Distinguished Speakers
The UVA Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome esteemed speakers from both industry and academia to discuss topics in Computing and interdisciplinary initiatives.
Fall 2024 events will take place on Fridays at 11:00 a.m. in Rice Hall room 540, except where noted. Details including talk titles will be posted here and on our events calendar page as they are available!
- September 27: Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University - “Regular” CS × Inclusive Design = Smarter Students and Greater Diversity
- October 11: Narges Mahyar, U Mass - Harnessing Data for Social Impact: Empowering Communities through Visualization and Social Computing
- October 18: Abhinav Kandala, IBM - Evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance
- October 25: Spyros Blanas, Ohio State - Rethinking Concurrency and Weak Isolation for Data Store Applications
- November 1 (virtual): Carla Gomes, Cornell - AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery for a Sustainable Future
- November 15: Joe Calandrino - Research that informs and advances policy
- *November 18 (Monday, held in the Link Lab arena): Dinesh Manocha, UMD - Robot Navigation in Complex Indoor and Outdoor Environments
- November 22: James Prather, Abilene Christian University - Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI
- December 6: Sudarsun Kannan, Rutgers
Questions about the Fall 2024 series?
Contact the seminar committee members Yangfeng Ji (yj3fs@virginia.edu), Adwait Jog (ajog@virginia.edu), and/or Tianhao Wang (nkp2mr@virginia.edu).
Past Distinguished Speakers
Fall 2023 - Fridays at 11:00 a.m. ET in Rice Hall room 540 unless otherwise noted.
- September 29, 2023 | Ruofei Du - Google
- October 6, 2023 | Jian Huang - UIUC
- October 13, 2023 | Adwait Nadkarni - William & Mary
- October 20, 2023 | Chaitanya Baru - NSF (location is Thornton Hall A120, start at 10:45 AM)
- October 27, 2023 | David Luebke - Nvidia
- November 3, 2023 | Bimal Viswanath - Virginia Tech
- November 17, 2023 | Nikola Banovic - University of Michigan
- December 1, 2023 | Berkay Celik - Purdue
Fall 2022 - Fridays at 11:00 a.m. ET in Thornton Hall, room A120 unless otherwise noted.
- October 14, 2022 | Tianxi Li - UVA Department of Statistics
- October 21, 2022 | Xiaojing Liao - Indiana University Bloomington
- November 4, 2022 | Qiaozhu Mei - University of Michigan
- November 11, 2022 | Giuseppe Ateniese - George Mason University
- *November 18, 2022 | Aaron Roth - University of Pennsylvania (*virtual seminar)
- December 2, 2022 | Rajeev Balasubramonian - University of Utah
- December 9, 2022 | Ruoxi Jia - Virginia Tech via Zoom
Spring 2021 (virtual)
- January 27, 2021 | 12:00 p.m. | Juan Gilbert
Fall 2020 (virtual)
- Wednesday, October 14, 2020 | 12:00 p.m. | Philip Guo
- Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 1:00 p.m. | Amy Ko
- Friday, October 30, 2020 | 12:00 p.m. | Jennifer Listgarten
- Friday, November 6, 2020 | 12:00 p.m. | Margaret Mitchell
- Monday, November 9, 2020 | 9:30 a.m. | Krzysztof Czarnecki
- Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. | Milind Tambe
Spring 2020
- Friday, February 7, 2020 | Olsson 120 at 2:30 p.m. | Moshe Vardi
Fall 2019
- Wednesday, November 20, 2019 | Rice 130 at 3:30 p.m. | Edward Suh
- Friday, November 8, 2019 | Rice 130 at 3:30 p.m. | Alina Oprea
Fall 2018
- Friday, October 12, 2018 | Rice 130 at 3:30 p.m. | Michelle Mazurek
- Friday, October 19, 2018 | Rice 242 at 12:00 p.m. | Vipin Chaudhary
- Friday, October 26, 2018 | Rice 130 at 3:30 p.m. | Sanjit A. Seshia
- Friday, November 2, 2018 | MEC 205 at 2:00 p.m. | Yuriy Brun
- Monday, November 5, 2018 | Rice 130 at 3:30 p.m. | Dean Tullsen
- Friday, November 9, 2018 | Rice 130 at 3:30 p.m. | Bing Liu
- Friday, November 30, 2018 | Rice 130 at 3:30 p.m. | Mohit Tiwari