Fall 2013 – Spring 2014

Sept. 9
Manjesh Kumar Hanawal, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Medium Access Games in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Sept. 13
Pradeep Ravikumar, University of Texas
Poisson Graphical Models

Sept. 20
Sundeep Rangan, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Beyond 4G: Millimeter Wave Picocellular Wireless Networks

Sept. 27
Sani Nassif, IBM
From Chips to Cancer

Oct. 4
Canturk Isci, IBM
Energy Management and System Analytics in Virtualized Data Centers

Oct. 11
Syed Jafar, University of California, Irvine
Topological Interference Management

Oct. 18
Danielle C. Tarraf, The Johns Hopkins University
Certified-by-Design Control Synthesis Using Finite State ρ/μ Approximations

Oct. 25
Pieter J. Mosterman, MathWorks
Principles of Engineered System Design and Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems

Oct. 28
Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly and Center for Research and Technology Hellas
Cooperation and Information Replication in Wireless Networks

Nov. 1
Alekh Agarwal, Microsoft Research
Model Selection: Algorithms and Analysis Under Computational Constraints

Nov. 8
Co-sponsored with Statistics and Probability Seminar Series
Peter Frazier, Cornell University
Bayesian Methods for Simulation Optimization

Nov. 15
Orit Shaer, Wellesley College
Enhancing Collaborative Discovery through Reality-Based Interaction

Nov. 22
Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo
Understanding Domain Adaptation LearningJyotirmoy Deshmukh, Toyota
How Can We Formally Reason About Industrial-Scale Control Systems?

Dec. 19
Andreas A. Malikopoulos, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Multiobjective Optimization Framework for Stochastic Optimal Control in Complex Transportation Systems

Jan. 17
José Bento, Disney Research Boston
The Three Weight Algorithm: A Method for Large-Scale Distributed Optimization

Jan. 24
Sokwoo Rhee, National Institute of Standards & Technology
Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, and SmartAmerica Challenge

Feb. 6
Alfred Hero, University of Michigan
Correlation Mining in Large Networks with Limited Samples

Feb. 7
Engin Kirda, Northeastern University
Detecting Malicious Activity Through Large-Scale Data Analysis

Feb. 20, 2:00 PM, Room 245, 110 Cummington Mall
Joao Hespanha, University of California at Santa Barbara
Opportunities and Challenges in Control Systems Design Arising from Ubiquitous Computation and Network Communication

Feb. 21
Yong-Jun Shin, University of Connecticut
Digital Technology for Bio-intelligence

Feb. 28
Ulrike von Luxburg, University of Hamburg
Unsupervised Learning with Graphs: A Theoretical Perspective 

Mar. 7
Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University
Beyond the Hill of Multicores Lies the Valley of Accelerators

Mar. 21,
1:00 PM, Room 105, 15 St. Mary’s Street
Daniel Liberzon, University of Illinois
Control of Switched Systems with Limited Information

Mar. 28
Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University
Reducing the Commute Time of Urban Workers

Apr. 4
Nader Motee, Lehigh University
Systemic Measures for Performance and Robustness in Large-Scale Dynamical Networks

Apr. 11
Sebastian Trimpe, Max Planck Institute (MPI)
Distributed and Event-Based State Estimation and Control 

Apr. 18
Kilian Q. Weinberger, Washington University
Learning with Marginalized Corruption

Apr. 25
Nalini Ratha, IBM
Security and Privacy Enhancement in Biometrics

Apr. 30
Eduardo Montijano, Centro Universitario de la Defensa
Vision-Based Formation Control without a Global Reference Frame

May 2
Narayana Prasad Santhanam, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Estimation in Slow Mixing Markov Setups: How Can We Tell How Polarized Opinions Are on the Internet?

May 16
Remi Munos, INRIA
Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff for Large Scale Function Optimization

May 23, 3:00 PM Room 105, 15 St. Mary’s Street
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
Perfection and Beyond

June 11,
Oded Maler, CNRS-VERIMAG, University of Grenoble
Dynamical Systems Biology

June 12
Tim Faltemier, Director of Biometric & Computer Vision Systems
Object Detection, Tracking, and Classification

July 22
Samuel Qing-Shan Jia, Tsinghua University
To Sim or Not to Sim: Computing Budget Allocation in Simulation Optimization of Large Scale Networked Systems

August 5
Samuel Qing-Shan Jia, Tsinghua University
On Occupant Oriented Wireless Sensor Network in Building Cyber Physical Systems