CS Colloquium — Spring 2018

Seminars are held weekly on Thursdays from 3:00-4:15pm in Joyce Cummings Center 270 and via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. To receive email notification of events and/or Zoom information, please subscribe to the CS colloquium announcements at .

January 18, 2018
2:50pm - 4:00pm
Halligan 102
Studying the long-term use of robots in the home
Speaker: Maartje de Graaf, Brown University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
January 29, 2018
4:00pm
Halligan 102
Uncommon Sense: Using Neural Networks for Exploration and Creativity
Speaker: Genevieve Patterson
Host: Matthias Scheutz
February 1, 2018
2:50-4:00
Halligan 102
Fighting Large-scale Internet Abuse
Speaker: Kevin Borgolte, UCSB
Host: Susan Landau
February 8, 2018
2:50pm - 4:00pm
Halligan 102
Observing and Controlling Distributed Systems with Cross-Cutting Tools
Speaker: Jonathan Mace, Brown University
Host: Remco Chang
February 12, 2018
3:00pm
Halligan 102
Improving Web Applications with Fine-grained Data Flows
Speaker: Ravi Netravali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Remco Chang
February 20, 2018
3:00pm
Halligan 102
Turning a network into a streaming database for better monitoring
Speaker: Srinivas Narayana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Remco Chang
February 22, 2018
2:50pm - 4:00pm
Halligan 102
Building knowledge bases for natural language understanding
Speaker: Derry Wijaya, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science
Host: Matthias Scheutz
February 26, 2018
2:50pm
Halligan 102
The great power of AI: Algorithmic mirrors of individuals and society
Speaker: Aylin Caliskan, Princeton University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 5, 2018
3:00pm
Halligan 102
How to secure your outsourced computations without harming utility
Speaker: Dr. Nikos Triandopoulos, Stevens Institute of Technology
Host: Susan Landau
March 7, 2018
3:00pm
Halligan 102
Data Systems for Hybrid Analytics: Tuning, Optimizing, and Selecting the Right Way to Access Data
Speaker: Manos Athanassoulis, Harvard University
Host: Remco Chang
March 12, 2018
9:30 AM
Halligan 102
Design and Evaluation of Everyday Interactive Robots
Speaker: Naomi Fitter, University of Southern California
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 12, 2018
3:00-4:00pm
Halligan 102
Graduate Research Talk: Learning Reasons for Success or Failure of Robot Actions
Speaker: Simon Mattsson, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 14, 2018
11:00 AM
Halligan 102
The Social Side of Recommendation Systems: How Groups Shape Our Decisions
Speaker: Allison Chaney, Princeton University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 14, 2018
5:00 PM
Halligan 102
Graduate Research Talk: Coordination through Dialogue: Applications in Human-Robot Teaming
Speaker: Felix Gervits, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 15, 2018
3:00pm
Halligan 102
Discovering Disease Subtypes that Improve Treatment Predictions: Interpretable Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine
Speaker: Michael Hughes, Harvard University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
March 15, 2018
1:30-2:30pm
Halligan 209
Graduate Research Talk: ASAP-MMP: An Antibody Sequence Analysis Pipeline to Identify Design Features by Targeting Matric Metalloprotieinase
Speaker: Xinmeng Li, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun
March 28, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Algorithmic Market Design: Advertising Auctions and Convex Characterizations
Speaker: Ian Kash, Microsoft Research
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 12, 2018
3:00pm
Halligan 102
Resilient, Adaptive, and Scalably Complex Soft Tensegrity Robots
Speaker: John Rieffel, Union College
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 13, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 108
Towards Taming Big Data Variety: From Social Networks to Brain Networks
Speaker: Xiangnan Kong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Host: Liping Liu
April 20, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 108
Deep Sequence Models: Context Representation, Regularization, and Application to Language.
Speaker: Adji Dieng, Columbia University , Department of Statistics
Host: Liping Liu
April 20, 2018
9:00 AM
Eaton 208
Master's Thesis Defense: Skip Regex: Parsing without Deciding
Speaker: Ethan Pailes
Host: Kathleen Fisher
April 25, 2018
2:00 PM
Halligan 102
Master's Thesis Defense: Behavior-Based Cognitive Trait Modeling Via Node-Link Diagram Interactions
Speaker: Melissa Iori
Host: Remco Chang
April 25, 2018
1:00 PM
Halligan 209
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Computational Methods to Advance Directed Evolution of Enzymes and Metabolomics Data Analysis
Speaker: Neda Hassanpour
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 26, 2018
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Understanding the Anonymity Ecosystem
Speaker: Micah Sherr, Georgetown University
Host: Susan Landau
April 26, 2018
9:30 AM
Halligan 209
Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Exploring the Role of Pfam Families in Protein Function
Speaker: Daniel Meyer
Host: Lenore Cowen
April 26, 2018
11:00 AM
Halligan 209
Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Detangling PPI Networks to Uncover Functionally Meaningful Clusters
Speaker: Sarah Hall-Swan
Host: Lenore Cowen
May 3, 2018
12:30 PM
Halligan 209
Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Elephant Tracks II: Practical, Extensible Memory Tracing
Speaker: Xuanrui "Ray" Qi
Host: Sam Guyer
May 22, 2018
11:00 AM
Seminar Room, Gordon Institute, 200 Boston Ave.
Modeling Common Ground for Multimodal Communication
Speaker: James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Host: Matthias Scheutz

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