Seminar Calendar Archive

Date & Time	Event
Monday June 17, 2024 11AM PGH 563	REU Seminar The nature and control of the illicit medical products trade Nikos Passas, Northeastern University
Wednesday April 17, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Advancing End-to-End System Design: A Comprehensive Approach to Memory and Storage Systems Optimization Janki Bhimani, Florida International University
Friday April 12, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Learning Symbolic Concepts and Domain-specific Languages Paul Krogmeier, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday March 27, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Trustworthy Transfer Learning Jun Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Monday March 25, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Towards Socially and Environmentally Responsible AI Jianyi Yang
Wednesday March 20, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Towards Reliable Data-centric Machine Learning Junfeng Guo, University of Maryland
Monday March 18, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar A holistic view of Internet security Liang Wang, Princeton University
Friday March 8, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Go Toxic or Go Viral - the use and abuse of social media Chen (Cici) Ling, Boston University
Monday March 4, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Hardware-Software Co-design of Efficient and Scalable Deep Learning Chengming Zhang, Indiana University
Friday March 1, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Robust Learning with Evolving Data Streams for Personalized Healthcare Jingchao Ni, Amazon - AWS AI Labs
Monday Feb. 26, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Empowering Graph Neural Networks for Real-world Tasks Zhichun Guo, University of Notre Dame
Friday Feb. 23, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Managing Exa-scale Scientific Data with Error-bounded Lossy Compression Jinyang Liu, University of California, Riverside
Friday Feb. 16, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar From Theory to Application: Overparameterization and Machine Learning at the Edge Peizhong Ju, The Ohio State University
Monday Feb. 12, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Towards Practical Automated Software Quality Assurance Techniques Via a Holistic Lifespan-based Approach Austin Mordahl, University of Texas at Dallas
Friday Feb. 9, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Make LLMs More Accessible: Scale LLM Fine-tuning and Serving Efficiently Zirui Liu, Rice University
Monday Feb. 5, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Bridging Humans and Technology: Human-Centered Design for Trust and Collaborative Futures Qiaoning Zhang, University of Michigan
Friday Feb. 2, 2024 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Building Trust and Safety on Content Creation Platforms Renkai Ma, Pennsylvania State University
Friday Nov. 17, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Cryptography in the Blockchain Era Juan Garay, Texas A&M University
Friday Nov. 3, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Generative AI Models at UIL Jungfeng Jiao, The University of Texas at Austin
Friday Oct. 20, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Shape-Dependent Contrast and Statistical Image Texture Features in Radiological Imaging Mini Das, University of Houston
Friday Sept. 29, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Recent Advances in Network Community Detection: Generalized Modularity Density and RenEEL, with Applications in Genetics and Neuroscience Kevin Bassler, University of Houston
Monday Sept. 25, 2023 5PM MH 150	Seminar AI for Cybersecurity and Security of AI Houbing Herbert Song, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Friday Sept. 22, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Extending the Reach of Tensor Units: Advancing Computational Science and Engineering with AI Hardware Panruo Wu, University of Houston
Friday Sept. 15, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Computer Science and Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston
Mon., July 24, 2023 11AM Online via MS Teams	Distinguished Seminar Multimodal machine intelligence and its human-centered possibilities Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, University of Southern California
Fri, July 21, 2023 11AM Online via MS Teams	Seminar Methods for measuring social and conceptual dimensions of Convergence Science Alex Petersen, University of California - Merced
Wed. June 7, 2023 11AM PGH 563	Seminar Dealing with violence and hateful behavior in social networks through language and vision Hugo Jair Escalante, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico)
Wed., April 5, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Vision-and-language Models: Opportunities and Limitations Vicente Ordoñez, Rice University
Mon., Feb. 27, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Attack Surface Reduction through Software Debloating Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, Stony Brook University / SUNY Stony Brook
Fri., Feb. 24, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Edge-AI in the Making: Algorithm Design and Theory Sen Lin, Ohio State University
Wed., Feb. 22, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Towards Precision Sensing in IoT for Human Interaction, Healthcare, and Beyond Chenhan Xu, University at Buffalo SUNY
Mon., Feb. 20, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Distinguished Seminar Security and Privacy for Distributed Optimization and Learning Nitin Vaidya, Georgetown University
Fri., Feb 17, 2023 3PM PGH 232	Seminar Efficient Deterministic Leader Election for Programmable Matter Shay Kutten, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Fri., Feb. 17, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Distinguished Seminar Leaky Models and Unintended Inferences David Evans, University of Virginia
Mon., Feb. 13, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Building Trustworthy Machine Learning Systems under Adversarial Environments Ning (Nicole) Wang, Virginia Tech
Fri., Feb. 10, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Understanding and Enhancing Microarchitecture Security in the Era of AI and Emerging Hardware Fan Yao, University of Central Florida
Fri., Feb. 3, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Securing Critical Cyber Infrastructures and Functionalities via ML Empowered Designs Tao Wang, New Mexico State University
Mon., Jan. 30, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Algorithmic Foundation of Parallel Paging and Fast Stencil Computation Rathish Das, University of Liverpool (England)
Fri, Jan. 27, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Minimum-Spanning-Trees with Kruskal’s and Prim’s algorithms are a-maze-ing! Daniel Biediger, University of Houston
Mon., Jan. 23, 2023 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Analysis and Generation of Visual Data using Deep Learning Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University of London
Tues., Dec. 6, 2022 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Specializing the Computing System for Graph Algorithms Xuhao Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fri., Nov. 4, 2022 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Co-Optimizing Human-System Performance in VR/AR Qi Sun, New York University
Wed., Nov. 2, 2022 11AM PGH 232	Distinguished Seminar Crypto Protocol Analysis with Time and Space Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory
Wed., Oct. 26, 2022 11AM PGH 232	Seminar From Slide Rules to Smartphones J-F Paris, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Houston
Fri., Sept. 30, 2022 11AM Online via Zoom	Seminar Sharding and Data Availability Sampling Dankrad Feist, Ethereum Research
Fri., Sept. 23, 2022 11AM PGH 232	Seminar Inspection of Neural Code Intelligence ModelsInspection of Neural Code Intelligence Models Amin Alipour, University of Houston
Wed., June 1, 2022 PGH 550	Seminar The Node Capacitated Clique: Models, Algorithms, and Extensions John Augustine, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Tues., May 31, 2022 PGH 550	Tutorial Byzantine Resilient Algorithms: Foundations and Applications John Augustine, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Wed. March 23, 2022 11AM Hybrid: PGH 232 and Zoom	Seminar Secure and Trustworthy Distributed Resource Management for Data-intensive Applications Saptarshi Debroy, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Mon. March 21, 2022 11AM Virtual on Zoom	Seminar Towards Scalable and Efficient Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) Feng Yan, University of Nevada, Reno
Fri. March 11, 2022 11AM Virtual on Zoom	Seminar Fairness and Graph Deep Generation through the Lens of Time Wenbin Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Mon. March 7, 2022 11AM Virtual on Zoom	Seminar AI and Multi-agent Systems for Societal Benefit Arunesh Sinha, Singapore Management University
Fri. March 4, 2022 11AM Hybrid: PGH 232 and Zoom	Seminar Probabilistic Machine Learning: Exploring Uncertainties in the Spatial, Temporal, and Deep Architectures' Perspectives Xuhui Fan, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Wed. March 2, 2022 11AM Hybrid: PGH 232 and Zoom	Seminar Towards A More Responsible World: When AI, Open Data, and Usable Security Meet Each Other Yunhe Feng, University of Washington
Mon., February 28, 2022 11AM Virtual on Zoom	Seminar Non-convex Optimization for Data Science: Models, Algorithms, and Applications Songtao Lu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Fri. February 25, 2022 11AM Hybrid: PGH 232 and Zoom	Seminar Resource-efficient Deep Learning: Democratizing AI at Scale Dongkuan (DK) Xu, The Pennsylvania State University
Mon., February 21, 2022 11AM Hybrid: PGH 232 and Zoom	Seminar Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Qian Lou, Samsung Research America
Fri., February 18, 2022 11AM Hybrid: PGH 232 and Zoom	Seminar Artificial Intelligence, Security & Privacy Lichao Sun, Lehigh University
Wed. February 16, 2022 11AM Hybrid: PGH 232 and Zoom	Seminar Security and privacy in critical applications and services Ruimin Sun, Northeastern University
Wed. January 26, 2022 11AM Virtual on Zoom	Seminar Learning from Data Jesús Ubaldo Quevedo-Torrero, University of North Texas
Fri. January 21, 2022 11AM Virtual on Zoom	Seminar Decision Trees Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University (Nepal)
Fri. December 3, 2021 11:00AM Virtual on MS Teams	Seminar The Hermes BFT Protocol for Blockchains Konstantin “Costas” Busch, Augusta University
Fri. November 19, 2021 11:00AM Virtual on MS Teams	Distinguished Seminar Applying Predicate Detection to Discrete Optimization Problems Vijay K. Garg, The University of Texas at Austin
Mon. April 19, 2021 11:00AM	Seminar Comment Maintenance as Software Evolves Prof. Jessy Li, The University of Texas at Austin
Fri. March 12, 2021 11:00AM	Seminar Towards Deeper Natural Language Understanding Prof. Eduardo Blanco, University of North Texas
Fri. February 26, 2021 11:00AM	Seminar On the Challenges of Modeling Complex Human Behaviors from Visual Information Dr. Hugo Escalante, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico)
Wed. February 24, 2021 11:00AM	Distinguished Seminar ALGORAND: The Truly Distributed Blockchain Prof. Silvio Micali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fri. February 5, 2021 11:00AM	Faculty Seminar Adapting Neural Models to Address Challenges in Information Extraction from Social Media Data Prof. Thamar Solorio, University of Houston
Mon. November 9, 2020 11:00 AM	Distinguished Seminar Multimedia Multilingual Event Knowledge Base Construction Prof. Heng Ji, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wed. October 21, 2020 11:00 AM	Faculty Seminar Using Deep Neural Networks to Advance Concussion Research Prof. Badri Roysam, University of Houston
Fri. October 16, 2020 11:00AM	Seminar Advanced Computational Approaches for Understanding Allele-specific Biology of Complex Diseases Dr. Shilpa Garg, Harvard Medical School
Wed. October 7, 2020 11:00 AM	Faculty Seminar Real-time Facial Performance Capture and Manipulation Prof. Zhigang Deng, University of Houston
Fri. September 4, 2020 11:00 AM	Faculty Seminar Data Science for Cybersecurity: A Phishing Expedition from 18th Century Literature to Fake News Prof. Rakesh Verma, University of Houston
