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Academic year is from August 1 to July 31 of the next year.

Academic Year 2012-2013
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6/24/2013 01:00 pm	Improving genome assembly by identifying reliable sequencing data Qualifying Exam Rajat Shuvro Roy: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Alexander Schliep (chair), Prof. Kevin C. Chen, Prof. Martin Farach-Colton and Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharjee
6/6/2013 02:00 pm	Approximability of Modularity Clustering and related results PhD Defense Devendra Desai: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Mario Szegedy (chair), Michael Saks, Shubhangi Saraf, and Viswanath Nagarajan (IBM T.J. Watson)
5/28/2013 11:30 am	Computational aspects of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz method via a polynomial approach to matrix and tensor algebra Pre-Defense Edinah K. Gnang: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. Mario Szegedy, Prof. Vladimir Retakh and Prof. Neil Sloane (President, On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) Foundation)
5/23/2013 01:30 pm	Facial Expression Transfer by using 3D-Aware Expression Flow Pre-Defense Fei Yang: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (chair), Tina Eliassi-Rad, Kostas Bekris and Xiaolei Huang
5/22/2013 02:00 pm	Sparse Deformable Models and Their Application to Cardiac Motion Analysis Qualifying Exam Yang Yu: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dimitris Metaxas (advisor), Kostas Bekris, Ahmed Elgammal and Ulrich Kremer
5/22/2013 11:00 am	Supervised Homeomorphic Manifold Analysis Qualifying Exam Amr Bakry: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Ahmed Elgammal (advisor), Ricardo Bianachini, Dimitris Metaxas and Vladimir Pavlovic
5/21/2013 11:00 am	Online Non-rigid Motion and Scene Layer Segmentation Pre-Defense Ali El Qursh: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Ahmed Elgammal(Chair), Vladimir Pavlovic, Dimitris Metaxas and Omar Javed(SRI International)
5/15/2013 10:30 am	Hybrid Segmentation Frameworks: Combining Graphical Models and Deformable Models for Multi-object segmentation Qualifying Exam Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Dimitri Metaxas (advisor) Badri Nath, Ahmed Elgammal and Kostas Bekris
5/14/2013 11:00 am	Multi-modal Manifold Learning for Visual and Depth Object Recognition Qualifying Exam Tarek El-Gaaly: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Ahmed Elgammal (chair), Kostas Bekris, Casimir Kulikowski and Tomasz Imielinski
5/8/2013 01:00 pm	Parallel Approximate Computing via Relaxed Synchronization Colloquium Viji Srinivasan: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Faculty Host: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
5/7/2013 01:30 pm	Robust Time-Series Retrieval with Segmental Alignment Pre-Defense Shahriar Shariat Talkhoonche: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Vladimir Pavlovic(Chair), Casimir Kulikowski, Alexander Schliep and Fernando De La Torre (CMU Robotic Institute)
5/7/2013 01:30 pm	Robust Time-Series Retrieval with Segmental Alignment Pre-Defense Shahriar Shariat Talkhoonche: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Vladimir Pavlovic(Chair), Casimir Kulikowski, Alexander Schliep and Fernando De La Torre (CMU Robotic Institute)
5/1/2013 11:00 am	Towards a better approximation for Sparsest Cut? Seminar Ali Kemal Sinop: Princeton University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
5/1/2013 11:00 am	Providing Green SLAs in High Performance Computing Clouds Qualifying Exam Md E Haque: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Thu D. Nguyen (Advisor), Prof. Ricardo Bianchini, Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Prof. Gerry Richter
4/29/2013 01:00 pm	Approximability of Modularity Clustering and Max-cut with general weights Pre-Defense Devendra Desai: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Mario Szegedy (chair), Michael Saks and Shubhangi Saraf
4/24/2013 11:00 am	Approximating $k$-Median via Pseudo-Approximation Seminar Shi Li: Princeton University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/24/2013 11:00 am	Systems Research at the AT&T Security Research Center Colloquium Jeffrey Bickford: AT&T Security Research Center Faculty Host: Vinod Ganapathy
