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JAN
07
2020
AI Seminar
Applications of AI for Accessibility
Robin Brewer, Assistant Professor – School of Information and Computer Science and Engineering , University of Michigan
JAN
09
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Data Structures Meet Circuits and Cryptography
Sasha Golovnev, Postdoc, Harvard University
JAN
14
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
On Sunflowers and Its Friends in Computer Science and Mathematics
Jiapeng Zhang, Postdoc, Harvard University
JAN
14
2020
AI Seminar
Software Engineering Intelligence
Marouane Kessentini, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science , University of Michigan – Dearborn
JAN
14
2020
Other Event | Student Event
The Bit Player: Claude Shannon
JAN
15
2020
Computer Engineering Seminar
Enabling Continuous Learning through Synaptic Plasticity in Hardware
Tushar Krishna, Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.
JAN
16
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Sketching Graphs and Matrices
Greg Bodwin, Postdoc, Georgia Tech
JAN
21
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Foundations of Intelligent Systems with (Deep) Function Approximators
Simon Du, Postdoc, Institute for Advanced Study
JAN
21
2020
AI Seminar
Language Grounding in Situated Communication
Joyce Chai, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
JAN
22
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Distributive Justice for Machine Learning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Defining, Measuring, and Remedying Algorithmic Unfairness
Hoda Heidari, Postdoc, Cornell University
JAN
22
2020
Dissertation Defense
Agent-based Models for Analyzing Strategic Adaptations to Government Regulation
Frank Cheng
JAN
22
2020
Computing CARES | Student Event
Resume/Interview Preparation
JAN
23
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Stable Matchings
Robbie Weber, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington
JAN
24
2020
Rackham Faculty Allies Speaker Series | Women in Computing
AI for Good: Computer Science Helping the World
Maria Gini, Professor, University of Minnesota
JAN
24
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Intro to RISC-V Assembly
Branden Ghena, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
JAN
27
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Knowledge Is Power: Sensing The Physical World Around Devices
Yang Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
JAN
28
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Improving Team Performance and Dynamics within Human-Robot Teams
Sarah Sebo, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
JAN
30
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
David Abel, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
JAN
30
2020
AI Seminar
NumPy: A look at the past, present, and future of array computation
Ross Barnowski, Postdoctoral Scholar
FEB
03
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Introduction to Hashing and Hash Tables
Brad Solomon, Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University
FEB
06
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Binary Search Trees for Sentiment Analysis
Laura Burdick, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
FEB
07
2020
Theory Seminar
Security Games: Quasi-Regular Sequences, and a new version of TSP
David Kempe, Professor, University of Southern California
FEB
11
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Control Hijacking I
Ben VanderSloot, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
FEB
13
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Breaking and Building End-to-End Encrypted Systems
Paul Grubbs, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
FEB
17
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Efficient Machine Learning via Data Summarization
Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Postdoc, Stanford University
FEB
17
2020
MIDAS Seminar
How Language Makes Us Smart (Without Big Data)
Charles Yang, Director, University of Pennsylvania
FEB
18
2020
CSE Seminar
Logic Solvers and Machine Learning: The Next Frontier
Vijay Ganesh, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
FEB
19
2020
CSE Seminar
Software-Hardware Systems for the Internet of Things
Omid Abari, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
FEB
20
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
New Approaches to Real-Time Robotic Mapping and Information Gathering
Maani Ghaffari Jadidi, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan
FEB
21
2020
Computing CARES
How To Be An IA
FEB
24
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access
