Events for July 31, 2026

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lin Li COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: Dr. Lijun Qian TITLE: EFFECTIVE TRAFFIC ROUTING UNDER DISASTROUS EVENTS THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING ABSTRACT: Disastrous events such as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods routinely disrupt transportation networks, preventing emergency response, evacuation, and the delivery of critical supplies. Conventional optimization-based routing methods offer strong theoretical guarantees but cannot scale and [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Noushin Ghaffari TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL PRIORITIZATION OF CANDIDATE BACTERIAL TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS FROM LARGE-SCALE GENOMIC DATASETS ABSTRACT: Transposable elements are mobile DNA sequences that contribute to bacterial genome variation, gene disruption, and genome rearrangement. Large-scale computational tools can identify thousands of candidate insertion sequences and related transposable elements, but these outputs [...]