Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2026
Fall 2025
Spring 2025
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
Fall 2023

Spring 2026

Monday January 26, 2026 - CRAY

Rosalind (Roz) Picard (MIT Media Lab) - Progress and challenges in AI, wearables, and smartphones for understanding and improving mental health

Monday February 2, 2026

David Luebke (NVIDIA) - TBD

Monday February 9, 2026 - CRAY

Jason Cong (University of California, Los Angeles) - Deep Learning Meets Chip Design: Driving Next-Gen Efficiency and Innovation

Monday February 16, 2026 - CS&E

Mike Whalen (Amazon) - TBD

Monday February 23, 2026 - CS&E

Mar Gonzalez-Franco (Google) - TBD

Monday March 2, 2026 - CS&E

David Darrow (UMN Neurosurgery) - TBD

Monday March 16, 2026 - CRAY

Ken Perlin (New York University) - TBD

Monday March 23, 2026 - CARLIS

Amy J. Ko (University of Washington, Seattle) - TBD

Monday March 30, 2026 - CRAY

Leonardo de Moura (Amazon) - TBD

Monday April 6, 2026

Gloria Mark - TBD

Monday April 13, 2026 - CRAY

Guarav Sukhatme (University of Southern California) - TBD

Monday April 20, 2026 - CRAY

Rakesh Agrawal - TBD

Monday April 27, 2026 - CRAY

Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington) - TBD

Monday May 4, 2026 - CRAY

Sebastian Elbaum (University of Virginia) - TBD

Fall 2025

Monday September 8, 2025

Mingyi Hong (UMN ECE) - Bilevel Optimization: Recent Algorithmic & Theoretical Advances, and Emerging Applications in Training Large Language Models

Monday September 15, 2025

Mats Heimdahl (UMN CS&E) - On Software Test Coverage: Challenges and Opportunities

Monday September 29, 2025

Craig Zilles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-based Testing Facility

Monday October 6, 2025 - CRAY

Fatma Özcan (Google) - From English to SQL: What We Learned Building LLM-Powered Text-to-SQL

Monday October 13, 2025

Yang Zhao (UMN ECE) - Marrying Application-Level Opportunities with Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design Towards Ubiquitous Edge Intelligence

Monday October 20, 2025 - CRAY

Stephen Wright (UW Madison) - Optimization in Theory and Practice

Monday October 27, 2025

Pavlo Pylyavskyy (UMN School of Mathematics) - Incidences and Tilings

Monday November 3, 2025

Darren Cofer (Collins) - AI for Safety-Critical Systems

Monday November 17, 2025 - CRAY

Aniket Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University) - Scaling Serendipity: A SMART Framework for AI-Augmented Innovation

Monday November 24, 2025 - CRAY

Thyaga Nandagopal (Samsung Research America) - Shaping the Future: 6G Networks and AI-Native Innovations for Seamless Connectivity

Monday December 1, 2025 - CRAY

Jon Froehlich (University of Washington) - Human-AI for Physical World Accessibility

Monday December 8, 2025 - CS&E

Molly Steenson (American Swedish Institute) - How Architects Generated Generativity

Spring 2025

Monday, January 27, 2025

Zirui Liu (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Breaking Barriers: Advancing Long Context LLM

Friday, January 31, 2025

Zhangyu Guan (University at Buffalo) - CS&E Colloquium: Software-Defined Intelligent and Secure Wireless Aerial Networks: Modeling, Analysis and Implementation

Monday, February 3, 2025

Yiwen Hu (Michigan State University) - CS&E Colloquium: Powering the Infrastructure for Critical Services: Ensuring Secure and Reliable Emergency Communications over Cellular Networks

Monday, February 10, 2025

Yaxiong Xie (University of Buffalo) - CS&E Colloquium: Demystifying the Cellular Black Box: Cross-Layer Visibility for Infrastructure-Application Co-Design

Friday, February 14, 2025

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University) - CS&E Colloquium: Towards Robust, High-Throughput Next Generation Wireless Networks: Protocol Design and Performance Evaluation in the Wild

Monday, February 17, 2025

Yanchao Zhang (Arizona State University) - CS&E Colloquium: NextG Wireless Security: A Convergence of Sensing and AI

Friday, February 21, 2025

Zhenlin An (University of Pittsburgh) - CS&E Colloquium: Bring intelligence to next-generation wireless systems

Monday, February 24, 2025

Ali Vakilian (Toyota (TTIC)) - CS&E Colloquium: Algorithms in the AI Age: Fair and Learning-Augmented

Friday, February 28, 2025

Santhoshini Velusamy (Toyota (TTIC)) - CS&E Colloquium: Optimization in Modern Computational Settings: Algorithms and Impossibility Results

Monday, March 3, 2025

Charlie Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara) - CS&E Colloquium: Sampling Colorings with Markov Chains

Monday, March 17, 2025

Abhilasha Ravichander (University of Washington) - Illuminating Generative AI: Mapping Knowledge in Large Language Models

Friday, March 21, 2025

Matthew Gombolay (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Value Alignment and Safety via Interactive and Explainable Human-Robot Learning

Monday, March 24, 2025

Lucy Li (University of California, Berkeley) - CS&E Colloquium: Modeling Language as Social and Cultural Data

Friday, March 28, 2025

Alexander Hoyle (ETH Zurich AI Center) - CS&E Colloquium: Social Science as a Problem Space for Natural Language Processing

Monday, March 31, 2025

Alexander Spangher (University of Southern California) - CS&E Colloquium: Towards Planning in Creative Contexts

Monday, April 14, 2025

Jian Pei (Duke University) - Data Valuation in Machine Learning, AI, and Data (MAD) Systems

Monday, April 21, 2025

Ken Goldberg (University of California, Berkeley) - Is Data All You Need?: Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering

Monday, May 5, 2025

Xinyuan Zheng (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Earth and Environmental Science in the Era of Big Data and AI

Fall 2024

Monday, September 9, 2024 (Cray)

Yiran Chen (Duke University) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Big AI for Small Devices

Monday, September 16, 2024

Rui Zhang (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Artificial Intelligence for Advancing Cancer, Nutrition and Aging Research

Monday, September 23, 2024

Brad Holschuh (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Smart Fabrics: Textile-Integrated Technologies and Their Potential for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Applications

Friday, September 27, 2024

Guoliang Xue - CS&E Colloquium: Inferring Device Events and User Activities from IoT Network Traffic

Monday, September 30, 2024

Ruofei Du (Google) - CS&E Colloquium: Computational Interaction for a Universally Accessible Metaverse

Monday, October 7, 2024

Catherine Qi Zhao (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Attention in Vision-based AI Systems

Monday, October 14, 2024

Alex Kamenev (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Quantum Optimization and Image Recognition

Monday, October 21, 2024 (Cray)

Kenneth Brown (Duke University) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: How to Build a Quantum Computer

Monday, October 28, 2024 (Cray)

Ayse K. Coskun (Boston University) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: ML-Powered Diagnosis of Performance Anomalies in Computer Systems

Monday, November 4, 2024 (Carlis)

Mark Guzdial (University of Michigan) - Carlis Memorial Lecture: Changing Computing To Make It “For All”

Monday, November 11, 2024

Tabitha Peck (Davidson College) - CS&E Colloquium: Understanding and Harnessing Self-Avatars to Investigate and Mitigate Bias

Monday, November 18, 2024

Vlad Pribiag (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Quantum computing: what, why, how and the road ahead

Monday, November 25, 2024 (Cray)

Jeannette Wing (Columbia University) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Trustworthy AI

Monday, December 2, 2024 (Cray)

Noah Smith (University of Washington) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Noah Smith

Monday, December 9, 2024

Vasileios Christopoulos (University of Southern California) - CS&E Colloquium:

Revolutionizing Neurological Research with Functional Ultrasound Imaging and Machine Learning

Spring 2024

Monday, January 29, 2024

Yogatheesan Varatharajah (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Domain-guided Machine Learning for Healthcare

Friday, February 9, 2024

Anshuman Chhabra (UC-Davis) - CS&E Colloquium: Towards a Future Powered By Safe and Human-Centered AI and ML

Monday, February 12, 2024

Rosanna Bellini (Cornell Tech) - CS&E Colloquium: Decoding Abusive Adversaries for Safer Digital Systems

