We are looking to fill several presentation slots, so please reach out if you are interested! You can also fill out our sign-up form.

When: Mondays 4:00–5:00pm (CST)
Where: Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, Room 3102 (or via zoom)
Faculty: Charith Mendis
Gagandeep Singh
Lawrence Rauchwerger
Vikram Adve
Organizers: Saatvik Lochan, Dushyant Bharadwaj

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

This seminar features student presentations on in-progress or published research, as well as invited external academic and industry speakers. Students enrolled in the seminar for credit are required to present at least once, and may choose to either present their own work or a published paper from a related journal or conference (e.g., PLDI, PPOPP, ASPLOS).

Interested in sharing your work? Send an email to the organizers with the title of your presentation and a link to your paper (if applicable).

Spring 2026 Calendar

Date Speaker Topic Room
Feb 2 Damitha Lenadora GRANII: Selection and Ordering of Primitives in Graph Neural Networks using Input Inspection 3102
Avaljot Singh Automated Verification of Soundness of DNN Certifiers
Feb 9 Ahan Gupta 3102
Thu, Feb 19 Jianming Tong (External Speaker from Georgia Tech) Leveraging AI ASICs for Cryptography Acceleration 4403
Feb 23 Stefanos Baziotis Common Misconceptions about Compilers 3124
Mar 9 Dushyant Bharadwaj RuleFlow: Generating Reusable Optimizations with LLMs 3102
Mar 16 Spring Break No class 3102
Mar 23 Brant Qian Thinking Fast and Correct: Automated Rewriting of Numerical Code through Compiler Augmentation 3102
Mar 30 Zirui Zhou Slotted E-Graphs: First-Class Support for (Bound) Variables in E-Graphs 3102
Yipeng Xin Webs and Flow-Directed Well-Typedness Preserving Program Transformation
Apr 13 Yifan Zhao Programming Systems for Efficient Deep Learning-Based Applications 3102
Apr 20 Hao Ren ApproXMLIR: An Accuracy-Aware Compiler for Compound ML Systems 3102
Apr 27 Devansh Jain ACT: Automatically Generating Compiler Backends from Tensor Accelerator ISA Descriptions 3102
May 4 Vimarsh Sathia Raising, Differentiating, and Optimizing Tensor Programs in EnzymeMLIR 3102
May 11 Finals Week No class 3102

See the archive for previous iterations.