• Smarter Beats Bigger: A Heretic’s Guide to AI

    201 Park Shops 101 Current Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

    Abstract: Everyone says AI needs more: more parameters, more data, more GPUs, more money. I'm here to argue the opposite. This talk begins with a cautionary tale from my student days—watching my research-professor uncle doubled over laughing in his basement lab because he and his grad student had just vaporized a large percent of their…

  • Computer Science Research Day Spring 2026

    Research Day
    EB2 3211 Seminar Room 890 Oval Dr., Raleigh, NC, United States

    The Department of Computer Science will host a Research Day for industry leaders on Wednesday, March 4 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in EB2. This event will feature short research presentations from faculty members, followed by a networking lunch and a graduate student poster session in the afternoon. Research presentation topics include: Software modernization…

  • Deployable Robots that Learn

    EB2 3001 890 Oval Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

    Abstract: While many robots are currently deployable in factories, warehouses and homes, their autonomous deployment requires either the deployment environments to be highly controlled, or the deployment to only entail executing one single preprogrammed task. These deployable robots do not learn to address changes and to improve performance. For uncontrolled environments and for novel tasks,…

  • #GivingPack: NC State CS Day of Giving 2026

    Each year, our incredible alumni, faculty, staff, students, ePartners and the broader computer science community come together to make an impact during Day of Giving. NC State Day of Giving is a 24-hour fundraising event celebrated university-wide. It’s also a chance to strengthen our department in critical areas. Last year’s Day of Giving supporters: 🎤 sent students to…

  • Spring 2026 Engineering Open House

    Engineering Building 2 890 Oval Drive., Raleigh, NC, United States

    Join #NCStateCS on Saturday, March 28 for University Open House! Chat with faculty and current students, explore our undergraduate programs, tour our labs and classrooms, and experience all things Centennial Campus. Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026 Time: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Engineering Open House details

  • The Future of Software Development

    EB1 2015 915 Partners Way, Raleigh, United States

    Title: The Future of Software Development: Predictions from people who have seen it, offered to those who will invent it Abstract: Together, Dr. Jennings and Mr. Joshua S. Allen have five CS degrees and over 50 years of industry experience in software development. Commercial software development is radically and rapidly changing, and they have observations…

  • Learning foundation operators and diffusion models over function spaces

    Speaker: Lu Lu, Yale University Abstract: As an emerging paradigm in scientific machine learning (SciML), deep neural operators pioneered by us can learn nonlinear operators of complex dynamic systems via neural networks. In this talk, I will present the vanilla deep operator network (DeepONet) and several extensions of DeepONet, such as DeepONet with Fourier decoder…

  • Spring 2026 Senior Design Center’s ‘Posters and Pies’

    Senior Design Center
    The McKimmon Center 1101 Gorman St, Raleigh, NC, United States

    Join the Department of Computer Science for the Senior Design Center's 'Posters and Pies' celebration on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh. Each of our Spring 2026 Senior Design teams will proudly show off project demonstrations and poster displays! Dessert pies, snacks and drinks will be…

  • Pushing the Frontier of (Small) Language Models

    Abstract: In this talk, I will explore key research contributions in efficient deep learning, with a focus on training smaller yet highly capable language models. I will discuss approaches such as curating high-quality datasets and designing effective training curricula. The talk will cover different stages of training, including pre-training, mid-training, and agentic reasoning and highlight…

  • Spring 2026 Graduation Ceremony

    Reynolds Coliseum 2411 Dunn Ave, Raleigh, NC, United States

    On May 7, 2026 at 3 p.m. at Reynolds Coliseum, the Department of Computer Science will host the family and friends of our Spring 2026 graduates. Join us to celebrate…