Siebel School Speaker Series Master Calendar

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Probing Topology and Correlation by Milli-Kelvin Microwave Microscopy", Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Amir Yazdanbakhsh, "Co-design for Intelligence: Rethinking Abstractions for Scalable and Adaptive Systems"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: Masashi Sugiyama, "Towards Reliable Machine Learning from Imperfect Training Data"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 3:30 pm
  • Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216

  Mina Lee "Writing with AI: Capturing Its Influence, Designing Its Future"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 11:00 am

  Special Seminar: Subigya Nepal, "Leveraging Digital Behavioral Signals for AI-powered Mental Health Assessment, Prediction, and Intervention"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • iSchool Building, 614 E Daniel St. Room 4043

  IMMERSE Seminar: Sharath Chandra Ramakrishnan, "Immersive Environments for Cultural Memory, Bio-Heritage, and Hearing Research"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Jiayuan Mao, "Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Siebel 3401

  Theory Seminar: Billy Jin, "Advice-Augmented Algorithms for Online Matching and Resource Allocation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Xin Bing, "Learning Large Softmax Mixtures with Warm Start EM"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "On the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, Quantum Mechanics, and Beyond, Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago

  Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Kazuki Irie, "Rethinking Memory & Learning, from Artificial to Natural Intelligence and Back"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: James Mickens, "Allow Me To Transfer Part Of My Genius To You While Still Keeping Some Of It For Myself So That I Can Defeat You If Necessary"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Siebel 3102

  CS Compiler Seminar: Abdul Rafae Noor, "MISAAL: Synthesis-Based Automatic Generation of Efficient and Retargetable Semantics-Driven Optimizations"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • iSchool Building, 614 E Daniel St. Room 5043

  IMMERSE Seminar: Sepehr Vaez Afshar and Robbie Sieczkowski, "The stu/dio: a student management team for VR game development projects supporting education and research at UIUC through Game Studies & Design"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Jakob Arend - "Full-stack support for high-performance neural experimentation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820

  Saturday Engineering for Everyone: Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Nicole Yunger Halper, University of Maryland

  Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland

  • Lecture

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Ananya Bhattarcharjee, "Adaptive Narrative Interventions for Supporting Wellbeing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Rishabh Iyer, "Performance Interfaces for Systems Software and Hardware"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 11:00 am
  • Siebel 3401

  THEORY SEMINAR: Kabir Tomer, "Towards (Quantum) Cryptography from #P-hardness"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Rex (Zhitao) Ying, "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center

  Rex Ying "A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Yasra Chandio, "System Signals to Felt Experience: Designing Human-Centered Mixed Reality"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• 

  • 10:00 - 10:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Special Seminar: "Light, Silicon, and Steel: PsiQuantum's Path to Utility-Scale, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

  Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Rainer Engelken, "Harnessing Neural Dynamics: Principled Algorithms for Efficient AI and Large-Scale Computational Neuroscience"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:30 pm
  • NCSA Auditorium

  Dave Patterson & Andy Konwinski, "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Halil Kilicoglu, "Enhancing Rigor and Integrity of Biomedical Research using Natural Language Processing"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • NCSA Auditorium

  Fireside Chat with Andy Konwinski and Pete Sonsini: "My Journey From Research to Startup"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 3:00 pm

  Special Seminar: Yichun He, "Advancing Molecular and Functional Understandings of Cells with Multimodal AI"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Room 3102 (Siebel)

  CS Compiler Seminar: Brant Qian, "Floating-Point TVPI Abstract Domain"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Seung Kim - "In vitro living neurons for computation through dynamic control and reservoir computing"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 10:00 am

  Special Seminar: Nishil Talati, "Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Xinwei Shen, "Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Engineering (Useful) Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies", Sara Mouradian, University of Washington

  Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online

  Distinguished Lecture: Jason Cong, "Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 3:30 pm
  • HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online

  COLLOQUIUM: Umang Mathur

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  IQUIST Seminar: "Below Threshold Quantum Error Correction", Alexandre Bourassa, Google Quantum AI

  Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

  MiV Seminar: Ki Yun Lee and Saeduur Rahman - topic TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium