George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD#
Welcome to the web site of George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD.
I am Professor and Chairperson in the Computer Science department at Loyola University Chicago. I also hold a Visiting Computer Scientist appointment at Argonne National Laboratory.
For more information about me and my work/interests, see About Me.
News#
Tuesday, July 07, 2026: Jazz Scales Practice: An Interactive Web App
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Saturday, December 27, 2025: PTM Naming: Why āWhatās in a Nameā Actually Matters for AI Reuse
Iām thrilled to share some recent work led by Wenxin Jiang, a PhD student at Purdue University. Wenxin is supervised by James C. Davis, and I have had the pleasure of serving as a key external supervisor and PhD committee member on this project as part of my ongoing collaboration with Dr.Ā Davis. This research was recently accepted for publication in Journal of Empirical Software Engineering and it tackles a problem that anyone working in AI has likely grumbled about: how we name our models.
Saturday, November 29, 2025: Advancing HPC Education with an Agentic Tutoring System (EduHPC 2025)
This post highlights a recent EduHPC 2025 paper doi:10.1145/3731599.3767386 led by my PhD student Erik Pautsch and co-supervised by me and Silvio Rizzi at Argonne National Laboratory.
Saturday, November 22, 2025: Extracting High-Quality Audio from YouTube for Music Practice
Blog Post Music
Monday, August 11, 2025: How Loyola Is Bringing Artificial Intelligence and Ethics into the Classroom
Loyola News published a piece by Jeff Link, āHow Loyola Is Bringing Artificial Intelligence and Ethics into the Classroomā, that quoted me at some length on how I think about AIās place in higher education. I wanted to expand a bit on the points I made there.