2020-2021 CISE Seminars

Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), “Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND)”, September 18, 2020, Details. 

Lili Wang, Boston University, Systems Engineering Post Doctoral Associate, “Problems in Distributed Computation and Estimation”, September 25, 2020, Details. 

Ness Shroff, The Ohio State University, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Networking and Communications, Chaired Professor of ECE and CSE, “A Fresh Look at a Classical Problem: Network Utility Maximization—Convergence, Delay, and Complexity”, October 2, 2020, Details. 

Andreas Malikopoulos, CISE Resident Scholar, University of Delaware, Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor, Director, Information and Decision Science (IDS) Laboratory, Director, Sociotechnical Systems Center (SSC), “Optimal Path Planning and Coordination for Connected and Automated Vehicles”, October 9, 2020, Details.

Daniel Kuhn, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Professor of Operations Research at the College of Management of Technology, Chair of Risk Analytics and Optimization (RAO), “From Moderate Deviations Theory to Distributionally Robust Optimization: Learning from Correlated Data”, October 16, 2020, Details.

Raadhakrishnan Poovendran, University of Washington, Professor, Computing and Networking, Data Science, Founding director of the Network Security Lab,  “A Game Theoretic Framework for Modeling and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats”, October 23, 2020, Details.

Yasamin Mostofi, University of California, Santa Barbara, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Recipient of the 2016 Antonio Ruberti Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, “Wireless Communications and Robotics: Opportunities and Challenges”, October 30, 2020, Details. 

Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Grainger Associate & William L. Everitt Scholar, “Data-driven Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources”, November 6, 2020, Details.

Marco Pavone, Stanford University, Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Director, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, “On the Role of Interaction in Future Mobility Systems, from Vehicle-Centric to System-Wide Control”, December 4, 2020, Details. 

Zac Manchester, Assistant Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, “Numerical Methods for Things That Move: From Quadrupeds to Starships”, January 29, 2021. Details.

Andreas Veneris, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Computer Engineering and Electronics groups) and Computer Science, University of Toronto, “Innovation and Challenges in the new Century of Crypto Decentralization“, February 12, 2021. Details.

Zhenming Liu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, The College of William & Mary, “High-dimensional machine learning models for forecasting equity returns”, March 5, 2021. Details.

Aaron Ames, Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech, “Toward Safety-Critical Autonomy on Dynamic Robots”, April 2, 2021. Details.

Shuchin Aeron, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University, “Optimal Transport (OT) and Some of its Applications“, April 16, 2021. Details.