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Barracuda Networks Programming Contest

Understanding Pictures of Rooms

David Forsyth, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Medication Adherence Improvement as a Bandit Problem

Satinder Singh, Professor, University of Michigan

Using Temporal Constraint Reasoning to Improve Self-Management Decision Making

Edmund Durfee, Professor, University of Michigan

List decodability of randomly punctured codes

Mary Wootters, U-M

Wolverine Soft 48-Hour Game Jam 11

Mind and Data: Learning to Predict Long-term Consequences Efficiently

Rich Sutton, Professor, University of Alberta

Graph Isomorphism and the Lasserre Hierarchy

Aaron Snook, University of Michigan

Diffuse Scattering on Graphs and Combinatorial Inverse Problems

Anna Gilbert, U-M

Learning and Multiagent Reasoning for Autonomous Robots

Peter Stone, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin

Diffuse Scattering on Graphs and Combinatorial Inverse Problems

Anna Gilbert, U-M

Unknowing More The Downside of Information in Multi-Agent Systems

David Sarne, Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University

Systems Seminar – CSE

Large Scale Machine Learning with the SimSQL System

Chris Jermaine, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rice University

Faculty Candidate Seminar

The Origins of Division of Labor and Developmental Complexity: Using Digital Organisms to Understand Major Transitions in Evolution

Heather Goldsby, Post Doc, University of Washington

Solid-State and Nano Seminar

Wireless battery-less and High mass sensitivity Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors

Honglang Li, Professor, Lab of Acoustic MEMSÏ¼œInstitute of Acoustics, Chinese of Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Leveraging Data Across Time and Space to Build Predictive Models for Healthcare-Associated Infections

Jenna Wiens, PhD Candidate, MIT

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Security & Privacy for Existing and Emerging Technologies

Franziska Roesner, PhD Candidate, University of Washington

Solid-State and Nano Seminar

Using Locally Competitive Algorithms to Model Top-Down and Lateral Interactions between Cortical Neurons

Garrett T. Kenyon , Technical Staff Member, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Beyond Topic: Multi-dimensional Topic Models of Text

Mark Dredze, Assistant Research Professor in Computer Science , Johns Hopkins University

Dissertation Defense

Database and System Design for Emerging Storage Technologies

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Does Wiretapping Make US More Secure? What a Computer Scientist Has to Add to the National Conversation

Susan Landau, Senior Staff Privacy Analyst, Google

Provable Alternating Minimization methods for Non-convex Optimization

Prateek Jain, Researcher, Machine Learning and Optimization group, Microsoft Research India

Constructing Space: How a naive agent can learn spatial relationships by observing sensorimotor contingencies

Alexander Terekhov , PostDoc, Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics

Intel Games for Good Game Jam

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Understanding Epigenomic Drivers of Human Diseases

James Zou, Research Fellow, University of California Berkeley

Public Universities with Billion Dollar Endowments? Challenges and Opportunities in the Acquisition of Open-Domain Fine-Grained Classes from the Web

Marius Pasca, Research Scientist, Google

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Packet Transport Mechanisms for Data Center Networks

Mohammad Alizadeh, Sr. Technical Leader, Cisco

Strategies for General Recognition

Derek Hoiem, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Microfluidics Workshop

Dr. Rohit Karnik, Dr. Kalyan Handique, etc., see website for details, http://lnf.umich.edu/2014/01/16/microfluidics-workshop/

High-Performance and Low-Voltage Circuits for Tera-Scale Multi-core Microprocessors and SoCs

Himanshu Kaul, Research Scientist, Intel Circuits Research Lab

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Software Defined Transport

Chi-Yao Hong, Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Candidate Seminar

The Promise and Computational Challenges of Personalized Medicine

Jie Liu, Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin Madison

Perceiving Action in Space-Time: Computational and Human Perspectives

Jason Corso, Associate Professor, SUNY at Buffalo

Physical Randomness Extractors

Xiaodi Wu, Post-doc & Simons Research Fellow, UC Berkeley and MIT

Network Virtualization for Large Data Centers

Changhoon Kim, Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft

Understanding Incentives in Social Computing

Alice Gao, PhD Student, Harvard University

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Learning Architectures for Visual Object Recognition

