All Topics (May 23 through November 25)

Monday, October 20

• 11:00 AM Balancing Accountability and Privacy in the Network: Presented by Ugur Kaynar, BU (NRG Seminar)
• 2:00 PM Automatic Discovery of Visual Elements in Image Collections: Sobhan Parizi, Brown University (IVC Seminar)

Wednesday, October 22

• 9:00 AM Public-Coin Differing-Inputs Obfuscation and Its Applications: Omkant Pandey, UIUC

Friday, October 24

• 4:00 PM Resource Aware ML: Jan Hoffman, Yale University

Monday, October 27

• 11:00 AM Identifying and Analyzing High Impact Routing Events with PathMiner: Giovanni Comarela (NRG Seminar)
• 2:00 PM Learnersourcing: Improving Video Learning with Large-Scale Learning Interaction Data: Juho Kim, MIT CSAIL (IVC Seminar)

Wednesday, October 29

• 10:00 AM Pretty Bad Privacy: Pitfalls of DNS Encryption: Haya Shulman, TU Darmstat

Thursday, October 30

• 4:00 PM Formal Reasoning about Quantitative Properties of Software: Jan Hoffman, Yale University

Monday, November 3

• 11:00 AM Biased assimilation, homophily, and the dynamics of polarization: Larissa Spinelli, BU (NRG Seminar)

Wednesday, November 5

• 5:00 PM An Alloy Verification Model for Consensus-Based Auction Protocols: Saber Mirzaei, BU (Joint NRG and iBench Seminar)

Friday, November 7

• 9:00 AM Networking at the Speed of Light: P. Brighten Godfrey, UIUC (Networking Colloqiuim)
• 10:30 AM Bayesian Case-Based Reasoning: Been Kim, MIT

Monday, November 10

• 11:00 AM Managing User-Level Compromises in Enterprise Networks: Craig Shue, WPI (NRG Seminar)
• 2:00 PM Psychology Driven Design and Development of Agents and Virtual Environments: Magy Seif El-Nasr, NEU (IVC Seminar)

Wednesday, November 12

• 11:00 AM Size-Hiding Secure Computation: Revisiting the Ideal Model: Melissa Chase, MSR

Friday, November 14

• 2:00 AM Redescription Mining: An Introduction: Esther Galbrun, BU (Theory-Data Seminar)
• 9:00 AM BU/MIT Lincoln Lab Cybersecurity Workshop Series: Static and Dynamic Defense for Secure Resilient Systems

Monday, November 17

• 11:00 AM Online reputation management: Estimating the impact of management responses on consumer reviews: Davide Proserpio, BU (NRG Seminar)
• 2:00 PM Video analysis technology in the Human Speechome Project: Soroush Vosoughi, MIT Media Lab (IVC Seminar)

Wednesday, November 19

• 10:00 AM Hidden GEMs: Automated Discovery of Access Control Vulnerabilities in Graphical User Interfaces: Engin Kirda, NEU (BUSec Seminar)

Friday, November 21

• 10:30 AM Learning mixtures of ranking models: Pranjal Awasthi, Princeton (Data Management Group)

Monday, November 24

• 9:30 AM Candidate Construction of Obfuscation for all Circuits: Omer Paneth, BU
• 11:00 AM Characterization of Outbreak histograms and Network Inference Presenter: Bashir Rastegarpanah, BU (NRG Seminar)
• Modular Reasoning for Behavior-Preserving Data Structure Refactorings Anindya Banerjee, CCF Division of CISE Directorate, NSF (iBench Seminar)

Tuesday, November 25

• 2:30 PM Strong Key Derivation from Noisy Sources: Ben Fuller, PhD Defense