Featured Lectures
Illinois Computer Science has three named lecture series. The Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture honors the memory of a renowned CS faculty member, the Robert Mueller-Thuns Lecture honors the memory of a graduate who died at a young age, but whom always strove for excellence, and the Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing honors a distinguished alumnus who made outstanding contributions to HPC.
- Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture Series
- Robert Mueller-Thuns Lecture Series
- Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture Series in High Performance Computing
Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series
The Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series brings prominent leaders and experts to campus to share their ideas and promote conversations about important challenges and topics in the discipline.
COLLOQUIUM: Carlee Joe-Wong, "Optimizing the Cost of Distributed Learning"
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/93508792664?pwd=NTA4T1lsRHF4N0JtVXA1ZnJYWlBWZz09 10:00 AMREU Lunch & Learn: Presentation and Other Verbal Communication Skills
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/93211925875?pwd=YmNEbEpWRUNaNnFYZU0xQlBOT1k3dz09 12:00 PMREU Lunch & Learn: Preparing a Competitive Application for Graduate School
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/93211925875?pwd=YmNEbEpWRUNaNnFYZU0xQlBOT1k3dz09 12:00 PMREU Lunch & Learn: Career Paths with a PhD in Computer Science
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/93211925875?pwd=YmNEbEpWRUNaNnFYZU0xQlBOT1k3dz09 12:00 PMREU Lunch & Learn: Research Showcase Host - CS Department Head Nancy Amato
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/93211925875?pwd=YmNEbEpWRUNaNnFYZU0xQlBOT1k3dz09 12:00 PMKris Hauser, "Robot Motion Planning: From Algorithms to Systems"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMHanghang Tong, Associate Professor, Illinois Computer Science
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMAshish Goel, Stanford, "Beyond Voting: Markets and Platforms for Societal Decision Making"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMAbdussalam Alawini, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMVirginia Vassilevska Williams, MIT, "Fine-Grained Algorithms and Complexity"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMTimothy Sherwood, UC Santa Barbara, "Computing, Fast and Slow"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMVivek Sarkar, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Data Flow Execution Models -- a Third Opinion"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMAleksandra Faust, Google Brain Robotics, "Deep Learning Motion and Task Planning"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMAdam Aviv, The George Washington University, "Human Factors in Mobile Authentication"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMJoseph Devietti, Assistant Professor, Computer & Information Science, The University of Pennsylvania
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMLinh Phan, Reliable real-time infrastructure for cyber-physical systems
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMDonald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture: Margo Seltzer, "Systems Research - Construed Broadly"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMEddie Kohler, Harvard University, "Optimism in the Limit: Software System Scalability"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMTushar Krishna, Georgia Tech, "Enabling Continuous Learning through Synaptic Plasticity in Hardware"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMSaurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, Dependability Meets Data Analytics
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMDavid Gleich, Professor, Purdue University, "Tensor Eigenvectors and Stochastic Processes"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMAnhong Guo, Special Seminar, "Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access "
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMAndreas Pavlogiannis, Aarhus University, "Treewidth-based algorithms for Static Program Analysis"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMAnand Natarajan, "Interactive Proofs and Quantum Entanglement"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMPILOT SEMINAR: August Shi, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Mitigating Flaky Tests"
2405 Siebel Center 2:00 PMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Tony Lowe, "A Theory of Applied Mind of Programming"
2405 Siebel Center 11:30 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Jing Jiang, "Introduction and Traversal of Tree (Data Structure)"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR (teaching): Robbie Weber, "Big-O for discrete math"
2405 Siebel Center 11:30 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR (teaching): Kriti Bhargava, Teaching Demonstration
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMPILOT SEMINAR: Umang Mathur, "Algorithmic Advances for Dynamic Concurrency Bug Detection"
2405 Siebel Center 12:30 PMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Yang You, "Fast and Accurate Deep Neural Network Training"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMCOLLOQUIUM: James Brodman, Intel, "oneAPI and Data Parallel C++"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMCOLLOQUIUM: Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, "SPIRAL: AI for High Performance Code"
2405 Siebel Center 3:30 PMSPECIAL SEMINAR: David Fridovich-Keil, "Practical Algorithms for Trustworthy Autonomy"
2005 Mechanical Engineering Lab (Deere) 4:00 PMSPECIAL SEMINAR (teaching): Yael Gertner, "Modular Arithmetic with an Application to Encryption"
2405 Siebel Center 11:30 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Zhiting Hu, "Towards Learning with All Types of Experiences via a Single Algorithm"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Yuhang Zhao, Cornell University, "Enabling Mixed Reality for Low Vision"
Talk and Q&A link will be disseminated via email to limited participants 10:00 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Yuxiong Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, "Learning to Learn More with Less"
Talk and Q&A link will be disseminated via email to limited participants 10:00 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Gagandeep Singh, ETH Zurich, "Certified Artificial Intelligence"
Talk and Q&A link will be disseminated via email to limited participants 10:00 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR (teaching): Michael Nowak, "Dynamic Memory in C++"
Talk and Q&A link will be disseminated via email to limited participants 11:30 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Xu Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, "Harnessing Examples for Learning at Scale"
Talk and Q&A link will be disseminated via email to limited participants 10:00 AMSPECIAL SEMINAR: Lynna Gui, "Human-Like 3D Motion Prediction"
Talk and Q&A link will be disseminated via email to limited participants 10:00 AMLuiz Andre Barroso: "Google Maps - A Planet-Scale Playground for Computer Scientists"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMLexing Ying: "Interpolative Decomposition and Its Applications"
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMOmer Reingold: "A Complexity-Theoretic Perspective on Algorithmic Fairness"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMVenkatesan Guruswami: "The Polymorphic Gateway Between Structure and Algorithms: CSPs and Beyond"
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMSean Follmer: "Physical and Spatial Interaction with Robotic Displays"
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMProfessor Todd Austin (Peering into the Post Moore's Law World)
4405 Siebel 4:00 PMVijaya Ramachandran (Efficient Resource-Oblivious Multithreaded Algorithms)
4403 Siebel 2:00 PMTim Roughgarden: "How Computer Science Informs Modern Auction Design"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMAude Oliva: "Mapping the spatio-temporal dynamics of vision in the human brain"
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMEva Tardos: Learning with Low Approximate Regret with Partial Feedback
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMAndreas Zeller: Mining Input Grammars for Massive Security Testing
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMAlex Aiken: Legion - Programming Heterogeneous, Distributed Parallel Machines
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMSomesh Jha: Balancing Security+Privacy and Functionality in Software Synthesis
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMFeifei Li: Towards Building Interactive and Online Analytical Systems
2405 Siebel Center 1:30 PMManuela Veloso: Human-AI Interaction - Autonomous Service Robots
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMLaura Haas: Leveraging data and people to accelerate data science
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMGautam Das: Data Exploration and Analytics: Fundamental Algorithms and Emerging Applications
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMShuzhi Sam Ge: Historical and Futuristic Perspectives of Robotics
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMAravind Srinivasan: Algorithms, Randomness, and Networks: Confluence and Applications
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMAravind Srinivasan: A Vision for the Future of Illinois Computer Science
NCSA Auditorium (Room 1122, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana) 10:00 AMDaniel Genkin: "Real World Security: From Theory to Practice and Back Again"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 2:00 PMCathy Wu: "Mixed-Autonomy Mobility: Large-Scale Learning and Optimization"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMSrinivas Aluru: "Genomes Galore: Big Data Challenges in the Life Sciences"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMNancy M. Amato: "Computer Science: Scaling, Adapting, and Advancing"
NCSA Auditorium (Room 1122, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana) 10:00 AMXiao Wang: "Pushing Secure Multi-Party Computation to Reality"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMElisa Celis: "Fairness and Diversity in Online Social Systems"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMSrinadh Bhojanapalli: "Effectiveness of Local Search in Machine Learning"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMNima Kalantari: "Utilizing Physics in Deep Learning for Graphics"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMAdriana Schulz: "Computational Design for the Next Manufacturing Revolution"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMAaditya Ramdas: "A New Framework for Large-Scale Sequential A/B Testing"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMShuran Song: "Seeing the Unseen: Data-Driven 3D Scene Understanding for Robot Vision"
B02 Coordinated Science Lab 11:00 AMDanqi Chen: "Knowledge from Language via Deep Understanding"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMVinodkumar Prabhakaran: "Language Technologies for Social Good"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMKris Hauser: "Think Globally: Toward Deeper Understanding of Robot Motion"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMPavel Pevzner: "Bioinformatics: a Servant or the Queen of Molecular Biology?"
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PMAdams Wei Yu: "Efficient Models and Algorithms for Deep Learning"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMYangfeng Ji: "Bringing Structural Information into Neural Network Design"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMFeifei Li: "Random Sampling over Joins and Its Applications"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMHanghang Tong: "Deep Network Mining: Exploring the Power and Beauty of Network of Networks"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMElena Glassman: "Interactive Systems for Code and Data Demography"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMMichael Stonebraker, Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture: "My Top Ten Fears About the DBMS Field"
1404 Siebel Center 4:00 PMLawrence Rauchwerger: "Two Roads to Parallelism: Compilers and Libraries"
2405 Siebel Center 10:00 AMJinguri He: "Taming Data Heterogeneity: Towards a Unified Framework"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMHuacheng Yu: "Better understanding of efficient dynamic data structures"
2405 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science 10:00 AMDaniel Sanchez, "Making Parallelism Pervasive with the Swarm Architecture"
2405 Siebel Center 4:00 PM