Mon., 04/27/2020 PGH 232 CANCELLED	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: On the Naturalness of Software, and How to Exploit It Speaker: Dr. Prem Devanbu Host: Alipour
Mon., 04/20/2020 Online 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Application Agnostic Network Traffic Modeling for Realistic Traffic Generation \| Learning to learn: Meta-Learning in Machine Learning \| Attending the Emotions to Detect Online Abusive Language \| Let Me Choose: From Verbal Context to Font Selection Speakers: Oluwamayowa Adeleke \| Mikhail Mekhedkin-Meskhi \| Niloofar Safi Samghabadi \| Amirreza (Reza) Shirani Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Mon., 04/06/2020 Online 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: ViPER: Vehicle Pose Estimation using Ultra-WideBand Radios \| On the Usefulness of Personality Traits in Opinion-Oriented Tasks \| Platform for Interactive Immersion into Imaging Data with an Augmented Reality Interface \| Claim Verification Under the Positive-Unlabeled Setting Speakers: Alireza Ansaripour \| Marjan Hosseinia \| Jose Daniel Velazco-Garcia \| Fan Yang Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Fri., 04/03/2020 PGH 232 CANCELLED	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: In-Memory Computing for Machine Learning Applications and Beyond Speaker: Dr. Xiaobo Sharon Hu Host: A. Cheng
Mon., 03/30/2020 Online 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cyber-Physical System Security \| Metamorphic Malware Detection Using Behavior Graphs \| Quasar: A Novel Density Based Framework for Collocation Mining \| Voxel Indexing and Compression Speakers: Taha Eghtesad \| Ayman El Aassal \| Karima Elgarroussi \| Mouad Rifai Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Mon., 03/23/2020 PGH 563 CANCELLED	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: On the Usefulness of Personality Traits in Opinion-Oriented Tasks \| Explainable Generative Adversarial Neural Networks \| Claim Verification Under the Positive-Unlabeled Setting Speakers: Marjan Hosseinia \| Hadi Mansourifar \| Fan Yang Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Mon., 03/16/2020 PGH 232 CANCELLED	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Fine-Scale Facial-Animation Capture, Generation, and Manipulation Speaker: Dr. Zhigang Deng Host: Solorio
Fri., 03/06/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Practicing Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Healthcare Speaker: Dr. Hua Xu Host: Solorio
Mon., 03/02/2020 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Shrinking Production Incidents Speaker: Annalee Nagami Host: Gnawali
Wed., 02/26/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Give Me the Full Picture: Using Computer Vision to Understand Visual Frames and Political Communication Speaker: Dr. Michelle Torres Host: Solorio
Mon., 02/24/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Clustering: Basic Approaches and Their Evaluation Speaker: Dr. Kriti Bhargava Host: Toti
Mon., 02/17/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: An Overview of Gradient Descent Optimization Algorithms with Implementation in MapReduce Programming Model Speaker: Dr. Kia Teymourian Host: Shi
Mon., 02/10/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Introduction to Neural Networks Speaker: Dr. Arko Barman Host: Pandurangan
Fri., 02/07/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Neural Networks and Deep Learning Speaker: Dr. Russel Pears Host: Pandurangan
Wed., 02/05/2020 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Let's Process Information, Not Bits: Architecture's Expensive Data Movement Speaker: Dr. Andrew A. Chien Host: Johnsson
Tues., 02/04/2020 PGH 563 12:00 PM	Computer Science Special Talk Topic: Personalizing Our Diner Communications at Grubhub Speaker: Dr. Wai Gen Yee Host: Ordonez
Fri., 12/06/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Blockchains and the Future of Distributed Computing Speaker: Dr. Maurice Herlihy Host: Pandurangan
Fri., 11/22/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: A Practical Unstructured Spline Modeling Platform for Isogeometric Analysis Applications Speaker: Dr. Yongjie Jessica Zhang Host: G. Chen
Mon., 11/18/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM CANCELLED	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: In-Memory Computing for Machine Learning Applications and Beyond Speaker: Dr. Xiaobo Sharon Hu Host: A. Cheng
Mon., 11/11/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: IOT - Beyond the Consumer World Speaker: Ron Neyland Host: Laszka
Mon., 11/04/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: A Deep Learning based Model for Head and Eye Motion Generation in Three-party Conversations \| Visual Summarization of Lecture Videos Speakers: Aobo Jin \| Mohammad Rajiur Rahman Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Mon., 10/21/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Enhancing Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Utilizing Deep Learning and Compressed Sensing Techniques \| Using Compression in MPI-IO: Semantics, Implementation, and Evaluation Speakers: Nazanin Beheshti \| Siddhesh Pratap Singh Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Wed., 10/16/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: High Performance Computing in Chevron Speaker: Rafael Salas Host: Wu
Mon., 10/14/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Neuroengineering the Future: From Neural interfaces to Creativity Speaker: Dr. Jose Contreras-Vidal Host: Solorio
Mon., 10/07/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: SMACK: Subjective Measure of Applied Contextual Knowledge \| Unsteady Flow Visualization via Physics Based Pathline Exploration \| Impact of hex-mesh structure on simulation quality - A first study Speakers: Mohammed Alshair \| Duong Nguyen \| Muhammad Naeem Akram Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Fri., 10/04/19 Science 120 02:00 PM	Seminar Topic: Deterministic Leader Election in Programmable Matter Speaker: Dr. William Moses Host: Pandurangan Note: this seminar does not count towards the PhD seminar requirement
Fri., 10/04/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Energy-Efficient Computing in Graphics Processing Units Speaker: Dr. Xin Fu Host: Shi
Wed., 10/02/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Real Time Character Animation: Deformation, Rendering, and Beyond Speaker: Dr. Binh Le Host: Deng
Mon., 09/30/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Incremental Machine Learning Models using a Summarization Matrix for Large Datasets \| You Are Not Alone: Helping Users Not to Fall for Phish \| Enhancing Subject Matter Assessments Utilizing Augmented Reality and Serious Game Techniques Speakers: Sikder Tahsin Al-Amin \| Shahryar Baki \| Brian Holtkamp Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Mon., 09/23/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Optimizing on Predictions from Machine Learning Pipelines Speaker: Dr. Doug Hakkarinen, ConocoPhillips Analytics Innovation Center of Excellence Host: Gabriel
Fri., 09/20/19 CANCELLED	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Energy-Efficient Computing in Graphics Processing Units Speaker: Dr. Xin Fu Host: Shi
Mon., 09/16/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Fault-Tolerant Regularity-Based Real-Time Virtual Resources \| Scalable Distributed Kernel Support Vector Machine Training Speakers: Pavan Kumar Paluri \| Ruchi Shah Hosts: Gnawali, Wu
Mon., 09/09/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Finding the Location of Objects in Indoor Environments Using Ultra-Wideband Radios Speaker: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali Host: Solorio
Fri., 07/12/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Autonomous Monitoring of Data Center Operations Speaker: Rong Zheng, McMaster University, Canada Host: Subhlok
Tues., 06/04/19 PGH 550 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Detecting Targeted Attacks with Machine Learning: Overview and Real-World Examples Speaker: Yinnon Meshi, Palo Alto Networks Host: Verma
Thurs., 05/09/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Evolution of the Population Protocol Model Speaker: Prof. James Aspnes, Yale University Host: Pandurangan
Mon., 04/22/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: The Cosmostatistics Initiative - Reshaping Interdisciplinary Science Development Speaker: Dr. Rafael S. de Souza, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Host: Vilalta
Fri., 04/12/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Computing in the Age of Low Memory Speaker: Dr. Amitabh Trehan, Loughborough University, UK Host: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan
Thurs., 04/11/19 PGH 563 10:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Real-Time Computing and the Evolution of Embedded System Designs Speaker: Prof. Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University Host: A. Cheng
Mon., 04/01/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: Generating Coherent and Targeted Emails by Leveraging Deep Neural Learners \| Visual Content Analysis of Lecture Videos \| Assessing the Impact of Video Compression on Foreground Detection Speakers: Avisha Das \| Mohammad Rajiur Rahman \| Poonam Beniwal Host: Wu
Wed., 03/20/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Are Face Recognition Systems Biased Relative to Race and Gender? Speaker: Dr. Michael King, Florida Institute of Technology Host: Kakadiaris
Mon., 03/18/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Adversarial Examples in NLP and Potential Solutions from Cybersecurity Principles \| Application Agnostic Learning for Realistic Network Traffic Generation \| Semi-Supervised Low Light Face Enhancement for Mobile Face Unlock Speakers: Daniel Lee \| Oluwamayowa Adeleke \| Ha Le Anh Vu
Wed., 03/06/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Clinical NLP and Deep Learning… It’s Complicated Speaker: Dr. Kirk Roberts, UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics Host: Solorio
Wed., 02/27/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: A Novel Data Analysis Framework to Understand US Emotions in Space and Time \| Study and Mitigation of Platform Related UWB Ranging Errors \| Emphasis Selection by Learning from Label Distributions Speakers: Romita Banerjee \| Nour Smaoui \| Reza (Amirreza) Shirani
Wed., 02/20/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: RRP Edge Computing System: Architecture and challenges \| Overlapped Two-Phase algorithm: Improving MPI-IO collective write operation performance \| Efficient Distributed Community Detection in the Stochastic Block Model \| Light-Weight DBMS for Network Monitoring Speakers: Guangli Dai \| Raafat Feki \| Reza Fathi \| Steve Aigbe
Mon., 02/18/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Fast Packet Processing with eBPF and XDP Speaker: Dr. Marcos A. M. Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) Host: Gnawali
Fri., 02/15/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Compression of Convolutional Neural Netwroks Based on Kernal Redundancy Speaker: Dr. Wen-Hung Liao, National Chengchi University (Taiwan) Host: Shah
Mon., 02/11/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: From Theory to Application: Block-Structured Interger Programming Meets Blockchain Speaker: Dr. Lin Chen, University of Houston Host: Wu
Fri., 02/08/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Toward Robust Structure-Aware Hexahedral Meshing Speaker: Dr. Guoning Chen, University of Houston Host: Wu
Wed., 02/06/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: Study and Mitigation of Non-Cooperative UWB Interference on Ranging \| Open Source Face Recognition Performance Evaluation Package \| Imbalance Data Classification in Financial Systems: Challenges and Approaches Speakers: Hessam Mohammadmoradi \| Xiang Xu \| Hadi Mansourifar
Wed., 01/30/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: AI for Identity & Health Speaker: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston Host: Solorio
Tues., 01/29/19 PGH 563 2:00 PM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Automatic Generation of Temporal Logic Properties Speaker: Prof. Görschwin Fey, Institute of Embedded Systems at Hamburg University of Technology Host: A. Cheng
Mon., 01/28/19 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Continuous Intelligence - Machine Learning - Delivered Continuously Speaker: George Earle, ThoughtWorks Host: Gnawali
