Fall 2018 – Spring 2019 Seminars

Sept. 7

Julien Hendrickx, Professor of Mathematical Engineering, Université Catholique de Louvain,   Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain
CISE Resident Scholar

Open Multi-Agent Systems: Arrivals and Departures

Faculty Host: Alexander Olshevsky
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


Sept. 14

Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Director of the Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology at Boston University, Associate Physiologist at the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School

The New Field of Network Physiology: Mapping the Human Physiolome

Faculty Host: Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
Student Host: Nan Zhou


Sept. 21

Ariel Orda, the Herman & Gertrude Gross Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
CISE Resident Scholar

Network Science – A Network of Sciences

Faculty Host: David Starobinski
Student Host: Rebecca Swaszek


Sept. 28

Ariel Orda, Technion, the Herman & Gertrude Gross Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
CISE Resident Scholar

Some Recent Advances on the Application of Game Theory to Networking

Faculty Host: David Starobinski
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


Oct. 5

Alexander Wyglinski, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and a Professor of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

Bumblebees and Vehicular Networking: Intelligent Connectivity on the Road

Faculty Host: Janusz Konrad
Student Host: Nan Zhou


Oct. 12

Leandros Tassiulas, the John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering, Yale University

Collaborative Information Caching at the Network Edge

Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


Oct. 19

James Tee, Adjunct Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?

Faculty Host: Vivek Goyal
Student Host: Nan Zhou


Oct. 24

Luca Schenato, Associate Professor at the Information Engineering Department, University of Padova, Italy

Multi-Agent Map-Building: Kalman Filtering Meets Gaussian Processes

Faculty Host: Ioannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Rebecca Swaszek


Oct. 26

Jennifer Dy, Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

Learning from Complex Medical Data, Clustering and Interpretable Models

Faculty Host: Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


Nov. 2

Andrew Gordon Wilson, Assistant Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE), Cornell University

 Loss Valleys and Generalization in Deep Learning

Faculty Host: Brian Kulis
Student Host: Rebecca Swaszek


Nov. 6

Daniela Tuninetti, University of Illinois, Chicago

Distributed Data Shuffling

Faculty Host: Bobak Nazer
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


Nov. 9

Abbas El Gamal, Stanford University

Functional Representation of Random Variables and Applications

Faculty Host: Bobak Nazer
Student Host: Rebecca Swaszek


Nov. 30

Raimund Ober, Texas A&M University

Quantitative Aspects of the Analysis of Single Molecule Experiments

Faculty Host: Sean Andersson
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


Dec. 7

Priya Nagpurkar, Research Staff Member and Senior Manager at I.B.M.’s T.J. Watson Research Center

Next Generation Secure Multi-cloud Platform

Faculty Host: Ayse Coskun
Student Host: Rebecca Swaszek


January 25

Yaron Rachlin, MIT Lincoln Labs
Wide Field of View Imaging Using Optical Multiplexing

Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Noushin Mehdipour


February 15

Julien Hendrickx, UCLouvain, Belgium
CISE Resident Scholar, Boston University
Automatic Computation of Exact Worst-Case Performance for First-Order Methods

Faculty Host: Alex Olshevsky
Student Host: Noushin Mehdipour


February 22

Flavio Calmon, Harvard University
Representations, Fairness, and Privacy: Information-Theoretic Tools for Machine Learning

Faculty Host: Bobak Nazer
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


February 28

Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Estimation and Communication:  Observation Driven Sensor Scheduling

Faculty Host: Bobak Nazer


March 1

Bob Barmish, Boston University
On Use of the Expected Logarithmic Growth Criterion: From Gambling to Stock Trading 

Faculty Host: Sean Andersson
Student Host: Arian Houshmand


March 8

Jacob Abernethy, Georgia Tech
Building Algorithms by Playing Games

Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Noushin Mehdipour


March 22

Andy Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology
New Advances in Network Constrained Nonconvex Optimization: Distributed Computation, Matrix Minors, and Dynamic Programming

Faculty Hosts: Michael Caramanis and Panagiotis Andrianesis
Student Host: Rebecca Swaszek


March 22

Alessandro Pinto, United Technologies Research Center, Inc.
Planning via Constrained Markov Decision Processes

Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff


March 29

Sunghoon Ivan Lee, UMass Amherst
The Use of Wearable Sensors and Systems in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitations 

Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Arian Houshmand


April 1

Ashok Cutkosky, Google
Preconditioned Online Learning Without Preconditioning

Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Hosts: Zhenxun Zhuang and Artin Spiridonoff


April 5

Mengdi Wang, Princeton University
State Compression and Primal-Dual Reinforcement Learning

Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Noushin Mehdipour


April 19

Edward A. Lee, University of California at Berkeley
A Personal View of Real-Time Computing

Faculty Hosts: Christos Cassandras & Wenchao Li
Student Host: Arian Houshmand


April 26

Dr. James Kapinski, Toyota Research Institute, North America
Training, Verification, and Bug Finding for AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems 

Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
Student Host: Artin Spiridonoff

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