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Designing Intelligent Machines via Reactive Synthesis

March 4th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Suguman Bansal (COMP) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: Intelligent machines, such as IoT devices, are fundamentally reactive systems that interact with the outer physical … Continue reading

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Scheduled Restart Momentum for Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Descent

February 26th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Tan Nguyen (ECE) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with constant momentum and its variants such as Adam are the optimization … Continue reading

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Remote Sensing of Behavior for Insight into Social Group Dynamics

February 19th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Lisa O’Bryan (PSYC/ECE) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: My research focuses on the critical role communication plays in the successful functioning of social groups, … Continue reading

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Learning Treatment Planning Goals for Radiation Therapy: An Inverse Optimization Approach

February 12th, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Tayo Ajayi (CAAM) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: In radiation therapy treatment planning optimization, selecting a set of clinical objectives that are tractable and … Continue reading

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Intelligent Visceral Machines

February 5, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Daniel McDuff and Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: Machine learning and AI present many opportunities for building more natural user … Continue reading

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HeartCam: Camera-based Vital Signs in the Wild

January 28, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Ewa M. Nowara (ELEC) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: Imagine if when you looked at someone, you could see their heartbeat. Using an off … Continue reading

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Graph Quilting: Graphical Model Selection from Partially Observed Covariances

January 22nd, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Giuseppe Vinci Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: We investigate the problem of conditional dependence graph estimation when several pairs of nodes have no joint data observation. For … Continue reading

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Machine Learning as Program Synthesis

November 20th, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Swarat Chaudhuri Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: Program synthesis, the problem of automatically discovering programs that implement a given specification, is a long-standing goal in … Continue reading

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Integrative Network-Based Approaches to Understand Human Disease

November 13th, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Vicky Yao (COMP) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: The generation of diverse genome-scale data across organisms and experimental conditions is becoming increasingly commonplace, creating unprecedented … Continue reading

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Understanding the Hardness of Samples in Neural Networks and Randomized Algorithms for Social Impact

November 6th, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm in DCH 3092 Speaker: Beidi Chen (COMP) Please indicate interest, especially if you want lunch, here. Abstract: This talk will be in two parts: 1) The mechanisms behind human visual systems and convolutional neural … Continue reading

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