Seminars (Fall 2014)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Fall 2014

(Previous Course Codes: COMP 690 & COMP 691)

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912.

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
01 Sep 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar    
08 Sep 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar    
15 Sep 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF PG Orientation Dr. Qiong Luo
PG Coordinator		 Q. Luo
19 Sep 2014, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm1504 Reconstruct the world in 3D from images Dr. Tian Fang
HKUST		 L. Quan
22 Sep 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF CSE Lab Orientation   Q. Luo
29 Sep 2014, Mon (11:00-12:00) LTH The Value of Practicing CS Students to Actually Teach Software Programming (watch video playback) Amir Kirsh
Tel-Aviv-Yaffo		 D. Wu
29 Sep 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 29 Sep 2014, Mon, 11am in LTH]    
06 Oct 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Visualizing the Invisible: Recognizing and Visualizing Emotions in Event-Related Tweets [Cancelled] Prof. Pearl Pu
EPFL		 D.Y. Yeung
13 Oct 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 16 Oct 2014, Thu, 2pm in Rm3494]    
16 Oct 2014, Thu (14:00-15:15) Rm3494 三值光学计算机的存储器结构及其对电子计算机结构的改进 (the talk and presentation slides will be in Chinese) 金翊教授 (Prof. Yi Jin)
上海大学 (Shanghai Univ.) 		S.W. Cheng
20 Oct 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Software and Software Engineers Dr. Minsuk Lee
NHN NEXT		 S. Kim
27 Oct 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Locality Sensitive Hashing for Big Data (watch video playback) Prof. Wei Wang
UNSW		 L. Chen
03 Nov 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF YouTube on mobile: characterisation and caching Dr. Anders Lindgren
Swedish Institute of Computer Science		 P. Hui
07 Nov 2014, Fri (11:00-12:00) LTG Conditional Random Field Autoencoders for Feature-Rich, Unsupervised NLP [Joint Seminar] Prof. Chris Dyer
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 D. Wu
10 Nov 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 07 Nov 2014, Fri, 11am in LTG]    
13 Nov 2014, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2503 Big Data Technology in the Era of Internet Prof. Tong Zhang
Baidu & Rutgers Univ.		 J. Kwok
17 Nov 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 18 Nov 2014, Tue, 3pm in Rm3598]    
18 Nov 2014, Tue (15:00-16:00) Rm3598 Improving the usability of static security analysis Dr. Omer Tripp
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center		 C. Zhang
24 Nov 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF You See What You Think (watch video playback) Dr. Soonmin Bae
Samsung Techwin		 S. Kim
27 Nov 2014, Thu (15:00-16:00) LTH Thinking on your Feet: Reinforcement Learning for Incremental Language Tasks [Joint Seminar] Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber
Univ. of Colorado		 D. Wu

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2014

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
03 Dec 2014, Wed (09:00-10:00) LSK Rm1032 Experiments with Non-parametric Topic Models [Joint Seminar] Prof. Wray Buntine
Monash Univ.		 D. Wu
05 Dec 2014, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm3584 Big Data Visual Analytics Prof. Klaus Mueller
Stony Brook Univ.		 H. Qu
09 Dec 2014, Tue (14:30-15:30) LTK Community Identification in Social Networks: From the Lens of Social Choice Theory and Game Theory Prof. Shang-Hua Teng
Univ. of Southern California		 M. Golin
16 Dec 2014, Tue (15:00-16:00) Rm3584 Urban Big Data Visualization [Group Seminar] Dr. Xiaoru Yuan
Peking Univ.		 H. Qu
22 Dec 2014, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTH Applying learning/mining techniques in computer systems and beyond Prof. Yuanyuan Zhou
UC San Diego		 Q. Luo
07 Jan 2015, Mon (15:00-16:00) Rm4472 Managing and Making Sense of Big Data From Urban Networks [Joint Seminar] Dr. Yanhua Li
Univ. of Minnesota		 Q. Yang
16 Jan 2015, Fri (11:00-12:00) LTH
  1. Breaking the Chains: On Declarative Data Analysis and Data Independence in the Big Data Era
  2. Flink: Next-Generation Data Analytics
[Join Seminar]
  1. Prof. Volker Markl
    TU Berlin
  2. Dr. Asterios Katsifodimos
    TU Berlin
 D. Papadias
28 Jan 2015, Wed (16:00-17:00) Rm3588 Varan and Mx: Safe Software Updates via Multi-version Execution Dr. Cristian Cadar
Imperial College London		 S. Kim

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2014.

Seminar Archive