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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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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