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CIS Seminar: “Improving Security at an Internet Scale: A Data-Driven Approach”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The state of security across the Internet is poor, and it has been so for years. Meanwhile, attacks have become ever more frequent and consequential. How do we actually make meaningful progress? To do so, we must move beyond the folklore that heavily influences Internet security practices today, and establish 1) empirical grounding on how […]

ESE Seminar: “Safety and Robustness Guarantees with Learning in the Loop”

In this talk, we present recent progress towards developing learning-based control strategies for the design of safe and robust autonomous systems. Our approach is to recognize that machine learning algorithms produce inherently uncertain estimates or predictions, and that this uncertainty must be explicitly quantified (e.g., using non-asymptotic guarantees of contemporary high-dimensional statistics) and accounted for […]

CIS Seminar: “Towards Human-Level Recognition via Contextual, Dynamic, and Predictive Representations”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: Existing state-of-the-art computer vision models usually specialize in single domains or tasks, while human-level recognition can be contextual for diverse scales and tasks. This specialization isolates different vision tasks and hinders deployment of robust and effective vision systems.  In this talk, I will discuss contextural image representations for different scales and tasks through the […]

MEAM Seminar: “Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Material properties are governed by the chemical composition and spatial arrangement of constituent elements. Over the past decade, the field of architected materials has sought to design, fabricate, and demonstrate materials with performance that is fundamentally controlled by geometry at multiple length-scales rather than chemical composition alone. There have been many advancements ranging from the […]

MedTech Panel Series, Part 1: Executives – “From bench to boardroom”

Presented by the students of BE 370 (Medical Device Development): Come to the MedTech Panel Series to hear about these experiences and more from some of the most successful founders and CEOs in the industry! Our panelists will share their stories on how they took innovation from the bench to the boardroom and built multi-million […]

CIS Seminar: “Making Parallelism Pervasive with the Swarm Architecture”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: Parallelism is critical to achieve high performance in modern computer systems. Unfortunately, most programs scale poorly beyond a few cores, and those that scale well often require heroic implementation efforts. This is because current architectures squander most of the parallelism available in applications and are too hard to program. I will present Swarm, a […]

BE Grace Hopper Lecture: Powering tumor cell migration through heterogeneous microenvironments

Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

To move through tissues, cancer cells must navigate a complex, heterogeneous network of fibers in the extracellular matrix.  This network of fibers also provides chemical, structural and mechanical cues to the resident cells.  In this talk, I will describe my lab’s efforts to understand the forces driving cell movements in the tumor microenvironment.  Combining tissue […]