Invited Speaker Series

Invited Speaker Series

The School of Computing hosts leading researchers who are making exciting and influential contributions in a variety of important areas. The talks are open to students, staff and faculty. 

Friday, November 8, 2024


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Dr. Alex Jones
Klaus Schroder Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering and Computer Science and Department Chair of EECS, Syracuse University
Quantum Topology and ISA Collaborative Optimizations for Reduced Noise NISQ Circuits

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

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Yanmei Tie, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Developing Easy-to-perform fMRI Paradigms for Neurosurgery Brain Mapping

Past talks

Friday, March 29, 2024

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Dr. Sajal Das

From Smart Sensing to Smart Living, The Era of IoT, AI and Data Science

Thursday, November 30

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Dr. Gary Tan
Professor at Penn State's Institute for Networking and Security Research
Debugging Machine Learning for Fairness

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023

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Professor Raj Jain
Washington University - St. Louis
Effect of Quantum Computing on Blockchains
at noon

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022

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Sarit Kraus
Bar-Ilan University
Intelligent Agents That Learn to Collaborate with People
at 9 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 4, 2022

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Thomas Eiter
Vienna University of Technology
Enhancing AI Capabilities by Rules: Applications and Opportunities
at 10 a.m.

Friday, March 11, 2022

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Principal scientist and manager at the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab
Computational Visual Pathways for Multi-Task Learning and Simulation 
at 12 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 15, 2021

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Arizona State University 
Social Media Mining: A Bountiful Frontier in AI and Data Science 
at 12 p.m. 

Oct. 8, 2021

santos


Dartmouth College
Inferring and Understanding Team Behavior Through Learning Rewards and Reward Structures: Interference and Human-Machine Teams
 at 12 p.m.

Dec. 11, 2020

Emery Berger


Professor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Performance (Really) Matters
 at noon

Oct. 16, 2020

xiong


Researcher and Program Director for AI and Hybrid Clouds Systems, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
A Statistical Distribution-based Deep Neuron Network Model – A New Perspective on Effective Learning

, 1 p.m.

Nov. 26, 2019

Steven


Principal Associate Data Scientist, Capital One
Extrapolating from one data point: a data scientist's career trajectory
UU room 108, 1:30 p.m.

Nov. 22, 2019

El Naqa


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Towards a Practical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Oncology
FA room 258, 12 p.m.

Nov. 1, 2019

bruce zhang


Microsoft
Cognitive Services and Deep Learning in Search Advertising
FA room 258, 12 p.m.

Oct. 18, 2019

dan williams


IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
From Unikernels to Nabla Containers
EB room T-1, 12 p.m.

April 29, 2019

Peter Stone


University of Texas at Austin
Efficient Robot Skill Learning; Grounded Simulation Learning and Imitation Learning from Observation
LH 07, 12 p.m.

April 5, 2019

Patrick Groeneveld

Patrick Groeneveld
Stanford University
Engineering Efficient Electric Vehicles
EB 110, 12 p.m.

Feb. 13, 2019


University at Buffalo
Internet of Video Things (IoVT): Next Generation IoT with Visual Sensors
EB 110, 3:30 p.m.

Dec. 7, 2018


Indiana University - Bloomington
Capsule Computing: Safe Open Science
EB 110 at noon

Oct. 19, 2018


University of California - Riverside
Computer System Security - An Architecture Perspective
Fine Arts 258 at noon

Sept. 28, 2018


Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secure Speculative Execution Processors
Fine Arts 258 at noon

Sept. 12, 2018


Cornell University
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM): physics, algorithm and applications
EB R15 at noon

April 20, 2018

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Harvard University
Software contracts for fun and profit (and security and microservices)
EB 110 at noon

March 30, 2018

Eduard Dragut

Temple University
Leveraging Social Media Signals for Record Linkage
EB R15 at noon

March 9, 2018

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University of Maryland
Reading News with Maps by Exploiting Spatial Synonyms
EB 110 at noon

November 6, 2017

Qiang Ji

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Integrating Prior Knowledge and Data for Efficient Visual Learning
UU 206 at noon

November 2, 2017

Henry Kautz

University of Rochester
Mining Social Media to Improve Public Health
AA G021 at 4:00 p.m.

October 30, 2017

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University of Massachusetts
Designing Systems and Applications for Transient Computing
UU 206 at noon

October 20, 2017

R. Sekar


Washington University in St.Louis
Dependable Internet of Things
FA 258 at noon

October 13, 2017


Indiana University
Designing a Big Data Toolkit spanning HPC, Grid, Edge and Cloud Computing
FA 258 at noon

September 27, 2017

R. Sekar


Northeastern University
A Cross-layer Approach to Accelerating Heterogeneous Computing
Lecture Hall 7 at noon

April 25, 2017

R. Sekar

Provenance-Based Policy Enforcement: A Unified Approach for Vulnerability Mitigation, Malware Defense and Attack Scenario Reconstruction
Lecture Hall 10 - 1:15 p.m.

March 31, 2017

Donald Porter


University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BetrFS: Write-Optimization in a Kernel File System
FA 258 (Fine Arts Building) - 1:30 p.m.

December 2, 2016

Edward Suh


Cornell University
Secure Multi-Core Processors with Comprehensive and Verifiable Information Flow Control
EB 110 (Engineering Building) - 12 p.m.

November 18, 2016

Trent Jaeger


Penn State University
Fine-Grained Control-Flow Integrity for Kernel Software
EB 110 (Engineering Building) - 12 p.m.

November 1, 2016

David Wentzlaff


Princeton University
Processors for the Data Center and Cloud of the Future
FA 258 (Fine Arts Building) - 12 p.m.

October 28, 2016

James Anderson


University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem
EB 110 (Engineering Building) - 12 p.m.

October 11, 2016

Santosh Nagarakatte


Rutgers University
Lightweight Formal Methods for LLVM Verification
FA 258 (Fine Arts Building) - 1:30 p.m.

September 30, 2016

Josep Torrellas


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Toward Extreme-Scale Manycore Architectures
EB 110 (Engineering Building) - 12 p.m.

September 16, 2016

Serge Belongie


Cornell Tech.
Fine Grained Visual Category Recognition and Perceptual Embedding
EB 110 (Engineering Building) - 12 p.m.

May 2, 2016

Heng Yin


Syracuse University (now at UC Riverside)
Semantics-Centric Approach to Fight Android Malware
R15 (3rd Floor, Engineering Building) - 12 p.m.