News Category: Colloquia
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Presentation Tracking Using Confusion Networks, Semantic Matching, and Keyword Weighting – Reza Asadi – 9.29.16
- September 30, 2016
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016 Time: 11:00am Location: 166 West Village H Abstract Oral presentations are an essential yet challenging aspect of academic and professional life. To date, many commercial […] -
Classification and prediction of matrix structured data with applications to recommendation systems or identifying anti-socials and bot-nets – Saber Shokat Fadaee –
- September 27, 2016
Date: Monday, September 26, 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Location: 366 West Village H Abstract Matrix representations are a natural way to represent many forms of networked and tabulated data. […] -
Estimating causal effect of ads in a real-time bidding platform – Prasad Chalasani – 9.26.16
- September 27, 2016
Date: Monday, September 26, 2016 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00 pm Location: 366 West Village H Host: Ravi Sundaram Abstract A real-time bidding platform responds to incoming ad-opportunities (“bid requests”) by […] -
New proof techniques for adaptive security – Zahra Jafargholi – 8.25.16
- August 24, 2016
Master’s Thesis Defense Abstract Selective security refers to the case where the attacker decides on some parameters of the attack before the attack even begins. In contrast, adaptive security refers […] -
Analysis of Named Entity Recognition & Entity Linking in Historical Text – Kunal Asarsa – 8.12.16
- August 18, 2016
Master’ Thesis Defense Abstract Named Entity Recognition is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique that is used to identify names of people, places, organizations, and more from a given piece […] -
Introduction to side-channel cryptanalysis (and some recent results) – Francois-Xavier Standaert – 8.11.16
- August 18, 2016
Abstract Side-channel cryptanalysis is a new research area in applied cryptography that has gained more and more interest since the mid-nineties. It considers adversaries trying to take advantage of the […] -
Discriminative Learning of Infection Models – Nir Rosenfeld – 3.3.16
- March 3, 2016
Abstract Infection and diffusion processes over networks arise in many domains. These introduce many challenging prediction tasks, such as influence estimation, trend prediction, and epidemic source localization. The standard approach […] -
Emerging trends in big data – Michael Franklin – 3.3.16 – Distinguished Lecture
- March 3, 2016
Abstract Big Data software has created quite a stir recently, largely driven by open source environments such as Hadoop and Spark. In this talk, I’ll begin by giving an […] -
Life as a Target – Richard M. George – 2.24.16
- February 24, 2016
Abstract Dickie George spent 41 years working for the National Security Agency as a cryptographer. As a member of the Intelligence Community, he learns to live as a target. The […]