Seminars
Upcoming
2026
Spring 2026
Past Seminars
2025
Fall 2025
- Metadata-Aware Memory Security
Dr. Xin Wang, Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Monday, September 1, 2025 - What You Did Last Summer
Caroline McMahon (’26), Ananya Rajgaria (’26) & Quincy Williams (’26)
Monday, September 8, 2025 - Computing and Entrepreneurship – From Garage to Unicorn
Dr. Ron Doyle, Presidential Chair in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship, Wake Forest University
Monday, September 15, 2025 - Opening the Black Box: New Frameworks for Understanding LLM Internal Behavior
Dr. Mengnan Du, Assistant Professor of Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Monday, September 22, 2025 - Spring’26 CS Course Preview
Dr. William Turkett, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University
Monday, September 29, 2025 - Knowledge Editing in Multi-modal Foundation Models
Dr. Kaixiong Zhou, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - How to Align Strategy Data Foundations & Engineering to Deliver Real-world, Scalable AI
Jack Weissenberger (’19), Co-Founder & CTO, Ciridae
Thursday, October 9, 2025 - Data-Algorithm Co-Design for Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency in Large Language Models
Dr. Zhaozhuo Xu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - From Infrastructure to Intelligence: The Evolution of Cloud Systems in the Age of AI
Dr. Ron Doyle, Presidential Chair in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship, Wake Forest University
Monday, October 27, 2025 - Efficient Deep Learning and Spatial Modeling for Mapping Tropical Forest Canopies
Dr. Jason Cui, Research Assistant Professor and the Robert J. Plemmons Fellow in Computational Sustainability, Wake Forest University
Monday, November 3, 2025 - Surveying the Landscapes of Modern Technology and Jobs in Computing
Dr. Ron Doyle, Presidential Chair in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship, Wake Forest University
Monday, November 10, 2025 - Enhanced Retinal Blood Vessel Image Segmentation Using U-Net and Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Dr. Olubunmi O. Sule, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - AI-in-the-loop for Informed Healthcare
Dr. Sriraam Natarajan, Professor and the Director for Center for Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - Confidence Calibration for Large Language Models
Dr. Guanchu (Gary) Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Monday, November 17, 2025
Spring 2025
- Tech Talk on Orion – Google’s Distributed Software-Defined Networking Platform & SE Career AMA
Nick Ladd ’16 Software Engineer, Salesforce
Zachary Thomas ’16 Software Engineer, Gemini, Google
Kedi Zhang ’18, Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure Group, Google
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - Hacking Your Career: Navigating Opportunities in Tech & Security
Eddie Allan, Staff Information Security Engineer, LinkedIn’s Detection & Response Team
Monday, April 7, 2025 - Fall 2025 Course Preview
Dr. William Turkett, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University
Monday, March 31, 2025 - Secure the Software Supply Chain with Large Language Models
Dr. Ying Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University
Monday, February 3, 2025
2024
Fall 2024
- What I Did Last Summer (Research And Internship Experiences)
William Bailey ’25, Cecilia Liu ’24, Yutong Li ’25, Heng (Hugo) Zhao ’25
Monday, September 2, 2024 - Graduate School in Computer Science: Is it For Me?
Dr. William Turkett, Chair, Department of Computer Science, WFU
Monday, September 9, 2024 - Intersection of Entrepreneurship And Computing
Dr. Ron Doyle, Katherine and Dickerson Wright Presidential Chair in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship
Monday, September 16, 2024 - Cloud Computing Platforms and Services
Dr. Ron Doyle, Katherine and Dickerson Wright Presidential Chair in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship
Monday, October 7, 2024 - Augmented Reality and Visual Computing: Entertainment and Education Real Cases Studies
Marcos Barbato, Be! Interactive Creative Director
Monday, October 21, 2024 - Surveying the Landscapes of Modern Technology and Jobs in Computing
Dr. Ron Doyle, Katherine and Dickerson Wright Presidential Chair in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship
Monday, November 4, 2024
Spring 2024
- Effects of Algorithm Dimensionality on Skeletal Microstructure Super Resolution
Benjamin Hezrony, PhD Candidate, School of Biomedical Engineering and Science Wake Forest University
Monday, March 25, 2024 - Blind and Nearly Blind Hyperspectral Unmixing via Graph Regularizations and Active Learning
Dr. Yifei Lou, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & School of Data Sciences & Society, UNC Chapel Hill
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
2023
Fall 2023
- What I Did Last Summer (Research And Internship Experiences)
Md Asifur Rahman ’24, Kongzhao Zhao ’24, Yukun (Michael) Xi ’24, Bruce Shal ’24, Nikhil Rajkumar ’24,
Monday, September 4, 2023 - Geometric Clustering: Theory and Applications to Imaging
Dr. James Murphy, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Mathematics, Tufts University
Monday, September 25, 2023 - Nonnegative Matrix Functional Factorization for Hyperspectral Unmixing with Non-uniform Spectral Sampling
Dr. Chao Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Southern University of Science and Technology
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Energy Management of Energy Hubs
Dr. Hussein Abdeltawab, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, Wake Forest University
Monday, October 30, 2023
Summer 2023
- A Sparse Symmetric Factorization of a Sparse SPD Matrix
Dr. Hussam Al Daas, Senior Computational Mathematician, STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Monday, June 12, 2023