Fall 2023/Spring 2024 CISE Seminars, Lectures, Workshops

FRI, September 8, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Allison Okamura, Professor, Stanford University
Soft Robots for Humanity
Faculty Host: Sheila Russo
Student Hosts: Andres Chavez Armijos & Arincheyan Gerald
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203 

FRI, September 15, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Ananya Sen Gupta, Associate Professor, University of Iowa
Interpreting Geometric Concepts into Sonar Feature Representations: Case Studies and Challenges
Faculty Host: Vivek Goyal
Student Host: Ahmad Ahmad
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, September 22, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Junyu Cao, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Collaborative Learning and Decision-Making on Pricing and Recommendation: A Simple Framework for Planning
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Student Host: Ehsan Sabouni
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

WED, September 27, 2023
Virtual CISE Seminar – Remote-Only
Speaker: Aryeh Kontorovich, Professor, Ben-Gurion University
Local Glivenko-Cantelli
Faculty Host: Ari Trachtenberg
Time: 2:15PM-3:15PM

FRI, October 6, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Andreas Malikopoulos, Professor, Cornell University
A Traveler-Centric Mobility Game Under Rationality and Prospect Theory
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, October 13, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Robert Webster, Professor, Vanderbilt University
Can Needle-Sized Robot Tentacles Help Surgeons Save Lives?
Faculty Host: Sheila Russo
Student Hosts: Ahmad Ahmad & Daniel Van Lewen
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, October 27, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Jiang Hu, Professor, Texas A&M University
Machine Learning for Chip Design and Design Automation for Machine Learning Chips
Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
Student Host: Akua Kodie Dickson
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 548

FRI, November 3, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Nabil Simaan, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Modeling, Sensing and Control of Continuum and Soft Robots for Surgery   
Faculty Host: Tommaso Ranzani
Student Hosts: Andres Chavez Armijos & Jacob Rogatinsky
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, November 17, 2023
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Mika Sumida, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Revenue Management with Heterogeneous Resources
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Student Host: Ehsan Sabouni
Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, January 26, 2024
10th Annual CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW 10.0)
Information/Agenda
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1750

FRI, February 2, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Xuezhou Zhang, Assistant Professor, CDS, Boston University
Representation Learning for Efficient RL
Faculty Host: Alex Olshevsky
Student Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, February 9, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Samarjit Chakraborty, Professor, University of North Carolina
Building Safe Autonomous Systems Using Imperfect Components
Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
Student Host: Akua Kodie Dickson
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, February 16, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Stephanie Gil, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Resilient Coordination in Networked Multi-Robot Teams
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Ehsan Sabouni
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, February 23, 2024
Distinguished Hariri Institute/CISE Seminar
Speaker: Kavita Ramanan, Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics Brown University
Asymptotically Exact Characterization of Epidemic Models on Sparse Random Graphs
Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1750

FRI, March 1, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Fei Miao, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Embodied AI
Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
Student Host: Akua Kodie Dickson
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, March 8, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Shahin Shahrampour, Professor, Northeastern University
Coordination, Optimization and Learning in Multi-Agent Networks
Faculty Host: Alex Olshevsky
Student Host: Ehsan Sabouni
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, March 22, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Ellen Roche, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Using Soft Robots to Model Cardiac Disease and Augment Cardiac Function
Faculty Host: Tommaso Ranzani
Student Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, March 29, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Loris Fichera, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Next Generation Surgical Robots for Energy-Based Surgery
Faculty Host: Sheila Russo
Student Hosts: Akua Kodie Dickson & Franco Juliá Wise
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203

FRI, April 5, 2024
2024 CISE Best Student Paper Awards
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, April 12, 2024
Joint Seminar BME/CISE/Hariri
Speaker: Jeremias Sulam, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Imaging, Data, and Learning: Modern challenges in Biomedical Data Science
Faculty Hosts: Ayşe Coşkun, Yannis Paschalidis, John White
Student Host: Ehsan Sabouni
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, April 19, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: Rui Gao, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Learning Mixture Models with Neural Networks
Faculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
Student Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, April 26, 2024
Distinguished Hariri Institute/CISE Seminar
Speaker: Asu Ozdaglar, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Independent Learning Dynamics for Stochastic Games: Convergence and Finite-Time Analysis
Faculty Host: Ayşe Coşkun
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1750

THU, May 2, 2024
Distinguished Hariri Institute/CISE Seminar
Speaker: Andrew A. Chien, Professor, University of Chicago
How Can We Decarbonize the Power Grid and Meet AI’s Exploding Power Demands?
Faculty Host: Ayşe Coşkun
Student Host: Akua Kodie Dickson
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101

FRI, May 3, 2024
CISE Seminar
Speaker: David Lie, Professor, University of Toronto
Fuzzing Forward: Pushing the Horizons on the Use Cases of Fuzzers
Faculty Host: Manuel Egele
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101