{"id":35326,"date":"2022-01-24T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?page_id=35326"},"modified":"2023-01-04T21:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T02:27:16","slug":"2021-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/cise-seminars-archive\/2021-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2022 CISE Seminars, Lectures, Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"

CISE hosts weekly Seminars, Lectures, and Workshops featuring renowned faculty and industry researchers who share their cutting-edge research and latest advancements.<\/p>\n

September 2021<\/h3>
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September 10, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Todd Murphey, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University<\/strong><\/span>
\nTopic: Control Principles for Robot Learning<\/a><\/span>
\nFaculty Host: Sean Andersson<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Zili Wang<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocaton: Zoom<\/span><\/p>\n

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October 2021<\/h3>
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October 1, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Mingyi Hong, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota<\/span>
\nTopic:<\/span> Towards efficient, versatile, and privacy-preserving federated learning <\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nFaculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Zili Wang<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nRoom: PHO 210<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

October 15, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Alexey Miroshnikov, Research Scientist, Discover Financial Services<\/span>
\nTopic: Wasserstein-based fairness interpretability framework for machine learning outcomes\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
\nFaculty Host: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nRoom: PHO 210<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

October 18, 2021
\n<\/strong>AI in Healthcare: Mitigating Disparities, Biases & Misinformation
\n<\/strong>Virtual symposium hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing and co-sponsored with BU School of Public Health.<\/span>
\nTime: 10:00AM-4:30PM<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

October 20, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Lunch & Learn
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Salom\u00f3n Wollenstein-Betech, Boston University Ph.D. Candidate<\/span><\/span>
\nTime: 12:00PM-1:00PM<\/span>
\n15 St. Mary’s St, Room 301C<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

October 22, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Archana Venkataraman, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University<\/span>
\nTopic: Bridging the Gap Between AI and Clinical Neuroscience via Deep-Generative Fusion Models<\/a>
\n<\/span>Faculty Host: Vivek Goyal<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Zili Wang
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nRoom: PHO 210<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Postponed until further notice.<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/span>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Sayak Ray Chowdhury, BU SE Post Doctoral Associate, Indian Institute of Science<\/span>
\n<\/span>Topic: Online Reinforcement Learning in Large and Structured Environments<\/a>
\n<\/span>Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Salom\u00f3n Wollenstein Betech<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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November 2021<\/h3>
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November 5, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Dimitra Panagou, Associate Professor of \u00a0Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan<\/span>
\nTopic: Fixed-Time Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Control Applications in the Presence of Uncertainty<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Christos Cassandras<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nRoom: PHO 210<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

November 12, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Chuchu Fan,\u00a0Wilson Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/span>
\nTopic: Building Dependable Autonomous Systems through Learning Certified Decisions and Control<\/a>
\n<\/span>Faculty Host: Wenchao Li
\n<\/span>Student Host: Zili Wang
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nRoom: PHO 210<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

November 19, 2021
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar<\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker: Andreas Malikopoulos,\u00a0Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor, University of Delaware
\nTopic: Separation of Learning and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems<\/em><\/a><\/span>
\nFaculty Host: Christos Cassandras<\/span>
\nStudent Host: <\/span>Salom\u00f3n Wollenstein-Betec<\/span>h
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nRoom: PHO 210<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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December 2021<\/h3>
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December 3, 2021
\n<\/span><\/strong>CISE\/AIR Initiative Seminar
\nSpeaker: Rogerio Schmidt Feris, Principal Scientist and Manager, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab<\/strong>
\nFaculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
\nStudent Host: Saeed Mohammedzadeh<\/span>
\nTopic: Dynamic Neural Networks for Efficient Multimodal Video Understanding<\/span><\/a>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nRoom: PHO 906
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