4/19/2013 03:00 pm	Current Challenges in Face Recognition Technology: Identification of People in Difficult Environments Colloquium Thirimachos Bourlai: Assistant Professor, LDCSEE, WVU Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
4/19/2013 11:00 am	Component Analysis for Human Sensing Colloquium Fernando De la Torre: CMU Faculty Host: Vladimir Pavlovic
4/19/2013 10:00 am	Local Planning for Continuous Markov Decision Processes Pre-Defense Ari Weinstein: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Michael Littman (advisor), Kostas Bekris, Alex Borgida and Jacob Feldman
4/17/2013 01:00 pm	Effectively Model Check Real-World Distributed Systems Colloquium Junfeng Yang: Columbia University Faculty Host: Santosh Nagarakatte
4/17/2013 11:00 am	Quantum One-Way Communication can be Exponentially Stronger Than Classical Communication Seminar Oded Regev: Courant Institute, NYU Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/10/2013 03:00 pm	On Algebraic Methods in Incidence Geometry Qualifying Exam Abdul Basit: Rutgers University Examination Committee: William Steiger (chair), Jeff Kahn, Swastik Kopparty and Ahmed Elgammal
4/10/2013 01:00 pm	Computational Sprinting Colloquium Milo Martin: University of Pennsylvania Faculty Host: Santosh Nagarakatte
4/10/2013 11:00 am	Improved approximation algorithms for broadcast scheduling Seminar Ravishankar Krishnaswamy: CMU Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/5/2013 03:00 pm	Sensorimotor cognition and Minimalist syntax Colloquium Alistair Knott: University of Otago, New Zealand Faculty Host: Matthew Stone
4/5/2013 11:00 am	Assessing the modular structure of brain networks Colloquium Dimitrios Pantazis: MIT Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
4/4/2013 12:30 pm	Towards Accurate Group Activity Analysis in Videos: Robust Saliency Detection and Effective Feature Modeling PhD Defense Xinyi Cui: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Dimitris N. Metaxas (chair), Vladimir Pavlovic, Tina Eliassi-Rad and Xiaolei Huang (Lehigh University)
4/4/2013 10:00 am	New Pattern Matching Algorithms for Network Security Applications PhD Defense Liu Yang: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode, Badri Nath, and Abhinav Srivastava(AT&T Labs -- Research)
4/3/2013 02:00 pm	Social Caching and Vehicular Social Networks: Two Contributions to The Theory and Practice of Online Social Networks PhD Defense Lu Han: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Liviu Iftode (Chair), Prof. Badri Nath, Prof. Vinod Ganapathy, Prof. S Muthukrishnan and Dr. Sanjeev Kumar (Facebook)
4/3/2013 11:00 am	Evolution of Software Architecture at Facebook Colloquium Dr. Sanjeev Kumar: Facebook Inc. Faculty Host: Liviu Iftode
4/3/2013 11:00 am	An Algorithmic Separating Hyperplane Theorem and Its Applications Seminar Bahman Kalantari: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
4/1/2013 01:00 pm	Some Applications of Randomness in Computational Complexity PhD Defense Luke B. Friedman: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Eric Allender (Chair), Mike Saks, Swastik Kopparty and Toni Pitassi (University of Toronto)
3/29/2013 11:00 am	Fast by Nature – How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks Colloquium Ioannis Pavlidis: University of Houston Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
3/28/2013 02:00 pm	Some Advances in Guided Learning Seminar Professor Ian Davidson: University of California, Davis Organizer(s): Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad
3/28/2013 11:00 am	Who is similar to my patient: Large-scale Patient Similarity Learning for Healthcare Analytics Colloquium Jimeng Sun: IBM TJ Watson Research Center Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas and Tomasz Imielinski
3/27/2013 01:00 pm	Navigating Big Data with High-Throughput, Energy-Efficient Data Partitioning Colloquium Martha Kim: Columbia University Faculty Host: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
3/27/2013 11:00 am	Leveraging Higher-Order Beliefs in Mechanism Design Seminar Jing Chen: IAS Organizer(s): Eric Allender
