Seminars (Fall 2015)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Fall 2015

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
04 Sep 2015, Fri (16:30-17:30) Rm2304 Energy-Aware Opportunistic Mobile Data Offloading Prof. Gunnar Karlsson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology		 P. Hui
07 Sep 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF PG Orientation and Introduction Prof. Huamin Qu
PG Coordinator		 H. Qu
14 Sep 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Lightning Research Introduction Seminars Series 1 CSE Faculty Members Q. Yang
21 Sep 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Lightning Research Introduction Seminars Series 2 CSE Faculty Members D. Wu
28 Sep 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
05 Oct 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Lightning Research Introduction Seminars Series 3 CSE Faculty Members H. Qu
12 Oct 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Lightning Research Introduction Seminars Series 4 CSE Faculty Members S.C. Cheung
19 Oct 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Paxos Made Transparent (watch video playback) Prof. Heming Cui
HKU		 K. Chen
26 Oct 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Real-time Imaging in Arrhythmias Prof. Yuchi Han
Univ. of Pennsylvania		 A. Chung
02 Nov 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF DBSCAN Revisited: Mis-Claim, Un-Fixability, and Approximation Prof. Yufei TAO
CUHK		 K. Yi
03 Nov 2015, Tue (16:30-17:30) LTE Graph Algorithmic Techniques for Biomedical Image Segmentation: LOGISMOS Prof. Milan Sonka
Univ. of Lowa		 A. Chung
09 Nov 2015, Mon (16:00-17:30) LTF Emerging Chinese User-Experience Design Trends (watch video playback) Aaron Marcus
AM+A		 X. Ma
10 Nov 2015, Tue (16:30-17:30) LTF Subsampling Large Graphs and Invariance in Networks [ISOM/MATH/CSE/CSS Joint Seminar] Prof. Peter Orbanz
Columbia Univ.		 D. Wu
16 Nov 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 19 Nov 2015, Thu, 10am in LTG]    
19 Nov 2015, Thu (10:00-12:00) LTG
  1. Solving Math Number Word Problem - What can NLP, Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning contribute? (watch video playback)
  2. Video Understanding Meets Deep Learning (watch video playback)
  1. Dr. Chin-Yew LIN, MSRA
  2. Dr. Tao MEI, MSRA
 L. Chen
23 Nov 2015, Mon (16:30-17:30) LTF Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Time Evolving Feature Allocations and Sparse Dynamic Networks [JSS/CSS/CSE Joint Seminar] Dr. Konstantina Palla
Oxford Univ.		 D. Wu
26 Nov 2015, Thu (15:00-16:00) Rm3494 Automating Program Transformations based on Examples of Systematic Edits Dr. Miryung Kim
UCLA		 S. Kim
30 Nov 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 26 Nov 2015, Thu, 3pm in Rm3494]    

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2015

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
03 Sep 2015, Thu (13:00-14:00) Rm3501 AWS For Researchers [SE Group Seminar] Markku Lepistö
Amazon Web Services		 S. Kim
11 Sep 2015, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm3501 A Tour into Spatiotemporal Data Management Research: A Personal Perspective [DB Group Seminar] Prof. Walid Aref
Purdue Univ.		 D. Papadias
12 Oct 2015, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm2463 Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) - Filling the Gap between Frank Rosenblatt's Dream and John von Neumann's Puzzle? [AI Group Seminar] Dr. Guang-Bin Huang
Nanyang Technological Univ.		 J. Kwok
16 Oct 2015, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm2303 Provable Non-convex Projections for High-dimensional Learning Problems [AI Group Seminar] Prateek Jain
Microsoft Research Lab, India		 J. Kwok
23 Nov 2015, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm1504 Machine Learning with Nearest Neighbors [AI Group Seminar] Dr. Yung-Kyun Noh
Seoul National Univ.		 J. Kwok
10 Dec 2015, Thu (15:00-16:30) IAS LT Managing General and Individual Knowledge in Crowdsourcing Applications Prof. Tova Milo
Tel Aviv Univ.		 L. Chen
14 Dec 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTH Non-parametric Topic Models and Variants [CSE/HLTC/ECE/ISOM/MATH Joint Seminar] Prof. Wray Buntine
Monash Univ.		 D. Wu
05 Jan 2016, Tue (11:00-12:00) LTH Understanding Deep Learning via Scalable Nonparametric Methods Dr. Le Song
Georgia Institute of Technology		 Q. Yang
07 Jan 2016, Thu (11:00-12:00) LTH Data Processing and New Hardware Prof. Gustavo Alonso
ETH Zurich, Switzerland		 L. Chen
18 Jan 2016, Mon (11:00-12:00) LTG Inferring and impacting people's social behavior by exploiting their spatiotemporal location data Prof. Cyrus Shahabi
Univ. of Southern California		 L. Chen

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2015.

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