Fall 2016: Mondays, 12:00–12:50pm, Duncan Hall (TBA). Lunch provided. Instructor: Ron Goldman
1 credit hour, graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory — You must attend and fill out a short feedback survey on OWL-Space for each speaker. No more than 2 unexcused absences allowed. (Contact the instructor to get absences excused.)
What is this seminar?
A seminar primarily for Computer Science graduate students to practice presenting their research and to be exposed to the breadth of the department's research. We also welcome faculty, post-docs, and research staff to present. Occasionally, we also invite outside speakers to speak on research or professional topics.
CS PhD students — All in residence at Rice are expected to enroll each semester and to present every four semesters.
MCS & MS CS students — Master's students are welcome to enroll, but I must give PhD students enrollment priority due to limited space.
Date | Speaker | Title (click for details) | Adviser |
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29 Aug 16 | Jianfan Zhu | In the Light of Deep Coalescence: Revisiting Trees Within Networks | Luay Nakhleh |
Chen Luo | Fast search on time series | Anshumali Shrivastava | |
12 Sep 16 | Betsy Barre, Max Grossman | Mentorship and Education in CS | N/A |
19 Sep 16 | Saralyn Hernandez | Stress Management | N/A |
26 Sep 16 | Beidi Chen | Anshumali Shrivastava | |
Lucas Martinelli Tabajara | Moshe Vardi | ||
3 Oct 16 | Corey Fisher | Moshe Vardi | |
(open) | |||
17 Oct 16 | Kuldeep Meel | Moshe Vardi | |
24 Oct 16 | Xiaoran Xu | Keith Cooper | |
(open) | |||
31 Oct 16 | Xin Huang | Sunflow: efficient optical circuit scheduling | Eugene Ng |
7 Nov 16 | Simbarashe Dzinamarina | Distributed Storage | Eugene Ng |
14 Nov 16 | Lung Li | Keith Cooper | |
21 Nov 16 | Bolun Li | OMPT Interface for NVIDIA GPUs | John Mellor-Crummey |
Lee Chen | Luay Nakhleh | ||
28 Nov 16 | Lechen Yu | Datarace Detection | Vivek Sarkar |
Rabimba Karanjai | Dan Wallach |
Date | Speaker | Title (click for details) | Adviser |
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11 Jan 16 | Stephen Butler | Lydia Kavraki | |
25 Jan 16 | Karthik Murthy | John Mellor-Crummey | |
1 Feb 16 | Shangyu Luo | ||
8 Feb 16 | Hamim Zafar | Luay Nakhleh | |
15 Feb 16 | |||
22 Feb 16 | Ryan Elworth | ||
Jayvee Abella | Lydia Kavraki | ||
7 Mar 16 | Omid Pouya | Alan Cox | |
14 Mar 16 | Jonathan Sharman | Vivek Sarkar | |
Sourav Sikdar | Chris Jermaine | ||
21 Mar 16 | Minhong Yun | ||
28 Mar 16 | Arghya "Ronnie" Chatterjee | Vivek Sarkar | |
Ankush Mandal | Vivek Sarkar | ||
4 Apr 16 | Ryan Lear | James McLurkin | |
Dan Ye | Luay Nakhleh | ||
11 Apr 16 | Rishi Surendran | ||
18 Apr 16 | Ryan Spring | James McLurkin | |
Rohan Mukherjee | Chris Jermaine |
Date | Speaker | Title (click for details) | Adviser |
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12 Jan 15 | Adam Pridgen | Java Application Memory Forensics | Dan Wallach |
(other half of class still available) | |||
26 Jan 15 | Shams Imam | Vivek Sarkar | |
2 Feb 15 | Ardalan Sani | Rethinking System Support for I/O Devices | Lin Zhong |
9 Feb 15 | Dragos Sbirlea | Automatic detection of inter-application permission leaks in Android applications | Vivek Sarkar |
16 Feb 15 | Brent Stephens | Handling Routing Failures in Data Center Networking via Local Fast Failover | Alan Cox |
23 Feb 15 | Alina Sbirlea | Elastic tasks: Unifying Task Parallelism and SPMD Parallelism with an Adaptive Runtime | Vivek Sarkar |
9 Mar 15 | Zekai Gao | Automated Supernode-Based Computations for Distributed Machine Learning | Chris Jermaine |
16 Mar 15 | Yue Wang | A Constraint-Based Approach for Reactive Task and Motion Planning | |
Binhang Yuan | Ron Goldman | ||
23 Mar 15 | Yiting Xia | Eugene Ng | |
30 Mar 15 | Wei-Cheng Xiao | On-Demand Routing in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks with Wide Levels of Network Density | Dave Johnson |
6 Apr 15 | Xin Huang | Circuit Scheduling of Optical Switch in Data Center Network | Eugene Ng |
Yu Zhou | Sorting Algorithms for Swarm Robotics | James McLurkin | |
13 Apr 15 | Letao Qi | ||
Daniel Song | Dan Wallach | ||
20 Apr 15 | Ellie (Dingqiao) Wen | ||
Sarah Kim |
Date | Speaker | Title (click for details) | Adviser |
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14 Jan 13 | Tracy Volz | Crafting Effective Introductions workshop | Senior Lecturer in Professional Communication |