Fri., 01/18/19 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: SLATE: Software for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale Speaker: Dr. Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Host: Wu
Fri., 12/14/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Secure Oblivious Storage and Anonymous Communication Through Random Mixing Speaker: Prof. Eli Upfal, Brown University Host: Pandurangan
Thu., 12/13/18 PGH 232 9:30 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Tutorial Lecture Topic: Sample Complexity and Uniform Convergence Speaker: Prof. Eli Upfal, Brown University Host: Pandurangan
Thu., 12/06/18 PGH 550 11:00am	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Dispersion of Mobile Robots on a Graph Speaker: Dr. William K. Moses Jr., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Host: Pandurangan
Tue., 11/13/18 Engr. Lecture Hall L2D2 5pm Reception 6pm Seminar	Data Science Institute Seminar Topic: Bias on the Web Speaker: Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT & Northeastern Univ. at Silicon Valley Host: Data Science Institute
Mon., 11/12/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Gender-Inclusive Software Speaker: Dr. Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University Host: Solorio
Wed., 11/07/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: Detecting Nastiness in Social Media \| Improved Probabilistic Guarantees for Influence Maximization \| An Adaptive Approach for Demand-Response and Latency Control in Distributed Web Services Speakers: Niloofar Safi \| Nguyen Dinh Pham \| Gandhimathi Velusamy
Mon., 11/05/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: Unsupervised Deep Learning Recurrent Model for Audio Fingerprinting \| Training Deep Semantic Models: an Adversarial Transfer Learning Approach \| Folksonomication: Predicting Tags for Movies from Plot Synopses Using Emotion Flow Encoded Neural Network Speakers: Abraham Báez Suárez \| Dainis Boumber \| Sudipta Kar
Fri., 10/26/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: DesignSafe: Building a Science Gateway for Natural Hazards Engineering Research Speaker: Josue Balandrano Coronel, DesignSafe Host: Eick
Wed., 10/24/18 PGH 563 1:00 PM	Special Presentation Topic: Multi-Modaility Opportunities in Pre-Clinical Imaing with New Cryogen-Free Superconducting MRI and Solid-State PET Speaker: Gilberto Prudencio, MR Solutions Host: Tsekos
Wed., 10/24/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: Determining Affine Equivalence of Boolean Functions \| Detecting Intruders and Preventing Hackers from Evasion by Tor Circuit Selection \| Real-time Facial Expression Reconstruction and Transformation from Video \| Satirical News Detection and Analysis Speakers: Luis Moraes \| Zechun Cao\| Luming Ma \| Fan Yang
Mon., 10/22/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Advanced Machine Learning in Genetic Data Speaker: Prof. Wei Ding, University of Massachusetts Boston Host: Eick
Thu., 10/18/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Providing Personalized Learning Guidance in MOOCs by Multi-Source Data Analysis Speaker: Prof. Ming Zhang, Peking University, China Host: Deng
Wed., 10/17/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: AI for Social Good: Decision Aids for Countering Terrorism, Extinction and Homelessness Speaker: Dr. Milind Tambe, University of Southern California Host: Laszka
Mon., 10/15/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Test Driven Development in the Real World Speaker: Tom Adams, ThoughtWorks Host: Gnawali
Tue., 10/09/18 Engr. Lecture Hall L2D2 5pm Reception 6pm Seminar	Data Science Institute Seminar Topic: "Does This Vehicle Belong to You?" Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations Speaker: Dr. Dan Jurafsky, Stanford Host: Data Science Institute
Mon., 10/08/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: Recursive Neural Networks for Named Entity Recognition \| Hexahedral Mesh Structure Visualization and Evaluation \| UWB Physical Layer Adaptation for Best Ranging Performance within Application Constraints Speakers: Gustavo Aguilar \| Cotrik Xu \| Hessam Mohammadmordi
Wed., 10/03/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topic: Toward Efficient Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Survival Prediction via Feature Fitting \| Robust Tracing and Visualization of Heterogeneous Microvascular Networks Speakers: Hadi Mansourifar \| Pavel Govyadinov
Wed., 09/26/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Web Scale – Creating High-Volume High-Availability Services in the Real World Speaker: Scott Roberts, Paycom Host: Gnawali
Fri., 09/21/18 Cancelled	Computer Science Seminar Topic: An Application of Mangasarian’s Theorem Speaker: Dr. Michael Laidacker Host: Cheng
Tue., 09/18/18 Cancelled	Data Science Institute Seminar Topic: High Performance Computing and Big Data: Challenges for the Future Speaker: Dr. Jack Dongarra (NAE), University of Tennessee & Oakridge National Laboratory Host: Data Science Institute
Wed., 08/29/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: From Monolith to Microservices: Why Building Smaller Creates Opportunity for Cleaner Code, Scalability Speaker: Thierry Danard and Dr. Steven Reynolds, INT Host: Subhlok
Mon., 08/20/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: The Art of Simplicity Speaker: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, Agile Developer, Inc. & UH Host: Subhlok
Fri., 06/08/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Back to the Future: All-Systolic Convolutional Neural Networks Speaker: Dr. H. T. Kung, Harvard University Host: Huang
Wed., 04/25/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Detection of Touching Elongated Cells Using a Stack of Conditional Random Fields \| Education and Training Applications of AR and VR \| Finding Community Structure in Graphs by Random Walks Speakers: Ali Memariani \| Brian Holtkamp \| Reza Fathi
Mon., 04/23/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar & Computer Science in Practice Topic: DDos attacks: The Old and the New Speaker: Kevin Long Host: Gnawali
Fri., 04/13/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Event Coreference Resolution by Iteratively Unfolding Inter-dependencies Among Events Speaker: Ruihong Huang Host: Solorio
Wed., 04/11/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Lecture Topic: Classification: Basic Concepts and Techniques Speaker: Abidalrahman Moh’d Host: Gabriel
Mon., 04/09/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Lecture Topic: Processes, Threads, Concurrency, and Synchronization Speaker: Carlos Rincon Host: Rizk
Fri., 03/30/18 Cancelled	Computer Science Seminar Topic: An Application of Mangasarian’s Theorem Speaker: Dr. Michael Laidacker, Department of Mathematics, Lamar University Host: Cheng
Wed., 03/28/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Making Consensus-based Decisions in Person Re-identification using a Graph-based Approach \| Enhanced Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Detection through MRI-based Augmented-Reality \| Deep Imbalanced Attribute Classification using Visual Attention Speakers: Arko Barman \| Daniel Biediger \| Nikolaos Sarafianos
Mon., 03/26/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Managing Software Projects and Agile Development for the 2020's Speaker: Claudette M. Mital, IBM Host: Gnawali
Fri., 03/23/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Are Typical Instances of Combinatorial Optimization Problems Hard to Solve? Speaker: Prof. Prasad Tetali, Georgia Tech Host: Pandurangan
Wed., 03/07/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Experiments with Neural Networks for Small and Large-Scale Authorship Verification \| Solutions Using Microsoft HoloLens Augmented Reality (AR) Apps \| Scaling and Effectiveness of Email Masquerade Attacks: Exploiting Natural Language Generation Speakers: Marjan Hosseinia \| Mohammed Alshair \| Shahryar Baki
Mon., 02/26/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Smart Contracts, Search of "Good Generals" , Internet of Value Speaker: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi Host: Solorio
Wed., 02/21/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Cost-Delay Aware Web Routing Using Reinforcement Learning \| Image Content Analysis in Indexed Captioned Searchable Videos Speakers: Gandhimathi Velusamy \| Mohammad Rajiur Rahman
Mon., 02/05/18 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Proof-of Work Without All the Work Speaker: Prof. Jared Saia Host: Pandurangan
Wed., 01/24/18 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: The Complexity of Leader Election: A Chasm at Diameter Two \| A Framework for Transactive Grids for Cities, Neighborhoods, and Homes Speakers: Soumyottam Chatterjee \| Nacer Khalil
Mon., 12/04/17 Cancelled	Computer Science Distinguished Tutorial Lecture Topic: Sample Complexity and Uniform Convergence Speaker: Prof. Eli Upfal, Brown University Host: Pandurangan
Fri., 12/01/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Building Predictable and Adaptable Mobile Systems Speaker: Dr. Lukasz Ziarek, State University of New York, Buffalo Host: Cheng
Mon., 11/20/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sensing and Reconstruction: A Niche Paradigm of Computational Sciences Speaker: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos, University of Houston Host: Subhlok
Wed., 11/15/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Effectiveness of a Task-based Residential Energy Efficiency Program in Oahu \| Correlation Study on Attributes of Unsteady Flows Speakers: Hessam Mohammadmoradi \| Marzieh Berenjkoub
Thu., 11/02/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Self Driving Technology: Clearing the Hype Speaker: Prashanth Viswanath, Texas Instruments Host: Gnawali
Wed., 11/01/17 Cancelled	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Correlation Study on Attributes of Unsteady Flows \| SonicDoor: Scaling Person Identification with Ultrasonic Sensors by Novel Modeling of Shape, Behavior and Walking Patterns Speakers: Marzieh Berenjkoub \| Nacer Khalil
Mon., 10/30/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Multimodal Deep Learning Speaker: Dr. Fabio A. Gonzalez, National University of Colombia Host: Solorio
Tue., 10/24/17 PGH 232 1:00 PM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Content Distribution Networks: A Web Server Is Not Enough Speaker: Mr. Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Limelight Networks Host: Gnawali
Wed., 10/18/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Multi-task Learning for Commercial Brain Computer Interfaces \| An Optimization-oriented Framework for Feature Extraction in Flow Visualization Speakers: George Panagopoulos \| Lieyu Shi (Soumyottam Chatterjee is unable to present as originally scheduled)
Mon., 10/16/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Crypto-Currencies, Icos, and Blockchain: Why Computer Science Majors or Anyone Should Care Speaker: Dr. Larry Shi, University of Houston Host: Gnawali
Mon., 10/09/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Secure Software Development: Principles and Practice Speaker: Wendy Istvanick, ThoughtWorks Host: Gnawali
Wed., 10/04/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Data Analytics for Corporate Cybersecurity Speaker: Irene Stein & Kashif Khan, Chevron Host: Gnawali
Mon., 09/25/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Focus on Research Topics: Detecting Sockpuppets in Deceptive Opinion Spam \| Sequence-to-Sequence and Question Answering Speakers: Marjan Hosseinia \| Fan Yang
Fri., 09/22/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Resurrecting Laplace's Demon: The Case for Deterministic Models Speaker: Prof. Edward A. Lee, University of California, Berkeley Host: Cheng
Fri., 09/15/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Cryptographic Code Obfuscation Speaker: Dr. Brent Waters, University of Texas Host: Solorio
Thu., 08/24/17 PGH 563 1:00 PM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: GovTech: Transforming Approaches to Delivery of USGS Water Data and Scientific Information Speaker: Mr. Sachin D. Shah & Mr. Daniel K. Pearson, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Host: Alipour
Thu., 07/06/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: A Short Tour of Randomized Techniques in Algorithm Design Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Sen, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Host: Verma
Fri., 06/23/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Tools for Detection of Fault Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Ciphers Speaker: Prof. Chester Rebeiro, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Host: Verma
Mon., 05/08/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Molecular Underpinning of Postsynaptic Calmodulin-dependent Calcium Signaling Speaker: Prof. Margaret Cheung, University of Houston Host: Gabriel
Thu., 05/04/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Challenges and Methods in Games User Research Speaker: Prof. Pejman Mirza-Babaei from University of Ontario, Canada Host: Deng
Fri., 04/28/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Subject Book: Reforming Data Management in Human Experiments Speaker: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston Host: Solorio
Mon., 04/24/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Finding Interesting Regions in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Datasets Speaker: Dr. Christoph Eick, University of Houston Host: Shah
Fri., 04/21/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Ethics in Science Lecture Series Topic: Behavioral Concepts and the Sciences of Human Behavior Speaker: Professor Helen Longino, Stanford University Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 04/10/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Exascale Programming Models and Runtime Systems Speaker: Dr. Zoran Budimlic, Rice University Host: Gabriel
Fri., 04/07/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Privacy-Preserving and Secure Mobile Crowd Sensing Speaker: Prof. Ming Li, University of Nevada, Reno Host: Gnawali
Mon., 04/03/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Human-Centered data science for Crisis Informatics Speaker: Marina Kogan, University of Colorado Boulder Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 03/27/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Efficient Architecture Design in IoT Big Data Era: Integrating Intelligence into the Communication Path Speaker: Yang Hu, University of Florida Host: Gabriel
Fri., 03/24/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Towards Practical Program Analysis: Introspection and Adaptation Speaker: Shiyi Wei, University of Maryland Host: Shah
Wed., 03/22/17 CANCELLED	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Detecting Software Faults Using Graphs Speaker: Prof. Anirban Ghosh, University of Central Missouri Host: Rizk
Mon., 03/20/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Addressing Cybersecurity Risks by Considering Physical, Human, and Economic Aspects Speaker: Prof. Aron Laszka, Vanderbilt University Host: Gnawali
Fri., 03/10/17 Hilton Hotel Shamrock AB 3:00 PM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Hacking Oil Rigs for Profit Speaker: Weston Hecker, Principal Application Security Engineer/Principal Pentester at NCR Corporation Host: Shi
Fri., 03/10/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Security Analytics for Defeating Automated Internet-scale Threats Speaker: Dr. Aziz Mohaisen, University at Buffalo Host: Gnawali
Mon., 03/06/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Secure Geometric Search on Encrypted Spatial Data Speaker: Boyang Wang, University of Arizona Host: Huang
Fri., 03/03/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: High Performance Computing at Extreme Scale: Resilience, Energy Efficiency, and Scalability Speaker: Panrou Wu, University of California Riverside Host: Pandurangan
Mon., 02/27/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: The Lovasz Local Lemma and its Algorithmic Aspects Speaker: Prof. Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland Host: Pandurangan
Fri., 02/24/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Automated Testing for Large Software Systems Speaker: Dr. Amin Alipour, Oregon State University Host: Rizk
Mon., 02/20/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Breaking the Monolith: Rethinking Storage System Design Speaker: Yue Cheng, Virginia Tech Host: Gabriel
Mon., 02/20/17 PGH 563 10:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Real-Time Reachability for Safety of Autonomous Systems Speaker: Professor Taylor Johnson, Vanderbilt University Host: Cheng
Fri., 02/17/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Ethics in Science Lecture Series Topic: Insane Asylums and Genetics: How Human Heredity Became a Data Science Speaker: Professor Theodore M. Porter, University of California Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 01/23/17 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Ethics in Science Lecture Series Topic: The Nature of Pride: The Emotional Origins of Social Rank Speaker: Dr. Jessica Tracy, University of British Columbia Host: Pavlidis
Wed., 01/18/17 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: NoSQL Databases, Advantages and Trade-Offs Speaker: Mr. Pramod Sadalage, ThoughtWorks Host: Ordonez
Wed., 11/30/16 PGH 563 10:30 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Cyber Security and the Computer Scientist - How the Fields Meet Speaker: Mr. James M. Morrison, FBI Host: Verma
Mon., 11/21/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Material Appearance Modeling Speaker: Dr. Holly Rushmeier, Yale University Host: Solorio
Fri., 11/18/16 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins Speaker: Dr. Qin Zhang, Indiana University Host: Pandurangan
Mon., 11/14/16 F 154 1:00 PM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Challenges and Opportunities for Utilizing Cloud Computing at NASA/JSC Speaker: Mr. Michael Koester, NASA JSC Host: Shi
Fri., 11/04/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Rephil: Text to Concepts with Machine Learning Speaker: Mr. Russell Howes, Software Engineer, Google Host: Ordonez
Mon., 10/17/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Computational Sociolinguistics Speaker: Prof. Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan Host: Solorio
Wed., 10/05/16 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Internet of Things: Unlimited Opportunities Speaker: Mr. Jeremy Jones, Comfort Systems USA Inc. Host: Rizk
Mon., 10/03/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Topic: Cloud services for the Internet of Things Speaker: Dr. Dilma Da Silva Host: Solorio
Mon., 09/19/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Modelling Socio-Emotional Embodied Conversational Agent Speaker: Dr. Catherine Pelachaud, Telecom ParisTech Host: Deng
Fri., 09/16/16 10:00 AM PGH 563	Special Event Topic: Faculty Mini-Talks Speaker: Computer Science Faculty Host: Shah
Mon., 09/12/16 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Image Segmentation by Spatially Varying Gaussian Mixture Models Speaker: Prof. Christophoros Nikou Host: Kakadiaris
Wed., 09/07/16 PGH 563 11:30 AM	Computer Science in Practice Topic: Developing Apps Using Xamarin Forms Speaker: Mr. Muhammad Naviwala & Mr. Anthony Sicignano Host: Rizk
Mon., 08/29/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Effective Teaching Based on Designing and Modeling of 3D Printed Artifacts Speaker: Dr. Stefan Andrei, Chairman of Department of Computer Science, Lamar University Host: Cheng
Fri., 08/05/16 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Computer Networking Experiments on Protocol Behavior Speaker: Dr. Deniz Gurkan Host: Leiss
Fri., 07/29/16 PGH 550 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Robust Object Re-Identification in Large Repository for Mobile Visual Search Speaker: Zhu Li Host: Shi
Wed., 07/20/16 PGH 550 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: State-of-the-Art in Information Security Speaker: Dr. Rolf Oppliger Host: Verma
Thu., 07/14/16 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Using Data Entanglement to Propagate Redundancy Speaker: Veronica Estrada Galinanes, PhD Candidate at University of Neuchatel, NE, Switzerland; Visiting Scholar, Storage Systems Research Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA Host: Paris
Fri., 04/08/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Prediction Strategies without Loss Speaker: Dr. Rina Panigrahy, Google Host: Pandurangan
Wed., 04/06/16 PGH 563 11:30 AM	LUNCH-N-LEARN Topic: Developing Apps Using Xamarin Forms Speaker: Anthony Sicignano and Muhammad Naviwala, Pariveda Solutions Host: Rizk
Fri., 03/25/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Interview with Prof. Leiss Speaker: Prof. Ernst Leiss, University of Houston Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 03/21/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: The Secret Life of Mobile Applications Speaker: Julia Rubin Host: Eick
Fri., 03/11/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Special Seminar - NSF Ethics Series Topic: Public Ethics, Politics, and Sociobiology Speaker: Prof. Myrna Perez Sheldon, Rice University Host: Pavlidis
Wed., 03/09/16 PGH 563 5:30 PM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: SciFY: Sustainable Sharing of Science and Technology Speaker: Alexandros Tzoumas, SciFY PNPC Technical Manager Host: Kakadiaris
Tue., 03/08/16 PGH 232 5:30 PM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: RADIO: Robots in Assisted Living Environments Speaker: Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis & Dr. Theodoros Giannakopoulos Host: Kakadiaris
Mon., 03/07/16 PGH 563 5:30 PM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Big Data Europe: Using Location to Associate Heterogeneous Information About Events Speaker: Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis & Dr. Stasinos Konstantopoulos Host: Kakadiaris
Mon., 03/07/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Algorithms for Large Data Analytics via Coresets and Sketches Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Phillips, University of Utah Host: Pandurangan
Fri., 03/04/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Toward a Secure, Dependable Mobile Internet Speaker: Dr. Guan-Hua (Scott) Tu, University of California, Los Angeles Host: Huang
Thu., 03/03/16 PGH 550 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Project Mélange: I Know When and Why You Switched from Inglés a Español Speaker: Monojit Choudhury and Kalika Bali Host: Solorio
Wed., 03/02/16 PGH 563 11:30 AM	LUNCH-N-LEARN Topic: Modern Software Development Speaker: Anirup Dutta Host: Rizk
Mon., 02/29/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Special Seminar - NSF Ethics Series Topic: Classifying People by Color: How Racial Categories Change Over Time Speaker: Dr. Alberto Martinez, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Host: Pavlidis
Wed., 02/24/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Empower the Defender with Unpredictability: Game-Theoretic Approaches for Real-World Security and Sustainability Challenges Speaker: Dr. Fei Fang, University of Southern California Host: Eick
Mon., 02/22/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Automatically Generating Software Documentation from Existing Sources Speaker: Laura Moreno, University of Texas at Dallas Host: Solorio
Fri., 02/19/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Distinguished Speaker Topic: SINR Maps and their Algorithmic Applications in Wireless Communication Speaker: Prof. David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science Host: Pandurangan
Mon., 02/15/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: From the Linux Kernel to Cryptography APIs: Supporting and Leveraging Software Product Lines Speaker: Dr. Sarah Nadi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Host: Solorio
Fri., 02/12/16 PGH 563 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Secure Dynamic Spectrum Access: Challenges and Solutions Speaker: Dr. Rui Zhang, University of Hawaii Host: Huang
Mon., 02/08/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Distinguished Speaker Topic: Searching in "Harsh" Environments Speaker: Prof. Ophir Frieder, Georgetown University Host: Ordonez
Fri., 02/05/16 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: CIP Challenges in an Interconnected World Speaker: Dr. Daniel Devasirvatham: Director, Wireless National User Facility Host: Verma
Wed., 02/03/16 PGH 563 11:30 AM	LUNCH-N-LEARN Topic: Securing Critical Infrastructure Through Technology Speaker: Shan Martin Host: Rizk
