Colloquia/Seminars
Colloquia/Seminars
See also: Distinguished Lecture Series
Upcoming Colloquia
To be announced.
Past Colloquia
Vision-aided inertial navigation
Anastasios Mourikis
University of California, Riverside
November 24, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm 
Engineering Building II 138
Vehicle Autonomy and Intelligent Control: Where are we and what lies ahead?
Jay A. Farrell
University of California, Riverside
November 17, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Applied Geometry for Computer Graphics
Mathieu Desbrun
California Institute of Technology
November 10, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Speculative Parallelization of Applications on Multicores
Rajiv Gupta
University of California, Riverside
November 3, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Two generations of Many-Core Computational Arrays for Highly-Efficient and High-Performance DSP and Multimedia Application Processing
Bevan Baas
University of California Davis
October 30, 2008, 1:30pm — 2:30pm
Bourns A171
Multiagent systems: Lessons learned from putting theory into practice
Milind Tambe
University of Southern California
October 27, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Comparative Analysis of Molecular Interaction Networks
Ananth Grama
Purdue University
October 20, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Learning from data of low intrinsic dimension
Sanjoy Dasgupta
University of California, San Diego
October 13, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Time-Portable Programming the JAviator in Tiptoe OS
Christoph Kirsch
University of Salzburg, Austria
October 6, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Techniques for Constructing Secure, Available, Easily Maintainable Software
Iulian Neamtiu
University of California, Riverside
September 29, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Routing in Random Ad-Hoc Networks: Provably Better than Worst-Case
Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya
University of Kansas, Lawrence
August 8, 2008, 11:30am — 12:30pm
Engineering Building II 203
Understanding Visual Actions
Stefano Soatto
University of California Los Angeles
May 12, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Routing and transport challenges in multi-hop wireless networks
Kostas Psounis
University of Southern California
April 28, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Running Applications on Reconfigurable Platforms : design and run time considerations
Koen Bertels
TU Delft-Delft University of Technology
April 21, 2008, 2:00pm — 3:00pm
Engineering Building II Room 205
Haplotype Assembly
Vineet Bafna
UC San Diego
April 21, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Scalable Dynamic Analysis for Automated Fault Location and Avoidance
Rajiv Gupta
University of California Riverside
April 14, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Tree-based Overlay Networks for Scalable, Reliable Tools and Applications
Dorian Arnold
University of Wisconsin
April 4, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Combinatorial Scientific Computing
Ali Pinar
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 31, 2008, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Practical Dynamic Software Updating
Iulian Neamtiu
University of Maryland, College Park
March 14, 2008, 2:00pm — 3:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Sparse linear system solver components with applications to multi-particle simulations
Masha Sosonkina
U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory
March 10, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II Room 138
Combining static and dynamic analyses for automated bug-finding
Christoph Csallner
Georgia Institute of Technology
March 7, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00am
Engineering Building II 232
Modeling Materials and Visual Details for Computer Animation
Adam Bargteil
Carnegie Mellon University
March 3, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Real-time Non-Rigid Registration for Image Guided Neurosurgery: Mesh Generation
Nikos Chrisochoides
College of William and Mary
February 27, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II, Room 205/6
Fluid Simulation With Reduced Diffusion, Dissipation, and Volume Loss
ByungMoon Kim
NVIDIA
February 25, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II, Room 138
Is my Smart Card Secure? Side Channel Attacks on Block Cipher Implementations
Kevin Compton
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
February 15, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II Room 205
Machine Learning from the Nonparametric Bayesian Point of View
Michael I. Jordan
UC Berkeley
February 11, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Faster XPath processing on commodity relational systems
Vasilis Vassalos
Athens University of Economics and Business
February 6, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II Room 205
The +CAL Algorithm Language
Leslie Lamport
Microsoft
February 4, 2008, 2:00pm — 3:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Whole-Genome Optical Mapping
Michael Waterman
University of Southern California
January 28, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Pricing-based Rate Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
University of Southern California
January 14, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Modeling Text with Dirichlet Compound Multinomial Distributions
Charles Elkan
University of California, San Diego
January 7, 2008, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Declarative Data Services: This Is Your Data on SOA
Michael Carey
BEA Systems, Inc
December 7, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Unmanaged Internet Architecture
Frans Kaashoek - Distinguished Lecturer
MIT
November 26, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Efficient reductions among lattice problems
Daniele Micciancio
University of California, San Diego
November 19, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Statistical Estimators of Parameters Inherent to Clock Synchronization Algorithms
Daniel Jeske
Department of Statistics, UC Riverside
November 5, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Virtual Humans and Lower Animals: From Biomechanics to Intelligence
Demetri Terzopoulos - Distinguished Lecturer
University of California Los Angeles
October 29, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Self-Improving Computers: Speeding up Programs by Dynamically Moving them to FPGAs
Frank Vahid
University of California Riverside
October 22, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
The Logic of Bugs
Gerard Holzmann
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 15, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Register Allocation by Puzzle Solving
Jens Palsberg
University of California, Los Angeles
October 8, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Computational Challenges of the Barley Genome Project
Stefano Lonardi
University of California Riverside
October 1, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Putting Advanced Programming Techniques to Practical Use: Taming Chip Design Complexity
Rishiyur Nikhil
Bluespec, Inc.
