Fall 2022 – Spring/Summer 2023 CISE Seminars, Lectures, Workshops

FRI, September 9, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Yuan Yuan, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Talk Title: Using Causal Network Motifs to Characterize Network Interference in Randomized Controlled Experiments
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Student Host: Erfan Aasi
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

TUES, September 13, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Mauro Salazar, Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology
Talk Title: Optimization for Sustainable Mobility Systems: From Electric Racing to Sustainable Urban Mobility
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Time: 4:00PM-5:00PM

FRI, September 16, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Pratik Chaudhari, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: Does the Data Induce Capacity Control in Deep Learning?
Faculty Host: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

FRI, September 30, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Assistant Professor, USC
Talk Title: Symbolic Reward Machines or: How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving Reinforcement Learning
Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

FRI, October 7, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Xi Yu, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University
Talk title: Stochastic Time-varying Networks Synthesized by Robots in Dynamic Environments
Faculty Host: Sean Andersson
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

FRI, October 14, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Kris Dorsey, Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Talk title: Designing tunable and reconfigurable soft sensors and robots
Faculty Host: Andrew Sabelhaus
Student Host: Ahmad Ghandi
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

WED, October 19, 2022
Industry Roundtable
Speakers: CISE Student Alumnus Samuel C. Pinto with David Doria, Director of Engineering, Autonomous Driving, Magna Electronics
Student Advisor: Sean Andersson
Event Information
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: 15 Saint Mary’s Street (EMB 121) 

FRI, October 28, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Richard Sowers, Professor, University of Illinois
Talk title: Small-noise asymptotics of car-following models
Faculty Host: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

FRI, November 4, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Ruoxuan Xiong, Assistant Professor, Emory University
Talk title: Design and analysis of panel data experiments
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Student Host: Ahmad Ghandi
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

FRI, November 11, 2022
Hariri Institute Director’s Esteemed Seminar, hosted by CISE
Speaker: Elad Hazan, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Talk Title: The Online Convex Optimization Approach to Control
Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

FRI, November 18, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Deepak Das, Vice President, Federated Wireless
Talk title: Next Generation Connectivity – An Industry Perspective On Key Technology Drivers
Faculty Host: David Starobinski
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM

FRI, December 2, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Robert Shorten, Imperial College London
Talk title: Digital Ledger Technology, Social Contracts and the Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm

FRI, January 20, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Wanning Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Talk title: Speed Up the Cold-Start Learning in Two-Sided Bandits with Many Arms
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Student Host:  Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, January 27, 2023
CGSW 9.0
Student Hosts: Jimmy Queeney (PhD candidate, SE), Zack Bezemek (PhD candidate, Math/Stats), Zexin Sun, (PhD candidate, SE), Mert Toslali (PhD candidate ECE)
Event Agenda
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Time: 9:00AM-5:00PM
8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO Room 906 & The BU Castle

FRI, February 3, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Fei Chen, Systems Engineering Visiting Scholar
Talk Title: Funnel Control for Leader-Follower Multi-Agent Systems and Its Application to STL Tasks
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Ahmad Ahmad
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, February 17, 2023
NECSTLab Seminar and Poster Session
Main Speaker: Marco D. Santambrogio, NECSTLab Director, Politecnico di Milano
BRIDGES: Boosting Research, Innovation and Personal Development through a Global EcoSystem
Faculty Host: Ayse Coskun
Seminar: 2:00PM-3:30PM
Poster Session: 3:30PM-4:30PM
Location: 15 Saint Mary’s Street, EMB 105 & Lobby

FRI, February 24, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Julio Castrillon, Research Assistant Professor, Boston University
Stochastic Coordinate Transformations in Hilbert Subspaces for  Anomaly Detection and Machine Learning
Faculty Host: Mark Kon
Student Host:  Ahmad Ahmad
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

MON, March 13, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Misha Khodak, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: New Directions in Algorithms with Predictions: Learning and Privacy
Faculty Host: Francesco Orabona
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 15 Saint Mary’s Street, EMB 105

FRI, March 17, 2022
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Carole-Jean Wu, Meta AI / Fair
Scaling AI Computing Sustainably
Faculty Host: Ayse Coskun
Student Host: Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, Mar 31, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Judy Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk title: Reliable Vision for a Changing World
Faculty Host: Brian Kulis
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, April 7, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Necmiye Ozay, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Formal Methods for Cyber Physical Systems: State of the Art and Future Challenges
Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host:  Zili Wang
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, April 14, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Morteza Lahijanian, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Verification and Control Synthesis for Stochastic Neural Network Dynamic Models
Faculty Host: Sean Andersson
Student Host:  Ahmad Ahmad
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, April 21, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Agni Orfanoudaki, Associate Professor, University of Oxford
When Can Machine Learning Help with Operational Efficiency? Designing Vertical Processing Units in Emergency Departments
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, April 28, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Pierre Dupont, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical Lab
Concentric Tube Continuum Robots – from Heart Valve Repair to Brain Tumor Surgery
Faculty Host: Sheila Russo
Student Hosts: Zili Wang & Max McCandless
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

TUES, May 16, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Daniel Bruder, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Talk title: Making Soft Robotics Less Hard: Towards a Unified Modeling, Design, and Control Framework
Faculty Host: Andrew Sabelhaus
Student Host: Ahmad Ahmad
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: 15 Saint Mary’s Street, EMB 105

WED, June 7, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Girish Nair, Professor, University of Melbourne
Talk title: Pulling Back from Infinity: Asymptotically Optimal Sampling of Infinite-Dimensional Measurements
Faculty Hosts: Yannis Paschalidis & John Baillieul
Student Host: Nguyen Nguyen
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1101