Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place in the 6th floor conference room of Donald Bren Hall (DBH 6011). Refreshments will be served at 10:50am, and the seminar talks will run from 11:00am until noon.
For additional information, please contact CS Seminar Administrative Coordinator, Mare Stasik, at mstasik@ics.uci.edu or (949) 824-7651.
Fall 2018 Seminars
September 28, 2018
Alfred Chen
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UC Irvine
“Ghost Cars and Fake Obstacles: Automated Security Analysis of Self-driving Car and Smart Traffic Light Systems”
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
October 5, 2018
Sang-Woo Jun
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UC Irvine
“Cheaper, faster computers: Affordable Big Data analytics using hardware accelerators and NVM storage”
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
October 12, 2018
Maliheh Shirvanian
Visa Research
Device Enhanced Authentication: Passwords and Second Factors Abstract/Bio
Host: Qi Alfred Chen
October 19,2018
Distinguished Speaker: Bill Gropp
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Challenges in Programming Extreme Scale Systems”
Hosts: Alex Veidenbaum & Eric Mjolsness
October 26, 2018
Daniel Marino
Symantec Research Labs
“Observing Cyber Threats in New Habitats”
Host: NetSys/Prof. Athina Markopoulou
November 2, 2018
Sushant Jain
Google Inc.
“Large scale and low latency data distribution from database to servers”
Host: Sharad Mehrotra
Joint talk with ISG
November 9, 2018
Tara Javidi
“Fundamental Limits of Active Learning and Optimization for Next Generation Wireless”
University of California San Diego
Host: NetSys/Ender
November 16, 2018
Distinguished speaker series: Les Valiant – ACO
What Needs to be Added to Machine Learning?
Host: Vijay Vazirani
November 30. 2018
Atilla Eryilmaz
Oregon State University
Host: NetSys/Ender
December 7, 2018
Chenghsin Hsu
Host: NetSys/Nalini
Spring 2018 Seminars
April 6, 2018
Ayfer Ozgur
Stanford University
A Communication-Theoretic Perspective on the IoT
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
April 13, 2018
Jeannette Wing
Columbia University
Data For Good
Host: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
April 20, 2018
Smita Bakshi
zyBooks
Improving CS education using web-based interactive technology
Host: Sandy Irani
April 27, 2018
Vivek Tiwari
Intel Corporation
Power Challenges in the Smart, Connected World (aka Why haven’t we have solved the Power problem yet!)
Host: Nikil Dutt
May 4, 2018
Trevor Mudge
University of Michigan
The Explosion in Neural Network Chips
Hosts: Alex Veidenbaum, Alex Nicolau, and Marios Papaefthymiou
May 11, 2018
Tom Anderson
University of Washington
High Performance Operating Systems in the Data Center
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
June 1, 2018
C. Mohan
IBM Almaden Research Center
Blockchains Untangled: Public, Private, Smart Contracts, Applications, Issues
Host: Mike Carey
June 8, 2018
Scott Jordan
UC Irvine
Intersections between Information Technology and Public Policy
(Cancelled for June 8) Elizabeth Belding
University of California, Santa Barbara
Expanding Internet Access through Opportunistic Networking
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
Winter 2018 Seminars
January 12, 2018
Juan Colmenares
Samsung Research
Ingestion, Indexing and Retrieval of High-Velocity Multidimensional Sensor Data on a Single Node
Abstract/Bio
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
January 26, 2018
Eytan Modiano
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyOptimal Stochastic Control for Generalized Network Flow Problems
Abstract/Bio
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
February 2, 2018
Xu Liu
College of William and Mary
Squeezing Software Performance via Eliminating Wasteful Memory Operations
Abstract/Bio
Host: Harry Xu
February 8, 2018
Divesh Srivastava
AT&T Labs-Research
Repairing noisy graphs
Abstract/Bio
February 9, 2018
Ender Ayanoglu
University of California, Irvine
Fifth Generation Cellular Wireless: What to Expect
Abstract/Bio
February 16, 2018
Miryung Kim
University of California, Los Angeles
Interactive and Automated Debugging for Big Data Analytics
Abstract/Bio
Host: Cristina Videira Lopes
February 23, 2018
Manuel Blum
Carnegie Mellon University
A Computer Architecture Inspired by Neuroscience, with suggestions for the design of a Conscious AI
Abstract/Bio
Host: Vijay Vazirani
March 2, 2018
Xin Liu
University of California, Davis
Data-Driven Approach in Networking
Abstract/Bio
Host: Scott Jordan
March 2, 2018
Xiangyu Zhang
Purdue University
Host: Harry Xu
March 16, 2018
Atanas Rountev
Ohio State University
Static Analysis for Android: GUIs, Callbacks, and Beyond
Abstract/Bio
Host: Sam Malek
Fall 2017 Seminars
October 13, 2017
Shaolei Ren
University of California, Riverside
Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers: Threat and Defense
Abstract/Bio
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
October 20, 2017
Erik Sudderth
University of California, Irvine
Diverse Particle Selection for High-Dimensional Inference in Graphical Models
Abstract/Bio
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
October 27, 2017
Adnan Darwiche
University of California, Los Angeles
What Just Happened in AI
Abstract/Bio
Hosts: Padhraic Smyth & Rina Dechter
November 2, 2017
Scott Mahlke
University of Michigan
Approximate Computing is Easy if You Don’t Care about Output Quality
Abstract/Bio
Host: Alex Nicolau
November 17, 2017
Mathias Payer
Purdue University
Memory Corruption: Why Protection is Hard
Abstract/Bio
Host: Michael Franz
November 21, 2017
Yiying Zhang
Purdue University
Remote and Distributed Memory in the Age of Modern Datacenters
Abstract/Bio
December 1, 2017
Lixia Zhang
University of California, Los Angeles
Developing a new Internet architecture: Named Data Networking
Abstract/Bio
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
December 8, 2017
Jacob Chakareski
University of AlabamaDrone IoT Networks for Virtual Human Teleportation
Abstract/Bio
Host: Marco Levorato
December 11, 2017
I-Ting Angelina Lee
Washington University in St. Louis
Efficient Parallel Race Detection for Two-Dimensional Dags
Abstract/Bio
Host: Brian Demsky