Seminars
The seminars generally will be held every Friday at noon in Room 105, College of Engineering West Hall on the Monroe Park Campus. For more information, please contact our seminar coordinator - Tarynn Witten, MSW, M.D., Ph.D.
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2019 Seminars
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter Name | Seminar Title | From | Host |
| Jan. 25 | David Shepherd | |||||
| Feb. 8 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Pretaam Ghosh | Information theory models of molecular communication and cellular signaling: prelimiary results | VCU | Ghosh |
| Feb. 15 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Hai Phan | Differential Privacy Preservation in Deep Learning with Provable Robustness | NJIT | Dinh |
| Feb. 22 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Keith Dunker | Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Alternative Splicing, and Post-translational Modification (IDP-AS-PTM): A Toolkit for Developmental Biology | Indiana University | Kurgan |
| Mar. 1 | 1–2 p.m. | W105 | Rob Powell | NASA | Cios | |
| Mar. 8 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Curtis Huttenhower | Harvard | Cios | |
| Mar. 15 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | ||||
| Mar. 22 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Issac Triguero | Nottingham University | Cano | |
| Apr. 5 | Kate Sicchio | VCU Dance Department | ||||
| Apr. 26 | Sam Henry |
2018 Seminars
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter Name | Seminar Title | From | Host |
| Aug. 24 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | (Faculty Meeting) | None | ||
| Aug. 31 | Noon–1 p.m. | W106 | None | None | ||
| Sept. 7 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | David Shepherd | Conducting Impact-Focused Industrial Research | ABB Inc | Kostadin Damevski, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 13 | Noon–2 p.m. | W106 | Malki (Ph.D. Defense) | Novel Support Vector Machines for Diverse Learning Paradigms | VCU | Alberto Cano, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 14 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | (Faculty Meeting) | None | ||
| Sept. 21 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | None | None | ||
| Sept. 24 | 1:30–3:30pm | W105 | Yahya Bokhari | Discovering Driver Mutations in Biological Data | VCU | Tomasz Arodz, Ph.D. |
| Sept. 28 | Noon–2 p.m. | W105 | Avory Bryant (Ph.D. Defense) | Investigating Methods of Local Outlier Detection for Streaming Density-based Clustering | ||
| Oct. 5 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | None | None | ||
| Oct. 12 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Gad el Hak (cancelled due to weather) | Seminar Cancelled due to Weather | VCU | Tamer Nadeem, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 19 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | (Faculty Meeting) | None | ||
| Oct. 26 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Semi Ryu | VoicingElder: Seniors Reminiscing Through Avatars | VCU | Tarynn Witten, MSW, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Nov. 2 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Gad el Hak | English, STEM, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen-Part 1 | VCU | Tamer Nadeem, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 9 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Gad el Hak | English, STEM, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen-Part 2 | VCU | Tamer Nadeem, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 16 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | None | None | ||
| Nov. 23 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Thanksgiving Break | None | ||
| Nov. 26 | 11 a.m.–Noon | E1232 | Raied Salman | Threading and processes in a Unix environment, with illustrative programming examples |
Job Candidate | Krzysztof Cios, Ph.D., D.SC., M.B.A. |
| Nov. 27 | 2–3 p.m. | W106 | Ahmet Sonmez | Threading and processes in a Unix environment, with illustrative programming examples |
Job Candidate | Krzysztof Cios, Ph.D., D.SC., M.B.A. |
| Nov. 30 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | David Aha | Explainable AI (XAI) and Goal Reasoning | Navy Center for Applied Research in AI | Krzysztof Cios, Ph.D., D.SC., M.B.A. |
| Dec. 3 | 10 a.m.–Noon | W106 | Jorge Gonzalez (Doctoral Defense) | Distributed multi-label learning on Apache Spark | VCU | Alberto Cano, Ph.D. |
| Dec. 7 | 11 a.m.–Noon | W105 | Kasun Amarasinghe (Doctoral Defense) | Interpretable Deep Neural Network Algorithms for Cyber-Physical System Monitoringetermined | VCU | Milos Manic, Ph.D. |
| Dec. 10 | 11 a.m.–Noon | W106 | Ye Zhu | Traffic analysis and anonymous communication in emerging networking environments | Cleveland State University | Krzysztof Cios, Ph.D., D.SC., M.B.A. |
| Dec. 13 | 11 a.m.–Noon | W106 | Kemal Akkaya | A Bitcoin Payment Network with Reduced Transaction Fees and Confirmation Time | Florida International University | Krzysztof Cios, Ph.D., D.SC., M.B.A. |
| Dec. 14 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | (Faculty Meeting) | None | ||
| Dec. 21 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | VCU Closed Xmas Break 21 Dec. Thru 1 Jan | None | No Seminars |