June 8, 2007, 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Architecture-level Thermal and Power Modeling and Simulation for High-Performance Microprocessor Designs
Sheldon Tan
Department of Electrical Engineering, UC Riverside
May 21, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Beating Simplex for Approximate Packing and Covering
Neal Young
Department of Computer Science, UC Riverside
May 14, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Graph coloring and distributed source coding
Ertem Tuncel
UC Riverside-Department of Electrical Engineering
May 7, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Energy Maps for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: Coherence time versus Node Mobility
Volkan Rodoplu
UC Santa Barbara
April 20, 2007, 2:00pm — 3:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
An Axiomatic Approach to Information Retrieval
Hui Fang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 16, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Modeling macromolecular dynamics from simulations
Nina Singhal Hinrichs
Stanford University
April 9, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
A Framework for Power Aware High Performance Computing
Rong Ge
Virginia Tech
April 2, 2007, 10:00am — 11:00am
Engineering Building II 138
From web servers to databases to storage systems: A methodological approach to system design
Bianca Schroeder
Carnegie Mellon University
March 16, 2007, 1:00pm — 2:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Designing Robust Internet-scale Distributed Systems
Sriram Ramabhadran
UC San Diego
March 14, 2007, 1:30pm — 2:30pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Mining Stream and Sensor Data
Spiros Papadimitriou
Carnegie Mellon University
March 12, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Performance Modeling: Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future in HPC
Allan Snavely
San Diego Supercomputer Center
March 9, 2007, 1:30pm — 2:30pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Resolving feature convolution in software systems infrastructures.
Charles Zhang
University of Toronto
March 7, 2007, 10:00am — 11:00am
Engineering Building II 205/206
New computational methods for genome-wide non-coding RNA finding and analysis
Shaojie Zhang
UC San Diego
March 5, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Defeating Memory Error Exploits Using Automated Software Diversity
Sandeep Bhatkar
Stony Brook University
March 2, 2007, 2:00pm — 3:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Discrete Differential Geometry and its Applications
Yiying Tong
California Institute of Technology
February 26, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Statistical Failure Diagnosis in Software and Systems
Alice Zheng
Carnegie Mellon University
February 23, 2007, 1:30pm — 2:30pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Tools and techniques for understanding and defending real systems
Jedidiah Crandall
UC Davis
February 16, 2007, 1:30pm — 2:30pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Algorithmic Game Theory with Applications to Online Auctions
Nicole Immorlica
Microsoft Research
February 12, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Computer Graphics
Aner Ben-Artzi
Columbia University
February 5, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Optimized Compiler Generated Code Accelerators for FPGAs
Professor Walid Najjar
UC Riverside Computer Science Department
January 29, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
EBU II 138
Visual recognition: yesterday, today and tomorrow
Pietro Perona
Caltech
January 22, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 138
Learning When Concepts Abound
Omid Madani
Yahoo!
January 8, 2007, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Safety and Optimization of Embedded Systems
Rajiv Gupta
The University of Arizona
December 6, 2006, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Network Monitoring using Network Coding Techniques
Athina Markopoulou
UC Irvine
November 29, 2006, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Intelligent pen-based interfaces and their applications to CAD and education.
Tom Stahovich
Mechanical Engineering-UC Riverside
November 22, 2006, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Quality Assurance: A Key to Stress-Resilient Internet Services
Cheng-Zhong Xu
Wayne State University
November 8, 2006, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building II 205/206
Modeling and Recognition of Dynamic Events in a Camera Network
Amit Roy-Chowdhury
UC Riverside-Department of Electrical Engineering
November 1, 2006, 11:00am — 12:00pm
ENGR II Room 205/206
Storage Systems for Semi-structured Data
Raju Rangaswami
Florida International University
October 27, 2006, 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Bourns A171
System support for large-scale data stream processing.
Xiaohui Gu
IBM
October 23, 2006, 4:00pm — 5:00pm
Bourns A171
Hardware Information Optimization in the Design of Systems for the Sensing of Human Motion
Greg Welch
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
October 23, 2006, 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II Room 138
Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Information
Wojciech Szpankowski
Purdue University
October 20, 2006, 12:00pm — 1:00pm
205/206 Engineering Building II
Efficient Mechanisms for Securing Wireless Sensor Networks
Guohong Cao
Pennsylvania State University Department of Computer Science & Engineering
September 29, 2006, 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, room 205/206
A Simple, General Throughput Model for Interconnection Networks
Timothy Pinkston
NSF and USC
September 27, 2006, 11:00am — 12:00am
Bourns A 171
Reconfigurable Computing: Opportunities and Challenges
Viktor K. Prasanna
University of Southern California
May 15, 2006, 11:00am — 12:00pm
EBU 2 Rms. 205 and 206
Dual Photography
Pradeep Sen
Stanford University
May 3, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Bourns A265
Current and Future Trends in Real-Time and Embedded Systems Development
Angelo Corsaro
SELEX-XI
May 1, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
EBU 2 Rms. 205 and 206
Crawling and Searching the Hidden Web
Alexandros Ntoulas
University of California, Los Angeles
April 14, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Bourns A265
Design of Embedded Systems using Data-driven Statistical Techniques
Jennifer Wong
University of California, Los Angeles
April 10, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
EBU 2 Rms. 205 and 206
Supporting Construction, Analysis, and Understanding of Software Models
Arie Gurfinkel
University of Toronto
April 7, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
EBU 2 Rm. 206
Development of next-generation networks with reconfigurable hardware
John Lockwood
Washington University in St. Louis
April 3, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rms. 205 and 206
Addressing the Challenges of Chip Multiprocessors using Autonomic Software
Dimitris Nikolopoulos
College of William and Mary
March 23, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Bourns A265
Designing Applications for Future Mobile Networks: Location-based Services and Context-Aware Networking
Ahmed Helmy
University of Southern California
March 21, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rms. 205 and 206
The evolution of traffic matrix techniques and applications:
Nina Taft
Intel Research Berkeley
March 20, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rms. 205 and 206
Heterogeneous Multi-core Computing
Rakesh Kumar
University of CA., San Diego
March 17, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
*ENGR Building Unit II, Rm. 138*
Human Character Animation Research at UCLA
Petros Faloutsos
UCLA
March 13, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rms. 205 and 206
SureMail: Notification Overlay for Email Reliability
Sharad Agrawal
Microsoft Research
March 10, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Bourns A265
Surfacing Information in Large Unstructured Text Collections
Eugene Agichtein
Microsoft Research
March 8, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
EBU 2 Rms. 205 and 206
Providing Physical Security via Video Event Awareness
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Telcordia Technologies - Austin Research Center
March 7, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rms. 205 and 206
Protein Interaction Module Detection Using Graph Algorithms
Chris Ding
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
March 3, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
*New Location: EBU II Rm. 138*
Conquering Complexity through Managed Evolution
Harrick Vin
Tata Research, Development and Design Center
February 21, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, 205 and 206
High-Performance Data Storage at Scale: Managing Petabytes of Data with Commodity Components
Scott Brandt
University of CA., Santa Cruz
February 13, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rms. 205 and 206
Data Mining using Fractals and Power Laws
Christos Faloutsos
Carnegie Mellon
January 23, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
EBU 2 Rms. 205 and 206
The Quadrangle-Inequality Dynamic-Programming Speedup is a Consequence of Totally Monotonicity
Mordecai Golin
Hong Kong UST
January 18, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Bourns A265
On The Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science Redux
