CS Pizza and Poster Series

Spring 2026

CS Pizza & Poster is a weekly, informal lunchtime event. Every Wednesday we will have one poster presentation in the Digital Futures 5th floor kitchen area—along with pizza! Feel free to stop by, grab a slice, and join the discussion.

When: Every Wednesday, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Where: Digital Futures, 5th floor

Hosted by: Tianyu Jiang, Vikram Ravindra, Justin Zhan

Schedule (tentative)
Date Presenter Title
January 28 Nick Jarvis  A Geometric Lens on LLM Abilities through Joint Embedding Item Response Theory
February 4  Saptarshi Ghosh  A Computational Approach to Visual Metonymy
February 11  Abhinav Kumar  A Hypothesis Testing-based Framework for Cyber Deception with Sludging
February 18  Po-Yu Liang Computer-Aided Peptide Inhibitor Discovery: Analog Optimization, Binder Design, and Stability Prediction 
February 25  Shyam Sundar Debsarkar A Multi-expert Deep Learning Framework with LLM-guided Arbitration for Multimodal Histopathology Prediction
March 4 Dylan Hutson GuessingGame: Measuring the Informativeness of Open-Ended Questions in Large Language Models
March 11 Jin Yang Enhancing Non-crash Functional Bugs detection with LLM Fine-tuning and Post-processing
March 18 SPRING BREAK  
March 25 Allen Detmer New Topic Discovery Using LLMs and Entropy-Based Clustering
April 1 Yagna Manasa Boyapati  Privacy-Preserving Multi-LLM System with Cognitive Diagnosis and Federated Learning
April 8 Shivanjali Ranashing Discovery of Locally Closed Communities in Different Types of Graphs
April 15 Monireh Taimouri Trajectory-based modeling of brain dynamics across aging and Alzheimer’s disease
April 22 Rizul Sharma  Evaluating how well AI can understand spoken conversations about data visualizations