Seminar Series on Fusion and Inference in Surveillance Networks

2011/2012

Date

Location

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

February 2012

McConnell Room 603

Ronald Mahler

Lockheed Martin

TBA

February 10, 2012

McConnell Room 603

John Tsitsiklis

MIT

TBA

January 27, 2012

McConnell Room 603

John Langford

Yahoo research

TBA

January 2012

McConnell Room 603

Peter Willet

University of Connecticut

A Primer on Various Approaches to Data Association

January 2012

McConnell Room 603

Baochun Li

University of Toronto

TBA

September 23, 2011

McConnell Room 603

Dan Rubenstein

Columbia University

VMTorrent: Quick and Scalable Cloud-based VM Deployments

2010/2011

Date

Location

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

March 25, 2011

McConnell Room 603

Martin Wainwright

University of California, Berkeley

Dual Averaging for Distributed Optimization: Convergence Analysis and Network Scaling

January 14, 2011

McConnell Room 603

Jure Leskovec

Stanford University

Exploring the Structure of Online Social Networks: The Role of Positive and Negative Links

December 10, 2010

McConnell Room 603

Anne Jousselme

Defence Research and Development Canada, Valcartier

Measuring the Distance between Belief Functions

October 27, 2010

McConnell Room 603

Shreyas Sundaram

University of Waterloo

Using Structured System Theory to Identify Malicious Behavior in Distributed Systems

October 22, 2010

McConnell Room 603

Vijay Subramanian

Hamilton Institute

On Fluid Solutions of Max-Weight Scheduling with Applications

July 29, 2010

McConnell Room 603

John MacLaren Walsh

Drexel University

Signal Processing and Information Theory Perspectives for Collaborative Estimation over Networks

April 20, 2010

McConnell Room 603

Maciej Ciesielski

University of Massachusetts

Canonical Representations and their Application to Formal Verification and Synthesis


2009/2010

Date

Location

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

March 5, 2010

McConnell Room 603

Ali Tizghadam

University of Toronto

Network Science for Communications

March 4, 2010

McConnell Room 603

Anastasios Giovanidis

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for Telecommunications

Stability and Distributed Power Control in MANETs with Outages and Retransmissions

January 22, 2010

McConnell Room 603

Gene Cooperman

Northeastern University

Universal Reversible Debugger

November 30, 2009

McConnell Room 603

Augustin Chaintreau

Thomson Labs

Updating Content Over Mobile Social Networks: Models, Algorithms, Open Problems

November 27, 2009

McConnell Room 603

Dmitry Malioutov

DRW Trading Group

Analysis of loopy belief propagation : walk-sums and linear programming approaches

November 13, 2009

McConnell Room 603

David Choffnes

Northwestern University

Using the Crowd to Monitor the Cloud: Detecting Events from Edge Systems

June 22, 2009

McConnell Room 603

George Kesidis

Penn State

Reputation-referral systems in peer-to-peer social networks

June 19, 2009

McConnell Room 603

Konstantinos Tsianos

Rice University

Real-time, Safe and Distributed Motion Planning for Teams of Vehicles with Second-Order Dynamics

May 29, 2009

McConnell Room 603

Erik Blasch

Wright State University/Air Force Institute of Technology

Trends in Information Fusion


2008/2009

Date

Location

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

March 27, 2009

McDonald Engineering Room 357

Kevin Murphy

University of British Columbia

TBA

March 16, 2009

Rutherford Physics Bldg. Room 118

John W. Fisher III

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Information-Driven Inference under Resource Constraints

February 16, 2009

McConnell Room 603

Neal Patwari

University of Utah

Inference on network radio channel fading signals: Radio tomographic imaging

February 6, 2009

McConnell Room 603

Faisal Qureshi

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Virtual Vision for Smart Camera Sensor Network Research

January 22, 2009

McConnell Room 603

Jim Clark

McGill University

Spectral Modeling and the Geometry of Color Perception

July 3, 2008

McDonald Engineering Room 357

Jeffrey Erman

AT&T Research Laboratories

Offline/Realtime Traffic Classification using Semi-Supervised Learning

April 25, 2008

McDonald Engineering Room 357

Patrick Kreidl

MIT Labratory for Information and Decision Systems

Efficient Distributed Optimization of Team Detection Networks

April 11, 2008

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Alex Ihler

University of California Irvine

Learning Time-Intensity Profiles and Event Detection in Sensor Data


2007/2008

Date

Location

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

February 5, 2008

Trottier 0060

Alexandre Cervinka

Newtrax Technologies

Newtrax Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) solutions for underground mines

September 17, 2007

MacDonald Engineering Room 357

Zoya Popovic

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder

Wireless Powering for Low-Power Distributed Sensors

June 26, 2007

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Anthony Bonato

Wilfrid Laurier University

Modelling self-organizing networks with a hidden metric

May 3, 2007

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Ali Rahimi

Intel Research

Sensing, Calibrating, and Tracking with Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

April 12, 2007

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Mark Coates

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

Particle Filtering with Uncertain Models

April 5, 2007

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Nando de Freitas

Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Controlling Information Gathering Devices with Active Policy Learning Methods

April 5, 2007

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Arnaud Doucet

Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

The Expected Auxiliary Variable Method for Bayesian Computation


2006/2007

Date

Location

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

March 15, 2007

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Dr. Ioannis Rekleitis

Canadian Space Agency

Monte-Carlo Simulation for Pose Estimation in Mobile Sensor Networks

February 15, 2007

McConnell Engineering Room 603

Nigel Boston

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Invariant-based Face Recognition