CS Colloquium — Spring 2023

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 11, 2023
2:00 pm ET
Cummings, 280
Designing Immersive Tools for Supporting Remote Scientific Collaboration and Learning
Speaker: Monsurat Olaosebikan
Host: Lenore Cowen
January 19, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings 270, Zoom
Optimal spanners in Euclidean spaces
Speaker: Csaba D.Toth, California State University Northridge
Host: Diane Souvaine
January 26, 2023
3:00-4:15
JCC 270
Automated analytics systems to navigate the complexity of performance unpredictability in cloud applications
Speaker: Mert Toslali, Boston University
Host: Raja Sambasivan
February 3, 2023
12:00-1:15pm ET
Lincoln-Filene Hall, #201
Modeling Disinformation and How the Models Model Us
Speaker: Nicholas Rabb
Host: Science Technology and Society (STS) Department
February 7, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 601
Reasoning with visual imagery: Research at the intersection of autism, AI, and visual thinking
Speaker: Maithilee Kunda, Vanderbilt University
Host: Donna Slonim
February 8, 2023
12:00pm-1:30pm ET
745A Dowling
Cybersecurity & Public Policy Seminar: A Conversation with Alex Gamero Garrido
Speaker: Alex Gamero Garrido, Northeastern University
Host: CSPP
February 8, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Optimizing Dynamic-Graph Data Structures on Multicores with the Locality-First Strategy
Speaker: Helen Xu
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 13, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 601
The price of computational efficiency in modern machine learning
Speaker: Ilias Zadik
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 15, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings #601
Statistical inference with privacy and computational constraints
Speaker: Maryam Aliakbarpour
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 16, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 270
Towards Building the Mathematical Foundations of Data Science
Speaker: Lev Reyzin
Host: Donna Slonim
February 21, 2023
9:00am ET
Cummings 402
Provable Anonymity for the Real World
Speaker: Megumi Ando
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 23, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 601
Pseudorandomness and Space Complexity: New Methods, New Insights, and New Milestones
Speaker: William Hoza
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 27, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 601
Applications of topology and geometry to root analysis
Speaker: Erin Chambers
Host: Diane Souvaine
February 28, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Transparency and Security via Algorithmic Economics
Speaker: Matheus Ferreira
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 1, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings, #601
Building scalable indexes that can be efficiently queried
Speaker: Christina Boucher
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 2, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings, #601
Scalable Graph Algorithms: Parallel, Dynamic, and Private
Speaker: Quanquan Liu
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 9, 2023
9:00 am ET
Cummings 140, Zoom
Building the Foundations of Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning
Speaker: Michal Moshkovitz
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 16, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 270
Human-Centered Design of Private Computation
Speaker: Bailey Kacsmar
Host: Diane Souvaine
March 28, 2023
3:00pm ET
JCC 402
Dynamic Programming
Speaker: Ryan Patrick
Host: Marty Allen
March 29, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Programming Distributed Systems
Speaker: Mae Milano
Host: Jeff Foster
March 30, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 270
Privacy-Preserving Accountability Online
Speaker: Nirvan Tyagi
Host:
April 4, 2023
9:00am ET
Cummnings 601
A Robot in Care Space: A Case for Ethics
Speaker: Thomas Arnold
Host: Dave Lillethun
April 5, 2023
4:00 pm ET
Tisch 304
Improving Fairness of Recommender Systems
Speaker: Sipei Li - Quals Talk
Host: Alva Couch
April 6, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings 270
Machine Learning Tools for Handling Missing Data and Unbalanced Datasets in Engineering
Speaker: Eleonora Maria Tronci
Host: Mike Hughes
April 7, 2023
2:30pm EST
Cummings 265
Using Biotransformation Rules to Generate Novel Molecular Structures for Spectra Annotation
Speaker: Margaret Martin - Quals talk
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 7, 2023
11:00 am ET
Cummings 475
Investigating Methods for Assessing Human Cognitive Workload for Assistive Robots
Speaker: Ayca Agun - Quals talk
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 7, 2023
3:05pm ET
Cummings 265
Score-based generative models with constraint
Speaker: Yukun Li - Quals talk
Host: Liping Liu
April 7, 2023
9:00am ET
Cummings 475
Integration of Semantic Information Towards Explainable Novelty Detection
Speaker: Sarah Schneider - Quals talk
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 7, 2023
3:45pm ET
Cummings 475
Intelligent Robot Solutions to Open-World Problems
Speaker: Chris Thierauf - Quals talk
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 7, 2023
1:40pm ET
Cummings 265
PatchGT: Transformer over Non-trainable Clusters for Learning Graph Representations
Speaker: Xu Han - Quals talk
Host: Liping Liu
April 7, 2023
1:00pm ET
Cummings 475
Reasoning-Based Approaches To Situated Reference Resolution
Speaker: Mitchell Abrams - Quals talk
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 13, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings 270
Dealing with Sparse Data and/or Domain Mismatch: The Case for Hybrid Approaches
Speaker: Abeer Alwan
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 14, 2023
10:20am ET
Cummings 265
Machine Learning for Spectra Translation
Speaker: Frederick Zhang - Quals talk
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 14, 2023
1:00 pm ET
Cummings 265
“The Devil is in the Detail”: How those involved with securing medical devices threat model
Speaker: Ron Thompson - Quals talk
Host: Dan Votipka
April 18, 2023
3:00-4:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Path planning: Short overview of old and recent algorithms
Speaker: Fabrizio Santini
Host: Marty Allen
April 19, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 280
From Exploratory to Hypothesis-Driven Visual Data Analysis
Speaker: Ashley Suh - PhD Defense
Host: Remco Chang
April 26, 2023
9:00am ET
Cummings 601
Computational Methods for the Prediction and Analysis of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks
Speaker: Kapil Devkota - PhD Defense
Host: Lenore Cowen
May 3, 2023
9:00am
Cummings 302
Deep Learning for Doppler Echocardiography from Limited Labeled Data
Speaker: Mary-Joy Sidhom - Senior Thesis
Host: Mike Hughes
May 3, 2023
3:00 - 4:15 PM
JCC 260
Boolean Circuit Complexity and Its Applications
Speaker: Vladimir Podolskii, Courant Institute, New York University
Host: Donna Slonim
May 4, 2023
3:00-4:15 pm ET
Cummings 270
Paradigms of AI alignment: components and enablers
Speaker: Victoria Krakovna, Deep Mind, Future of Life Institute
Host: Mike Hughes
May 5, 2023
11:00am EST
Cummings, #610
Fast Cross-Request Analysis and Contention Discovery
Speaker: Tomislav Zabcic-Matic - Quals Talk
Host: Raja Sambasivan
May 8, 2023
10:00am EST
Cummings 265
Beyond Point Solutions: Formalizing Problem and Design Spaces for Visualization
Speaker: Camelia Brumar - Quals Talk
Host: Remco Chang
May 8, 2023
11:00am EST
Cummings 402
Path Sensitive Type Inference for REST APIs
Speaker: Mark Aldrich - Quals Talk
Host: Jeffrey Foster
May 12, 2023
10:00-11:00 am ET
Cummings 402
Priority Queues and Heaps
Speaker: Matthew Russell
Host: Marty Allen
May 15, 2023
3:00pm ET
Cummings 402
Efficiently solving special instances of NP-hard problems: Integer programs with bounded subdeterminants
Speaker: Yelena Yuditsky
Host: Diane Souvaine

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