Fishbowl Seminar Series

Within a totally glass encased transparent room, the CESG Fishbowl features a wall-to-wall whiteboard, screen and projector, Smartboard, surround sound and camera to facilitate local and remote collaboration. The Fishbowl anticipates and makes possible an era of tele-seminars where researchers from other universities, domestic or international, can deliver seminars from their home institutions featuring video of the speakers as well as slides.

Spring 2024

• April 30, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m., “Orthogonal Time Frequency Multiplexing (OTFDM): A Novel Waveform Targeted for IMT-2030:, Kiran Kuchi, Professor in Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. In-Person only.

Spring 2023

• May 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., “Leveraging WiFi for Robust and Resource-Efficient SLAM”, Aditya Arun, PhD Student, University of California, San Diego. Slides. In-person only.

Fall 2019

• Novmeber 19, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., “Does Knowledge Have Structure? From Skeleton Tree to Knowledge Entropy”, Dr. Luoyi Fu, Assitant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• October 17, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., “Logic Locking: Improving Trust in the IC Supply Chain”, Abhrajit Sengupta, PhD Candidate in ECE at New York University

Summer 2019

• June 12,12:00 PM- 1:00 PM, “Software Bloat and Research Opportunities in ML/DL/RL”, Gopinath Kanchi, Professor at The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Spring 2019

• April 25, 3:00 PM- 4:00 PM:”The Rocky Road to Safe Autonomy: a Formal Methods Perspective”,  Wenchao Li, Professor in the ECE at Boston University
• March 4, 3:00 PM- 4:00 PM:”Visible Light Communications: From Theory to Industrial Standardiszation“, Professor Murat Uysal, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey Center of Excellence in Optimal Wireless Communication Technology (OKATEM)
• February 28, 2:30 PM- 3:30 PM:”Computing in the Cambrian Era”, Dr. Paolo Faraboschi HPE Fellow and Vice President of Systems Architecture Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs
• January 31, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: “Towards 1,000X Model Compression in Deep Neural Networks”, Dr. Yanzhi Wang Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
• January 29, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM “Recent Research in Design and Analaysis for Intelligent Vehicles”, Dr. Chung-Wei Lin Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University
• January 25, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM “Next Gen Electro-Mobility (e-Mobility): Towards Affordable, Ubiquitous, Ultrafast Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure”  ,Dr. Shivkumar (“Shiv”) Kalyanaraman of Executive Leader, Growth Offerings & Initiatives, GE Power Conversion

Spring 2018

• February 8, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Modern System Design – the entangled Compute, Communication, and Cloud”, Dr. Priyadarsan (Darshan) Patra, Chief Architect at Intel’s Data Center Group

Fall 2017

• November 30, 2017, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Optimization and Verification in the Billion-Transistor World”
  Dr. Min Zhao, Avatar Integrated Systems
• November 9, 2017, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM:”Security and Privacy in the IoT” Dr. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
• October 26, 2017, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM:  “Engineering High-Quality Immersive Virtual Reality on Today’s Mobile Devices”, Dr. Charlie Hu, Purdue University
• October 19, 2017, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Integrating robots in cognitive solutions: application studies and system architecture implications”, Kevin Nowka, IBM Research
• September 14, 2017, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Emerging RRAM Technologies for Computing and Sensing Applications“, Dr. Baker Mohammad, Associate Professor, ECE at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Summer 2017

• August 11, 2017, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: “Distributed Control of Large-Scale Infrastructure Networks”, Sivaranjani Seetharaman, Graduate student, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
• August 10, 2017, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: ” Distributed Algorithms for Cyberphysical Systems”, Nick Freris, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)
• August 8, 2017, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: ” Abstraction and applied mathematics: functional analysis in the 20th century”, Professor Thomas Seidman, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)

Spring 2017

• January 19, 2017, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: “Achieving optimality with adaptive schemes in crowdsourcing.” Sewoong Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• January 26, 2017, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: “Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Computing.” Yuhao Zhu, University of Texas at Austin.
• February  16: “Efficient Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing.” Martin Suchara, AT&T Labs Research.
• February 23: “Securing Distributed Systems Against Adversarial Attacks.” Lili Su, UIUC.
• February 24: “Data-Driven Control and Optimization for Urban Infrastructures.” Shuo Han, University of Pennsylvania.
• March 2: “Mixed Centralized/Decentralized Decision Protocols for Multi-Agent Systems.” Matthew Hale, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• March 30: “Collaborative Road Freight Transport,” Karl H. Johansson, KTH.
• April 6: “Finite Blocklength Converses in Point-To-Point and Network Information Theory: A Convex Analytic Perspective,” Ankur Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
• April 13: “Ultra-low-power Computing in the IoT Era,” Henry Duwe, UIUC.

