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PhD Qualifying Exam | 17 - 21 Nov 2025

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To: SCIS Community

The following students will be attempting their PhD qualifying examination in November 2025. They will begin with an oral summary of the key topics in their readings.

This part of the examination is open to SCIS Community; click on the button to register.

 


SENARATH ARACHCHIGE Dilan Dinushka

Topic:Towards interpretable user representations via multi-aspect augmentation
Date:17 November 2025, Monday
Time:3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

- Machine Learning & Intelligence

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof Antoine LEDENT
Co-Research Advisor:Associate Prof Hady W. LAUW
Members:Associate Prof FANG Yuan

 


LI Zhe

 

Topic:Training Data Attribution for Large Language Models
Date:19 November 2025, Wednesday
Time:1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area

Information Systems & Technology

- Software Engineering

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Prof SUN Jun
Members:Assistant Prof Djordje ZIKELIC
Assistant Prof LIAO Lizi

 


HOU Yueyue

Topic:Uncertainty-aware Human Agent Interaction
Date:19 November 2025, Wednesday
Time:3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

- Human-Computer Interaction

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof LI Jiannan
Members:Assistant Prof Bin ZHU
Assistant Prof LEE, Min
 

 


WANG Haoyu

Topic:Domain-Specific Runtime Enforcement for Ensuring LLM Agent Safety
Date:20 November 2025, Thursday
Time:9:00am - 10:00am
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Information Systems & Technology

- Software Engineering

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Associate Prof Chris POSKITT
Co-Research Advisor:Prof SUN Jun
Members:Assistant Prof Djordje ZIKELIC

 


ZHANG Zhihan

Topic:Towards Multimodal Reasoning on Abstract Visual Domain
Date:20 November 2025, Thursday
Time:1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

- Machine Learning & Intelligence

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof LIAO Lizi
Members:Assistant Prof Bin ZHU
Associate Prof SUN Qianru
 

 


BHOSALE Rimmon Saloman

Topic:EVLR: Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Clinically Relevant and Interpretable Medical Image Understanding
Date:20 November 2025, Thursday
Time:3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

- Human-Computer Interaction

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof LEE, Min
Members:Lee Kong Chian Prof NGO Chong Wah
Associate Prof SUN Qianru
 

 


WANG Jiaheng

Topic:Lattice-based Adaptor Signature under Stronger Security Model and Its Applications
Date:21 November 2025, Friday
Time:10:30am - 11:30am
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Information Systems & Technology

- Cybersecurity

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Associate Prof YANG Guomin
Co-Research Advisor:Assistant Prof XUE, Haiyang
Members:Prof DING Xuhua
 

 


JIANG Bowen

Topic:Design, Security, and Secure Implementation of Threshold ECDSA Protocols
Date:21 November 2025, Friday
Time:1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue:Meeting room 5.1, Level 5. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Information Systems & Technology

- Cybersecurity

 
EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof XUE, Haiyang
Members:Associate Prof YANG Guomin
Prof DING Xuhua