Seminar Calendar
All students, faculty and staff are invited and encouraged to attend the presentations listed below.
Ph.D. students should plan to attend Computer Science Seminars, Computer Science Distinguished Seminars, and Computer Science Focus on Research.
| Date & Time | Description |
|---|---|
| Mon., 04/27/2020 PGH 232 CANCELLED |
Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: On the Naturalness of Software, and How to Exploit It Speaker: Dr. Prem Devanbu Host: Alipour |
| Mon., 04/20/2020 Online 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Application Agnostic Network Traffic Modeling for Realistic Traffic Generation | Learning to learn: Meta-Learning in Machine Learning | Attending the Emotions to Detect Online Abusive Language | Let Me Choose: From Verbal Context to Font Selection Speakers: Oluwamayowa Adeleke | Mikhail Mekhedkin-Meskhi | Niloofar Safi Samghabadi | Amirreza (Reza) Shirani Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Mon., 04/06/2020 Online 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: ViPER: Vehicle Pose Estimation using Ultra-WideBand Radios | On the Usefulness of Personality Traits in Opinion-Oriented Tasks | Platform for Interactive Immersion into Imaging Data with an Augmented Reality Interface | Claim Verification Under the Positive-Unlabeled Setting Speakers: Alireza Ansaripour | Marjan Hosseinia | Jose Daniel Velazco-Garcia | Fan Yang Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Fri., 04/03/2020 PGH 232 CANCELLED |
Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: In-Memory Computing for Machine Learning Applications and Beyond Speaker: Dr. Xiaobo Sharon Hu Host: A. Cheng |
| Mon., 03/30/2020 Online 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cyber-Physical System Security | Metamorphic Malware Detection Using Behavior Graphs | Quasar: A Novel Density Based Framework for Collocation Mining | Voxel Indexing and Compression Speakers: Taha Eghtesad | Ayman El Aassal | Karima Elgarroussi | Mouad Rifai Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Mon., 03/23/2020 PGH 563 CANCELLED |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: On the Usefulness of Personality Traits in Opinion-Oriented Tasks | Explainable Generative Adversarial Neural Networks | Claim Verification Under the Positive-Unlabeled Setting Speakers: Marjan Hosseinia | Hadi Mansourifar | Fan Yang Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Mon., 03/16/2020 PGH 232 CANCELLED |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Fine-Scale Facial-Animation Capture, Generation, and Manipulation Speaker: Dr. Zhigang Deng Host: Solorio |
| Fri., 03/06/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Practicing Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Healthcare Speaker: Dr. Hua Xu Host: Solorio |
| Mon., 03/02/2020 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science in Practice Topic: Shrinking Production Incidents Speaker: Annalee Nagami Host: Gnawali |
| Wed., 02/26/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Give Me the Full Picture: Using Computer Vision to Understand Visual Frames and Political Communication Speaker: Dr. Michelle Torres Host: Solorio |
| Mon., 02/24/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Clustering: Basic Approaches and Their Evaluation Speaker: Dr. Kriti Bhargava Host: Toti |
| Mon., 02/17/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: An Overview of Gradient Descent Optimization Algorithms with Implementation in MapReduce Programming Model Speaker: Dr. Kia Teymourian Host: Shi |
| Mon., 02/10/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Introduction to Neural Networks Speaker: Dr. Arko Barman Host: Pandurangan |
| Fri., 02/07/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Neural Networks and Deep Learning Speaker: Dr. Russel Pears Host: Pandurangan |
| Wed., 02/05/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Let's Process Information, Not Bits: Architecture's Expensive Data Movement Speaker: Dr. Andrew A. Chien Host: Johnsson |
| Tues., 02/04/2020 PGH 563 12:00 PM |
Computer Science Special Talk Topic: Personalizing Our Diner Communications at Grubhub Speaker: Dr. Wai Gen Yee Host: Ordonez |
| Fri., 12/06/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Blockchains and the Future of Distributed Computing Speaker: Dr. Maurice Herlihy Host: Pandurangan |
| Fri., 11/22/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: A Practical Unstructured Spline Modeling Platform for Isogeometric Analysis Applications Speaker: Dr. Yongjie Jessica Zhang Host: G. Chen |
| Mon., 11/18/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM CANCELLED |
Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: In-Memory Computing for Machine Learning Applications and Beyond Speaker: Dr. Xiaobo Sharon Hu Host: A. Cheng |
| Mon., 11/11/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science in Practice Topic: IOT - Beyond the Consumer World Speaker: Ron Neyland Host: Laszka |
| Mon., 11/04/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: A Deep Learning based Model for Head and Eye Motion Generation in Three-party Conversations | Visual Summarization of Lecture Videos Speakers: Aobo Jin | Mohammad Rajiur Rahman Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Mon., 10/21/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Enhancing Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Utilizing Deep Learning and Compressed Sensing Techniques | Using Compression in MPI-IO: Semantics, Implementation, and Evaluation Speakers: Nazanin Beheshti | Siddhesh Pratap Singh Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Wed., 10/16/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science in Practice Topic: High Performance Computing in Chevron Speaker: Rafael Salas Host: Wu |
| Mon., 10/14/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Neuroengineering the Future: From Neural interfaces to Creativity Speaker: Dr. Jose Contreras-Vidal Host: Solorio |
| Mon., 10/07/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: SMACK: Subjective Measure of Applied Contextual Knowledge | Unsteady Flow Visualization via Physics Based Pathline Exploration | Impact of hex-mesh structure on simulation quality - A first study Speakers: Mohammed Alshair | Duong Nguyen | Muhammad Naeem Akram Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Fri., 10/04/19 Science 120 02:00 PM |
Seminar Topic: Deterministic Leader Election in Programmable Matter Speaker: Dr. William Moses Host: Pandurangan Note: this seminar does not count towards the PhD seminar requirement |
| Fri., 10/04/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Energy-Efficient Computing in Graphics Processing Units Speaker: Dr. Xin Fu Host: Shi |
| Wed., 10/02/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Real Time Character Animation: Deformation, Rendering, and Beyond Speaker: Dr. Binh Le Host: Deng |
| Mon., 09/30/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Incremental Machine Learning Models using a Summarization Matrix for Large Datasets | You Are Not Alone: Helping Users Not to Fall for Phish | Enhancing Subject Matter Assessments Utilizing Augmented Reality and Serious Game Techniques Speakers: Sikder Tahsin Al-Amin | Shahryar Baki | Brian Holtkamp Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Mon., 09/23/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science in Practice Topic: Optimizing on Predictions from Machine Learning Pipelines Speaker: Dr. Doug Hakkarinen, ConocoPhillips Analytics Innovation Center of Excellence Host: Gabriel |
| Fri., 09/20/19 CANCELLED |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Energy-Efficient Computing in Graphics Processing Units Speaker: Dr. Xin Fu Host: Shi |
| Mon., 09/16/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Fault-Tolerant Regularity-Based Real-Time Virtual Resources | Scalable Distributed Kernel Support Vector Machine Training Speakers: Pavan Kumar Paluri | Ruchi Shah Hosts: Gnawali, Wu |
| Mon., 09/09/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM |
Computer Science Seminar Topic: Finding the Location of Objects in Indoor Environments Using Ultra-Wideband Radios Speaker: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali Host: Solorio |