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Events for 2016
JAN
12
2016
AI Seminar
Segmenting and Labeling On-Body Sensor Data Streams with CRFs and Factor Graphs
Ben Marlin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
JAN
15
2016
Theory Seminar
Counting perfect matchings via random matrices
Mark Rudelson, Professor, University of Michigan, Mathematics
JAN
22
2016
Theory Seminar
The 4/3 Additive Spanner Exponent is Tight
Seth Pettie, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
JAN
28
2016
Other Event
Hacking for the Greater Good
JAN
29
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar #1
Sebnem Onsay, Teaching Specialist, Michigan State University
JAN
29
2016
Theory Seminar
Using Expander Graphs to Find Vertex Connectivity
Shang-En Huang, University of Michigan
FEB
01
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar #2
Sindhu Kutty, Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
FEB
02
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar #3
Bill Arthur, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
FEB
03
2016
Student Event
Cybersecurity Factory – a cybersecurity accelerator focused on students
Frank Wang, PhD Student , MIT
FEB
04
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar #4
Lisa Dion, Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan
FEB
04
2016
Other Event
Leadership and the Value of a Liberal Arts Education
Dick Costolo, Former CEO, Twitter
FEB
05
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar #5
Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Assistant Professor, West Virginia Univ Institute of Technology
FEB
05
2016
Theory Seminar
Quantum Conditional Mutual Information and Ability to Recover
Cupjin Huang, University of Michigan
FEB
05
2016
MIDAS Seminar
Data in Motion Phenotyping: From the Intensive Care Unit to the Home
Kevin Ward, MD, Professor and Executive Director: MCIRCC, University of Michigan
FEB
10
2016
CSE Seminar
Practical Statically-checked Deterministic Parallelism
Ryan Newton, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
FEB
15
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Stamping Out Concurrency Bugs
Baris Kasikci, PhD Candidate, EPFL
FEB
19
2016
Theory Seminar
Random number generation with untrusted quantum devices
Carl Miller, Research Scientist, University of Michigan
FEB
19
2016
Student Event
MHacks: Refractor
FEB
22
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses: Seeing Through Walls, Gesture Control, and Vital Sign Monitoring
Fadel Adib, PhD Candidate, MIT
FEB
23
2016
AI Seminar
Following Natural Language Instructions in Unknown Environments
Matt Walter, Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
FEB
24
2016
Computer Vision Seminar
Understanding Behavior through First Person Vision
James Rehg, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
FEB
24
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Small Summaries, Efficient Algorithms and Fundamental Limits
Huy Nguyen, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute
FEB
25
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Performance-aware Repair for Concurrent Programs
Arjun Radhakrishna, Post Doc, University of Pennsylvania
MAR
07
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar: Drew Roselli
Drew Roselli, Senior Staff Engineer, SanDisk
MAR
07
2016
Computer Vision Seminar
Building Vision Systems with Modern Machine Learning
Jon Shlens , Senior Research Scientist, Google
MAR
07
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
DeepDive: A Data Management System for Machine Learning Workloads
Ce Zhang, Post Doc, Stanford
MAR
08
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Unleashing Hardware Potential through Better OS Abstractions
Adam Belay, PhD Candidate, Stanford
MAR
10
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar: Hector Garcia
Hector Garcia, Senior Software Engineer, TD Ameritrade
MAR
10
2016
Dissertation Defense
Computational Models of Algorithmic Trading in Financial Markets
Elaine Wah
MAR
11
2016
Theory Seminar
Complex Contagions on Social Networks
Grant Schoenebeck, University of Michigan
MAR
12
2016
Student Event
Michigan Hackers Learn to Hack: iOS
MAR
14
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Sustainable Reliability for Distributed Systems
Emmanouil Kapritsos, Post Doc, Microsoft Research
MAR
16
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Passwords, keys, and coins: improving security from user interfaces to applied crypto protocols
Joe Bonneau, Post Doc, Stanford
MAR
18
2016
Theory Seminar
Multi-Key FHE from LWE, Revisited
Sina Shiehian, University of Michigan
MAR
21
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Interacting with Personal Fabrication Machines
Stefanie Mueller, PhD Candidate, Hasso Plattner Institute
MAR
22
2016
AI Seminar
Toward Learning by Reading using a New Semantics that Merges Propositional and Distributional Information
Eduard Hovy, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
22
2016
AI Seminar
Towards A Sequential Decision Model of Interaction with Computer Systems
