Upcoming Colloquia Presentations
Past Colloquia Presentations
Fall 2026 to Present
Prior to Fall 2026

Automatic Security Analysis of Smartphone Applications: Challenges and Opportunities
Xusheng Xiao
Researcher, NEC Laboratories America
KEC 1001

Towards 5G: Carrier-Grade Programmable Virtual Mobile Networks
Tarik Taleb
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
ALS 4001

Making Good Decisions Using Data-driven Models
Marek Petrik
Research Staff Member, Solutions and Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
ALS 4001 ** note the different time and place **

Understanding the Shape of Data with Topological Data Analysis and Visualization: from Vector Fields to High-dimensional Point Clouds
Bei Wang
Research Scientist, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah
ALS 4001 ** note the different time and place **

Algorithms for Large Data Analytics via Coresets and Sketches
Jeff Phillips
Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
ALS 4001 ** Note the different time and place **

Magnetics + Mechanics + Nanoscale = Electromagnetics Future
Greg P. Carman
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, UCLA
KEC 1003

Action, Gesture and Spoken Command Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction
Petros Maragos
Professor, School of E.C.E., National Technical University of Athens
KEC 1003

Distributed Fault-Tolerant Optimization
Nitin Vaidya
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
KEC 1003 ** Note the different time **

Probabilistic (Logic) Programming: Concepts and Applications
Luc De Raedt
Professor, Department of Computer Science , University of Leuven
KEC 1003

Engineering an Actuator
Jonathan Lee
Electromechanical Engineer, Triumph Aerospace Systems Seattle
KEC 1003

Leveraging Human Insights into Problem Structure for Scientific Discovery
Ronan Le Bras
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
KEC 1007 ** Note the different time and place **

Computing for Humans
Vicki Hanson
Distinguished Professor, College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
KEC 1003

Magnetic Nanowires: Revolutionizing Hard Drives, RAM, and Cancer Treatment
Bethanie Stadler
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
KEC 1007 ** Note the different time and place **

Regression Methods in Semantic Segmentation, Video Object Discovery and Tracking
Fuxin Li
Assistant Professor, School of EECS, Oregon State University
KEC 1003

Deep UV laser based on III-nitride semiconductors
Xiaohang Li
Assistant Professor, Division of Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
KEC 1003

Structure Learning for Sum-Product Networks
Daniel Lowd
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
KEC 1003

Interaction of ferromagnetic and superconducting permanent magnets – superconducting levitation
Ludwig Schultz
Professor, IFW Dresden, Institute of Metallic Material, TU Dresden, Institute of Materials Science
KEC 1001

Linear-time Algorithms in Natural Language Understanding and Translation
Liang Huang
Assistant Professor, School of EECS, Oregon State University
KEC 1003

Inter-Flow Consistency: A Novel SDN Update Abstraction for Supporting Inter-Flow Constraints
Rakesh Bobba
Assistant Professor, School of EECS, Oregon State University
KEC 1003

On Security of Power System State Estimation
Jinsub Kim
Assistant Professor, School of EECS, Oregon State University
KEC 1003