Anhong Guo, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
FEB
24
2020
MIDAS Seminar
Is It Possible to Democratize AI for Business
Jen Stirrup, Regional Director, Microsoft
FEB
25
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Scalable and Reliable Architectures for Quantum Computing Platforms
Swamit Tannu, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Tech
FEB
25
2020
AI Seminar
Distortion-based Analysis of Voting: Limited Communication, and an Analysis Framework based on LP Duality and Flows
David Kempe , Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California
FEB
26
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Machine Learning for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Aditya Grover, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
FEB
27
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
The Value Alignment Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
FEB
27
2020
Distinguished Lecture
Achieving Privacy in an Increasingly Connected World
Todd Austin, S. Jack Hu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
MAR
06
2020
Theory Seminar
Towards a Unified Theory of Matching Sparsifiers
Aaron Bernstein, Asst. Professor, Rutgers University
MAR
09
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Scalability and Methods of Deep Learning from an Optimization Viewpoint
Kenji Kawaguchi, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
MAR
09
2020
Dissertation Defense
Democratizing Self-Service Data Preparation through Program Synthesis for Non-expert Users
Zhongjun Jin
MAR
10
2020
ECE Seminar
POSTPONED: Real World Perspectives: Conversations of Leadership and Diversity in Engineering
3 Amigos
MAR
10
2020
Dissertation Defense
Improving Programming Support for Hardware Accelerators Through Automata Processing Abstractions
Kevin Angstadt
MAR
10
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Algorithmic Paradigms for Dynamic Graphs
Thatchaphol Saranurak, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
MAR
11
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Progressive Automated Formal Verification of Hardware and Software Systems
Yatin Manerkar, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
MAR
12
2020
Student Event
Who’s Watching You: A Multi-Disciplinary Panel on Privacy
MAR
13
2020
Dissertation Defense
Clarifying Oblique Specifications of Relational Queries
Christopher Baik
MAR
13
2020
Other Event
CANCELED: Friday Night AI – Conversational AI: Technologies that Power Today’s Chatbots
Prof. Nikola Banovic, Prof. David Jurgens, and Chung Hoon Hong , University of Michigan CSE
MAR
16
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Better Foundations for Secure Software: Minimize Trust and Verify It
Shweta Shivaji Shinde, Postdoc, University of California Berkeley
MAR
17
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Analyzing Programs in the Era of Software 2.0
Xin Zhang, Postdoc, MIT
MAR
18
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning from Societal Data: Theory and Practice
Ramya Vinayak, Postdoc, University of Washington
MAR
19
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Foundations of Optimizable Gradual Typing
Max New, Ph.D. Candidate, Northeastern University
MAR
19
2020
Dissertation Defense
Robust Scene Estimation for Goal-directed Robotic Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
Zhiqiang Sui
MAR
20
2020
Theory Seminar
An Algorithm for Hypergraph k-Cut
Karthik Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MAR
23
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Automating Failure Diagnosis for Distributed Systems
Yongle Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto
MAR
24
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Connecting Blockchains to the Real World
Fan Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
MAR
25
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Designing Collective Behavior in Robotic Swarms
Justin Werfel, Sr. Research Scientist, Harvard University
MAR
26
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Rethinking Operating System and Hardware Abstractions for Good and Evil
Dimitrios Skarlatos, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MAR
30
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Auditing Outsourced Services
Cheng Tan, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University
MAR
31
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning Spoken Language Through Vision
David Harwath, Research Scientist, MIT
APR
01
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Bending Fuzzers to One’s Own Will
Rohan Padhye, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Berkeley
APR
02
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Harnessing Examples for Learning at Scale
Xu Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
06
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Language Grounding with Robots
Jesse Thomason, Postdoc, University of Washington
APR
08
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
New Compilation Techniques for Reconfigurable Analog Devices
Sara Achour, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
APR
15
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Structured-Infused and Disentangled Representation Learning
Xuezhe Ma, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
16
2020
CSE Seminar
Understanding and Generating Natural Language of Complex Discourse
Lu Wang, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
APR
16
2020
MIDAS Seminar | Student Event
A Data Scientist Plays Games
Nick Berry, Data Scientist, Formerly with Microsoft, GameHouse, and Facebook
APR
21
2020
Other Event | Student Event
Virtual Student-Made Video Game Exhibition
APR
21
2020
Dissertation Defense
Making and Keeping Probabilistic Commitments for Trustworthy Multiagent Coordination
Qi Zhang
APR
22
2020
Dissertation Defense
Enhancing System Transparency, Trust, and Privacy with Internet Measurement
Benjamin VanderSloot
APR
22
2020
Dissertation Defense
Efficiently Finding Approximately-Optimal Queries for Improving Policies and Guaranteeing Safety
Shun Zhang
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar | Dissertation Defense
Efficient Belief Propagation for Perception and Manipulation in Clutter
Karthik Desingh
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar
Learning sight from sound
Andrew Owens, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
MAY
06
2020
Dissertation Defense
Domain-specific Architectures for Data-intensive Applications
Abraham Lamesgin Addisie
MAY
29
2020
Other Event
Friday Night AI: “AI & COVID-19”
JUN
03
2020
Cultural | Student Event
EECS Community Gathering
JUN
05
2020
Cultural | Student Event
EECS Community Gathering
JUN
10
2020
Dissertation Defense
Automatic Designs in Deep Neural Networks
Lanlan Liu
JUN
12
2020
Dissertation Defense
Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments
Chaowei Xiao
JUN
19
2020
Cultural | Other Event | Student Event
EECS Juneteenth Celebration
JUN
23
2020
Dissertation Defense
Learning Single-Image 3D from the Internet
Weifeng Chen
JUN
29
2020
Dissertation Defense
Robust Deep Learning in the Open World with Lifelong Learning and Representation Learning
Kibok Lee
JUN
30
2020
Dissertation Defense
Learning to Generate 3D Training Data
Dawei Yang
JUN
30
2020
Dissertation Defense
A Parallel Tensor Network Contraction Algorithm and Its Applications in Quantum Computation
Fang Zhang
JUL
08
2020
MIDAS Seminar
A Scalable Tool for Longitudinal Twitter Analysis
Al Hero & Walter Dempsey, Professor, EECS & Engineering, U-M & Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, UM, University of Michigan
JUL
10
2020
Dissertation Defense
Unsupervised Structural Embedding Methods for Efficient Collective Network Mining
Mark Heimann
JUL
15
2020
MIDAS Seminar
A Mobile/wearable Platform for Collecting Data on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in the Time of COVID
Danny Forger, Professor of Computational Medicine, Bioinformatics, & Mathematics, U-M, University of Michigan
JUL
15
2020
Dissertation Defense
Understanding Word Embedding Stability Across Languages and Applications
Laura Burdick
JUL
21
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: #5
John Silberholz & Nigel Michki, Associate Professor, Technology & Operations, U-M & Doctoral student, Biophysics, U-M
JUL
24
2020
Dissertation Defense
Machine Learning for Physiological Time Series: Representing and Controlling Blood Glucose for Diabetes Management
Ian Fox
JUL
27
2020
Dissertation Defense
Understanding and Improving the Performance of Web Page Loads
Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk
JUL
28
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: #6
Sharon Glotzer, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, U-M
JUL
28
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: Sharon Glotzer – An Open Software Approach for Reproducible Research for Materials Design
SHARON GLOTZER, Professor – Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
JUL
28
2020
CUOS Seminar | Dissertation Defense
Towards the First Practical Applications of Quantum Computers
Kevin Sung
JUL
28
2020
Dissertation Defense
Interactional Slingshots: Providing Support Structure to User Interactions in Hybrid Intelligence Systems
Sai Gouravajhala
JUL
29
2020
Engaging Students Remotely: Faculty Lessons from the Field
JUL
29
2020
MIDAS Seminar
“Is AI Racist?”