Owen Astrachan
Duke University - Computer Science Department
January 9, 2006, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rooms 205 and 206
A Novel Technique for Learning Rare Events
Margaret H. Dunham
Southern Methodist University - Department of Computer Science and Engineering
December 13, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering Building Unit II, Rooms 205 and 206
Complex Spatio-Temporal Pattern Queries
Petko Bakalov
University of CA., Riverside, Computer Science and Engineering
November 28, 2005, 11:05am — 12:10pm
EBU II 205 & 206
Towards Building Robust Mobile Networks: Robust Geographic Routing and Mobility Modeling
Ahmed Helmy
University of Southern California
November 14, 2005, 11:10am — 12:05pm
Engineering BU2, 205 & 206
A 12/11-Approximation Algorithm for Minimum 3-Way Cut
Neal Young
CS&E, UC Riverside
November 7, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Engineering BU2, 205 & 206
End-to-end Approach to Simulation of Large-Scale Communication Networks and Other Infrastructures
Stephan Eidenbenz
Discrete Simulation Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory
October 24, 2005, 11:00am — 12:05pm
Engineering BU2, 205 & 206
Exploring CPU, Memory and I/O Architectures for the 2015 Enterprise Platform
Ravishankar Iyer
Intel Corporation
June 17, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Fast Scalable Robust Node Enumeration and Automating Network Diagnostics to Help End-Users
Dave Thaler
Microsoft
June 16, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Grid Performance Explorations
Marios Dikaiakos
University of Cyprus
June 10, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Loopy Belief Propagation: Convergence and Approximations
Alexander Ihler
University of California at Irvine
June 8, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Effectiveness of Bootstrap Bias Correction in the Context of Clock Offset Estimators
Daniel Jeske
Department of Statistics, University of California at Riverside
June 6, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Addressing Privacy and Security Concerns Using Veiled Certificates
John Gerdes
AGSM, University of California, Riverside
June 1, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Approximate string joins
Nick Koudas
University of Toronto
May 19, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
On Building Flexible and Robust Multimodal Interfaces
Philip Cohen
May 16, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Expressive Visualization: Communicating Insight with Images
Eric Lum
May 11, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Conquest-2: Improving Energy Efficiency and Performance Through a
Andy Wang
May 6, 2005, 3:30pm — 4:30pm
Surge 349
Keeping the Columbia Flowing: Managing the Data from an
David Maier
May 6, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Human or not? How to tell the difference
Monica Chew
May 5, 2005, 11:00am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Low-Power Wireless Links Properties: Modeling and Applications in Sensor
Alberto Cerpa
May 4, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption
Brent Waters
May 2, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Cactus, Cholla, and Cassyopia: Support for Next Generation
Rick Schlichting
April 29, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Automatic Verification of Component-based Systems---A Decompositional and Hybrid Approach
Gaoyan Xie
April 27, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Analyzing Large biological Networks: Protein-Protein Interactions Example
Natasa Przulj
April 25, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
284 Surge
Green Goop and Polygon Soup
James O'Brien
April 22, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Clustering aggregation
Aris Gionis
April 18, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Wireless Ad hoc Networks: Cross-layer Design and Applications
Tamer ElBatt
April 13, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
ARC: A Self-tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache
Dharmendra S. Modha
IBM Almaden Research Center
April 12, 2005, 11:10am — 12:00pm
Surge 284
Safety and Optimization of Embedded Systems
Rajiv Gupta
The University of Arizona
January 1, 2004, 1:00am — 1:00am
Engineering Building II 205/206
Distinguished Lecture Series
2007-2008 Distinguished Lecture Series
- Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California Los Angeles
- Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Michael Waterman, University of Southern California
- Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Corporation
- Michael Jordan, University of California Berkeley
Past Speakers:
- Jim Gray, Microsoft Corporation
- Yale Patt, University of Texas at Austin
- Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
- Leonard Kleinrock, University of California Los Angeles
- Richard Karp, University of California Berkeley
- Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
- Fred Baker, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Udi Manber, Yahoo! Inc.
- Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University
- Mike Rabin, Harvard University
- Ed Coffman, Columbia University
- Shankar Sastry, University of California Berkeley
- Mihalis Yannakakis, Stanford University
- Mike Carey, BEA Systems, Inc.