Andrew Howes, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Birmingham
MAR
23
2016
CSE Seminar
Security Analytics: Bridging Large-scale Data Collection and Analysis with Human Factors to Design Better Defenses
Nicolas Christin, Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
24
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Provable Security for Cryptocurrencies and Emergent Distributed Systems
Andrew Miller, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland
MAR
24
2016
MIDAS Seminar
Michael Jordan – MIDAS Seminar
Michael Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in EECS, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
MAR
25
2016
Theory Seminar
Recent progress on two-source randomness extractors
Yaoyun Shi, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
MAR
28
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar: Brandon Myers
Brandon Myers, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
MAR
28
2016
AI Seminar
Combating Adversaries under Uncertainties in Real-world Security Problems: Advanced Game-theoretic Behavioral Models and Robust Algorithms
Thanh Nguyen, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
MAR
29
2016
Dissertation Defense
Low-overhead Online Code Transformations
Michael Laurenzano
MAR
29
2016
Natural Language Processing Seminar
Toward Learning by Reading using a New Semantics that Merges Propositional and Distributional Information
Eduard Hovy, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
30
2016
Computer Vision Seminar
Visual Question Answering (VQA)
Devi Parikh, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, Department of ECE
MAR
31
2016
Dissertation Defense
Efficient Large-Scale Graph Processing
Xiaoen Ju
APR
01
2016
Theory Seminar
Better Outcomes from More Rationality
Yuqing Kong, University of Michigan
APR
01
2016
MIDAS Seminar
Structure and Function in Complex Networks
Mark Newman, Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Professor in the Center for the Stud, University of Michigan
APR
04
2016
AI Seminar
The Future is on Your Wrist: Challenges and Opportunities of Wearable Technologies
Dr. Luca Foschini, Co-founder and Head of Data Science at Evidation Health
APR
04
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
The Human Side of Computer Vision
Olga Russakovsky, Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
05
2016
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Road Toward the New Light: The Invention of High Efficient Blue LEDs and Future Lighting
Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
APR
05
2016
Student Event
Google Workshop: How to Be a Great Intern
APR
07
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Middleboxes as a Cloud Service
Justine Sherry, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
APR
08
2016
Theory Seminar
Noise stability of functions with low influences: invariance and optimality
Fang-Yi Yu, University of Michigan
APR
08
2016
MIDAS Seminar
Natural Language Processing for Collective Discourse
Dragomir Radev, Professor of Information, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
APR
11
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Online social interactions: a lens on humans and a world for humans
Chenhao Tan, PhD Candidate, Cornell
APR
12
2016
Computer Engineering Seminar
Chupja–PHY Covert Channels: Can you see the Idles?
Hakim Weatherspoon, Associate Professor, Cornell University
APR
12
2016
Other Event
Dissonance Speaker Series: Apple & the FBI Encryption, Security, and Civil Liberties
Nate Cardozo & Barbara L. McQuade
APR
13
2016
Distinguished Lecture
Era of Platforms
Ali Sebt, President, Renesas Electronics America
APR
14
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CSE Lecturer Candidate Seminar: Andrew Lukefahr
Andrew Lukefahr, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
APR
19
2016
Distinguished Lecture
On Being an Applied Computer Scientist
Gregory Abowd, Regents’ Professor and J.Z. Liang Chair, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
APR
22
2016
Natural Language Processing Seminar
Evaluation Algorithms for Extractive Summaries
Paul Tarau, Professor, University of North Texas
APR
22
2016
Dissertation Defense
Control-Flow Security
William Patrick Arthur
APR
25
2016
Dissertation Defense
Network Analysis on Incomplete Structures
Matthew Burgess
APR
25
2016
Colloquium
Fixes, Proofs and Humans: Results and Lessons from Transforming Programs
Westley Weimer, Associate Professor, University of Virginia
APR
29
2016
Dissertation Defense
Spotting Tip of the Iceberg in Social Media: Detecting Target Clusters from Indications of Individual Items
Zhe Zhao
MAY
02
2016
Dissertation Defense
Designing Accurate and Low-Cost Stochastic Circuits
Te-Hsuan Chen
MAY
02
2016
AI Seminar
Whats in a Game? An Intelligent and Adaptive Approach to Security
Arunesh Sinha, post-doctoral researcher, University of Southern California
MAY
02
2016
Dissertation Defense
Unbounded Scalable Hardware Verification
Suho Lee
MAY
05
2016
Distinguished Lecture
Professorship Lecture and Ceremony: Autonomous Agents: Threat or Menace?
Michael P. Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
MAY
10
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Perception for Robust, Autonomous Robotic Manipulation – A Question of Balancing Prior Knowledge and Learning From Data
Jeannette Bohg, Senior Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
MAY
18
2016
CSE Seminar
Human Factors and missed solutions to Enigma design weaknesses
Harold Thimbleby, Professor of Computer Science, Swansea University
MAY
25
2016
Other Event
NAE Symposium: Driverless Cars and Connected Transportation
JUN
09
2016
Dissertation Defense
Deep Neural Networks for Visual Reasoning, Program Induction, and Text-to-Image Synthesis
Scott Reed
JUN
13
2016
Dissertation Defense
Theoretical Tools for Network Analysis: Game Theory, Graph Centrality, and Statistical Inference
Travis Martin
JUN
20
2016
AI Seminar
Robots That (Provide) Care
Maja Matari, Professor, University of Southern California
JUN
28
2016
AI Seminar
Sampling Based Motion Planning with Reachable Volumes
Troy McMahon, PhD student, Parasol Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
JUN
29
2016
Dissertation Defense
Robust Localization in 3D Prior Maps for Autonomous Driving
Ryan Wolcott
JUL
12
2016
Dissertation Defense
Enabling Efficient Resource Utilization on Multitasking Throughput Processors
Jason Jong Kyu Park
JUL
15
2016
Dissertation Defense
Scale-Adaptive Video Understanding
Chenliang Xu
JUL
29
2016
Dissertation Defense
Leveraging Mixed Expertise in Crowdsourcing
David Merritt
AUG
22
2016
Systems Seminar – CSE
Majority Spanning Trees, Cotrees and Their Applications
Mohammad Kaykobad, Professor, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
AUG
29
2016
Dissertation Defense
Composite Cores: Improving Energy Efficiency Through Fine-Grained Heterogeneity
Andrew Lukefahr, CSE Candidate
SEP
02
2016
Systems Seminar – CSE
Marrying Generational GC and Region Techniques for High-Throughput, Low-Latency Big Data Memory Management
Guoqing (Harry) Xu, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
SEP
06
2016
Dissertation Defense
Energy Efficient Heterogeneous Processor Architectures for General Purpose Applications
Shruti Padmanabha
SEP
09
2016
Theory Seminar
Optimal Compression of Graph Metrics
Seth Pettie, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
SEP
09
2016
Dissertation Defense
Scaling Causality Analysis for Production Systems
Michael Chow
SEP
12
2016
Other Event
New PhD Student Meeting
SEP
14
2016
Other Event
New MS Student Meeting
SEP
16
2016
Other Event
Shannon Centennial Symposium
SEP
23
2016
Theory Seminar
Differentially private analysis of graphs
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Associate Professor, Penn State
SEP
27
2016
AI Seminar
Toyota AI Seminar – Amanda Stent
Amanda Stent, NLP Researcher, Bloomberg
SEP
29
2016
Other Event
CSE Graduate Programs Office Open House…PLEASE JOIN US!
SEP
30
2016
Theory Seminar
Beyond Worst-Case (In)approximability of Nonsubmodular Influence Maximization
Biaoshuai Tao, Graduate Student, University of Michigan
OCT
04
2016
AI Seminar
Biometric template protection and biometric privacy (first half) + Brief introduction to other ML research projects (second half)
Berrin Yanikoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey
OCT
07
2016
Theory Seminar
Polynomial Identity Testing for Read Once Polynomials
Daniel Minahan, University of Michigan
OCT
07
2016
Security Seminar
Computer security: I think we can win!
