CS Colloquium — Spring 2016

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 26, 2016
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Halligan 209
PhD Defense: Determining When Objects Die to Improve Garbage Collection
Speaker: Nathan Ricci, Tufts University
Host: Sam Guyer
January 28, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
The Next Generation of Brain-Computer Interfaces: Responding Implicitly to Users' Cognitive State
Speaker: Beste Filiz Yuksel, Tufts University
Host: Fahad Dogar
February 4, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Using the Middle to Meddle with Mobile: Improving Transparency and Control for Mobile Network Traffic
Speaker: David Choffnes, Northeastern
Host: Fahad Dogar
February 11, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Mining Relevance from Human Neuro-physiology
Speaker: Tuukka Ruotsal, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and Harvard University
Host: Rob Jacob
February 12, 2016
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Halligan 102
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Speaker: Laney Strange, Rhodes College in Memphis
Host: Remco
February 22, 2016
noon - 1pm
Halligan 102
Inference in Probabilistic Programs
Speaker: Jan-Willem van de Meent, University of Oxford
Host: Roni Khardon
February 23, 2016
noon - 1pm
Halligan 102
Machine Learning: Art or Science?
Speaker: Shivani Agarwal, Indian Institute of Science and Harvard University
Host: Roni Khardon
February 24, 2016
11am - noon
Halligan 102
Adaptive Deep Learning for Vision and Language
Speaker: Kate Saenko, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Host: Roni Khardon
February 26, 2016
11am - noon
Halligan 102
Adversarial Machine Learning in Relational Domains
Speaker: Daniel Lowd, University of Oregon
Host: Roni Khardon
March 1, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Using Provenance to Support Data Analysis
Speaker: David Koop, UMass Dartmouth
Host: Remco Chang
March 2, 2016
10.30am - 11.30am
Halligan 102
Challenges and Opportunities in Data Analysis (Or: Applying Theoretical Computer Science to Big Data)
Speaker: Justin Thaler, Yahoo Labs
Host: Roni Khardon
March 3, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Interactive Machine Learning for Information Extraction
Speaker: Sameer Singh, University of Washington
Host: Roni Khardon
March 7, 2016
noon - 1pm
Halligan 102
Discovery of Latent Factors in High-dimensional Data Using Tensor Methods
Speaker: Furong Huang, University of California, Irvine
Host: Roni Khardon
March 18, 2016
noon-1pm
Halligan 102
Designing for Discovery: Enhancing collaborative exploration and learning
Speaker: Orit Shaer, Wellesley College
Host: Rob Jacob
March 31, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Attacking the Network Time Protocol
Speaker: Sharon Goldberg, Boston University
Host: Fahad Dogar
April 4, 2016
noon - 1pm
Distler Auditorium
Dean's Spring Lecture: From Punched Cards to Social Media: Observations on Entrepreneurship and Technology
Speaker: Jeff Rothschild, Entrepreneurship Mentor and Investor
Host: Dean Qu
April 5, 2016
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Halligan 209
Research Talk: Agent-based Model of a Biologically Plausible Mating Task
Speaker: Giordano Ferreira, Tufts University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
April 7, 2016
2:50pm - 4pm
Halligan 102
Making Big-Data Programming Easy
Speaker: Martin Hirzel, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Host: Sam Guyer
April 12, 2016
10:00 am - 11:00 am
196 Boston Avenue, 4th Floor
PhD Defense: Toward Personalized Visualizations
Speaker: Alvitta Ottley, Tufts University
Host: Remco Chang
April 14, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Rethinking the Storage Stack for Multi-Core, Multi-Device Systems
Speaker: Mahesh Balakrishnan, Yale University
Host: Fahad Dogar
April 21, 2016
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Halligan 102
Knowing You Better to do Helpful Things using User Behavior Data
Speaker: Jeff Huang, Brown University
Host: Remco Chang
April 27, 2016
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Halligan 127
Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Computational Prediction of Functional Abortive RNA in E. coli
Speaker: Jeremy Marcus (Computer Science, Biology), Class of 2016, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun and Nikhil U. Nair
April 27, 2016
11am - noon
Halligan 102
Unleashing Network Mining to Discover Fraudulent Businesses
Speaker: Michele Coscia, Harvard University
Host: Roni Khardon
April 28, 2016
2:50pm - 4pm
Halligan 102
Machine Learning Methods for Computational Sustainability
Speaker: Liping Liu, Oregon State University
Host: Roni Khardon
May 2, 2016
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
196 Boston Avenue, 4th Floor
Ph.D. Thesis Defense | Decrypting Cryptogenic Epilepsy: Machine Learning Methods for Detecting Cortical Malformations
Speaker: Bilal Ahmed, Tufts University
Host: Carla E. Brodley
May 2, 2016
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Halligan 127
Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Usage of Semantic Similarity Measurement
Speaker: Thomas Schaffner
Host: Ben Hescott
May 2, 2016
noon - 1pm
Halligan 111A
Non-convex Optimization in Machine Learning: Provable Guarantees using Spectral Methods
Speaker: Majid Janzamin, University of California, Irvine
Host: Roni Khardon
May 3, 2016
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Halligan 102
Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Using Graph Topology to Differentiate Between Gene Coexpression Networks
Speaker: Taher Mun, Tufts University
Host: Ben Hescott
May 3, 2016
noon - 1pm
Halligan 102
Data and models for learning attention
Speaker: Catherine Zhao, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Host: Roni Khardon
May 4, 2016
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Halligan 127
Senior Honors Thesis Defense: Barter with Limited Liquidity
Speaker: Tara Kola
Host: Lenore Cowen

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