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Information Session in Hangzhou, China
Sun, Oct 23, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in graduate studies in engineering or computer science?
Candidates with a strong academic background and a Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or physical science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend an information session to learn more about applying to graduate engineering programs at the University of Southern California.
These events will be hosted by Ray Xu, Director of the USC Viterbi Shanghai Office, and joined by Camillia Lee, Assistant Dean for Graduate Recruitment at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Topics to be covered:
- Master's & Ph.D. Programs in Engineering and Computer Science
- How to Apply
- Scholarships and Funding
- Student Life at USC and in Los Angeles
- Application Tips
There will also be sufficient time for questions during the information session.
For questions about these events, please contact us at viterbi.gradprograms@usc.edu.
REGISTER NOWLocation: JW Marriott Hotel Hangzhou, Hangzhou, China
Audiences: Prospective students with a background in engineering, math or hard science
Contact: Mary Kae/Graduate and Professional Programs
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Oct 24, 2016 @ 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Frances Richmond, PhD, USC Faculty Pharmacy, Dir Int Center for Regulatory Science
Talk Title: Regulatory and quality challenges for new product commercialization
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things and Ming Hsieh Institute for Electrical Engineering Joint Seminar Series on Cyber-Physical Systems
Mon, Oct 24, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mihailo Jovanovic, Professor, University of Minnesota
Talk Title: Controller Architectures: Tradeoffs between Performance and Complexity
Abstract: This talk describes the design of controller architectures that achieve a desired tradeoff between performance of cyber-physical systems and controller complexity. Our methodology consists of two steps. First, we design controller architecture by incorporating regularization functions into the optimal control problem and, second, we optimize the controller over the identified architecture. For large-scale networks of dynamical systems, the desired structural property is captured by limited information exchange between physical and cyber layers and the regularization term penalizes the number of communication links. In the first step, the controller architecture is designed using a customized proximal augmented Lagrangian algorithm. This method exploits separability of the sparsity-promoting regularization terms and transforms the augmented Lagrangian into a form that is continuously differentiable and can be efficiently minimized using a variety of methods. Although structured optimal control problems are, in general, nonconvex, we identify classes of convex problems that arise in the design of symmetric systems, undirected consensus and synchronization networks, optimal selection of sensors and actuators, and decentralized control of positive systems. Examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework.
Biography: Mihailo Jovanovic (www.umn.edu/~mihailo) received the PhD degree from UC Santa Barbara, in 2004. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota and has held visiting positions with Stanford University and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. His current research focuses on design of controller architectures, dynamics and control of fluid flows, and fundamental limitations in the control of large networks of dynamical systems. He serves as an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vice Chair of the APS External Affairs Committee, and had served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board from July 2006 until December 2010. Prof. Jovanovic received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2007, the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2013, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Santa Barbara in 2014.
Host: Paul Bogdan
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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Information Session in Shanghai, China
Mon, Oct 24, 2016 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Interested in graduate studies in engineering or computer science?
Candidates with a strong academic background and a Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or physical science (such as physics, biology, or chemistry) are welcome to attend an information session to learn more about applying to graduate engineering programs at the University of Southern California.
These events will be hosted by Ray Xu, Director of the USC Viterbi Shanghai Office, and joined by Camillia Lee, Assistant Dean for Graduate Recruitment at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Topics to be covered:
- Master's & Ph.D. Programs in Engineering and Computer Science
- How to Apply
- Scholarships and Funding
- Student Life at USC and in Los Angeles
- Application Tips
There will also be sufficient time for questions during the information session.
For questions about these events, please contact us at viterbi.gradprograms@usc.edu.
REGISTER NOWLocation: JW Marriott Shanghai Tomorrow Square, Shanghai, China
Audiences: Prospective students with a background in engineering, math or hard science
Contact: Mary Kae/Graduate and Professional Programs
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Graduate Seminar
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Austin J. Minnich, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport
Series: Graduate Seminar
Host: Professor Jayakanth Ravichandran
Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Martin Olekszyk
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USC Stem Cell Seminar: Jan Nolta, University of California, Davis
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jan Nolta, University of California, Davis
Talk Title: TBD
Series: Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC Distinguished Speakers Series
Host: USC Stem Cell
More Info: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
Webcast: http://keckmedia.usc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/StemCellSeminarWebCast Link: http://keckmedia.usc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/StemCellSeminar
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
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EE-EP Seminar
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prasad Gogineni, University of Kansas
Talk Title: Ultrawideband (UWB) Radars for Remote Sensing of Snow, Soil Moisture and Ice
Abstract: Ultra-wideband (UWB) radars operating over the frequency range from about 100 MHz to 94 GHz and integrated into small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) can support scientific and operational research on snow, soil moisture, and ice. Two major impacts of climate change are related to fresh water resources and sea level rise. We need more information on snow water equivalent (SWE) and soil moisture to manage water resources in the future. Soil moisture is a key variable in scientific research and operational applications, including the forecasting of floods and agriculture. Also, soil moisture controls evaporation of land surfaces and is an input variable in predictions of summer rainfall over the continents. UWB radars operating over the frequency range of 150-600 MHz and UWB microwave radars operating over the frequency range of 2-18 GHz integrated into small and medium-scale UASs can provide valuable information on soil moisture and SWE. Also, we need accurate information on the bed topography, basal conditions, and snow accumulation of large ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to generate accurate estimates of sea level increase over the century. UWB radars can also provide much-needed data for improving ice sheet models used to generate sea level rise projections.