Bill Cheswick, Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
OCT
11
2016
AI Seminar
Statistical and Algorithmic Tools to Aid Recovery in Flint
Jacob Abernethy and Eric Schwartz, University of Michigan
OCT
12
2016
Security Seminar
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Phillip Rogaway, Professor, University of California, Davis
OCT
13
2016
CSE Seminar
Types, Brains and Quadcopters: Modern Programming Languages Research
Wes Weimer, Associate Professor, University of Virginia
OCT
14
2016
Systems Seminar – CSE
Building and Interacting with Domain-Specific Knowledge Bases
Yunyao Li, Master Inventor, Research Manager, and Research Staff Member, IBM Research – Almaden
OCT
20
2016
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards a Theory of Fairness in Machine Learning
Jamie Morgenstern, Warren Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science and Economics, University of Pennsylvania
OCT
21
2016
Theory Seminar
Do Prices Coordinate Markets?
Jamie Morgenstern, Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
OCT
21
2016
Distinguished Lecture
The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box
Michael Stonebraker, Co-Director, Intel Science and Technology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OCT
27
2016
Systems Seminar – CSE
Rethinking the Database for the Data Science Era
Zachary Ives, Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
OCT
28
2016
Theory Seminar
Population Recovery in polynomial time
Mike Saks, Professor, Rutgers
OCT
28
2016
Distinguished Lecture
A Retrospective on the AMPLab and the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack
Michael Franklin, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and a Sr. Advisor to the Provost for Computation and Data, University of Chicago
NOV
04
2016
Theory Seminar
Spookily Homomorphic Encryption
Daniel Wichs, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
NOV
07
2016
Colloquium
Research Outside the Confines of Traditional R&D
Bill Chappell, Director, Microsystems Technology Office, DARPA
NOV
09
2016
Other Event
Stock Market Spoofing
Jussi Keppo, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
NOV
09
2016
Other Event
Event: 13th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition
NOV
15
2016
AI Seminar
Interactive Sports Analytics: Going Beyond Spreadsheets
Patrick Lucey, Director of Data Science, STATS
NOV
17
2016
CSE Seminar
Privacy, Information and Generalization
Adam Smith, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
NOV
18
2016
Dissertation Defense
Regulating and Securing the Interfaces Across Mobile Apps, OS and Users
Huan Feng
NOV
21
2016
CSE Seminar
Machine Learning For Modeling Real-World Dynamical Systems
Byron Boots, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
NOV
22
2016
CSE Seminar
Game Design: Five Existential Questions
Sid Meier, Co-Founder and Director of Creative Development, Firaxis Games
NOV
28
2016
Colloquium
Tracing the Arc of Smartphone Application Security
Patrick McDaniel, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
DEC
02
2016
Systems Seminar – CSE
What New Bugs Live in the Cloud? (and How to Exterminate Them)
Haryadi Gunawi, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
DEC
05
2016
Dissertation Defense
Improving Mobile Network Performance Through Measurement-driven System Design Approaches
Sanae Rosen
DEC
07
2016
CSE Seminar
Effectiveness of inverted-lecture interventions to overcome common barriers to STEM student success
Katie Timmerman, PhD Candidate, Wright State University
DEC
09
2016
Dissertation Defense
Reining in the Functional Verification of Complex Processor Designs With Automation, Prioritization, and Approximation
Biruk W. Mammo
DEC
09
2016
Theory Seminar
Strategies for Extensive Form Games
Richard Stearns, University at Albany
DEC
13
2016
Systems Seminar – CSE
Kraken: Leveraging Live Traffic Tests to Identify and Resolve Resource Utilization Bottlenecks in Large Scale Web Services
DEC
13
2016
AI Seminar
Language Use in Written Dialog: Beliefs, Gender, Social Networks, and Power
Owen Rambow, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University
DEC
15
2016
Dissertation Defense
Improving Usability of Mobile Applications Through Speculation and Distraction Minimization
Kyungmin Lee
DEC
19
2016
Dissertation Defense
Deep Learning and Reward Design for Reinforcement Learning
Xiaoxiao Guo
DEC
19
2016
Systems Seminar – CSE
Data-driven Serendipity Navigation in Urban Places
Panos K. Chrysanthis, Professor, University of Pittsburgh