CS590/690 Research Seminar I/II

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

Coordinators, Time and Location

İbrahim Körpeoğlu and Özgür Ulusoy

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

Announcements

Presentations will start on March 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 (21 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
March 9	3:30pm	Ahmet Arda Ceylan	Privacy-Preserving CNV Calling through Homomorphically Encrypted Federated Fine-Tuning of ECOLE
	3:50pm	Alireza Dastmalchi Saei	Deep Large-Margin lp-SVDD with CNN Feature Learning for Novelty Detection
	4:30pm	Mehmet Taha Demircan	Automated Classification of Software Bugs: Leveraging Large Language Models to Distinguish Bohrbugs and Mandelbugs

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
March 23	3:30pm	Mert Barkın Er	Diversity-Guided Dynamic Ensemble Selection for Multi-Label Data Streams
	3:50pm	Mert Kaan Er	CoRAL: Contact-Rich Adaptive LLM-based Control for Robotic Manipulation
	4:30pm	Mahmut Furkan Gön	INSPECTBUGS: Detecting Invalid Bug Reports and Resolving with No-Code Fixes
	4:50pm	Furkan Güzelant	StyleFusion360: View-Consistent Head Stylization via Adaptive Style Modulation

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
March 30	3:30pm	Helyasadat Hashemi Aghdam	RPDockDiff: A Diffusion-Based Framework for RNA–Protein Rigid Docking and Structure Refinement
	3:50pm	Arda İçöz	Fast Pathogen Screening with NVIDIA Jetson Cluster in Resource-Constrained Areas
	4:30pm	Ali Erdem Karaçay	Conpresso: Compressing and querying genome collections
	4:50pm	Mohammad Mahdi Khosravi	OrSE: An Orthogonal Layout Algorithm Based on the Spring Embedder with Compound Graph Support

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
April 6	3:30pm	Sepehr Maleki	Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning using Masked Autoencoders and Test-Time Training
	3:50pm	Tuna Okçu	FUSOR: Space-efficient Taxonomic Classification Using Hybrid Hierarchical Interleaved Binary Fuse Filters with a Stash
	4:30pm	Sude Önder	SAILR: Severity-Aware Multi-Label Whole Slide Image Retrieval via Attention-Driven Late Interaction
	4:50pm	Berkan Şahin	Hardware acceleration of hashing algorithms using AMD NPUs

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
April 13	3:30pm	Muhammet Hikmet Şimşir	Title1
	3:50pm	Utku Boran Torun	Title2
	4:30pm	Muhammet Rafi Çoktalaş	Title3

Week of	Time	Presenter	Title
April 20	3:30pm	Arçin Ülkü Ergüzen	Title1
	3:50pm	Hesam Matinpouya	Title2
	4:30pm	Ahmet Caner Akar	Title3

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