28 Jan 13 | Powei Feng | Biharmonic B-splines | Joe Warren |
4 Feb 13 | Xu Liu | A new approach for performance analysis of OpenMP programs | John Mellor-Crummey |
11 Feb 13 | Brent Stephens | PAST: Scalable Ethernet for Data Centers | Alan Cox |
18 Feb 13 | Scott Rixner | The Anatomy of a MOOC | faculty speaker |
4 Mar 13 | Anna Drummond | Topic Models For Feature Selection in Document Clustering | Chris Jermaine |
11 Mar 13 | Jeffrey Chyan | Predicting Kinase Binding Affinity Using Homology Models in Combinatorial Clustering of Residue Position Subsets | Lydia Kavraki |
18 Mar 13 | Yiting Xia | lambda^{group}: The Case for Optical Multicast in the Data Center | Eugene Ng |
25 Mar 13 | Nikola Ristic | Luay Nakhleh | |
1 Apr 13 | Zekai Gao | On the Top-k Entries of a Large Correlation Matrix | Chris Jermaine |
8 Apr 13 | Rishi Surendran | Test-Driven Repair of Structured Parallel Programs | Vivek Sarkar |
15 Apr 13 | Kumud Bhandari | Vivek Sarkar |
Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) | Adviser |
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22 Aug 11 | Edwin Westbrook | Tools and Techniques for Building Domain-Specific Languages | Vivek Sarkar, Swarat Chaudhuri |
29 Aug 11 | Swarat Chaudhuri | Taming the Nonrobustness of Software Systems | Faculty speaker |
12 Sep 11 | Wei-Cheng Xiao | Physical implementation of synchronous duty cycling MAC protocols: experiences and evaluation | Dave Johnson |
19 Sep 11 | Shams Imam | Interfacing Chapel with traditional HPC programming languages | Vivek Sarkar |
26 Sep 11 | Niketan Pansare | Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs | Chris Jermaine |
3 Oct 11 | Justin Park | Detecting HGT (Horizontal Gene Transfer) Events Under DLT (Duplication, Loss, Transfer) Model Using the Trace of Artificial Losses | Luay Nakhleh |
17 Oct 11 | Devin Grady | Multi-Objective Sensor-Based Replanning for a Car-Like Robot | Lydia Kavraki |
24 Oct 11 | Drew Bryant | Predicting protein binding specificity by combinatorial clustering of residue position subsets | Lydia Kavraki |
31 Oct 11 | Kamal Sharma | Tiling and Dynamic Pattern Recognition for HPC | Vivek Sarkar |
7 Nov 11 | Florin Dinu | Chattering in the Cloud: Improving Hadoop's Performance by Cross-Sharing of Application Experience | Eugene Ng |
14 Nov 11 | Jie Zheng | Pacer: Just-In-Time Live Virtual Machine Migration | Eugene Ng |
21 Nov 11 | Shashi Shekhar | Separating Smartphone advertising from applications | Dan Wallach |
28 Nov 11 | Myeongjae Jeon | Alan Cox, Scott Rixner |
Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) | Adviser |
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5 Jan 09 | Jeff Kilpatrick | Detecting causes of complex diseases | Luay Nakhleh |
26 Jan 09 | Nathan Tallent | Effective Performance Measurement and Analysis of Multithreaded Applications | John Mellor-Crummey |
2 Feb 09 | |||
9 Feb 09 | Chris Jermaine | MCDB: The Monte Carlo Database System | Faculty speaker |
16 Feb 09 | |||
23 Feb 09 | Ryan Zhang | Grid Centric Scheduling Strategies for Workflow Applications | Keith Cooper/Ken Kennedy |
9 Mar 09 | Dan Sandler | VoteBox: a verifiable, tamper-evident electronic voting system | Dan Wallach |
16 Mar 09 | Seth Fogarty | Size Doesn't Matter When You have Good (Automata-Theoretic) Technique | Moshe Vardi |
23 Mar 09 | Bertrand du Castel | Computer Theology | Schlumberger |
30 Mar 09 | Florin Dinu | Detecting Congestion Patterns using ECN Marking | Eugene Ng |
6 Apr 09 | Jie Zheng | Placement and balancing of cooperative packet filters | Eugene Ng |
13 Apr 09 | Powei Feng | Volume Segmentation with Painting | Joe Warren |
Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) | Adviser |
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6 Oct 06 | Brian Chen | Lydia Kavraki | |
13 Oct 06 | Bo Zhang | Measurement-Based Analysis, Modeling and Synthesis of the Internet Delay Space | Eugene Ng |
20 Oct 06 | Dan Sandler | FeedTree, or: how RSS was won (and where it got us). | Peter Druschel |
27 Oct 06 | Bryan Smith | Evaluating Protection Systems for Critical Infrastructures | |
10 Nov 06 | Erion Plaku | Motion Planning for Hybrid Robotic Systems | Lydia Kavraki |
??? | Derek Ruths | Predicting the Structure of Cancer | Luay Nakleh |
??? | John Garvin | John Mellor-Crummey | |
??? | Cheryl McCosh | Ken Kennedy | |
1 Dec 06 | Amit Saha | Throughput Improvement in Wireless Mesh Networks | Dave Johnson |