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2013 – 2014 Distinguished Lecture Series

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50 Years of Biometric Research: The Solved, The Unsolved, and The Unexplored

Speaker Introduction
Prof. Anil K. Jain

Prof. Anil K. Jain

Speaker Info:
University Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University

Research Areas:
  • Pattern recognition
  • Computer vision
  • Biometric recognition

Selected topics from 40 years of my research on speech processing

Speaker Introduction
Prof. Sadaoki Furui

Prof. Sadaoki Furui

Speaker Info:
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Research Areas:
  • Analysis of speaker characterization information in speech waves
  • Application to speaker recognition
  • Interspearker normalization and adaptation in speech recognition

Teaching Computational Abstractions through Musical Abstractions

Speaker Introduction
Prof. Paul Hudak

Prof. Paul Hudak

Speaker Info:
Professor, Computer Science, Yale University

Research Areas:
  • Programming languages (in particular functional programming
  • Computer Music

The Global Impact of Integer Programming

Speaker Introduction
Prof. George L. Nemhauser

Prof. George L. Nemhauser

Speaker Info:
A. Russel Chandler III Chair, Georgia Tech

Research Areas: Solving large-scale mixed-integer programming problems

Efficiency and Parallelism: The Challenges of Future Computing

Speaker Introduction

Speaker Info:
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Stanford University Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA Corporation

Research Areas:
  • Instruction Cached Organizations
  • Power optimization
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Algorithms
  • Dynamic Networks

Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution

Speaker Introduction

Speaker Info:
C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECS, University of California at Berkeley

Research Areas:
  • Theory of algorithms and complexity
  • Applications to databases, optimization, AI, the Internet, game Theory and evolution

Warehouse-scale Computers: Opportunities and Challenges

Speaker Introduction

Speaker Info:
Owen R. Cheatham Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Virginia

Research Areas:
  • Optimizing compilers
  • Virtual execution environments
  • Software testing
  • Program analysis
  • Software security
  • Software systems for multi-core architectures

Real-time Discovery and Decision Making from Big Data

Speaker Introduction

Speaker Info:
Chancellor's Professor, UCLA Electrical Engineering Department

Research Areas:
  • Game theory
  • Network science
  • Online learning
  • Big Data
  • Multimedia