Spring 2024

Women in Computing Speaker Series: 

March 20, 2024

Maria Klawe
President, Math for America
Time: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM
Location: Eberhardt Hall 112
"Connectivity in Complex Networks: Measures, Optimization and Applications"
[Meeting info]

Data Science Seminars in Collaboration with the Department of Data Science

January 25, 2024

Hosted by Hai Phan + Yiannis Koutis

Tomer Galanti
Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor lecture hall)
"Fundamental Problems in AI: Transferability, Compressibility and Generalization"
[more info]

February 6, 2024

Hosted by Shuai Zhang

Yu Zhang
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor lecture hall)
"Structure-Enhanced Text Mining for Understanding and Augmenting Scientific Discovery​"
[more info] [watch]

February 8, 2024

Hosted by Hai Phan

Dongqi Fu
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor lecture hall)
"Empowering Graph Intelligence via Natural and Artificial Dynamic"
[more info] [watch]

February 14, 2024

Hosted by Hai Phan

Xiaotian Han
Texas A&M University
Time: 10:30 AM- 11:30 AM
Location: GITC Building Room 3600(3rd floor  Seminar Room)
"Resource-Efficient Machine Learning"
[more info] [watch]

February 19, 2024

Hosted by Mengjia Xu

Chen Chen
Assistant Professor, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor seminar room)
"Connectivity in Complex Networks: Measures, Optimization and Applications"
[more info] [watch] passcode: x&=k?1gS

February 21, 2024

Hosted by Shuai Zhang

Peiyan Dong
Northeastern University
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor seminar room)
"Towards Ultimate Efficiency in Ubiquitous ML Powered Intelligence and Green AI"
[more info] 

February 22, 2024

Hosted by Mengjia Xu

Ruixiang Tang
Rice University
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor seminar room)
"Backdoor in AI: Algorithms, Attacks, and Defenses"
[more info]

February 26, 2024

Hosted by Hai Phan

Yushun Dong
University of Virginia
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 3600 (3rd floor seminar room)
"Responsible Graph Machine Learning Under a Fairness Lens"
[more info] [Zoom Meeting Link]

February 27, 2024

Hosted by Mengjia Xu

Lihui Liu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor seminar room)
"Knowledge Graph Reasoning and Its Applications: A Pathway Towards Neural-Symbolic AI"
[more info] [Zoom Meeting Link]

March 4, 2024

Hosted by Mengjia Xu

Weitong Zhang
PhD Candidate, UCLA
Time: 10:30 AM- 11:30 AM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor seminar room)
"Knowledge Graph Reasoning and Its Applications: A Pathway Towards Neural-Symbolic AI"
[more info] [watch] passcode:u2!3+Md#

March 5, 2024

Hosted by Shuai Zhang

Xuhao Chen
MIT CSAIL
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 4402 (4th floor seminar room)
"Performance Engineering for Scalable AI"
[more info] [watch] passcode:!=Fm08Wt

March  18, 2024

Hosted by Hai Phan

Guanhong Tao
Purdue University
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 3600 (3rd floor seminar room)
"Towards Secure and Safe AI-enabled Systems Through Optimizations"
[more info] [Zoom Meeting Link]

March  25, 2024

Hosted by Mengjia Xu

Yi Zhou
University of Utah
Time: 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM
Location: GITC Building Room 3600 (3rd floor seminar room)
"Resilient and (Near)-Optimal Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning and Nonconvex Optimization"
[more info] [Zoom Meeting Link]