Schedule
12th Annual CSL Student Conference Schedule
15th 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 |
16th 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 |
17th 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 16th 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 |
Yang Liu
(CS, UIUC) |
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11:10 – 11:25 |
Pei-Chen Peng
(CS, UIUC) |
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11:30 – 11:45 |
Michael Nute
(Statistics, UIUC) |
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11:45 – 12:00 | Vida Ravanmehr (Postdoc, UIUC) |
Session 2: Decision and Control Systems, and Networks
14:30 – 16:00 Thursday 16th 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 | Raphael Stern (Civil, UIUC) |
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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 |
Shenyu Liu
(ECE, UIUC) |
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15:50 – 16:00 |
Khaled Mohammed A Alshehri
(ECE, UIUC) |
Session 3: Information Processing Circuits and Systems
11:00 – 12:30 Friday 17th Feb, 2017, B02
Time | Topic | Presenter |
11:00 – 11:20 |
Edward Lee
(EE, Stanford) |
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11:25 – 11:40 |
Mingu Kang
(ECE, UIUC) |
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11:40 – 11:55 |
Glenn Ko
(ECE, UIUC) |
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12:00 – 12:15 |
Yingyan Lin
(ECE, UIUC) |
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12:15 – 12:30 |
Wei Zuo
(ECE, UIUC) |
Session 4: Machine Learning and Signal Processing
15:30 – 17:00 Friday 17th Feb, 2017, B02
Time | Topic | Presenter |
15:30 – 15:50 |
Wei Yu
(ML, CMU) |
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15:55 – 16:10 |
Haizi Yu
(CS, UIUC) |
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16:10 – 16:25 |
Weihao Gao
(ECE, UIUC) |
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16:30 – 16:45 | Yuan-Ting Hu (ECE, UIUC) |
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16:45 – 17:00 | Regression of Human Physiological Arousal Induced by Flying Robots Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks | Hyung-Jin Yoon (MechSE, UIUC) |