CS Colloquium — Fall 2020

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 .

September 10, 2020
3:00-4:00
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
CS Grad Meeting with Diane Souvaine
Speaker: Diane Souvaine
Host: Diane Souvaine
September 17, 2020
3:00
Sococo Halligan 102,Zoom
Autonomous Vehicles and Persons with Disabilities: Current Work and Future Directions
Speaker: Julian Brinkley, Asst Prof of Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University
Host: Elaine Short
September 24, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Addressing Problems in Global Health with Non-traditional Data and Machine Learning
Speaker: Elaine Nsoesie, Data Science Fellow and Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
Host: Mike Hughes
October 1, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Machine Learning for Drug Discovery
Speaker: Alix Lacoste, Vice President of Data Science, Benevolent AI
Host: Soha Hassoun
October 8, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Brain-Robot Interaction & Applying Block-Based Programming to Neurofeedback Application Development
Speaker: Chris S. Crawford, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Alabama
Host: Elaine Short
October 15, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Equitable machine learning to advance healthcare
Speaker: Irene Chen, Ph.D. candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Mike Hughes
October 22, 2020
3:00-4:00 ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Resource-Efficient Quantum Computing by Breaking Abstractions
Speaker: Fred Chong, Seymour Goodman Professor, CS dept., University of Chicago
Host: Peter Love
October 23, 2020
2:00-3:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Rethinking Network Quality of Service in the Cloud Era
Speaker: Osama Haq
Host: Fahad Dogar
October 29, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Introduction to Quantum Annealing
Speaker: Catherine McGeoch, Senior Scientist, D-Wave Systems, Inc.
Host: Raja Sambisivan
November 5, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
"Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery "
Speaker: Vipin Kumar, Regents Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Host: Mike Hughes and student
November 6, 2020
4:00-5:00 pm ET
Sococo 209, Zoom
Modeling Ancient Greek Syntax with an Unsupervised RNNG
Speaker: Sophia Sklaviadis
Host: JP de Ruiter, Greg Crane
November 13, 2020
2:00-3:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 209; Zoom
GLIDE: Combining Local Methods and Diffusion State Embeddings to Predict Missing Interactions in Biological Networks
Speaker: Kapil Devkota
Host: Lenore Cowen
November 19, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102; Zoom
Towards self-managed and re-configurable stream processing systems
Speaker: Vasia Kalavri, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Host: Raja Sambasivan
November 19, 2020
12:00-1:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 209; Zoom
A Framework for Transferring Interactive Behavioral Knowledge Across Different Robots
Speaker: Gyan Tatiya
Host: Jivko Sinapov
November 20, 2020
1:00-2:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Using Machine Learning to Discover Source Code Provenance in JavaScript
Speaker: Jamie Heller
Host: Sam Guyer
November 24, 2020
12:00-1:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Visual Next-Frame Prediction using Multisensory Perception for Embodied Agents
Speaker: Ramtin Hosseini
Host: Karen Panetta
November 25, 2020
2:00-3:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Toward Real-time BCI data analysis with Deep Neural Networks
Speaker: Leon Wang
Host: Rob Jacob
November 30, 2020
12:00-1:00 pm ET
Zoom
CANCELLED - Distributed Hash Tables
Speaker: Archita Agarwal
Host: Megan Monroe
December 3, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Tuning modern storage hierarchies
Speaker: Avani Wildani, Assistant Professor of CS, Emory University
Host: Raja Sambasivan
December 3, 2020
10:00-11:00 am ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Performance Tuning Using Standardized Performance Tests and Machine Learning
Speaker: Hifza Khalid
Host: Alva Couch
December 7, 2020
11:00am-12:00pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Examining Trust in Human-Robot Interaction
Speaker: Theresa Law
Host: Matthias Scheutz
December 7, 2020
2:45-3:45 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back in Conversational Models
Speaker: Charles Threlkeld
Host: JP de Ruiter
December 7, 2020
12:00-1:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 102, Zoom
Hash Tables
Speaker: Franceska Xhakaj, Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Megan Monroe
December 9, 2020
12:00-1:00 pm ET
Zoom
Compression with the Huffman Coding Algorithm
Speaker: Milod Kazerounian
Host: Megan Monroe
December 10, 2020
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Sococo Halligan 102, Zoom
Knowledge-based Biomedical Data Science
Speaker: Larry Hunter, Professor of Pharmacology (Denver) & Computer Science (Boulder), University of Colorado
Host: Donna Slonim and Mike Hughes
December 10, 2020
2:00-3:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Routing Between Visible Vertices in the Theta-10 Graph
Speaker: Andrew Gonczi
Host: Diane Souvaine
December 10, 2020
4:00-5:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Towards translating formal definitions into efficient interpreters
Speaker: Brian Lachance
Host: Kathleen Fisher and Norman Ramsey
December 11, 2020
2:00-3:00 pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Progressive Visualization for Big Data Exploratory Analysis
Speaker: Marianne Procopio
Host: Remco Chang
December 14, 2020
1:15-2:15pm ET
Zoom
d-separation And The Role of Directed Acyclic Graphs in Causal Reasoning
Speaker: Rohit Bhattacharya
Host: Megan Monroe
December 18, 2020
10:00-11:00 am ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Automatic Discovery and Synthesis of Checksum Algorithms from Binary Data Samples
Speaker: Lauren Labell
Host: Kathleen Fisher
December 21, 2020
11:00am-12:00pm ET
Sococo VH 209; Zoom
Active Learning, Human Annotation and Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Ancient Greek
Speaker: Saeed Majidi
Host: Gregory Crane

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