{"id":39954,"date":"2023-11-29T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?page_id=39954"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:29:34","slug":"fall-2023-cise-seminars-lectures-workshops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/fall-2023-cise-seminars-lectures-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2023\/Spring 2024 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. View the current schedule below.<\/p>\n

September<\/h3>
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FRI, September 8, 2023
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Allison Okamura, Professor, Stanford University<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/a>Soft Robots for Humanity<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Sheila Russo
\nStudent Hosts: Andres Chavez Armijos & Arincheyan Gerald
\n<\/span>Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, September 15, 2023<\/strong><\/span>
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Ananya Sen Gupta, Associate Professor, University of Iowa<\/span>
\nInterpreting Geometric Concepts into Sonar Feature Representations: Case Studies and Challenges<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Vivek Goyal
\nStudent Host: Ahmad Ahmad
\n<\/span>Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, September 22, 2023
\n<\/strong><\/span>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Junyu Cao, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin<\/span>
\nCollaborative Learning and Decision-Making on Pricing and Recommendation: A Simple Framework for Planning<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Jinglong Zhao<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Ehsan Sabouni
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM<\/span>
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

WED, September 27, 2023
\n<\/strong><\/span>Virtual CISE Seminar – Remote-Only
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Aryeh Kontorovich, Professor, Ben-Gurion University<\/span>
\nLocal Glivenko-Cantelli<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Ari Trachtenberg<\/span>
\nTime: 2:15PM-3:15PM<\/span><\/p>\n

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October<\/h3>
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FRI, October 6, 2023
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Andreas Malikopoulos, Professor, Cornell University<\/span>
\nA Traveler-Centric Mobility Game Under Rationality and Prospect Theory<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Christos Cassandras<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Andres Chavez Armijos
\n<\/span>Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, October 13, 2023
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Robert Webster, Professor, Vanderbilt University<\/span>
\nCan <\/span>Needle-Sized <\/span>Robot<\/span> Tentacles<\/span> Help Surgeons Save Lives?<\/span><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Sheila Russo<\/span>
\nStudent Hosts: Ahmad Ahmad & Daniel Van Lewen
\n<\/span>Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, October 27, 2023
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span>CISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Jiang Hu, Professor, Texas A&M University<\/span>
\nMachine Learning for Chip Design and Design Automation for Machine Learning Chips<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Wenchao Li
\nStudent Host: Akua Kodie Dickson
\n<\/span>Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 548<\/span><\/p>\n

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November<\/h3>
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FRI, November 3, 2023
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Nabil Simaan, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
\n<\/span>Modeling, Sensing and Control of Continuum and Soft Robots for Surgery \u00a0\u00a0<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Tommaso Ranzani
\nStudent Hosts: Andres Chavez Armijos & Jacob Rogatinsky
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, November 17, 2023<\/strong><\/span>
\nCISE Seminar<\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker: Mika Sumida, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
\n<\/span>Revenue Management with Heterogeneous Resources<\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Jinglong Zhao<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Ehsan Sabouni<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM-4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

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January<\/h3>
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\n

FRI, January 26, 2024<\/strong><\/span>
\n10th Annual CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW 10.0)
\n<\/strong><\/span>Information\/Agenda<\/a>
\n<\/span>Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1750<\/p>\n

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February<\/h3>
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FRI, February 2, 2024
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/b>Speaker: Xuezhou Zhang, Assistant Professor, CDS, Boston University
\nRepresentation Learning for Efficient RL<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Alex Olshevsky
\nStudent Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, February 9, 2024
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/b>Speaker: Samarjit Chakraborty, Professor, University of North Carolina
\nBuilding Safe Autonomous Systems Using Imperfect Components<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Wenchao Li
\nStudent Host: Akua Kodie Dickson
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/p>\n

FRI, February 16, 2024
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/b>Speaker: Stephanie Gil, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
\nResilient Coordination in Networked Multi-Robot Teams<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Christos Cassandras
\nStudent Host: Ehsan Sabouni
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/p>\n

FRI, February 23, 2024
\nDistinguished Hariri Institute\/CISE<\/strong>\u00a0Seminar
\n<\/b>Speaker: Kavita Ramanan, Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics Brown University
\nAsymptotically Exact Characterization of Epidemic Models on Sparse Random Graphs<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis
\nStudent Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1750<\/span><\/p>\n

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March<\/h3>
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\n

FRI, March 1, 2024
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Fei Miao, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
\n<\/span>Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Embodied AI<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Wenchao Li
\nStudent Host: Akua Kodie Dickson
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/p>\n

FRI, March 8, 2024
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Shahin Shahrampour, Professor, Northeastern University
\n<\/span>Coordination, Optimization and Learning in Multi-Agent Networks<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Alex Olshevsky
\nStudent Host: Ehsan Sabouni
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, March 22, 2024
\nCISE Seminar
\n<\/strong>Speaker: Ellen Roche, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\n<\/span>Using Soft Robots to Model Cardiac Disease and Augment Cardiac Function<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Tommaso Ranzani
\nStudent Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, March 29, 2024<\/strong><\/span>
\nCISE Seminar<\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker: Loris Fichera, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
\n<\/span>Next Generation Surgical Robots for Energy-Based Surgery<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Sheila Russo
\nStudent Hosts: Akua Kodie Dickson & Franco Juli\u00e1 Wise <\/span><\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 203<\/span><\/p>\n

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April<\/h3>
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\n

FRI, April 5, 2024<\/strong><\/span>
\n2024 CISE Best Student Paper Awards<\/strong><\/a>
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, April 12, 2024<\/strong><\/span>
\nJoint Seminar BME\/CISE\/Hariri<\/b>
\nSpeaker: Jeremias Sulam, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
\n<\/span>Imaging, Data, and Learning: Modern challenges in Biomedical Data Science<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Hosts: Ay\u015fe Co\u015fkun, Yannis Paschalidis, John White<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Ehsan Sabouni
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, April 19, 2024<\/strong><\/span>
\nCISE Seminar<\/strong><\/span>
\nSpeaker: Rui Gao, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
\n<\/span>Learning Mixture Models with Neural Networks<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Jinglong Zhao
\nStudent Host: Mehdi Kermanshah
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, April 26, 2024<\/strong><\/span>
\nDistinguished Hariri Institute\/CISE<\/strong>\u00a0Seminar
\n<\/b>Speaker: Asu Ozdaglar, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\n<\/span>Independent Learning Dynamics for Stochastic Games: Convergence and Finite-Time Analysis<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Ay\u015fe Co\u015fkun<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Andres Chavez Armijos<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1750<\/span><\/p>\n

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May<\/h3>
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\n

THU,\u00a0May<\/span>\u00a02<\/span>, 2024<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Hariri Institute\/CISE<\/strong>\u00a0Seminar
\n<\/b>Speaker: Andrew A. Chien, Professor, University of Chicago<\/span>
\nHow Can We Decarbonize the Power Grid and Meet AI\u2019s Exploding Power Demands?<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Ay\u015fe Co\u015fkun<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Akua Kodie Dickson<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM<\/span>
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

FRI, May<\/span> 3, 2024<\/strong>
\nCISE<\/strong>\u00a0Seminar
\n<\/b>Speaker: David Lie, Professor, University of Toronto<\/span>
\nFuzzing Forward: Pushing the Horizons on the Use Cases of Fuzzers<\/em><\/a>
\nFaculty Host: Manuel Egele<\/span>
\nStudent Host: Andres Chavez Armijos<\/span>
\nTime: 3:00PM – 4:00PM<\/span>
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101<\/span><\/p>\n

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