Computer Science Department Research Seminar Series

Tuesday, January 7, 2025: Dr. Thanh Nguyen-Tang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Computer Science,
John Hopkins University

“Offline Learning with Function Approximation: Foundations and Algorithms”
View Thanh’s seminar flyer

Thursday, January 9, 2025: Dr. Yihan Du
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Why is RLHF Data-Efficient in Policy Optmization”
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Monday, January 13, 2025: Dr. Yiorgos Makris
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Dallas

“Provenance Attestation: From Silicon Chips to Biological Cells and Beyond”
View Dr. Makris’s seminar flyer

Tuesday, January 21, 2025: Dr. Selma Sabanovic
Professor of Informaticsz and Cognitive Science,
Indiana University Bloomington

“Who Cares? Aligning Robot Design with the Values of Diverse Users”
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Thursday, January 23, 2025: Dr. Dongfang Liu
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering,
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

“Large Language Model for Social Good”
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Monday, February 10, 2025: Qingyun Wang
PhD Candidate, Siebel School of Computing & Data Science,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“AI4Scientist: Accelerating and Democratizing Scientific Research Lifecycle”

Wednesday, February 12, 2025: Yuanyuan Lei
PhD Candidate, Computer Science Department,
Texas A&M University
“Addressing Information Distortion via Knowledge-aware Language Modeling”

Thursday, February 20, 2025: Zebo Yang
PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
“Scaling Quantum Computation: Quantum Networking and Distributed Quantum Computing”

Wednesday, February 26, 2025: Satwik Kundu
PhD Candidate, Penn State University
“Enhancing the Efficiency and Security of Variational Quantum Algorithms”

Wednesday, March 3, 2025: Yingling Mao
PhD Candidate, Stony Brook University
“Efficient Resource Management for Modern Distributed Networks”

Thursday, March 4, 2025: Jindi Wu
PhD Candidate, Computer Science Department,
William & Mary
Title coming soon

Wednesday, March 5, 2025: Lydia Zakynthinou
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Title coming soon

Tuesday, August 27, 2024: Dr. Monica McGill
President & CEO of Institute for Advancing Computing Education

“Advancing Computer Science Education Research: Trends, Challenges, and Paths Forward”
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024: Zhengxiong Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Colorado Denver

“Exploring Wireless and Mobile Security for the IOT and the Future Cyber World”
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024: Dr. Rolando Garcia
Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Computing & Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University

“AFlow with FLORDB: Agile MLOps with Robust Metadata”
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024: Shiqiang Wang
Staff Research Scientist, IMB T.J. Watson Research Center

“Machine Learning from Imbalanced Data Sources”
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024: Evan Peck
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024: Eugene Liu
Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder

“Unification of Undirected and Directed Probabilistic Graphical Models by a Directed Model”
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024: Dr. Junyu Liu
Quantum Scientist, University of Chicago and IBM

“Quantum machine learning: from near-term to fault-tolerance”
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Monday, January 22, 2024: Dr. Junzhe Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University

“Towards Causal Reinforcement Learning”
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024: Dr. Jakub Szefer
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Yale University

“Architectures for Secure Quantum Computing Systems”
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024: Dr. Harry Shomer
PhD Candidate, Michigan State University

“Efficient and Fair Knowledge Graph Comparison”
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024: Dr. Enyan Dai
PhD Candidate, Penn State University

“Trustworthiness in Graph Learning”
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024: Dr. Jiawei Ma
PhD Candidate, Columbia University

“Self-Adaptive Artificial Intelligence in the Wild”
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Thursday, February 22, 2024: Dr. Kaitlin Gili
University of Oxford

“Intentionally Designing Models for Learning Tasks with Quantum Mechanics”
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Monday, February 26, 2024: Dr. Shangqian Gao
PhD Candidate, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

“Efficient Machine Learning Methods: from Convolutional Neural Networks to Large Language Models”
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Monday, April 1, 2024: Dr. Ella McPherson
Associate Professor in the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology
University of Cambridge

“Digital Fiction in Human Rights and Humanitarianism Images”
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024: Dr. Sudeep Pasricha
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University