In this talk, I will discuss the need for remote sensing of snow, soil moisture, and ice, as well as present preliminary results from UWB measurements on these targets. I will also discuss advances required to develop medium and small UAS integrated with UWB radars to support scientific and operational applications.
Biography: Dr. Gogineni is the Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas with more than two decades of research and teaching experience in radar remote sensing of the Earth, including polar ice sheets. He has successfully led several multi-disciplinary research projects funded by NASA and NSF. Dr. Gogineni served as the Director of the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Kansas before serving as Manager of NASA's Polar Research Programs during 1997-1999. He is currently the Director of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, where he continues to manage a center that connects science and engineering in polar research. Dr. Gogineni and his colleagues at CReSIS have successfully demonstrated SAR imaging of the ice-bed interface and generated fine-resolution 3-D topography of an ice-bed covered in over 3 km of ice. The Center has also succeeded in sounding and imaging the ice bed of three important glaciers in Greenland.
He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, in 1984. He has authored or co-authored over 125 archival journal publications and more than 240 technical reports and conference presentations. His research interests include the application of radars to the remote sensing of the polar ice sheets, sea ice, ocean, atmosphere, and land. He developed several radar systems currently being used at the University of Kansas for sounding and imaging of polar ice sheets, and has also participated in field experiments in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Host: Mahta Moghaddam - AWARE
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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CS PhD Colloquium: Om Prasad Patri (USC) - Shape Mining for Multisensor Event Recognition
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Om Prasad Patri, USC
Talk Title: Shape Mining for Multisensor Event Recognition
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium.
CS PhD Colloquium Lecture Event.
The ubiquitous rise of sensors in our daily lives, as well in industrial and engineering equipment, have led to emerging challenges in pattern analysis of large amounts of multisensor data to identify critical events automatically. This talk presents our recent work on framing this event recognition problem in the context of time series classification by automatically finding discriminative shapes or patterns (called shapelets) within sensor data. These unconventional shape mining approaches show potential for real-world sensor datasets, such as equipment monitoring data from an oil field or a manufacturing plant, as they don't make assumptions about the nature and structure of the input sensor data and provide visual intuition in the form of the extracted shapes for further analysis by domain experts, instead of being a black-box machine learning approach.
These approaches also perform fast classification as they focus on throwing away most of the data after finding the discriminative shapelets. By combining shape extraction and feature selection, this temporal pattern mining paradigm can be extended for processing data from multiple sensors. This talk describes algorithmic strategies for performing this combination, and presents results and motivational examples from modern industrial systems where our approaches are applicable. An interesting application of the proposed approach using shape mining for identifying malware from Windows portable executable files is also discussed.
Biography: Om P. Patri is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at USC, advised by Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna. His interests are broadly in the areas of data science, AI, cybersecurity and event-based systems, and his dissertation research is on modeling and recognition of events from multisensor time series data. At USC, he has been a part of the Center for Smart Interactive Oil Field Technologies (CiSoft) and the USC Data Science Lab. During his graduate studies at USC, he has worked with NEC Labs America and Cylance Inc. Before coming to USC, he obtained a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Host: CS Department
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Epstein Institute Seminar
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jack Zhou, Drexel University
Talk Title: 4D Printing with Photoactive Shape-Changing Polymer
Host: Dr. Yong Chen
More Information: October 25, 2016_Zhou.pdf
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Michele ISE
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ADP Information Session
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 @ 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
ADP Information Session to discuss our full time and internship opportunities and the type of experience we have to offer USC students
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Amgen Seminar: Sasha Kamb
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sasha Kamb, Amgen
Talk Title: TBD
Series: USC/Amgen Seminar Series
Host: USC/Amgen
More Info: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
Event Link: http://stemcell.usc.edu/events
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Computer Science General Faculty Meeting
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Bi-Weekly regular faculty meeting for invited full-time Computer Science faculty only. Event details emailed directly to attendees.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Invited Faculty Only
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Polidori, Quality Assurance Manager for Science & Technology Advancement at SCAQMD
Talk Title: Advanced Technologies For Monitoring Air Pollution
Abstract:
See Attachment
More Information: Astani CEE Seminar_Dr. Andrea Polidori.pdf
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Infosession for New Viterbi Ph.D. Fellows
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 @ 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Doctoral Programs
Workshops & Infosessions
Infosession for invited new 2016 Fellowship holders.
