Fall 2023 Seminars

December 13, 2023

Ziming Zhao
SUNY Buffalo
"HOLMES: Holistic and Hardware-assisted Control-Flow Security for Microcontroller Systems" 
[more info] [WebEx Link]

December 11, 2023

Huining Li
SUNY Buffalo
"Privacy-aware Computing in Mobile Health Systems" 
[more info] [WebEx Link]

November 20, 2023

Michael Houle
New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Local Intrinsic Dimensionality and Machine Learning: The Dynamical Systems Perspective" 
[more info] [WebEx Link]

November, 15, 2023

Murat Kantarcioglu
University of Texas at Dallas
"Securing Big Data in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

September 13, 2023

Marek Rusinkiewicz
Dean Emeritus NJIT
"From AI to Cybersecurity (and back?)"
[more info] [Zoom Link]

March 31, 2023

Chenghong Wang
Duke University
"Balancing Privacy with System Guarantees: Key to Practical Private Databases"
[more info] [Zoom Link]

March 21, 2023

Dr. Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani
AWS AI Labs
"Data-Informed Interaction Learning"
[more info] [Zoom Link]

March 10, 2023

Saurabh Kadekodi
Google
"Designing Exascale Distributed Systems"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

March 3, 2023

Simon Oya
University of Waterloo
"A principled approach to privacy design"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 22, 2023

Constantinos Chamzas 
Rice University
"Learning and Planning for Robotic Manipulation: Bringing Theory to Practice"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 21, 2023

Juan Zhai 
Rutgers
"Software Quality Assessment via Specification Synthesis"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 17, 2023

Nathan Malkin 
University of Maryland
"Privacy for Proactive Intelligent Assistants, or: How To Design for Something That Doesn't Exist (Yet)"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 17, 2023

Jacques Klein 
University of Luxembourg
"A Journey Through Android App Analysis: Solutions and Open Challenges"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 9, 2023

Michael J. DeLucia 
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
"Machine Learning Enhanced Network Security"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 8, 2023

Jessica Shi 
MIT
"Bridging Theory and Practice in Parallel Graph Processing"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 6, 2023

Kasthuri Jayarajah
Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS) at UMBC
"Designing Systems for Collaborative Intelligence in Pervasive Environments"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

January 27, 2023

Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan
NTT Research
"Cryptography For Fast and Scalable Distributed Applications"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

January 23, 2023

Seyedhamed Ghavamnia
Stony Brook University
"Attack surface reduction through system calling filtering"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

January 18, 2023

Anrin Chakraborti
Duke University
"Cryptographically Secure Systems for Modern Applications"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

December 7, 2022

Zhihao Yao
University of California, Irvine
"Doublethink Vulnerabilities and System Security"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

November 16, 2022

Michael Houle
The University of Melbourne, Australia
"Local Intrinsic Dimensionality: An Extreme-Value-Theoretic Foundation"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

November 3, 2022

Dor Bitan
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley
"Using Zero-Knowledge to Reconcile Law Enforcement Secrecy and Fair Trial Rights in Criminal Cases"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

September 21, 2022

Avigdor Gal
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
"Loch Data and Other Monsters: on Creating Data Ecosytems, the Intelligent Way"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

April 29, 2022

Indrakshi Ray 
Colorado State University
"Cyber Security of Embedded Networks in Heavy Vehicles"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

April 27, 2022

Robert Kozma
Center for Large-Scale Intelligent Optimization and Networks
Department of Mathematics, University of Memphis
"Energy-Aware Intelligence: Biological and Technical Systems"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

March 30, 2022

Daniele Panozzo
Courant Institute, NYU
"Black-Box Finite Element Analysis"
[more info] [WebEx Link] 

March 9, 2022

Samira Mirbagher Ajorpaz
UC San Diego
"Proactive and Adaptable Architecture for Security and Performance"
[more info] [WebEx Link]  

March 4, 2022

William Hallahan
Yale University
"Automated Approaches for Analysis and Synthesis"
[more info] [WebEx Link] 

February 28, 2022

Jiaoyang LI
University of Southern California
"Intelligent Planning for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Coordination"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 25, 2022

Jin Sun
Cornell Tech, New York
"Visual Analysis of People in Context"
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February 23, 2022

Yueqi Chen
Pennsylvania State University &  Northwestern University
"Securing Operating Systems Kernels with Fewer Shots"
[more info] [WebEx Link] 

Dongkuan Xu
Pennsylvania State University
"Resource-efficient Deep Learning: Democratizing AI at Scale"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 18, 2022

Souyoung Jin
MIT
"Cross-Modal Learning for Video Understanding"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 14, 2022

Pratik Soni
Carnegie Mellon University
"Foundations of Advanced Cryptography"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 11, 2022

Martin Kellogg
University of Washington
"Verification for Working Developers"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 9, 2022

Cong Shi
Rutgers University, NJ
"Security Vulnerabilities and Defenses in Emerging Mobile Applications (AR/VR and Voice Assistant Systems)"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 7, 2022

Song Li
Johns Hopkins University
"Dig Deeper - Mining Object Related Vulnerabilities via Static Analysis"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 4, 2022

Junqiao Qiu
Michigan Technological University
"Model-Centric Speculative Parallelization for Scalable Data Processing"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

February 3, 2022

Meisam Mohammady
CSIRO Data61 & Data Science Institute at Columbia University
"Novel Approaches to Preserving Utility in Privacy Enhancing Technologies"
[more info] [WebEx Link]

January 25, 2022

Adithya Vadapalli
University of Waterloo
"DPFs to the rescue: Applications of Distributed Point Functions to Secure Multiparty Computations"
[more info] [WebEx Link]