Past ADSC Events and Short Courses

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• "Secure Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Availability," by Sang-Yoon Chang, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, on April 25, 2013.
• "A High-Level Parallel Development Framework for Graphic Accelerators: An Implementation Based on OpenMP," presented by Gabriel Noaje, HPC Independent Consultant, on April 18, 2013.
• Distinguished Lecture Series: "The Genesis of the August 14, 2013 Blackout: The Grid, Math, Humans and Trees," presented by Prof. Thomas J. Overbye, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on April 17, 2013.
• Distinguished Lecture Series: "Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data," presented by Prof. H. V. Jagadish, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan on March 8, 2013.
• "Performance optimization for embedded signal processing platform with multiple coprocessors system and parallel computing," presented by Dr. Qi CAO of the Institute for Infocomm Research on February 21, 2013.
• "Building Elastic Java Applications based on CloudScale and the Infrastructure-as-a-Service Paradigm," presented by Dr. Philipp Lietner of Vienna University of Technology on February 20, 2013.
• Audio Day, hosted by ADSC and IEEE Singapore Section, Signal Processing Chapter at ADSC's Fusionopolis offices on January 17, 2013.
• Distinguished Lecture Series: "Why Database Languages Are Simpler Than Turing Complete," presented by Professor David Maier, Department of Computer Science at Portland State University on December 14, 2012.
• "Research Progress in ADSC Semantic Analysis of Video project," presented by Indriyati Atmosukarto and Tianzhu Zhang of ADSC on December 12, 2012.
• Distinguished Lecture Series: "Semiconductor Defect Engineering for Nanoelectronics," presented by Edmund G. Seebauer, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on December 11, 2012.
• Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) meeting, December 10 - December 14, 2012.
• "Robust and Reliable Spectrum Sensing," presented by Jerry Chiang of ADSC on November 29, 2012.
• Distinguished Lecture Series: "Fast Multipole Algorithm - Deep Insights," presented by Weng Cho Chew, Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on November, 22, 2012.
• "Efficient Edge-Aware Smoothing Approach and its Applications to Vision Algorithm," presented by Dongbo Min, of ADSC on October 23, 2012.
• "Mining Behavioral Specifications of Distributed Systems," presented by Sandeep Kumar of National University of Singapore on October 23, 2012.
• "Leveraging Strength-Based Dynamic Information Flow Analysis to Enhance Instruction Level Parallelism," presented by Walid Ghandour, of Lebanese International University on October 8, 2012.
• "Physical-Layer Security in Wireless Localization and Communications," presented by Nils Ole Tippenhauer, of the Institute of Information Security at ETH Zurich, Switzerland on October 1, 2012.
• "Measuring Media Quality: The Trouble with Mean Opinion Score," presented by Stefan Winkler, ADSC Principal Scientist and Director of the Interactive Digital Media Program on September 18, 2012.
• "Fault-Tolerant Communication Complexity," presented by Binbin Chen of ADSC on September 5, 2012.
• "Geographic Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks with Environmental Energy Harvesting," presented by Lei Shu of Osaka University, Japan, on August 27, 2012.
• "Co-simulation and Emulation Platforms for the Smart Grid," presented by Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri,
  of Jordan University of Science and Technology, on August 20, 2012.
• "Securing Wireless Communication against Adversarial Interference," presented by Christina Poepper of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, on July 23, 2012.
• Summer School on Multimodal Signal Analysis, June 28-July 4, 2012
• "Two Recent Regularization Frameworks for Computer Vision Applications," presented by Bingbing Ni of ADSC on June 29, 2012.
• "Recent Advances in Kinect-Based Action and Event Recognition,"presented by Bingbing Ni of ADSC on June 27, 2012.
• "Robust Visual Tracking," presented by Tianzhu Zhang of ADSC on June 26, 2012.
• "Peer-to-Peer Interactive 3D Media Dissemination in Networked Virtual Environments," presented by Ke Liang of National University of Singapore on June 26, 2012.
• "Semantic Analysis of Video," presented by Indriyati Atmosukarto of ADSC on June 25, 2012.
• "Human-Centric Building Energy Management for Smart Grid: Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Approach," presented by Deokwoo Jung, of ADSC on June 19, 2012.
• "Interim Review of Smart Grid IT Program at ADSC,"presented by David Yau, Smart Grid Program Director at ADSC, on June 14, 2012.
• "A Biologically-Inspired Approach to Classic Computer Vision Problems " presented by Vassilios Vonikakis of ADSC on June 13, 2012.
• "Robust Stability of Multivariable Systems and its Application in Smart Grids" presented by Ye Zhen, Research Scientist with the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, on June 6, 2012.
