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 - Carol Fung, Ph.D.
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2019 Seminars
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter Name | Seminar Title | From |
| 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 |
| Feb. 15 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Hai Phan | Differential Privacy Preservation in Deep Learning with Provable Robustness | NJIT |
| 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 |
| Mar. 1 | 1–2 p.m. | W105 | Rob Powell | The Intersection of Complex Systems Engineering and Cybersecurity | NASA |
| Mar. 8 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Curtis Huttenhower | Human, microbial, and molecular populations in the microbiome | Harvard |
| Mar. 15 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Dayanjan Wijesinghe |
Lights Out Science: Harnessing advances in computer science to speed up biomedical research |
VCU |
| Mar. 22 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Issac Triguero | Computational Intelligence in the Big Data Context | Nottingham University |
| Apr. 5 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Kate Sicchio | VCU Dance Department | |
| Apr. 26 | Sam Henry |
2018 Seminars
| Date | Time | Room | Presenter Name | Seminar Title | From |
| 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 |
| Sept. 13 | Noon–2 p.m. | W106 | Malki (Ph.D. Defense) | Novel Support Vector Machines for Diverse Learning Paradigms | VCU |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nov. 2 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Gad el Hak | English, STEM, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen-Part 1 | VCU |
| Nov. 9 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | Gad el Hak | English, STEM, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen-Part 2 | VCU |
| 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 |
| Nov. 27 | 2–3 p.m. | W106 | Ahmet Sonmez | Threading and processes in a Unix environment, with illustrative programming examples |
Job Candidate |
| Nov. 30 | Noon–1 p.m. | W105 | David Aha | Explainable AI (XAI) and Goal Reasoning | Navy Center for Applied Research in AI |
| Dec. 3 | 10 a.m.–Noon | W106 | Jorge Gonzalez (Doctoral Defense) | Distributed multi-label learning on Apache Spark | VCU |
| Dec. 7 | 11 a.m.–Noon | W105 | Kasun Amarasinghe (Doctoral Defense) | Interpretable Deep Neural Network Algorithms for Cyber-Physical System Monitoringetermined | VCU |
| Dec. 10 | 11 a.m.–Noon | W106 | Ye Zhu | Traffic analysis and anonymous communication in emerging networking environments | Cleveland State University |
| Dec. 13 | 11 a.m.–Noon | W106 | Kemal Akkaya | A Bitcoin Payment Network with Reduced Transaction Fees and Confirmation Time | Florida International University |
| 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 |