Speaker Series

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Grad School 101 & Career Paths with MS or PhD

• July 5, 2023
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

CS Summer Research Program Social Event: Bowling at the Union

• July 8, 2023
• Saturday, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Illini Union

Illinois Summer Research Program Alliance (ISRPA): Applying to Jobs, CVs and Resumes

• July 10, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 150 Animal Sciences

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Developing your Professional Persona

• July 11, 2023
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Illinois Summer Research Program Alliance (ISRPA): LinkedIn/Building an Online Presence

• July 12, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 2240 Digital Computer Lab DCL

Special Seminar: Gokhan Tur, "Controllable Conversational AI with Large Language Models"

• July 13, 2023
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Presentation and Other Verbal Communication Skills

• July 18, 2023
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Special Seminar: John Reid, "The Digital Transformation of Agriculture: Advancing Productivity Towards a Circular Bioeconomy"

• July 19, 2023
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Illinois Summer Research Program Alliance (ISRPA): Funding for Graduate School

• July 19, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 280 Materials Research Lab

CS Summer Research Program Social Event: Lunch and Board Games

• July 22, 2023
• Saturday, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• Siebel 2405

Illinois Summer Research Program Alliance (ISRPA): Entrepreneurship

• July 24, 2023
• Monday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• 150 Animal Sciences

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Preparing a Competitive Application for Graduate School and External Fellowships

• July 25, 2023
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Illinois Summer Research Program Alliance (ISRPA): Research Expo

• July 26, 2023
• Wednesday, All Day
• TBD

Manya Ghobadi "Next-Generation Optical Networks for Machine Learning Jobs"

• July 27, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM
• 2405 SC

Andrea Tagliasacchi "Robustness and Uncertainty in Neural Radiance Fields"

• August 22, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Implementing Quarks and Gauge Fields on Noisy Quantum Computers," Randy Lewis, York University

• August 22, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Approximating Submodular k-Partition via Principal Partition Sequence

• August 28, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

IQUIST Seminar: Fahad Mahmood, "Coherent Terahertz (THz) Dynamics of Collective Excitations in a Weyl Charge Density Wave", Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

• August 29, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Angela Dai "Navigating the Optimization-Learning Spectrum in 3D Generative Models"

• August 31, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

CS Summer Research Program Poster Session

• July 31, 2023
• Monday, 11:30 AM - August 31, 2023 1:30 PM
• Siebel Atrium

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Sensors with Colds Atoms: Fundamental Physics and Applications from Ground to Space," Philippe Bouyer, Professor, University of Amsterdam and Eindhoven University of Technology

• September 5, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Mind in Vitro - First Annual Symposium

• September 6, 2023
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Robert Geirhos "Intriguing properties of generative classifiers"

• September 7, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

Shubhang Kulkarni "Polyhedral (and Approximation) Aspects of Feedback Vertex Set and Psuedoforest Deletion"

• September 11, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

CS CAP Seminar: Nandeeka Nayak (Illinois), "TeAAL: A Declarative Framework for Modeling Sparse Tensor Accelerators" and Velijko Milutinovic (Univ. of Belgrade / IU / TU Graz), "DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData DeepAnalytics"

• September 12, 2023
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Defect-engineered photonic and superconducting quantum circuits," Alp Sipahigil, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

• September 12, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Nurani Saoda, "Designing Batteryless Energy-harvesting Sensors for Sustainable Internet-of-Things"

• September 13, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM

Vincent Sitzmann "Towards 3D Representation Learning at Scale"

• September 14, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

Elfarouk Harb "Fishing For Better Constants: The Prophet Secretary Via Poissonization"

• September 18, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3124 Siebel Center

DLS: Mark Guzdial, "Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science"

• September 18, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• NCSA Auditorium and online

Emily M. Bender, " Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology"

• September 18, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
• Siebel Center 2405

Saurabh Jha, " Machine Learning for System Operations: A Cloud Computing Perspective"

• September 18, 2023
• Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• CSL 141 (In-person only)

IQUIST Seminar: "Building a quantum internet with photons and electron spins," Chris Anderson, UIUC

• September 19, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Eric Brachmann "Learning Map Representations for Visual Relocalisation"

• September 21, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

ECS Overview

• September 22, 2023
• Friday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Room 707, Chicago, IL 60606

Matt Weinberg "A (biased selection of) recent developments in combinatorial auctions"

• September 25, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

DLS: Luay Nakhleh, "Inferring the Phylogenetic Network of Life: Models, Methods, and Challenges"

• September 25, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Scalable Mastery Learning for CS100 and Beyond - Speaker: Armando Fox, UC Berkeley

• September 26, 2023
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• Campus Instructional Facility 2035, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IQUIST Seminar: Jonathan Hood, Purdue University

• September 26, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Zhiyong Lu, "The Future of Healthcare: How AI and ChatGPT are Changing the Game in Medicine"

• September 27, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

On the Role of Entanglement and Statistics in Learning

• October 2, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel Center 3401

CS CAP Seminar: Pavlo Pastaryev "Generating Memory Allocators From the Ground Up", Yiqiu Sun, and Liam Li

• October 3, 2023
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Pavlo Pastaryev "Generating Memory Allocators From the Ground Up"

• October 3, 2023
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 2405

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Sensing at meV Energy-Scales for Dark Matter Searches", Noah Kurinsky, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

• October 3, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Eliot Robson "No-dimensional Tverberg Partitions Revisited"

• October 9, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: "Atom-Field interactions in Nanoscale Quantum Optical Systems," Kanu Sinha, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

• October 10, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

RT Chien Guest Speaker - Steve LaValle

• October 11, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:00 PM
• CSL Auditorium (B02)

DLS: Bonnie Dorr, "NLP Applications: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities in the age of Chat GPT"

• October 11, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Zexiang Xu "Towards AI-Powered 3D Reconstruction and Generation"

• October 12, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

Zihan Tan "On (1+\eps)-Approximate Flow Sparsifiers"

• October 16, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: Jack Dongarra, "An Overview of High Performance Computing and Future Requirements"

• October 16, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• NCSA Auditorium and online

Jiyuan Zhang "HugeGPT: Storing Guest Page Tables on Host Huge Pages to Accelerate Address Translation"

• October 17, 2023
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 2405

Haoyang Zhang "G10: Enabling An Efficient Unified GPU Memory and Storage Architecture with Smart Tensor Migrations"

• October 17, 2023
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 2405

IQUIST Seminar: "Ultrafast Quantum Nanophotonics," Alireza Marandi, Caltech

• October 17, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Siyu Tang "Reconstruction and Synthesis of 3D Humans in 3D Scenes"

• October 19, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

Mehrdad Tahmasbi "Lower bounds on stabilizer rank"

• October 23, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Rachit Agarwal

• October 24, 2023
• Tuesday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: "Josephson parametric amplifiers for rapid, high-fidelity measurement of solid-state qubits," Shyam Shankar, The University of Texas at Austin

• October 24, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury "Improving EFX Guarantees Through Extremal Combinatorics"

• October 30, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Wenbo He "Making Machine Learning Trustworthy in Vision Tasks"

• October 31, 2023
• Tuesday, 10:30 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: "Materials Science Simulations on Quantum Computers," André Schleife, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• October 31, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Cornelius Brand "Algebraic Methods in Algorithms"

