Spring 2019 Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia

January 18

Speaker: Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, UW-Madison
Title: Measure, then build
Location: W201 Westgate Building (Cybertorium)
Time: 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Faculty Host: Aasheesh Kolli
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January 25

Speaker: Leslie Valiant, Harvard University
Title: James F. Kelly Distinguished Lecture: What needs to be added to machine learning?
Location: W201 Westgate Building (Cybertorium)
Time: 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Faculty Host: Gang Tan
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February 15

Speaker: Minh Hoai Nguyen, Stony Brook University
Title: Attentive Human Action Recognition
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Faculty Hosts: Robert Collins and Yanxi Liu
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February 18

Speaker: Danyang Zhuo, CSE Faculty Candidate - University of Washington (Ph.D. student)
Title: Towards Efficient and Reliable Data Center Systems 
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Faculty Host: Bhuvan Urgaonkar
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February 21

Speaker: David Pennock, CSE Faculty Candidate - Microsoft - Principal Researcher
Title: Wagering mechanisms for probability elicitation and surprising other applications 
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Daniel Kifer
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February 21

Speaker: Shasha Wen, CSE Faculty Candidate - College of William and Mary (Ph.D. student)
Title: Squeezing Software Performance via Eliminating Wasteful Operations  
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 3:00 p.m. 
Faculty Host: Aasheesh Kolli

February 22

Speaker: Anand Padmanabha Iyer, CSE Faculty Candidate - UC Berkeley (Ph.D. Student)
Title: Scalable Systems for Large-Scale Dynamic Connected Data Processing 
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Anand Sivasubramaniam
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February 25

Speaker: Heba Aly, CSE Faculty Candidate - University of Maryland (Ph.D. Student)
Title: Intelligent Mobile Systems for Social Good
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Wang-Chien Lee
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February 27

Speaker: Sehoon Ha, CSE Faculty Candidate - Google Brain/Georgia Tech
Title: Computational Methods for Developing Agile and Intelligent Robots
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Robert Collins
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March 1

Speaker: Mengjia Yan, CSE Faculty Candidate - UIUC
Title: Secure Computer Hardware in the Age of Pervasive Security Attacks
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Jack Sampson
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March 13

Speaker: Arzoo Katiyar, CSE Faculty Candidate - Cornell
Title: Learning Structured Information from Language
Location: E210 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Rebecca Passonneau
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March 15

Speaker: Yu Cheng, CSE Faculty Candidate - Duke University
Title: Robustness and Strategic Concerns in Machine Learning
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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March 18

Speaker: John Wright, CSE Faculty Candidate - MIT
Title: How to learn a quantum state
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Sean Hallgren
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March 22

Speaker: Kent Richard Quanrud, CSE Faculty Candidate - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: From discrete to continuous and back: modern algorithmic techniques for some classical problems in optimization
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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March 25

Speaker: Di Wang, CSE Faculty Candidate - Georgia Tech
Title: Graph partitioning via local flow methods
Location: W375 Westgate Building 
Time: 10:00 a.m. 
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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