Schedule

Summary

Day 1: Thursday, Feb 26, 2015

TIME	EVENT	LOCATION
9:20 – 9:45	Breakfast & Registration	Outside CSL B02
9:45 – 9:55	Welcome Address : Prof. Klara Nahrstedt	CSL B02
10:00 – 10:50	Keynote 1 : Prof. Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University) Title: Getting from Here to There	CSL B02
10:50 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 13:00	Session 1: Control, Networks, and Robots	CSL B02
13:00 – 14:20	Lunch & Poster Session	CSL 301
14:30 – 15:20	Keynote 2 : Dr. Sham Kakade (Microsoft Research) Title: Tradeoffs in Large Scale Learning: Statistical Accuracy vs. Numerical Precision	CSL B02
15:20 – 15:30	Break
15:30 – 17:25	Session 2: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Artificial Intelligence I	CSL B02

Day 2: Friday, Feb 27, 2015

TIME	EVENT	LOCATION
9:30 – 10:00	Breakfast & Registration	Outside CSL B02
10:00 – 10:50	Keynote 3 : Prof. John Lafferty (University of Chicago) Title : Information Theoretic Perspectives in Statistical Estimation	CSL B02
10:50 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:50	Session 3: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Artificial Intelligence II	CSL B02
13:00 – 13:45	Lunch	CSL 301
13:45 – 14:30	Panel Discussion	CSL B02
14:30 – 15:20	Keynote 4 : Prof. Virgil Gligor (Carnegie Mellon University) Title : Dancing with the adversary : A Tale of Wimps and Giants	CSL B02
15:20 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30	Session 4: Privacy and Security	B02
17:30 – 19:30	Dinner Reception	MNTL

Detailed Schedule

Day 1: Thursday, Feb 26, 2015

Session 1: Control, Networks, and Robots
CSL B02, 11:00 – 13:00

TIME	TOPIC	PRESENTER
11:00 – 11:20	Deterministic Near-Optimal P2P Streaming	Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan (CSL, UIUC)
11:20 – 11:40	Pandas: An Efficient Priority Algorithm for Near-Data Scheduling	Qiaomin Xie (ECE, UIUC)
11:40 – 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 – 12:15	Invited Student Talk 1: Human Inspired Modeling for Autonomous Vehicles: Utilizing Sensors, Machine Learning, and Control	Katherine Driggs-Campbell (UC Berkeley)
12:15 – 12:35	Simultaneous State Estimation of UAV Trajectories Using Probabilistic Graph Models	Derek Chen (AE, UIUC)
12:35 – 12:55	Cooperative Path-Following of Multiple UAVs with Absolute Temporal Constraints	Javier Puig-Navarro (AE, UIUC)

Session 2: Machine Learning, Satistics, and Artificial Intelligence I
CSL B02, 15:30 – 17:25

TIME	TOPIC	PRESENTER
15:30 – 15:50	Local Linear Convergence on Sparse Optimization Problems	Patrick Johnstone (ECE, UIUC)
15:50 – 16:10	Distributed Box-Constrained Quadratic Optimization for Dual Linear SVM	Ching-pei Lee (CS, UIUC)
16:10 – 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 – 16:45	Invited Student Talk 2: Comparison lemmas and convexity: towards a precise performance analysis of non-smooth optimization	Christos Thrampoulidis (Caltech)
16:45 – 17:05	A Unified Framework for Identifiability Analysis in Bilinear Inverse Problems with Applications to Subspace and Sparsity Models	Yanjun Li (CSL, UIUC)
17:05 – 17:25	Information-theoretic lower bounds for distributed function computation	Aolin Xu (ECE, UIUC)

Day 2: Friday, Feb 27, 2015

Session 3: CSL B02, 11:00 – 12:50  PM, Friday, Feb 27, 2015
Machine Learning, Statistics, and Artificial Intelligence II

TIME	TOPIC	PRESENTER
11:00 – 11:20	Online Sparsifying Transform Learning and Big Data Applications	Bihan Wen (ECE, UIUC)
11:20 – 11:40	Spectral Learning of HMM Variants	Johannes Traa (ECE, UIUC)
11:40 – 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 – 12:10	Practical Learning Algorithms for Structured Prediction	Kai-Wei Chang (CS, UIUC)
12:10 – 12:30	Exposure to the Invisible: Algorithm Awareness from the Individual to the Collective	Motahhare Eslami (CS, UIUC)
12:30 – 12:50	Unsupervised Grammar Induction From Raw Text	Yonatan Bisk (CS, UIUC)

Session 4: Privacy and Security
CSL B02, 15:30 – 17:30

TIME	TOPIC	PRESENTER
15:30 – 15:50	Controlled Functional Encryption	Muhammad Naveed (CS, UIUC)
15:50 – 16:10	Cryptographic Agents: Towards a Unified Theory of Computing on Encrypted Data	Shashank Agrawal (CS, UIUC)
16:10 – 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 – 16:45	Invited Student Talk 3: Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile Devices	Yan Michalevsky (Stanford)
16:45 – 17:10	Invited Student Talk 4: Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings: A Tale of Opacity, Choice, and Discrimination	Michael Tschantz (ICSI, Berkeley)
17:10 – 17:30	Improving Mobile Application Security via Bridging User Expectations and Application Behaviors	Wei Yang (CS, UIUC)