Spring 2020 Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia

Please contact Gan (Gary) Tan at gxt29@psu.edu with any questions.

Jan. 14

Speaker: Swamit Tannu, Georgia Tech 
Title: Towards Scalable and Reliable Architectures for Quantum Computing Platforms
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Mahanth Gowda
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Jan. 20

Speaker: Bryan Plummer, Boston University 
Title: Toward Powerful AI Agents Users Understand and Trust
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Daniel Kifer
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Jan. 27

Speaker: Dong Xie, University of Utah
Title: Interactive Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis 
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Bhuvan Urgaonkar 
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 Jan. 29

Speaker: Alexander (Sasha) Golovnev, Harvard University 
Title: Data Structures Meet Circuits and Cryptography  
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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Feb. 3

Speaker: Ming Liu, University of Washington
Title: Building Distributed Systems Using Programmable Networks 
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Anand Sivasubramaniam 
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Feb. 6

Speaker: Wenhao Yu, Georgia Tech
Title: Learning Agile and Generalizable Motor Skills
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Wang-Chien Lee
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Feb. 10

Speaker: Jonathan Balkind, Princeton University 
Title: Fixing Serverless Computing in the Post-Moore Era with Open-Source Hardware
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Bhuvan Urgaonkar
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Feb. 11

Speaker: Lei Yu, Georgia Tech 
Title: Reconciling Data Privacy and Utility in the Era of Big Data
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Danfeng Zhang
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Feb. 13

Speaker: Elaheh Sadredini, University of Virginia 
Title: Moving Processing to Data: From Big Data Applications to Emerging Near-Data Computation
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Danfeng Zhang
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Feb. 17

Speaker: Akanksha Jain, Univeristy of Texas at Austin 
Title: Toward Smarter Harder Prediction Mechanisms
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Jack Sampson
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Feb. 18

Speaker: Raghavendra Pothukuchi, University of Illinois
Title: Intelligent Computing Systems for Extreme-Efficiency and Security
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Vijay Narayanan
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Feb. 19

Speaker: Yongle Zhang, University of Toronto 
Title: Automating Failure Diagnosis for Distributed Systems 
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Timothy Zhu
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Feb. 21

Speaker: Mingzhe Hao, University of Chicago
Title: Building Fast and Robust Data and Storage Systems in Milli-/Micro-second Era
Time and location: 10 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Bhuvan Urgaonkar
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Feb. 25

Speaker: Han Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University 
Title: Costs and Benefits of Invariant Representation Learning
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Daniel Kifer
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Feb. 26

Speaker: Malihe Alikhani, Rutgers University 
Title: Learning to Connect Images and Text for Natural Communication 
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Becky Passonneau
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Feb. 27

Speaker: M Alex Vasilescu, University of Toronto 
Title: Cause and Effect in a Tensor Framework
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Yanxi Liu
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Feb. 27

Speaker: Carlee Joe-Wong, Carnegie Mellon University  
Title: Optimizing the Cost of Distributed Learning 
Time and location: 2 p.m. in W375 Westgate
Faculty Host: Gang Tan
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Feb. 28

Speaker: Xue Chen, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Robust algorithms against adversarial noise 
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Mingfu Shao
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March 2

Speaker: Mohammad Hajiabadi, UC Berkeley
Title: Stronger Foundations for Public-Key Cryptography: New Constructions and Barriers 
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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March 3

Speaker: Charles Lever, Georgia Tech
Title: Transforming the Network from a Weakness into an Advantage
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Patrick McDaniel
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March 4

Speaker: Murat Kocaoglu, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Causality: From Learning to Generative Models
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Mehrdad Mahdavi
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 March 5

Speaker: Huaizu Jiang, University of Mass-Amherst
Title: Understanding the Dynamic Visual World: From Motion to Semantics
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. in W375 Westgate 
Faculty Host: Robert Collins
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March 16

Speaker: Thomas Hayes, University of New Mexico
Title: Energy-Aware Computation in Radio Networks
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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March 17

Speaker: Qian Wang, Duke University 
Title: Machine Learning with Limited Compute and Data Resources 
Time and location: 2:15 p.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Rebecca Passonneau
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March 19

Speaker: Cesar Uribe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Toward Scalable Algorithms for Distributed Optimization and Learning
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Kamesh Madduri
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March 20

Speaker: Chunhao Wang, University of Texas at Austin
Title: A quantum landscape for computer scientists: Toward optimization, machine learning, and studying physical systems
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Martin Furer
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March 24

Speaker: Zubair Shafiq, University of Iowa
Title: Ad-Mageddon: The Next Frontier in Online Privacy
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Trent Jaeger
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March 30

Speaker: Rui Zhang, Yale University 
Title: Deep Contextual Modeling for Natural Language Understanding, Generation, and Grounding
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Becky Passonneau
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March 31

Speaker: Yatin Manerkar, Princeton University 
Title: Progressive Automated Formal Verification of Hardware and Software Systems
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Jack Sampson
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April 2

Speaker: Abutalib Aghayev
Title: Redesigning Storage Systems for Modern Storage Hardware
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Timmy Zhu
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April 3

Speaker: Mohsen Imani, University of California San Diego
Title: Brain-Inspired Architecture for Efficient Learning and Robust Computing 
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Anand Sivasubramaniam
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April 7

Speaker: Syed Rafiul Hussain, Purdue University
Title: Automated Reasoning of Security and Privacy Networks and Cyber-Physical Systems 
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Trent Jaegar 
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April 8

Speaker: Shweta Shinde, UC Berkeley
Title: Better Foundations for Secure Software: Minimize Trust and Verify It
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Gang Tan
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April 9

Speaker: Rizal Fathony, Carnegie Mellon 
Title: Goal-Oriented Learning
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Kamesh Madduri
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April 10

Speaker: Vivek Kulkarni, Standford University 
Title: Human-Centric Natural Language Processing
Time and location: 10:45 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Mehrdad Mahdavi
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April 13

Speaker: Jonah Brown-Cohen, UC Berkeley
Title: Complexity Beyond the Worst Case: From Hard Problems to Hard Instances 
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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April 14

Speaker: Radha Venkatagiri, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Democratizing Error-Efficient Computing 
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. via Zoom link (more info in link below)
Faculty Host: George Kesidis
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