• "An Accurate GPU Performance Model for Effective Control Flow Divergence Optimization,"presented by Yun (Eric) Liang of ADSC, May 31, 2012.
• "Scalable Distributed Computing Solution for Data Mining," presented by Professor Navneet Goyal of the Birla Institue of Technology in India, May 28, 2012.
• "Differentially Private Data Publication and Analysis," presented by Yin "David" Yang of ADSC, May 17, 2012.
• "Transportation Activity Analysis Using Smartphones," presented by Dr. Hock Beng Lim of Nanyang Technological University, April 20, 2012.
• "Improving Sparse Coding with Graph and Kernel for Image Classification," presented by Shenghua Gao of Nanyang Technological University, April 2, 2012.
• "Learning Structured Models to See People," presented by Yang Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 13/14, 2012.
• "Verification of Embedded Simulink Models Using Formal Methods," presented by Nannan He, Oxford University, January 24, 2012.
• "Cyber Security and Privacy in Smart Grids," presented by Depeng Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Masdar Institute, January 19, 2012.
• "An Introduction of Mingsheng Gao's Work," presented by Mingsheng Gao, Nanyang Technological University, January 10, 2012.
• "Efficient Security and Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Multi-hop Wireless Networks," presented by Mohamed Mahmoud, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 2012.
• "Large Scale Computing and Multi-Scale Electromagnetic Modelling from Statics to Nano-Optics," presented by Weng Cho Chew, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 22, 2011.
• "Social Music in Cars" presented by Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, November 23, 2011.
• "A User-Centered Design of a Personal Digital Library for Capturing and Organizing Musical Moments," presented by David Bainbridge, University of Waikato, November 23, 2011.
• "Networked Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA): Conclusions and Future Work," presented by J. Stephen Downie, iSchool at Illinois, November 23, 2011.
• "Web-scale Computational Musicology in the SALAMI Project," presented by David De Roure, University of Oxford, November 23, 2011.
• Alumni Demo Day, November 19, 2011.
• "Execution Monitoring Enforcing Information Flow Properties in Cyber-Physical Systems" presented by Thoshitha Gamage, Missouri University of Science and Technology, November 16/17, 2011.
• Interactive Digital Media Symposium, August 2, 2011.
• High-Performance Computing Certification Course, July 4-29, 2011.
• Boon Thau Loo talks on "Secure Time-Aware Provenance for Distributed Systems" (June 27, 2011) and on "Declarative Networking: Present and Future" (June 28, 2011).
• Symposium on Information Technology for Smart Grid Systems, December 9, 2010.
• "FADE: A Secure Overlay Cloud Storage System with Access Control and Assured Deletion" presented by Dr. Patrick Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, September 6, 2010.
• "Retrofitting Parallelism into Sequential Programs" presented by Danny Dig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 18, 19, & 20, 2010.
• High Performance Computing Course & Symposium, June 14-18, 2010. Presenters: Marc Snir, William Gropp, Josep Torrellas, Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, Volodymyr Kindratenko, and Jay Alameda of Illinois; David Srolovitz, Michael Sullivan, and Kuo Shyh-Hao of the Institute of High Performance Computing; Guillaume Borque of the Genome Institute of Singapore; Wong Weng Fai of the National University of Singapore; Motoi Okuda of Fujitsu; Michael A. Raymond of SGI; and Kirk E. Jordan of IBM. The program will provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of multicore programming, offer hands-on experience with the use of multicore languages and libraries, and introduce emerging research topics. Upon completion, participants will be familiar with available tools, languages, and libraries that can be used to develop parallel programs and the pros and cons of those utilities, and will be better equipped to choose the programming environment that best matches their application needs.
• HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference, Apr. 15-17, 2010, including Four Social Mirrors (Karrie Karahalios) and TEEVE: Tele-immersive Environment for EVErybody (Klara Nahrstedt).
• Minh Do lecture, "Immersive Visual Communication with Depth Cameras and Parallel Computing," Mar. 31, 2010.
• Deming Chen lecture on "Reconfigurable Computing for High Performance," Mar. 25, 2010.
• A one-week course on Information Integration, co-organized by ADSC and the Institute for Infocomm Research, January 4-8, 2010.
• Alumni Tour of ADSC, November 7, 2009, 12:00-2:00.
• Research Opportunities at NUS, Singapore, and Beyond, November 6, 2009,11:30-2:00, School of Computing, COM1, Level 2, Room 6 (Seminar Room 1) National University of Singapore.
• Seminar on Research Opportunities in NTU, Singapore, and Beyond, October 5, 2009, 1:30-4:30 p.m., NTU.
• Research Opportunities for Students at ADSC, NUS ECE, October 2, 2009.
• Opportunities for Graduate Students at ADSC, SMU, September 29, 2009.