“Environmentally Sustainable Cloud Computing”
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024: Dr. Yangming Shi
Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Robotics
Colorado School of Mines

“The Impacts of Spatial Information on Firefighters’ Wayfinding
Performance: A Virtual Reality Search & Rescue Experiment”
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023: Dr. Kelsey Fulton
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines

“Understanding Security Mental Models of End Users and Professionals”
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023:  Dr. Kristi Porter
National Renewable Energy Labratory (NREL)
“Moving from Uncertainty Visualization to Actionable Decision Making”
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Thursday, September 7, 2023:  Dr. Daniel Wong
UC Riverside
“Improving Efficiency of GPU-based Machine Learning
Systems through Co-location”
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*Location: Hill Hall 202, 4:00-5:00pm

Tuesday, September 19, 2023: Dr. Jakub Szefer
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Yale University
“Security of quantum computing systems”
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023: Dr. Qin (Christine) Lv
Professor and Co-Associate Chair for Graduate Education in the Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder
“Data-driven Scientific Discovery and Ubiquitous Computing: Systems, Algorithms, Applications”​
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023: Dr. Guannan Li
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines
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Monday, November 13, 2023: Dr. Ulya Karpuzca
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Abstract/Bio coming soon
Location: TBD

Tuesday, November 14, 2023: Dr. Juliane Miller
National Renewable Energy Labratory (NREL)
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023: Dr. Nathan Pemberton
Amazon Web Services
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* In person only if time or location changes the department will send out an announcement.  

Thursday, January 12, 2023:  Mariah Schrum
Graduate Research Assistant, CORE Robotics Lab- Georgia Tech 
View Mariah Schrum’s seminar flyer.

Monday, January 23, 2023:  Dr. Tan Nguyen
Postdoc, Department of Mathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
“Principled Frameworks for Designing Deep Learning Models: Efficiency, Robustness, and Representability”   
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Monday, January 30, 2023:  Yinglun Zhu
PH.D. Candidate in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Interactive Machine Learning: From Theory to Scale”
View Yinglun Zhu’s seminar flyer.

Monday, February 6, 2023:  Chenhan Xu
PH.D. Candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The State University of New York at Buffalo
“Towards Precision Sensing in IoT for Human Interaction, Healthcare, and Beyond”
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023:  Dr. Xiaoyong (Brian) Yuan
Assistant Professor, College of Computing
Michigan Technological University
“Security and Privacy in the Era of Machine Learning”
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023:  Dr. Jonathan Gammell
Adjunct Fellow, Oxford Robotics Institute
The University of Oxford
“Measuring and Planning Motion in Robotics”
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Thursday, February 16, 2023:  Dr. Kaveh Fathian
Research Scientist, MIT Aerospace Controls Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Trustworthy Autonomy for Internet for Robot Teams”
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Thursday, February 23, 2023:  Sian Jin
PH.D. Candidate in the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering
Indiana University
“HPC Applications via Predictable and Reliable Data Reduction”
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Monday, February 27, 2023:  Geng Yuan
PH.D. Candidate in Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
“Towards Efficient Deep Neural Network Interference and Training for Ubiquitous AI”
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023:  Dr. Sabrina Neuman
Post Doc, NSF Computing Innovation Fellow
Harvard University
“Designing Computing Systems for Robotics and Physically Embodied Deployments”
View Dr. Sabrina Neuman’s seminar flyer.

Wednesday, March 1, 2023:  Yili Ren
PH.D. Candidate in the Department of Computer Science
Florida State University
“Intelligent Wireless Systems: From Human Sensing to Object Detection”
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023:  Dr. Bartosz Krawczyk
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Virginia Commonwealth University
“Continual Learning from Streaming, Evolving, and Imbalanced Data”
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023:  Kelsey Fulton
PH.D. Candidate, Computer Science (Security.Privacy.People SP2 Lab)
University of Maryland
“Understanding and Improving Secure Development from a Human-Centered Perspective”
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Monday, March 13, 2023:  Dr. Minjia Zhang 
Principal Researcher, Microsoft 
“Efficient System and Algorithm Design for Large-Scale Deep Learning Training and Inference”
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* In person only if time or location changes the department will send out an announcement.