Speakers

Please click on the respective names to see abstracts and speaker bio.

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Balaji Prabhakar (EE and CS, Stanford University)
  “Getting from Here to There”
• Dr. Sham Kakade (Microsoft Research, New England)
  “Tradeoffs in large scale learning: statistical accuracy vs. numerical precision”
• Prof. John Lafferty (Statistics and CS, University of Chicago)
  “Information Theoretic Perspectives in Statistical Estimation”
• Prof. Virgil Gligor (ECE and CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University)
  “Dancing with the Adversary: a Tale of Wimps and Giants”

Invited Student Talks

• Katie Driggs-Campbell (UC Berkeley)
  “Human Inspired Modeling for Autonomous Vehicles: Utilizing Sensors, Machine Learning, and Control”
• Christos Thrampoulidis (Caltech)
  “Comparison lemmas and convexity: towards a precise performance analysis of non-smooth optimization”
• Yan Michalevsky (Stanford University)
  “Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile Devices”
• Dr. Michael Tschantz (ICSI, Berkeley)
  “Automated Experiments on Ad Privacy Settings: A Tale of Opacity, Choice, and Discrimination”

UIUC Student Talks

• Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan (CSL, UIUC)
  “Deterministic Near-Optimal P2P Streaming”
• Qiaomin Xie (ECE, UIUC)
  “Pandas: An Efficient Priority Algorithm for Near-Data Scheduling”
• Derek Chen (AE, UIUC)
  “Simultaneous State Estimation of UAV Trajectories Using Probabilistic Graph Models”
• Javier Puig-Navarro (AE, UIUC)
  “Time-Critical Coordination of Multiple UAVs with Absolute Temporal Constraints”
• Patrick Johnstone (ECE, UIUC)
  “Local Linear Convergence on Sparse Optimization Problems”
• Ching-pei Lee (CS, UIUC)
  “Distributed Box-Constrained Quadratic Optimization for Dual Linear SVM”
• Yanjun Li (CSL, UIUC)
  “A Unified Framework for Identifiability Analysis in Bilinear Inverse Problems with Applications to Subspace and Sparsity Models”
• Aolin Xu (ECE, UIUC)
  “Information-theoretic lower bounds for distributed function computation”
• Bihan Wen (ECE, UIUC)
  “Online Sparsifying Transform Learning and Big Data Applications”
• Johannes Traa (ECE, UIUC)
  “Spectral Learning of HMM Variants”
• Kai-Wei Chang (CS, UIUC)
  “Practical Learning Algorithms for Structured Prediction”
• Motahhare Eslami (CS, UIUC)
  “Exposure to the Invisible: Algorithm Awareness from the Individual to the Collective”
• Yonatan Bisk (CS, UIUC)
  “Unsupervised Grammar Induction From Raw Text”
• Muhammad Naveed (CS, UIUC)
  “Controlled Functional Encryption”
• Shashank Agrawal (CS, UIUC)
  “Cryptographic Agents: Towards a Unified Theory of Computing on Encrypted Data”
• Wei Yang (CS, UIUC)
  “Improving Mobile Application Security via Bridging User Expectations and Application Behaviors”

Panel Discussion

A Panel discussion on topics for this conference.