CGSW 7.0 Agenda

Event Date: January 15, 2020
Breakfast & Registration: 8:30am-9:00am
Workshop: 9:00am-5:00pm (8 St. Mary’s St., Photonics Building, PHO 210)
Lunch: 15 St. Mary’s Street lobby (across from Photonics Building)
Awards Reception: 5:00pm-7:30pm (The Castle, 225 Bay State Rd)

9:00AM-9:05AM Yannis Paschalidis, CISE Director: Opening Remarks

9:05AM-9:15AM CGSW 7.0 Student Organizer Team: Andrew Cutler, Arian Houshmand, Zihuan Qiao, Zachary Serlin: Welcome

SESSION I: COMPUTER VISION

9:15AM-9:30AM Clara Lin (Advisor: Sean Andersson): Simultaneous Localization and Parameter Estimation for Single Particle Tracking via Sigma Points based EM

9:30AM-9:45AM Ozan Tezcan (Advisor: Janusz Konrad): BSUV-Net: A Fully-Convolutional Neural Network for Background Subtraction of Unseen Videos

PLENARY SPEAKER

9:45AM-10:15AM Amin Tahmasbi, Research Scientist and Software Engineer, Optimus Ride: 3D Detection for Autonomous Driving

10:15AM-10:30AM BREAK

SESSION II: OPTIMIZATION

10:30AM-10:45AM  Jingwei Ma (Advisor: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos): Mean Field Limits of Spatial Reaction-Diffusion Systems

10:45AM-11:00AM Samuel Pinto (Advisor: Sean Andersson): Optimal Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring of the Uncertain State of a Finite Set of Targets

11:00AM-11:15AM Shirantha Welikala (Advisor: Christos Cassandras): Improved Performance Bound Guarantees for Submodular Maximization and Applications in Multi-Agent Coverage Control

11:15AM-11:30AM Zhenpeng Shi (Advisor: David Starobinski): A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Shared/Buy-in Computing Systems

PLENARY SPEAKER

11:30AM-12:00PM Shiv Vitaladevuni, Senior Manager, Machine Learning, Amazon, Alexa Speech and AI 

12:00PM:-1:00PM LUNCH (15 St. Mary’s Street lobby)

SESSION III: CYBER SECURITY

1:00PM-1:15PM William Blair (Advisor: Manuel Egele) Hash After Free (HaF): An Asynchronous Defense Against Use After Free Exploits through Lightweight libc Instrumentation

1:15PM-1:30PM Beliz Kaleli (Advisor: Gianluca Stringhini) On the Perils of Leaking Referrers in Online Collaboration Services

PLENARY SPEAKER

1:30PM-2:00PM Lin Li, Technical Staff Member, AI and Technology Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Counter Illicit Marketplaces on Dark Web

2:00PM-2:15PM BREAK

SESSION IV: MODELS & NETWORKS

2:15PM-2:30PM Wenrui Li (Advisors: Eric Kolaczyk & Daniel Sussman): Estimation of the Epidemic Branching Factor in Noisy Contact Networks

2:30PM-2:45PM Shahabeddin Sotudian (Advisor: Yannis Paschalidis): Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine: A Scoring Model for Drug Sensitivity Prediction

2:45PM-3:00PM Ali Siahkamari (Advisor: Brian Kulis): Learning Bregman Divergences

3:00PM-3:15PM Iman Abdalla (Advisor: Thomas Little): Dynamic FOV Tracking Receiver for Dense Optical Wireless Networks

3:15PM-3:30PM BREAK

SESSION V: BEST PAPER

3:30PM-3:45PM Charles Saunders (Advisor: Vivek Goyal ): Computational Periscopy with an Ordinary Digital Camera

3:45PM-4:00PM  Zachary Serlin (Advisor: Calin Belta ): A Formal Methods Approach to Interpretable Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Planning

4:00PM-4:15PM  Leila Delshadtehrani (Advisors: Manuel Egele & Ajay Joshi): PHMon: A Programmable Hardware Monitor and Its Security Use Cases

4:15PM-4:30PM Taiyao Wang (Advisor: Yannis Paschalidis): Convergence of Parameter Estimates for Regularized Mixed Linear Regression Models

4:30PM-4:45PM:  Yannis Paschalidis, CISE Director: Closing Remarks

5:00PM-7:30PM Reception & Awards Ceremony at the BU Castle