• November 6, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

COLLOQUIUM: Jay-Yoon Lee, "Automatically Capturing and Reflecting Latent Label Dependencies in Machine Learning Model"

• November 6, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

IQUIST Seminar: "Demonstrating a long-coherence dual-rail erasure qubit using tunable transmons," Harry Levine, Amazon Web Services

• November 7, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

DLS: Jim Smith, "Computing in Vitro: an in Silico Perspective"

• November 8, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Hsien-Chih Chang "Shortcut Partitions: Steiner Point Removal, Distance Oracles, Tree Covers, and More"

• November 13, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

COLLOQUIUM: Chrystalla Mouza, "Designing Research-Based Professional Development Opportunities for Teaching and Learning Computer Science in K-8 Schools"

• November 13, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Kevin Small "Improving conversational information-seeking with summarization-based techniques"

• November 14, 2023
• Tuesday, 2:15 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Information Science with Spins, Photons, Magnons, and Superconductors," Gregory Fuchs, Cornell University

• November 14, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Shuiwang Ji, "AI for Science in Quantum, Atomistic, and Continuum Systems"

• November 15, 2023
• Wednesday, 2:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

CS-ECE Corporate Connections: After Hours in Chicago

• November 16, 2023
• Thursday, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

Michael A. Forbes "Low-depth algebraic circuit lower bounds over any field"

• November 27, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

COLLOQUIUM: Karle Flanagan, "Data Science Education at UIUC: The Past, Present, and Future"

• November 27, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Photogeneration of Electron Spin Qubit Pairs in Molecular Materials for Quantum Information Applications," Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University

• November 28, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: David Inouye, "Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning via Distribution Matching"

• November 29, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Tatiana Tommasi "Open World: Generalize and Recognize Novelty"

• November 30, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

Gloire Rubambiza "Towards Resilient Rural Networking Infrastructure for Digital Agriculture"

• December 1, 2023
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 2406 Siebel Center for Computer Science

A Year as a White House Fellow

• December 1, 2023
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and zoom

COLLOQUIUM: Mariana Silva, "Improving assessment and learning experiences based on a data-driven approach"

• December 4, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Zhijian Liu "When Sparsity Meets 3D Perception"

• December 5, 2023
• Tuesday, 12:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: "Searching for Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Mechanical Systems," Swati Singh, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

• December 5, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Kohei Kishida, "Quantum Programming Languages with Types and Semantics"

• December 6, 2023
• Wednesday, 1:00 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Jun Gao "Revisiting representation, data and algorithm for 3D content generation"

• December 7, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Teaching Special Seminar: Kevin Wandke, "Empathy and Collaboration as a Doorway into Effective Pedagogy"

• January 8, 2024
• Monday, 9:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: CANCELED "Scaling quantum technologies through materials design and integration," Dr. Joseph Heremans, Staff Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

• January 16, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Jingxuan He "Programming in the Era of Artificial Intelligence"

• January 19, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• SC 3401

Hanlin Ren "Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Construction of Primes"

• January 22, 2024
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

COLLOQUIUM: Lifu Huang, "Bridging the Modern Language Modeling with the Complex Open World"

• January 22, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Teaching Special Seminar: Dietrich Geisler, "Pedagogy Overview"

• January 23, 2024
• Tuesday, 9:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Observation of a Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Luttinger Liquid in a Moiré Material," Pengjie Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• January 23, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Chen Wei "Generalizable Visual Understanding through Inverse Generation"

• January 25, 2024
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

PILOT Seminar: Haoran Qiu, "Learned Abstractions for ML-Centric Cloud Systems Management"

• January 26, 2024
• Friday, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

David Zheng "Fully Scalable Massively Parallel Algorithms for Embedded Planar Graphs"

• January 29, 2024
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

IQUIST Seminar: "Beyond Binary Quantum Information: Controlling the Excited States of 'Artificial Atoms' in Superconducting Circuits,"Machiel Blok, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester

• January 30, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Special Seminar: Anjali Agarwal, "Demystifying Discrete: Crafting a Course in Discrete Mathematics"

• January 31, 2024
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM

Joint CS/ECE Special Seminar: Marcelo Onenes Vera, "Navigating Heterogeneity and Scalability in Modern Chip Design"

• January 31, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM
• B02 CSL and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84708614453?pwd=WEl6NythRUZyOWZDUGRVVm0xUzNjZz09

Teaching Special Seminar: Mai Dahshan, "Pedagogical Practices in Teaching Computer Programming Classes"

• February 1, 2024
• Thursday, 9:00 AM

Xingyi Yang "Deep Model Reuse: Paving the Way for Efficient and Generalizable AI Systems"

• February 1, 2024
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

Teaching Special Seminar: Yiji Zhang, "Learning to Build Correct Software Via Hands-on Practices"

• February 2, 2024
• Friday, 9:00 AM

Jingxuan He, "Programming in the Era of Artificial Intelligence"

• February 2, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

COLLOQUIUM: Hongning Wang, "How Bad is Top-K Recommendation Under Competing Content Creators?"

• February 5, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Optical relaxation dynamics of nanocavity-coupled erbium ensembles," Alan Dibos, Assistant Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

• February 6, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Special Seminar: Michael Borkowski, "Computer Science at Scale: Experiences with Interactive Teaching"

• February 8, 2024
• Thursday, 9:00 AM

Taesung Park "Fast Generative Models"

• February 8, 2024
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

Hrishikesh Balakrishnan "FO-Complete Program Verification for Frame Logic"

• February 9, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Wenxi Wang "Improving Formal Reasoning for Complex Software using Machine Learning and Symbolic Approaches"

• February 9, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

MiV Seminar: Auke Ijspeert - "Investigating animal locomotion using biorobots and neuromechanical simulations"

• February 9, 2024
• Friday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science - https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81293087130?pwd=ZmdBWHlDQTdSMi8wN3VpMytac3podz09

Ruta Jawale "Locally Covert Learning"

• February 12, 2024
• Monday, 11:00 AM

Modern Clouds: Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses

• February 12, 2024
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• Siebel Center for Computer Science, Room 4124

Teaching Special Seminar: Max Fowler, "Effective Teaching at Scale: Frequent Small Tests, Copious Practice, and Centering Student Support"

• February 13, 2024
• Tuesday, 9:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "A bulk gap in the presence of edge states for a truncated Haldane pseudopotential," Amanda Young, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• February 13, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Mudhakar Srivatsa, Viji Srinivasan, Raghu Ganti - A Full-stack Approach to Foundation Models

• February 14, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 2405

PILOT Seminar: Neil Zhao, "Modern Clouds: Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses"

• February 14, 2024
• Wednesday, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
• 0218 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Joint CS/ECE Special Seminar: Sagar Karamdikar, "Catch M(oor)e If You Can: Agile Hardware/Software Co-Design for Hyperscale Cloud Systems"

• February 15, 2024
• Thursday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Yuanbo Xiangli "Pack Urban Scenes into Neural Fields - the world is at your hand"

• February 15, 2024
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

Learning Symbolic Concepts and Domain-Specific Languages

• February 16, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• Siebel 3401

Ming Yin, Towards a Science of Human-AI Decision Making: Empirical Understandings, Computational Models, and Intervention Designs

• February 16, 2024
• Friday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, room 2405, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

Howard Gritton: "Identifying the roles of cortical oscillations in inference and learning during cognitive behavior."