Ross Girshick, Post Doc, University of California Berkeley

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Separating Data from Metadata for Robustness and Scalability

Yang Wang, Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

Interlacing Families and Kadison–Singer

Adam W. Marcus, Crisply, Inc and Yale University

Online Learning for Advertising

Kareem Amin, PhD student, University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Candidate Seminar

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: An Exploration of the Interplay between Networks and Malice

Michael Bailey, Associate Research Professor, University of Michigan

Enabling Cloud-Based Services: The Cloud Isnt Everywhere

Harsha Madhyastha, Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside

Making chips perfect every time. The increasing need for mixed-signal design verification.

Scott Morrison, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Texas Instruments

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems

Junsung Kim, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon

Dissertation Defense

Non-Hierarchical Networks for Censorship-Resistant Personal Communication

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing

Crypto Wars Part Deux: How the NSA is Making Us All Less Safe

Cindy Cohn, Legal Director , Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electricity Pooling Markets with Strategic Producers Possessing Asymmetric Information

Demosthenis Teneketzis, U-M

Low-Rank Spectral Learning

Alex Kulesza, Postdoc, University of Michigan

Event: 2014 Mobile Apps Challenge Awards Event

Girls Code: Arduino Workshop for 9-12th graders

Dissertation Defense

Dynamic Orchestration of Massively Data Parallel Execution

Dissertation Defense

Computational Cardiology: Improving Markers and Models to Stratify Patients with Heart Disease

Mediating Perception and Action towards Situated Human-Robot Dialogue

Joyce Chai, Professor, Michigan State University

Dissertation Defense

Balancing Interactive Performance and Budgeted Resources in Mobile Computing

Primal dual gives optimal energy efficient online algorithms

Jake Abernethy, U-M

Network Security Economics: Understanding Incentives to Improve Online Security

Nicolas Christin, Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Melon University

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Verified Approximate Computing

Michael Carbin, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT

Cortical prediction markets

David Balduzzi, Senior Researcher, ETH Zürich

Event: 2014 Data and Computational Science Symposium

Computer Engineering Seminar

Economic Mechanisms for Managing Risk in Heterogeneous Datacenters

Benjamin C. Lee, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

Exponential Lower Bounds for Polytopes in Combinatorial Optimization

Aaron Snook, University of Michigan

EECS 494 Computer Games Showcase

Systems Seminar – CSE

Current events in Tor

Roger Dingledine, Project leader, director, and head of research, The Tor Project

Systems Seminar – CSE

Doppelgänger Finder: Taking Stylometry To The Underground

Rachel Greenstadt, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University

Tech Training: Microsoft Azure for Research

Proofs for Programmers

Margaret Fleck, Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Impossibility Theorems and the Universal Algebraic Toolkit

Yixin Xu, PhD student , Rutgers University

On Learning, Lower Bounds and (un)Keeping Promises

Ilya Volkovich, Princeton University

Solid-State and Nano Seminar

The Dynamics of Retweeting on Twitter

Tauhid Zaman, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

Systems Seminar – CSE

Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems (and Introduction to RISEC/AIST)

Prof. and Dr. Kazukuni Kobara, RISEC, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Computer Science Curriculum Design, Base Skill Sets, and the Engaged Learner

Marcus M. Darden, Assistant Professor, Olivet College

Document Classification using MPI Programming

Paul (Chia-en) Lin, University of North Texas

TECH TRENDS ?? Observations on the Latest Buzzwords and the Changing Face of Innovation in Mixed Signal Processing

Dave Robertson, Vice President of Analog Technology, Analog Devices, Inc.

