MENU 
ECE Communications and Signal Processing
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.
Sponsors
 |  |  |
 |  |
Events for 2021
JAN
22
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Partial alignment of sparse random graphs
Laurent Massoulie, Professor, Research Director, Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre
JAN
29
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Fastest Identification in Linear Systems, Joint work with Yassir Jedra
Alexandre Proutiere, Professor, KTH Division of Decision and Control Systems
FEB
04
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Reinforcement Learning for Mean Field Games with Strategic Complementarities
Srinivas Shakkottai, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University
FEB
12
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Variations on a theme of Watkins
Vivek Borkar, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
FEB
18
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
A Lyapunov Theory for Finite-Sample Guarantees of Asynchronous, Value-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Siva Theja Maguluri , Fouts Family Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor, ISYE @ Georgia Tech
MAR
04
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning is Pruning
Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MAR
11
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Benign overfitting
Peter Bartlett, Professor, Computer Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley
MAR
18
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
MLE and the EM algorithm for Mixtures: Minimax Results
Constantine Caramanis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
MAR
25
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Communication-Efficient Optimization Methods for Federated Learning
Gauri Joshi, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
01
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Ben Van Roy, Professor, EE, MSE Stanford University
APR
08
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Data-Derived Universal Compression
Venkat Anantharam, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
APR
15
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Risk-Sensitive Market Clearing for the Modern Power System
Subhonmesh Bose, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
APR
22
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Adaptive Design of Switchback Experiments: A Markov Chain Perspective
Ramesh Johari, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
APR
22
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Postponed: Seminar by Aylin Yener, ECE/CSE/IE @ OSU
Aylin Yener, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University
APR
29
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Deep Networks from First Principles
Yi Ma, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
SEP
02
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Multiclass and Multi-Label Learning with General Losses: What is the Right Output Coding and Decoding?
Shivani Agarwal, Rachleff Family Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
SEP
09
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
How to Schedule Near-Optimally under Real-World Constraints
Ziv Scully, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
SEP
16
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
The Power of Exploiter: Provable Multi-Agent RL in Large State Spaces
Chi Jin, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University
SEP
23
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Towards Model Agnostic Robustness
Sujay Sanghavi, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
OCT
01
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Database Alignment: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms
Negar Kiyavash, Associate Professor, Chair of Business Analytics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
OCT
07
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Secure Model Aggregation in Federated Learning
Salman Avestimehr, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
OCT
15
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Social Learning in Multi-Agent, Multi-Armed Bandits
Ayalvadi Ganesh, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
OCT
21
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Communication and Sensing: From Compressed Sampling to Model-based Deep Learning
Yonina Eldar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Weizmann; Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science; Dorothy and Patrick Gorman Professorial Chair; Head of Biomedical Engineering and Signal Processing Center, Weizmann Institute of Science
OCT
28
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Interactive Communications
Natasha Devroye, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago
NOV
04
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Spectrum Sharing for 5G and Beyond: A Network Economics View
Randall Berry, Chair and John A. Dever Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
NOV
11
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning More from the Past: Offline Batch RL
Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
NOV
18
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Finding Global Minima via Kernel Approximations
Francis Bach, Researcher at INRIA, École normale supérieure – PSL
DEC
02
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Generalization and Inductive Bias in Neural Networks
Cengiz Pehlevan, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
DEC
09
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Data-Centric Networking: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Edmund Yeh, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University