2019-2020 Scheduled Seminars

Thursday September 12, 2019
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Mike White, The Ohio State University
Title:"Combining CNNs and Pattern Matching for Question Interpretation in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System: The Replication"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Sarah Reaves, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday September 16, 2019
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
Title:"Seismic Shifts: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-ISA Era of Computer Systems Design"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Jasleen Kaur, UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday September 20, 2019
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Patricia Johann , Appalachian State University
Title:"Parametricity for Programmers"
Talk Series: Theory Seminar Series
Host: Alessandra Scafuro, Chris Martens, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 01, 2019
06:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Oliver Schabenberger, EVP, COO & CTO, SAS
Title:"The Evolution of Organizations in the Digital Age"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday October 14, 2019
12:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Samiha Marwan, NCSU
Title:"'Yay!! You did it ;)'. The Impact of Proactive Positive Feedback on Novices in a Block-based Programming Environment "
Talk Series: Other
Host: Noboru Matsuda, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 15, 2019
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Joseph Washington, IBM
Title:"Intro to Enterprise Blockchain using Hyperledger Fabric"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Ignacio Dominguez, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 15, 2019
07:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Rich Ingle, IBM
Title:"What it means to be a 'Full Stack Developer' on an Enterprise Cloud Application"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Svapnil Ankolkar, Tech@NC State
Location: 1021, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday October 21, 2019
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Gillian Smith, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title:"Computational Craft: Weaving together Computer Science, Design, and Art"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Chris Martens, NCSU
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 22, 2019
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Xu Liu, College of William and Mary
Title:"Squeezing Software Performance via Eliminating Wasteful Operations"
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 22, 2019
12:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Niki Gitinabard, NCSU
Title:"What do students do, and does it matter? Using online behaviors to predict class performance"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Noboru Matsuda, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 22, 2019
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Prasanth Anbalagan, Red Hat
Title:"AI/ML at Red Hat"
Talk Series: Other
Host: ACM/AITP Student Chapter, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday October 23, 2019
05:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Richard Hendra, MDRC Center for Data Insights
Title:"Data Science to Improve Social Programs"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Alyson Wilson, Statistic - ORIED LAS
Location: Coastal Ballroom, Talley Student Union, NCSU Main Campus
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Friday October 25, 2019
11:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Na Meng, Virginia Tech
Title:"Data-Driven Software Maintenance"
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday October 29, 2019
06:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Pablo Martinez, Head of Cyber Operations, Fidelity Investments
Title:"The Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 04, 2019
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Frederick P. Brooks Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll
Title:"A Personal History of Computing"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Kevin Jeffay, UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday November 05, 2019
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Courtney Ambrozic, SAS
Title:"Biomedical Computer Vision at SAS"
Talk Series: Other
Host: ACM/AITP Student Chapter, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday November 06, 2019
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Cynthia Rudin, Duke
Title:"Secrecy, Criminal Justice, and Variable Importance"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Alyson Wilson, Statistic - ORIED LAS
Location: Duke Energy Hall, Hunt Library, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday November 07, 2019
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Jiajia Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title:"High Performance Tensor Methods for Applications and Architectures"
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday November 11, 2019
12:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Tiffany Barnes, NCSU
Title:"Game2Learn: CS Education, Serious Games, Analytics, and AI for Education"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Noboru Matsuda, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday November 12, 2019
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Joseph Washington, IBM
Title:"Introduction to Enterprise Blockchain with Hyperledger Fabric with a Specific Example"
Talk Series: Other
Host: ACM/AITP Student Chapter, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday November 14, 2019
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Lili Su, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title:"Learning with Distributed Systems: Adversary-Resilience"
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday November 19, 2019
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: James Davis, Virginia Tech
Title:"Regexes are hard: qualitative and quantitative perspectives"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Kathryn Stolee, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday November 19, 2019
06:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Christian Hubicki, Former Contestant on CBS’ Survivor, Asst. Professor, Florida State University
Title:"Robotics, Survivor, and the Meaning of Control"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday November 20, 2019
05:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Steven Koonin, New York University
Title:"Urban Data"
Talk Series: Data Science series
Host: Laura Kroeger, Office of Research and Innovation
Location: Coastal Ballroom, Talley Student Union, NCSU Main Campus
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Monday December 02, 2019
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Christopher Re, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Title:"If You Want to Be Rich, Get a Lot of Money: Theory and Systems for Weak Supervision"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Sudeepa Roy, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday December 09, 2019
12:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Guojing Zhou, CSC
Title:"'A Little Exposition Goes a Long Way': Data-driven Explanations of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Induced Pedagogical Policies"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Noboru Matsuda, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday December 16, 2019
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Gul Agha, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title:"Scalable Formal Methods"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Munindar Singh, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday January 21, 2020
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Chris Sellek, WillowTree
Title:"The Art of Storytelling in Apps"
Talk Series: Other
Host: ACM/AITP Student Chapter, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday January 24, 2020
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Patrick Traynor, University of Florida
Title:"Because That’s Where the Money Is: Designing Defenses for Entrenched Legacy Payment Systems"
Talk Series: Other
Host: Brad Reaves, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday January 28, 2020
06:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Chris Hazard, Co-founder & CTO, Diveplane
Title:"What Can We Learn About Innovation From the Theories That Drive Artificial Intelligence?"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 03, 2020
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Kathleen McKeown, Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University Title: TBA
Title:"Where Natural Language Processing Meets Societal Needs"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Mohit Bansai, UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Wednesday February 05, 2020
10:00 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Anita Crescenzi, UNC - Chapel Hill
Title:"Adaptation in Search under Time Pressure."
Host: Christopher Healey, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday February 06, 2020
11:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Xiaozhong Liu, Indiana University Bloomington
Title:"Natural Language Processing with Heterogeneous Data"
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday February 07, 2020
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Shuyin Jiao, College of William and Mary
Title:"Integrating Tools Research with Computer Science Undergraduate Education"
Host: Sarah Heckman, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 10, 2020
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Hany Farid, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Title:"Digital Forensics: From Photoshop to Deep Fakes"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: David Luebke, UNC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday February 13, 2020
06:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Andrew Wooster, PRA Health Sciences
Title:"Creating a Crowd-Sourcing Marketplace within a Pharmaceutical Services Company"
Talk Series: Other
Host: ACM/AITP Student Chapter, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday February 17, 2020
01:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dmitriy Morozov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title:"Persistent Homology: Applications and Computation"
Host: Xipeng Shen, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday February 25, 2020
07:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Dan Stancil, ECE
Title:"Quantum Computing in your Future"
Talk Series: Nominal Seminar Series
Host: Adithya Balaji, ECE
Location: 2201, EB3, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday February 27, 2020
06:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Igor Jablokov, CEO, Pryon
Title:"Enterprise 2025 – AI, Ethics, and the Future of Work"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday March 02, 2020
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Martin Rinard, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT)
Title:"Two Research Stories"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: Xipeng Shen, NCSU
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Friday March 27, 2020
11:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Samarjit Chakraborty, UNC Chapel Hill
Title:"SEMINAR CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 DIRECTIVES - Cars, Games, Phones, and Drones "
Talk Series: System Research Seminar series
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Tuesday March 31, 2020
09:30 AM (talk begins)
Speaker: Swamit Tannu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title:"SEMINAR CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 DIRECTIVES - Towards Scalable and Reliable Architectures for Quantum Computing Platforms"
Host: Frank Mueller, CSC
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Thursday April 09, 2020
06:30 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Gary McGraw, Co-Founder, Berryville Institute of Machine Learning
Title:"POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 DIRECTIVES, RESCHEDULE DATE TBA"
Talk Series: Fidelity Investment Speaker Series
Host: Corporate Relations, CSC
Location: 1231, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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Monday April 13, 2020
04:00 PM (talk begins)
Speaker: Ariel Procaccia, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Title:"SEMINAR CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 DIRECTIVES - Putting Ethical AI to the Vote"
Talk Series: Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Host: TBA, Duke
Location: 3211, EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
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