The Joy of Being Faculty: How to Apply for a Faculty Position
This professional development workshop is designed to provide Penn Engineering graduate students and postdocs with a richer understanding of what it is like to pursue a career in academia from […]
PRiML Seminar: “Optimizing probability distributions for learning: sampling meets optimization”
Optimization and sampling are both of central importance in large-scale machine learning problems, but they are typically viewed as very different problems. This talk presents recent results that exploit the interplay between them. […]
CIS Seminar: “Improving Security at an Internet Scale: A Data-Driven Approach”
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 […]
CIS Seminar: “Computer Security for Emerging Technologies”
As our world becomes more computerized, security and privacy takes on a prominent role in allowing us to enjoy the benefits of new technologies without the risks. Addressing the new […]
CIS Seminar: “Visualization for People + Systems”
Abstract: While computers can help us manage data, human judgment and domain expertise is what turns it into understanding. Meeting the challenges of increasingly large and complex data requires methods […]
CIS Seminar: “Made to Order: Verifying Correctness and Security of Hardware through Event Orderings”
Correctness and security problems in modern computer systems can result from problematic hardware event orderings and interleavings during an application’s execution. Since hardware designs are complex and since a single […]
CIS Seminar: “What Should We Do With Persistent Main Memory?”
Memory systems are on the verge of a renaissance: Scalable, persistent main memories (e.g., Intel’s 3DXPoint) are the first new technology to enter the upper layers of the memory hierarchy […]