Distinguished Speakers

• Friday, February 6, 2026: Matt Sinclair, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems"
• Friday, February 13, 2026: Matthew Jagielski, Anthropic - "ML Security Research in the Era of Agentic Systems"
• Friday, February 20, 2026: Muriel Médard, MIT - "Building the Fastest Decentralized Internet Protocol for Web3"
• Friday, March 13, 2026: Anindya Banerjee, Dartmouth College - "Reasoning About Programs"
• Friday, March 20, 2026: Alvaro Velasquez, DARPA - "Gaps in Generalization: A Case for Neurosymbolic AI"
• Friday, March 27, 2026: Srini Parthasarathy, Ohio State University - "Towards Democratizing AI: Scaling and Learning (Fair) Graph Representations in an Implementation Agnostic Fashion" 
• Friday, April 3, 2026: Andrew Grimshaw, UVA Professor Emeritus - "Powering the AI Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities"
• Friday, April 17, 2026: Mohit Bansal, UNC - "Trustworthy Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation"
• Friday, April 24, 2026: Justin Thaler, Georgetown - "Jolt: A Simpler Architecture for Fast Proofs of Program Execution"

• Thursday, August 21, 2025: Zhuowen Tu, UC San Diego - "Are we still Bayesians with big models?"
• September 12, 2025: Krishna Venkatasubramanian, The University of Rhode Island - "Designing for Accessibility for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Around Traumatic Contexts"
• September 19, 2025: Martin Kellogg, New Jersey Institute of Technology - "Verification’s Last Mile Problem (And How to Solve It In The Age of AI)"
• October 17, 2025: Chris Yang, Drexel/NSF
• Monday, November 3, 2025: Ivan Ruchkin, University of Florida - "Reliable World Models: Physical Grounding and Safety Prediction"
• November 7, 2025: Subhransu Maji, UMass Amherst - "Active Measurement: Building a Better Instrument for Scientific Discovery"
• November 14, 2025: Robbert van Renesse, Cornell - "Latency, Consistency, and the Myth of the Linearizable Log"
• Wednesday, November 19, 2025: Craig Zilles, UIUC - "Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-based Testing Facility"
• Friday, November 21, 2025: Missy Cummings, GMU - "What Autonomous Vehicle Failures Can Tell Us About Engineering Safety-Critical AI"

• 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 - Cross-Layered OS Design for Managing Heterogeneity in Modern Datacenters
• January 17, 2025: Jana Kosecka, George Mason - Visual Grounding in Large Vision Language Models
• January 24, 2025: Xi Peng, University of Delaware - Beyond Accuracy: Building Safe Machine Learning Systems with Dual-Correct Predictions
• January 31, 2025: Bronis R. de Supinski, Livermore Computing - El Capitan: The World's Fastest Computer

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