Seminars (Fall 2016)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Fall 2016

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
05 Sep 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
12 Sep 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF PG Orientation Prof. Huamin Qu
PG Coordinator		 H. Qu
19 Sep 2016, Mon (12:00-13:00) Rm3501 Cyber-security, the journey from Formal Methods, Program Analysis to Data Analytics Dr. Yang Liu
Nanyang Technological Univ.		 C. Zhang
19 Sep 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF CoCaBu - Augmenting and Structuring User Queries to Support Efficient Free-Form Code Search Dr. Dongsun Kim
Univ. of Luxembourg		 S. Kim
26 Sep 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF State-Of-The-Art Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms For Optimization Gary G. Yen, Regents Professor
Oklahoma State Univ.		 J. Kwok
03 Oct 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF The frontier of fault tolerant distributed system's research Prof. Danny Dolev
Hebrew Univ.		 M. Golin
10 Oct 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Holiday)
17 Oct 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
24 Oct 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Automated Incremental Software Verification Dr. Grigory Fedyukovich
Univ. of Washington, USA		 S.C. Cheung
31 Oct 2016, Mon (09:00-09:45) LTK Gamers + Machine Learning = Mapping The Brain [CSE/HLTC/ECE Joint Seminar] Dr. Amy Robinson
MIT Media Lab		 D. Wu
31 Oct 2016, Mon (09:45-10:30) LTK The Story and The Prototype [CSE/HLTC/ECE Joint Seminar] Dr. Mike North
Discovery Channel		 D. Wu
31 Oct 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) [Rescheduled to 31 Oct 2016, Mon, 9am in LTK]
04 Nov 2016, Fri (15:30-17:00) LTG A VC's Perspective on High-tech Investment [CSE/ECE/HLTC Joint Seminar] Dr. Po Chi Wu
Univ. of California, Berkeley		 D. Wu
07 Nov 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Inverse Static Problem based on Artificial Intelligence: Massive Parallel Robot Applications Dr. Felix Pasila
Petra Christian Univ., Indonesia		 G. Chan
14 Nov 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF The Challenges of Model Transfer in MOOC Data Science Dr. Una-May O'Reilly
MIT		 H. Qu
18 Nov 2016, Fri (11:00-12:00) LTF Deep Learning with Clear Semantics Dr. Pascal Poupart
Univ. of Waterloo		 N. Zhang
21 Nov 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) [Rescheduled to 18 Nov 2016, Fri, 11am in LTF]
28 Nov 2016, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Practical Networked Systems for Data Centers Dr. Kai Chen
HKUST		 K. Chen

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2016

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
19 Sep 2016, Mon (10:30-11:30) Rm3501 Hardware Security: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Unspecified Functionality [Cybersecurity Seminar] Dr. Nicole Fern
UC Santa Barbara		 C. Zhang
11 Nov 2016, Fri (12:00-13:00) Rm3501 Analysis of Android hybrid applications and other fun with WALA [Cybersecurity Seminar] Dr. Julian Dolby
IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center		 C. Zhang
28 Nov 2016, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm3501 Statistical Learning Theory: from the Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory to Learning Through Privacy [AI Group Seminar] Dr. Luca Oneto
Univ. of Genoa		 J. Kwok
02 Dec 2016, Fri (14:00-15:00) LTF Challenges and Opportunities in Deep Learning Dr. Tie-Yan Liu
MSRA		 L. Chen
05 Dec 2016, Mon (11:00-12:00) LTF Simba: Towards Building Interactive Big Spatial Data Systems Prof. Feifei Li
Univ. of Utah		 L. Chen
08 Dec 2016, Thu (11:00-12:00) LTF A High-level Introduction to Bitcoin and Blockchain Protocols [Cybersecurity Seminar] Dr. Dimitris Papadopoulos
Univ. of Maryland		 C. Zhang
03 Jan 2017, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm3530 What is a cognitive map? - Unraveling its mystery using robots Prof. Wai Yeap
Auckland Univ. of Technology, New Zealand		 F. Lin
12 Jan 2017, Thu (14:00-15:00) Rm3501 Teaching Computer Science Through Self-Reference Prof. Christoph Kirsch
Univ. of Salzburg, Austria		 C. Zhang

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2016.

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