Dr. Jagadish and Other Experts, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science
JUL
31
2020
Dissertation Defense
Enabling and Improving Centralized Control in Network and Cyber-Physical Systems: An Application-Driven Approach
Yikai Lin
JUL
31
2020
Dissertation Defense
Election Security is Harder Than You Think
Matthew Bernhard
AUG
04
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase
Chris Brooks, Assistant Professor of Information – School of Information, University of Michigan
AUG
06
2020
Dissertation Defense
Efficiency in Machine Learning with Focus on Deep Learning and Recommender Systems
Amy Nesky
AUG
06
2020
Dissertation Defense
Customized Systems of Deep Neural Networks for Energy Efficiency
Babak Zamirai
AUG
14
2020
Dissertation Defense
Models and Algorithms for Human Action Understanding
Jonathan Stroud
AUG
31
2020
MIDAS Seminar
Beyond Algorithmic Fairness: What Social Justice Needs from Data Science
Kentaro Toyama, Professor of Community Information, Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan
SEP
09
2020
Cultural | Other Seminar
Cracking the diversity code: Understanding computing pathways of those least represented in order to foster their representation
Monique Ross, Assistant Professor, School of Computing & Information Science, Florida International University
SEP
09
2020
Student Event
Bloomberg Engineering Tech Talk: Applied Named Entity Recognition
SEP
11
2020
Theory Seminar
The Menu-Size of Approximately Optimal Auctions
Yannai A. Gonczarowski
SEP
14
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Day
SEP
14
2020
Student Event
NEW PHD STUDENT ORIENTATION
Professor Emily Mower Provost
SEP
16
2020
Student Event
NEW MS STUDENT ORIENTATION
Professor Quentin Stout
SEP
18
2020
Theory Seminar
Non-Adaptive Adaptive Sampling in Turnstile Streams
Sepideh Mahabadi, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)
SEP
22
2020
AI Seminar
Semantic Scholar, NLP, and the Fight Against COVID-19
Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer at Allen Institute for AI
SEP
23
2020
Precision Health Seminar
2020 Precision Health Virtual Symposium
SEP
24
2020
Dissertation Defense
Automatic Quantification and Prediction of Affect in Spoken Interactions
Zakaria Aldeneh
SEP
24
2020
Faculty Seminar
Practical Memory Disaggregation: A Case Study in Network-Informed Data Systems Design
Mosharaf Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
SEP
25
2020
Theory Seminar
Hypergraph k-cut for fixed k in deterministic polynomial time
Karthik Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor, UIUC
SEP
28
2020
MIDAS Seminar
Data Science and Politics
David Shor, SuperPAC Data Scientist, Democratic Consultant
SEP
30
2020
Other Event
Cybersecurity: Threats, policy, and responses
OCT
02
2020
Theory Seminar
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Andrea Lincoln, Postdoc, UC Berkeley
OCT
02
2020
Other Event
Friday Night AI: “AI to Address Misinformation and Fake News”
OCT
06
2020
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar | Women in Computing
Pascale Fung | Deeper Conversational AI
Pascale Fung, Professor of Electronic & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science & Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
OCT
08
2020
Faculty Seminar
When it leaks, it pours: on the (sad) state of today’s hardware security
Daniel Genkin, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Michigan
OCT
09
2020
Theory Seminar
Aggregating Inconsistent Information in Ranking, Clustering and Phylogenetic Trees
Vaggos Chatziafratis, Visiting Faculty Researcher, Google Research
OCT
16
2020
Theory Seminar
Computational Hardness of Optimal Fair Computation
Hemanta K. Maji, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
OCT
20
2020
AI Seminar | CSE Seminar | Women in Computing
Danielle Belgrave | ML for Personalized Mental Healthcare
Danielle Belgrave, Machine Learning Researcher, Health Intelligence Group, Microsoft Research
OCT
21
2020
CSE Seminar
Automotive Cloud Computing
Dr. Fan Bai, Staff Researcher and Lab Group Manager, Electrical & Control Systems Lab, Research & Development and Planning, General Motors Corporation
OCT
21
2020
Student Event
Self-Care for Students
OCT
22
2020
Faculty Seminar
Program Synthesis: Applications and Techniques
Xinyu Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
OCT
23
2020
Theory Seminar
Towards Optimal Separations between Quantum and Randomized Query Complexities
Avishay Tal, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