Come join us for lunch and we'll help you fully understand the details of your fellowship including:
-How much you'll be paid and when
-What fees will be your responsibility to pay each semester
-What to do if you have a problem with your fellowship payments
-Transitioning from fellowship to RA or TA
RSVP email has been sent to eligible Ph.D. students. If you have any questions, please contact Tracy Charles at tcharles@usc.edu
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 116
Audiences: Eligible Ph.D. Students
Contact: Tracy Charles
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Interviewing Strategies and Techniques
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Discover tips on how to prepare for both technical and behavioral interviews, as well as the proper steps for follow-up!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Tech Transfer Experiences in Medical Devices
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 @ 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
The USC National Organization for Business & Engineering presents to you its new monthly series: Pitches with Professors! We will be holding chats with Professors at USC who have commercialized their research into their own startups or managed to partner up with corporate companies to bring the applications of their research to the general public! Come with questions! This will especially be helpful to many of you who are considering their own startups!
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SPEAKER: Gerald E. Loeb, M.D., Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, USC; CEO, SynTouch Inc.; Chief Scientist, General Stim Inc.
To apply, head to this link: bit.ly/nobepitch
Attendance is limited to 10 students.
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Dr. Loeb was born in New Brunswick , NJ , received his B.A. ('69) and M.D. ('72) from Johns Hopkins University , and trained in surgery at the University of Arizona . He spent 15 years in the Laboratory of Neural Control at the National Institutes of Health and 12 years at Queen's University where he was Professor of Physiology and Director of the Bio-Medical Engineering Unit. He served as Chief Scientist (consulting) for Advanced Bionics Corp. of Sylmar , California , from 1994-1999. Dr. Loeb joined USC in September, 1999. He has published over 250 journal articles and chapters, a book on electromyography, and holds 58 patents.
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ABSTRACT:
After lifelong involvement in the translation of fundamental physiology into commercial products, I must conclude that there are useful experiences but no general rules. So I will give brief demonstrations of three current technologies from my research that are in various stages of tech transfer and then open the floor to questions and discussion:
- Our biomimetic tactile sensing technology was developed to meet the needs of advanced prosthetic hands, a market too small to be viable. A group of my graduate students started SynTouch to adapt it to robotic hands, but that market depends on many other technologies that we don't control. The killer app seems to be objective characterization of materials for the consumer products industry, which we didn't even know existed when we started.
- We started working on injectable neuromuscular stimulators in 1988 and had a series of very successful clinical trials at USC circa 2000-2008. Commercialization efforts then failed for various reasons. A new and simpler version called the NuStim is being commercialized as a joint venture with a medical device company based in China and will start a clinical trial there this year.
- Using technology related to the NuStim, we have developed and completed preclinical testing of a micropacemaker that can be injected into the chest of a fetus with complete heart block in the womb, a rare and usually fatal condition. We anticipate a first-in-human application as a custom device soon, which seems likely to inform decisions about its commercialization.
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The National Organization for Business and Engineering (NOBE), is a national society uniting business, management and engineering organizations from universities coast to coast. NOBE strives to produce and refine leadership internally and develop professional skills in our members that can be translated into success in the business world.More Information: Loeb.jpg
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - 301
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC NOBE
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Hulu Information Session
Wed, Oct 26, 2016 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Hulu's CTO, Tian Lim, will be hosting a tech talk about Hulu's technologies and what it's like to be a hulugan. Hulu University Recruitment will also be present to answer any questions about employment.
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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Biotechnology Lecture SeriesThu, Oct 27, 2016 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Various, Amgen
Talk Title: R&D Insights from Lab Bench to Patient Bedside
Abstract: USC researchers have the opportunity to gain research and development insights with a new biotechnology lecture series sponsored by Amgen and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.
The weekly lecture series, "R&D Insights from Lab Bench to Patient Bedside" takes place Thursdays at 10:30AM-12:00PM at USC's Health Sciences Campus from September 1, 2016 through November 10, 2016.
The talks will feature Amgen scientists speaking about:
Identifying a possible therapeutic target and its role in disease
Increasing therapeutic efficacy and safety
Process development, devices and manufacturing
Case studies from bench to clinic
Lectures will take place at the BCC First Floor Seminar Room or ZNI Herklotz Seminar Room.
RSVP at http://www.usc.edu/esvp (use code: amgenlecture). Space is limited. Preference will be given to SCRM master's students, PhDs, and postdocs, and attending all lectures is mandatory.
Please contact qliumich@usc.edu or karenw03@amgen.com for further details.
Host: USC Stem Cell/Amgen
More Info: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/biotechnology_lecture_series_rd_insights_from_lab_bench_to_patient_bedside?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=USC+Event+Calendar#.V8dKNLX8vW4
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cristy Lytal/USC Stem Cell
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Machine Learning Center and Ming Hsieh Institute Series on Mathematical Foundations of Learning from Data and Signals Joint Seminar
Thu, Oct 27, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sewoong Oh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Talk Title: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms in Adaptive Crowdsourcing
Series: MHI
Abstract: Adaptive schemes, where tasks are assigned based on the data collected thus far, are widely used in practical crowdsourcing systems to efficiently allocate the budget. However, existing theoretical analyses of crowdsourcing systems suggest that the gain of adaptive task assignments is minimal. To bridge this gap, we propose a new model for representing practical crowdsourcing systems, which strictly generalizes the popular Dawid-Skense model, and characterize the fundamental trade-off between budget and accuracy. We introduce a novel adaptive scheme that matches this fundamental limit. We introduce new techniques to analyze the spectral analyses of non-back-tracking operators, using density evolution techniques from coding theory.
Biography: Sewing Oh is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at UIUC. He received his PhD from the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Following his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. He was co-awarded the Kenneth C. Sevcik outstanding student paper award at the Sigmetrics 2010, the best paper award at the SIGMETRICS 2015, and NSF CAREER award in 2016.
Host: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
More Information: Oh Seminar Announcement.png
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gloria Halfacre
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CS Colloquium: Sewoong Oh (UIUC) - Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms in Adaptive Crowdsourcing
Thu, Oct 27, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sewoong Oh , UIUC
Talk Title: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms in Adaptive Crowdsourcing
Series: Yahoo! Labs Machine Learning Seminar Series
Abstract: This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Computer Science Research Colloquium. Part of Yahoo! Labs Machine Learning Seminar Series.
Adaptive schemes, where tasks are assigned based on the data collected thus far, are widely used in practical crowdsourcing systems to efficiently allocate the budget. However, existing theoretical analyses of crowdsourcing systems suggest that the gain of adaptive task assignments is minimal. To bridge this gap, we propose a new model for representing practical crowdsourcing systems, which strictly generalizes the popular Dawid-Skene model, and characterize the fundamental trade-off between budget and accuracy. We introduce a novel adaptive scheme that matches this fundamental limit. We introduce new techniques to analyze the spectral analyses of non-back-tracking operators, using density evolution techniques from coding theory.
Biography: Sewoong Oh is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at UIUC. He received his PhD from the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Following his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. He was co-awarded the Kenneth C. Sevcik outstanding student paper award at the Sigmetrics 2010, the best paper award at the SIGMETRICS 2015, and NSF CAREER award in 2016.
Host: Yan Liu
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Toward Exascale Resilience: Hardware Mechanisms and Containment Domains
Thu, Oct 27, 2016 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mattan Erez, University of Texas, Austin
Talk Title: Toward Exascale Resilience: Hardware Mechanisms and Containment Domains
Series: EE 598 Computer Engineering Seminar Series
Abstract: In this talk I will present a scalable and efficient resiliency scheme based on the concept of Containment Domains. Containment domains are programming and system constructs that encapsulate and express application resiliency needs and interact with the system to tune and specialize error detection, state preservation and restoration, and recovery schemes. Containment domains have weak transactional semantics and are nested to take advantage of the machine hierarchy and to enable distributed and hierarchical state preservation, restoration, and recovery as an alternative to non-scalable and inefficient checkpoint-restart (and variants). One of the key motivations behind this work is the idea of proportionality, where the resources devoted to a feature are proportional to the application and scenario needs. Proportionality is critical to continued scaling and performance under the increasing constraints of bandwidth, power, and energy. Essentially, one-size-fits-all and worst-case design approaches are no longer sufficient to building reliable and efficient systems. I will also briefly discuss some of the hardware mechanisms necessary for reliability and resilience and the tradeoffs they offer for proportionality.