• February 16, 2024
• Friday, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science, and zoom

DLS: Amit Sahai, "The Mathematics of Hiding Secrets in Software"

• February 19, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

PILOT Seminar: Tiffany Wenting Li, "Human-centered AI Design and Deployment for Equitable Education at Scale"

• February 20, 2024
• Tuesday, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

IQUIST Seminar:"Coherent Microwave Emission Using Cavity Magnonics," Can-Ming Hu, Distinguished Professor, University of Manitoba

• February 20, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Chi Wang, "AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation"

• February 21, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Title: Provable Guarantees for Trustworthy Software 2.0

• February 23, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM

Teaching Special Seminar: Jesse Stern, "Structuring a Course"

• February 26, 2024
• Monday, 9:00 AM

COLLOQUIUM: Simon Du, "Pre-Training Data Selection for Representation Learning"

• February 26, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Special Seminar: Serina Chang, "Computational Methods for Human Networks and High-Stakes Decisions"

• February 27, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Pseudorandomness: Constructions and Applications," Sinha, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• February 27, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

PILOT Seminar: Adithya Murali, "Democratizing Verification: Overcoming Expertise Gaps using Logic Learning and New Predictable Paradigms"

• February 27, 2024
• Tuesday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

COLLOQUIUM: Eric Chitambar, "Quantum Position Verification and Information Processing under Spacetime Constraints"

• February 28, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

PILOT Seminar: Paul Krogmeier, "Learning Symbolic Concepts and Domain-specific Languages"

• February 28, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Teaching Special Seminar: Xiaoyun Fun, "Student-centered Teaching Philosophy"

• February 29, 2024
• Thursday, 10:00 AM

CAD for Network Architectures with Archie (Speaker's own work, in submission) & Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Perspectives and Challenges

• March 1, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• SC 0216

PILOT Seminar: Junfeng Guan, "Enhanced Wireless Networks & Systems for IoT, 6G, & Autonomous Vehicles"

• March 4, 2024
• Monday, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

PILOT Seminar: Jialu Li, "Breaking Down Barriers: Advancing Interdisciplinary Speech Applications in Children’s Development"

• March 4, 2024
• Monday, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
• Beckman 3169

Joint CS/ECE Special Seminar: Yuzhe Yang, "Learning to Assess Disease and Health In Your Home"

• March 6, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

COLLOQUIUM: JooYoung Seo, "Unseen Insights: Empowering Autonomous Data Science and Visualization by, with, and for Blind People"

• March 6, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

PILOT Seminar: Vipul Harsh, "Failure Diagnosis in Networked Systems"

• March 7, 2024
• Thursday, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
• 2303 Siebel Center

ConstraintFlow: A DSL for Specification and Verification of Neural Network Analyses & Preempting Flaky Tests via Non-Idempotent-Outcome Tests

• March 8, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center and Zoom

PILOT Seminar: Palash Sashittal, "Combinatorial Algorithms to Study Cancer and Infectious Disease Evolution"

• March 13, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum entanglement vs classical communication to play XOR games," Carlos Palazuelos, Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense Madrid

• March 19, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Zhijing Jin, "Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP"

• March 20, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

COLLOQUIUM: Haohan Wang, "Advancing Precision Medicine: Tailored Genomic Insights and AI-Driven Automation in Complex Disease Research"

• March 20, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Special Seminar: Matthew McDermott, "Leveraging Structure for Intelligent Representation Learning in Health and Biomedicine"

• March 21, 2024
• Thursday, 10:00 AM

XFT: Unlocking the Power of Code Instruction Tuning by Simply Merging Upcycled Mixture-of-Experts & Jointly Optimizing Preprocessing and Inference for DNN-based Visual Analytics

• March 22, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center and Zoom

IC Seminar, Decentering Data and Ownership : Perspectives from Interactive Media Art Practices in Wireless and Machine Listening Infrastructures

• March 22, 2024
• Friday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, Room# 4407

Special Seminar: Shuang Zhao, "Physics-based Differentiable and Inverse Rendering"

• March 25, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM

COLLOQUIUM: Naira Hovakimyan, "Safe Learning in Autonomous Systems"

• March 25, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Special Seminar: Liang Shi, "Towards Passing the Virtual Turing Test: Next-generation Spatial Computing with AI-powered 3D Displays, Human Perception, and Appearance Modeling"

• March 26, 2024
• Tuesday, 2:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Force-multiplying quantum hardware with software," Pranav Gokhale, VP of Quantum Software, Infleqtion

• March 26, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Joint CS/ECE Special Seminar: Yiyue Luo, "Intelligent Textiles for Physical Interactions"

• March 27, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Joint CS/ECE Special Seminar: Xiaojing Liao, "Perseus’ Mirrored Shield: Enhancing System Robustness and Privacy Through Insights from Cyber Threat Intelligence"

• April 2, 2024
• Tuesday, 10:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum simulation of Hubbard models: From unconventional superconductors to lattice gauge theories,"Fabian Grusdt, Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

• April 2, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Security Seminar: Falling Stars: How Reputation Systems Fail in Practice

• April 5, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• 0216

Formally verifying the functional correctness of Path Oblivious RAM & Enhancing Coverage-Guided Fuzzing via Phantom Program

• April 5, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• Siebel 0218

Integrating Human Knowledge in Machine Learning Models and Explanations

• April 5, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

On Approximability of Satisfiable CSPs

• April 5, 2024
• Friday, 3:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, Room# 3102

COLLOQUIUM: Chenhao Tan, "Towards Human-centered AI: How to Generate Useful Explanations for Human-AI Decision Making"

• April 8, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with Metastable Yb Erasure Qubit," Shruti Puri, Assistant Professor, Yale University

• April 9, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Joint CS/ECE Special Seminar: Francis Yan, "Practical Machine Learning for Networked Systems"

• April 10, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Special Seminar: Kate Donahue, "AI as a Resource: Strategy, Uncertainty, and Societal Welfare"

• April 12, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM

MiV Seminar: Sepideh Sadaghiani "The connectome multiplex"

• April 12, 2024
• Friday, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

COLLOQUIUM: Lili Mou, "Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding"

• April 15, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Special Seminar: Niloufar Salehi, "Designing Reliable Human-AI Interactions: Translating Languages and Matching Students"

• April 16, 2024
• Tuesday, 10:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: Alexandra Kolla, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

• April 16, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: Yurii Vlasov, "Dynamic Organization of Brain Networks Revealed by Machine Learning Applied to Massive Spiking Datasets"

• April 17, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM

Controlling (AI-based) Computing Systems

• April 18, 2024
• Thursday, 1:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 2405

Integrating Human Knowledge in Machine Learning Models and Explanations

• April 19, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 1214 Siebel Center

Neural Abstract Interpretation & CodeMind: A Framework to challenge LLMs for Code Reasoning

• April 19, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

Randomly Punctured Reed-Solomon Codes Achieve the List Decoding Capacity over Polynomial-Size Alphabets

• April 22, 2024
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, Room# 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Pan Li, "Challenges and Opportunities in Graph Machine Learning: A Study on Graph Data Distribution Shifts"

• April 22, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Special Seminar: Travis Hance, "Strong Foundations with Formal Methods: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice"