OCT
26
2020
CSE Seminar
Realizing the Promise of Autonomy
Stan Schneider, CEO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI)
OCT
27
2020
Student Event
Self-Care for Students
OCT
29
2020
Other Event
President’s Commission On Carbon Neutrality Analysis Team Panel
Prof. Stephen Forrest, Jennifer Haverkamp, and students
OCT
30
2020
Other Event
Michigan AI Symposium – AI & Health
OCT
30
2020
Theory Seminar
Coloring and Maximum Weight Independent Set of Rectangles
Parinya Chalermsook, Assistant Professor, Aalto University
NOV
03
2020
AI Seminar | Computer Vision Seminar
Jitendra Malik | Where Do We Come From, What Are We Doing, Where Are We Going
Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engg & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
NOV
06
2020
Theory Seminar
Edge-Weighted Online Bipartite Matching
Matthew Fahrbach, Google Research
NOV
06
2020
Dissertation Defense
Algebraic Frameworks for Cryptographic Primitives
Navid Alamati
NOV
10
2020
MIDAS Seminar
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
With Prof. David Fouhey and Prof. Jason Corso
NOV
11
2020
MIDAS Seminar
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
With Prof. David Fouhey and Prof. Jason Corso
NOV
11
2020
Student Event
17th Annual CSE GRADUATE HONORS COMPETITION
NOV
12
2020
CSE Seminar
Collaboration as a Lens for Inclusive Technical Innovation
Meredith Morris, Sr. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
NOV
12
2020
Computer Engineering Seminar
Towards General Purpose Specialization
Tony Nowatzki, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
NOV
13
2020
Theory Seminar
A Unified and Fine-Grained Approach for Light Spanners
Hung Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
NOV
13
2020
Rackham Faculty Allies Speaker Series | Women in Computing
AI & Accessibility: Ethical Considerations
Meredith Morris, Sr. Principal Researcher , Microsoft Research
NOV
13
2020
Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing
Networks Capable of Change
Jennifer Rexford, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering and the Chair of Computer Science, Princeton University
NOV
17
2020
CSE Seminar
Machine Learning and Causality: Building Efficient, Reliable Models for Decision-Making
Maggie Makar, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
NOV
18
2020
CSE Seminar
Mobile Health Approaches to Precision Medicine
Julian Ramos, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
NOV
19
2020
CSE Seminar
Objectively Measure Developers’ Cognitive Activities: Code, Biases, and Brains
Yu Huang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
NOV
19
2020
CSE Seminar | Faculty Seminar
Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization through the Lens of Approximation
Euiwoong Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
NOV
19
2020
Student Event
Undergraduate Town Hall Meeting
NOV
20
2020
Theory Seminar
Impartial selection, additive approximation guarantees, and priors
Ioannis Caragiannis, Professor, Aarhus University
NOV
20
2020
CSE Seminar
Pursuing Health and Inclusion Through Sociotechnical Systems
Megh Marathe, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
NOV
23
2020
Dissertation Defense
Design Optimization of In-Vehicle Network
DEC
03
2020
CSE Seminar
Explainability and Interpretability through Interaction
Nikola Banovic, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
DEC
04
2020
Theory Seminar
New Analysis of the Factor Refinement Algorithm with Applications
Aditya Ravi, University of Micghian
DEC
08
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Hash Tables Lecture
Franceska Xhakaj, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
DEC
09
2020
Dissertation Defense
Software Model Checking with Uninterpreted Functions
Denis Bueno
DEC
09
2020
Dissertation Defense
Leveraging Longitudinal Data for Personalized Prediction and Word Representations
Charles Welch
DEC
11
2020
Theory Seminar
Fast algorithms for linear programs and bipartite matching via new data structures and interior-point methods
Jan van den Brand, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
DEC
15
2020
Dissertation Defense
A Holistic Solution for Reliability of 3D Parallel Systems
Javad Bagherzadeh
DEC
17
2020
Dissertation Defense
Streaming Architectures for Medical Image Reconstruction
Brendan West
DEC
21
2020
Dissertation Defense
Computational Modeling and Design of Financial Markets: Towards Manipulation-Resistant and Expressive Markets
Xintong Wang