Schedule

12^th Annual CSL Student Conference Schedule

15^th February 2017, Wednesday

Time	Event	Location
16:30 – 17:30	Opening Plenary: Dr. Arvind Krishna Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and Director, IBM Research Accelarating Technology Disruption	NCSA Auditorium
17:30	Dinner	NCSA Atrium

16^th February 2017, Thursday

Time	Event	Location
8:30 – 8:50	Breakfast & Registration	Outside B02
8:50 – 9:00	Welcome Address: CSL Director Klara Nahrstedt	B02
9:00 – 9:50	Keynote Talk 1: Dr. Filippo Utro (Computational Biology Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research) Plant, Population and Cancer Genomics in the DNA Revolution	B02
10:00 –10:30	Panel: Bringing Genomics to the Bedside	B02
10:30 – 12:00	Student Session 1: Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Detailed Student Session 1 (1 Invited Student talk + 4 UIUC student talks)	B02
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch & Poster Session	301
13:00 – 13:50	Keynote Talk 2: Prof. Eilyan Bitar (Cornell University) Competition in Electricity Markets: Equilibria, Paradoxes, and Biases	B02
14:00 – 14:30	Panel: Do We Control Our Destinies?	B02
14:30 – 16:00	Student Session 2: Decision and Control, Systems, and Networks Detailed Student Session 2 (1 Invited Student talk + 5 UIUC student talks)	B02
16:00 – 19:00	CSL Graduate Student Job Fair	301
19:00	Special Reception for Keynote speakers and Student speakers	TBD

 17^th February 2017, Friday

Time	Event	Location
9:00 – 9:30	Breakfast	Outside B02
9:30 – 10:20	Keynote Talk 3: Prof. Kwabena Boahen (Stanford University) Neuromorphic Computing	B02
10:30 – 11:00	Panel: Future of Computing	B02
11:00 – 12:30	Student Session 3: Information Processing Circuits and Systems Detailed Student Session 3 (1 Invited Student talk + 4 UIUC student talks)	B02
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch & Robotics Demonstration Session	CSL Studio
14:00 – 14:50	Keynote Talk 4: Prof. Richard Baraniuk (Rice University) A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning	B02
15:00 – 15:30	Panel: Learning to Beat Humans at Their Own Game	B02
15:30 – 17:00	Student Session 4: Machine Learning and Signal Processing Detailed Student Session 4 (1 Invited Student talk + 4 UIUC student talks)	B02
17:00 – 17:15	Conclusion of conference	B02
17:30	Dinner and awards	ECEB 3002

 

Session 1: Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
10:30 – 12:00 Thursday 16^th Feb, 2017, B02

Time	Topic	Presenter
10:30 – 10:50	A Tensor Factorization Framework for Haplotype Assembly of Diploids and Polyploids	Abolfazl Hashemi (EE, UT Austin)
10:55 – 11:10	Learning Structural Motif Representations for Efficient Protein Structure Search	Yang Liu (CS, UIUC)
11:10 – 11:25	Quantitative Modeling of Gene Expression by Using DNA Shape and Accessibility Data	Pei-Chen Peng (CS, UIUC)
11:30 – 11:45	HIPPI: Highly Accurate Protein Family Classification With Ensembles of HMMs	Michael Nute (Statistics, UIUC)
11:45 – 12:00	ChIPWig: A New Algorithm for Compression of ChIP-seq Wig Files	Vida Ravanmehr (Postdoc, UIUC)

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Session 2: Decision and Control Systems, and Networks
14:30 – 16:00 Thursday 16^th Feb, 2017, B02

Time	Topic	Presenter
14:30 – 14:50	Infinitesimal Modeling of Impulsive System: A Nonstandard Analysis Approach	Nak-Seung Hyun (EE, Georgia Tech)
14:50 – 15:05	Dampening Vehicle Traffic Waves With a Low Fraction of Autonomous Vehicles	Raphael Stern (Civil, UIUC)
15:05 – 15:20	A Controlled Particle Filter for Global Optimization	Chi Zhang (MechSE, UIUC)
15:20 – 15:35	Performance of Distributed Gradient Methods on Network Optimization	Thinh T. Doan (ECE, UIUC)
15:35 – 15:50	Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance of Unicycle Using the Heat Flow Method	Shenyu Liu (ECE, UIUC)
15:50 – 16:00	Cash-Settled Options for Wholesale Electricity Markets	Khaled Mohammed A Alshehri (ECE, UIUC)

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Session 3: Information Processing Circuits and Systems
11:00 – 12:30 Friday 17^th Feb, 2017, B02

Time	Topic	Presenter
11:00 – 11:20	Space-Time Computing for Machine Learning	Edward Lee (EE, Stanford)
11:25 – 11:40	Compute Memory: An Energy-Efficient Memory-Intensive Computation for Inference	Mingu Kang (ECE, UIUC)
11:40 – 11:55	Sampling-Based Inference Architecture for Machine Learning Tasks	Glenn Ko (ECE, UIUC)
12:00 – 12:15	Variation-Tolerant Architectures for Convolutional Neural Networks in the Near Threshold Voltage Regime	Yingyan Lin (ECE, UIUC)
12:15 – 12:30	Accurate High-Level Modeling and Automated Hardware/Software Co-design for Effective SoC Design Space Exploration	Wei Zuo (ECE, UIUC)

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Session 4: Machine Learning and Signal Processing
15:30 – 17:00 Friday 17^th Feb, 2017, B02

Time	Topic	Presenter
15:30 – 15:50	AdaDelay: Delay Adaptive Distributed Stochastic Optimization	Wei Yu (ML, CMU)
15:55 – 16:10	MUS-ROVER: A Self-Learning System for Music Compositional Rules	Haizi Yu (CS, UIUC)
16:10 – 16:25	Breaking the Bandwidth Barrier: Geometrical Adaptive Entropy Estimation	Weihao Gao (ECE, UIUC)
16:30 – 16:45	Unsupervised Video Segmentation: Exploring Spatio-Temporal Pixel Relationships	Yuan-Ting Hu (ECE, UIUC)
16:45 – 17:00	Regression of Human Physiological Arousal Induced by Flying Robots Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks	Hyung-Jin Yoon (MechSE, UIUC)

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