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Fall 2018
September 28, 2018
Qi Alfred Chen
University of California, Irvine
Title: 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
University of California, Irvine
Title: Cheaper, faster computers: Affordable Big Data analytics using hardware accelerators and NVM storage
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
October 12, 2018
Maliheh Shirvanian
Visa Research
Title: Device Enhanced Authentication: Passwords and Second Factors
Host: Qi Alfred Chen
October 19, 2018
William Gropp
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Challenges in Programming Extreme Scale Systems
Host: Eric Mjolsness and Prof. Alex Veidenbaum
October 26, 2018
Daniel Marino
Symantec Research Labs
Title: Observing Cyber Threats in New Habitats
Host: Athina Markopoulou
November 2, 2018
Sushant Jain
Google
Title: Large scale and low latency data distribution from database to servers
Host: Sharad Mehrotra
November 9, 2018
Tara Javidi
University of California, San Diego
Title: Fundamental Limits of Active Learning and Optimization for Next Generation Wireless
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
November 16, 2018
Les Valiant
Harvard University
Title: What Needs to be Added to Machine Learning?
Host: Vijay Vazirani
November 30, 2018
Atilla Eryilmaz
Ohio State University
Title: Leveraging Side-Information for Learning and Optimization under Uncertainty with Applications in Social and Communication Networks
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
December 7, 2018
Cheng-Hsin Hsu
National Tsing-Hua University
Title: Internet-of-Things Analytics in the Era of Cloud-to-Things Continuum
Host: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Winter 2019
January 11, 2019
Ronitt Rubenfeld
MIT and Tel Aviv University
Title: Local Computation Algorithms
Host: Sandy Irani
January 18, 2019
Somesh Jha
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Towards Semantic Adversarial Examples
Host: Michael Franz
January 22, 2019
Lenore Blum
Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Alan Turing and the Other Theory of Computation
Host: Vijay Vazirani
February 1, 2019
Jeff Ullman
Stanford University
Title: Data Science: Is it Real?
Host: Sharad Mehrotra
February 8, 2019
Daniela Tuninetti
University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: Codes for Caching and Data Shuffling
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
February 22, 2019
Vikram Adve
Title: A Case for Shipping ALL Software Using Virtual Instruction Sets: The ALLVM Project
Host: Michael Franz
March 1, 2019
Muriel Médard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Reliable Communication over Noisy Channels by Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND)
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
March 8, 2019
Shlomi Dolev
Ben-Gurion University
Title: Overlay Security Quantum Safe Communication Over the Internet Infrastructure
Host: Sharad Mehrotra
March 15, 2019
Danijela Cabric
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Learning Shared Spectrum Occupancy: Wireless Networks Footprints, Topologies, and Radio Fingerprints
Host: Ender Ayanoglu
Spring 2019
April 12, 2019
Yunhan Jia
Baidu X-Lab
Title: Threat to Real-world Deep Learning Systems: Practical Attacks and Security Measures
Host: Alfred Chen
April 19, 2019
Andreas Molisch
University of Southern California
Title: Caching-enabled Device-to-device Communications for Video Transmission
Host: NetSys / Ender Ayanoglu
May 10, 2019
Nambi Seshadri
University of California, San Diego
Title: Modern Story of Wireless - A Personal Perspective
Host: NetSys / Ender Ayanoglu
May 17, 2019
Tarek Abdelzahar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Towards an Internet of Battlefield Things
Host: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
May 24, 2019
Felix Xiaozhu Lin
Purdue University
Title: Supercharge analytics over large IoT data: an OS approach
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
May 31, 2019
Narayan Srinivasa
Intel Labs
Title: Deep Learning for Computer Vision
Host: Nikil Dutt and Jeff Krichmar
June 7, 2019
Yasamin Mostofi
University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Robotics Meet Wireless Communications: Opportunities and Challenges
Host: Ender Ayanoglu