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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 2025
JAN
23
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
How to make the gradient descent-ascent converge to local minimax optima
Donghwan Kim, Associate Professor, KAIST
JAN
30
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Mixed Reality Security and Streaming at the System and Application Levels
Jiasi Chen, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
FEB
06
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation
David Ham, Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Ross Business School, University of Michigan
FEB
13
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Enhancing Fairness in Deep Learning from Data and Model Perspectives
Xiaoqian Wang, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
FEB
20
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Improved very sparse matrix completing using an intentionally randomized “asymmetric SVD”
Raj Nadakuditi, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
MAR
12
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
ADVANCING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION THROUGH ROBUST SUPERVISED AND GENERATIVE MODELS
Shijun Liang, Postdoc Candidate, Michigan State University
MAR
13
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Exploring and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models and Generative AI
Pin-Yu Chen, Principal Research Scientist, IBM Research AI
MAR
18
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Training-free approaches for image inversion and editing using latent generative models
Sanjay Shakkottai, Professor, University of Texas
MAR
20
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Emergence and grokking in “simple” architectures
Mikhail Belkin, Professor, University of California, San Diego
APR
03
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Machine Unlearning for Generative AI
Sijia Liu, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
APR
10
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Setup Times in Multiserver Systems: New Insights
Jalani Williams, PPFP Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Michigan
APR
17
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Canceled Rescheduling To Fall 2025 On the computation of Stackelberg and Nash equilibria and their variants
Uday V. Shanbhag, Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
MAY
21
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Behavior of Gradient-Based Optimization Methods in Nonconvex Landscapes: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
Waheed U. Bajwa, Professor and Graduate Program Director , Rutgers University
JUL
21
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Guiding Diffusion and Flow Models for Constrained Sampling in Image, Video and 4D
Jong Chul Ye, Professor, Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (AI), KAIST