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
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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