Wed., 01/20/16 PGH 232 10:00 AM	Computer Science Ethics Seminar Topic: Visual Analytics for Big Video Visualization Speaker: Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Host: Chen
Fri., 12/11/15 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: New Sparsity Models for Image Smoothing and Segmentation Speaker: Yizhou Yu, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong Host: Deng
Fri., 12/04/15 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: The Origin of Social Impulse: E.O. Wilson’s Recent and Controversial Rejection of Kin Selection in Historical Context Speaker: Dr. Abraham H. Gibson, Virginia Tech University Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 11/20/15 PGH 232 11:00 AM	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Cyber Attacks: From Phenomena to Prediction Speaker: Maochao Xu, Department of Mathematics, Illinois State University Host: Vilalta
Mon., 11/16/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Distinguished Speaker Topic: Big Data Security and Privacy Speaker: Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University Host: Verma
Fri., 11/13/15 2:00 - 6:00 PM SC Ballroom & Theatre	Special Event Topic: Computer Science Open House Fall 2015
Mon., 11/09/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Fault-Based Testing of Combining Algorithms in Access Control Language Policies Speaker: Dr. Yunpeng (Jack) Zhang, Department of Information & Logistics Technology, University of Houston Host: Huang
Fri., 11/06/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Generating Natural-Language Descriptions of Videos in the Wild Speaker: Prof. Raymond Mooney, University of Texas-Austin Host: Solorio
Wed., 11/04/15 11:30 AM PGH 563	LUNCH-N-LEARN Topic: Writing Clean Code: What I Wish I Knew Going Into My Professional Career Speaker: David Bushell; Bradley Holmberg; Scott Lee, Flow-Cal Host: Rizk
Fri., 10/30/15 9:00 AM SC Ballroom & Theatre	Special Event Topic: Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Day Speaker: UH Graduate Students Host: UH Graduate School
Mon., 10/26/15 10:30 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: The R language and its Dynamic Runtime Speaker: Prof. Carlos Ordonez, UH-Computer Science Host: Subhlok
Mon., 10/19/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Put Yourself in the Shoes of a Sentiment Analysis Tool: The Challenge of Detecting Deceptive Opinions and Irony Speaker: Prof. Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia Host: Solorio
Fri., 10/16/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Location, Location, Location Speaker: Prof. Rong Zheng, McMaster University, Canada Host: Subhlok
Wed., 10/14/15 1:00 PM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Geometric Modeling and Visualization for Science Speaker: Prof. G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago Host: Deng
Tue., 10/13/15 2:00 PM PGH 563	Special Event Topic: Modern Cyber Threats and Practical Security in Action Speaker: Mr. Michael van Strien, Independent Consultant Host: Verma
Tue., 10/13/15 11:00 AM PGH 563	Special Event Topic: Big Data and Cyber Security: A Statistical Viewpoint Speaker: Dr. Davis J. Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Virginia Host: Verma
Wed., 10/07/15 11:30 AM PGH 563	LUNCH-N-LEARN Topic: Data Analytics Applications in Traditional Industries Speaker: Dr. Shuxing Cheng, Chevron Host: Rizk
Fri., 10/02/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Enabling Robust and Efficient Distributed Computation in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks Speaker: Prof. Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston Host: Leiss
Fri., 09/25/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Mapping Cellular Alterations in Brain Tissue Speaker: Prof. Badri Roysam, UH-ECE Host: Kakadiaris
Fri., 09/18/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Facing the I/O Challenge in High Performance Computing Speaker: Prof. Edgar Gabriel, UH-Computer Science Host: Leiss
Fri., 09/11/15 10:30 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: Faculty Mini-Talks Speaker: Computer Science Faculty (Dr. Chen, Dr. Eick, Dr. Kakadiaris, Dr. Leiss, Dr. Ordonez, Dr. Pavlidis, Dr. Shah, Dr. Shi, Dr. Subhlok, Dr. A. Cheng, and Dr. Vilalta) Host: Kakadiaris
Fri., 09/04/15 10:30 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: Faculty Mini-Talks Speaker: Computer Science Faculty (Dr. Gabriel, Dr. Gnawali, Dr. Huang, Dr. Johnsson, Dr. Pandurangan, Dr. Solorio, Dr. Verma, Dr. Deng and Dr. Tsekos) Host: Kakadiaris
Wed., 07/15/15 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Binary Code Analysis on OS Kernels: Techniques and Applications Speaker: Dr. Zhiqiang Lin, University of Texas at Dallas Host: Huang
Fri., 07/10/15 11:00 AM PGH 550	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Applied Computational Game Theory: Progress and Open Problems Speaker: Dr. Albert Xin Jiang, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX Host: Huang
Mon., 06/22/15 11:00 AM HBS 315	Computer Science Seminar Topic: NASA Behavioral Health and Performance Research Element Speaker: Dr. Lauren Blackwell Landon and Dr. Jason Schneiderman, NASA Johnson Space Center Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 06/19/15 12:00 PM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Detection of Cyber Attacks Utilizing Behavioral Semantics Speaker: Dr. Victor A. Skormin, Binghamton University Host: Huang
Fri., 06/19/15 11:00 AM PGH 550	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Distributed Computation of Large-scale Graph Problems Speaker: Peter Robinson, Queen’s University, Belfast Host: Pandurangan
Wed., 06/10/15 11:00 AM HBS 315	Computer Science Seminar Topic: A Theoretical Framework to Represent Narrative Structures for Visual Storytelling Speaker: Ergun Akleman, Texas A&M Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 05/01/15 1:30 PM ADB Atrium	Special Event Topic: UHCS PhD Showcase 2015 Speaker: CS Department Graduate Students Host: Kakadiaris
Wed., 04/22/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: How Can I Improve my Poster Presentation? Speaker: Chad Wilson, University of Houston Host: Kakadiaris
Wed., 04/08/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: How Can I Improve my Poster Design? Speaker: Chad Wilson, University of Houston Host: Kakadiaris
Mon., 04/06/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Using Hardware Isolated Execution Environments for Securing Systems Speaker: Fengwei Zhang, George Mason University Host: Huang
Fri., 04/03/15 4:00 PM HBS 267	Special Seminar Topic: Writing the Origin with Burned Fingers: Darwin’s Penance for the “Sin of Speculation” Speaker: Dr. Alistair Sponsel, Vanderbilt University Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 04/03/15 12:30 PM HBS 267	Special Seminar Topic: Welfare, Work, and Witness: Why Clinical Research Can Survive the Death of a Healthy Human Subject Speaker: Prof. Laura Stark, Vanderbilt University Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 04/03/15 10:30 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Automating Program Transformations based on Examples of Systematic Edits Speaker: Na Meng, University of Texas Host: Eick
Wed., 04/01/15 11:30 AM PGH 563	LUNCH-N-LEARN Topic: CS Career at Two Sigma Speaker: Scott Lynch and Dat Chu, Two Sigma Host: Shah
Wed., 03/25/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Introduction to the Research Work at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of NCSR “Demokritos” Speaker: Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” Host: Kakadiaris
Wed., 03/25/15 10:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Argument Mining from News and Social Web – a Short Tutorial Speaker: Dr. George Petasis, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos" Host: Kakadiaris
Mon., 03/09/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Log Engineering: Towards Systematic Mining of Logs to Support the Development of Ultra-Large Scale Systems Speaker: Dr. Weiyi (Ian) Shang, Queen’s University, Ontario Host: Shah
Fri., 03/06/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: The Distinctive Significance of Systemic Risk Speaker: Prof. Aaron James, University of California, Irvine Host: Pavlidis
Wed., 03/04/15 11:30 AM PGH 563	Special Seminar Topic: Simulation & Graphics at NASA/JSC/Engineering Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Mr. Eddie Paddock, Johnson Space Center Host: Shah
Fri., 02/27/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Anonymity in the Big Data Era Speaker: Dr. Sadia Afroz, University of California, Berkeley Host: Solorio
Wed., 02/25/15 11:30 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: NASA’s Core Flight Software, a Reusable Real-Time Framework Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Dr. Lorraine “Lore” Prokop, Johnson Space Center Host: Shah
Fri., 02/20/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Security and Safety for Emerging Technology on the Web Speaker: Dr. Xinyu Xing, Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Solorio
Mon., 02/16/15 4:00 PM PGH 563	Special Seminar Topic: IEEE University of Houston of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Branch Speaker: Dr. Paul C. K. Chu, Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston Host: Rizk
Mon., 02/16/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Machine Learning Approaches for Annotating BioData Speaker: Prof. Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 02/06/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: The End of a Computer Era as We Know It: Challenges and Opportunities Speaker: Prof. Lennart Johnsson, University of Houston-COSC Host: Kakadiaris
Wed., 02/04/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Smart Home Cybersecurity: Threat and Defense in a Cyberphysical System Speaker: Prof. Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technology University Host: Shi
Wed., 01/28/15 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: The Devil’s Heritage: Masuo Kodani, the “Nisei Problem,” and Social Stratification at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan (1946-1954) Speaker: Prof. Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, University of Florida Host: Pavlidis

Date & Time	Event
Mon., 12/08/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact Speaker: Prof. Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 11/21/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: Indexed Captioned Searchable Videos Word Sense Disambiguation- a Multilingual Resource Conscious Perspective (Seminar Video) Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston-COSC Host: Kakadiaris
Mon., 11/17/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: Psychology of Science and Technology Speaker: Prof. Michael E. Gorman, University of Virginia Host: Pavlidis
Wed., 11/12/14 11:00 AM HBSB 267	Computer Science Seminar Topic: The Synchronized Brain in Emotional Processing Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Jean Grandjean, University of Geneva Host: Pavlidis
Wed., 11/05/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: A Step toward Deploying Real-Time Applications on Computer Clouds Speaker: Prof. Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology Host: Cheng
Wed., 10/29/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Quantitative Image Analysis in Biology and Medicine Speaker: Prof. Fatima Merchant, University of Houston, Engineering Technology Host: Kakadiaris
Mon., 10/27/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Marrying Domain Knowledge and Computational Methods Speaker: Dr. Ashish Mahabal, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Host: Vilalta
Mon., 10/13/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: 3D Modeling: from Acquisition, Reconstruction, to Understanding Speaker: Prof. Ruigang Yang, University of Kentucky Host: Deng
Fri., 10/10/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Analyzing Genomes Beyond Sequences Speaker: Prof. Jijun Tang, University of South Carolina Host: Deng
Wed., 09/24/14 3:30 PM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Computing Stable and Compact Representation of Medial Axis Speaker: Dr. Wenping Wang, University of Hong Kong Host: Chen
Mon., 09/22/14 3:00 PM PGH 651G	Special Event Topic: KnowingMatters Speaker: National Security Agency, Summer Program for Operations Research Technology (SPORT) Host: Verma and Shi * A program for graduate students. U.S. citizenship required to be eligible.
