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
The Invited Speaker Series will resume for the spring 2026 semester.
Past Seminars
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2025-26
Dr. Karthik Dantu
Associate Professor, University at Buffalo
Autonomous Culvert Inspection Using Legged Robots
*Co-Hosted by Binghamton-RoboticsDr. Dong Xu
Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
Applications of AI Language Models for Biomedical ResearchDr. Jian Pei
Distinguished Professor, Duke University
Data and AI Markets: A Data Science PerspectiveDr. Daniel Krutz
Associate Professor, RIT
Tactic Volatility in Self-Adaptive Systems
*Co-Hosted by CIACDr. Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Physical Intelligence for Physical Care: Towards Stakeholder-Informed Caregiving Robots in the Real World
*Co-hosted by Bing-Robotics Seminar Talks -
2024-25
Dr. Eric T. Wong
Research Professor, Brown University; Attending Neuro-Oncologist, Rhode
Island Hospital
The Multimodality Treatments for Glioblastoma, A Brief OverviewEdwin 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 ModelingSteven Rostedt
ChromeOS base OS Performance Team, Google
printf("Hello World!"); in C on Linux. What exactly does that do?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 CircuitsJinjun 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 EDAYanmei 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
Sajal Das
From Smart Sensing to Smart Living, The Era of IoT, AI and Data ScienceGary Tan
Professor at Penn State's Institute for Networking and Security Research
Debugging Machine Learning for FairnessRaj Jain
Washington University - St. Louis
Effect of Quantum Computing on Blockchains -
2022-23
Sarit Kraus
Bar-Ilan University
Intelligent Agents That Learn to Collaborate with PeopleThomas Eiter
Vienna University of Technology
Enhancing AI Capabilities by Rules: Applications and Opportunities -
2021-22
Rogerio Schmidt Feris
Principal scientist and manager at the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab
Computational Visual Pathways for Multi-Task Learning and SimulationHuan Liu
Arizona State University
Social Media Mining: A Bountiful Frontier in AI and Data ScienceEugene Santos Jr.
Dartmouth College
Inferring and Understanding Team Behavior Through Learning Rewards and Reward Structures: Interference and Human-Machine Teams -
2020-21
Emery Berger
Professor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Performance (Really) MattersJinjun 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
Steven Loscalzo
Principal Associate Data Scientist, Capital One
Extrapolating from one data point: a data scientist's career trajectoryIssam El Naqa
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Towards a Practical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in OncologyRuofei "Bruce" Zhang
Microsoft
Cognitive Services and Deep Learning in Search AdvertisingDaniel Williams
IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
From Unikernels to Nabla Containers -
2018-19
Peter Stone
University of Texas at Austin
Efficient Robot Skill Learning; Grounded Simulation Learning and Imitation Learning from ObservationPatrick Groeneveld
Stanford University
Engineering Efficient Electric VehiclesChang Wen Chen
University at Buffalo
Internet of Video Things (IoVT): Next Generation IoT with Visual SensorsBeth Plale
Indiana University - Bloomington
Capsule Computing: Safe Open ScienceNael Abu-Ghazaleh
University of California - Riverside
Computer System Security - An Architecture PerspectiveSrini Devadas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secure Speculative Execution ProcessorsYi Wang
Cornell University
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM): physics, algorithm and applications -
2017-18
Stephen Chong
Harvard University
Software contracts for fun and profit (and security and microservices)Eduard Dragut
Temple University
Leveraging Social Media Signals for Record LinkageHanan Samet
University of Maryland
Reading News with Maps by Exploiting Spatial SynonymsQiang Ji
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Integrating Prior Knowledge and Data for Efficient Visual LearningHenry Kautz
University of Rochester
Mining Social Media to Improve Public Health
Prashant Shenoy
University of Massachusetts
Designing Systems and Applications for Transient Computing
Chenyang Lu
Washington University in St. Louis
Dependable Internet of Things
Geoffrey Fox
Indiana University
Designing a Big Data Toolkit spanning HPC, Grid, Edge and Cloud Computing
David Kaeli
Northeastern University
A Cross-layer Approach to Accelerating Heterogeneous Computing -
2016-17
R. Sekar
Stony Brook University
Provenance-Based Policy Enforcement: A Unified Approach for Vulnerability Mitigation, Malware Defense and Attack Scenario ReconstructionDonald Porter
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BetrFS: Write-Optimization in a Kernel File SystemEdward Suh
Cornell University
Secure Multi-Core Processors with Comprehensive and Verifiable Information Flow ControlTrent Jaeger
Penn State University
Fine-Grained Control-Flow Integrity for Kernel SoftwareDavid Wentzlaff
Princeton University
Processors for the Data Center and Cloud of the FutureJames Anderson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The One-Out-Of-m Multicore ProblemSantosh Nagarakatte
Rutgers University
Lightweight Formal Methods for LLVM VerificationJosep Torrellas
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Toward Extreme-Scale Manycore ArchitecturesSerge Belongie
Cornell Tech.
Fine Grained Visual Category Recognition and Perceptual Embedding -
2015-16
Heng Yin
Syracuse University (now at UC Riverside)
Semantics-Centric Approach to Fight Android Malware