CS Colloquium — Spring 2019

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 28, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Learning from Natural Language Supervision
Speaker: Shashank Srivastava, Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
January 31, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Algorithmic Human-Robot Interaction for All People
Speaker: Elaine Short, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Matthias Scheutz
February 4, 2019
3:15 PM
Halligan 102
Structured Approaches to Natural Language Understanding
Speaker: Snigdha Chaturvedi, University of California, Santa Cruz
Host: Matthias Scheutz
February 7, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Natural Language Understanding for Events and Participants in Text
Speaker: Rachel Rudinger, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Matthias Scheutz
February 14, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Providing secure Internet services with insecure infrastructure
Speaker: Yixin Sun, Princeton University
Host: Susan Landau
February 19, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Designing Robust Defenses for Modern Payment Systems
Speaker: Nolen Scaife, University of Florida
Host: Susan Landau
February 21, 2019
10:00 AM
Halligan 102
Automated Risk Detection and Mitigation for Real-World Software
Speaker: Mu Zhang, Cornell University
Host: Jeff Foster and Mark Hempstead
February 21, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Integrating Plan Generation, Execution, and Monitoring for Explainable, Normative, and Justified Agency
Speaker: Pat Langley, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
Host: Matthias Scheutz
February 25, 2019
10:30 AM
Halligan 102
Cryptography in context: Bitcoin, breaches, and security in the real world
Speaker: Ian Miers, Cornell University
Host: Susan Landau
March 4, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 209
Data Enrichment for Data Science
Speaker: Fatemeh Nargesian, University of Toronto
Host: Jeff Foster
March 7, 2019
4:30 PM
Halligan 102
Accelerating Machine Learning: The Algorithmic Full-Stack Approach
Speaker: Divya Mahajan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: ECE
March 11, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Redesigning the software stack for the cloud
Speaker: Ji-Yong Shin, Yale University
Host: Jeff Foster
March 13, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Workflow-centric tracing and advanced diagnosis tools for the cloud ecosystem
Speaker: Raja Sambasivan, Boston University
Host: Jeff Foster
March 14, 2019
12:00 PM
Halligan 102
Graduate Reseach Talk: Visualization Systems for Behavioral Nudging
Speaker: Abby Mosca
Host: Remco Chang
April 12, 2019
10:30 AM
Halligan 209
Legion: Programming Heterogeneous, Distributed Parallel Machines
Speaker: Alex Aiken, Stanford University
Host: Kathleen Fisher
April 23, 2019
2:00 PM
Halligan 102
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Detecting Semantic Bugs in Autopilots by Monitoring Relevant Variables via Machine Learning
Speaker: Hu Huang, Tufts University
Host: Sam Guyer
April 23, 2019
4:00 PM
Halligan 209
Doctoral Thesis Defense: Advancing the Prediction of Unexpected Cellular Behavior Due to Enzyme Promiscuity and Enzyme Solubility
Speaker: Sara Amr Amin, Tufts University
Host: Soha Hassoun
April 30, 2019
11:00 AM
Halligan 102
Doctoral Thesis Defense: The Physical Paradigm for Bidirectional Brain-Computer Interfaces
Speaker: Samuel Hincks, Tufts University
Host: Rob Jacob
May 2, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Improving Visual SLAM for Indoor Environments
Speaker: Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo
Host: Jivko Sinapov
May 13, 2019
3:00 PM
Halligan 102
Why Johnny Can't do Algebra: Or Why Our Schools are Broken, and How Big Data Can Help
Speaker: Piotr Mitros, Educational Testing Service
Host: Lenore Cowen and David Hammer

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