Biography: Mattan Erez is an Associate Professor and holder of the Temple Foundation Professor Fellowship (#4) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on improving the performance, efficiency, and scalability of computing systems through advances in hardware architecture, software systems, and programming models. The vision is to increase the cooperation across system layers and develop flexible and adaptive mechanisms for proportional resource usage. Mattan received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Physics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and his M.S and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy, and an NSF CAREER Award.
Host: Xuehai Qian, x04459, xuehai.qian@usc.edu
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 100D
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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STEM Spotlight on Biomedical Engineering
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering K-12 STEM Center
University Calendar
The Department of Biomedical Engineering will showcase research in the field to 300 students from three middle schools in Compton Unified School District and a Long Beach high school. Lab tours of faculty research will be accompanied by interactive demonstrations planned by the Ph.D. students of BME, the undergraduate biomedical engineering students organization, and the student group, Motivate & Empower.
http://viterbi.usc.edu/k-12/stem-spotlight/Audiences: K-12 Schools pre-registered
Contact: Katie Mills
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EE 598 Computer Engineering Seminar
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lin Zhong, Professor, Rice University
Talk Title: The mess at the hardware/software boundary
Abstract: As computing embraces heterogeneity, an increasing fraction of operating system deals with hardware directly, usually with unsafe languages like C and assembly and a primitive programming model based on registers and interrupts. This leads to a mess at the lowest level of software which is error-prone, difficult to maintain and evolve. This talk presents our recent effort in taming this mess with proper designs. We show that with a little bit hardware support, many of the hardware-facing functions can be moved out of device drivers and made generic, leading to much simplified hardware-specific software.
Biography: Lin Zhong is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering with Rice University. He received his B.S and M.S. from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been with Rice University since September 2005. At Rice, he leads the Efficient Computing Group to make computing, communication, and interfacing more efficient and effective. He and his students received the best paper awards from ACM MobileHCI, IEEE PerCom, and ACM MobiSys (3), and ACM ASPLOS. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Duncan Award from Rice University, and the RockStar Award from ACM SIGMOBILE. More information about his research can be found at http://www.recg.org.
Host: Xuehai Qian
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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USC Decide Fall Symposium
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ali Abbas, Yannis Yortsos, DECIDE
Talk Title: Next Generation Ethics
Host: Ali Abbas, Stephen Gee
More Information: Next Gen Ethics Symposium.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Michele ISE
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W.V.T. Rusch Engineering Honors Program Colloquium
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Mark Gold, Associate Vice Chancellor of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, titled "What Would it Take to Make LA Sustainable by 2050?"
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Julie Phaneuf
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Ming Hsieh Institute Seminar Series on Integrated Systems
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Amin Arbabian, Professor, Stanford University
Talk Title: Microwave-Ultrasound Hybrid Systems in Imaging and Implantable Medical Devices
Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mike Chen, and Prof. Mahta Moghaddam
More Information: MHI Seminar Series IS - Amin_Arbabian_Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jenny Lin
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Biomedical Engineering Speakers
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: TBA, TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Series: Department of Biomedical Engineering: Systems Cellular-Molecular Bioengineering Distinguished Speaker Series
Abstract: tba
Host: Brent Liu, PhD
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 146
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Seminar
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mo Chen and Mohammad Sowlat, Astani CEE Ph.D. Candidates
Talk Title: See Attachment
More Information: Astani CEE Ph.D. Seminar Abstract.pdf
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Learning from Zero: Recent Advances in Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers using Crowdsourcing
Fri, Oct 28, 2016 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yu Su, UCSB
Talk Title: Learning from Zero: Recent Advances in Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers using Crowdsourcing
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: Semantic parsing, which parses natural language into formal languages, has been applied to a wide range of structured data like relation databases, knowledge bases, and web tables. To learn a semantic parser for a new domain, the first challenge is always how to collect training data. While data collection using crowdsourcing has become a common practice in NLP, it's a particularly challenging and interesting problem when it comes to semantic parsing, and is still in its early stages. Given a domain and a formal language, how can we generate meaningful logical forms in a configurable way? How to design the annotation task so that crowdsourcing workers, who do not understand formal languages, can handle with ease? How can we exploit the compositional nature of formal languages to optimize the crowdsourcing process? In this talk I will introduce some recent advances in this direction, and present some preliminary answers to the above questions. The covered works mainly concern knowledge bases, but we will also cover some ongoing work concerning web APIs.
Biography: Yu Su is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at UCSB, advised by Professor Xifeng Yan. Before that, He received a bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 2012, with a major in Computer Science. He is interested in the interplay between language and formal meaning representations, including problems like semantic parsing, continuous knowledge representation, and natural language generation. He also enjoys applying deep learning on these problems.
Host: Xing Shi and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