Fri., 09/19/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Case Study of Big Data Analysis for Smart Grid Speaker: Prof. Zhu Han, University of Houston, ECE Host: Huang
Fri., 09/12/14 10:30 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: FACULTY MINI-TALKS Seminar Slides (PDF): Leiss, Paris, Pavlidis, Deng, Subhlok, Cheng, Johnsson Speaker: Computer Science Faculty Host: Kakadiaris
Wed., 09/10/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: How Economics Shape Science Speaker: Prof. Paula Stephan, National Bureau of Economic Research Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 09/05/14 10:30 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: FACULTY MINI-TALKS Seminar Slides (PDF): Chen, Gabriel, Gnawali, Tsekos, Huang, Kakadiaris, Mukherjee, Shah, Shi, Solorio, Vilalta Speaker: Computer Science Faculty Host: Kakadiaris
Fri., 08/29/14 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Using Process Mining and Learning Analytics for Modeling and Analyzing Learning Processes Speaker: Dr. Carlos Monroy, Rice Center for Digital Learning and Scholarship Host: Vilalta
Mon., 08/04/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Big Data: A Data-Driven Society? Speaker: Prof. Roberto V. Zicari, Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, Germany Host: Eick
Fri., 07/11/14 11:00 AM PGH 550	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Bayesian Nonparametric Learning for Network Security Speaker: Prof. Zhu Han, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UH Host: Huang
Mon., 06/16/14 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Automatic Memory Control of Multiple Virtual Machines on a Consolidated Server Speaker: Prof. Wei-Zhe Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Host: Cheng
Fri., 06/04/14 11:00 AM PGH 550	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Distributed Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks Speaker: Prof. Gopal Pandurangan, Brown University and Nanyang Technological University Host: Verma
Fri., 04/25/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Automated Diagnosis of End-User-Fixable Errors Speaker: Dr. Sai Zhang, University of Washington Host: Shah
Wed., 04/16/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: The Decision to Put David Vetter in the Bubble Seminar Slides: View Slides Speaker: Prof. James H. Jones, University of Arkansas Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 04/07/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Unifying Manual and Mechanical Changes for Better Software Testing Speaker: Dr. Lingming Zhang, University of Texas at Austin Host: Deng
Fri., 04/04/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: To Merge or Not to Merge: Managing Software Families Speaker: Dr. Julia Rubin, University of Toronto, Canada Host: Chapman
Mon., 03/31/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Opinion Mining for the Internet: Models, Algorithms and Predictive Analytics Speaker: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee, University of Illinois at Chicago Host: Eick
Fri., 03/28/14 11:00 AM Technology 101	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Frontiers of Learning from Imperfect Data Speaker: Dr. Andrew Wan, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Host: Ordonez
Mon., 03/24/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Breaking New Ground in Authorship Analysis: Leveraging Data in Cross-Domain Settings Seminar Slides: Download (PPT) Speaker: Prof. Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham Host: Vilalta
Fri., 03/21/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Stochastic Models and Algorithms for Large-scale Comparative Genomics under Complex Evolutionary Scenarios Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Dr. Kevin J. Liu, Rice University Host: Deng
Fri., 03/07/14 11:00 AM Agnes Hall (AH) 108	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Distributed Computing and Large-scale Graph Processing: Foundations and Applications Speaker: Gopal Pandurangan, Brown University and Nanyang Technological University Host: Ordonez
Wed., 03/05/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Computational Challenges in Microbial Forensics at the Ultra Rare Variant Level Speaker: Dr. Viacheslav Y. Fofanov, Eureka Genomics Corporation Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 03/03/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: Ethical Paradoxes of Control: Science, Engineering, and the Expansion of Moral Responsibility Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Dr. Rachelle Hollander, National Academy of Engineering Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 02/28/14 12:30 PM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: So You Think You Can Innovate? Speaker: Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH, Dean, University of Texas School of Public Health Host: Kakadiaris
Fri., 02/28/14 9:00 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: UHCS PhD Showcase 2014 Speaker: CS Department Graduate Students Host: Kakadiaris
Tue., 02/25/14 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Visualizing Human Genome in 3-Dimension Speaker: Prof. W. Jim Zheng, University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston Host: Deng
Mon., 02/24/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Distinguished Lecture Topic: Beyond Computer Animation Speaker: Prof. Karen Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Deng
Fri., 02/21/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Applications and Experiments for Network Science and Engineering Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Deniz Gurkan, Computer Engineering Technology, University of Houston Host: Johnsson
Mon., 02/17/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: 'Broken Symmetry': Humanism, Militarism, and the Dilemmas of Scientific Identity in Nuclear Age America Speaker: Prof. Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 02/14/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: (Good) Seminars are not Chores – They are Career Builders Speaker: Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis Faculty Panel: Ernst Leiss, Computer Science, University of Houston and Prof. Ricardo Azevedo, Biology, University of Houston Host: Pavlidis
Thu., 02/13/14 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Applying Ontology and Semantic Web Technologies to Clinical and Translational Studies Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Cui Tao, University of Texas, Houston Host: Deng
Wed., 02/12/14 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Scalable Virtual Data Structures Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Thomas Schwarz SJ, Universidad Católica del Uruguay Host: Paris
Fri., 01/31/14 10:30 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: Presentation Workshop Seminar Slides: Shi (PPT), Subhlok (PPT) Speaker: Profs. Jaspal Subhlok and Larry Shi Host: Gnawali NOTE: Rescheduled from 01/24/14 to 01/31/14 due to inclement weather.