3/14/2013 11:00 am	Nudging People with Computer Systems Colloquium Janne Lindqvist: WINLAB, Rutgers University Faculty Host: Haym Hirsh
3/13/2013 11:00 am	Near-linear time algorithms for Balanced Separator by simulating random walks Seminar Sushant Sachdeva: Princeton University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
3/13/2013 11:00 am	Rethinking Web Platform Extensibility PhD Defense Mohan Dhawan: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Vinod Ganapathy, Prof. Liviu Iftode, Prof. Uli Kremer and Kapil Singh (IBM Research, TJ Watson)
3/7/2013 03:00 pm	Achieving Privacy through Discrepancy and Geometry Qualifying Exam Aleksandar Nikolov: Rutgers University Examination Committee: S. Muthukrishnan (Advisor), Michael Saks, Swastik Kopparty and Vladimir Pavlovic
3/6/2013 03:20 pm	BigData: Probabilistic Methods for Efficient Search and Statistical Learning with Extremely High-Dimensional Data Faculty Candidate Talk Dr. Ping Li: Cornell University Faculty Host: Cun-Hui Zhang
3/6/2013 11:00 am	The Power of Tabulation Hashing Seminar Mikkel Thorup: AT&T Labs-Research Organizer(s): Eric Allender
3/6/2013 11:00 am	Meaningful Context: Acquisition, Protection and Usage in Mobile Computing Systems at Global Scale Pre-Defense Tam Vu: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Marco Gruteser(Chair), Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Richard Martin
3/5/2013 10:30 am	Pixelated Abstraction Masters Defense Timothy Gerstner: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Andrew Nealen (Advisor), Matthew Stone and Dimitris Metaxas
3/4/2013 01:30 pm	Quantifying and Improving I/O Predictability in Virtualized Systems Qualifying Exam Cheng Li: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Ricardo Bianchini (Advisor), Prof. Thu D. Nguyen, Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Prof. Tina Eliassi-Rad
3/4/2013 10:00 am	Understanding Online User Identity Qualifying Exam Qiang Ma: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. S Muthukrishnan (advisor), Prof. Tina Eliassi-Rad, Prof. Badri Nath and Prof. Mario Szegedy
3/1/2013 03:00 pm	Transferable Multiagent Strategic Models Pre-Defense Michael Wunder: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Matthew Stone(advisor), Prof. Haym Hirsh, Prof. Michael Littman, Prof. Ya'akov Gal(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
2/28/2013 11:00 am	Group Recommendation: algorithms and system Qualifying Exam Jinyun Yan: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. S. Muthu Muthukrishnan(Advisor), Prof. Haym Hirsh, Prof. Badri Nath and Prof. Bahman Kalantari
2/22/2013 11:00 am	Multimodal analysis of human behavior for social interaction training Colloquium Dr. Ajay Divakaran: SRI International Sarnoff Faculty Host: Ahmed Elgammal
2/20/2013 03:20 pm	Fast Learning Algorithms for Discovering the Hidden Structure in Data Faculty Candidate Talk Daniel Hsu: Microsoft Research Faculty Host: Cun-Hui Zhang
2/20/2013 02:00 pm	New Pattern Matching Algorithms for Network Security Applications Pre-Defense Liu Yang: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode, and Badri Nath
2/20/2013 11:00 am	IP = PSPACE via error correcting codes Seminar Or Meir: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ Organizer(s): Eric Allender
2/20/2013 10:30 am	Measuring Side Channel Vulnerability using SVF Colloquium Simha Sethumadhavan: Columbia University Faculty Host: Santosh Nagarakatte
2/18/2013 12:00 pm	Learning from Big Data: Structures & Scalability Faculty Candidate Talk Xi Chen: Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Host: Cun-Hui Zhang
2/15/2013 11:00 am	Handling Noise in Single Image Deblurring using Directional Filters Qualifying Exam Lin Zhong: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Dimitris Metaxas(Advisor), Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. Kostas Bekris and Prof. Vinod Ganapathy
2/13/2013 03:20 pm	Exploring Dynamic Complex Systems using Time-varying Networks Faculty Candidate Talk Mladen Kolar: Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Host: Cun-Hui Zhang
2/13/2013 11:00 am	Black-Box Identity Testing Of Depth-4 Multilinear Circuits Seminar Ilya Volkovich: Princeton University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