December 10, 2021
\n<\/span><\/strong>CISE Seminar
\nSpeaker: Rayadurgam Srikant, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong>
\nFaculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
\nStudent Host: Zili Wang<\/span>
\nTopic:The Role of Lookahead and Approximate Policy Evaluation in Policy Iteration with Linear Value Function Approximation<\/a>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nRoom: Zoom
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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January 2022<\/h3>
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January 28, 2022
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Sayak Ray Chowdhury, BU SE Post Doctoral Associate, Indian Institute of Science<\/span>
\n<\/span>Topic: Online Reinforcement Learning in Large and Structured Environments<\/a>
\n<\/span>Faculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Zili Wang
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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February 2022<\/h3>
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February 11, 2022
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Christine Allen-Blanchette, Post-Doctoral Associate, Princeton University<\/span>
\nTopic: Leveraging Dataset Structure for Neural Network Prediction<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Sean Andersson<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh <\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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March 2022<\/h3>
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March 4, 2022
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Cheng Tan, Assistant Professor,\u00a0Northeastern University<\/span>
\nTopic: Constructing Certified Neural Networks<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Alan Liu<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nHybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

March 18, 2022
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Clayton Scott, Professor, University of Michigan<\/span>
\nTopic: Clustering from Paired Observations<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Andres Chavez Armijos<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nLocation: Zoom<\/span><\/p>\n

March 25, 2022
\n<\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Akshay Krishnamurthy, Researcher, Microsoft<\/span>
\nTopic: Representation Learning, Exploration, and Reinforcement Learning<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Yuhe Chang<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nHybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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April 2022<\/h3>
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April 1, 2022
\n<\/span><\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Kevin Jamieson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington
\nFaculty Host: Venkatesh Saligrama
\nStudent Host: Zili Wang<\/span>
\nTopic: Instance Dependent Sample Complexity Bounds for Interactive Learning<\/a><\/a><\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nHybrid Event: PHO 210 or join on Zoom
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

April 8, 2022
\nCISE Seminar<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Francesca Parise, Assistant Professor, ECE, Cornell University<\/span>
\nTopic: Tractable Network Interventions For Large Socio-Technical Systems<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Christos Cassandras
\nStudent Host: Saeed Mohammadzadeh
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nHybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

April 15, 2022
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span>CGSW 8.0<\/strong><\/span>
\nTime: 10:00AM-5:00PM
\nLocation: EMB 105<\/span><\/p>\n

April 22, 2022
\n<\/span><\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Furkan Ercan, Post Doctoral\u00a0Associate, WISE-Circuits Lab at Boston
\nTopic: High Throughput, Low Power, or Energy Efficiency? How to Achieve All for 5G Polar Codes, and Beyond<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/span>Faculty Host: Rabia Yazicigil
\nStudent Host:\u00a0Yuhe Chang<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nHybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

April 29, 2022
\n<\/span><\/strong>CISE Best Student Paper Presentations
\n<\/strong>Speakers:
\n<\/strong>Rui Liu, PhD candidate of Systems Engineering
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Anthony Byrne, PhD candidate of Computer Engineering
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Salom\u00f3n Wollenstein-Betech, PhD of Systems Engineering
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Alexander Bulekov, PhD candidate of Computer Engineering
\n2022 Winning Papers and Faculty Reviewers<\/a>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: Photonics Building 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 210<\/span><\/p>\n

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May 2022<\/h3>
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May 6, 2022
\n<\/span><\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Theodora Chaspari, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University
\nTopic: Human-Centered Machine Intelligence: From Robust Signal Analytics to Trustworthy Human-Technology Partnership<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
\nStudent Host: Andres Chavez Armijos<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nHybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

May 13, 2022
\nCISE Seminar<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Nathan Kallus, Assistant Professor, Operation\u00a0Information, Cornell University<\/span>
\nTopic: Smooth Contextual Bandits<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
\nStudent Host: Zili Wang
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nHybrid Event: PHO 210 & Zoom
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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June 2022<\/h3>
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June 14, 2022
\n<\/span><\/strong>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speakers:\u00a0Dr. Girish N. Nair with PhD student Maxwell Varley, University of Melbourne, Australia
\nTopic: Joint Entropy and Kalman Filtering in Localization<\/a>
\n<\/span>Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
\nTime: 4:00PM-5:00PM
\nLocation: 15 Saint Mary\u2019s Street,\u00a0Room EMB 105
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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