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2021-22 Speakers
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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"
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Emma Alexander
Postdoc, UC Berkeley
"Bio-Inspired Visual Sensing: Depth, Color, and Motion"
Monday, May 24, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Martez Mott
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
"Accessible Virtual Reality for People with Limited Mobility"
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Emina Torlak
Associate Professor, University of Washington
"Solver-Aided Programming for All"
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Rob Voigt
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"Linguistically-Informed NLP for Social Impact"
Monday, April 26, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Aditi Raghunathan
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
"Rethinking the Role of Data in Robust Machine Learning"
Friday, April 16, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Miklos Racz
Assistant Professor, Princeton University
"Algorithmic and Statistical Challenges on Large Discrete Structures"
Monday, March 29, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Swabha Swayamdipta
Postdoctoral Investigator, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
"Modeling Humans for Designing Effective Collaborative AI Systems"
Monday, March 15, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
"Cognitive Audio": Enabling Auditory Interfaces with an Understanding of How We Hear"
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Lucy Lu Wang
Postdoctoral Investigator, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
"Practical NLP for Biomedicine"
Monday, March 8, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Shiwali Mohan
AI Systems Researcher, Xerox PAC
"Modeling Humans for Designing Effective Collaborative AI Systems"
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Bashima Islam
Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Computing on the extreme edge"
Monday, February 22, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Gonzalo Ramos
hosted by Latin@CS
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research at Redmond
"Interactive Machine Teaching: Concepts and Lessons"
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Noshir Contractor
Professor, Northwestern
"People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Workplace"
Friday, January 22, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Chad Jenkins
Professor, Associate Director of the Robotics Institute, University of Michigan
“Semantic Robot Programming...and Maybe Making the World a Better Place"
Monday, January 11, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Netta Gurari
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"New Approaches for Characterizing Perception using Human-Computer Interfaces: Implications for Stroke"
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Stevie Chancellor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Human-Centered Machine Learning for Dangerous Mental Health Behaviors Online
Monday, November 23, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Steve Franconeri
Professor, Northwestern University
"A Neural Network Model of Human Perception + Understanding in Data Visualizations"
Monday, November 11, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Jennifer Cutler
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
"Leveraging social media’s structure to improve marketing insight extraction"
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Konstantin Makarychev
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
"Three Tales on Clustering: From theory to practice"
Monday, October 26, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Jennie Rogers
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"Privacy-preserving querying for data federations"
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Emily Cooper
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
"Perceptual Science for Augmented Reality"
Monday, October 19, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Matt Easterday
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"Educational technology for civics"
Friday, October 9, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Aravindan Vijayaraghavan
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"How to reason about typical instances of algorithmic problems"
Monday, October 5, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Speakers in 2019 - 2020
Prof. Ying Wu
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University
“Making Intelligent Seeing Machines”
Hosted by: Prof. Randy Berry
Prof. Andrew McPherson
Associate Professo, Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London
“Digital Musical Instrument Design: a Player-Centered Approach”
Hosted by: Prof. Bryan Pardo
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”
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
Prof. Kathi Fisler
Professor (Research), Computer Science at Brown University.
“In Defense of Little Code”
Hosted by: Prof. Robby Findler
Leana Golubchik
Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at USC
“Deconstructing Distributed Deep Learning”
Hosted by: Prof. Samir Khuller
Dr. Kate Compton
Open-source researcher
“Casual Creators: Powering-Up Creativity with AI”
Hosted by: Prof. Ian Horswill
Prof. Maya Ackerman
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
“Machines as Creative Partners”
Hosted by: Prof. Bryan Pardo
Prof. Fred Chong
Professor, Computer Science at the University of Chicago
“Resource-Efficient Quantum Computing by Breaking Abstractions”
Hosted by: Prof. Nikos Hardavellas
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