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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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Upcoming Seminars

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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Past Seminars

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Discrete Optimization for Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models

Zico Kolter, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Rethinking the theoretical foundation of reinforcement learning

Nan Jiang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Sparsity for Efficient Long Sequence Generation of LLMs

Beidi Chen, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

How Hessian Structure Explains Mysteries in Sharpness Regularization

Hossein Mobahi, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Transformers as Support Vector Machines

Samet Oymak, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan, College of Engineering

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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

9:00am – 10:30am in 1500 EECS Building

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 1012 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Quantum Signal Processing

Lin Lin, Professor, University of California-Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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

11:00am – 12:30pm in 2311 EECS

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

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Setup Times in Multiserver Systems

Jalani Williams, PhD Student, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

10:00am – 11:00am in 2311 EECS

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

3:00pm – 4:00pm in 3316 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Machine Learning challenges in Metrology in Semiconductor Device Industry

Min-Yeong Moon, Lead Algorithm Engineer , KLA

9:15am – 10:15am in 1690 Beyster Building

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

9:15am – 10:15am in 1690 Beyster Building

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

9:15am – 10:15am in 1690 Beyster Building

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

9:15am – 10:15am in 1690 Beyster Building

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.

10:00am – 11:00am in 1012 EECS Building

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

9:15am – 10:15am in Remote/Virtual

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

9:15am – 10:15am in 1690 Beyster Building

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

9:15am – 10:15am in Remote/Virtual

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

9:15am – 10:15am in 1690 Beyster Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Reinforcement Learning with Robustness and Safety Guarantees

Dileep Kalathil, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University

9:15am – 10:15am in 1690 Beyster Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Dynamic Pricing and Matching for Online Marketplaces

Sushil Varma, Ph.D. Student – Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology

9:00am – 10:00pm in 1690 Beyster Building

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