Seminars (Spring 2015)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Spring 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
02 Feb 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards Crowd-sourced Semantic-based Multimodal User Interfaces Dr. Xiaojuan Ma
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab		 H. Qu
09 Feb 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar    
16 Feb 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Making data analysis really about analysis Dr. Jiannan Wang
UC Berkeley		 S.C. Cheung
23 Feb 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Fair Scheduling in Cloud Datacenters with Multiple Resource Types Wei Wang
Univ. of Toronto		 Q. Zhang
02 Mar 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Theoretical Elements in Computer Science Research and Paper Writing (watch video playback) Dr. Ke Yi
HKUST		 K. Yi
09 Mar 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Reasoning and Planning under uncertainty and resource constraints -- Theory and Applications Dr. Pascal Poupart
Univ. of Waterloo		 Q. Yang
12 Mar 2015, Thu (11:00-12:00) LTH New Barriers to Optimization Dr. Siu-On Chan
Microsoft Research		 K. Yi
16 Mar 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Marrying Data and User with Interactive Visualization Jian Zhao
Univ. of Toronto		 H. Qu
23 Mar 2015, Mon (11:30-12:30) LTF Computational Medicine: Problems, Solutions, and Research Trends (watch video playback) Prof. Danny Chen
Univ. of Notre Dame, USA		 S.W. Cheng
23 Mar 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Make the Impossible Possible: Systems Research and Its Pivotal Role in Big Data (watch video playback) Dr. Lin Gu
HKUST		 L. Gu
25 Mar 2015, Wed (11:00-12:00) LTF (Higher-Order) Graphical Models & Visual Perception Prof. Nikos Paragios
INRIA		 L. Quan
30 Mar 2015, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm1505 Challenging the "Embarrassingly Sequential": A Principled Approach to Parallelize Finite State Machines Zhijia Zhao
College of William and Mary		 L. Chen
30 Mar 2015, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm1504 The Past, Present and Future Big Data and Machine Learning (But Not As It's Often Misunderstood) [ECE/CSE Joint Seminar] Christopher Nguyen
Adatao		 D.Y. Yeung
30 Mar 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Energy-Efficient Dynamic Provisioning in Data Centers: The Benefit of Seeing the Future (watch video playback) Dr. Minghua Chen
CUHK		 K. Chen
06 Apr 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar (Public Holiday)    
13 Apr 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00)   No Seminar    
20 Apr 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00)   [Rescheduled to 30 Mar 2015, Mon, 2pm in Rm1504]    
27 Apr 2015, Mon (14:00-15:00) LTH Crowdsourcing as a Computing Paradigm Prof. Guoliang Xue
Arizona State Univ.		 Q. Zhang
27 Apr 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Joint Multicast-Unicast Design for Multiuser MIMO Networks (watch video playback) Dr. Kate Lin
CITI, Taiwan		 K. Chen
29 Apr 2015, Wed (16:30-17:30) Rm1504 Aestheticodes: Beautiful Interaction Dr. Richard Mortier
Cambridge Univ.		 P. Hui
04 May 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Experience Sharing: How to Conduct Research (watch video playback) Dr. Raymond Wong
HKUST		 R. Wong
08 May 2015, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm4480 Fine-Grained Elasticity Support for Cloud Applications: the CELAR Approach Prof. Marios Dikaiakos
Univ. of Cyprus		 D. Papadias

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2015

Date & Time Venue Title Speaker Host
13 Apr 2015, Mon (13:30-14:50) Rm2504 Cutting Tail Latency in Cloud Data Stores via Adaptive Replica Selection [Networking Group Seminar] Dr. Marco Canini
Université catholique de Louvain		 K. Chen
17 Apr 2015, Fri (15:00-16:30) LTE Heterogeneous System Architecture [Graphic Group Seminar] Phil Rogers
HSA Foundation		 P. Sander
27 Apr 2015, Mon (15:00-16:00) LTH Rapid Prototyping: From 2D Sketch to 3D Fabrication [Graphic Group Seminar] Dr. Tim Chen
Hasso Plattner Institute		 P. Sander
22 May 2015, Fri (11:00-12:00) Rm4472 Quality-Aware Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing Prof. Guoliang Li
Tsinghua Univ.		 K. Yi
18 Jun 2015, Thu (15:00-16:00) Rm3588 Dynamic data flow testing Prof. Mauro Pezzé
Univ. of Milano Bicocca & Univ. of Lugano		 S.C. Cheung
22 Jun 2015, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Supervisionless Machine Learning with World Knowledge Dr. Yangqiu Song
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		 H. Qu
25 Jun 2015, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2463 Privacy Enhancing Dynamic Information Collection and Monitoring Prof. Li Xiong
Emory Univ.		 D. Papadias
23 Jul 2015, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm3501 Analyzing Changes in Software Systems: From ChangeDistiller to FMDiff Prof. Martin Pinzger
Univ. of Klagenfurt, Austria		 S. Kim
03 Aug 2015, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm1504 LeanXcale: A Real-Time Big Data Platform Dr. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris
LeanXcale		 L. Chen
12 Aug 2015, Wed (14:00-15:00) Rm3588 Our Energy Informatics Research Agenda: Adding Bits to Energy Prof. Hans-Arno Jacobsen
MSRG		 C. Zhang
19 Aug 2015, Wed (14:30-15:30) Rm4480 Green Multi-Homing Video Transmission in Wireless Heterogeneous Networks Prof. Weihua Zhuang
Univ. of Waterloo		 Q. Zhang
31 Aug 2015, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm3494 Software engineering practices & challenges in LG Electronics [SE Group Seminar] Helen Choi
LG		 S. Kim

Dekai Wu is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2015.

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