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2011-2012 Colloquium Series | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Michigan State University

CSE Lecture Series: 2011-2012

Lectures are on Fridays at 11:00am in EB3105 unless otherwise specified.  These lectures are free and open to everyone.

Spring 2012 Lectures:

Jan 13
Dr. Michael E. Palmer, Stanford University 
Title:Evolved Neurogenesis and Synaptogenesis for Robotic Control
Host:Charles Ofria

Jan 27
Dr. Kang Shin, University of Michigan
Host:Guoliang Xing 
 
Host:Yanni Sun 

Feb 6
Location: Engineering Building 3105 (10-11am)
Dr. Arun Ross, Robert C. Byrd Associate Professor, West Virginia University
Title: Biometrics: The Future Beckons  
Host:Anil Jain 

Feb 9
Location: Engineering Building 3105 (10-11am)
Dr. Xiaoming Liu, Research Scientist, GE Global Research
Title: Facial Analysis: Biometrics and Beyond
Host:Yiying Tong 

Feb 10
Location: Engineering Building 3105 (11am-noon)
Dr. Bikash Sabata, CTO, Bioimagene 
Title: Digital Pathology Imaging – The next frontier in Medical Imaging  
Host:Anil Jain 

Feb 13
Location: Engineering Building 3105 (10-11am)
Dr. Dhruv Batra, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Title: Inference and Learning in Structured-Output Models for Computer Vision
Host:Rong Jin  

Feb 14
Location: Engineering Building 3105 (10-11am)
Dr. Devi Parikh, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Title: Advancing Computer Vision via Human-Machine Collaboration
Host:Joyce Chai  

Feb 16
Location: Engineering Building 3105 (10-11am)
Dr. Meizhu Liu,  Research Scientist, Siemesn Corporate Research
Title: Total Bregman Divergence, a Robust Divergence Measure and its Applications; Information-geometric Learning for Lesion Calssification and Retrieval
Host:Rong Jin 
 
March 16
Dr. Syed Ali Khayam, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan 
Title:Revisiting Network Security Research and Teaching using Software-Defined Networking
Host:Alex Liu
 
April 11  1455A BPS (BEACON Center Conference Room, 2-3 pm)
Dr. Jane Prey, ACM Education Board 
Title:Women in Computing: Why are There so Few of Us?
Host:Laurie Dillon

April 16  2108 EB (Monday 11-noon)
Dr.  Hong Xu, Engineering Director, Enterprise Routing Technology Group in Cisco Systems
Title:Network Positioning System and Cisco TrustSec Architecture
Host:Alex Liu

April 20

Dr. Michael Mascagni, Florida State University 
Title:Random Number Generation: A Practitioner's Overview
Host:Guowei Wei


May 3
Dr. Erwin Gianchandani, Director, Computing Community Consortium, Computing Research Association 
Title:TBA
Host:Guoliang Xing

Date: TBA
Dr. Chandan Reddy, Wayne State University
Title: TBA 
Host:Pang-Ning Tan

Date: TBA
Dr. Ramesh Govindan, the University of Southern California (USC)
Title: TBA 
Host: Guoliang Xing

Fall 2012 Lectures: 

Date: Sept.14
Dr. Chid Apte, Director, Analytics Research, Business Analytics & Mathematical Sciences
IBM Research - T.J. Watson Research Center
Title: TBA 
Host: Anil Jain


 

Fall 2011 Lectures:

Sept 30
Dr. Yang Wang, Chair, Math Dept, MSU
Title: Mathematical Techniques for Authentication of Visual Arts

Oct 6 11:00-12:00 at 3105 EB
Dr. Qunfeng Dong, University of Science and Technology of China
Title: Accommodating Two Genies Into One Jar --- TCAM-based DFA Deflation For Fast and Scalable Regular Expression Matching

Oct 7
Dr. Benjamin Beckmann, GE Global Research
Title: Working for an Industrial Research Laboratory

Oct 7
Dr. Wuwei Shen, Western Michigan University
Title: An Efficient and Scalable Approach to Correct Class Model Refinement

Oct 18 Tue EB 3105
Dr. Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research
Title: The Cloud in your Hands – Marriage of Cloud Computing with Smart Devices

Oct 24 Mon Room 145 CAS Brain-Mind Distinguished Speaker Series
Dr. James L. (Jay) McClelland, Lucie Stern Professor, Stanford
Title: Emergence in Cognitive Science: Semantic Cognition

Oct 28 
Dr. Joanne Atlee, University of Waterloo
Title: Feature-Oriented Requirements: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Nov 4
Dr. Joydeep Mitra, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Michigan State University 
Title: Microgrid Architecture: Reliable Design and Autonomous Control

Nov 11
Dr. Gary Hsieh, TISM, MSU
Title: Motivation and Motivators in Social Computing 

Nov 18 Friday 11:00-12:00 EB 3105
Dr. Arun Ross, Robert C. Burd Associate Professor, West Virginia University
Title: Look Into My Eyes: Recent Progress in Ocular Biometrics  

Nov 18
Dr. Amr El Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Scalable and Elastic Data Management in the Cloud  

Nov 18 Friday 2:00-3:00 A405 Wells Hall
Dr. Tong Zhang, Rutgers
Title: Some Statistical Models for Nonlinear Feature Learning

Date:TBA
Dr. Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles
Title:TBA 

Dec 9
Dr. Jongeun Choi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University
Title: Environmental Adaptive Sampling using Mobile Sensor Networks