Machine Learning in a Cost-Constrained Environment

Kun Deng, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan

Dissertation Defense

Intelligent Management of Inter-Thread Synchronization Dependencies for Concurrent Programs

Dissertation Defense

Effective Faceted Browsing

Computer Engineering Seminar

Execution Stream Fingerprinting for Low-cost Safety-critical System Design

Brett H. Meyer, Chwang-Seto Faculty Scholar and assistant professor, McGill University

Smartphone-enabled Urban Solutions: Mobility On Demand and Mobility On Sale

Shih-Fen Cheng, Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University

Dissertation Defense

Microelectromechanical Systems for Wireless Radio Front-ends and Integrated Frequency References

Zhengzheng Wu, PhD Candidate

Dissertation Defense

Scaling Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis

Ben-Alexander Cassell

Dissertation Defense

Ultra-Low Power Optical Interface Circuits for Nearly Invisible Wireless Sensor Nodes

Gyouho Kim, PhD Candidate, Integrated Circuits & VLSI

Dissertation Defense

Passive Remote Sensing of Lake Ice and Snow using Wideband Autocorrelation Radiometer (WiBAR)

Hamid Nejati, PhD Candidate, EE

Dissertation Defense

Resistive-RAM for Data Storage

Siddarth Gaba, PhD Candidate, EE

Dissertation Defense

Routing and Topology Reconfiguration for Networkson- Chips Runtime Health

Schematics 4 Success Orientation Conference for Transfer Students

CoE Welcome Day

Dissertation Defense

Comprehensive Single Cell Assay Chips for the Study of Cancer Metastasis and Heterogeneity

Yu-Chih Chen, PhD Candidate, EE

Theory Seminar Kick Off

Towards Pervasive Assistance: The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing

Mark Abel, Director, Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing, University of Washington

MHacks IV Hackathon

Dissertation Defense

Comprehensive Single Cell Assay Chips for the Study of Cancer Metastasis and Heterogeneity

Yu-Chih Chen, PhD Candidate, EE

Quantum Science Seminar

Quantum Research Group – Introduction

Energy Efficient Multicommodity Routing

Viswanath Nagarajan, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Learning Large-Scale Patterns in Complex Networks

Aaron Clauset, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, and the BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, and External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute

Event: 3SUM is Subquadratic

Seth Pettie, Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Robots, Skills, and Symbols

George Konidaris, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

Dissertation Defense

High Power Chirally-Couple-Core (CCC) Fiber Lasers for Coherent Combining Systems

Cheng Zhu, PhD Candidate

Dissertation Defense

Energy-efficient Digital Signal Processing Hardware Design

Dongsuk Jeon, PhD Candidate, EE

Systems Seminar – CSE

Battery-in-the-Loop: Battery-Aware Energy Management in Cyber-Physical Systems

Dr. Liang He, Research Scientist, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Learning to Learn In Reinforcement Learning

Michael L. Littman, Professor of Computer Science , Brown University

Quantum Science Seminar

Quantum data compression for ensembles of mixed states

Morteza Noshad, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Robust Quantum Random Number Generation

Carl Miller, University of Michigan

Farewell Party for Farnam Jahanian

Data-Driven Patient Risk Stratification: Leveraging Data Across Time and Space to Enhance Local Care

Jenna Wiens, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Quantum Science Seminar

Quantum Research Group

Tensor rank and stability in representation theory

Daniel Barter , University of Michigan, Mathematics

Dissertation Defense

Power Management Circuits for Miniature Sensor Systems

Inhee Lee, PhD Candidate, EE

Why Label When You Can Compare? Active Constraint Pursuit in Metric Learning and Clustering

Jason Corso, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Solid-State and Nano Seminar

MEEP: A flexible, free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method

Dr. Ardavan Oskooi, Research Fellow, EECS

Information (or inferential) limits and computational limits

Raj Rao, University of Michigan

Quantum Science Seminar

One-Time Memories and the Isolated Qubits Model

Karl Winsor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Distributed Algorithms for the Lovász Local Lemma and Graph Coloring

