Seminar Series

School of Computing Seminar Series

The School of Computing hosts Binghamton University faculty and PhD students in a series of seminars open to the department and university communities — students, staff, and faculty alike. Please join us for an interesting and educational series of presentations.

Upcoming Seminars

April 3, 2026
Niranjan Kumar

April 10, 2026
Taixi Chen

April 17, 2026
Yuhang Liu

Past Seminars

  • 2025-26

    Shehtab Zaman
    PhD Candidate, School of Computing
    Prediction, Reasoning, and Verification: The New Frontiers of AI for Materials and Molecules

    Abdul Mannan Kitab
    Graduate Student, School of Computing
    Grover's Algorithm for Accelerated Biomarker Discovery: A Quantum Simulation Framework

    Vrushket Sanjay More
    Graduate Student, School of Computing
    TheraMind 2.0: A Multi-LLM Ensemble System for Accelerating Drug Repurposing in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Kaicheng Yang
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    New Gatekeepers: News Source Citation Patterns in AI-Powered Search

    Patrick H. Madden
    Associate Professor, School of Computing; Program Director, MS Information Systems 
    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Algorithms, AI, and Heuristics for VLSI Physical Design

    Abeer Matar A Almalky
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    LLWRA: Large Language Models Weight Replacement Attack

    Dan Cersosimo
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    Synthera: An agentic multimodal system for molecular property prediction and synthesis

  • 2024-25

    Guoyu Lu
    Associate Professor, School of Computing
    Exploration of 3D Robot Vision Across Multiple Image Modalities

    Ulugbek Ergashev
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    Resource selection in federated search

    Xinbo Zhao
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    Urban-Centric Latent Multi-Task Offline Reinforcement Learning with Mask-Empowered Reward Learning

    Shenghun Wang
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    WebAssembly Memory Tagging

    Yiming Zeng
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing 
    Efficient Quantum Entanglement Distribution

    Naman Shah Brown
    Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Brown University
    Autonomously Learning World-Model Representations For Eficient Robot Planning
    *Co-hosted by Bing-Robotics

    Monika Roznere
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    Underwater Perception: The Troubles of a Simple Underwater Robot

    Zhaohan Xi
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    From Text to Impact: Large Language Models as Responsible Cross-Disciplinary Copilots

    Nitish Kumar Panigrahy
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Network

    Nancy L. Guo
    Professor of Empire Innovation, School of Computing
    Advancing AI in Precistion Medicine

    Zain Nasir
    MS Student, School of Computing
    NetSLAM: Network-Aware Path Planning for Edge-Assisted UAV Swarms

  • 2023-24

    Senqi Cao
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    Uncertanty Quantification in Deep Learning

    Kerem Arikan
    PhD student, School of Computing
    Secure Caches for Trusted Execution Environments

    Zhen Xie
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    Optimizing ML and HPC Applications on the Emerging Heterogeneous Systems via Undiscovered Performance Bottlenecks 

    Dali Ismail
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    Versatility of Low-Power Wide-Area Network Applications

    Sabbir Ahmed
    PhD student, School of Computing, Binghamton University
    SSDA: Secure Source-Free Domain Adaptation

    Sujoy Sikdar
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    Randomized Mechanisms for Resource Allocation

    Yan Ding  
    PhD student, School of Computing
    Task and Motion Planning for Robots in Open Worlds

    Zongpai Zhang  
    PhD student, School of Computing
    Image Registration of Arterial Spin Labeling MRI Using Deep Learning Networks

    Mingjie Yan  
    PhD student, School of Computing
    A Performance Study of Confidential VirtualMachines

  • 2020-21

    Peter Cavallo
    Managing Director, Ernst & Young LLP
    Impact of Computer Science on Industry and Employer Trends: What Businesses are Experiencing and Needing

    Rajesh Kanna Baskaran
    Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, India
    Image Authentication from Perspective of Deep Learning Technique 
    *A joint seminar with VIT Chennai

    B. Radhika Selvamani
    Assistant Professor, Division of Advanced Data Science, VIT Chennai
    Knowledge Management and Decision Support Systems forAgriculture 
    *A joint seminar with VIT Chennai

    Lijun Yin
    SUNY Distinguished Professor, School of Computing
    Computational Modeling of Human Affection and Its Applications
    *A joint seminar with Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

  • 2019-20

    Matthew Cole
    PhD Candidate
    Simplex: Repurposing Intel Memory Protection Extensions

    Junyang Shi
    PhD Candidate
    Dependable Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks

    Raffi Khatchadourian
    School of Computing
    Hunter College
    An Empirical Study on the Use and Misuse of Java 8 Streams

    Madhu Mutyam
    Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    Multi-Block Data Compression Techniques for Multi-Core Systems

  • 2018-19

    Sean K. Banerjee
    Assistant Professor, Clarkson University
    Understanding and Using Interactions of People in Real and Virtual Environments

    Zhiming Shen
    CTO, Exotanium Inc.

    Karthik Kuber
    Senior Data Scientist, Royal Bank of Canada
    Recent Advances in Machine Learning: A Practitioner’s Perspective

    Spoorti Doddamani
    PhD student, School of Computing
    VFresh: Fast and Live Replacement of Hypervisor

    Anthony Canino
    PhD student, School of Computing
    Application-Level Energy Accounting with Chappie

    Xi Peng
    Assistant Professor
    Toward Robust, Efficient, and Explainable AI: Structural, Model- Oriented Deep Learning

    Ozgur Kilic
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    Overcoming Virtualization Overheads for Large-vCPU Virtual Machines

    Kevin Cheng
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    Virtualization Support for Bare-Metal Cloud Computing

    Anh Quach
    PhD Student, School of Computing
    Debloating Software through Piece-Wise Compilation and Loading

    Ankur Vora
    PhD student, School of Computing
    Enhancing 5G Wireless Communications via Reinforcement and Deep Learning

    Robert "Bob" Wright
    Assured Information Security
    Advanced Machine Learning Research for Cyber Security

    Yao Liu
    Assistant Professor
    Improving Bandwidth-Efficiency of 360-Degree Video Steaming: Two Approaches

    Diuni Fernando
    PhD student, School of Computing
    Live Migration Ate my VM: Recovering a Virtual Machine After Migration Failure

    Seunghee Shin
    Assistant Professor, School of Computing
    Neighborhood-aware address translation for irregular GPU applications

    Guanhua Yan
    Associate Professor, School of Computing
    Towards Automation of Cyber Defense: Vulnerability, Malware, and Human

    Shiqi Zhang
    Associate Professor, School of Computing
    Knowledge-based Robot Sequential Decision-making under Uncertainty

  • 2017-18

    Marcus Pendleton
    Cybersecurity Researcher at Air Force Research Laboratory
    System Call Anomaly Detection in Multi-Threaded Programs

    Yongshu Bai
    PhD Candidate
    A Case for Web Service Bandwidth Reduction on Mobile Devices with Edge-hosted Personal Services

    Tianming Zhao
    PhD Candidate
    PPG-based Finger-level Gesture Recognition Leveraging Wearable

    Mu Zhang
    Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
    Towards a Timely Causality Analysis for Enterprise Security

    Patrick H. Madden
    Associate Professor, School of Computing; Program Director, MS Information Systems
    Dynamic Programming for the Masses

    Yu (David) Liu
    Professor, School of Computing
    Programming Language Support for Sustainable Software

    Thomas W. Bartenstein
    Lecturer, School of Computing
    Rate Types for Stream Programs

    Daniel Townley
    PhD Candidate

    Hui Lu
    Assistant Professor
    Rethinking Cloud Storage System Software under Multi-Tenancy

    Atul Pawar
    Goldman Sachs
    Application of Engineering in Finance

    Lukasz Ziarek
    Assistant Professor
    RTDroid: Toward Dynamic Real-Time Systems

    Anand Seetharam
    Assistant Professor
    Efficient Scheduling, Routing and Caching in Wireless Networks

    Arti Ramesh
    Assistant Professor
    A Probabilistic Approach to Modeling Socio-Behavioral Interactions

    Yao Liu
    Assistant Professor
    Bandwidth-efficient 360-degree video streaming: Challenges and Approaches

  • 2016-17

    Yifan Zhang
    Associate Professor, School of Computing
    Improving Cloud Storage Services for Mobile Applications

    Shuangfei Zhai
    PhD Candidate
    Generative Adversarial Networks as Variational Training of Energy Based Models

    Aravind Prakash
    Associate Professor, School of Computing
    On the dissection and instrumentation of a commercial Android application

    Jesse Elwell
    Vencore Labs
    Runtime Attestation for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds

    Weiying Dai
    Associate Professor, School of Computing
    Advancing Brain Functional Imaging in Early Diagnosis and Treatment Therapy

    Mo Sha
    Assistant Professor
    Resilient Wireless Sensor Networking in Challenging Environments

    Yan Wang
    Assistant Professor
    Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN

    Dmitry Evtyushkin
    PhD Candidate
    Securing Systems with Isolated Execution