Seminars
Join us for an exciting semester of seminars hosted by the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering.
Spring 2021 invited talks and lectures
| Topic and speaker | Event details | Lecture series | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compositional representations for visual recognition Assistant Professor Vicente Ordonez-Roman, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia | Wednesday, February 3, 4:30 p.m. Zoom | CIDSE Invited Talk Frontier Topics in Vision and Language | Tejas Gokhale, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral |
| The measurement and mismeasurement of trustworthy ML Assistant Professor Sanmi (Oluwasanmi) Koyejo Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Friday, February 12 1-2 p.m. Zoom | Joint seminar with LIONS Lunch Seminar and DSE @ CIDSE | Giulia Pedrielli and Geun Byeon |
| Building Agents that can See, Talk, and Act Abhishek Das, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) | Monday, February 15, 4:30 p.m. Zoom | Frontier Topics in Vision and Language: Spring 2021 Seminar Series | Tejas Gokhale, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral |
| Learning in structured MDPs with convex cost functions: Improved regret bounds for inventory management Assistant Professor Shipra Agrawal, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University | Friday, February 19, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Giulia Pedrielli |
| Learning with topological information - Image analysis and label noise Assistant Professor Chao Chen, Stony Brook University | Friday, February 19, 2:30-4 p.m. Zoom | CIDSE Invited Talk | Yalin Wang |
| Tackling Data Scarcity in Vision and Language Xin (Eric) Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Santa Cruz. | Monday, February 22, 4:30 p.m. Zoom | Frontier Topics in Vision and Language: Spring 2021 Seminar Series | Zhiyuan Fang, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral |
| Characterizing Pareto optima: Sequential Utilitarian Welfare Maximization Teacher Chris T. Ryan, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Friday, February 26, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Giulia Pedrielli |
| Operations Research Models for Local Coronavirus Outbreaks Edward Kaplan, William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, Public Health, and Engineering, Yale University | Thursday, February 25, 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET | Operations Research for COVID-19 | Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency |
| Characterizing Pareto optima: Sequential Utilitarian Welfare Maximization Teacher Chris T. Ryan, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Friday, February 26, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Giulia Pedrielli |
| Visual Question Answering and Deep Learning: Are we building a ladder to the moon? Damien Teney, Senior Research at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide. | Monday, March 1, 4:30 p.m. Zoom | Frontier Topics in Vision and Language: Spring 2021 Seminar Series | Pratyay Banerjee, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral |
| Learning in structured MDPs with convex cost functions: Improved regret bounds for inventory management Assistant Professor Shipra Agrawal, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University | Friday, March 5, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Giulia Pedrielli |
| Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language Muhao Chen, researcher USC ISI. | Monday, March 8, 4:30 p.m. Zoom | Frontier Topics in Vision and Language: Spring 2021 Seminar Series | Pratyay Banerjee, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral |
| Novel Supply Chain Network Models Inspired by the COVID-19 Pandemic - From Optimization to Game Theory John F. Smith Memorial Professor Anna Nagurney, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Thursday, March 11, 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET | Operations Research for COVID-19 | Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency |
| Sparsifying To Optimize Over Multiple Information Sources: An Augmented Gaussian Process Based Algorithm Assistant Professor Antonio Candelieri, Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy | Friday, March 19, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Giulia Pedrielli |
| Human Factors and Cognitive Decision Support for Aircraft Pilots Kendra Befort, Associate Technical Fellow in Human System Integration | Tuesday, March 23, 10:30 a.m.-noon Zoom | CIDSE Invited Talk | J. Caviedes, T. Wu, B. Li |
| Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning Rich Caruana, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft | Tuesday, March 23, 1:30-3 p.m. Zoom | CIDSE Invited Talk | J. Caviedes, T. Wu, B. Li |
| Design of COVID-19 Staged Alert Systems to Ensure Healthcare Capacity with Minimal Closures Sachs Professor and Department Chair Dave Morton, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University | Thursday, March 25, 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET | Operations Research for COVID-19 | Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency |
| On the Tightness and Scalability of the Lagrangian Dual of Structured Nonconvex Optimization” Kibaek Kim, computational mathematician, Argonne National Laboratory | Friday, March 26, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Geunyeong Byeon |
| Learning Visual Knowledge from Image-Text Pairs Yin Li, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. | Monday, March 29, 4:30 p.m. Zoom | Frontier Topics in Vision and Language: Spring 2021 Seminar Series | Zhiyuan Fang, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral |
| Connectome Imaging for Mapping Fiber Pathways in Aging Yonggang Shi, Associate Professor Neurology, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California | Friday, April 16, 10:30 a.m.-noon Zoom | CIDSE Invited Talk | Yalin Wang |
| Building Load Control using Distributionally Robust Binary Chance-Constrained Programs with Right-Hand Side Uncertainty and the Adjustable Variants” Yiling Zhang, Assistant Professor Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering University of Minnesota | Friday, April 9, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Geunyeong Byeon |
