Invited Speaker Series

Invited Speaker Colloquia Series

The School of Computing hosts leading researchers who are making exciting and influential contributions in a variety of important areas. The talks are open to students, staff and faculty. 

Upcoming Seminars

There are currently no upcoming seminars. The Invited Speaker Series is set to resume early next year for the Spring 2026 Semester.

Past Seminars

November 12, 2025*

Dr. Karthik Dantu
Associate Professor, University at Buffalo
Autonomous Culvert Inspection Using Legged Robots

*Co-Hosted by Binghamton-Robotics

October 31, 2025

Dr. Dong Xu
Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
Applications of AI Language Models for Biomedical Research

October 3, 2025

Dr. Jian Pei
Distinguished Professor, Duke University
Data and AI Markets: A Data Science Perspective

September 25, 2025*

Dr. Daniel Krutz
Associate Professor, RIT
Tactic Volatility in Self-Adaptive Systems

*Co-Hosted by CIAC


2024-25

February 28, 2025 

Dr. Eric T. Wong
Research Professor, Brown University; Attending Neuro-Oncologist, Rhode
Island Hospital
The Multimodality Treatments for Glioblastoma, A Brief Overview

Edwin Lok, M.S, DABR
Board-certified clinical Radiation Oncology Physicist at Signature
Healthcare of Brockton, part of the U.S. Oncology network
A Synopsis of Tumor Treating Fields Modeling

February 21, 2025

Steven Rostedt
ChromeOS base OS Performance Team, Google
printf("Hello World!"); in C on Linux. What exactly does that do?

November 8, 2024

Alex Jones
Klaus Schroder Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering and Computer Science and Department Chair of EECS, Syracuse University
Quantum Topology and ISA Collaborative Optimizations for Reduced Noise NISQ Circuits

October 18, 2024

Jinjun Xiong
University at Buffalo
What are the possible future directions in an era of machine learning
for everything? A humble reflection on machine learning for EDA

September 25, 2024

Yanmei Tie
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Developing Easy-to-perform fMRI Paradigms for Neurosurgery Brain Mapping


2023-24

March 29, 2024

Sajal Das
From Smart Sensing to Smart Living, The Era of IoT, AI and Data Science

November 30, 2023

Gary Tan
Professor at Penn State's Institute for Networking and Security Research
Debugging Machine Learning for Fairness

October 5, 2023

Raj Jain
Washington University - St. Louis
Effect of Quantum Computing on Blockchains


2022-23

November 15, 2022

Sarit Kraus
Bar-Ilan University
Intelligent Agents That Learn to Collaborate with People

November 4, 2022

Thomas Eiter
Vienna University of Technology
Enhancing AI Capabilities by Rules: Applications and Opportunities


2021-22

March 11, 2022

Rogerio Schmidt Feris
Principal scientist and manager at the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab
Computational Visual Pathways for Multi-Task Learning and Simulation 

October 15, 2021

Huan Liu
Arizona State University 
Social Media Mining: A Bountiful Frontier in AI and Data Science 

October 8, 2021

Eugene Santos Jr.
Dartmouth College
Inferring and Understanding Team Behavior Through Learning Rewards and Reward Structures: Interference and Human-Machine Teams


2020-21

December 11, 2020

Emery Berger
Professor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Performance (Really) Matters

October 16, 2020

Jinjun Xiong
Researcher and Program Director, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
A Statistical Distribution-based Deep Neuron Network Model – A New Perspective on Effective Learning


2019-20

November 26, 2019

Steven Loscalzo
Principal Associate Data Scientist, Capital One
Extrapolating from one data point: a data scientist's career trajectory

November 22, 2019

Issam El Naqa
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Towards a Practical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Oncology

November 1, 2019

Ruofei "Bruce" Zhang
Microsoft
Cognitive Services and Deep Learning in Search Advertising

October 18, 2019

Daniel Williams
IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
From Unikernels to Nabla Containers


2018-19

April 29, 2019

Peter Stone
University of Texas at Austin
Efficient Robot Skill Learning; Grounded Simulation Learning and Imitation Learning from Observation

April 5, 2019

Patrick Groeneveld
Stanford University
Engineering Efficient Electric Vehicles

February 13, 2019

Chang Wen Chen
University at Buffalo
Internet of Video Things (IoVT): Next Generation IoT with Visual Sensors

December 7, 2018

Beth Plale
Indiana University - Bloomington
Capsule Computing: Safe Open Science

October 19, 2018

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
University of California - Riverside
Computer System Security - An Architecture Perspective

September 28, 2018

Srini Devadas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secure Speculative Execution Processors

September 12, 2018

Yi Wang
Cornell University
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM): physics, algorithm and applications


2017-18

April 20, 2018

Stephen Chong
Harvard University
Software contracts for fun and profit (and security and microservices)

March 30, 2018

Eduard Dragut
Temple University
Leveraging Social Media Signals for Record Linkage

March 9, 2018

Hanan Samet
University of Maryland
Reading News with Maps by Exploiting Spatial Synonyms

November 6, 2017

Qiang Ji
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Integrating Prior Knowledge and Data for Efficient Visual Learning

November 2, 2017

Henry Kautz
University of Rochester
Mining Social Media to Improve Public Health

October 30, 2017

Prashant Shenoy
University of Massachusetts
Designing Systems and Applications for Transient Computing

October 20, 2017

Chenyang Lu
Washington University in St.Louis
Dependable Internet of Things

October 13, 2017

Geoffrey Fox
Indiana University
Designing a Big Data Toolkit spanning HPC, Grid, Edge and Cloud Computing

September 27, 2017

David Kaeli
Northeastern University
A Cross-layer Approach to Accelerating Heterogeneous Computing


2016-17

April 25, 2017

R. Sekar
Stony Brook University
Provenance-Based Policy Enforcement: A Unified Approach for Vulnerability Mitigation, Malware Defense and Attack Scenario Reconstruction

March 31, 2017

Donald Porter
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BetrFS: Write-Optimization in a Kernel File System

December 2, 2016

Edward Suh
Cornell University
Secure Multi-Core Processors with Comprehensive and Verifiable Information Flow Control

November 18, 2016

Trent Jaeger
Penn State University
Fine-Grained Control-Flow Integrity for Kernel Software

November 1, 2016

David Wentzlaff
Princeton University
Processors for the Data Center and Cloud of the Future

October 28, 2016

James Anderson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem

October 11, 2016

Santosh Nagarakatte
Rutgers University
Lightweight Formal Methods for LLVM Verification

September 30, 2016

Josep Torrellas
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Toward Extreme-Scale Manycore Architectures

September 16, 2016

Serge Belongie
Cornell Tech.
Fine Grained Visual Category Recognition and Perceptual Embedding


2015-16

May 2, 2016

Heng Yin
Syracuse University (now at UC Riverside)
Semantics-Centric Approach to Fight Android Malware