Fall 2016

• September 15, 2016, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: “Smart Temperature Control of Multi-occupant Spaces using the Internet-of-Things.” Koushik Kar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• September 29, 2016, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: “Node-based Scheduling for Maximizing Throughput and Minimizing Evacuation Time.” Bo Ji, Temple University.
• October 6, 2016, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: “Achieving Low-Delay and Fast-Convergence in Network Systems Optimization: A Momentum-Based Approach.” Jia (Kevin) Liu, Ohio State University.

Spring 2016

• January 28, 2016, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: “On Direct Communication Methods for IoT Applications.” Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• February 11, 2016, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Efficient Cost Allocation.” Korok Ray, Texas A&M University.
• February 25, 2016, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Towards Quality-Aware Big Data Integration for Crowd Sensing Systems.” Lu Su, SUNY Buffalo.
• March 10, 2016, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Minimizing Latency in Cloud Based Systems: Replication Over Parallel Servers.” Ness Shroff, Ohio State University.
• March 24, 2016, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM. Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland.
• April 7, 2016, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Inter-operator Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in LTE-unlicensed.” Shiwen Mao, Auburn University.
• April 14, 2016, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Health Informatics: when informatics and health big data meet.” Rui Zhang, University of Minnesota.
• April 21, 2016, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: “Cyber-Physical Networked Systems for Vehicle Safety and Efficiency.” Yaser Fallah, West Virginia University

Fall 2015

• October 1, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: “Modeling Driver Behavior in a Connected Environment: Integration of Microscopic Traffic Simulation and Telecommunication Systems.” Alireza Talebpour, Texas A&M University.
• November 19, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Distributed Fault-Tolerant Optimization. Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Spring 2015

• March 5, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: What are They doing with Your Data? Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University.

• March 12, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Sparse Regression Codes. Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale University.

• March 26, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Addressing Wireless Throughput Scalability Using Power Lines in Enterprise Networks. Kannan Srinivasan, The Ohio State University.

• April 9, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: On the Power of (even a little) Resource Pooling and Flexibility. John Tsitsiklis, MIT.

• April 16, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: The Impact of Usage-Generated Applications on Preserving Best-Effort Service on the Internet in the Presence of Managed Services. Qiong Wang, UIUC.

Past Recorded Seminars

• September 25, 2014, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: On Routing and Scheduling under Heavily and Overloaded Traffic Conditions. Atilla Eryilmaz, The Ohio State University. Recording:

• October 16, 2014, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Noisy Observational Learning. Randall Berry, Northwestern University. Recording:

• November 6, 2014, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Economic Mechanisms for Managing Risk in Datacenters. Benjamin C. Lee, Duke University. Recording:

• November 13, 2014, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Approximate Acceleration: Trading off Certainty for Efficiency and Speed. Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Georgia Institute of Technology. Recording:

• Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) — Measurements, Algorithms, and Prototyping. Prof. Gil Zuzzman, Columbia University. Recording:

• Scalable resource allocation mechanisms for large datacenters. Dr. Ishai Menache, Microsoft Research. Recording:

• Maximum likelihood sequence detection: from DNA sequencing to nano-imaging. Prof. Aditya Ramamoorthy, Iowa State University. Recording:

• Three Random Walks that Surprise.  Prof. Ashish Goel, Stanford University. Recording:

• The Challenge of Cellular-Internet Convergence: Rethinking the Internet Architecture to Support Mobility Services as the Norm. Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University and WINLAB. Recording:

• New Directions in Content-Aware Networking. Prof. Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Recording:

• Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers Randomly. Prof. Brighten Godfrey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recording:

• GENI – Global Environment for Network Innovations. Dr. Vicraj (Vic) Thomas, BBN Technologies. Recording:

• The Billion Dollar Question in Online Videos: How Video Performance Impacts Viewer Behavior? Prof. Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Akamai Technologies. Recording:

• Fast Algorithms for Mining Co-evolving Time Series. Dr. Lei Li, University of California, Berkeley. Recording:

• Enabling Innovation Inside the Network. Prof. Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University. Recording:

• Porting the Computer Science Toolbox to Game Theory and Economics. Prof. Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University. Recording:

• Radio Coexistence. Prof. Sachin Katti, Stanford University. Recording:

• From cellular networks to index coding: An interference alignment perspective. Prof. Syed Ali Jafar, UC Irvine. Recording:

• Game Design for Distributed Optimization. Prof. Jason Marden, University of Colorado at Boulder. Recording: 

• An Optimal Architecture for Decentralized Control Over Posets.  Prof. Pablo Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recording: 

• Software Defined Networking (SDN): A New Approach to Networking, Prof. Guru Parulkar, Stanford University. Recording:

• Shannon Information Theory and Sparse Recovery, Prof. Venkatesh Saligrama, Boston University. Recording:

• Social Networks and Data Processing, Prof. Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recording: