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Fall 2019
October 4, 2019
Ardalan Amiri Sani
University of California, Irvine
Title: Tips from a Systems Researcher or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy Building Systems
October 11, 2019
Junshan Zhang
Arizona State University
Title: Edge Intelligence in the Making: A Collaborative Learning Approach
Host: Athina Markopoulou and Hamid Jafarkhani / NetSys
November 1, 2019
Aaron Schulman
University of California, San Diego
Title: Measuring widespread problems with our critical infrastructure
November 8, 2019
Ramesh Govindan
University of Southern California
Title: Towards Highly-Available Global Content Provider Networks
Host: Nalini Venkatasubramanian / NetSys (Hamid Jafarkhani)
November 15, 2019
Tandy Warnow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Large-Scale Species Tree Estimation
Host: Sandy Irani
November 22, 2019
Julian McAuley
University of California, San Diego
Title: Personalized Models of Natural Language
Host: Sameer Singh
December 6, 2019
Michel Goemans
MIT
Title: Perspectives on the design of approximation algorithms
Host: Vijay Vazirani
Winter 2020
January 10, 2020
Gul Agha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Scalable Programming: Progress, Prospects and Challenges
Host: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
January 17, 2020
Kai-Wei Chang
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Bias and Fairness in Natural Language Processing
Host: Sameer Singh
January 30, 2020
Nancy Lynch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: A Theoretical View of Distributed Systems
Host: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
February 7, 2020
Aviral Shrivastava
Arizona State University
Title: Make Programming Simple Again - Resilience
Host: Nikil Dutt
February 21, 2020
Ion Stoica
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Systems and ML at RISELab
Host: Roy Fox
February 27, 2020
Amirhossein Mirhosseini
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: Server Architectures for the Microservices Era
Host: Ardalan Amiri Sani
February 28, 2020
Felix Wu
University of California, Davis
Title: Disinformation, Social Algorithm, and Suspicious Accounts
Host: Gene Tsudik - NetSys
March 6, 2020
Abhishek Dubey
Vanderbilt University
Title: Principled Approaches for Resilient Decision Procedures in Smart and Connected Communities
Host: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
March 13, 2020
Veljko Milutinovic
Title: DataFlow SuperComputing for Big Data Deep Analytics
Host: Alex Veidenbaum and Alex Nicolau