16MAR · Mon2:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event41Final Defense of Zhenhailong WangThesis Title: Synergizing Perception, Reasoning, and Action in Large Multimodal Models Heng Ji, Chair and Director of Research Dilek Hakkani-Tur Yu...→
17MAR · Tue5:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event77ANS Project DevelopmentProject Development Tuesday, January 20th Talbot 220 5:00-6:00 PMPlease join us for the first Project Development meeting of the semester as w...220 Talbot Laboratory→
23MAR · Mon8:00 AMAcademic / Academic Event15Final Defense of Trisha DasThesis Title: Toward Smarter Clinical Trials: Deep Learning Approaches for Data Generation, Outcome Labeling, Similarity Modeling, and Amendment Pr...→
24MAR · Tue9:00 AMAcademic / Academic Event8Final Defense of Adam DaviesThesis Title: Interpreting, Evaluating, and Controlling Features Learned and Leveraged by Foundation Models Julia Hockenmaier, Chair ChengXiang Zha...→
24MAR · Tue11:00 AMAcademic / Academic Event58Final Defense of Ammar TahirThesis Title: Towards Policy-Rich Management of Last-Mile Internet Bottlenecks Radhika Mittal, Chair and Director of Research Klara Nahrstedt Brigh...CSL 301→
25MAR · Wed1:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event12Final Defense of Yinglun XuThesis Title: Reliable reinforcement learning under reward poisoning and reward hacking Gagandeep Singh, Chair and Director of Research Alexander...→
26MAR · Thu11:00 AMAcademic / Academic Event32Final Defense of Bowen JinThesis Title: The science of information-seeking intelligence Jiawei Han, Chair and Director of Research Tarek Abdelzaher Hanghang Tong Hamed Zaman...→
27MAR · Fri3:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event58Final Defense of Maxwell XuThesis Title: Developing Machine Learning Models for Large-scale Real-world Mobile Health Wearable Settings Jim Rehg, Chair and Director of Researc...→
30MAR · Mon1:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event46Final Defense of Minjian ZhangThesis Title: Algorithmic Paradigms for constrained resources Mahesh Viswanathan, Chair and Director of Research Madhusudan Parthasarathy Sasa Mis...→
30MAR · Mon1:30 PMAcademic / Academic Event10Final Defense of Dipayan MukherjeeThesis title: A cross-resource interaction approach to energy efficiency in Systems-on-Chip Gul Agha, Chair and Director of Research Roy H. Campbe...→
8APR · Wed11:00 AMAcademic / Academic Event50Final Defense of Sayantani LittlefieldThesis Title: Language Models for Biological Sequences Roy H. Campbell, Chair and Director of Research Sergei Maslov, Ravishankar Iyer, ChengXian...→
25APR · Sat6:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event182026 Celebration of ExcellenceSave the Date for the 2026 Celebration of Excellence! More information coming soon. For information on past celebrations, see here.Illini Union, Illini Room→
7MAY · Thu9:00 AMAcademic / Academic Event18Final Defense of Stefan IvanovicThesis Title: "Self-Supervised Machine Learning for Cancer Genomics and High-Throughput Phenotyping". Mohammed El-Kebir, Chair and Director of Res...→
17MAY · Sun9:00 AMAcademic / Academic Event60Ceremony 1 | Grainger Engineering ConvocationThe Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will host its May 2026 Convocation Ceremony on Sunday, May 17, r...State Farm Center→
17MAY · Sun1:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event46Ceremony 2 | Grainger Engineering ConvocationThe Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will host its May 2026 Convocation Ceremony on Sunday, May 17, r...State Farm Center→
17MAY · Sun5:00 PMAcademic / Academic Event53Ceremony 3 | Grainger Engineering ConvocationThe Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will host its May 2026 Convocation Ceremony on Sunday, May 17, r...State Farm Center→
18MAY · MonAll DayAcademic / Academic Event34Instruction Begins for Engineering Online Summer FS/Full Semester courses (Except for S2/Summer Session II courses)Instruction Begins for Summer courses (except for Summer Session II courses).→