Spring 2021 CSE Colloquia

Please contact Jack Sampson at jms1257@psu.edu with any questions.

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Jan. 29

Speaker: Liting Hu, Florida International Univeristy
Title: Stream Processing Systems for Emerging Trends
Time and location: 11 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Jack Sampson
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Feb. 1

Speaker: Yongshan Ding, University of Chicago
Title: Architecting Quantum Computing Systems in the Presence of Noise 
Time and location: 2:30 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Anand Sivasubramaniam
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Feb. 4

Speaker: Kaave Hosseini, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Approximate Algebraic Structure in Computer Science
Time and location: 10 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Mohammad Hajiabadi
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Feb. 8

Speaker: Rajiv Khanna, UC Berkeley
Title: Interpretable Machine Learning: Theory and Practice 
Time and location: 1:00 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Daniel Kifer
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Feb. 9

Speaker: Peng Zhang, Yale University 
Title: Efficient Algorithms for Fundamental Problems in Data Science
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Chunhao Wang
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Feb. 11

Speaker: Young Kun Ko, NYU
Title: Data Structure Lower Bounds: Progress and Frontiers 
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Martin Furer
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Feb. 12

Speaker: Anton Burtsev, UC Irvine 
Title: RedLeaf: Isolation and Communications in a Safe Operating System 
Time and location: 11:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Timothy Zhu
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Feb. 15

Speaker: Bahar Asgari, Georgia Tech
Title: Sparsity: Challenge or Opportunity?
Time and location: 11:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Vijay Narayanan
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Feb. 16

Speaker: Ramyad Hadidi, Georgia Tech
Title: How to Deal with Heavy Computations in the Edge? 
Time and location: 1:30 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Jack Sampson
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Feb. 17

Speaker: Nayana P. Nagendra, Princeton University
Title: A frontend for all workloads
Time and location: 12:30 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Mahmut Kandemir
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Feb. 18

Speaker: Anurag Anshu, UC Berkeley
Title: On the Complexity of Quantum Many-Body Systems
Time and location: 11:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Sean Hallgren
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Feb. 19

Speaker: Abhinav Verma, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Neurosymbolic Reinforcement Learning
Time and location: 1:00 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Mehrdad Mahdavi 
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Feb. 22

Speaker: Mahsa Ghasemi, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Are We Ready to Embrace Autonomy? 
Time and location: 1:00 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Rebecca Passonneau
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Feb. 23

Speaker: Bo Liu, Auburn University
Title: Towards Trustworthy Decision-Making and AI: Explainability and Safety 
Time and location: 11:30 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Rui Zhu
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Feb. 24

Speaker: Neeraja Yadwadkar, Stanford University 
Title: Overcoming the User-Provider Divide in Cloud Computing 
Time and location: 11:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Bhuvan Urgaonkar
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Feb. 25

Speaker: Gediminas Bertasius, Facebook AI 
Title: Designing Video Models for Human Behavior Understanding 
Time and location: 10:30 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Robert Collins
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Feb. 26

Speaker: Antonio Vergari, UCLA
Title: From Simple Inference to Complex Probabilistic Reasoning
Time and location: 1:00 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Mehrdad Mahdavi
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March 1

Speaker: Huijuan Xu
Title: Compositional and Robust Action Understanding 
Time and location: 1:00 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Wang-Chien Lee
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March 5

Speaker: Debarati Das
Title: Fine-grained Approximation Algorithms for String Similarity 
Time and location: 12:30 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Antonio Blanca
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March 26

Speaker: Deeksha Dangwal 
Title: A System-Level Framework for Privacy 
Time and location: 12:00 p.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Mahmut Kandemir 
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April 21

Speaker: Zhichao Cao, Facebook
Title: High-Performance and Cost-Effective Storage Systems for Supporting Big Data
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Jack Sampson
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April 23

Speaker: Ruslan Nikolaev, Virginia Tech
Title: Challenges in Operating Systems and Concurrent Algorithms
Time and location: 10:00 a.m. on Zoom
Faculty Host: Abutalib Aghayev
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