Schedule

Schedule is tentative and may undergo some changes in the near future. Stay tuned!

11th Annual CSL Student Conference Schedule

17th February 2016, Wednesday

16:30 – 17:30 Opening Plenary: Dr. Andy Feng
VP Architect at Yahoo!
Large-Scale Machine Learning: Use Cases, Datasets and Technology		 NCSA Auditorium
 17:30 – 18:30 Dinner & Reception NCSA Atrium

18th February 2016, Thursday

 Time  Event  Location
 8:30 – 9:15 Breakfast & Registration Basement Lobby
 9:15 – 9:30 Welcome Address: CSL Director Klara Nahrstedt B02
 9:30 – 10:20  Keynote Talk 1: Prof. Adam Wierman
(California Institute of Technology)
Data centers & Energy: Did we get it backwards? 		 B02
 10:20 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Student Session 1: Networks & Security

Detailed Student Session 1

(1 Invited Student talk + 3 UIUC student talks)

 B02
12:00 – 13:20 Lunch & Poster Session 301
 13:30 – 14:20  Keynote Talk 2: Prof. Jessy Grizzle
(University of Michigan)
Taking Bipedal Robots from Science Fiction to Science Fact		 B02
14:20 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 16:00 Student Session 2: Robotics & Control

Detailed Student Session 2

(1 Invited Student talk + 3 UIUC student talks)

 B02
16:00 – 18:30 CSL Graduate Student Job Fair CSL
19:00 Special Reception for Keynote speakers and Student speakers TBD

 19th February 2016, Friday

 Time  Event  Location
9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast Basement Lobby
 9:30 – 10:20  Keynote Talk 3: Dr. Michael Rubinstein
(Google, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL))
The Motion Microscope		 B02
10:20 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:20 Student Session 3: Machine Learning & Signal Processing

Detailed Student Session 3

(1 Invited Student talk + 4 UIUC student talks)

 B02
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch & Panel Discussion

Panelists: Dr. Rajiv Maheswaran (Second Spectrum), Dr. Michael Rubinstein (Google), Prof. R Srikant, Prof. Olgica Milenkovic, and Prof. Grace Xingxin Gao(University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign)

 301
 

14:00 – 14:50

  Keynote Talk 4: Dr. Rajiv Maheswaran
(Second Spectrum)
How Data Enables Machine Understanding of Sports		 B02
14:50 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 17:20 Student Session 4: Learning & Games

Detailed Student Session 4

(1 Invited Student talk + 5 UIUC student talks)

 B02
17:20 – 17:30  Conclusion of conference CSL
17:30 Announcing student awards and dinner Reception NCSA

 

 Session 1: 10:30 – 12:00 Thursday 18th Feb, 2016, B02

 Time  Topic  Presenter
10:30 – 11:00 Learning and Safe Control for Human Cyber-Physical Systems Dorsa Sadigh

(EECS, Berkeley)
11:00 – 11:20 Data-driven Anomaly Detection for Securing Smart Meter Communications in Power Grids Varun Krishna

(ECE, UIUC)
11:20 – 11:40 Fast Rates and Network Independence in Distributed Learning Cesar A. Uribe

(ECE, UIUC)
11:40 – 12:00 Anonymous message spreading in the presence of spies Giulia Fanti

(Postdoc, UIUC)


Session 2: 14:30 – 16:00 Thursday 18th Feb, 2016, B02

 Time Topic  Presenter
14:30 – 14:50 The Future of Upper Limb Prosthetics Aadeel Akhtar

(Neuroscience Program, UIUC)
14:50 – 15:20 Independent Control of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs for Human Augmentation Feredrico Pariatti

(Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
15:20 – 15:40 Robotic Herding of Bird Flocks using UAVs Shripad Gade

(Aerospace Engineering, UIUC)
15:40 – 16:00 Bat Bot (B2), A Biologically Inspired Flying Machine Alireza Ramezani

(Postdoc, UIUC)


Session 3: 10:30 – 12:20 Friday 19th Feb, 2016, B02

 Time  Topic  Presenter
10:30 – 11:00 Latent Variable Modeling with Diversity-Inducing Mutual Angular Regularization Pengtao Xie

(ML Department, CMU)
11:00 – 11:20 Single Image Super-Resolution from Transformed Self-Exemplars Jia-Bin Huang

(ECE, UIUC)
11:20 – 11:40 Do Deep Neural Networks Learn Facial Action Units When Doing Expression Recognition? Pooya Khorrami

(ECE, UIUC)
11:40 – 12:00 Bitwise Neural Networks for Source Separation Minje Kim

(CS, UIUC)
12:00 – 12:20 A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Batch Mode Active Learning on Information Networks Doris Xin

(CS, UIUC)


Session 4: 15:00 – 17:20 Friday 19th Feb, 2016, B02

 Time  Topic  Presenter
15:00 – 15:30 Wireless Communications Games in Fixed and Random Environments Zhengyuan Zhou

(EE, Stanford)
15:30 – 15:50 Probabilistic Acoustic Tube model: a probabilistic generative model for speech Yang Zhang

(ECE, UIUC)
15:50 – 16:10 HD-CNN: Hierarchical Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Large Scale Visual Recognition Zhicheng Yan

(CS, UIUC)
16:10 – 16:20 Break
16:20 – 16:40 Distributed content collection and rank aggregation James Yang

(ECE, UIUC)
16:40 – 17:00 Global Optimal Nonlinear Adaptive Control through Domain Linearization Luke Wendt

(ECE, UIUC)
17:00 – 17:20 Modeling the Impact of Epigenetics in lung cancer: A Game Theoretic Approach Arjun Athreya

(ECE, UIUC)