• April 23, 2024
• Tuesday, 10:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Scaling Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers at Quantinuum," Steven Moses, Quantinuum

• April 23, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Katherine Mimnaugh, "Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine: Leveraging Psychology and Neuroscience to Improve Immersive Technology"

• April 24, 2024
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

The Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lectureship in Computer Science: Kathleen McKeown, "Addressing Large Language Models that Lie: Case Studies in Summarization"

• April 24, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Grainger Dean's Distinguished Diversity Lecture Series: Dr. Shirley Malcom - "Changing the Narrative: DEI is Essential to Excellence in STEMM"

• April 25, 2024
• Thursday, 9:00 AM
• NCSA 1030 (National Center for Supercomputing Applications- 1250 W Clark St. Urbana, IL 61801)

Special Seminar: Ramakrishnan Raman, "Global Investigation of Network Connection Tampering"

• April 25, 2024
• Thursday, 10:00 AM

The End of Programming Is a New Beginning for Verification

• April 26, 2024
• Friday, 2:00 PM
• Siebel 2405

Parallel Derandomization for Chernoff-like Concentrations

• April 29, 2024
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• Siebel 3401

Distinguished Lecture: Eduard Hovy, "The Future of LLM NLP"

• April 29, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

Alex Hoover "Plinko: Single-Server PIR with Efficient Updates via Invertible PRFs"

• April 30, 2024
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4102

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Sensing of Two-Dimensional Magnetism," Chunhui Du, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

• April 30, 2024
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Quinn Burke "Towards Scalable Integrity Mechanisms for Trusted Cloud Storage Systems"

• May 3, 2024
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 1302

Special Seminar: Ge (Tiffany) Wang, "Designing for Autonomy in Data-Driven AI Systems"

• May 6, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM

Distinguished Lecture: Sanjit Seshia, "Towards Verified AI-Based Autonomy"

• May 8, 2024
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

CS 2024 Summer Research Lunch & Learn

• May 28, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online on Zoom, see description)

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: How to do Research Part 1: Coming up to Speed

• June 4, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Networking 101

• June 11, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Special Seminar: Luyi Xing

• June 17, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM

CS Summer Research Program Lunch & Learn: Mentors, Advisors, and Sponsors - You need them all!

• June 18, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

MiV Seminar: Shoji Takeuchi "Biohybrid Robotics"

• June 18, 2024
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and Zoom - see link

CS Summer Research Program Social Event: Lunch and Lawn Games

• June 22, 2024
• Saturday, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• North Side of Siebel Near House of Imagination Statue

Teaching Special Seminar: Scott Beamer, "Bringing Hardware to Life"

• June 24, 2024
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

COLLOQUIUM: Ismini Lourentzou, "Towards Robust Multimodal AI: Enhancing Cross-Modal Understanding and Interaction"

• June 24, 2024
• Monday, 3:30 PM

Teaching Special Seminar: Scott Beamer, "Graphs: From Social Networks to Hardware Simulation"

• June 25, 2024
• Tuesday, 10:00 AM
• B02 CSL and online

CS Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: How to do Research Part 2: Writing & Publishing

• June 25, 2024
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Grad School 101 - Bill Kramer, Yongjoo Park, Elahe Soltanaghai

• July 6, 2022
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Developing your Professional Persona - Saugata Ghose, Ranjitha Kumar, Ling Ren

• July 13, 2022
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Preparing a Competitive Application for Graduate School and External Fellowships - Darko Marinov and Robin Kravets

• July 14, 2022
• Thursday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program Lunch and Learn: Presentation and Other Verbal Communication Skills - Mohammed El-Kebir, Brighten Godfrey, Klara Nahrstedt

• July 20, 2022
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Hybrid (In-person at Siebel Center, room 2405 and online at zoom link)

Summer Research Program - Research Showcase

• July 28, 2022
• Thursday, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
• Siebel Center First Floor Atrium

IQUIST Seminar: "Coherent spin-valley oscillations in silicon," presented by John Nichol, University of Rochester

• August 23, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

DLS: Eric Xing, "Machine Learning at All Levels -- a pathway to “Autonomous” AI"

• August 29, 2022
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_vlq39byi

IQUIST Seminar: "Towards next-generation physical and logical qubits in superconducting circuits" presented by Chen Wang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• August 30, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Amro Awad: High-Performance and Crash-Recoverable Security Support for Emerging Memory Architectures

• September 1, 2022
• Thursday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center

Bolei Zhou "Three Pillars for Generalizable and Interpretable Embodied AI"

• September 6, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Building Blocks of Scalable Quantum Information Science," presented by Prineha Narang, University of California, Los Angeles

• September 6, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Joint Compiler/CAP Seminar: Vincent Reverdy, "Compiler Performance, Embedded Domain Specific Languages, and the Future of C++ "

• September 9, 2022
• Friday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Anamay Tengse "Natural proofs in the algebraic setting"

• September 12, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 SC

Georgios Pavlakos, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley "Reconstructing and Tracking 3D Humans from Video"

• September 13, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

Sehoon Ha "Learning to walk for real-world missions"

• September 16, 2022
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Theory Seminar: Mik Zlatin "New and Improved Algorithms for Steiner Tree Augmentation Problems"

• September 19, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Siebel Center 3401

COLLOQUIUM: Mike Tissenbaum, "Beyond computational thinking: A Computational Action approach for empowerment and identity in K-12 CS education"

• September 19, 2022
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_o9pz7t5l

Anurag Ranjan "Towards Neural Graphics"

• September 20, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Switch Networks for Photonic Fusion-based Quantum Computing," presented by Hugo Cable, PsiQuantum

• September 20, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Robotics Seminar: Mark W. Mueller "Small drones in tight spaces: New vehicle designs and fast algorithms"

• September 23, 2022
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Nutan Limaye "Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits"

• September 26, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 SC

Research Short Talk: Craig Zilles & Girish Chowdhary, "Challenges in perceptive navigation for field robots"

• September 26, 2022
• Monday, 12:00 PM
• For CS faculty only

CS Compiler Seminar: Tom Chen, "All you need is SLP: systematic control-flow vectorization with SLP"

• September 26, 2022
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• Siebel 2124

Jun-Yan Zhu "Human-in-the-loop Model Creation"

• September 27, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Coherent Magnonics for Quantum Information Science," presented by Michael E. Flatté, The University of Iowa

• September 27, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Manling Li "Multimedia Event Knowledge Extraction: From Object-Centric to Event-Centric Understanding"

• September 30, 2022
• Friday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 SC

Robotics Seminar: Nikolay Atanasov "Multi-Robot Metric-Semantic Mapping "

• September 30, 2022
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Rhea Jain "Augmentation based Approximation Algorithms for Flexible Network Design"

• October 3, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 SC

CS Compiler Seminar: Jackson Woodruff, "Bind the gap: compiling real software to hardware FFT accelerators"

• October 3, 2022
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 2124 Siebel Center

Xiangru Huang "Representation learning for object detection from unlabeled LiDAR point cloud sequences"

• October 4, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Machine-Learning for Complex Many-Body Systems," presented by Sabre Kais, Purdue University

• October 4, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Robotics Seminar: Nima Fazeli "Deformable Object Representations and Tactile Control for Contact Rich Robotic Tool-Use "

