Category: Talks
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CS ED Meet Your Professor: John Park, 12-1 3/28
CS ED Meet Your Professor Series: John Park 12:00-1:00 Wednesday, March 28 in ITE 239 Join the Computer Science Education Club in the second installment of their “Meet Your Professor” series featuring Lecturer John Park. The series provides students with the opportunity to learn more about their professors, including how they achieved their position, what…
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🗣talk: Internet of Acoustic Things: Challenges, Opportunities & Threats, 10:30 3/28
Internet of Acoustic Things (IoAT): Challenges, Opportunities, and Threats Nirupam Roy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 10:30-11:30am Wed. 28 March 2018, ITE325b, UMBC The recent proliferation of acoustic devices, ranging from voice assistants to wearable health monitors, is leading to a sensing ecosystem around us — referred to as the Internet of Acoustic Things or IoAT.…
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🗣 talk: Addressing Real-world Societal Challenges: Advanced Game-Theoretic Models and Algorithms 3/29
Addressing Real-world Societal Challenges: Advanced Game-Theoretic Models and Algorithms Dr. Thanh H. Nguyen, University of Michigan 1:15-2:15 Thursday, 29 March 2018, ITE 325, UMBC This talk will cover my research in AI, with a focus on Multi-Agent Systems, for solving real-world societal problems, particularly in the areas of Sustainability, Public Safety and Security,…
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🗣️ talk: Challenges and pitfalls in big data analysis
CHMPR Distinguished Lecture Challenges and pitfalls in big data analysis Yoav Benjamini, Tel Aviv University 3:30-5:00 Thursday, 12 April 2018, ITE 325b, UMBC I shall warn about the pitfalls resulting from the false assurance that “we have all data at hand”, and discuss the challenges that are not commonly recognised such as the validity and…
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🗣️talk: Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, 11am Mon 3/12
Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Dr. David Chapman, Oceaneering International 11:00-12:00 Monday March 12, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned and unteathered submarine vehicles with a variety of applications from bathymetry survey to naval warfare. Attenuation and scattering of light and electromagnetic radiation through water severely restricts wireless communications as…
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talk: Creating Educational Cybersecurity Assessment Tools, 12pm Fri 3/9
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Creating Educational Cybersecurity Assessment Tools Alan T. Sherman Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00–1:00pm Friday, March 9, 2018, ITE 229, UMBC The Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATS) Project provides rigorous evidence-based instruments for assessing and evaluating educational practices. The first CAT will…
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talk: desJardins on Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains, 1pm fri 3/8
UMBC ACM Student Chapter Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains: AMDPs, Option Discovery, Learning Transfer, Language Learning, and More Dr. Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, March 9th, 2018, ITE 456, UMBC Robots acting in human-scale environments must plan under uncertainty in large state–action spaces and face constantly changing reward functions…
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talk: Circuit Complexity of One-Way Boolean Functions, 12pm Fri 2/23, ITE229
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Experimentally Measuring the Circuit Complexity of One-Way Boolean Functions Brian Weber, CSEE, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 23 February 2018, ITE 229 I present preliminary results from an exhaustive search for one-way functions in certain classes of small Boolean functions. One-way functions are functions that are easy to compute but hard to invert. They…
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talk: Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition, 1pm Fri 2/23, ITE325, UMBC
ACM Faculty Talk Series Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition Dr. Hamed Pirsiavash, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, February 23, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC We are interested in learning representations (features) that are discriminative for semantic image understanding tasks such as object classification, detection, and segmentation in images. A common approach to obtain such features is…
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talk: Towards Hardware Cybersecurity, 11am Tue 2/20, ITE325, UMBC
Towards Hardware Cybersecurity Professor Houman Homayoun George Mason University 11:00am-12:00pm Tuesday, 20 Febuary 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Electronic system security, trust and reliability has become an increasingly critical area of concern for modern society. Secure hardware systems, platforms, as well as supply chains are critical to industry and government sectors such as national defense, healthcare,…