Feedback Friday in Computer Engineering, UIUC

What?

  • Students present their research for 30 minutes to a broad audience of Computer Engineering faculty
  • Receive feedback and mentoring for 15 minutes
  • Other students benefit by listening in
  • Social hangout after the event

    • When?

  • 1st Session: Friday, Feb 8, 12:30 to 3pm
  • 2nd Session: Friday, Feb 22, 12:30 to 3pm
  • Location: CSL B02 (Basement Level)
  • Event open to all students and faculty

    • Why?

  • Receive deep, broad technical feedback
  • Learn to handle a diverse audience
  • Rehearse job talks for faculty/research positions
  • Get early feedback for your thesis


    • Spring 2019

    Two Speakers on February 22, 2019

    Speaker 1: Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

  • Time: 12:30 to 1:40 pm
  • Advisor: Brighten Godfrey
  • Title: Automated Resource Management in Large-Scale Networked Systems

    • Speaker 2: Ashutosh Dhekne

  • Time: 1:50 to 3:00 pm
  • Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
  • Title: Putting Wireless Sensing to the Litmus Test

    • Two Speakers on February 8, 2019

    Speaker 1: Owolabi Legunsen

  • Time: 12:30 to 1:40 pm
  • Advisor: Darko Marinov and Grigore Rosu
  • Title: Evolution-Aware Runtime Verification

    • Speaker 2: Chuchu Fan

  • Time: 1:50 to 3:00 pm
  • Advisor: Sayan Mitra
  • Title: Verification and Synthesis Algorithms for Safe Autonomy

    • Spring 2018

    Two Speakers on February 9, 2018

    Speaker 1: Nirupam Roy

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
  • Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
  • Title: Internet of Acoustic Things (IoAT): Challenges, Opportunities, and Threats

    • Speaker 2: Mert Hidayetoglu

  • Advisor: Wen-Mei W. Hwu
  • Title: Low-Complexity, Petascale, Heterogeneous Inverse Solvers on Blue Waters

    • Three Speakers on March 30, 2018

    Speaker 1: Sheng Shen

  • Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
  • Title: Networked Noise Cancellation

    • Speaker 2: Abdul Dakkak

  • Advisor: Wen-Mei W. Hwu
  • Title: Compiling Mathematica for High-Performance, Heterogeneous Computing

    • Speaker 3: Carl William Pearson

  • Advisor: Wen-Mei W. Hwu
  • Title:　Towards Automatic Heterogeneous Computing Performance Analysis


    • Fall 2017

    Three Speakers on November 3, 2017

    Speaker 1: Debjit Pal

  • Advisor: Shobha Vasudevan
  • Title: Zoom Out and See Better: Scalable Message Tracing for Post-Silicon SoC Debug

    • Speaker 2: Zhuolun (Daniel) Xiang

  • Advisor: Nitin Vaidya
  • Title: Partially Replicated Causally Consistent Shared Memory

    • Speaker 3: Saurabh Jha

  • Advisor: Ravishankar Iyer
  • Title: Towards Understanding of HPC Interconnect Resiliency

    • Three Speakers on October 6, 2017

    Speaker 1: Matthew Tomei

  • Advisor: Rakesh Kumar
  • Title: Revisiting Cache Compression

    • Speaker 2: Yoga Varatharajah

  • Advisor: Ravishankar K. Iyer
  • Title: Predicting Brain Trauma: The Case for Epilepsy

    • Speaker 3: Wei Zuo

  • Advisor: Deming Chen
  • Title: Accurate High-level Modeling and Automated Hardware/Software Co-design for SoC Design Space Exploration


    • Spring 2017

    Two Speakers on February 10, 2017

    Speaker 1: Mahanth Gowda

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Penn State Univ.
  • Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
  • Title: Motion Tracking Problems in IoT

    • Speaker 2: Xun (Steve) Jian

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Virginia Tech
  • Advisor: Rakesh Kumar
  • Title:　Energy-efficient Memory Architectures for Future Server and HPC Systems


    • Fall 2016

    Two Speakers on November 11, 2016

    Speaker 1: Carl William Pearson

  • Advisor: Wen-Mei W. Hwu
  • Title:　Fast Full-wave Inverse Scattering Solutions on Blue Waters

    • Speaker 2: Shripad Gade

  • Advisor: Nitin Vaidya
  • Title:　Privacy Preserving Distributed Optimization

    • Panel on "Academic Job Hunt"

  • Students ask questions and faculty will answer
  • Ask anything related to academic job hunt: application, interview, offer selection, tenure, proposals and fundings, after-tenure, etc.

    • Five Speakers on September 30, 2016

    Speaker 1: Jianxiong Gao

  • Advisor: Steven Sam Lumetta
  • Title:　Automated Feedback on Introductory Programming Courses

    • Speaker 2: Simon Garcia de Gonzalo

  • Advisor: Wen-Mei W. Hwu
  • Title: Automatic Tuning of Performance Portable SPMV Kernels in Kokkos

    • Speaker 3: Weidong Ye

  • Advisor: Rakesh Kumar
  • Title:　Determining Application Specific Peak Power for Ultra-Low-Power Processor

    • Speaker 4: Chuchu Fan

  • Advisor: Sayan Mitra
  • Title: Simulation-Driven Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems

    • Speaker 5: Zachary Daniel Stephens

  • Advisor: Ravishankar K. Iyer
  • Title: Unraveling Complex Local Genomic Rearrangements with Long-Read Sequence Data


    • Spring 2016

    Four Speakers on April 1, 2016

    Speaker 1: Varun Badrinath Krishna

  • Advisor: William H. Sanders
  • Title: Framework for the Detection of Electricity Theft Attacks in Smart Grids

    • Speaker 2: Mahanth Gowda

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Penn State Univ.
  • Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
  • Title: 3D Orientation Tracking for Drones using GPS

    • Speaker 3: Anand Ramachandran

  • Advisor: Deming Chen
  • Title: The Joint Alignment and Variant Calling Problem

    • Speaker 4: Hui Lin

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
  • Advisor: Ravishankar K. Iyer
  • Title: Runtime Semantic Security Analysis to Detect and Mitigate Control-related Attacks in Power Grids

    • Three Speakers on February 26, 2016

    Speaker 1: Adel Ahmadyan

  • Currently a Research Engineer at Snap Inc.
  • Advisor: Shobha Vasudevan
  • Title: Randomized Algorithms for Validation of Nonlinear Analog Circuits

    • Speaker 2: Izzat Hajj

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, American University of Beirut
  • Advisor: Wen-Mei W. Hwu
  • Title: Programming with Multiple Virtual Address Spaces per Process

    • Speaker 3: He Wang

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Purdue
  • Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
  • Title: I am a Mobile Device and I can Sense my User's Location


    • Fall 2015

    Four Speakers on October 2, 2015

    Speaker 1: Xun (Steve) Jian

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Virginia Tech
  • Advisor: Rakesh Kumar
  • Title: Low Overhead Error Resilience for Multi-dimensional Memory Systems

    • Speaker 2: Anupam Das

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, North Carolina State Univ.
  • Advisor: Nikita Borisov
  • Title: Tracking Mobile Web Users Through Motion Sensors: Attacks and Defenses

    • Speaker 3: Zhenqi Huang

  • Currently a Software Engineer at Dispatch.ai
  • Advisor: Sayan Mitra
  • Title: Compositional Analysis of Dynamic Networks

    • Speaker 4: Lili Su

  • Currently a Postdoc at MIT
  • Advisor: Nitin Vaidya
  • Title: Multi-Agent Optimization in the Presence of Byzantine Agents

    • Three Speakers on September 4, 2015

    Speaker 1: Ahmed Mohamad Fawaz

  • Advisor: William H. Sander
  • Title: Kobra: A Kernel Introspection Engine

    • Speaker 2: Yi Liang

  • Advisor: Deming Chen
  • Title: High Performance Computing for Smart Grids

    • Speaker 3: Subho Sankar Banerje

  • Advisor: Ravishankar K. Iyer
  • Title: Sequences and Systems : Building Efficient NGS Analytics Pipelines

    • Social Mingling with New Students


    Spring 2015

    Four Speakers on March 20, 2015

    Speaker 1: Lewis Tseng

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Boston College
  • Advisor: Nitin Vaidya
  • Title: Relaxed Consistency Models for Geo-replication

    • Speaker 2: Henry Duwe

  • Currently a Faculty in ECE, Iowa State Univ.
  • Advisor: Rakesh Kumar
  • Title: Correction Prediction: Reducing Error Correction Latency for On-chip Memories

    • Speaker 3: Nirupam Roy

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
  • Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury
  • Title: Communicating through Physical Vibrations

    • Speaker 4: Qiaomin Xie

  • Currently a Postdoc at MIT
  • Advisor: Yi Lu
  • Title: Pandas: An Efficient Priority Algorithm for Near-Data Scheduling

    • Closing Session

  • Faculty discuss take-away messages
  • All students ask questions
  • Social hangout before Spring Break

    • Four Speakers on February 20, 2015

    Speaker 1: Arjun Athreya

  • Advisor: Ravi Iyer
  • Title: Modeling the Impact of Ecology on Human Lineages

    • Speaker 2: Sridhar Duggirala

  • Currently a Faculty in CS, Univ. of Connecticut
  • Advisor: Sayan Mitra
  • Title: Dynamic Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems

    • Speaker 3: Adel Ahmadyan

  • Currently a Research Engineer at Snap Inc.
  • Advisor: Shobha Vasudevan
  • Title: Randomized Sampling Algorithms and their Application to Analog Validation

    • Speaker 4: Izzat El Hajj

  • Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu
  • Title: Locality-Centric Thread Scheduling for Bulk-synchronous Programming Models