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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 2023
JAN
12
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Dynamic Pricing and Matching for Online Marketplaces
Sushil Varma, Ph.D. Student – Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology
FEB
02
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Reinforcement Learning with Robustness and Safety Guarantees
Dileep Kalathil, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
FEB
09
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Understanding the Universality Phenomenon in High- Dimensional Estimation and Learning: Some Recent Progress
Yue M. Lu, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
FEB
16
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Evaluating Unsupervised Denoising Requires Unsupervised Metrics
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Data Science, New York University
FEB
23
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Cancelled: Implicit Geometry of Large Classification Models: Imbalance Trouble
Christos Thrampoulidis, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia
MAR
16
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Implicit Geometry of Large Classification Models: Imbalance Trouble
Christos Thrampoulidis, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Brittish Columbia
MAR
21
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Load Balancing under Data Locality: Extending Mean-Field Framework to Constrained Large-Scale Systems
Debankur Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.
MAR
23
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Explainable AI via Semantic Information Pursuit
René Vidal, Director, Center for Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS), University of Pennsylvania
MAR
30
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Deep Learning Meets Sparse Regularization: A Signal Processing Perspective
Rob Nowak, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
APR
06
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Best of three worlds? Bias and extrapolation in constant-step size stochastic approximation
Qiaomin Xie, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
APR
20
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Machine Learning challenges in Metrology in Semiconductor Device Industry
Min-Yeong Moon, Lead Algorithm Engineer , KLA
MAY
08
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Demystifying and Mitigating Unfairness for Machine Learning over Graphs
Yanning Shen, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
AUG
02
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Setup Times in Multiserver Systems
Jalani Williams, PhD Student, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
SEP
07
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
On the Emergence of Invariant Low-Dimensional Subspaces in Gradient Descent for Learning Deep Networks
Qing Qu, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan
SEP
15
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
On an Asymptotic Criterion for Blockchain Design
Aditya Gopalan , PhD Student, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
SEP
21
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Quantum Signal Processing
Lin Lin, Professor, University of California-Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics
SEP
22
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Integrated Sensing and Communication: aspects from Information Theory, Communication Theory, and Machine Learning
Giuseppe Caire, Alexander von Humboldt Professor , Technical University of Berlin, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
SEP
28
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Solving Inverse Problems with Latent Diffusion Models via Hard Data Consistency
Liyue Shen, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, College of Engineering
OCT
02
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Wireless is back: The 6G Revolution Towards Connected Intelligence
Aylin Yener, Professor, Computer Science & Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University
OCT
05
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Transformers as Support Vector Machines
Samet Oymak, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan, College of Engineering
OCT
12
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Theoretical Characterization of Forgetting and Generalization of Continual Learning
Yingbin Liang, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University
OCT
19
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
How Hessian Structure Explains Mysteries in Sharpness Regularization
Hossein Mobahi, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research
OCT
26
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Reinforcement Learning via Model-Based Algorithms
Yuxin Chen, Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
NOV
02
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Overparameterization and Global Optimality in Nonconvex Low-Rank Matrix Estimation and Optimization
Richard Zhang, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NOV
09
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Sparsity for Efficient Long Sequence Generation of LLMs
Beidi Chen, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
NOV
16
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar | ECE Seminar
Rethinking the theoretical foundation of reinforcement learning
Nan Jiang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NOV
30
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar | ECE Seminar
(CANCELED) Discrete Optimization for Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models
Zico Kolter, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
DEC
07
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Flat Minima Generalize for Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
Lijun Ding, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS), University of Wisconsin
DEC
08
2023
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (and Beyond)
Kangwook Lee, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison