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Events for 2018

JAN
05
2018
Theory Seminar
Open Problem Session
JAN
08
2018
CSE Seminar
Balancing Security-Privacy and Functionality in Software Synthesis
Somesh Jha, Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison
JAN
09
2018
MIDAS Seminar
Information-Theoretic Approaches to Neural Network Compression, Clustering and Concept Learning
Lav Varshney, Assistant Professor , UIUC
JAN
11
2018
CSE Seminar
Enabling Data Science for the Majority
Aditya Parameswaran, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
JAN
19
2018
Dissertation Defense
Maximizing Insight from Modern Economic Analysis
Dolan Antenucci
JAN
19
2018
Theory Seminar
Graph Matchings in the Data Stream Model: A Survey
Andrew McGregor, Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
JAN
22
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Game Trees
Pat Virtue, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Berkeley
JAN
26
2018
Theory Seminar
Property testing in the presence of erased data
Nithin Varma, Graduate Student, Pennsylvania State University
JAN
29
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Real World Security: From Theory to Practice and Back Again
Daniel Genkin, Post Doc, University of Pennsylvania and University of Maryland
JAN
30
2018
AI Seminar
Major Challenges of Using AI in Healthcare, and Some Potential Solutions
Kayvan Najarian, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
FEB
01
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Introduction to Linked Lists in C
Rania Hussein, Affiliate Lecturer, University of Washington Bothell
FEB
07
2018
Computer Engineering Seminar
Harnessing Data Science for the HW Verification Process
Dr. Avi Ziv, Research Staff Member, Verification and Quality Technologies Department, IBM Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel
FEB
08
2018
CSE Seminar
Learning to Compute without Reliable Power
Jacob Sorber, Associate Professor, Clemson University
FEB
09
2018
Theory Seminar
Nearly Work-Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Digraph Reachability
Seth Pettie, Assoc. Prof., University of Michigan
FEB
12
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Knowledge from Deep Understanding of Language
Danqi Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford
FEB
13
2018
CSE Seminar
Reinventing the Physical Layer to Enable Next-Generation Sensing and Computing Systems
Alanson Sample, Executive Lab Director, Disney Research Los Angeles
FEB
14
2018
CSE Seminar
Fairness and Diversity in Online Social Systems
Elisa Celis, Senior Research Scientist, EPFL
FEB
15
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Data Science for Human Well-being
Tim Althoff, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford
FEB
16
2018
Theory Seminar
Eliciting Expert Information without Verification
Grant Schoenebeck, Eliciting Expert Information without Verification, University of Michigan
FEB
20
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Ambient Intelligence in AI-Assisted Hospitals
Serena Yeung, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford
FEB
22
2018
CSE Seminar
New Tools for Distributed and Interactive Learning
Arya Mazumdar, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
MAR
05
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Compositional Visual Intelligence
Justin Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
MAR
07
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Functional Programming in a Discrete Structures Course
Marius Minea, Associate Professor, Politehnica University of Timisoara
MAR
09
2018
Theory Seminar
Lower Bounds on Sparse Spanners, Emulators, and Diameter-reducing shortcuts
Shang-En Huang
MAR
12
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Spam, Drugs, and Diesel: An Evidence-Based Approach to Computer Security
Kirill Levchenko, Associate Research Scientist, University of California, San Diego
MAR
13
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Generalizable Imitation in Robotics
Animesh Garg, Post Doc, Stanford
MAR
13
2018
Dissertation Defense
Bridging the Scalability Gap by Exploiting Error Tolerance for Emerging Applications
Parker Hill
MAR
14
2018
Dissertation Defense
Selecting and Generating Computational Meaning Representations for Short Texts
Catherine Finegan-Dollak
MAR
14
2018
CSE Seminar
The Foundations of Applied Cryptography
Stefano Tessaro, Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
MAR
14
2018
Dissertation Defense
Towards Power- and Energy-efficient Datacenters
Chang-Hong Hsu
MAR
14
2018
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Efficient Hardware and Methods for Deep Learning
William J. Dally, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research , NVIDIA
MAR
15
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Perceiving the 3D World from Images and Videos
Yu Xiang, Post Doc, University of Washington
MAR
20
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Sensing + Interaction On and Around the Body
Cheng Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech
MAR
20
2018
Dissertation Defense
From Attack to Defense: Toward Secure In-vehicle Networks
Kyong Tak Cho
MAR
20
2018
Dissertation Defense
Understanding Financial Market Behavior Through Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis
Erik Brinkman
MAR
22
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Introduction to Random Variables
Kim Khalsa Diaz, Lecturer I, University of Michigan
MAR
23
2018
Theory Seminar
Near-optimal linear decision trees for k-SUM and related problems
Dawei Huang, University of Michigan
MAR
23
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Understanding How Deep Neural Networks See
Michael Guerzhoy, Lecturer, University of Toronto
MAR
27
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Provable and Practical Algorithms for Non-convex Problems in Machine Learning
Yang Yuan, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
MAR
28
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Characterizing the Space of Adversarial Examples in Machine Learning
Nicolas Papernot, Ph.D. Candidate, Pennsylvania State University
MAR
29
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Machine Learning By the People, For the People
Nika Haghtalab, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
02
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Unsupervised Learning for Large Scale Medical Image Analysis
Adrian Dalca, Post Doc, MIT and Harvard
APR
02
2018
Dissertation Defense
Securing Modern Appified Platform Through Systematic Program Analysis and Design
Yunhan Jia
APR
03
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Better Understandings of Efficient Data Structures
Huacheng Yu, Post Doc, Harvard University
APR
04
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Recovering a Functional and Three Dimensional Understanding of Images
David Fouhey, Post Doc, University of California, Berkeley
APR
05
2018
CSE Seminar
Scaling Security Practices: Automated Approaches to Eliminate Security Vulnerabilities
Taesoo Kim, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
APR
06
2018
Dissertation Defense
Data Resource Management in Throughput Processors
John Kloosterman
APR
06
2018
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Technology, Innovation and Diversity: Women and men creating technology together, and defining our future
Telle Whitney, Former CEO, Anita Borg Institute, Board member and Consultant
APR
09
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Computational Models of Human Behavior
Nikola Banovic, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
11
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Interactive Systems for Code and Data Demography
Elena Glassman, Postdoc, University of California Berkeley
APR
12
2018
CSE Seminar
Data Science with Provable Privacy Guarantees
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Assistant Professor, Duke
APR
12
2018
AI Seminar
Visual Computational Sociology: Methods and Challenges
Timnit Gebru, Research Fellow, Microsoft Research, New York
APR
13
2018
Theory Seminar
Distributed Edge Coloring
Yi-Jun Chang, University of Michigan
APR
13
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Beyond Inheritance: The Composition Pattern for Real-Time Visualization, Simulation, and Game Development
Austin Yarger, Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan
APR
16
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Human-Centric Machine Learning: Enabling Machine Learning for High-Stakes Decision-Making
Hima Lakkaraju, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford
APR
23
2018
Dissertation Defense
Keywords at Work: Investigating Keyword Extraction in Social Media Applications
Shibamouli Lahiri
APR
27
2018
Dissertation Defense
Systems and Methods for Measuring and Improving End-User Application Performance on Mobile Devices
Ashkan Nikravesh
MAY
04
2018
Dissertation Defense
Eliciting and Aggregating Information: An Information Theoretic Approach
Yuqing Kong
MAY
09
2018
Dissertation Defense
Software-Driven and Virtualized Architectures for Scalable 5G Networks
Mehrdad Moradi
MAY
22
2018
Systems Seminar – CSE
Inferring Insertion Times in Bloom Filters
Chinya V Ravishankar, Professor, UC Riverside
MAY
24
2018
Systems Seminar – CSE
Make Your Database Dream of Electric Sheep: Designing for Autonomous Operation
Andy Pavlo, Assistant Professor of Databaseology, Carnegie Mellon University
MAY
29
2018
AI Seminar
The Physics Behind Automating Content Authoring
Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Senior Research Scientist, Adobe Research Big Data Experience Labs
JUN
20
2018
Natural Language Processing Seminar
Dialogue-based Deception Detection
Felix Soldner, Master Student – "Brain and Cognitive Science" Program, University of Amsterdam
JUN
29
2018
Dissertation Defense
Improving User Involvement Through Live Collaborative Creation
Sang Won Lee
JUL
23
2018
Dissertation Defense
Interactive Machine Learning with Applications in Health Informatics
Yue Wang
AUG
13
2018
Computer Engineering Seminar
Server Architecture for the Post-Moore Era
Babak Falsafi, Director, EcoCloud
Professor of CS, PARSA, EPFL
AUG
27
2018
Dissertation Defense
Hardware Mechanisms for Efficient Memory System Security
Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek
AUG
27
2018
Dissertation Defense
Understanding a Dynamic World: Dynamic Motion Estimation for Autonomous Driving using LIDAR
Arash Ushani
SEP
04
2018
Student Event
CSE New Graduate Student Welcome and Barbeque
SEP
07
2018
Theory Seminar
Theory Seminar Kick-off
Theory Faculty
SEP
10
2018
Student Event
Orientation for Incoming CSE Doctoral Students
SEP
12
2018
Student Event
Orientation for Incoming CSE Masters Students
SEP
14
2018
Theory Seminar
Linear Sketching for Functions over the Boolean Hypercube
Grigory Yaroslavtsev, Asst. Prof., Indiana University
SEP
19
2018
Dissertation Defense
Thermal Energy Storage for Datacenters with Phase Change Materials
Matthew Skach
SEP
21
2018
Theory Seminar
Recent Progress in Bipartite Matching Problems
Dawei Huang
SEP
24
2018
Dissertation Defense
Improving the Generalizability of Speech Emotion Recognition: Methods for Handling Data and Label Variability
Biqiao Zhang
SEP
25
2018
AI Seminar
The Use of Emotion Flows in the Analysis of Creative Writing
Thamar Solorio, Associate Professor , University of Houston
SEP
26
2018
Student Event
CSE Graduate Programs Office Open House…Please Join Us!
SEP
28
2018
Theory Seminar
The Structure of Unique Shortest Paths in Graphs
Greg Bodwin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Georgia Tech
OCT
02
2018
AI Seminar
The Search for Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language
Saif M. Mohammad, Senior Research Scientist, National Research Council Canada
OCT
05
2018
Theory Seminar
The Power of Natural Properties as Oracles
Ilya Volkovich
OCT
05
2018
Distinguished Lecture
Art Meets Science: My journey from Apple to Pandora to Snapchat
Tom Conrad, Board Member, Sonos
OCT
05
2018
Distinguished Lecture
The 3rd Revolution in Computing has just begun: Connecting the Physical World to the Power of the Digital World
Samuel H. Fuller, CTO Emeritus and Distinguished Scientist, Analog Devices Inc., Research Scientist Affiliate, MIT
OCT
09
2018
Security Seminar
Backtracking System Intrusions at Enterprise Scale
Adam Bates, Assistant Professor , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
OCT
09
2018
AI Seminar
How Do We Make Ethical Robots?
Benjamin Kuipers, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
OCT
12
2018
Theory Seminar
Why Extension-based Proofs Fail
Rati Gelashvili
OCT
17
2018
Other Event
Celebrate Innovation
OCT
18
2018
Computer Engineering Seminar
New Paradigms in Cache Architectures
Dr. Shankar Balachandran, Research Scientist, Intel Microarchitecture Research Lab, Bangalore, India
OCT
19
2018
Security Seminar
Screaming Channels: When Electromagnetic Side Channels Meet Radio Transceivers
Aurélien Francillon, Assistant Professor, EURECOM
OCT
19
2018
Theory Seminar
Nearly complete graphs decomposable into large induced matchings and their applications
Shang-En Huang
OCT
24
2018
CSE Seminar
Triaging and Debugging Failures in Deployed Software by Reverse Execution
Weidong Cui, Principal Researcher, Systems Security and Privacy Research Group, Microsoft Research Redmond Lab
OCT
26
2018
Theory Seminar
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Almost Optimal Hardness
Justin Holmgren, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
OCT
27
2018
Student Event
Terminal Hackathon and Game Night
OCT
30
2018
AI Seminar
Supporting Interactions in Online Groups. A new Challenge for AI.
