Week

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

Abs & Bio

1

8/24

Prof. Yonggang Wen

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, School of Computer Science and Engineering

Training Acceleration for Distributed Machine-Learning Applications at Scale:

A Network-Centric Approach

Abstract

2

8/31

3

9/7

Prof. Grace Hui Yang

Georgetown University, Department of Computer Science

Dynamic Search

Abstract

4

9/14

5

9/21

7

10/5

Prof. Dave Levin  

University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science

Three Ugly Truths about the Web’s PKI (and How We Might Fix it)

Abstract

8

10/12

Prof. Wenchao Zhou

Georgetown University, Department of Computer Science

Finding Needle in a Haystack - Data Provenance at Internet Scale

Abstract

9

10/19

10

10/26

Prof. Furong Huang  

University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science

Principled Methods for Learning and Understanding of Neural Networks

Abstract

13

11/16

Dr. Terrence Moore

US Army Research Lab

Ricci Curvature on Networks

Abstract

14

11/23

Thanksgiving Holiday

15

11/30

10am

Dr. Charles Kamhoua

US Army Research Lab

Game theoretic modeling of cyber deception in the Internet of Battlefield Things

Abstract