CS590/690 Research Seminar I/II

Computer Engineering Department
CS5/690 Research Seminar I/II
Fall 2026

Coordinators, Time and Location

Abdullah Talayhan and Eray Tüzün

Face-to-face (room EA502) on Mondays at 1:30 pm as scheduled

Announcements

Presentations will start on November 9, 2026.
For success (passing grade), a student must:
- present his/her seminar,
- attend most (if not all) of the talks; in other words, you may miss at most three presentations (18 are scheduled this semester and you will be considered absent if you miss more than 5 minutes of a presentation),
- actively contribute to the discussions (at least three good questions have to be asked).
Students must send a title and an abstract for their talk to the instructors at least two weeks prior to its scheduled date.
Each presentation should take approximately 15 minutes followed by a Q&A session of 5 minutes.
The course presentation schedule is available below. Please inform us immediately if you have any problem with it. Unfortunately, you can only change your slot by switching with somebody else.

Course Information

Graduate students present seminars on their ongoing research work (work in progress). Students registered in the Graduate Program in Computer Engineering Department are eligible to take this course. Students will usually take it after having spent some time doing research and just prior to defending their thesis.

The objective is to provide a forum for the communication of current research conducted in our department. It also aims to give the students the opportunity to discuss their research in a public forum and to improve their oral presentation style.

Grading for this course will be pass/fail. A passing grade can be obtained by sufficient attendance, a successful presentation, and active participation.

The seminar topic must be related to the current research of the student. The student is responsible for submitting a title and abstract to the coordinators two weeks prior to his/her presentation, and for informing their supervisor about the time & date of the talk. Supervisors are expected to attend their student's presentation.

Schedule

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
November 9	1:30pm	Ida Fallah Ardalani	CRISP-JEPA: Critical-Region Self-Supervised Prediction for Topology-Aware Segmentation
	1:50pm	Ehsan Garaaghaji	TopoRefiner: Universal Post-hoc Topology Refinement for Curvilinear Structures
	2:10pm	Vahid Haratian	ADAPT: Agentic Diff-Aware Patch Testing for Pull Requests
	2:40pm	Amirreza Mohammadnezhad Shebly	PAMR: Precedence Aware Mode Repair for Multimodal Trajectory Forecasting
	3:00pm	Sinan Çavdar	Spatial Contextual Object Detection via Graph Neural Networks

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
November 16	1:30pm	Akmuhammet Ashyralyyev	Uniqueness-Aware Sketching for Sequence Seeds: Properties and Applications
	1:50pm	Meryem Banu Cavlak	Adaptive Multi-Level Input Compression for Ultra-Fast Genome Language Model Inference
	2:10pm	Muti Kara	Somatic structural variation discovery on cancer pangenome graphs
	2:40pm	Amirmohammad Erfan	Defending Against Genome Reconstruction Attacks in Genomic Data Sharing Beacons
	3:00pm	Mahmut Mert Gençtürk	Reference-free and robust copy number inference in single-cell tumor transcriptomes

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
November 23	1:30pm	Mahyar Fardinfar	P3: Persistent Particle Planning for Constrained Diffusion Control
	1:50pm	Ece Kunduracıoğlu	From Semantics to Force: Learning Physical Decision-Making in Robotic Tool Use
	2:10pm	Huzaifa Salah Ud Din	PoseVLM – Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Manipulation in Constrained Settings
	2:40pm	Omid Feizi	CoDiS: Online Co-Mass Scoring for Feature-Allocation Anomalies in Data Streams
	3:00pm	Farzad Hallaji Azad	Connectivity-Aware Segmentation of Curvilinear Structures

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
November 30	1:30pm	Hüseyin Sinan Havuş	TBA
	1:50pm	Mohammad Hosein Pour	TBA
	2:10pm	Aytekin İsmail	TBA

Presentation Resources

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Steven H. Kaminski
Advice for a bad (good) speaker, Kurt Tucholsky
How not to Give a Scientific Talk Michael De Robertis, Professor of Astronomy at York University
How to Give a Talk Paul N. Edwards, School of Information, University of Michigan
Guide to Good Presentations, Norma Scagnoli, UIUC
Effective Presentations, Erin B. Lindsay, UCLA
Making Effective Oral Presentations, North Eastern University
Preparation of Effective Scientific Talks, J.D. Callen, U. of Wisconsin - Madison
How to Speak Patrick Winston