2/11/2013 12:00 pm	Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions Faculty Candidate Talk Sahand Negahban: MIT Faculty Host: Cun-Hui Zhang
2/7/2013 01:30 pm	Laplace operator from Discrete Samples and Applications Colloquium Yusu Wang: Ohio State University Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
2/6/2013 11:00 am	Superlinear lower bounds for multipass graph processing Seminar Krzysztof Onak: IBM Research Organizer(s): Eric Allender
2/6/2013 10:00 am	Rethinking Web Platform Extensibility Pre-Defense Mohan Dhawan: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode and Uli Kremer
1/30/2013 03:20 pm	A Semi-parametric Model for Multi-Subject fMRI Data: Evaluating the Effect of Social Relationship on Brain Activity Faculty Candidate Talk Tingting Zhang: University of Virginia Faculty Host: Cun-Hui Zhang
1/30/2013 11:00 am	A Center Transversal Theorem for Hyperplanes Arrangements Seminar Stefan Langerman: UniversitÃ© Libre de Bruxelles Organizer(s): Eric Allender
1/24/2013 04:00 pm	Model-based Bayesian reinforcement learning with generalized priors PhD Defense John Asmuth: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Michael Littman (advistor), Vladimir Pavlovich, Haym Hirsh and Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo)
1/24/2013 01:00 pm	Continuous Correlated Dirichlet Processes for Stroke Rehabilitation Colloquium Pascal Poupart: David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Faculty Host: Michael Littman
1/24/2013 11:30 am	4D Cardiac Reconstruction Using High Resolution CT Images Qualifying Exam Mingchen Gao: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Prof. Dimitris Metaxas(Advisor), Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof Matthew Stone and Prof Naftaly Minsky
1/24/2013 10:00 am	Architectural Support for Programmability in Scale-Out and Heterogeneous Manycore Systems. Colloquium Abhishek Bhattacharjee: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Haym Hirsh
1/23/2013 11:00 am	A PTAS for Computing the Supremum of Gaussian Processes.. Seminar Raghu Meka: DIMACS Organizer(s): Eric Allender
1/23/2013 10:30 am	Refinement Types for JavaScript Security Colloquium Ravi Chugh: University of California, San Diego Faculty Host: Santosh Nagarakatte
1/22/2013 01:00 pm	Spatial Temporal Structure Analysis for Human Action Recognition Qualifying Exam Saehoon Yi: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Vladimir Pavlovic (Chair), Dimitris Metaxas, Ahmed Elgammal and Alex Borgida
12/19/2012 10:00 am	Managing Energy Usage and Cost Through Load Distribution in Multi-Data-center Services PhD Defense Kien Trung Le: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Ricardo Bianchini (Chair), Prof. Thu D. Nguyen, Prof. Badri Nath, Prof. Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) and Prof. Prashant Shenoy (UMass Amherst)
12/11/2012 01:45 pm	Detecting and Segmenting Organs in 3D Medical Images Colloquium Michal Sofka: Siemens Corporate Research Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
12/5/2012 11:00 am	The Surprise Examination Paradox and the Second Incompleteness Theorem Seminar Ran Raz: Weizmann Institute & IAS Organizer(s): Eric Allender
11/30/2012 01:00 pm	Learning API Mappings for Programming Platforms Masters Defense Yogesh Padmanaban: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Vinod Ganapathy(Advisor), Prof. Badri Nath and Prof. Alex Borgida
11/28/2012 11:00 am	Efficient Authentication from the Learning Parity with Noise Problem Seminar David Cash: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
11/16/2012 02:30 pm	Translational Neuromodeling: From Microscopic Simulations to Macroscopic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Neurological Disorders Colloquium Konstantinos Michmizos: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty Host: Dimitris N. Metaxas
11/15/2012 01:30 pm	Dynamic Capacity Management for Multi-Tier Data Centers Colloquium Anshul Gandhi: Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Host: Ricardo Bianchini
11/15/2012 11:00 am	The Power of Location Colloquium Janne Lindqvist: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Haym Hirsh
11/14/2012 11:00 am	Computing error-correcting codes by bounded-depth circuits Seminar Michal Koucky: Mathematical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague Organizer(s): Eric Allender
