Talks

Information Extraction from Online Text --- from Opinions to Arguments to Persuasion

Claire Cardie - Cornell University

Thursday, December 6, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Towards Common Sense through Synthesizing Cues for Prediction

Michael Maynord

Friday, November 30, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Dave Levin - University of Maryland

Domain impersonation: What that green lock icon is not telling you

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Improving Efficiency for Object Detection and Temporal Modeling for Action Localization

Mingfei Guo

2328 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Defense: High-Throughput Network Distance Computations for Spatial Analytics Inside Any Store

Shangfu Peng

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

PhD Proposal: Algorithms Addressing Stochasticity, Fairness, and Microbes

Brian Brubach

Monday, November 19, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Teaching Machines to Ask Useful Clarification Questions

Sudha Rao

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Wearable Interactions Using Touch without a Touchscreen

Xing-Dong Yang - Dartmouth College

HBK 2119

Friday, November 16, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Christina Leslie - Sloan Kettering Institute

Decoding epigenetic programs in differentiation and disease

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Marine Carpuat - University of Maryland College Park

Introduction to Neural Machine Translation

3117 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSI)

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

9:30 am

-11:30 am

PhD Proposal: Algorithms for quantum simulation: design, resource estimation and applications

Yuan Su

3100A ATL building

Monday, November 12, 2018

12:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

PhD Defense: Vision and NLP for Creative Applications, and their Analysis

Varun Manjunatha

Friday, November 9, 2018

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Alex Psomas - Carnegie Mellon University

Fair Resource Allocation: From Theory to Practice

Thursday, November 8, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Wearable Interactions Using Touch without a Touchscreen

Xing-Dong Yang - Dartmouth College

HBK 2119

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Planetary Scale Data Storage

Benjamin Bengfort

Monday, November 5, 2018

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

PhD Defense: Introducing Dynamic Ontologies to Encode and Manage Relevance in Context Aware Systems

Nicholas Gramsky

Friday, November 2, 2018

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

PhD Defense: Media for Data-Driven Storytelling: Evidence, Taxonomy, and guidelines

Zhenpeng Zhao

Thursday, November 1, 2018

9:30 am

-11:30 am

PhD Proposal: Learning Representations with Limited Supervision and Fast Inference Through Dynamic Computation

Zuxuan Wu

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

Moustafa A Youssef, PhD ('05) - Alexandria University and Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)

Ubiquitous Indoor Localization: The Indoor Equivalent of GPS

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Scott Baden - University of California San Diego

UPC++: a PGAS library for Exascale Computing

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Ubiquitous Accessibility Digital-Maps for Smart Cities: Principles and Realization

Heba A. Ismail

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Deep Learning for Image Geo-Localization and Its Application to Media Forensics

Bor-Chun Chen

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Defense: Modeling Deep Context in Spatial and Temporal Domain

Xiyang Dai

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Defense: Tools and Experiments for Software Security

Andrew Ruef

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Estimation and analysis of cell-specific DNA methylation from bisulfite-sequencing data

Faezeh Dorri

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

PhD Defense: Improving Efficiency and Generalization of Visual Recognition

Ruichi Yu

Friday, October 26, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Embodied AI Based Design Of Nano-Quadrotors For Navigation

Nitin Sanket

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Applying ML & NLP at Google

David Seetapun and Kazoo Sone, Google

Thursday, October 25, 2018

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

PhD Defense: Analyzing Internet reliability remotely with probing-based techniques

Ramakrishna Padmanabhan

Friday, October 19, 2018

10:45 am

-12:45 pm

3438 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

PhD Defense: Fusing Multimedia Data Into Dynamic Virtual Environments

Ruofei Du

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jeff Hollingsworth - University of Maryland

A (Re)Introduction to the Division of IT

Friday, October 12, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Leilani Battle - University of Maryland

Behavior-Driven Optimizations for Big Data Exploration

Friday, October 5, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Alan Frieze - Carnegie Mellon University

Topics in Markov Chains

Thursday, October 4, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

3438 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Towards Visual Analytics with Virtual Environments

Eric Krokos

Monday, October 1, 2018

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Genome assembly and variant detection using emerging sequencing technologies and graph based methods

Jay Ghurye

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

Friday, September 28, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department ⋅ PL Reading Group

RustBelt: Logical Foundations for the Future of Safe Systems Programming

Derek Dreyer - Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

Friday, September 21, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Tom Goldstein - University of Maryland

Understanding optimization in neural networks

2117 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Thursday, September 20, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

From Scripting to Proving: Gradual Verification for Expressive Programming Languages

David Van Horn - University of Maryland

1:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

Roman Bartak - Charles University, Prague

Attribute Grammars for Modeling Workflows and Planning Domains

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Local News and Events Detection using Tweets in Twitter

Hong Wei

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Subbarao (Rao) Kambhampati (Ph.D '89) - Arizona State University

Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems

Friday, September 7, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Amazon Aurora: A look under the hood

Debanjan Saha - Amazon RDS at Amazon Web Service

Thursday, September 6, 2018

9:00 am

-11:00 am

PhD Proposal: Harlequin: Programmable OS Abstractions for Extensibility and Heterogeneity

James Litton

10:00 am

-11:00 am

CS Department ⋅ PL Reading Group

Ballerina: A Modern Programming Language Focused on Integration

Sanjiva Weerawarana - WSO2

2120 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Secure I/O Layer with First-class Support for User Policies

Matthew Lentz

Thursday, August 30, 2018

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Anima Anandkumar - Caltech

Tackling Data Scarcity in Deep Learning

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Designing and Evaluating Next-Generation Thermographic Systems to Support Residential Energy Audits

Matthew Mauriello

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Defense: HandSight: A Touch-Based Wearable System to Increase Information Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments

Lee Stearns

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

9:30 am

-11:30 am

PhD Defense: Approximation Algorithms for Geometric Clustering and Touring Problems

Ioana Bercea

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Verifiable Computation in Practice: Tools and Protocols

Ahmed Kosba

Monday, July 23, 2018

9:00 am

-11:00 am

3165 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

PhD Defense: Detecting Objects and Actions with Deep Learning

Bharat Singh

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

3165 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

PhD Defense: Towards Generalized Frameworks for Object Recognition

Venkataraman Santhanam

Thursday, July 19, 2018

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Applications of Graph Segmentation Algorithms in Quantitative Genomics Analysis

Mohamed Gunady

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Efficient Layouts and Algorithms for Managing Versioned Datasets

Souvik Bhattacherjee

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

2:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

PhD Defense: A New Paradigm For Practical Maliciously Secure Multi-party Computation

Xiao Wang

3400 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Finding Objects in Complex Scenes

Jin Sun

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Software Infrastructure for Visual and Integrative Analysis of Microbiome Data

Justin Wagner

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

Monday, June 11, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

PhD Defense: Genome Wide Discovery of Disease Modifiers

Noam Auslander

Friday, June 8, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

3460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

PhD Defense: Efficient Data-Oblivious Computation

Kartik Nayak

Thursday, June 7, 2018

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Temporal Context Modeling for Text Streams

Jinfeng Rao

Monday, June 4, 2018

11:30 am

- 1:30 pm

PhD Defense: Designing and Implementing Accessible Wearable Interactions for People with Motor Impairments

Meethu Malu

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

3118 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)

PhD Defense: Genome Wide Discovery of Disease Modifiers

Noam Auslander

Friday, May 18, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Defense: Learning Explainable Facial Features from Noisy Unconstrained Visual Data

Emily Hand

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

9:00 am

-11:00 am

PhD Proposal: Identifying Asymmetric Semantic Divergences for Improved Multilingual Natural Language Understanding

Yogarshi Vyas

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Provenance Management for Collaborative Data Science Workflows

Hui Miao

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Algorithms for Huge Constant-Sum Games

Mahsa Derakhshan

Monday, May 14, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Re-Imagining End-User Security Behavior: New Approaches to Security Advice and Recommendations

Elissa Redmiles

11:30 am

- 1:30 pm

Algorithms for Massive and Stochastic Graphs

Soheil Behnezhad

Friday, May 11, 2018

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Reducing False Positives of Static Code Analysis

Ugur Koc

Friday, May 4, 2018

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Delta-based Storage and Querying for Versioned Datasets

Amit Chavan

Thursday, May 3, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Connecting Documents, Words, and Languages Using Topic Models

Weiwei Yang

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

9:00 am

-11:00 am

PhD Proposal: Incorporating Stylistic Properties with Machine Translation

Xing Niu

Monday, April 30, 2018

2:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

PhD Proposal: Increasing the Accessibility of Topic Models through Visualization and Interaction

Alison Smith

Friday, April 27, 2018

8:30 am

-10:30 am

PhD Proposal: Improved Training of Deep Networks for Computer Vision

Abhay Yadav

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Learning and Efficiency of Outcomes in Games

Eva Tardos - Cornell University

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Fairness Guarantees for Allocation Problems

Hadi Yami

Thursday, April 26, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Geometric Data Structures for Approximating Shapes and Functions

Ahmed Abdelkader

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Application of Homotopy Methods in Neural Networks and Transportation

Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

4185 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Thursday, April 19, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Adaptive Adversarial Learning for a Diverse Visual World

