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Events for March 24, 2022
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ECE-EP Seminar - Dejan Markovic, Thursday, March 24th at 10am in EEB 248 & via Zoom
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dejan Markovic, UCLA
Talk Title: The Future of Computing and Neuromodulation
Abstract: This talk will discuss future technologies addressing unmet needs in science, medicine, and engineering. Data-driven attentive computing requires runtime flexible and efficient hardware and software. Simple hardware leads to complex software (e.g. FPGA) and simple software leads to complex hardware (e.g. CPU). Runtime reconfigurable arrays (RTRAs) balance hardware and software to enable spatial and temporal flexibility for dynamic or uncertain environments. RTRA features multi-program tenancy, multi-size compile, and priority handling for >100x compute capacity gains over FPGA, and within 5x of (inflexible) hardware accelerators, as shown on a blind signal classification use case. Medical implants also require efficiency and flexibility, with heavily constrained size, weight and power, for novel clinical research and therapeutic systems. Despite notable clinical successes (e.g. Parkinson's disease), limitations in existing devices prevent them from expanding to other indications such as mental health or Alzheimer's disease. I will discuss the Neuro-stack, a versatile closed-loop system, verified in human subject experiments, towards miniaturized neural duplex of the future. These applications also reveal opportunities in system-level design automation to address design productivity and system assembly challenges.
Biography: Dejan MarkoviÄ is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also affiliated with UCLA Bioengineering Department, Neuroengineering field. He completed the Ph.D. degree in 2006 at the University of California, Berkeley, for which he was awarded 2007 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize. His current research is focused on implantable neuromodulation systems, domain-specific compute architectures, and design methodologies. Dr. MarkoviÄ co-founded Flex Logix Technologies, a semiconductor IP startup, in 2014, and helped build foundational technology of Ceribell, a medical device startup. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009. In 2010, he was a co-recipient of ISSCC Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions. He also received 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Prof. Markovic is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Host: ECE-Electrophysics
More Information: Dejan Markovic Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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CS Colloquium: Tesca Fitzgerald (Carnegie Mellon University) - Learning to address novel situations through human-robot collaboration
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tesca Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: Learning to address novel situations through human-robot collaboration
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: As our expectations for robots' adaptive capacities grow, it will be increasingly important for them to reason about the novel objects, tasks, and interactions inherent to everyday life. Rather than attempt to pre-train a robot for all potential task variations it may encounter, we can develop more capable and robust robots by assuming they will inevitably encounter situations that they are initially unprepared to address. My work enables a robot to address these novel situations by learning from a human teacher's domain knowledge of the task, such as the contextual use of an object or tool. Meeting this challenge requires robots to be flexible not only to novelty, but to different forms of novelty and their varying effects on the robot's task completion. In this talk, I will focus on (1) the implications of novelty, and its various causes, on the robot's learning goals, (2) methods for structuring its interaction with the human teacher in order to meet those learning goals, and (3) modeling and learning from interaction-derived training data to address novelty.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is centered around interactive robot learning, with the aim of developing robots that are adaptive, robust, and collaborative when faced with novel situations. Before joining Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Fitzgerald received her PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech and completed her B.Sc at Portland State University. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2014), Microsoft Graduate Women Scholar (2014), and IBM Ph.D. Fellow (2017).
www.tescafitzgerald.com
Host: Heather Culbertson
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: By invitation only.
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Cognizant Information Session - Full Time & Internship Opportunities (Virtual)
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Cognizant Information Session - Full Time & Internship Opportunities (Virtual)
Thursday, March 24, 2022
11am - 12pm
Are you ready to start a career journey in IT and professional services?
Meet our recruiters, learn about Cognizant and the exciting opportunities for current/recent university graduates.
Cognizant is looking for driven, collaborative, and highly motivated individuals to join us. We currently have full time (Technology & Consulting) and internship opportunities for Juniors and Seniors.
Register now to learn more about Cognizant.
sign up link: https://app.jigsawinteractive.com/u/LSx2D4
External employer-hosted events and activities are not affiliated with the USC Viterbi Career Connections Office. They are posted on Viterbi Career Connections because they may be of interest to members of the Viterbi community. Inclusion of any activity does not indicate USC sponsorship or endorsement of that activity or event. It is the participants' responsibility to apply due diligence, exercise caution when participating, and report concerns to vcareers@usc.eduLocation: Virtual
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Virtual First-Year Admission Information SessionThu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Our virtual information session is a live presentation from a USC Viterbi admission counselor designed for high school students and their family members to learn more about the USC Viterbi undergraduate experience. Our session will cover an overview of our undergraduate engineering programs, the application process, and more on student life. Guests will be able to ask questions and engage in further discussion toward the end of the session.
Register Here!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CS Colloquium: Seo Jin Park (MIT CSAIL) - Towards Interactive Big Data Processing Through Flash Burst Parallel Systems
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Seo Jin Park , MIT CSAIL
Talk Title: Towards Interactive Big Data Processing Through Flash Burst Parallel Systems
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Today, many organizations store big data on the cloud and lease relatively small clusters of instances to run analytics queries, train machine learning models, and more. However, the exponential data growth, combined with the slowdown of Moore's law, makes it challenging (if not impossible) to run such big data processing tasks in real-time. Most applications run big data workloads on timescales of several minutes or hours and resort to complex, application-specific optimizations to reduce the amount of data processing required for interactive queries. This design pattern hurts developer productivity and restricts the scope of applications that can use big data. However, as we have many servers in a cloud datacenter, a natural question is "can we borrow thousands of servers briefly to accelerate big data processing enough to be interactive?"