• October 7, 2022
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Divyarthi Mohan "Simplicity and Optimality in Multi-Dimensional Mechanism Design"

• October 10, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 3401 SC

CS Compiler Seminar: Mangpo Phothilimthana , "Datacenter Scale Autotuning for ML Workloads"

• October 10, 2022
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 2124 Siebel Center

Jean-François Lalonde "Towards editable lighting estimation"

• October 11, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: CANCELED Graeme Smith, University of Colorado Boulder

• October 11, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Robotics Seminar: Pulkit Agrawal "Coming of Age of Robot Learning"

• October 14, 2022
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Equity & Justice in Computing: David Robertson, "Community-Centered Design: A Cherokee Perspective on Design Thinking"

• October 14, 2022
• Friday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_z0wn05yj

Minshen Zhu "Exponential Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable and Correctable Codes for Insertions and Deletions"

• October 17, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 4403 SC

Research Short Talk: Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, "Interdisciplinary Research centered on Scalable Parallel Programming with Runtime Adaptivity" & Chandra Chekuri

• October 17, 2022
• Monday, 12:00 PM
• For CS Faculty only

DLS: Stephen Wolfram, "The Science & Language Design of Making the World Computable"

• October 17, 2022
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_jqbnf0td

Yasutaka Furukawa, "Teaching a Computer to be an Architect"

• October 18, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "The Birth of Quantum Engineering," presented by Jake Taylor, Joint Quantum Institute, The University of Maryland

• October 18, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

IQUIST Seminar: Dr. Jake Taylor, "The Birth of Quantum Engineering"

• October 18, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building and https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85887353722?pwd=bFVQRVJGRTFOaFZVbk1XenhJL0wwdz09&from=addon

COLLOQUIUM: Gianfranco Ciardo, "Improving 'one of the only really fundamental data structures that came out in the last 25 years'"

• October 21, 2022
• Friday, 10:00 AM
• This talk recording is only available to Illinois CS Faculty.

Robotics Seminar: Andreea Bobu "Aligning Robot Representations with Humans"

• October 21, 2022
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Robert Andrews "On Matrix Multiplication and Polynomial Identity Testing"

• October 24, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• In person 4403 Siebel Center for Computer or Online: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84700567676?pwd=SG96MlRZT3M0N0paTGFYeEljL2hhUT09

Research Short Talk: Mohammed El-Kebir, "Accurate Identification of Transcription Regulatory Sequences and Genes in Coronaviruses" & Ram Alagappan

• October 24, 2022
• Monday, 12:00 PM
• For CS faculty only

COLLOQUIUM: Aadirupa Saha, "Battling Bandits: Exploiting Preference Feedback towards Efficient Information Aggregation"

• October 24, 2022
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_f7akxvbi

Wei-Chiu Ma, "Learning in-the-wild 3D Modeling and Simulation"

• October 25, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Technologies," presented by Florian Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

• October 25, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Avi Sil "Question Answering: From the basics to the state-of-the-art with PrimeQA"

• October 28, 2022
• Friday, 3:30 PM

Eklavya Sharma "Epistemic EFX Allocations"

• October 31, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• In person 4403 Siebel Center for Computer or Online

Rana Hanocka, "Data-Driven Geometry Processing - without 3D Data"

• November 1, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Fault-tolerant Coding for Quantum Communication," presented by Alexander Müller-Hermes, University of Oslo

• November 1, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

COLLOQUIUM: JM Landsberg, "How are algebraic geometry and representation theory useful for theoretical computer science?"

• November 3, 2022
• Thursday, 1:00 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_vpj6zfbr

Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai "Deterministic Small Vertex Connectivity in Almost Linear Time"

• November 7, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 4403 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

Research Short Talk: Brighten Godfrey, "Networking at the Speed of Light" & Edgar Solomonik, "Tensor Decomposition Algorithms and Applications: Linear Regression to AlphaTensor"

• November 7, 2022
• Monday, 12:00 PM
• Only for CS Faculty

COLLOQUIUM: Igor dos Santos Montagner, ""So... why am I learning this?": Designing Authentic Learning Experiences in Computing Education"

• November 7, 2022
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_absj6jyh

CS Compiler Seminar: Saikat Dutta , "Testing Machine Learning Libraries in the Presence of Randomness

• November 7, 2022
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• In person 2124 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89400978467?pwd=NjV3ZFQrQ1JidTNyS0ZNUEVOcEtpUT09

COLLOQUIUM: Jordan Boyd-Graber, "If We Want AI to be Interpretable, We Need to Measure Interpretability"

• November 9, 2022
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_5dfsy5py

CS Compiler Seminar: Yundi Qian, Mircea Trofin , "MLGO: a Machine Learning Guided Compiler Optimizations Framework"

• November 10, 2022
• Thursday, 9:30 AM

Sanjeev Khanna "Sublinear Algorithms for Hierarchical Clustering"

• November 14, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• In person 4403 Siebel Center for Computer

COLLOQUIUM: Furong Huang, "Trustworthy Machine Learning in Complex Environments"

• November 14, 2022
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_ixp203lc

CS Compiler Seminar: Jacob Laurel , "A General Construction for Abstract Interpretation of Higher-Order Automatic Differentiation

• November 14, 2022
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 2124 Siebel Center

CS CAP Seminar: Jovan Stojkovic, "Memory-Efficient Hashed Page Tables” and “SpecFaaS: Accelerating Serverless Applications with Speculative Function Execution"

• November 15, 2022
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• Siebel 2405

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Optomechanics of Levitated Solids," presented by Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna

• November 15, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Snigdha Chaturvedi "Modeling People in Story Generation"

• November 18, 2022
• Friday, 3:30 PM

William Hoza "Hitting Sets Give Two-Sided Derandomization of Small Space"

• November 28, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• In person 4403 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Online

Liwei Wang, " Vision and Language Learning: from 2D to 3D, and from Data supervision to Data generation"

• November 29, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM

CS CAP Seminar: Aditya Bhosale, "CharmTyles: Large-Scale Interactive Charm++ with Python"

• November 29, 2022
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

CS CAP Seminar: Bakshree Mishra, "Hardware Acceleration of Computer Vision and Deep Learning Algorithms on the Edge using OpenCL"

• November 29, 2022
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Single-Photon Generation, Storage, Synchronization, and Interaction in Hot Atomic Vapor," presented by Eilon Poem, Weizmann Institute of Science

• November 29, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

The Robotics Part of Micro and Nano Robots

• December 2, 2022
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel or online at: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82508816849?pwd=SDRjWThnMlBUTk9va09yekNIeXhudz09

Dieter van Melkebeek "A Systematic Approach Toward Polynomial Identity Testing"

• December 5, 2022
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• Join us in-person in 4403 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Online

Research Short Talk: Daniel Kang, ""AIDB: Querying Unstructured Data via SQL" & Lui Sha, "Physics Model-Based Safe Machine Learning for UAV"

• December 5, 2022
• Monday, 12:00 PM
• For CS faculty only

Dean's Distinguished Diversity Lecture and Round Table Discussion: Jeff Forbes, "Pathways to Broadening Participation in Computing and Information Science and Engineering"

• December 5, 2022
• Monday, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
• Campus Instructional Facility (CIF): Lecture in (CIF) 4025 & Round Table Discussions in (CIF) 4031