Kobi Gal, Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion University
NOV
02
2018
Theory Seminar
Nearly Work-Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Digraph Reachability
Jeremy Fineman, Assoc. Prof., Georgetown University
NOV
05
2018
Dissertation Defense
Decompose and Conquer: Addressing Evasive Errors in Systems on Chip
Doowon Lee
NOV
06
2018
AI Seminar
Learning-Driven Algorithms for Discrete Optimization
Bistra Dilkina, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
NOV
07
2018
AI Seminar
Building Domain-Specific Knowledge with Human in the Loop
Yunyao Li, Senior Research Manager, IBM Research
NOV
07
2018
Other Event
Event: 15th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition
NOV
12
2018
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Investigating Network Interference at Global Scale
Roya Ensafi, Research Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
NOV
13
2018
Dissertation Defense
Multi-Policy Decision Making for Reliable Navigation in Dynamic Uncertain Environments
Dhanvin Mehta
NOV
13
2018
Distinguished Lecture
From Reinforcement Learning to Artificial Intelligence
Satinder Singh Baveja, Toyota Professor of Artificial Intelligence
NOV
14
2018
CSE Seminar
The job Talk Talk: How to Prepare for the Faculty Interview Process
Thomas F. Wenisch, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
NOV
16
2018
Theory Seminar
Dynamic Spanning Forest: Techniques and Connections to Other Fields
Thatchophol Saranurak, Research Asst. Professor, TTI-Chicago
NOV
16
2018
Student Event
CRO+MA Lab Research Showcase
NOV
26
2018
CSE Seminar
Program Synthesis for Reliable and Interpretable Artificial Intelligence
Swarat Chaudhuri, Associate Professor, Rice University
NOV
27
2018
Systems Seminar – CSE
wPerf: Generic Off-CPU Analysis to Identify Bottleneck Waiting Events
Yang Wang, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
NOV
27
2018
AI Seminar
Towards Open-domain Generation of Programs from Natural Language
Graham Neubig, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
NOV
28
2018
CSE Seminar
Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Accenture
NOV
29
2018
CSE Seminar | Women in Computing
Digital Technologies and Intimate Partner Violence
Nicola Dell, Assistant Professor, Cornell Tech
NOV
30
2018
Dissertation Defense
Stable Profiles in Simulation-Based Games via Reinforcement Learning and Statistics
Mason Wright
NOV
30
2018
Theory Seminar
Efficient Density Evaluation for Smooth Kernels
Arturs Backurs, Research Asst. Professor, TTI-Chicago
NOV
30
2018
Dissertation Defense
Extracting Insights from Differences: Analyzing Node-aligned Social Graphs
Srayan Datta
DEC
03
2018
Other Event
Office of Tech Transfer (OTT) – Office Hours
Office of Tech Transfer (OTT)
DEC
04
2018
CSE Seminar
Toward a Healthier ML Development Ecosystem, for Just Four Pizzas a Day
Ce Zhang, Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich
DEC
04
2018
AI Seminar
Is Robust ML Really Robust?
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
DEC
05
2018
Dissertation Defense
Efficient Algorithms for a Mesh-Connected Computer with Additional Global Bandwidth
Yujie An
DEC
05
2018
Dissertation Defense
Using Large-Scale Empirical Methods to Understand Fragile Cryptographic Ecosystems
David Adrian
DEC
06
2018
Dissertation Defense
Leveraging Processor Features for System Security
Zelalem Birhanu Aweke
DEC
07
2018
Theory Seminar
Constant Time Coloring in the Congested Clique
Yufan Zheng
DEC
07
2018
CSE Seminar
Evolution-Aware Runtime Verification
Owolabi Legunsen, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
DEC
12
2018
Dissertation Defense
Visual Recognition and Synthesis of Human-Object Interactions
Yu-Wei Chao
DEC
14
2018
RADLAB Seminar
Iceberg: A Remote Sensing Story (Applications of microwave scatterometers for observation of polar ice)
David G. Long, Professor, Brigham Young University
DEC
20
2018
Dissertation Defense
Enabling Fairness in Cloud Computing Infrastructures
Ram Srivatsa Kannan