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CSP Seminar Series
The Communications and Signal Processing (CSP) Seminars feature invited speakers that span the areas of Network, Communication, and Information Systems and Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning.
Areas of focus include: Algorithmic Game Theory, Communications, Data Science (theory + applied), Economics, Machine Learning, Networks, Network Science, Portfolio Management, Reinforcement Learning
Watch past lectures on the CSP Youtube Channel here.
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Events for 2020
JAN
09
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Derandomized Load Balancing using Random Walks
Vijay Subramanian, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
16
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
A Framework for Interactive Learning
David Kempe, Associate Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science
JAN
23
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Coding for Non-Stationary Scenarios and Low Capacity Channels
Hessam Mahdavifar, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
28
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Vehicle-to-Everything Communications
Robert Heath, Professor and Chair, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
JAN
30
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning from Multiple Biased Sources
Clay Scott, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
FEB
13
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Capacity upper bounds for deletion-type channels
Mahdi Cheragchi, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
FEB
27
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELLED: Seminar by Paramveer Dhillon
MAR
12
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Nonconvex Optimization Meets Statistics: A Few Recent Stories
Yuxin Chen, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering
MAR
19
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Mert Gurbuzbalaban
Mert Gurbuzbaalaban, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University
MAR
26
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
(Remote) A mean-field theory of lazy training in two-layer neural nets: entropic regularization and controlled McKean-Vlasov dynamics
Maxim Raginsky, Associate Professor, William L. Everitt Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
APR
02
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Achilleas Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
APR
09
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Communication-Efficient and Straggler-Resilient Distributed Learning
Ramtin Pedarsani, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
APR
16
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Aylin Yener
Aylin Yener, Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University
APR
23
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELLED: Online Optimization and Energy
Adam Wierman, Professor and Executive Officer (Chair), California Institute of Technology, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
MAY
07
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Aly El Gamal
Aly El Gamal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
MAY
14
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Osman Yagan
Osman Yagan, Associate Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
SEP
03
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Stochastic Analysis and Design of Secure and Scalable Blockchain protocols
Sreeram Kannan, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering
SEP
10
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Incentivizing Exploration with Selective Data Disclosure
Nicole Immorlica, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Lab – New York City
SEP
24
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Multi-armed Bandits with Structured and Correlated Arms
Osman Yagan, Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & CyLab
OCT
01
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Discrete choice with irrelevant alternatives: models and lower bounds on testing
Johan Ugander, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) School of Engineering
OCT
08
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Competitive Control via Online Optimization
Adam Wierman, Professor, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the California Institute of Technology. Director of the Information Science and Technology (IST) initiative
OCT
15
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Enabling Fast and Robust Federated Learning
Ramtin Pedarsani, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
OCT
22
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Not Enough Measurements, Too Many Measurements
Michael McCann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), Michigan State University
OCT
29
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Heavy-tail Phenomenon in SGD
Mert Gürbüzbalaban, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers Business School.
NOV
05
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
FAMILY: Foundations and Applications of Machine Intelligence Lab for societY
Aly El Gamal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
NOV
12
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Adaptive Discretization For Reinforcement Learning
Christina Lee Yu, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE), Cornell University
NOV
19
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning via early stopping and untrained neural nets
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Assistant Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
NOV
23
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Deep Generative models and Inverse Problems
Alexandros Dimakis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
DEC
03
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Approximate planning and learning in partially observed systems
Aditya Mahajan, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
DEC
10
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Connections between Online Learning and Differential Privacy
Ambuj Tewari, Associate Professor , LSA Statistics, EECS (by courtesy), University of Michigan