CS CAP Seminar: Jonathan Ragan Kelley, "Programming Systems for High-Performance Visual Computing"

• December 6, 2022
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Simulation and Quantum State Engineering: Prospects and Challenges," presented by Vito Scarola, Virginia Tech

• December 6, 2022
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Ani Kembhavi, "Bringing Robust Robots Into Our Chaotic World"

• December 6, 2022
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• Siebel Center 2405

COLLOQUIUM: Mackenzie Leake, "Building design and media authoring tools by representing expert practice"

• December 7, 2022
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_5noscnjc

Aman Madaan "Language models of code are few-shot reasoners"

• December 9, 2022
• Friday, 11:00 AM

DLS: Yi Ma, "On the Principles of Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Structured Compressive Closed-Loop Transcription"

• December 14, 2022
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

PILOT Seminar: Saikat Dutta, "Randomness-Aware Testing of Machine Learning-Based Systems"

• January 16, 2023
• Monday, 1:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85237726901?pwd=SXYxTUloOHAwaGIxa3pvbW93SUdRZz09

AIFARMS Talk : Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramaniam, "Towards building digital twins of plants: annotation efficiency and mechanistic models"

• January 17, 2023
• Tuesday, 4:00 PM

IQUIST Seminar: "Three routes to topological long-range entanglement in quantum devices: from Hamilton(ians) to Cayley and Galois," Ruben Verresen, Harvard University

• January 17, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Frederic Koehler, "Towards the Statistically Principled Design of ML Algorithms"

• January 18, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:00 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Student Organization Events & Participation Opportunities for Spring 2023

• January 19, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, IL 60606

MiV Seminar: Harnessing biological actuation and flows in engineering and medicine

• January 20, 2023
• Friday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science .... or on zoom at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85844566046?pwd=Nm40NkxqQmRGOTc5c3NOVlpvOHNOUT0

Special Seminar: Diana Freed, "Understanding Digital Safety Experience of Intimate Partner Violence and Youth Survivors"

• January 23, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM

Nicholas LaRacuente "How Hard is it to Simulate Observations of a Quantum Process?"

• January 23, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• In person 3401 SC or online

IQUIST Seminar: "Rydberg atom arrays with programmable openness," Jacob Covey, UIUC

• January 24, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Special Seminar: Jule Schatz, "My Approach to Instruction"

• January 25, 2023
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM

PILOT Seminar: Pubali Datta, "Looking Past the Abstractions: Characterizing Information Flow in Real-World Systems"

• January 26, 2023
• Thursday, 1:30 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Resume Tips

• January 26, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, Illinois 60606

Democratizing Robot Learning and Teaming

• January 27, 2023
• Friday, 1:00 PM

PILOT Seminar: Riccardo Paccagnella, "Software Security Challenges in the Era of Modern Hardware"

• January 30, 2023
• Monday, 2:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87476498465?pwd=UGV4b2dGU3ZFZ3dCckFDVEkwbzd3dz09

Special Seminar: Haotian Jiang, "Convex Integer Optimization"

• January 30, 2023
• Monday, 2:00 PM

Joint CAP/Compiler Seminar: Yufeng Wang, "TGOpt: Redundancy-Aware Optimizations for Temporal Graph Attention Networks"

• January 30, 2023
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 0216 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Error correction in quantum computers and beyond," Aleksander Kubica, Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing

• January 31, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: April Wang, "Designing Future Computational Notebooks for Collaboration and Learning"

• February 1, 2023
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Special Seminar: Martin Zhang, "Computational Methods to Decipher Human Disease Using GWAS and Functional Genomics"

• February 2, 2023
• Thursday, 10:00 AM

Special Seminar: Raaz Dwivedi, "From HeartSteps to HeartBeats: Personalized Decision-Making"

• February 2, 2023
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

"Salto-1P, Small Walkers, Spirit 40, and Soon-to-be Robots"

• February 3, 2023
• Friday, 1:00 PM
• CSL Studio room 1232

PILOT Seminar: Xiaohong Chen, "Matching Logic: A Unifying Foundation for Programming"

• February 6, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/5494764956?pwd=MDNnaE5CWG0yRVlEZWl5bldoRnErZz09

CS Compiler Seminar: Vimarsh Sathia , "Understanding and exploiting optimal function inlining" and Benjamin Darnall, "egg: Fast and extensible equality saturation"

• February 6, 2023
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 2124 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Robust decoding of quantum orders in NISQ devices," Jong Yeon Lee, University of California Santa Barbara

• February 7, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Fernando Jeronimo, "Expansion, Codes and Optimization at the Frontiers"

• February 9, 2023
• Thursday, 1:00 PM

Amin Sadeghi "WhiteGrad: A fast neural network optimizer"

• February 9, 2023
• Thursday, 2:00 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Interview Preparation and Skills

• February 9, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 707, Chicago, IL 60606

David Zheng "Halving by a Thousand Cuts Or Punctures"

• February 13, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 SC

Special Seminar: Andreea Bobu, "Aligning Robot and Human Representations"

• February 13, 2023
• Monday, 3:00 PM

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Seminar Series: Jian Ma, "Machine learning for spatial genomics"

• February 14, 2023
• Tuesday, 12:00 PM
• 612 IGB Conference Center, 1206 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum Computational Advantage: Recent Progress and Next Steps," Xun Gao, Harvard University

• February 14, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Ruishan Liu, "Machine Learning For Precision Medicine"

• February 16, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86109146835?pwd=S1F4amhKYlVmcEhJS2xOVGhqNmU4UT09

Shuang Li "Enabling Compositional Generalization in AI"

• February 16, 2023
• Thursday, 2:00 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Career Opportunities with a Graduate Degree

• February 16, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 707, Chicago, IL 60606

Bridging Safety and Learning in Human-Robot Interaction

• February 17, 2023
• Friday, 1:00 PM

Special Seminar: Venkat Arun, "Designing Provably Performant Network Systems"

• February 20, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81544392735?pwd=NjN1enhSWHRSNmFqZENHOTh0emJRQT09

Taihei Oki "Algebraic Algorithms for Fractional Linear Matroid Parity via Non-commutative Rank"

• February 20, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 SC

PILOT Seminar: Jiaxin Huang, "Label-Efficient Textual Knowledge Extraction and Utilization"

• February 20, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM

Special Seminar: Ge Liu, "Accelerating Biomedical Discovery and Therapeutic Biologic Design With Machine Learning"

• February 20, 2023
• Monday, 3:00 PM

CS Compiler Seminar: Pavlo Pastaryev, "Copy-and-patch compilation: a fast compilation algorithm for high-level languages and bytecode" and Srinjoy Das, "Alpa: Automating Inter- and Intra-Operator Parallelism for Distributed Deep Learning"

• February 20, 2023
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 2124 Siebel Center

IQUIST Special Seminar: "Multipartite correlation enginee in open quantum systems," Archana Kamal, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• February 20, 2023
• Monday, 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building

Teaching Special Seminar: Kevin Sun, "Cultivating Intellectual Growth"

• February 21, 2023
• Tuesday, 9:00 AM

Manolis Savva "3D Simulation for Embodied AI: emerging challenges and opportunities"

• February 21, 2023
• Tuesday, 1:00 PM
• 2405 SC

IQUIST Seminar: "Computational Complexity of Quantum Systems," Sandy Irani, University of California, Irvine