In this talk, I'll share my vision to enable massively parallel data processing even for very short-duration (1-10 ms), which I call "flash bursts." This will empower interactive, real-time applications (e.g., cyber security attack defense, self-driving cars or drones, etc) to utilize much larger data than before. For this moonshot, I take a two-pronged approach. First, I restructure important big data applications (analytics and DNN training) so that they can run efficiently in a flash burst fashion. On this prong, the talk will focus on how I efficiently scaled distributed sorting to 100+ servers even for a 1-millisecond time budget. Second, I rebuild various layers in distributed systems to reduce overheads of flash burst scaling. On this prong, I will focus on how I removed the overheads of consistent replication.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Seo Jin Park is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2019, advised by John Ousterhout. He is broadly interested in distributed systems, focusing on low-latency systems: scaling low-latency data processing, optimizing consensus protocols (both standard and byzantine), suppressing tail-latencies, and building efficient performance debugging tools. His Ph.D. study was supported by Samsung Scholarship.
Host: Barath Raghavan
Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 101
Audiences: By invitation only.
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Mork Family Department Seminar - Jason Bates
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 04:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jason Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Talk Title: Catalysis beyond the binding site: reactions on crowded surfaces and in packed pores
Host: Professor A.Hodge
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 147
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Heather Alexander
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CS Colloquium: Feras Saad (MIT) - Scalable Structure Learning and Inference via Probabilistic Programming
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Feras Saad, MIT
Talk Title: Scalable Structure Learning and Inference via Probabilistic Programming
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: Probabilistic programming supports probabilistic modeling, learning, and inference by representing sophisticated probabilistic models as computer programs in new programming languages. This talk presents efficient probabilistic programming-based techniques that address two fundamental challenges in scaling and automating structure learning and inference over complex data.
First, I will describe scalable structure learning methods that make it possible to automatically synthesize probabilistic programs in an online setting by performing Bayesian inference over hierarchies of flexibly structured symbolic program representations, for discovering models of time series data, tabular data, and relational data. Second, I will present fast compilers and symbolic analyses that compute exact answers to a broad range of inference queries about these learned programs, which lets us extract interpretable patterns and make accurate predictions in real time.
I will demonstrate how these techniques deliver state-of-the-art performance in terms of runtime, accuracy, robustness, and programmability by drawing on several examples from real-world applications, which include adapting to extreme novelty in economic time series, online forecasting of flu rates given sparse multivariate observations, discovering stochastic motion models of zebrafish hunting, and verifying the fairness of machine learning classifiers.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Feras Saad is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at MIT working at the intersection of programming languages, probabilistic machine learning, and computational statistics. His research is accompanied with a collection of popular open-source probabilistic programming systems used by collaborators at Intel, Takeda, Liberty Mutual, IBM, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for practical applications of structure learning and probabilistic inference. Feras' MEng thesis on probabilistic programming and data science has been recognized with the 1st Place Computer Science Thesis Award at MIT.
Host: Mukund Raghothaman
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 105
Audiences: By invitation only.
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Meet Visa: Crypto Development Program (Virtual)
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
RSVP HERE: https://www.wayup.com/i-Technology-j-Meet-Visa-Crypto-Development-Program-Visa-801319635388880/?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=vepromotion&utm_campaign=Visa&refer=visref_VE-Crypto-Development-Program-March-28179244
Join Cuy Sheffield (VP Crypto at Visa) and Alex Chiang (Sr. Manager, Crypto Strategy) for a discussion on Visa's Crypto Development Program opportunity, learn about exciting opportunities and programs in crypto and tips to prepare for a career in crypto!
The Crypto Development Program is an 18-month rotational development experience designed to build a fully fluent cryptocurrency team now and for the future. You will enjoy three distinct business rotations that provide you with practical experience of different areas within the emerging cryptocurrency ecosystem at Visa. These are Crypto Product, Crypto Solutions, and Digital Partnerships. The program supports Visa's mission to build a strong entry level pipeline of talent with deep subject matter expertise in the Crypto space. In addition to meaningful rotations, Associates are given training & development, mentoring, networking and leadership exposure.
Can't wait to see you there!
(Please note: In order to qualify, candidates must currently be completing a Bachelor's degree program and graduate between December 2021 - August 2022. Permanent authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.)
About Us:
Visa is a payments technology company. The beating heart of our company is VisaNet, our global processing network that enables digital payments to happen securely and reliably in the blink of an eye. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payments network-enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.
External employer-hosted events and activities are not affiliated with the USC Viterbi Career Connections Office. They are posted on Viterbi Career Connections because they may be of interest to members of the Viterbi community. Inclusion of any activity does not indicate USC sponsorship or endorsement of that activity or event. It is the participant's responsibility to apply due diligence, exercise caution when participating, and report concerns to vcareers@usc.eduLocation: Virtual
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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GRIDS Talk: Bridging the Gap Between Analyst and Business Types
Thu, Mar 24, 2022 @ 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Date:Thursday, March 24
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Virtual
Sign Up: https://forms.gle/qn74h13BZD4gRNzT6
With 10 years in the analytics industry in both B2B and B2C businesses like Dollar Shave Club, Workfront and Adobe, Brett Kobold will discuss important lessons he has learned in advancing his career. In this GRIDS Talk, analyst-types will learn techniques to translate the complexity of data analysis into tangible results while business/strategy types will learn how to communicate with analyst-types in order to get the best results. Walking out of this presentation you will have a better understanding how to work with both sides of this complex ecosystem.
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External employer-hosted events and activities are not affiliated with the USC Viterbi Career Connections Office. They are posted on Viterbi Career Connections because they may be of interest to members of the Viterbi community. Inclusion of any activity does not indicate USC sponsorship or endorsement of that activity or event. It is the participant's responsibility to apply due diligence, exercise caution when participating, and report concerns to vcareers@usc.eduLocation: Virtual
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
