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2021-22 Speakers
Alex Wein
Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
Understanding Statistical-vs-Computational Tradeoffs via Low-Degree Polynomials
February 16, 2022
Manolis Zampetakis
Postdoc, UC Berkeley
February 14, 2022
Jonathan Baker
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
February 09, 2022
Yang Song
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford
Learning to Generate Data by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution
February 07, 2022
Nan Tang
Senior Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute
"From Absolute Good Data to Relative Good Data: Data Preparation for Data-centric AI"
January 26, 2022
Andrea Lincoln
Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley
Average-Case Fine-Grained Complexity
January 24, 2022
Kuikui Liu
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington
"Spectral Independence: A New Tool to Analyze Markov Chains"
January 19, 2022
Previous Speakers
2020-21 Speakers
Kristin Stephens-Martinez
Assistant Professor, Duke University
"A Scaled Class is a Rich Class: How to approach large class data sets to drive class improvements"
May 26, 2021
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Emma Alexander
Postdoc, UC Berkeley
"Bio-Inspired Visual Sensing: Depth, Color, and Motion"
May 24, 2021
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Martez Mott
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
"Accessible Virtual Reality for People with Limited Mobility"
May 19, 2021
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Emina Torlak
Associate Professor, University of Washington
"Solver-Aided Programming for All"
April 28, 2021
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Rob Voigt
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"Linguistically-Informed NLP for Social Impact"
April 26, 2021
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Aditi Raghunathan
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
"Rethinking the Role of Data in Robust Machine Learning"
April 16, 2021
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Miklos Racz
Assistant Professor, Princeton University
"Algorithmic and Statistical Challenges on Large Discrete Structures"
March 29, 2021
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Swabha Swayamdipta
Postdoctoral Investigator, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
"Modeling Humans for Designing Effective Collaborative AI Systems"
March 15, 2021
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Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
"Cognitive Audio": Enabling Auditory Interfaces with an Understanding of How We Hear"
March 10, 2021
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Lucy Lu Wang
Postdoctoral Investigator, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
"Practical NLP for Biomedicine"
March 8, 2021
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Shiwali Mohan
AI Systems Researcher, Xerox PAC
"Modeling Humans for Designing Effective Collaborative AI Systems"
February 24, 2021
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Bashima Islam
Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Computing on the extreme edge"
February 22, 2021
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Gonzalo Ramos
Hosted by Latin@CS
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research at Redmond
"Interactive Machine Teaching: Concepts and Lessons"
January 27, 2021
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Noshir Contractor
Professor, Northwestern
"People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Workplace"
January 22, 2021
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Chad Jenkins
Professor, Associate Director of the Robotics Institute, University of Michigan
“Semantic Robot Programming...and Maybe Making the World a Better Place"
January 11, 2021
Netta Gurari
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"New Approaches for Characterizing Perception using Human-Computer Interfaces: Implications for Stroke"
December 2, 2020
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Stevie Chancellor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Human-Centered Machine Learning for Dangerous Mental Health Behaviors Online
November 23, 2020
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Steve Franconeri
Professor, Northwestern University
"A Neural Network Model of Human Perception + Understanding in Data Visualizations"
November 11, 2020
Jennifer Cutler
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
"Leveraging social media’s structure to improve marketing insight extraction"
November 4, 2020
Konstantin Makarychev
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
"Three Tales on Clustering: From theory to practice"
October 26, 2020
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Jennie Rogers
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"Privacy-preserving querying for data federations"
October 21, 2020
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Emily Cooper
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
"Perceptual Science for Augmented Reality"
October 19, 2020
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Matt Easterday
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"Educational technology for civics"
October 9, 2020
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Aravindan Vijayaraghavan
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"How to reason about typical instances of algorithmic problems"
October 5, 2020
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Speakers in 2019 - 2020
Prof. Ying Wu
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University
“Making Intelligent Seeing Machines”
October 7, 2019
Hosted by: Prof. Randy Berry
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Prof. Andrew McPherson
Associate Professo, Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London
“Digital Musical Instrument Design: a Player-Centered Approach”
October 9, 2019
Hosted by: Prof. Bryan Pardo
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Prof. Ágnes Horvát
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies at Northwestern University.
“The Science of Sharing and the Sharing of Science: Diffusion of Scientific Articles across Online Platforms”
October 23, 2019
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
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Prof. Kathi Fisler
Professor (Research), Computer Science at Brown University.