• February 21, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Alumni Panel - Tips from the Other Side

• February 21, 2023
• Tuesday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, Illinois 60606

Special Seminar: Harmanpreet Kaur, "Leveraging Social Theories to Enhance Human-AI Interaction"

• February 22, 2023
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

COLLOQUIUM: Ajay Divakaran, "Using Hierarchies of Skills to Assess and Achieve Automatic Multimodal Comprehension"

• February 22, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89259555885?pwd=bWZFbWpMZTkrU1M0U2ErRmVQYTdxZz09

Teaching Special Seminar: Vladimir Podolskii, "How and What Should We Teach"

• February 23, 2023
• Thursday, 9:00 AM

PILOT Seminar: Linyi Li, "Certifying Trustworthy Deep Learning Systems at Scale"

• February 23, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM

Special Seminar: Tal August, "Language as Design: Adapting Language to Different Audiences"

• February 23, 2023
• Thursday, 12:00 PM

Scalability in Low-power Wide Area Networks

• February 23, 2023
• Thursday, 4:00 PM
• Siebel Center 2405

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Alumni Panel - Tips from the Other Side

• February 23, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, Illinois 60606

Learning-Based Methods for Multi-Agent Navigation

• February 24, 2023
• Friday, 10:30 AM

Teaching Special Seminar: Diana Uwacu, "Learning Excellence Through Research for Undergraduate Scholars"

• February 27, 2023
• Monday, 9:00 AM

Special Seminar: Tanvir Ahmed Khan, "Rescuing Data Center Processors"

• February 27, 2023
• Monday, 9:00 AM
• B02 CSL or online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81967036104?pwd=bWkya2U5YmxYcDlWd2Nxak1qQ1o5QT09&from=addon

Special Seminar: Mackenzie Leake, "Integrating Expertise Into Computational Tools for Design and Media Authoring"

• February 27, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM

Zhengcheng Huang "Constant-Hop Spanners for More Geometric Intersection Graphs, with Even Smaller Size"

• February 27, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

COLLOQUIUM: Graham Neubig, "Is My NLP Model Working? The Answer is Harder Than You Think"

• February 27, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science OR Zoom https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82659976321?pwd=M09aSW5CYmpyVVZEUUZHUk4xL3EyUT09

IQUIST Seminar: "Schrödinger cat states of a 16-microgram mechanical oscillator," Yiwen Chu, ETH Zürich

• February 28, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Craig Shultz, "New Actuation for Next Generation Haptic Interfaces"

• March 1, 2023
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82381065062?pwd=TU5KdEVBeDdtU0tzVmVEMUtOemNIdz09

Special Seminar: Jonathan Gammell, "Measuring and Planning Motion in Robotics"

• March 2, 2023
• Thursday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83853738983?pwd=N2ZPR0pGM3NVZ0FTaWNFWi9ZM2FJUT09

CS Compiler Seminar: Albert Cohen , "Machine Learning Compilers: There and Back Again"

• March 2, 2023
• Thursday, 12:30 PM
• 1302 Siebel Center

Special Seminar: Mitchell Gordon

• March 2, 2023
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Negotiating Offers

• March 2, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, IL 60606

Toward Safe Learning-based Autonomy with Integrated Perception, Planning, and Control

• March 3, 2023
• Friday, 1:00 PM

MiV Seminar - Mark Yim - "Lessons from looking to biology for robots"

• March 3, 2023
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science ... or on zoom at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82905513876?pwd=TVVCbm5DYXVzK0tOb0FublFGendpdz09

IQUIST Seminar: NO SEMINAR

• March 7, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Special Seminar: Pengyu Nie, "Execution-Guided Learning for Software Development, Testing, and Maintenance"

• March 8, 2023
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Panel: The Impact of ChatGPT on the Research of Teaching and Learning

• March 8, 2023
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM

Teaching Special Seminar: Deniz Gurkan, "Creating Experiential Learning Opportunities in Networked Systems Courses"

• March 9, 2023
• Thursday, 9:00 AM

Special Seminar: Ashish Kumar, "Rapid Adaptation for Robot Control"

• March 9, 2023
• Thursday, 11:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89175231903?pwd=MFZRZkJGbGNDcDlVR3VDM25ocFc0Zz09

Special Seminar: Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, "Empowering Users on Social Media for Better Content Credibility"

• March 9, 2023
• Thursday, 3:00 PM

Corporate Connections in Chicago: After Hours

• March 9, 2023
• Thursday, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
• 200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

Teaching Special Seminar: Pablo Robles-Granda, "Effective Pedagogy in Computer Science"

• March 20, 2023
• Monday, 9:00 AM

Special Seminar: Orson Xuhai Xu, "Toward The Next Generation Health and Well-being: The Synergy of Behavior Modeling and Intervention"

• March 20, 2023
• Monday, 3:00 PM

Special Seminar: Jiaxuan You, "Learning From the Interconnected World With Graphs"

• March 21, 2023
• Tuesday, 10:00 AM

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Microscopy of Molecules and Materials," Mikael Backlund, UIUC

• March 21, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: William Moses, "Supercharging Programming Through Compiler Technology"

• March 23, 2023
• Thursday, 10:00 AM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85410002462?pwd=VDVCNzRoNVhtVmxTYU9hTUhmVkNsZz09

Special Seminar: Jason Li, "Minimum Cuts and Preconditioning for Graph Algorithms"

• March 23, 2023
• Thursday, 1:00 PM

Harsh Agrawal "Towards multi-modal AI systems with 'open-world' cognition"

• March 23, 2023
• Thursday, 2:00 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Startups and Entrepreneurship

• March 23, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, Illinois 60606

Special Seminar: Yi Ding, "A Holistic View on Machine Learning for Systems"

• March 27, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM

CS Compiler Seminar: Kum Wu, "PIGEON: Optimizing CUDA Code Generator for End-to-End Training and Inference of Relational Graph Neural Networks"

• March 27, 2023
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 2124 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "Epitaxial nitride thin films for superconducting quantum circuits & the LQC," Christopher J.K. Richardson, Laboratory for Physical Sciences

• March 28, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Special Seminar: Reza Farivar, "The Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Online Systems Courses at Scale"

• March 29, 2023
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM

Special Seminar: Kaitlin Smith, "An Architect's Perspective on Quantum Computer Scaling: Why, What, and How?"

• March 29, 2023
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Special Seminar: Kishor Jothimurugan, "Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning"

• March 29, 2023
• Wednesday, 2:00 PM

COLLOQUIUM: Pradeep Natarajan, "Multimodal Transformer Models for Joint Text-Visual Processing"

• March 29, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science OR Zoom https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86048310021?pwd=R09Qb2YrdEs0N0dIeVpBOXRvZFdwQT09

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Open Meeting

• March 29, 2023
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• HYBRID: 1404 Siebel Center for Computer Science and ZOOM

Special Seminar: Huan Zhang, "Trustworthy Al via Formal Verification and Adversarial Testing"

• March 30, 2023
• Thursday, 9:00 AM
• B02 CSL and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86777379692?pwd=WXZIaiswZTlrWFV3dFA0eEFUazR6UT09&from=addon

Eshed Ohn-Bar "On the Limits of Imitation"

• March 30, 2023
• Thursday, 2:00 PM

Special Seminar: Mina Lee, "Designing and Evaluating Language Models for Human Interaction"

• March 30, 2023
• Thursday, 2:00 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Tips for Successfully Onboarding your Job or Internship

• March 30, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• HYBRID: 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, IL 60606 OR Zoom - https://go.cs.illinois.edu/cspd-spr23

DLS: Steven Ashby, "The Breadth of R&D at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory"

• March 31, 2023
• Friday, 12:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83022159193?pwd=NGZaS1ZMcXI0TVhReDNkSnduM05yZz09

MiV Seminar - Hod Lispon - "Machine Sentience: Can robots be truly self-aware?"

