GradFest 2025 Schedule

Friday, March 28

Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302)

POB 2.402

9:00 - 9:15

Scott Aaronson: Quantum computing and AI safety

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Break

9:20 - 9:35

Dana Moshkovitz: Speeding Up Computation with Randomness?

Vijay Chidambaram: Building Data Systems for Emerging Technologies and Applications

Break

9:40 - 9:55

Justin W. Hart: The Living with Robots Laboratory

Venkat Arun: Principled ways to design networked systems

Break

10:00 - 10:15

Brad Knox: How to specify human-aligned RL objectives

Daehyeok Kim: Building Robust High-performance Edge and Cloud 

Break

10:20 - 10:35

Amy Pavel: Human Computer Interaction at UT Austin

Dixin Tang: UT Data Systems Research

Break

10:40 - 10:55

Warren A. Hunt, Jr.: Booting Linux on the ACL2 x86 Model

Shravan Ravi Narayan: Don't Get Owned by Your Dependencies: How you can protect your application from exploitable libraries!

Break

11:00 - 11:15

Aditya Akella: The Learning Directed Operating System Project

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Break

11:20 - 11:35

Volkan Isler: Algorithmic and Field Robotics

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Break

11:40 - 11:55

Philipp Krähenbühl: Deep Learning Lab

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