The computer science department sponsors a weekly seminar series presented by a combination of department faculty, graduate students and external speakers. All seminars are held at 10:00 a.m. in room 209 of the Computer Science Building, unless otherwise stated. Regular attendance is required of all graduate students. An archive of departmental seminars can be found here. Seminar syllabus can be found here.
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Departmental Seminars 2016-2017
Spring 2017
Dr. Brian Scassellati | DIstinguished Seminar Speaker
Yale University
Talk title: Building robots that tech
Date and venue: Monday, February 6, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Zhihai He
University of Missouri-Columbia
Talk title: Cyber-physical sensing and informatics at large scales
Date and venue: Monday, February 13, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Yanjie Fu
Missouri S&T
Talk title: In-app behavior analysis
Date and venue: Monday, February 27, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Tarek Abdelzaher | Distinguished Seminar Speaker
University of Illinois-Urbana
Talk title: Social Network Signal Processing: A Sensing Perspective
Date and venue: Monday, March 6, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Mahbub Hassan
University of South Wales
Talk title: Context Sensing from Kinetic Energy Harvesting in Mobile Devices
Date and venue: Friday, March 10, 2017 | 2:00 p.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Carlo Vallati
University of Pisa
Talk title: The 6TiSCH Architecture for Industrial Wireless IP-based Networks: Overview and Open Research Issues
Date and venue: Monday, March 13, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Marco Ortolani
University of Palermo
Talk title: Detecting Similarities in Mobility Patterns through Grammatical Inference
Date and venue: Monday, March 20, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. George Markowski | Department Chair Candidate
University of Maine
Talk title: Some Interesting Applications of Mathematics to Computer Science
Date and venue: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 | 9:45 a.m. in 203 Computer Science
Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis
University of Pittsburgh
Talk title: Data-driven Serendipity Navigation in Urban Places
Date and venue: Monday, April 3, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Bruce McMillin | Department Chair Candidate
Missouri S&T
Talk title: Cyber-Physical Security Through Information Flow
Date and venue: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 | 11:15 a.m. in 203 Computer Science
Dr. Chengshan Xiao | Department Chair Candidate
University of Missouri-Columbia
Talk title: Optimal Linear Precoding for Finite Alphabet Signaling in Wireless Systems and Networks
Date and venue: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 | 9:45 a.m. in 203 Computer Science
Dr. Alexandra Medina-Borja
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Talk title: NSF funding opportunities in Engineering and Computer Science converging with Social, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Date and venue: Monday, April 13, 2017 | 2:00 p.m. in 216 Computer Science
Dr. Xingya Liu | Faculty Candidate
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Talk Title: Practical Self-adaptive Spectrum Access in Cognitive D2D Communication
Date and venue: Monday, April 17, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
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Dr. Wan Du | Smart Living Candidate Seminar
Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
Talk title: Real-time Monitoring of Cyber Physical Critical Infrastructure Systems
Date and venue: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | 11 a.m. in Computer Science 327
Dr. Chenxi Qiu | Faculty Candidate
Pennsylvania State University
Talk Title: Malicious Behavior Detection and Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Systems
Date and venue: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Santosh K. Gupta | Smart Living Candidate Seminar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Talk Title: Smart Temperature Control of Multi-Occupant Spaces using Internet-of-Things Architecture
Date and venue: Thursday, April 20, 2017 | 11:00 a.m. in 327 Computer Science
Amr Magdy | Faculty Candidate
University of Minnesota
Talk Title: Kite: A Scalable Microblogs Data Management System
Date and venue: Friday, April 21, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
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Dr. Junchi Li
Princeton University
Talk title: Local Dynamics: A Diffusion Approximation Framework on Nonconvex Stochastic Gradient Descent
Date and venue: Friday, February 21, 2017 | 1:00 p.m. in 216 Computer Science
Sara Del Valle | Distinguished Seminar Speaker
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Talk title: Agent-based modeling approaches for simulating infectious diseases
Date and venue: Monday, April 24, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Aditya P Mathur | Distinguished Speaker
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Title: Challenges in Designing Secure Critical Infrastructure
Date and venue: Monday, May 1, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Peter Robinson| Faculty Candidate
University of London
Talk Title: Distributed Computing on Large Graphs
Date and venue: Monday, May 8, 2017 | 1:00 p.m. in 209 Computer ScienceRobinson | May 8
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Dr. Haoyi Xiong |
Title: Provably Good Non-Sparse Covariance-Regularized Discriminant Analysis with Application to Early Detection of Diseases Abstract and Bio: Click Here |
Monday, December 5, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science | |
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Dr. Shikharesh Majumdar Carleton Univeristy |
Title: Cloud Computing: A Platform for Data Intensive Computing to Cyber-Physical Systems |
Monday, November 14, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science |
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Dr. Nair Sukumaran Southern Methodist University |
Title: Scalable Security for IoT Abstract and Bio: Click Here |
Monday, November 7, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science |
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Dr. Zhishan Guo |
Title: When Real-Time Scheduling Theory Meets Cyber-Physical Systems Abstract and Bio: Click Here |
Monday, October 31, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science |
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Dr. Aniruddha S. Gokhale |
Title: Cloud Resource Management using Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) Principles |
Monday, October 24, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science |
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Distinguished Seminar Speaker Dr. Daniel ReedUniversity of Iowa |
Title: The Future of Computing |
Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 2:00 pm in 104 Centennial |
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Distinguished Seminar Speaker |
Title: Networked Systems Design in the Interest of Sustainability |
Monday, September 26, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science |
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Dr. Luca Santinelli ONERA |
Title: Probabilistic Timing Analysis: Achievements and Open Problems |
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 2:00 pm in 318 Butler-Carlton Hall |
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Dr. Gary Leavens University of Central Florida |
Title: Specifying and Verifying Advanced Control Features Abstract and Bio: Click Here |
Monday, September 19, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science |
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Title: Optical Layer-Driven Network Restoration and Redesign for Improved Fast Reroute Reliability Abstract and Bio: Click Here |
Monday, September 12, 2016 at 10:00 am in 209 Computer Science | |
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Dr. S M Niaz Arifin |
Title: Binary Search Trees |
Thursday, June 09, 2016 at 10:00 am in Room 140 Toomey Hall |
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