Hosted by CityU’s Center for Cybersecurity Innovation and School of Technology and Computing (STC), the Doctor of Information Technology (DIT) Forum is open to faculty, professionals, and students from any discipline, university, or professional organization. At the end of this quarter, DIT students can present their research projects to their peers and faculty members. This Forum will provide opportunities for students, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the influence and impact of applied computing on the future of our planet and our society
Date: Thursday, Jun 18th, 2026
Time: 4:30PM-5:30PM PT
Contact: ravidivakarreddy@cityuniversity.edu

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This dissertation examines how the complexity of immersive learning environments affects learning outcomes in fully asynchronous higher education. The study focuses on faculty experiences with immersive technologies, including how design, cognitive load, usability, navigation, feedback, and accessibility influence student learning and engagement.
Cloud computing environments generate massive volumes of telemetry data. Rapidly identifying and resolving incidents is critical, as outages can cause substantial financial and operational damage. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) has become essential for analyzing this data and accelerating incident response. While large language models (LLMs) are already being applied in AIOps, as comprehensively surveyed by Zhang et al. (2025), recent research—the framework proposed by Zota et al. (2025), and the multi-agent architecture by Pradhan (2025)—has begun exploring Agentic AIOps. In these systems, autonomous agents analyze telemetry, diagnose root causes, and recommend or autonomously execute remediation actions. While Agentic AIOps represents a significant advancement in autonomous IT operations, current frameworks primarily emphasize agent architectures, workflows, and orchestration layers. It would therefore be interesting to investigate whether introducing a dedicated skills layer—a set of reusable capabilities for tasks such as querying telemetry, correlating events, and checking resource dependencies, etc.—could further improve root-cause analysis in complex cloud environments.
Modern applications increasingly leverage AI, ML, and cloud technologies, resulting in large-scale collection and processing of personal and organizational data. This seminar topic explores AI-driven privacy engineering techniques for automated discovery, classification, and deletion of residual data to improve privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance after application uninstallation.
| 4:30 PM – 4:35 PM | Greeting & Announcement _____________________________________________ | Advisor: Brian Maeng Main Chair: Sumit KC Teams link: Presentation: 15 Minutes / flexible Q&A: 5 minutes / flexible |
| 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM | Presenter 1: Stanley George Topic: AI-Driven Privacy Engineering for Post-Uninstall Data Discovery and Deletion _____________________________________________ | |
| 5:05 PM – 5:25 PM | Presenter 2: Eli Taylor Topic: Exploring Blockchain Support Mechanisms for Federated Learning in Heart Disease Prediction ____________________________________________ | |
| 4:35 PM – 4:55 PM | Presenter 1: Cindy Kirkman Topic: The Impact of Impressive Learning Environment Complexity _____________________________________________ | Advisor: Brian Maeng Session Chair: Giridhar Gopi Krishna Teams link: Presentation: 25 Minutes / flexible Q&A: 5 minutes / flexible |
| 5:15 PM – 5:35 PM | Presenter 2: Albert Samigullin Topic: Exploring Root-cause Diagnosis in Agentic AIOps through dedicated skill layer _____________________________________________ | |