Thu., 12/12/13 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Social Network Analysis by Compression: Not Only Space Saving, but also Insight Gaining Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University Host: Ordonez
Mon., 12/02/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: Using Creative Non-Fiction In Teaching Research Ethics Speaker: Prof. Craig Klugman, DePaul University Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 11/25/13 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Supporting Query by Content for Time Series Data in Relational Database Management Systems Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Ines F. Vega-Lopez, University of Sinaloa, Mexico Host: Ordonez
Fri., 11/22/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: Linking the Cyber and Physical Worlds with CPS: The Paradigm of Image-Guided Surgical Robots Speaker: Prof. Nikolaos Tsekos Host: Eick
Mon., 11/18/13 10:30 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of NCSR “Demokritos”: Opportunities for Research and Educational Cooperation with UHouston – CS Speaker: Prof. Constaintine D. Spyropoulos and Prof. Vangelis Karkaletisis, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” Host: Kakadiaris
Fri., 11/15/13 3:00 PM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: Does Neuroscience Undermine Responsibility Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 11/11/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Where’d My Photos Go? Challenges in Preserving Digital Data for the Long Term Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz Host: Gabriel
Fri., 11/08/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Large Scale Bayesian Machine Learning with the SimSQL System Speaker: Prof. Chris Jermaine, Rice University Host: Ordonez
Thu., 11/07/13 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Virtual and Augmented Reality for Surgical Guidance Speaker: Prof. Stephane Nicolau, IRCAD-France Host: Garbey
Wed., 11/06/13 4:00 PM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: New Applications of Particle Systems to Shape Modeling Speaker: Prof. Wenping Wang, Hong Kong University Host: Deng
Fri., 11/01/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Information Systems in Healthcare, Clinical and Translational Research Speaker: Prof. Uma Ramamurthy, Baylor College of Medicine Host: Shah
Fri., 10/25/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: Functional Reactive Programming and Response Time Analysis for Developing Embedded Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Albert Cheng, University of Houston Host: Eick
Fri., 10/18/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Jacob Hamblin, Oregon State University Host: Pavlidis
Fri., 10/04/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: Security: Protocols, Sensor Networks and Phishing Seminar Slides: Download (PPT) Speaker: Prof. Rakesh Verma, University of Houston Host: Eick
Fri., 09/27/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Distinguished Lecture Topic: Future Computing Seminar Slides: Download (PPT) Speaker: Dr. Carl Anderson, IBM Host: Subhlok
Wed., 09/25/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Enclosing Hybrid Behavior up to and Beyond a Zeno Point Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Walid Taha, Halmstad University, Sweden and Rice University Host: Cheng
Fri., 09/20/13 10:30 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: FACULTY MINI-TALKS Seminar Slides: Gnawali (PDF), Eick (PPT), Huang (PPT), Leiss (PPT), Vilalta (PPT), Kakadiaris (PDF), Yun (PPT), Cheng (PPT), Shah (PDF), Shi (PPT) Speaker: Computer Science Faculty Host: Eick
Mon., 09/16/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Distinguished Lecture Topic: RESAR Storage: a System for Two-Failure Tolerant, Self-Adjusting Million Disk Storage Clusters Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Prof. Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz Host: Paris
Fri., 09/13/13 9:30 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Achieving Software Reliability Without Breaking the Budget Seminar Slides: Download (PDF) Speaker: Dr. Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University Host: Kakadiaris
Fri., 09/06/13 10:30 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: FACULTY MINI-TALKS Seminar Slides: Ordonez (PPT), Subhlok (PPT), Chen (PPT), Verma (PPT), Johnsson (PDF), Tsekos (PDF), Gabriel (PDF), Pavlidis (PDF), Paris (PPT) Speaker: Computer Science Faculty Host: Eick
Fri., 08/23/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Considerations on the Estimating of the Number of Processors Toward an Efficient Non-preemptive Scheduling Algorithm Speaker: Prof. Stefan Andrei, Lamar University Host: Cheng
Wed., 07/31/13 2:00 PM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Energy Aware Computer Systems and Networks Speaker: Dr. Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, London Host: Paris
Mon., 04/29/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Discovering Semantic Structure for Image and Video Browsing Speaker: Dr. Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin Host: Shah
Thur., 04/25/13 11:00 AM PGH 563	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Video-based Motion Capture: Challenges and Progress Speaker: Dr. Jinxiang Chai, Texas A&M Host: Dr. Zhigang Deng
Fri., 03/29/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Controllable Animation and Remeshing Speaker: Dr. Jin Huang, Zhejiang University, China Host: Chen
Mon., 03/25/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Special Seminar Topic: Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children Speaker: Professor David Rosner, Columbia University Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 03/04/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: Fast by Nature – How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks Speaker: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston Host: Eick
Mon., 02/25/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Network, Visualization and Society Speaker: Mauro Martino, Northeastern University Host: Pavlidis
Mon., 02/18/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: High Throughput Sequencing and Analysis of Complex Clinical and Environmental Samples: Bioinformatics Challenges Speaker: Dr. Yuriy Fofanov, University of Houston Host: Eick
Mon., 02/11/13 11:00 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Seminar Topic: Ricci Flow for Shape Registration and Geometric Analysis Speaker: Dr. Wei Zeng, Florida International University Host: Deng
Fri., 02/08/13 10:00 AM PGH 232	Special Event Topic: Department of Computer Science PhD Showcase Speaker: CS Department Graduate Students Host: Eick
Fri., 01/25/13 11:15 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: Progresses in Virtual Human Modeling and Animation: from Microscopic Scale to Macroscopic Scale Speaker: Dr. Zhigang Deng, University of Houston Host: Eick
Fri., 01/25/13 10:30 AM PGH 232	Computer Science Faculty Seminar Topic: Numerical Linear Algebra in a Database System for Big Data Analytics Speaker: Dr. Carlos Ordonez, University of Houston Host: Eick

Date	Time	Event	Place
Mon. 12/03/12 NSF Sc Ethics	11:00 AM	Identifying Potential Pitfalls in the Quantitative Appraisal Systems for Scientific Careers Dr. Alexander M. Petersen, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Fri. 11/16/12	11:00 AM	Patent Litigation and the Expert Witness Kenneth R. Castleman, PhD Host: Shah	232 PGH
Wed. 11/14/12	11:00 AM	Efficient Decoding over Unknown Impulsive Noise Channels Dr. Yunghsian Han, National Taipei University Host: Zheng	550 PGH
Mon. 11/12/12 NSF Sc Ethics	11:00 AM	Keeping Secrets; Scientists’ Strategic Management of Militarization, 1945-1980 Dr. Susan M. Lindee, University of Pennsylvania Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Wed. 10/24/12	4:00 PM	Funding Opportunities in Wireless Networking and Communications Dr. Min Song, National Science Foundation Host: Zheng	563 PGH
Tuesday 10/23/12	5:00 PM	The Joy of Hacking Dr. Roland von Kurnatowski, TX/RX Labs, Houston Host: Gnawali	563 PGH
Fri. 10/19/12 NSF Sc Ethics	3:00 PM	Evolutionary Theory as Methodological Anesthesia: Methodological and Philosophical Lessons from Evolutionary Psychology Dr. Richard N. Boyd, Cornell University Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Mon. 10/15/12 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Eucalyptus: Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing Dr. Rich Wolski, Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. Host: Subhlok	232 PGH
Fri. 09/21/12 NSF Sc Ethics	11:00 AM	Can Technology Enable Cities to Cope with the Economic Winter? Dr. Arun Hampapur, IBM Watson Research Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Thursday 09/20/12	1:00 PM	Supporting Delay Guarantees over Unreliable Wireless Channels Dr. I-Hong Hou, Texas A&M University Host: Zheng	550 PGH
Thursday 09/20/12 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	A Framework for Real-Time Service-Oriented Architecture Dr. Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California at Irvine Host: Cheng	563 PGH
Wed. 09/19/12	11:00 AM	GM to Add 500 New IT Jobs in Austin, TX General Motors Host: Shah	232 PGH
Fri. 09/14/12 DIST LECT	3:00 PM	Word Sense Disambiguation- a Multilingual Resource Conscious Perspective (Seminar Video) Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
Fri. 09/14/12	10:30 AM	Talk List COMPUTER SCIENCE FACULTY MINI-TALKS Host: Eick	232 PGH
Wed. 09/12/12 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Challenges and Opportunities for Obtaining a Faculty Position in India (Seminar Video) Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
Mon. 09/10/12 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Sentiment Analysis in New Terrain: New Domain, New Features, New Language and New Tasks Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
Fri. 09/07/12	10:30 AM	Talk List COMPUTER SCIENCE FACULTY MINI-TALKS Host: Eick	232 PGH
Fri. 07/20/12	11:00 AM	Cyber Physical Systems: A New Science for Convergence Prof. Kyung-Joon Park, DGIST, Korea Host: Zheng	232 PGH
Fri. 07/13/12 NSF REU	10:30 AM	How Do We Measure Proficiency in Surgery? Brian J. Dunkin, M.D., F.A.C.S, The Methodist Hospital Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Fri. 06/22/12 NSF REU	10:30 AM	Academic Life – Rewards and Perils Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston Host: Huang	232 PGH
Fri. 06/15/12 NSF REU	10:30 AM TIME CHANGE	HCC for Creativity, Expression, and Participation Dr. Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M University Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Tuesday 06/05/12	10:30 AM	Fast by Nature – How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Tuesday 05/22/12	11:00 AM	In Pursuit of Software Faults: Status and Challenges Dr. Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
Fri. 05/11/2012	12:00 PM TIME CHANGE	Frontiers of Human-Computer Interaction Research Dr. Xiangshi Ren, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Host: Deng	563 PGH
Fri. 04/27/2012 FAC CAND	10:00 AM TIME CHANGE	Learning Functions from Correlations Dr. Homin K. Lee, University of Texas, Austin Host: Ordonez	232 PGH
Wed. 04/18/2012	11:00 AM	Detection of Biomarker in Biopsies Based on HR-MAS 2D HSQC Spectroscopy Indexation Dr. Christophe Collet, University of Strasbourg Host: Shah	232 PGH
Mon. 04/16/2012 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Combinatorial Optimization on Surfaces Amir Nayyeri, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Host: Shah	232 PGH
Fri. 04/06/2012 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Portable, Scalable, per-Core Power Estimation for Intelligent Resource Management Dr. Sally McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Host: Chapman	232 PGH
Wed. 03/28/2012 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	High-Performance Visualization of Large Data Dr. Hongfeng Yu, Sandia National Laboratories, California Host: Deng	232 PGH
Mon. 03/26/2012 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Program Verification with Liquid Types Dr. Patrick Rondon, University of California, San Diego Host: Ordonez	232 PGH
Wed. 03/21/2012 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Slowing CPUs to Run Faster: The Strange World of High-Performance Computing Under a Power Bound Dr. Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Host: Gabriel	232 PGH
Mon. 03/05/2012 EXP ETHICS LECT	11:00 AM	Regulating Ionizing Radiation Flawed Standards, Flawed Ethics Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