11/12/2012 11:00 am	Modeling Temporal Dynamics and Geographical Language Variations of Social Streams Colloquium Liangjie Hong: Lehigh University Faculty Host: Tina Eliassi-Rad
11/9/2012 10:00 am	Global Stochastic Optimization for Machine Learning Applications Qualifying Exam Sergiu Goschin: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Michael Littman, Haym Hirsh, Swastik Kopparty and Muthu Muthukrishnan
11/6/2012 02:00 pm	Some Applications of Randomness in Computational Complexity Pre-Defense Luke B. Friedman: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Eric Allender (chair), Mike Saks and Swastik Kopparty
10/31/2012 11:00 am	Distance k-sectors and zone diagrams Seminar Akitoshi Kawamura: University of Tokyo Organizer(s): Eric Allender
10/24/2012 11:00 am	Rank bound for design matrices and applications to incidence theorems and locally correctable codes Seminar Shubhangi Saraf: Rutgers University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
10/22/2012 02:00 pm	Scalable kNN Search on Vertically Stored Time Series Colloquium Panagiotis Karras: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Amélie Marian
10/17/2012 11:00 am	Testing assignments for satisfying a read-once formula Seminar Eldar Fischer: Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) Organizer(s): Eric Allender
10/10/2012 11:00 am	How to Run your Chores, and Get to Dinner on Time Seminar Anupam Gupta: Carnegie Mellon University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
10/3/2012 11:00 am	Testing Assignments of Boolean CSPs Seminar Arnab Bhattacharyya: DIMACS/Rutgers Organizer(s): Eric Allender
9/27/2012 03:30 pm	Simultaneous and Group-Sparse Multi-Task Learning of Gaussian Graphical Models Colloquium Jean Honorio: Stony Brook University Faculty Host: Vladimir Pavlovic
9/27/2012 11:00 am	Thermal Management Applied to Data Centers with Focus on Energy Efficiency Colloquium Roger Schmidt: IBM Fellow, IBM Chief Engineer - Data Center Energy Efficiency Faculty Host: Ricardo Bianchini
9/26/2012 01:30 pm	Distinguishing Users with Capacitive Touch Communication Colloquium Tam Vu: WINLAB, Rutgers Faculty Host: Vinod Ganapathy
9/26/2012 11:00 am	Smoothness arguments and the price of anarchy Seminar Tim Roughgarden: Stanford University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
9/24/2012 02:00 pm	Large Graph Models and Scalable Analytics Colloquium Prof. Spiros Papadimitriou: Rutgers University Business School Faculty Host: Tina Eliassi-Rad
9/24/2012 02:00 pm	CoLT: Coalesced Large-Reach TLBs Qualifying Exam Binh Q. Pham: Rutgers University Examination Committee: Abhishek Bhattacharjee (advisor), Ricardo Bianchini, Thu Nguyen and Eric Allender
9/19/2012 11:00 am	From Irreducible Representations to Locally Decodable Codes Seminar Klim Efremenko: Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University Organizer(s): Eric Allender
9/14/2012 02:15 pm	Selection-based Dictionary Learning for Sparse Representation in Visual Tracking PhD Defense Baiyang Liu: Rutgers University Defense Committee: Prof. Casimir A. Kulikowski (Advisor), Prof. Ahmed Elgammal, Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic and Dr. Dorin Comaniciu(Siemens Corporate Research)
9/14/2012 02:00 pm	Finding Many Small Structures in Microscopic Images Colloquium Elena Bernardis: University of Pennsylvania Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
9/12/2012 11:00 am	On Sunflowers and Matrix Multiplication Seminar Amir Shpilka: Technion, Israel Organizer(s): Eric Allender
9/10/2012 02:00 pm	Interactive humanoid agents Colloquium Catherine Pelachaud: Director of Research at CNRS in the laboratory LTCI, TELECOM ParisTech Faculty Host: Dimitris Metaxas
9/6/2012 11:00 am	Self-service Cloud Computing Colloquium Vinod Ganapathy: Rutgers University Faculty Host: Haym Hirsh
8/9/2012 10:30 am	Catching a Drunk Miscreant Colloquium Professor Bruce Reed: Mcgill University, Montreal Canada Faculty Host: William Steiger
8/8/2012 11:00 am	Aard---Algorithms, Architectures, Reliability, and Devices Colloquium Dr. Phillip Stanley-Marbell: IBM Research - Zurich Faculty Host: Uli Kremer

Academic Year 2012-2013