“In Defense of Little Code”
October 28, 2019
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
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Leana Golubchik
Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at USC
“Deconstructing Distributed Deep Learning”
November 6, 2019
Hosted by: Prof. Samir Khuller
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Dr. Kate Compton
Open-source researcher
“Casual Creators: Powering-Up Creativity with AI”
November 11, 2019
Hosted by: Prof. Ian Horswill
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Prof. Maya Ackerman
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
“Machines as Creative Partners”
November 18, 2019
Hosted by: Prof. Bryan Pardo
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Prof. Fred Chong
Professor, Computer Science at the University of Chicago
“Resource-Efficient Quantum Computing by Breaking Abstractions”
January 27, 2020
Hosted by: Prof. Nikos Hardavellas
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Speakers in 2018
Prof. Nick Diakopoulos
Assistant Professor, Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) at Northwestern University
“Journalistic Media Mining”
Hosted by: Prof. Larry Birnbaum
Prof. Constantinos Daskalakis
Professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT
“Improving Generative Adversarial Networks using Game Theory and Statistics”
Hosted by: EECS Department
Prof. Denis Nekipelov
Associate Professor, Department of Economics at University of Virginia
“Empirical Studies of Markets with Learning Agents”
Hosted by: EECS Department
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT Delhi
“Privacy & Security in Online Social Media”
Hosted by: Prof. Yan Chen
Prof. Joyce Chai
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University
“Language Communication with Robots”
Hosted by: Prof. Kenneth D. Forbus
Dr. Maxim Sviridenko
Senior Director, Scalable Algorithms and Machine Learning at Yahoo Research
“Matching Auctions for Search and Native Ads”
Hosted by: Prof. Konstantin Makarychev
Kent Quanrud
PhD Student, Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Submodular Function Maximization in Parallel via the Multilinear Relaxation”
Hosted by: Prof. Konstantin Makarychev
Prof. Michael Hicks
Professor, Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland
“Updatable Software since 2001: A Research Odyssey”
Hosted by: Prof. Christos Dimoulas
Speakers in 2017
Prof. Mike Eisenberg
Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Designing for Irrational Curiosity"
Hosted by: CS Division & CSLS Graduate Program
Dr. Huck Bennett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
"On the Quantitative Hardness of the Closest Vector Problem"
Hosted by: CS Division
Prof. Andy Ko
Associate Professor, University of Washington
"Learning to Code: Why We Fail, How We Flourish"
Hosted by: Prof. Haoqi Zhang
Prof. Dan Roth
Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania
"Natural Language Understanding with Incidental Supervision"
Hosted by: Prof. Doug Downey
Dr. Shuo Chen
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
"Reflections about Security Research in an Industrial Lab"
Hosted by: CS Division
Dana Berman
PhD Candidate, Tel Aviv University
"Haze Lines for Single Image Dehazing & Color Restoration"
Hosted by: Prof. Oliver S. Cossairt
Dr. Ioan Raicu
Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Big Data System Infrastructure at Extreme Scales"
Hosted by: CS & CE Dept.
Prof. Matthias Scheutz
Professor, Tufts University
"Towards an Integrated Architecture for Open-World Human-Robot Interactions"
Hosted by: Prof. Kenneth D Forbus
Speakers in 2016
Prof. Nick Montfort
Professor of Digital Media, MIT
"Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities"
Hosted by: Prof. Ian Horswill
Prof. Lenhart Schubert
Professor, CS Dept. at University of Rochester
"From Semantic Parsing to Knowledge-Based Reasoning"
Hosted by: Prof. Ken Forbus
Leilani Battle
PhD Student, CSAIL Database Research Group at MIT
"Behavior-Driven Optimization Techniques for Scalable Data Exploration"
Hosted by: Prof. Jennie Rogers
Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington
"A Software Defined Data Plane for Datacenters"
Hosted by: Prof. Fabian Bustamante
Dr. Peter Clark
Senior Research Manager at the Allen Institute for AI
"Project Aristo: Towards a System that Can Answer Elementary Science Questions"
Hosted by: Prof. Ken Forbus
Prof. Matthias Felleisen
Trustee Professor, College of CIS at Northeastern University
"Types for Untyped Languages"
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
Prof. Karen Livescu
Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago at the University of Chicago
"Toward Neural Segmental Sequence Models"
Hosted by: Prof. Doug Downey
Johan de Kleer
Director, Systems & Practices Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
"A New Paradigm for Design"
Hosted by: Prof. Ken Forbus
Prof. Jack Lutz
Professor of Computer Science, Iowa State University
"50 Shades of Symbolic Representation and Reasoning"
Hosted by: Prof. Ming-Yang Kao
Prof. Daniel Jackson
Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"What are the Elements of Software Design?"
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
Dr. Pablo Sprechmann
Postdoctoral Researcher, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
"Solving Inverse Problems in Image & Audio Processing: From Sparse Models to Deep Learning"
Hosted by: Prof. Bryan Pardo
Prof. Arjun Guha
Assistant Professor of CS, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Reclaiming Security for Web Programmers"
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
Dr. Manuel Serrano
Senior Scientist at INRIA
"Programming the Diffuse Web with Hop.js & HipHop.js"
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
Prof. Siddhartha Jonnalagadda
Assistant Professor in Preventive Medicine-Health & Biomedical Informatics at Northwestern
"Natural Language Processing Applications in Biomedicine"
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler