Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Computer Engineering and Systems Group

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 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

Summer 2019

Spring 2019

Spring 2018

Fall 2017

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

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

Past Recorded Seminars