2023 Research Seminar Series

Held throughout the Fall 2023 semester
Fridays 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in IRB 0318 and on Zoom

The Research Seminar Series provides an introduction and an overview of the deep and diverse computer science research activities occurring in the department and across campus.

Schedule

Date Speaker Title
September 1, 2023 Andrew Childs
Professor 
Co-director, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)

Quantum Algorithms and the Power of Forgetting

September 8, 2023

Hal Daumé III
Professor
Volpi-Cupal Family Endowed Professor 

Trust in the Absence of Verifiability
September 15, 2023

Furong Huang

Assistant Professor

 

Trustworthy Machine Learning in an Ever-Changing World

September 22, 2023

Abhinav Shrivastava

Assistant Professor 

Compositional Learning for Object-centric Attributes and Relations
September 29, 2023

Jordan Boyd-Graber

Associate Professor 

If We Want AI to be Interpretable, We Need to Measure Interpretability
October 6, 2023

Heng Huang

Professor 

Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor

Large-Scale Machine Learning Model Computing and Compression

October 13, 2023

Soheil Feizi

Associate Professor

Generative AI Unveiled: Detection, Interpretation and Robustness
October 20, 2023

Pratap Tokekar

Associate Professor 

Leveraging Learning and Combinatorial Optimization for Advancing Multi-Robot Systems
October 27, 2023

Christopher Allan Metzler

Assistant Professor 

Neural Wavefront Shaping
November 3, 2023

Tianyi Zhou

Assistant Professor

Towards Controllable and Personalized AI Models
November 10, 2023

Michelle Mazurek

Associate Professor

Director, Maryland Cybersecurity Center

Revisiting what it means to be usable: Usable security beyond end users
November 17, 2023

Ming Lin

Professor

Dr. Barry Mersky and Capital One Endowed Professor; Distinguished University Professor

Reconstructing Reality: Creating Digital Twins for the Metaverse

November 24, 2023 No seminar (Thanksgiving) --
December 1, 2023

Alan Zaoxing Liu

Assistant Professor

How Hard Is It for Networks to Run Themselves?
December 8, 2023

Yizheng Chen

Assistant Professor 

Robust AI for Security

Professor Ramani Duraiswami organizes this seminar series. Department of Computer Science graduate students can register for CMSC 801 to get one credit for attending the seminar series.