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Lab Life & Seminars

Collaboration, hackathons, seminars, and everyday research prototyping sessions across Aura Lab.

Aura Lab researchers presenting the Aura-Bench evaluation suite at the AI Systems & Verification Symposium.

July 2026

Weekly technical seminar on Agentic Systems & LLM Verification.

July 2026

Summer Agentic Coding Hackathon: collaborative sprint on sandbox execution drivers and trace parsers.

June 2026

Aura Computing & Intelligence Lab — team collaboration and project development group session.

June 2026

Hands-on software prototyping sprint on repository comprehension testbeds.

May 2026

Aura Lab experimental compute infrastructure: multi-GPU nodes deployed for high-throughput batch evaluation.

May 2026

Weekly technical seminar on neurosymbolic program synthesis and formal verification in agent workflows.

April 2026

Weekly Seminar & Paper Club

Fridays · 14:00 – 15:30 EST · Virtual / Hybrid Session

Active · Fall 2026
Topic: Program Synthesis & Sandboxed Tool-Use Discussion Lead: Marcus Vance

Formal Invariant Synthesis in LLM-Generated Codebases

Reviewing recent advances in neurosymbolic program synthesis, bounded model checking, and multi-agent repair loops.

Topic: Information Retrieval & Faithfulness Discussion Lead: Tulescu Bert

Citation-Grounded RAG and Self-Consistency Verification

Empirical evaluation of dense vs. hybrid vector indexing for multi-hop scientific literature question answering.

Topic: Human-AI Collaboration Discussion Lead: Shreya Tripathy

Mental Models and Cognitive Load in Agentic IDE Extensions

User study methodologies and telemetry metric designs for autonomous pair-programming tools.