CDS Colloquium Series

The Department of Computer and Data Sciences's Colloquia series brings speakers from academia, national labs and industry to present their research. The colloquia are open to the public; registration is not required.

Spring 2023 Colloquium Schedule

February 16, 2023: "Classical Simulators as Quantum Error Mitigators via Circuit Cutting"

Speaker: Ji Liu, Argonne National Laboratory
Additional Information:

Ji Liu Abstract.pdf

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Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: White 411 & Zoom Meeting ID: 960 3821 4850 Passcode: 836092

Past Colloquium Speakers

February 2, 2023: "Effective Geolocation of Internet Hosts"

Speaker: Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Michael Rabinovich Abstract.pdf
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: White 411 & Zoom Meeting ID: 960 3821 4850 Passcode: 836092

January 26, 2023: "Advances in AI for Web Integrity, Equity, and Well-Being"

Speaker: Srijan Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Additional Information: Srijan Kumar Abstract.pdf
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 960 3821 4850, Passcode: 836092

December 1, 2022: "Title to be announced."

Speaker: Amulya Yadav, Penn State
Additional Information:
Location: White 411 and Zoom Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606

November 15, 2022: "Title to be announced."

Speaker: Anurag Srivastava, WVU
Additional Information:
Location: White 411 and Zoom Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606

November 10, 2022: "Exploiting Parallelism with In-memory Transactions: Lower bounds and Algorithms"

Speaker: Srivatsan Ravi, USC
Additional Information:

Announcement_Ravi.pdf

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Location: White 411 and Zoom Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606

November 3, 2022: "Keymaker – decentralized identity protocol for grid assets"

Speaker: Mayank Malik, SLAC
Additional Information:

Mayank Malik Abstract.pdf

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Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606

October 27, 2022: "ML in Industry: Cast Study with AWS DeepRacer"

Speaker: Bharathan Balaji
Additional Information:

Bharathan Balaji Abstract.pdf

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Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606

October 20, 2022: "Survey and Trends of Machine Learning Accelerators"

Speaker: Albert Reuther, MIT
Additional Information:

Albert Ruther Abstract.pdf

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Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606

September 29, 2022: "Latent space models for indirectly-observed networks"

Speaker: Kevin Xu, CWRU
Additional Information:

Kevin Xu Abstract.pdf

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Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: White 411; Webinar ID: 927 1216 6189, Passcode: 779124

September 15, 2022: " Algorithmic Innovations for Accelerating Implementations of Artificial Intelligence"

Speaker: Sanukh Kuppanagari, CWRU
Additional Information:

Sanmukh Kuppannagari Abstract.pdf

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Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: White 411; Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606)

February 24, 2022: "Efficient Management and Querying Over Incomplete Data"

Speaker: Xiang Lian, Kent State University
Additional Information:

Xiang Lian Abstract.pdf

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Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 924 6942 2087 Passcode: 539603

December 2, 2021: "New Lower and Upper Bounds for Quantile Summary Algorithms"

Speaker: Grahan Cormode, Warwick University, England
Additional Information: Announcement_Cormode.pdf (170.15 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

November 30, 2021: "Organizing in the age of Organic Machines"

Speaker: Youngjin Yoo, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Announcement_Yoo.pdf (155.15 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

November 23, 2021: "Robust and Explainable Machine Learning Algorithms for Social Good"

Speaker: Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University
Additional Information: Announcement_Zhu.pdf (165.54 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 74388634 Passcode: 357363

November 16, 2021: "Develop data-driven AI technologies to enable translational biomedical research"

Speaker: Rong Xu, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Announcement_Xu.pdf (143.28 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

November 2, 2021: "Modern Medical Ultrasound Technologies and Emerging Applications"

Speaker: Mahdi Bayat, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Announcement_Bayat.pdf (190.59 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

October 28, 2021: Is a literature review in your future? Get ready for it!

Speaker: Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Announcement_Solomon.pdf
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

October 21, 2021: Machine Learning Modeling for the Reactivity of Contaminants in Engineered and Natural Environments

Speaker: Huichun (Judy) Zhang, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Announcement_Zhang.pdf (168.86 KB)
Location: Hybrid: White 411 or join here,

https://cwru.zoom.us/j/94074388634?pwd=QlFOaE9YSVBuOW1QWTBRZU82N2FYUT09

Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

October 15, 2021: Enabling robust quantum computer system by understanding the calibration data.

