Seminars and Distinguished Lectures
Xu Liu (College of William and Mary): Squeezing Software Performance via Eliminating Wasteful Operations
Thursday, September 12, 2019
9:30am - 10:45am
655 McBryde Hall
Heng Yin (Univeristy of California): Learning Binary Code Representations for Security Applications
Friday, September 13, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Wu Feng (Virginia Tech): At the Synergistic Intersection of Parallel Computing, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning
Friday, September 20, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
James Davis (Virginia Tech): Regexes in the Wilk: Empirical Studies on Security and Correctness
Friday, September 27, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Doug Bowman (Virginia Tech): Augmented Reality as the Future of Personal Computing
Friday, October 11, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Negin Forouzesh (Virginia Tech): Computer Aided Drug Design
Friday, October 18, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Dimitris Nikolopoulos (Virginia Tech): How to Build Dependable Computing Systems with Incomplete (or Wrong!) Data
Friday, October 25, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech): Research Etudes: Cutting Edge and Building Blocks
Friday, November 15, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Nathaniel Lahn (Virginia Tech): Separator-Based Algorithms for Graph Matching Problems
Friday, November 22, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Darko Marinov (Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign): Combating Flaky Tests
Friday, December 6, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
Pamela Wisniewski (Univeristy of Central Florida): Risk and Resilience: A Teen-centered Perspective on Teens and Technology Use
Thursday, December 12, 2019
9:30am - 10:30am
655 McBryde Hall
Maia Jacobs (Harvard University): One Size Doesn't Fit Anyone: Tailoring Digital Tools for Personal Health Journeys
Monday, December 16, 2019
10:00am - 11:00am
655 McBryde Hall
Nolen Scaife (University of Florida): Designing Robust Defenses for Modern Payment Systems
Thursday, January 31, 2019
9:00am - 10:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Yixin Sun (Princeton University): Providing Secure Internet Services with Insecure Infrastructure
Monday, February 4
10:00am - 11:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Kristen Johnson (Purdue University): Weakly-supervised Modeling of Language, Social, and Behavioral Abstractions for Microblog Political Discourse Classification
Wednesday, February 13
10:00am - 11:15am
110 McBryde Hall
Mrinmaya Sachan (Carnegie Mellon University): Towards Literate Artificial Intelligence
Thursday, February 14
9:00am - 10:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Mohamed Eltoweissy (Virginia Military Institute): Nature-Inspired Moving Target Defense for the Internet of Things
Friday, February 15
11:15am - 12:30pm
100 Hancock Hall
Bita Akram (North Carolina State University): Computer Science Education for a New Generation
Monday, February 18
10:00am - 11:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Yanning Shen (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities): Online Scalable Learning Adaptive to Unknown Dynamics and Graphs
Tuesday, February 19
9:00am - 10:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Parisa Kordjamshidi (Tulane University): Declarative Learning-based Programming for Learning and Reasoning over Spatial Language
Thursday, February 21
11:15am - 12:30pm
655 McBryde Hall
Jia Zou (Rice University): PlinyCompute: Connecting Programming, Computation, and Storage for Big Data Analytics
Monday, February 25
10:00am - 11:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Denae Ford (North Carolina State University): From Barriers to Bridges: Designing Infrastructures for Help in Online Programming Communities
Wednesday, February 27
11:00am - 12:15pm
655 McBryde Hall
Jing (Dave) Tian (University of Florida): Defending Operating Systems from Malicious Peripherals
Thursday, February 28
9:00am - 10:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Shiqing Ma (Purdue University): Transparent Computing Systems Enabled by Program Analysis
Monday, March 4
10:00am - 11:15am
310 Kelly Hall
Stefan Lee (Georgia Tech): Towards Intelligent Agents That Can See, Talk, And Act
Wednesday, March 6
10:00am - 11:15am
Multipurpose Room (Room 101), Newman Library
Distinguished Lecture: Jennifer Neville (Purdue): Towards Relational AI -- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Learning Over Networks
Friday, March 29, 2019
11:15am - 12:30pm
100 Hancock Hall
Layne Watson (Virginia Tech): How to Solve Hard Problems by Making Them Harder
Friday, April 12
11:15am - 12:30pm
100 Hancock Hall
Anuj Karpatne (Virginia Tech): Physics-guided Machine Learning: How Can Physics and Machine Learning Come Together to Acelerate Scientific Discovery?
Friday, April 19
11:15am - 12:30pm
100 Hancock Hall
Aisling Kelliher (Virginia Tech): Smart Home Based Rehabilitation
Friday, April 26
11:15am - 12:30pm
100 Hancock Hall
Ray Petit (University of Virginia): Better Understanding the Challenges of Novice Programmers through the
Use of Automated Assessment Tools
Friday, May 3
11:15am - 12:30pm
110 McBryde Hall
Xu Liu (William and Mary): Squeezing Software Performance via Eliminating Wasteful Operations
Monday, May 6
11:15am - 12:30pm
110 McBryde Hall
Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Labratory): Programming a Quantum Annealer
Tuesday, May 7
4:00pm - 5:00pm
310 Kelly Hall
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
N. Asokan (Univeristy of Waterloo): Harware-assisted Trusted Execution Environments -- Look Back, Look Ahead
Friday, November 1, 2019
11:15am - 12:15pm
2150 Torgersen Hall
W. Scott Stornetta (Yugen Partners): Rethinking Blockchain's Holy Grial, and How to Get There
Friday, November 8, 2019
11:15 am-12:30 pm
2150 Torgersen Hall