Hsin-Hao Su, University of Michigan

Barracuda Networks Programming Contest

FinFETs: A Designers Perspective

Duke Xanthopoulos, Distinguished Engineer, Cavium

Human-Centered Principles and Methods for Designing Robotic Technologies

Bilge Mutlu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Psychology, and Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Theory Group and Friends, University of Michigan

Dissertation Defense

Low-Power and Error-Resilient VLSI Circuits and Systems

Chia-Hsaing Chen, PhD Candidate, EE

Implications of Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading and From Perception to Cognition: Towards Knowledge Driven Image Understanding

Michael Wellman and Jia Deng, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan

Quantum Science Seminar

Quantum Weak Coin Flipping

Michael Newman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

EECS Alumni Career Panel

5 Distinguished Alumni

Isotonic Regression As a Function of Comments

Quentin Stout, Professor, University of Michigan

Distinguished Lecture

Homecoming Lecture: From Snowstorms to Star Trek: A Career in Advanced Technology

Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research

Googles Self-Driving Car

Dmitri Dolgov, Software Lead, Google Self-Driving Cars

Tilting at Windmills: The Connection Between Fighting Abusive Patent Asserters (aka Patent Trolls) and Civil Rights Advocacy

Lee Cheng , Chief Legal Officer, SVP of Corporate Development, and Corporate Secretary

CSE Graduate Honors Competition

The Method of Approximation (from Algorithms to Economics)

Jason Hartline, Associate Professor, Northwestern University

Price of Anarchy for Auction Revenue

Jason Hartline, Northwestern University

The Sketching Complexity of Graph Cuts

David Woodruff, Research Scientist, Principles & Methodologies Group at IBM Almaden Research Center

Systems Seminar – CSE

Real Time Analytics@Twitter

Karthik Ramasamy, Engineering Manager and Technical Lead, Real Time Analytics at Twitter

Engineering Graduate Symposium

Invited Talk as 2014 Arbor Networks Ph.D. Research Impact Award Winner

Scott Hanson, Founder, CTO, and VP of Engineering, Ambiq Micro, Inc.

Characterizing Arithmetic Read-Once Formulae

Ilya Volkovich, Departments of Mathematics and EECS, University of Michigan

Designing Energy-Efficient Architectures for Future Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Dr. Ronald Dreslinski, Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan

The Vision-Language Interface in Machines and Humans

Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Computer Engineering Seminar

Towards a Watt-Wise Web: Architecting for a Responsive and Energy-Efficient Mobile Web

Vijay Janapa Reddi, University of Texas at Austin

Computer Engineering Seminar

Enabling dedicated single-cycle connections over a shared Network-on-Chip

Tushar Krishna, MIT

Communication, Co-design and the Making of Modern Database Storage Engines

Ryan Johnson, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Fast matrix completion without the condition number

Mary Wootters, Carnegie Mellon University

Keyphrase Extraction in Citation Networks: How Do Citation Contexts Help?

Cornelia Caragea, Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas

The Future of Global Tech Entrepreneurship

Dr. Dixon R. Doll, Co-founder and General Partner of Doll Capital Management

Dissertation Defense

Resource-Efficient Replication and Migration of Virtual Machines

Crossing the Valley of Despair: Maintaining Your Sanity While Designing Video Games

Sid Meier, Founder and Director of Creative Development, Firaxis Games

Cryptography from Lattices

Chris Peikert, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Deep Learning with UCT-Data for Real-Time Atari Game Play and Advances in Multimodal Deep Representation Learning

Satinder Baveja and Honglak Lee, University of Michigan

Quantum Science Seminar

Quantum Weak Coin Flipping

Michael Newman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Title: Approximate Version of Caratheodorys Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications

Sid Barman, California Institute of Technology

Midwest Theory Day

Distinguished Lecture

The Science and Policies of DIY Medical Technologies: Health Makers from Matagalpa to Montana

Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices Lab Director, MIT

Computer Science Education Week

On Networks and Behavior: Strategic Inference and Machine Learning

Luis Ortiz, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

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