| Connectome Imaging for Mapping Fiber Pathways in Aging Yonggang Shi, Associate Professor Neurology, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California | Friday, April 16, 10:30 a.m.-noon Zoom | CIDSE Invited Talk | Yalin Wang |
| Fusing Machine Learning and Optimization for Engineering Applications” Pascal Van Hentenryck Chair and Professor H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology | Friday, April 16, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Geunyeong Byeon |
| Contextual Optimization: Bridging Machine Learning and Operations Adam Elmachtoub Associate Professor Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Data Science Institute Columbia University | Friday, April 23, 12-1 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Spring '21 Seminar Series | Giulia Pedrielli |
Fall 2020 invited talks and lectures
| Topic and speaker | Event details | Lecture series | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annotation-efficient Deep Learning for Computer-aided Diagnosis in Medical Imaging Associate Professor Jianming Liang, ASU, and adjunct associate professor of radiology, Mayo Clinic Zongwei Zhou, Ph.D. candidate in biomedical informatics, ASU | Friday, November 6, 2 p.m. Zoom | CIDSE Invited Talk | Yalin Wang |
| Practical Solutions to Internet Experimentation with High-Dimensional Action Spaces Using Bayesian Optimization Eytan Bakshy, principal scientist, Facebook | Friday, November 6, 1–2 p.m. Zoom | IE Decision Systems Engineering Fall ‘20 Seminar Series in Collaboration with LIONS Seminar Series | Giulia Pedrielli |
Spring 2020 invited talks and lectures
| Topic and speaker | Event details | Lecture series | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomarker detection, brain response characterization and outcome prediction for ASD James Daniel, Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University | Friday, February 7, 11 a.m. BYAC 110, Tempe campus | CIDSE Distinguished Lecture Series | Teresa Wu, Yalin Wang, Jing Li |
| Resource-constrained neural machine translation Research Assistant Professor Jonathan May, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California | Thursday, January 30, 1 p.m. BYENG 510, Tempe campus | CIDSE Invited Talk | Yezhou Yang |
| Gender, productivity and prestiges in faculty hiring networks Associate Professor Aaron Clauset, Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder | Wednesday, January 29, noon BYENG Mezzanine M1-09, Tempe campus | CIDSE Invited Talk | Stephanie Forrest |
| Hash-based digital signatures for the post-quantum world Ahto Truu, Guardtime | Thursday, January 23, 11 a.m. BYENG 510, Tempe campus | CIDSE Invited Talk | Rida Bazzi |
| Automated proof synthesis for propositional logic with deep neural networks Associate Professor Kohei Suenaga, Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University, and ASU Visiting Scholar | Friday, January 17, 2 pm BYENG 210, Tempe campus | CIDSE Invited Talk | Georgios Fainekos |
Fall 2019 lectures
Distinguished Lecture Series
| Details | Speaker | Flier |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30–3:30 p.m. BYENG 209 | Nancy Lynch Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Robust ant colony algorithms: Density estimation and house-hunting |
CIDSE Faculty Talks
| Details | Speaker | Flier |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, November 22 2:10 p.m. BYAC 110, Tempe campus | Dimitri Bertsekas Fulton Chair of Computational Decision Making | Ten key ideas for reinforcement learning |
CIDSE Invited Talks
| Details | Speaker | Flier |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:30 p.m. BYAC 110 | Roberto Calandra Facebook AI Research | Rethinking model-based reinforcement learning |
| Wednesday, October 23, 2019 | Zhiwei (Tony) Qin DiDi AI Labs | Deep reinforcement learning in ride-sharing marketplace |
| Tuesday, October 29, 2019 11 a.m. BYENG 510 | Jianming Liang Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic | Artificial intelligence for computer-aided diagnosis in medical imaging |
| Monday, November 4, 2019 10:30-11:30 a.m. CAVC Auditorium | Daniel Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology | Robophysics: Physics meets robots |
| Friday, November 15, 2019 10 a.m. BYENG 510 | Roni Khardon Indiana University Bloomington | Stochastic planning and probabilistic inference |
| Friday, November 15, 2019 2:20 p.m. BYAC 110 | John Doyle CalTech | Universal laws and architectures in complex networked systems with applications to sensorimotor control |
| Monday, November 18, 2019 10:30 a.m. BYENG 510 | Michael G. Wagner Drexel University | Taking computer games seriously: Of game-based learning and eSports |
IE Decision Systems Engineering Seminars
| Details | Speaker | Flier |
|---|---|---|
| August 23, 2019 Noon BYENG 510 | Kirsten Lux TU Kaiserslautern, Germany | Optimal inflow control in supply systems with uncertain demands |
| September 13, 2019 Noon BYENG 510 | Lars Mönch University of Hagen, Germany | Energy-aware scheduling of jobs on batch processing machines |
| September 20, 2019 Noon BYENG 510 | Jonathan F. Bard The University of Texas at Austin | Determining the long-term requirements for powered industrial vehicles within mail processing and distribution centers |
| November 1, 2019 Noon BYENG 210 | Sujeevraja Sanjeevi Sabre | A team orienteering problem for fixed-wing drones |
| November 8, 2019 Noon BYENG 510 | Dennis K.J. Lin The Pennsylvania State University | Order of addition experiments: Design and analysis |
| November 15, 2019 Noon BYENG 510 | Peter Frazier Cornell University | Grey-box Bayesian optimization |
| November 22, 2019 Noon BYENG M1-09 | Daniel R. Jeske University of California, Riverside | Discussion of the March 2019 Special Issue of The American Statistician on Alternatives to P < .05 |
| December 6, 2019 Noon BYENG 210 | Sila Çetinkaya, Southern Methodist University | Process re-engineering and optimization for treating the uninsured and chronically ill |
AMCII Invited Talks
| Details | Speaker | Flier |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:50 p.m. BYENG 210 | Matthew Kupinski The University of Arizona | Image science in medicine |
