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.
Departmental Seminars 2018-2019
Fall 2018
George Markowsky| Seminar Speaker
Talk title: Introduction to Mathematical Word Processing
Date and venue: Monday, August 27, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Bob Kalka | Seminar Speaker
IBM Security Business Unit
Talk title: Three Trends in Cybersecurity
Date and venue: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 205 Computer Science
Glenn Ricart| Seminar Speaker
US-Ignite
Talk title: Computing at the Speed of Life
Date and venue: Monday, September 10, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Andrew Fallgren | Seminar Speaker
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Talk title: Nuclear Engineering and Computer Science FOR SPACE (and for Earth)
Date and venue: Monday, September 17, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Feng Chen | Seminar Speaker
SUNY University at Albany
Talk title: Graph-Structured Optimization for Anomalous Pattern Detection in Attributed Networks
Date and venue: Monday, September 24, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Nourhan Sakr | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: A Scheduling Formulation for a Cybersecurity Game with Applications in Adaptive Machine Learning
Date and venue: Monday, November 12, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Shima Rostami | Seminar Speaker
Gateway Human Trafficking
Talk title: A Concern of Today: Technology-Facilitated Trafficking and Exploitation
Date and venue: Monday, November 26, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Zhe Jiang | Seminar Speaker
University of Alabama
Talk title: Geospatial Data Science Techniques for Earth Science Applications
Date and venue: Monday, December 3, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Colloquia Coordinator
Spring 2019
Dr. Daniel Tauritz | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Wickedly Hard National Security Problems
Date and venue: Monday, January 28, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Yihan Sun | Seminar Speaker
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk title: Parallel Balanced Binary Trees Using Just Join
Date and venue: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Yan Gu| Seminar Speaker
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk title: Efficient Algorithms for Modern and Future Architecture
Date and venue: Friday, February 6, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Ferdinando Fioretto | Seminar Speaker
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk title: Privacy in the field: Protecting Sensitive Data for AI Applications
Date and venue: Monday, February 11, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Tony Luo| Seminar Speaker
Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Talk title: Small Data, Big Data, Good Data: Toward Data-Centric and Trustworthy Internet of Things
Date and venue: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Fenglong Ma | Seminar Speaker
Department of Computer Science, University of Buffalo
Talk title: Deep Predictive Models for Mining Electronic Health Records
Date and venue: Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Ruozhou Yu | Seminar Speaker
Computer Science, Arizona State University
Talk title: Data-Oriented and Trustworthy IoT Services for a Cyber-Physical World
Date and venue: Monday, February 18, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Zheng Dong | Seminar Speaker
Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas
Talk title: Bringing Predictability Guarantees to Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems
Date and venue: Monday, February 20, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
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Date and venue: Monday, February 25, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Satyaki Roy | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: bioSmartSense: A Bio-inspired Data Collection Framework for Energy-efficient, QoI-aware Smart City Applications
Date and venue: Monday, March 4, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Bruce McMillin | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: How to Write and Present a Research Proposal
Date and venue: Monday, March 11, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Doug McGeehan | Seminar
Missouri S&T
Talk title: ChitChat: An Approach to Message Routing in a Smartphone-based Wireless Mesh Network
Date and venue: Monday, March 18, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. George Markowsky | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: The Sad History of Tandom Bits
Date and venue: Monday, April 1, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Rajeev K Agrawal | Seminar Speaker
Information Technology Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Talk title: Using Deep Learning in identifying network intrusions
Date and venue: Monday, April 8, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Co-sponsored by Computer Science Department and the Center For Smart Living
Dr. Walter Lasecki| Seminar Speaker
University of Michigan
Talk title: Hybrid Intelligence Systems (HyIntS): Using Crowdsourcing to Scaffold Robust Interactive Intelligent Systems
Date and venue: Monday, April 15, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Katrina Ward | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: Balancing Privacy and Social Media
Date and venue: Monday, April 22, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Zhe jiang | Seminar Speaker
University of Alabama
Talk title: Geospatial Data Science Techniques for Earth Science Applications
Date and venue: Monday, April 29, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Nan Cen| Seminar Speaker
Northeastern University
Talk title: New Wireless Technologies for Next-Generation Internet of Things
Date and venue: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. in 203 Computer Science