CS590/690 Research Seminar I/II

Computer Engineering Department
CS5/690 Research Seminar I/II
Fall 2025

Coordinators, Time and Location

Uğur Güdükbay and Shervin R. Arashloo

Face-to-face (room EA502) on Mondays at 3:30 pm as scheduled

Announcements

Presentations will start on November 3th.
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 (16 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
Nov. 3	3:30pm	İpek Öztaş	3D Stylization via Large Reconstruction Model
	3:50pm	Canberk Aslan	New Framework for Generative Kinship Modeling
	4:10pm	Erkin Aydın	2D graph partitioning models for load balancing
	4:30pm	Kerem Bayramoğlu	Single-Entry Raffles With Cryptographic Verifiability And Privacy

Nov. 10	3:30pm	Elyar Esmaeilzadeh	CAPE: Connectivity-Aware Path Enforcement Loss for Curvilinear Structure Delineation
	3:50pm	Arda Göktoğan	Zero Shot Reference-Based Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
	4:10pm	Omar Hamdache	Explanation-Guided Membership Inference Attacks in Label-Only Settings
	4:30pm	Utku Oktay	Label Noise Correction in Agricultural Semantic Segmentation

Nov. 17	3:30pm	Serdar Özata	Accelerating Parallel Graph Applications via Dulmage-Mendelsohn based Partition Refinement
	3:50pm	Ali Baran Özaydın	Optimally Matched Hierarchy for Semantic Segmentation
	4:10pm	Uğur Can Altun	Multimodal Representation Learning With Discrete Speech Tokens for the Automatic Assessment of Depression Severity
	4:30pm	Fatih Pehlivan	VGGTar: Feed-Forward Deformable VGGT Avatars from a Single Image

Nov. 24	3:30pm	Sobhan Shokoueiantabrizi	RNA–X: Modeling RNA interactions to design binder RNA and simultaneously target multiple molecules of different types
	3:50pm	Ahmet Şahin	Fast and Scalable Edge-Based Graph Partitioning
	4:10pm	Cankut Bora Tuncer	SeGMan: Sequential and Guided Manipulation Planner for Robust Planning in 2D Constrained Environments
	4:30pm	Ahmet Burak Yıldırım	MD-ProjTex: Texturing 3D Shapes with Multi-Diffusion Projection

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