Speaker: Qiang Guan, Kent State University
Additional Information: Announcement_Guan.pdf (156.34 KB)
Location: Hybrid: Glennan 313 or join here,

https://cwru.zoom.us/j/94074388634?pwd=QlFOaE9YSVBuOW1QWTBRZU82N2FYUT09

Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

October 7, 2021: NVIDIA Tech Talk

Speakers: Scott Ricketts (cuDNN Software), Kevin Kranzusch (CWRU '90) and Mark Costin (CWRU '84)
Additional Information: NVIDIA Flyer.pdf (684.94 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: REGISTER HERE or visit bit.ly/cwru-nvidia

September 16, 2021: Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE): A Brief Overview of NSF AI Institute

Speaker: Vipin Chaudhary, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Announcement_Chaudhary.pdf (141.74 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

April 20, 2021: Control Co-Design: The ARPA-E ATLANTIS and SHARKS Programs

Speaker: Mario Garcia-Sanz, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Mario Garcia-Sanz Abstract
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

April 13, 2021: Networked Systems in the Era of Programmable Dataplanes

Speaker: Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington
Additional Information: Arvind_Krishnamurthy Abstract (200.41 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

April 8, 2021: Clinical Translation of Peripheral Nerve Interfaces: From Restoring Movement to the Future of the Human-Technology Relationship

Speaker: Dustin Tyler, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Dustin Tyler Abstract.pdf (183.26 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

April 6, 2021: Re-thinking Information Extraction in the Age of Neural Networks

Speaker: Claire Cardie, Cornell University
Additional Information: Claire Cardie Abstract.pdf (145.1 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

April 1, 2021: Introduction to The Advanced Platform Technology Center: Innovating and TranslatingRehabilitation and Medical Technologies

Speaker: Ronald Triolo, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Ronald Triolo Abstract.pdf (174.17 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

March 23, 2021: Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing, and Fundamental Physics

Speaker: Corey Adams, U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Lab
Additional Information: Corey Adams Abstract.pdf (149.6 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

March 18, 2021: Networks Capable of Change

Speaker: Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University
Additional Information: Jennifer Rexford Abstract (148.43 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

March 9, 2021: Micro AI: When Intelligence Moves to the Low Power Sensors

Speaker: Tinoosh Mohsenin, UMBC
Additional Information: Tinoosh Mohsenin Abstract.pdf (171.38 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

February 25, 2021: Language, Brain, and Computation

Speaker: Christos H. Papadimitrious, Columbia University
Additional Information: Christos Papadimitriou Abstract (165.1 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

February 23, 2021: What matters in clinical informatics?

Speaker: Xiaoqian Jiang, School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth
Additional Information: Xiaoqian Jiang Abstract (170.54 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

February 2, 2021: Advancing Internet Topology Discovery

Speaker: Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Michael Rabinovich Abstract (127.4 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

November 24, 2020: Next-generation Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): Goals, Solutions and Challenges

Speaker: Amir Herzberg, University of Connecticut
Additional Information: Amir Herzberg Abstract (170.38 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

November 19, 2020: GNSS Only Sparse Data Based Route Processing Model for Tire Wear Prediction

Speaker: Stanley Omeike, Advanced Digital Solutions Innovation Center of Bridgestone Americas
Additional Information: Stanley Omeike Abstract (128.66 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

November 5, 2020: Overcoming Bias in Computational Characterization of Cellular Signaling

Speaker: Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Mehmet Koyuturk Abstract (135.24 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

November 3, 2020: Automation of Road Painting

Speaker: Wyatt Newman, Case Western Reserve University
Additional Information: Wyatt Newman Abstract (194.39 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

October 29, 2020: ZettaScale Computing on Exascale Platforms

Speaker: Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University
Additional Information: Shantenu Jha Abstract (171.27 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

October 22, 2020: Edge Intelligence - Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence

Speaker: Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Additional information: Schahram Dustdar Abstract (141.95 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

October 20, 2020: Toward Point-of-Care Assessment of Blood Coagulation Using Miniaturized Dielectric Coagulometry

Speaker: Michael A. Suster, PhD, Case Western Reserve University
Additional information: Michael Suster Abstract (193.16 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

October 13, 2020: Multi-Regularization Reconstruction of One-Dimensional $T_2$ Distributions in Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry

Speaker: Chuan Bi, National Institute of Health
Additional information: Chuan Bi Abstract (150.5 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

September 22, 2020: Improving Fault Localization by Integrating Value and Predicate Based Causal Inference Techniques

Speaker: Andy Podgurski, Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Additional information: Andy Podgurski Abstract (126.15 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

September 15, 2020: Innovative Machine Learning for Medical Data Analytics

Speaker: Shuo Li, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Additional information: Shuo Li Abstract (155.61 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

September 8, 2020: Sensory and Perceptual Computation

Speaker: Michael Lewicki, Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Additional information: Michael Lewicki Abstract (179.26 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

September 1, 2020: Personalized Models of Natural Language

Speaker: Julian McAuley, Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, San Diego
Additional information: Julian McAuley Abstract (177.63 KB)
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464