Monday, February 19, 2024

Chan Young Park (Carnegie Mellon University) - CS&E Colloquium: Socially-Informed Human-Centered AI

Friday, February 23, 2024

Xuhai "Orson" Xu (MIT) - CS&E Colloquium: How Do We Get There?: Toward Intelligent Behavior Intervention

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Tomer Galanti (MIT) - CS&E Colloquium: Fundamental Problems in AI: Transferability, Compressibility and Generalization

Friday, March 1, 2024

Aryan Deshwal (Washington State University) - CS&E Colloquium: Adaptive Experimental Design to Accelerate Scientific Discovery and Engineering Design

Monday, March 11, 2024

Zirui Liu (Rice University) - CS&E Colloquium: Lossy computation done right: Scalable and Accessible LLM Fine-Tuning and Serving

Friday, March 15, 2024

Yuke Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara) - CS&E Colloquium: Intelligent Software in the Era of Deep Learning

Monday, March 18, 2024

Zhun Deng (Columbia University) - CS&E Colloquium: Taming the Beast: Practical Theories for Responsible Learning

Friday, March 22, 2024

Hanrui Wang (MIT) - CS&E Collloquium: Toward Practical Quantum Computing Systems with Intelligent Cross-Stack Co-Design

Monday, March 25, 2024

Emily Tseng (Cornell Tech) - CS&E Colloquium: Digital Safety and Security for Survivors of Technology-Mediated Harms

Friday, March 29, 2024

Sandeep Silwal (MIT) - CS&E Colloquium: The marriage of (provable) algorithm design and machine learning

Monday, April 1, 2024

Zihan Tan (Rutgers University) - CS&E Colloquium: Modern Algorithms for Massive Graphs: Structure and Compression

Friday, April 5, 2024

Caiwen Ding (University of Connecticut) - CS&E Colloquium: Co-Designing Algorithms and Hardware for Efficient Machine Learning (ML): Advancing the Democratization of ML

Monday, April 8, 2024

Yu Chen (EPFL) - CS&E Colloquium: Designing Algorithms for Massive Graph

Fall 2023

Monday, September 11, 2023

Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Spatial AI and Its Applications in an Interdisciplinary World

Monday, September 18, 2023 (Cray)

Daniel D. Lee (Cornell Tech) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Geometry and Latent Representations in Machine Learning

Monday, September 25, 2023

Junaed Sattar (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Addressing Perception and Interaction Challenges in Underwater Robotics for Preserving Life Underwater

Monday, October 2, 2023 (Cray)

Albert Greenberg (Uber) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: AI/ML at Uber: From Predictive to Generative Models

Monday, October 9, 2023 (Cray)

Jaydev Desai (Georgia Tech) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Challenges in Transcatheter and Endovascular Interventions

Monday, October 16, 2023 (Cray)

Sihem Amer-Yahia (Grenoble Alpes) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Towards AI-Powered Data-Informed Education

Monday, October 23, 2023 (Cray)

Dinesh Manocha (University of Maryland) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Robot Navigation in Complex Indoor and Outdoor Environments

Monday, October 30, 2023 (Cray)

Alon Halevy (Meta) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Well-being, AI, and You: Developing AI-based Technology to Enhance our Well-being

Monday, November 6, 2023

Qianwen Wang (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Interpreting and Steering AI Explanations with Interactive Visualizations

Monday, November 13, 2023 (Cray)

Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: Digital Transformations of Cleanrooms in Academic Scientific Environments

Monday, November 20, 2023 (Cray)

Marty Wolf (Bemidji State) - Cray Distinguished Speaker: The Evolving Nature of Ethics in Computing

Monday, November 27, 2023

Isayas Adhanom (University of Minnesota) - CS&E Colloquium: Unlocking Virtual Reality’s True Potential: Addressing the Challenge of VR Sickness

Monday, December 4, 2023 (Carlis)

Ben Schafer (University of Northern Iowa) - Carlis Memorial Lecture: What a Well-Trained Computer Scientist Should Know about Education

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering hosts colloquium on Mondays from 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. in Keller Hall, room 3-180.