Seminars and Distinguished Lectures

Jieming Yin (AMD Research): In-Package Interconnection Networks in the Era of Exascale and Beyond
    Thursday, January 23, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    655 McBryde Hall

Bo Ji (Temple University): Fair Resource Allocation and Learning: Combinatorial Sleeping Badits with Fairness Constraints
    Monday, January 27, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    655 McBryde Hall

Sam Wiseman (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago): Rethinking Text Generation Models and How to Train Them
   Tuesday, January 28, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Yaxing Yao (Syracuse University): Privacy for Whom? A Multi-Stakeholder Exploration of Privacy Designs
   Thursday, January 30, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Qiang Qiu (Duke University): Regularized Deep Learning with Data Geometry and Filter Structures
    Monday, February 3, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    655 McBryde Hall

Hui Guan (North Carolina State University): Reuse-Centric Programming System Support of Machine Learning
    Tuesday, February 4, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Bahador Saket (Georgia Tech): Visualization by Demonstration
    Thursday, February 6, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Gowtham Kaki (Purdue University): Secure Data-Intensive Applications through Automated Formal Reasoning
    Monday, February 10, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    655 McBryde Hall

Sameer Patil (Indiana University Bloomington): Mental Models and User Experiences of he Tor Browswer
    Tuesday, February 11, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Taejoong (Tijay) Chung (Rochester Institute  of Technology): A Data-driven Approach to Identifying Internet Security Challenges
    Thursday, February 13, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Muhammad Ali Gulzar (UCLA): Automated Testing and Debugging for Data-centric Software
    Monday, February 17, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    655 McBryde Hall

Lifu Huang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): Cold-Start Universal Information Extraction
    Tuesday, February, 18, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Shaddi Hasan (Facebook): Democratizing Service Provider Networks
    Tuesday, February, 18, 2020
    11:00am - 12:00pm
    655 McBryde Hall

Vassilis Zikas (University of Edinburgh): From Blockchain to Global-Scale Trustworthy Infrastructure
    Monday, February 24, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    655 McBryde Hall

Amin Kharraz (University of Illinois): Ransomware, Scams, Cryptojacking: A Data-Driven Approach to Systems Security
    Thursday, February 27, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Zubair Shafiq (University of Iowa): Ad-Mageddon: The Next Frontier in Online Privacy
    Monday, March 2, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    655 McBryde Hall

Robert Rand (University of Maryland, College Park): How to Program your Quantum Computer -- and get it Right
    Thursday, March 5, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    655 McBryde Hall

Huaizu Jiang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Understanding the Dynamic Visual World: from Motion to Semantics
    Monday, March 16, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    (Zoom Only)

Rui Zhang (Yale University): Deep Contextual Modeling for Natural Language Understanding, Generation, and Grounding
    Thursday, March 19, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    (Zoom Only)

Jamie Sikora (Perimeter Institute): Quantum resources: What are they and how much are they worth?
    Thursday, March 26, 2020
    9:30am - 10:30am
    (Zoom Only)

Thang Hoang (University of South Florida): Privacy-Preserving and Functional Information Systems
    Monday, March 30, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    (Zoom Only)

Ryo Suzuki (University of Colorado, Boulder): Programmable Environments with Distributed Swarm Robots
    Tuesday, March 31, 2020
    11:00am - 12:00pm
    (Zoom Only)

Dimitrios Skarlatos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Rethinking Operating System and Hardware Abstractions for Good and Evil
    Thursday, April 2, 2020
    11:00am - 12:00pm
    (Zoom Only)

Radha Venkatagiri (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Democratizing Error-Efficient Computing
    Monday, April 6, 2020
    10:00am - 11:00am
    (Zoom Only)

Eugenia Ha Rim Rho: The Design of Online Environments and the Quality of Democratic Discourse At-Scale
    Thursday, April 9, 2020
    12:15pm - 1:15pm
    (Zoom Only)

Bob Edmison: My Class is Full: Scaling Instruction to Meet Demand Uncertain Times
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020
    1:00pm - 2:00pm
    (Zoom Only)

Ismini Lourentzou: Data Quality in the Deep Learning Era
    Monday, April 20, 2020
    12:30pm - 1:30pm
    (Zoom Only)

Sherif Abdelhamid: Modeling Contagions on Large Networked Populations; Empowering Students and Researchers with Learning and Computing Resources
    Friday, April 24, 2020
    10:00pm - 11:00pm
    (Zoom Only)

Omar Darwish: Exploring the use of hierarchal statistical analysis and deep neural networks to detect and mitigate covert timing channels
    Wednesday, April 29, 2020
    1:00pm - 2:00pm
    (Zoom Only)

Jiepu Jiang, Anuj Karpatne, Bimal Viswanath (VT): Research Introductions
   Friday, September 14, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Sang Won Lee (Virginia Tech): Improving User Involvement Through Live Collaborative Creation
   Friday, September 21, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Denys Poshyvanyk (William & Mary): Development, Testing and Maintenance of Android Apps: Challenges, Tools, and Future Directions 
   Friday, October 5, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Tech): Trustworthy Cyberspace: Multidisciplinary Approaches
   Friday, October 12, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Dan Wu (Wuhan University): Cross-device Web Search
   Friday, October 26, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University): Weaponized Web Archives: Provenance Laundering of Short Order Evidence 
   Friday, November 2, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Distinguished Lecture: Alessandro Orso (Georgia Tech): Software Debugging: Past, Present, and Future
   Friday, November 9, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Daniel Pillis (Virginia Tech): Artificial Histories: Experiments in Simulating the Human Experience
   Friday, November 16, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Distinguished Lecture: Rajiv Gupta (UC Riverside): Parallel Graph Processing on Clusters, Multicores, and GPUs
   Friday, November 30, 2018
   11:15am - 12:30pm
   2150 Torgersen Hall

Luke Ziarek (SUNY Buffalo): "Building Predictable and Adaptable Mobile Systems"
    Friday, April 13, 2018
    11:15am - 12:15pm
    100 Hancock Hall

Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Dave Lavery (NASA)
    Friday, April 6, 2018
    11:15am - 12:15pm
    100 Hancock Hall

Andrey Esakia (Virginia Tech): "FitAware: Promoting Group Fitness Awareness Through Smartwatches, Smartphones and Web"
    Friday, March 30, 2018
    11:15am - 12:15pm
    100 Hancock Hall

Xi He (Duke University): "Moving with Provable Privacy Guarantees"
    Thursday, March 29, 2018
    9:30am - 10:45am
    655 McBryde Hall