Pushing Acoustic Sensing from the Laboratory to Real World: Theories, Applications, and Practical Problems
Published: | 11:12 pm | Posted in: Events
Speaker: Dong Li Date: Jan 22, 11:45am–12:45pm Abstract: With the proliferation of voice assistants, speakers and microphones are essential components in billions of smart devices that people interact with on a daily basis, such as smartphones, smart watches, smart speakers, smart home appliances, etc. By transferring them into acoustic radars, we have successfully demonstrated the […]
Toward Private, Secure, and Robust AI-Enabled Voice Services
Published: | 2:01 pm | Posted in: Events
Speaker: Hanqing Guo Date: Jan 17, 11:45am–12:45pm Abstract: Voice, as a primary way for people to communicate with each other and interact with computers/smart devices, is expected to be secure and private when people use it. However, recent studies demonstrated the vulnerabilities of using voice to talk with people; conduct speaker authentication and deliver messages […]
Fault Simulation, Detection and Analysis for Monte Carlo Computational Resilience
Published: | 1:55 pm | Posted in: Events
Speaker: Sharanya Jayaraman Date: Jan 12, 11:45am–12:45pm Abstract and Bio: Computational Resilience represents the process of upholding the correctness and efficiency of computing systems, even in the face of inherent faults and challenges. As Large Scale High-Performance applications grow in size and scope they become increasingly susceptible to diverse fault types. With recovery times for […]
Representation Space of Transformers
Published: | 10:29 pm | Posted in: Events
Speaker: Xiuwen Liu Date: Dec 8, 2023, 2:15 – 3:10 PM Abstract: Pretrained large foundation models play a central role in the recent surge of artificial intelligence, resulting in finetuned models with remarkable abilities when measured on benchmark datasets, standard exams, and applications. Due to their inherent complexity, these models are poorly understood. While small […]
Lossy Compression for Scientific Applications on HPC
Published: | 1:17 pm | Posted in: Events
Speaker: Kai Zhao Date: Dec 1, 2023, 2:15 – 3:10 PM Abstract: The rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies and the explosive growth of data in petascale and exascale systems have brought critical challenge s to high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Today’s scientific simulations ar e producing vast volumes of data that cannot be stored and […]
Quantum Circuit Decomposition and Routing Collaborative Design
Published: | 5:02 pm | Posted in: Events
Speaker: Alex Jones Date: Nov 20, 11:45am–12:45pm Abstract and Bio: Alex K. Jones is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a Professor of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy (by courtesy) at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently on leave from Pitt to serve as a Program Director in the […]
Building Quantum System Software for Unreliable Quantum Computers
Published: | 1:27 pm | Posted in: Colloquium
Speaker: Devesh Tiwari Date: Nov 17, 2023, 2:15 – 3:10 PM (Postponed) Abstract: The field of quantum computing has enjoyed extraordinary advances in the last two decades, including the physical implementation and experimental demonstration of medium-scale quantum computers. While these advances continue to be celebrated widely, computational scientists continue to struggle to make meaningful use […]
Large-Scale Graph Computing: From “Think Like a Vertex” to “Think Like a Task”
Published: | 3:40 pm | Posted in: Colloquium
Speaker: Da Yan Date: Nov 3, 2023, 2:15 – 3:10 PM Abstract: Big graphs are ubiquitously used for data modeling in modern applications, such as online social networks, knowledge graphs and biological networks. Unlike relational databases where queries can be formulated in a uniform manner with relational algebra, operations on graphs are highly diversified. For […]
Fourth-year graduate student Liting Zhang recently published on high impact interdisciplinary journal Genome Research
Published: | 3:31 pm | Posted in: Student Recognition
Liting Zhang, a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department, under the guidance of Dr. Xian Mallory, has recently made a significant contribution to the field of computational biology by publishing their work in the esteemed interdisciplinary journal, Genome Research, the impact factor of which is 9.438. The research paper, titled “Integrating SNVs and CNAs […]
Stochastic Computational Electrostatics and Applications: Computing Capacitance
Published: | 12:20 pm | Posted in: Events
Speaker: Michael Mascagni Date: Oct 27, 2023, 2:15 – 3:10 PM Abstract: We are interested in using stochastic (Monte Carlo) methods to solve problems that are relevant to electrostatics and specifically to semiconductor design. Thus, we begin by introducing what Monte Carlo are and show how they can be used to compute several numerical quantities. […]