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ChemE-CSE PhD Thesis Defense: Xiaochen Du

Program ChemE-CSE PhD Advisor Prof. Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT (Advisor); Prof. Martin Z. Bazant, Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT (Co-advisor) Thesis Title Machine Learning for Atomistic Modeling and Sampling of Material Interfaces and Lattices
Date Tuesday, May 12, 2026

CSE Distinguished Seminar | Jef Caers

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Geophysics, Stanford University Talk Title How Computing is Changing Critical Mineral Exploration
Date Thursday, May 7, 2026
Video Recording Available

AeroAstro-CSE PhD Thesis Defense: Joanna Zou

Program AeroAstro-CSE PhD Advisor Youssef M. Marzouk, Associate Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT Thesis Title Goal-Oriented Learning of Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Date Thursday, April 30, 2026

CSE Distinguished Seminar | Drew Kouri

Principal Member Of Technical Staff, Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Department, Sandia National Laboratories Talk Title An Inexact Trust-Region Algorithm for Nonsmooth Risk-Averse PDE-Constrained Optimization
Date Thursday, April 30, 2026

AeroAstro-CSE PhD Thesis Defense: Aimee Maurais

Program AeroAstro-CSE PhD Advisor Youssef M. Marzouk, Associate Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT Thesis Title Designing Dynamic Measure Transport for Density-Driven Sampling
Date Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Math-CSE PhD Thesis Defense: Songchen Tan

Program Math-CSE PhD Advisor Alan Edelman, Professor of Mathematics, MIT Thesis Title Compiler-Enhanced Numerical Algorithms beyond Automatic Differentiation
Date Thursday, April 23, 2026

CEE-CSE PhD Thesis Defense: Junyi Sha

Program CEE-CSE PhD Advisor David Simchi-Levi, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT Thesis Title From Prediction to Action: AI for Decision-Making in Fashion and Games
Date Thursday, April 23, 2026

CSE Distinguished Seminar | Leslie Greengard

Director, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute; Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Talk Title Lightweight, geometrically flexible fast algorithms for the evaluation of elliptic and parabolic layer potentials
Date Thursday, April 16, 2026

MechE-CSE PhD Thesis Defense: Emily Lin

Program MechE-CSE PhD Advisor Evelyn N. Wang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Thesis Title Accelerating atomistic simulations via machine learning-based surrogate models for material design and optimization
Date Wednesday, April 15, 2026