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PhD Qualifying Exam | 24 - 28 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.

 


ZOU Xiandong

Topic:Controllable Generation for Language and Vision
Date:24 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 ZHOU Pan
Members:Associate Prof LI Yuchen
Assistant Prof Zhize LI

 


WANG Yuekun

 

Topic:Mapping Protocol Specification to Function-Level Code Implementation
Date:25 November 2025, Tuesday
Time:9:00am - 10:00am
Venue:Meeting room 4.4, Level 4. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area

Information Systems & Technology

- Software Engineering

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof XIE Xiaofei
Members:Assistant Prof HUO Yintong
Associate Prof Christoph TREUDE

 


YI Hang

Topic:Learning to Solve Vehicle Routing Problems
Date:25 November 2025, Tuesday
Time:1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue:Meeting room 4.4, Level 4. School of Computing and Information Systems 1, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, Singapore 178902
Area:

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

- Decision Making & Optimization

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof CAO Zhiguang
Members:Assistant Prof ZHOU Pan
Assistant Prof Zhize LI
 

 


CHEN Pengwen

Topic:Advancing Personalized Federated Learning: From Theory to Practice
Date:25 November 2025, Tuesday
Time:3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue:Meeting room 4.4, Level 4. 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 Zhize LI
Members:Assistant Prof CAO Zhiguang
Assistant Prof ZHOU Pan

 


XIAO Xiangjie

Topic:Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Scheduling Problem
Date:26 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:

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

- Decision Making & Optimization

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof CAO Zhiguang
Members:Assistant Prof Zhize LI
Assistant Prof WANG Xinrun
 

 


NGUYEN Huu Hung

Topic:Understanding the task of Mapping NVD Records to Their Vulnerability-Fixing Commits
Date:26 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:

Information Systems & Technology

- Software Engineering

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:OUB Chair Prof David LO
Members:Associate Prof SHAR Lwin Khin
Associate Prof OUH Eng Lieh
 

 


GUAN Xueting

Topic:Balancing Creativity and Correctness in Code Generation: The Role of Prompting and Tuning
Date:27 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:

Information Systems & Technology

- Software Engineering

EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Associate Prof Christoph TREUDE
Members:Prof JIANG Lingxiao
Assistant Prof HUO Yintong
 

 


TRAN Huy Hung

Topic:Human-Centric Modeling and Optimization in Network Environments
Date:27 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:

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

- Decision Making & Optimization

 
EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof MAI Anh Tien
Members:Associate Prof WANG Hai
Associate Prof CHENG Shih-Fen
 

 


HUANG Dan

 

Topic:Automated Formal Specification Generation
Date:28 November 2025, Friday
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:OUB Chair Prof David LO
Co-Research Advisor:Assistant Prof HUO Yintong
Members:Assistant Prof XIE Xiaofei
 

 


CHENG Ching Lam

 

Topic:3D Hand Motion Generation and Egocentric Hand Editing for Robotic Manipulation
Date:28 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:

Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

- Multimedia Systems

 
EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof Bin ZHU
Co-Research Advisor:Associate Prof HE Shengfeng
Members:Assistant Prof LI Jiannan
 

 


DUAN Shengchen

 

Topic:Automatic Multi-log Generation for Practical Software Development
Date:28 November 2025, Friday
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:

Information Systems & Technology

- Cybersecurity

 
EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Advisor:Assistant Prof DUAN Yue
Members:Prof Debin GAO
Assistant Prof XIE Xiaofei