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2014-2015 Colloquium Series | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Michigan State University

CSE Lecture Series: 2014-2015

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

Fall 2014

Sep 19


          Dr. Chris Adami, Michigan State University

          Title: A New Path to Machine Intelligence

          Host: Dr. Arun Ross and Dr. Xiaoming Liu


Sep 26


          Dr. Stan Z. Li,  Chinese Academy of Sciences

          Title: Face and People Identification

          Host: Dr. Anil Jain


Sep 26


          Dr. Yao Liang, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

          Title: Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks

          Host: Dr. Guoliang Xing


Oct 3


          Dr. Taiwoo Park, Michigan State University

          Title: Creating Life-immersive Applications: Transforming Solitary Exercises into Social Exergames

          Host: Dr. Xiaoming Liu


Oct 9


          Dr. Arend Hintze, Michigan State University

          Title: Walking the path to artificial intelligence together – a transdisciplinary approach

          Host: Dr. Matt Mutka


Oct 10


          Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston

          Title: Human Analytics: Identity and Health

          Host: Dr. Arun Ross


Oct 17


          Dr. Prabal Dutta, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

          Title: From Pervasive to Perpetual Computing: Realizing the Next Computing Class

          Host: Dr. Guoliang Xing


Nov 7


          Dr. Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside and Tsinghua University

          Title: Differential Gene Expression Analysis Using Coexpression and RNA-Seq Data

          Host: Dr. Yanni Sun


Nov 14


          Dr. Henry Schneiderman,  Google

          Title: Face Detection and Recognition

          Host: Dr. Anil Jain


Nov 21


          Dr. Jason Corso, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

          Title: Perceiving Action in Space-Time: Computational and Human Perspectives

          Host: Dr. Arun Ross and Dr. Xiaoming Liu


Spring 2015

Jan 22 (Thu, 10am)


          Dr. Jiayu Zhou, Samsung Research America

          Title: Multi-task Learning and its Applications to Biomedical Informatics

          Host: Dr. Pang-Ning Tan

Jan 29 (Thu, 10am)


          Dr. Sucheta Soundarajan, Rutgers University

          Title: The Structure of Social Networks

          Host: Dr. Arun Ross

Feb 6 (Fri, 10am)

          Dr. Deguang Kong, Samsung Research America

          Title: Machine Learning Methods in Cyber Security

          Host: Dr. Xiaoming Liu

Feb 10 (Tue, 10am)

          Hu Ding, State University of New York at Buffalo

          Title: Novel Geometric Algorithms for Machine Learning Problems

          Host: Dr. Pang-Ning Tan

Feb 13


          Dr. Lawrence Yeung, University of Hong Kong

          Title: Designing Efficient Single-iteration Scheduling Algorithms for Input-queued Switches

          Host: Dr. Alex Liu


Feb 16


          Dr. Heng Huang, University of Texas, Arlington

          Title: Large-Scale Structured Sparse Learning with Applications in Imaging Genomics

          Host: Dr. Joyce Chai


Feb 23


          Dr. Chongjie Zhang, MIT CSAIL

          Title: Collaborative Intelligence: Building Multi-Agent Systems to Solve Complex Problems

          Host: Dr. Anil Jain


Feb 26


          Dr. Jean Honorio, MIT CSAIL

          Title: Learning Structure from Data: Applications, Algorithms, Statistical Efficiency and General Frameworks

          Host: Dr. Anil Jain

Feb 27


          Dr. Yangqiu Song, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

          Title: Machine Learning with World Knowledge

          Host: Xiaoming Liu


Mar 2


          Xia Hu, Arizona State University

          Title: Understanding Social Spammers: A Data Mining Perspective

          Host: Dr. Pang-Ning Tan


Mar 27


          Dr. Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

          Title: From models and data to proofs for Improving cyberphsical systems

          Host: Dr. Sandeep Kulkarni


Apr 10


          Dr. Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame

          Title: Iris Recognition and De-Duplication of the Voting Register In Somaliland

          Host: Dr. Anil Jain