Wed. 02/29/2012	11:00 AM	The Future of Scientific Computing in the Energy Industry Dr. Detlef Hohl, Shell, Inc. Host: Chapman	232 PGH
Fri. 02/24/2012 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Toward Efficient Vector Field Analysis and Control Dr. Guoning Chen, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute Host: Deng	232 PGH
Fri. 02/17/2012	10:00 AM	Department of Computer Science PhD Showcase CS Department Graduate Students Host: Eick	232 PGH
Mon. 02/06/2012 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Software Engineering in the Age of Data Privacy Dr. Mark Grechanik, Accenture Technology Labs Host: Chapman	232 PGH
01/27/2012	10:00 AM	Computational Models of Molecular and Nanoparticle Transport in Tissues and Capillaries Dr. Milos Kojic, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute Host: Garbey	232 PGH
01/20/2012	11:00 AM	Dynamic Ontology: Challenges and Opportunities Dr. Cameron Buckner, University of Houston Host: Verma	232 PGH
12/09/2011	10:30 AM	Correlation Filters for Biometrics Dr. Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
12/07/2011	10:00 AM	ImpoSybil? Yes. Preventing Infiltration Attacks in Geo-Social Networks Dr. Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University Host: Shi	232 PGH
12/02/2011	10:00 AM	Schlumberger Software Landscape and Diversity Kanai Pathak, Schlumberger WesternGeco Host: Shah	232 PGH
11/30/2011 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Human MRI at ₇Telsa and Above: Technical Challenges and Clinical Applications Dr. Andrew Webb, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands Host: Tsekos	232 PGH
11/28/2011	11:30 AM	Frontiers of Volunteer Computing Dr. David Anderson, University of California at Berkeley Host: Subhlok	232 PGH
11/07/2011 NSF DIST SEM	10:30 AM	ORI Cases and How to Protect Yourself from Research Misconduct in Your Laborabory Dr. Alan R. Price, CEO, Price Research Integrity Consultant Experts (P.R.I.C.E.) Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
10/28/2011	11:00 AM	The Update Complexity of Selection and Related Problems Dr. Sandeep Sen, Indian Institute of Technology Host: Verma	232 PGH
09/30/2011	11:00 AM	Attribute Flow for Discriminative Image Warping Dr. Jianbo Shi, University of Pennsylvania Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
09/16/2011	10:30 AM	FACULTY MINI-TALKS Computer Science Faculty Host: Eick	232 PGH
09/13/2011	10:00 AM	Imagine a World Where Technology Helps Solve the Toughest Problems Dr. Bradley Jensen, Microsoft, Inc. Host: Yun	563 PGH
09/09/2011	10:30 AM	FACULTY MINI-TALKS Computer Science Faculty Host: Eick	232 PGH
08/11/2011	11:00 AM	Information Fusion and Sparsity Promotion Using Choquet Integrals Dr. Andres Mendez-Vazquez, Cinvestav Guadalajara Host: Vilalta	563 PGH
05/25/2011	11:00 AM	Fair and Dynamic Proofs of Retrievability Dr. Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio Host: Shi	563 PGH
05/23/2011	11:00 AM	Do You Trust Your Eyes and Ears? ---Introduction to Emerging Multimedia Forensics Dr. Qingzhong Liu, Sam Houston State University Host: Deng	563 PGH
05/13/2011	11:00 AM	Characterizing the Influence of System Noise on Large-Scale Parallel Applications Dr. Torsten Hoefler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Host: Gabriel	563 PGH
05/09/2011	10:00 AM	The FARSIGHT Project: Computational Image Computing Tools for Biomedicine Dr. Badri Roysam, University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
05/06/2011	10:00 AM	Bayes Optimal Pattern Recognition Dr. Aleix Martinez, The Ohio State University Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
05/04/2011	11:00 AM	Practical Statistical Relational Learning Dr. Sriraam Natarajan, University of Wisconsin Madison Host: Vilalta	232 PGH
04/25/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Models and Algorithms for Large Complex Networks Dr. George Giakkoupis, University of Calgary Host: Leiss	232 PGH
04/15/2011	11:00 AM	A Perspective on Operating and Runtime Systems for Exascale Computing Dr. Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Host: Chapman	563 PGH
04/11/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Better Recognition with Richer Representations Dr. Ali Farhadi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
04/08/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	From Understanding Human Users to Building Efficient Mobile Systems Dr. Ahmad Rahmati, Rice University Host: TBA	232 PGH
04/07/2011	4:00 PM	ITK – Do It Yourself Image Analysis Dr. Luis Ibanez, Kitware, Inc. Host: Kakadiaris	216 PGH
04/07/2011	11:30 AM	ITK – Open Source Image Analysis Dr. Luis Ibanez, Kitware, Inc. Host: Kakadiaris	216 PGH
04/06/2011	2:30 PM	Open Source Software Practices Dr. Luis Ibanez, Kitware, Inc. Host: Kakadiaris	216 PGH
04/01/2011	11:00 AM	Bioinformatics: Computational Needs and Opportunities in the Next Generation Dr. Eric Stahlberg, National Cancer Institute Host: Chapman	563 PGH
03/30/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Design of Large-Scale Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks Dr. Omprakash Gnawali, Stanford University Host: Zheng	232 PGH
03/28/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Human-Computer Interaction with Post-PC Computing Devices Dr. Xiaojun Bi, University of Toronto Host: Deng	232 PGH
03/25/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Intractability in Computational Learning and Approximation Dr. Rishi Saket, Princeton University Host: Shah	232 PGH
03/23/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Symbolic Predictive Analysis for Concurrent Programs Dr. Chao Wang, NEC Laboratories America Host: Verma	232 PGH
03/21/2011 FAC CAND	11:00 AM	Fragmentation Tolerant Real Time Garbage Collection Dr. Filip Pizlo, Purdue University Host: Chapman	232 PGH
02/16/2011	10:30 AM	FACULTY MINI TALKS Computer Science Host: Eick	232 PGH
02/11/2011	10:30 AM	FACULTY MINI TALKS Computer Science Host: Eick	232 PGH
02/07/2011 Dist Spkr	10:00 AM	Computational Illumination Dr. Matthew Turk, University of California Santa Barbara Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
02/04/2011 CANCELLED	10:30 AM	FACULTY MINI TALKS Computer Science Host: Eick	232 PGH
02/02/2011	11:00 AM	Numerical Linear Algebra Opportunities on Scalable Manycore Systems Dr. Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory Host: Chapman	232 PGH
01/26/2011 Dist Spkr	11:00 AM	Intelligent Facial Behaviour Understanding Dr. Maja Pantic, University of Twente Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
01/24/2011 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Will Heterogeneous Information Network Play a Key Role in Future Data Mining? Dr. Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Host: Verma	232 PGH
01/21/2011 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Model-Based Strategies for Biomedical Image Analysis Dr. James S. Duncan, Yale University Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
11/29/10 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Social Learning for Reconfigurable Sensor Networks Dr. Vikram Krishnamurthy, ECE, University of British Columbia Host: Zheng	232 PGH
11/22/10	11:00 AM	Performance Analysis in the Light of Deep Software Stacks and Complex System Architectures Dr. Matthias S. Mueller and Michael Kluge, Technische Universität Dresden Host: Gabriel	232 PGH
11/19/10	11:00 AM	Contour Packing for Deformable Shape Detection and Segmentation Dr. Jianbo Shi, University of Pennsylvania Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
11/12/10	11:00 AM	Coordinated, Responsive Physics-Based Character Animation Dr. Victor Zordan, University of California at Riverside Host: Deng	232 PGH
11/11/10	3:00 PM	Toward the Classification of Finite Partial Monitoring Games Dr. Csaba Szepesvari, University of Alberta, Canada Host: Zheng	563 PGH
11/11/10	11:00 AM	Multilevel Methods for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems Dr. Ilya Safro, Argonne National Laboratory Host: Vilalta	563 PGH
11/05/10 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Enabling Real Time Data Analysis Dr. Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs, Inc. Host: Ordonez	232 PGH
10/29/10	11:00 AM	Can You Imagine a World Where Technology Helps Solve the Toughest Problems? Dr. Bradley Jenson, Microsoft Inc. Host: Yun	232 PGH
10/20/10 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	What We Can Learn From Integrative Modeling of the Heart Dr. Raimond L. Winslow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Host: Pavlidis	232 PGH
10/18/10	11:00 AM	A Continuous Activity Sensing and Recognition System for Mobile Phone Applications Dr. Jun Yang, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto Host: Deng	232 PGH
10/11/10 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	The Parallel BGL: A High-Performance Parallel Graph Algorithms Library Dr. Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University Host: Chapman	232 PGH
10/08/10	10AM-4PM	PhD Students Present Their Research First PhD Showcase Event, University of Houston Host: Dr. Christoph Eick	232 PGH
10/01/10 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Virtual Cityscapes: Challenges & Opportunities Dr. Ming C. Lin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Host: Deng	232 PGH
09/29/10	11:00 AM	RoboBee: A Robotic Bee for Investigating the Bee Dance Dr. Raul Rojas, Freie Universitat Berlin Host: Leiss	232 PGH
09/17/10	10:00 AM	@neurIST: Integrated Biomedical Information Management of Cerebral Aneurysms Dr. Alejandro Frangi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
09/16/10	11:00 AM	An Efficient Power-Aware Scheduling Algorithm for the Multiprocessor Platform Dr. Stefan Andrei, Lamar University Host: Cheng	563 PGH
09/15/10	11:00 AM	Social Influence within Virtual Environments Dr. James Blascovich, University of California, Santa Barbara Host: Deng	232 PGH
07/23/10	10:00 AM	Expeditions in Applied Computing: A Computational Science Perspective Dr. Shantanu Jha, Louisiana State University Host: Johnsson	550 PGH
07/02/10	11:00 AM	Detecting Key Motion Patterns Dr. Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida Host: Kakadiaris	563 PGH
05/07/10	11:00 AM	Localized Learning Algorithm Behavior Analysis Dr. Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University Host: Vilalta	232 PGH
04/19/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	Towards Fun, Secure, and Dependable Computing Platforms and Services Dr. Weidong Larry Shi, ViTie Inc. Host: Chapman	232 PGH
04/16/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	CANCELLED Dr. James Clause, Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Zheng	232 PGH
04/16/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	Detecting the Network Behavior of Malware Dr. Roberto Perdisci, Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Zheng	232 PGH
04/12/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	SocioTechnical Effects in Software Teams Dr. Christian Bird, University of California, Davis Host: Shah	232 PGH
04/09/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	Designing Mobile Persuasive Technologies for Rural Health Promotion Dr. Divya Ramachandran, University of California, Berkeley Host: Deng	232 PGH
04/05/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	Privacy Preservation in Data Publishing and Sharing Dr. Tiancheng Li, Purdue University Host: S. Huang	232 PGH
04/02/10	11:00 AM	Transfer Learning for Scientific Discovery Dr. Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab Host: Vilalta	232 PGH
03/29/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	Advancing Operating Systems to Address Resource Contention Challenges in Multi-core Processors Dr. Xiaoning Ding, Ohio State University Host: Johnsson	232 PGH
03/26/10 DIST LECT	11:00 AM	Research Results in Distributed Systems, Wireless Networks, and Networks Security Dr. Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky Host: Zheng	232 PGH
03/09/10	11:00 AM	Introduction to an Humanoid Robot – Nao Natanel Dukan, Aldebaran Robotics Inc. Host: Deng	563 PGH
03/08/10 FC2010	11:00 AM	Rich Photography on a Budget Dr. Samuel W. Hasinoff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Kakadiaris	232 PGH
01/29/10	11:00 AM	Demand-Aware Content Distribution on the Internet Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University Host: Zheng	232 PGH
01/22/10	3:00 PM	Optimization in Classification Dr. Erhun Kundakcioglu, University of Houston Host: Zheng	550 PGH

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