• March 31, 2023
• Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or on zoom at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87975109818?pwd=Zjlid1ZMNmJZYXZHQVo1QkUweGNqQT09

CS Compiler Seminar: Shubham Ugare , "Incremental Verification of Neural Networks" and Ashitabh Misra , "Applying Deep Learning to the Cache Replacement Problem"

• April 3, 2023
• Monday, 8:30 AM
• 2124 Siebel Center

Special Seminar: Paria Rashidenijad, "Reliable Data-Driven Decision-Making Systems"

• April 3, 2023
• Monday, 9:00 AM
• B02 CSL and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86884999269?pwd=YW4rRmtNclRzS0p2ODBzSWR5QkpWQT09&from=addon

Special Seminar: Mae Milano, "Programming Distributed Systems"

• April 3, 2023
• Monday, 10:00 AM

Zander Kelley "Strong Bounds for 3-Progressions"

• April 3, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science or Online

IQUIST Seminar: "Quantum-enhanced interferometric imaging: A step toward quantum-enhanced very-long-baseline interferometry for astronomy," Brian Smith, University of Oregon

• April 4, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Teaching Special Seminar: Livingston McPherson, "Scaling CS Classrooms with Active Peer Learning"

• April 6, 2023
• Thursday, 9:00 AM

Special Seminar: Stephanie Wang, "The Design of a General-Purpose Distributed Execution System"

• April 6, 2023
• Thursday, 10:00 AM

Special Seminar: Andrew Kwong, "Securing Systems Running on Insecure Hardware"

• April 6, 2023
• Thursday, 10:00 AM
• B02 CSL and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89603085925?pwd=UG04UE9jS25WK3BVMkJTLzFHeFNFQT09&from=addon

Axel Sauer "Scaling Generative Adversarial Networks"

• April 6, 2023
• Thursday, 2:00 PM

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Career Opportunities Outside Traditional Tech

• April 6, 2023
• Thursday, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
• HYBRID: 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, IL -- ZOOM: go.cs.illinois.edu/cspd-spr23

Special Seminar: Lianhui Qin, "Constrained, Casual, and Logical Reasoning for Neural Language Generation"

• April 10, 2023
• Monday, 9:00 AM
• B02 CSL or online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81703087580?pwd=QmNnMzgzTkJIamVxbWRDT2lzcWs0UT09&from=addon

Hongxun Wu "Element distinctness, Pollard's rho, and PRG via Iterative restriction"

• April 10, 2023
• Monday, 11:00 AM
• 3401 Siebel Center for Computer Science

DLS: Aleksander Madry, "Machine Learning: A Data-Centric Perspective"

• April 10, 2023
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86306081124?pwd=c2cyL1EwaWZWZk5OUUtud0lLWUlxUT09

CS Compiler Seminar: Stefanos Baziotis , "Dias: Dynamic Rewriting of Pandas Code"

• April 10, 2023
• Monday, 4:30 PM
• 2124 Siebel Center

Special Seminar: Nivedita Arora, "Building Sustainable Computational Materials"

• April 11, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM

CS CAP & Systems: Bo Han, "Mobile Immersive Content Delivery"

• April 11, 2023
• Tuesday, 2:00 PM
• 3401 Siebel Center

IQUIST Seminar: "New Particle Searches with Nonlinear Optics," Roni Harnik, Fermilab

• April 11, 2023
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
• 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Special Seminar: Zhong-Qiu Wang, "Deep Learning Based Speech Separation"

• April 12, 2023
• Wednesday, 9:00 AM
• B02 CSL and online https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84838499587?pwd=YkxHRzdtcklvWVNvdDJuTzlPZUNMUT09&from=addon

Special Seminar: Poulami Das, "Software and Architecture for Reliable Quantum Computing"

• April 12, 2023
• Wednesday, 10:00 AM

Special Seminar: Dixin Tang, "Supporting User-Centered Analytical Interfaces at Scale"

• April 13, 2023
• Thursday, 10:00 AM

Special Seminar: Raghuvansh Saxena, "Communication is Everything. Everything is Communication"

• April 13, 2023
• Thursday, 1:00 PM

Yaoyao Liu "Learning from Imperfect Data: Continual Learning and Few-shot Learning"

• April 13, 2023
• Thursday, 2:00 PM

Summer REU Lunch and Learn: Developing your Professional Persona

• July 7, 2021
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_apgfqevy

Summer REU Lunch and Learn: Presentation and Other Verbal Communication Skills

• July 14, 2021
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_oka9p6kt

Summer REU Lunch and Learn: Preparing a Competitive Application for Graduate School and External Fellowships

• July 21, 2021
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_swgem5qj

Summer REU Lunch and Learn: Research Showcase Preparation Q&A

• July 28, 2021
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_ss6crupe

Summer REU Lunch and Learn: CS REU Summer 2021 Research Showcase

• August 11, 2021
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84338495737?pwd=bEtiSThZSWp6T2xyQzl6T2c3VXI1Zz09

COLLOQUIUM: Gagandeep Singh: "Certified Artificial Intelligence"

• August 23, 2021
• Monday, 3:30 PM
• https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_rg3kapfx

IQUIST seminar: "Towards optical quantum networks based on rare-earth ions and nano-photonics"

• August 31, 2021
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM

COLLOQUIUM: Charith Mendis, "Towards Automated Construction of Compiler Optimizations"

• September 1, 2021
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center and on Zoom (https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81812993483?pwd=MllQRjFSeklyZjFCdzJrSU54dTdJZz09)

Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2021: Organized by the Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network (ACNN)

• September 2, 2021
• Thursday, 3:00 PM
• Beckman and Zoom

Shubhra Kanti Karmaker "Data Science for “All’’

• September 3, 2021
• Friday, 4:00 PM
• https://illinois.zoom.us/j/8167899060?pwd=YkZrQ09zODRzL0txRGF5bnhWdmk0UT09

IQUIST seminar: "Simulating many-body physics using quantum tensor networks"

• September 7, 2021
• Tuesday, 11:00 AM

Just Infrastructures Speaker Series, Mary L. Gray, "The Banality of Scale: How 'Colorblind' Tech is Killing Us and Other Lessons from the Pandemic"

• September 8, 2021
• Wednesday, 12:00 PM
• Register at: http://just-infras.illinois.edu/

COLLOQUIUM: Camille Cobb, "What we miss if we don’t talk to people: Understanding users’ diverse and nuanced privacy needs"

• September 8, 2021
• Wednesday, 3:30 PM
• 2405 Siebel Center or on Zoom (https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81113885005?pwd=bk5ZdXRhTm9xTUZCU2x5ZHJTYkRVQT09)