CGSW 8.0 Agenda
CISE GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP 2022
Event Date: April 15, 2022
8 Saint Mary’s St., Photonics Building, PHO 906
9:30am-10:20am Breakfast & Registration
10:20am-10:25am Opening Remarks: Yannis Paschalidis, CISE Director
10:25am-10:30am Welcome: CGSW 8.0 Student Organizer Team: Mahroo Bahreinian, Zachary Bezemek, Salomón Wollenstein-Betech, Zongshun Zhang
10:30am-10:35am Attendee Game 1
Session 1: Learning from Data (PHO 906)
10:35am-10:50am Jimmy Queeney (Advisor: Christos Cassandras & Yannis Paschalidis): Stable and Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Principled Sample Reuse
10:50am-11:05am Vittorio Giammarino (Advisor: Yannis Paschalidis): Online Baum-Welch Algorithm for Hierarchical Imitation Learning
11:05am-11:20am Suhail Alsalehi (Advisor: Calin Belta): Learning Spatio-Temporal Specifications from Data
11:20am-11:35am Shurong Lin (Advisor: Eric Kolaczyk): Differentially Private Linear Regression with Linked Data via Gradient Descent
11:35am-11:50am BREAK
11:50am-11:55am Attendee Game 2 (PHO 906)
Plenary Speaker (PHO 906)
11:55am-12:30pm Adam Tauman Kalai, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New England: How can AI teach itself to Program?
12:30pm-1:30pm LUNCH (8 Saint Mary’s St., Photonics Building, PHO 906)
8 Saint Mary’s St., Photonics Building, PHO 210
Session 2: Computing Systems (PHO 210)
1:30pm-1:45pm Ioannis Angelakopoulos (Advisor: Manuel Egele): FirmSolo: Enabling Dynamic Analysis of Binary Linux-based IoT kernel modules
1:45pm-2:00pm Mert Toslali (Advisor: Ayse Coskun): Iter8: Online Experimentation in the Cloud
2:00pm-2:15pm Ali Raza (Advisor: Abraham Matta): LIBRA: An Economical Hybrid Approach for Cloud Applications with Strict SLAs
2:15pm-2:30pm Aneesh Raman (Advisor: Manos Athanassoulis): OSM-Tree: A Sortedness-Aware Database Index
Session 3: Communication and Queueing Networks (PHO 210)
2:30pm-2:35pm Attendee Game 3
2:35pm-2:50pm Arslan Riaz (Advisor: Rabia Yazicigil): Hardware Implementation of a Universal GRAND Decoder
2:50pm-3:05pm Jonathan Chamberlain (Advisor: David Starobinski): Game Theoretic Analysis of Citizens Broadband Radio Service
3:05pm-3:10pm BREAK
Session 4: Simulation/Analysis of Physical Systems (PHO 210)
3:10pm-3:15pm Attendee Game 4
3:15pm-3:30pm Hao Wang (Advisor: Lei Tian): Adaptive 3D Descattering with a Dynamic Synthesis Network
3:30pm-3:45pm Zexin Sun (Advisor: John Baillieul): Neuromimetic Control: A Linear Model Paradigm
3:45pm-4:00pm Max H. Cohen (Advisor: Calin Belta): Balancing Exploration and Safety in Online Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Uncertain Robotic Systems
4:00pm-4:15pm Max Heldman (Advisor: Samuel Isaacson): Adding Pair Potentials to the Convergent Reaction-Diffusion Master Equation
4:15pm-4:25pm BREAK
Session 5: Navigation and Transport Planning (PHO 210)
4:25pm-4:30pm Attendee Game 5
4:30pm-4:45pm Unay Dorken (Advisor: Vivek Goyal): Absorption-Based Ranging from Ambient Thermal Radiation
4:45pm-5:00pm Kaiyuan Xu (Advisor: Christos Cassandras): Feasibility Guaranteed Traffic Merging Control Using Control Barrier Functions
5:00pm-5:15pm Dawei Zhang (Advisor: Roberto Tron): Safe and Stable Haptic Teleoperation via Control Barrier Functions
5:15pm-5:30pm Xinhuan Sang (Advisor: Roberto Tron): A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Model-free CLF-CBF Control
5:30pm-5:45pm Closing Remarks: Christos Cassandras, Head of the Division of 系统工程
Awards Reception at The BU Castle (228 Bay State Road)
6:00pm-8:00pm Awards Reception