Judy Hoffman - University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

PhD Proposal: Quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization

Tongyang Li

Monday, April 9, 2018

11:00 am

-11:59 am

CS Department ⋅ Crypto Reading Group ⋅ MC2 Seminar ⋅ Security Reading Group

Cybersecurity Threats to U.S. Elections

Alex Halderman - University of Michigan

1110 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (KEB)

Friday, April 6, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Tim Althoff - Stanford University

Data Science for Human Well-being

Thursday, April 5, 2018

9:00 am

-11:00 am

PhD Defense: Deep Learning for Video Understanding

Joe Yue-Hei Ng

IAI Colloquium: "Failures, Dynamics, Evolution and Control of the Global Risk Network"

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department ⋅ ISR

Boleslaw K. Szymanski - Network Science and Technology Center, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1146 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Elena Glassman - University of California, Berkeley

Interactive systems for code and data demography

Thursday, March 29, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Huaishu Peng - Cornell University

Interactive Fabrication and Fabrication for Interaction

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

Explainable Recommendation for Event Sequences: A Visual Analytics Approach

Fan Du

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Aylin Caliskan - Princeton University

The great power of AI: Algorithmic mirrors of individuals and society

Monday, March 26, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Nirupam Roy - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Internet of Acoustic Things (IoAT): Challenges, Opportunities, and Threats

Thursday, March 22, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Visual Analytics for Open-Ended Tasks in Text Mining

Deok Gun Park

Thursday, March 15, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Paul Pearce - UC Berkeley

Methods and Systems for Understanding Large-Scale Internet Threats

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Tianbao Yang - University of Iowa

Computational Algorithms and Theories for Learning with Big Data

2460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Monday, March 12, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Randomized Methods in Discrete Machine Learning.

Karthik Sankararaman

Friday, March 9, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Human-Centric Machine Learning: Enabling Machine Learning for High-Stakes Decision-Making

Hima Lakkaraju - Stanford University

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Kirill Levchenko - University of California, San Diego

Spam, Drugs, and Diesel: An Evidence-Based Approach to Computer Security

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Srinadh Bhojanapalli - Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Effectiveness of Local Search in Machine Learning

Thursday, March 1, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Finding needles in genomic haystacks: achieving single-nucleotide resolution via accurate and efficient multiple sequence alignment

Todd Treangen - University of Maryland, College Park

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jiliang Tang - Michigan State University

Social Network Analysis with Negative Links

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ruoyu (Fish) Wang - University of California, Santa Barbara

Enhancing the Discovery and Mitigation of Vulnerabilities in Binary Programs

Monday, February 26, 2018

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

Decoupling Consistency and Trust from Underlying Distributed Data Stores

Vasileios Lekakis

Thursday, February 22, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Monia Ghobadi - Microsoft Research

Beyond Binary Failures: A New Framework for Networks

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Soheil Feizi - Stanford University

Unsupervised Learning Revisited

Thursday, February 15, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Joshua Garcia - University of California, Irvine

Automated Android Security Assessment: Malware, Vulnerabilities, and Exploits

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Daniel Genkin - University of Maryland, College Park and University of Pennsylvania

Real world security: from theory to practice and back again

2460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Monday, February 12, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Bo Waggoner - University of Pennsylvania

Acquiring and Aggregating Information in Societal Contexts

Friday, February 9, 2018

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Defense: Architecture, Models, and Algorithms for Textual Similarity

Hua He

Thursday, February 8, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Aditya Parameswaran - University of Illinois

Enabling Data Science for the Majority

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Stefanos Nikolaidis - University of Washington

Mathematical Models of Adaptation in Human-Robot Collaboration

2460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Friday, February 2, 2018

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Department ⋅ PL Reading Group

Liquid Haskell: Usable Type-Driven Program Verification

Niki Vazou - University of Maryland, College Park

Thursday, February 1, 2018

4:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

Baruch Schieber - IBM AI Research

Constrained Submodular Maximization via Greedy Local Search

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Reasoning about Incomplete and Uncertain Preferences with Order-based Markov Models

Gerardo I. Simari - Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca and CONICET, Argentina

AVW 4172 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Defense: Sparse Representations and Feature Learning for Image Set Classification and Correspondence Estimation

Mohammed E. Fathy Salem

Friday, December 15, 2017

3:30 pm

- 5:30 pm

Improving Efficiency and Generalization of Visual Recognition

Ruichi Yu

Thursday, December 14, 2017

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Alleviating the Demands of Massive Labeled Data in Training Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Hao Zhou

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Model Deep Context in Spatial and Temporal Domain

Xiyang Dai