Seminars and Distinguished Lectures
Anne Ross (University of Washington): Mobile Application Accessibility for the Disabled
Thursday, January 7, 2021
12:00pm -1:00pm
Zoom Only
Chris Brown (North Carolina State University): Digital Nudges for Encouraging Developer Behaviors
January 21, 2021
9:30am - 10:30am
Zoom Only
Liting Hu (Florida International University): Stream Processing Systems for Emerging Trends
January 22, 2021
9:30am - 10:30am
Zoom Only
Toby Li (Carnegie Mellon Universtity): Human-Centered Interactive Systems for Configuring, Extending, and Developing AI Applications
January 25, 2021
9:30am - 10:30am
Zoom Only
Ivan De Oliveira Nunes (University of California, Irvine): Building Sensors that Cannot Lie: Verifiable Integrity in Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems
January 29, 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Zoom Only
Ahmed Saeed (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Building Scalable Networks Stacks for Modern Applications
February 2, 2021
9:30am - 10:30am
Zoom Only
Jonathan Kummerfeld (University of Michigan): You Are What You Train On: Creating Robust Natural Language Interfaces
February 3, 2021
10:00am - 11:00am
Zoom Only
Dawei Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Learning More from Less: Complex Rare Category Analysis
February 8, 2021
10:00am - 11:00am
Zoom Only
Xueru Zhang (University of Michigan): Trustworthy Machine Learning: On the Preservation of Individual Privacy and Fairness
February 10, 2021
9:30am - 10:30am
Zoom Only
Mayara Costa Figueiredo (University of California, Irvine): Data Work in Fertility Care: Individual Technological and Social Perspectives
February 12, 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Zoom Only
Huajie Shao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Minig Social Sensing Data: Representation, Modeling, and Applications
February 15, 2021
10:00am - 11:00am
Zoom Only
Hari Subramonyam (University of Michigan): Centering People in the Design of AI-Powered Applications
February 16, 2021
9:30am-11:00am
Zoom Only
Jyun-Yu Jiang (University of California Los Angeles): Multi-scale Human Behavior Modeling with Heterogeneous Data
February 18, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Zoom Only
Peng Gao (University of California, Berkeley): Building Trustworthy Systems for Fighting Modern Threats
February 19, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Zoom Only
Dan Williams (IBM Research): Unikernels to Nabla Containers and Beyond: In Search of a New Unit of Execution for the Cloud
February 22, 2021
9:30am - 11:00am
Zoom Only
Yalong Yang (Hrvard University): Visualization Design and Evaluation: on Flat Screens, in VR/AR and More
February 24, 2021
9:30am - 11:00am
Zoom Only
Huda Khayrallah (Johns Hopkins University): Machine Translation for All: Improving Machine Translation in Low Resource, Domain Mismatch & Noise Training Settings
February 26, 2021
9:30am -11:00am
Zoom Only
Zhichao Cao (Facebook): High-Performance and Cost-Effective Storage Systems for Supporting Big Data
March 1, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Zoom Only
Pedro Morgado (University of California, San Deigo): Learning to See and Hear from Audio-Visual Co-occurence
March 2, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Zoom Only
Min Hun Lee (Carnegie Mellon University): Towards Human-AI/Robotic Collaborative Systems for Societal Problems
March 9, 2021
9:30am -11:00am
Zoom Only
Deb Bhattacharya (Auburn University): Bridging the Resolution Gap in Computational Modeling of Protein 3D Structures
March 10, 2021
10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Only
Junwen Yang (University of Chicago): TBA
March 11, 2021
10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Only
Junjie Hu (Carnegie Mellon University): TBA
March 15, 2021
9:30am -11:00am
Zoom Only
Taejoong (Tijay) Chung (Virginia Tech): How Data-Driven Approach Identifies the Challenges of Internet Security
Friday, September 4, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
T.M. Murali (Virginia Tech): Repositioning Drugs Against COVID-19 Using Network-Based Label Propagation
Friday, September 18, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Ben Knapp (Virgina Tech): Does your computer know what you're feeling?
Friday, September 25, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Nikhil Muralidhar (Virgina Tech): Steering a Historical Disease Forecasting Model Under a Pandemic: A Case of Flu and COVID-19
October 2, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Chris Brown (North Carolina State University): Digital Nudges for Encouraging Developer Behaviors
October 6, 2020
10:30am - 11:30am
Zoom; Registration Required
Doug Bowman and Sang Won Lee (Virgina Tech): TBA (COVID Research Series)
October 9, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Wu Feng (Virgina Tech): TBA (COVID Research Series)
October 23, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Mary Lou Soffa (University of Virginia): TBA
October 30, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Ali Eskandarian (George Washington University): TBA (Quantum Computing)
November 6, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Lifu Huang (Virginia Tech): TBA
November 13, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
Yang Xiao (Virginia Tech): TBA (Blockchain)
November 20, 2020
11:15am - 12:30pm
Webinar; Registration Required
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)
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): Hardware-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
Dr. Alessandro Orso, Georgia Tech
Dr. Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside
Dr. Jennifer Neville, Purdue
2017 - 2018
Ruth Nussinov, National Cancer Institute, NIH
David McDonald, University of Washington
Raheem Beyah, Georgia Tech
Dave Lavery, NASA (Distinguished Alumni Lecture)
2016 - 2017
Jan Cuny, National Science Foundation
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University Belfast
Keith Sturgill, Eastman Chemical Company (Distinguished Alumni Lecture)
2015 - 2016
Laurie Hendren, McGill University
Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University
Jim Kurose, National Science Foundation
Frank Tip, Samsung Research America
Mary Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University
2014 - 2015
Michael Littman, Brown University
Annie Anton, Georgia Tech
Jamika Burge, Smarter Balanced (Distinguished Alumni Lecture)
2013 - 2014
Katherine Yelick, UC Berkeley
Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
Farnam Jahanian, NSF
Bo Begole, Samsung Research (Distinguished Alumni Lecture)
2012 - 2013
Charles Consel, Inria / University of Bordeaux
Lucy Nowell, Department of Energy - Office of Science (Distinguished Alumni Lecture)
Lee Osterweil and Lori Clarke, U Mass-Amherst
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
2011 - 2012
Barbara Liskov, MIT
Owen Astrachan, Duke
Paul Dourish, UC Irvine
2010-2011
Peter Lee, Microsoft Research
Greg Lavender, Cisco Systems (Distinguished Alumni Lecture)
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Tech
Wendy Kellog, IBM Research
Moshe Vardi, Rice University
2009 - 2010
Frances Allen, IBM Research
Eugene Spafford, Purdue University
Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech
Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab