2021-2022 CISE Seminars, Lectures, Workshops

September 10, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Todd Murphey, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Topic: Control Principles for Robot Learning
Faculty Host: Sean Andersson
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Locaton: Zoom

October 1, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Mingyi Hong, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Topic: Towards efficient, versatile, and privacy-preserving federated learning
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: PHO 210

October 15, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Miroshnikov, Research Scientist, Discover Financial Services
Topic: Wasserstein-based fairness interpretability framework for machine learning outcomes 
Faculty Host: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos
Student Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: PHO 210

October 18, 2021
AI in Healthcare: Mitigating Disparities, Biases & Misinformation
Virtual symposium hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing and co-sponsored with BU School of Public Health.
Time: 10:00AM-4:30PM

October 20, 2021
CISE Lunch & Learn
Speaker: Salomón Wollenstein-Betech, Boston University Ph.D. Candidate
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
15 St. Mary’s St, Room 301C

October 22, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Archana Venkataraman, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Bridging the Gap Between AI and Clinical Neuroscience via Deep-Generative Fusion Models
Faculty Host: Vivek Goyal
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: PHO 210

Postponed until further notice.
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Sayak Ray Chowdhury, BU SE Post Doctoral Associate, Indian Institute of Science
Topic: Online Reinforcement Learning in Large and Structured Environments
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Salomón Wollenstein Betech
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

November 5, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Dimitra Panagou, Associate Professor of  Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan
Topic: Fixed-Time Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Control Applications in the Presence of Uncertainty
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: PHO 210

November 12, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Chuchu Fan, Wilson Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Building Dependable Autonomous Systems through Learning Certified Decisions and Control
Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: PHO 210

November 19, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Andreas Malikopoulos, Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor, University of Delaware
Topic: Separation of Learning and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Salomón Wollenstein-Betech
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: PHO 210

December 3, 2021
CISE/AIR Initiative Seminar
Speaker: Rogerio Schmidt Feris, Principal Scientist and Manager, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Saeed Mohammedzadeh
Topic: Dynamic Neural Networks for Efficient Multimodal Video Understanding
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: PHO 906

December 10, 2021
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Rayadurgam Srikant, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Zili Wang
Topic:The Role of Lookahead and Approximate Policy Evaluation in Policy Iteration with Linear Value Function Approximation
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Room: Zoom

January 28, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Sayak Ray Chowdhury, BU SE Post Doctoral Associate, Indian Institute of Science
Topic: Online Reinforcement Learning in Large and Structured Environments
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

February 11, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Christine Allen-Blanchette, Post-Doctoral Associate, Princeton University
Topic: Leveraging Dataset Structure for Neural Network Prediction
Faculty Host: Sean Andersson
Student Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

March 4, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Cheng Tan, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Topic: Constructing Certified Neural Networks
Faculty Host: Alan Liu
Student Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Hybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom

March 18, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Clayton Scott, Professor, University of Michigan
Topic: Clustering from Paired Observations
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: Zoom

March 25, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Akshay Krishnamurthy, Researcher, Microsoft
Topic: Representation Learning, Exploration, and Reinforcement Learning
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Yuhe Chang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Hybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom

April 1, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Kevin Jamieson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington
Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
Student Host: Zili Wang
Topic: Instance Dependent Sample Complexity Bounds for Interactive Learning
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Hybrid Event: PHO 210 or join on Zoom

April 8, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Francesca Parise, Assistant Professor, ECE, Cornell University
Topic: Tractable Network Interventions For Large Socio-Technical Systems
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Hybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom

April 15, 2022
CGSW 8.0
Time: 10:00AM-5:00PM
Location: EMB 105

April 22, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Furkan Ercan, Post Doctoral Associate, WISE-Circuits Lab at Boston
Topic: High Throughput, Low Power, or Energy Efficiency? How to Achieve All for 5G Polar Codes, and Beyond
Faculty Host: Rabia Yazicigil
Student Host: Yuhe Chang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Hybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom

April 29, 2022
CISE Best Student Paper Presentations
Speakers:
Rui Liu, PhD candidate of Systems Engineering
Anthony Byrne, PhD candidate of Computer Engineering
Salomón Wollenstein-Betech, PhD of Systems Engineering
Alexander Bulekov, PhD candidate of Computer Engineering
2022 Winning Papers and Faculty Reviewers
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: Photonics Building 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 210

May 6, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Theodora Chaspari, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University
Topic: Human-Centered Machine Intelligence: From Robust Signal Analytics to Trustworthy Human-Technology Partnership
Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Hybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom

May 13, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Nathan Kallus, Assistant Professor, Operation Information, Cornell University
Topic: Smooth Contextual Bandits
Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Hybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom

June 14, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speakers: Dr. Girish N. Nair with PhD student Maxwell Varley, University of Melbourne, Australia
Topic: Joint Entropy and Kalman Filtering in Localization
Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Time: 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: 15 Saint Mary’s Street, Room EMB 105