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EPIC Advance Fall 2025

October 20th, 2025 - Monday

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Intro Talk/Welcome Lab Updates
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM: Low-cost LLM Processing at Scale, Sepanta Zeighami
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Visual Direct Manipulation meets LLMs, Parker Ziegler
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM: Provenance for LLM-powered Data Processing, Yiming Lin
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM: Efficient Video Inference, Chanwut Kittivorawong
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM: Natural Language Programming: Promise and Pitfalls, Vivian Chan
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: BREAK
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Keynote Talk, Alex Dimakis

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM: Multi-objective Agentic Optimization of Document Processing Pipelines, Shreya
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM: LLM-powered Data Discovery, Bhavya
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM: Bug-Free By Construction: Can LLM-Powered Synthesis be Safe?, Justin
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Multi-agent Failure Modes, Melissa
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM: Wrap-up remarks
3:10 PM - 5:00 PM: Poster Session
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Dinner at Comal Restaurant