Dissertation:  Towards Real-Time Collaborative Immersion with Large-Scale Virtual Environments and Digital Twins via Multiuser, Multimodal Holographic AR/XR Interface
11/06/2025
2:00 PM
PGH 550
Michael Yantosca
Advisor: Dr. Albert M. K. Cheng
Ph.D. Proposal: ARTIC/Phonotomizer: A Compact, Unsupervised, Real-Time, Multilingual Phonetic Segmenter
10/10/2025
10:00 AM
PGH 392
Dana Alsagheer
Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi
Ph.D. Dissertation: Building Trust in AI: Auditing Consistency and Cross-Domain Generalization in Large Language Models

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