Ming Hsieh Institute Communications, Networks and Systems (CommNetS) Seminars

The seminar is open to anyone interested in communications, networks, systems and control. The regular seminar time is Mondays, 2:00-3:00PM in EEB132.

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(In the 2nd floor of the Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Building (EEB) on the main USC campus.) If you would like to give a talk at the seminar please contact Ashutosh Nayyar, Rahul Jain, Mihailo Jovanovic or Insoon Yang. — Ashutosh Nayyar 2018/01/31 18:52

This Seminar is sponsored by the Ming Hsieh Institute.

The seminar is also offered as a research seminar course EE 598.

Course rules

Enrolled students are expected to participate in class by attending seminars on a regular basis and submit written reports on two seminars of their choice. The reports should not be a direct reproduction from the slides or the papers.

Enrollment is open to all EE PhD students, and MS students by instructor consent. There is a EE464 or EE465 prerequisite, or instructor consent. Registration can require D-clearance. So, please go to EEB-100 to complete formalities.

Seminars for Spring 2018

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Mon Jan. 8, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Multiplicative noise as a structured stochastic uncertainty problem	Bassam Bamieh (UCSB)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Jan. 22, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Traffic Congestion Control--A PDE Backstepping Perspective	Miroslav Krstic (UCSD)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Jan. 29, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Future Power System Control Functions--An Industry Perspective	Ulrich Muenz (Siemens)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Fri Feb. 2, 11:00am. EEB 132	A Wait-and- See Two-Threshold Optimal Sleeping Policy for a Single Server Queue With Bursty Traffic	Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua Univ)	Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Mon Feb. 5, 2:00pm. EEB 132	AFOSR-Unsteady Aerodynamics and Turbulent Flows--An introduction	Douglas Smith (AFOSR)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Feb. 12, 11:00am. EEB 132	Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems-What is Possible	Richard Murray (Caltech)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Wed Feb. 21, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Reinforcement Learning--Hidden Theory, and New Super-Fast Algorithms	Sean Meyn (Univ. of Florida)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Feb. 26, 2:00am. EEB 132	Controlling the artificial pancreas	Frank Doyle (Harvard University)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Mar. 5, 2:00am. EEB 132	Electric grid integration of renewable generation and distributed control	Pramod Khargonekar (UC Irvine)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Mar. 19, 2:00am. EEB 132	Near-optimal sparse sensor and actuator selection	Ali Jadbabaie (MIT)	Ketan Savla
Mon Mar. 26, 2:00am. EEB 132	From the Kelly-Shannon Collaboration to Stock Trading Based on Feedback Control	B. Ross Barmish ( U of Wisconsin, Madison)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Apr. 2, 2:00am. EEB 132	Robust model-free control, optimization, and learning in cyber-physical societal systems	Jorge Poveda (UCSB)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Apr. 9, 2:00am. EEB 132	Towards a Scalable Theory of Control	Anders Rantzer (Lund University)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Apr. 16, 2:00am. EEB 132	Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (Net-CPS)	John S. Baras (U of Maryland)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Apr. 23, 2:00am. EEB 132	Data-Driven Discovery and Control of Nonlinear Systems	Steven Brunton (U of Washington)	Mihailo Jovanovic

Seminars for Fall 2017

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Mon Aug. 21, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Model-Based and Data-Based Flow Analysis Using Optimization	Peter Schmid	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Aug. 28, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Rate Coding, Spike Coding, and Biological Control	Terence Sanger (USC)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Sep. 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Robust Scheduling for Flexible Stochastic Networks	Ramtin Pedarsani (UCSB)	Insoon Yang
Mon Sep. 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Systems and Control Research at United Technologies Research Center	Andrej Banaszuk and Andrew Sparks (UTRC)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Sep. 25, 11:00am. EEB 248	Fast Distributed Algorithms for Optimization and Resource Sharing in Networks	Angelia Nedich (ASU)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Oct. 2, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Unified Control of Dynamic Robotic Systems	Aaron Ames (Caltech)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Wed Oct. 4, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Epidemic Processes Over Topologically Varying Networks	Carolyn Beck (UIUC)	Ketan Savla
Mon Oct. 9, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Optimal Mass Transport and the Robustness of Complex Networks	Allen Tannenbaum (Stony Brook)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Oct. 16, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Dissipativity Theory for Optimization and Machine Learning Research	Bin Hu (Wisconsin)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Mon Oct. 23, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Synchronization Patterns in Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators, A Network-Theoretic Approach for Analysis and Control	Fabio Pasqualetti (UC Riverside)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Mon Oct. 30, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Making Robust Decisions from Data	Anil Aswani (Berkeley)	Insoon Yang
Mon Nov. 6, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Dynamics, Controls, and Robotics Programs at NSF--a Biased Perspective	Dr. Jordan Berg (NSF)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Tue Nov. 7, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Network Systems and Kuramoto Oscillators	Francesco Bullo (UCSB)	Ketan Salva
Mon Nov. 13, 2:00pm. EEB 132	TBA	Dr. Frederick Leve (AFOSR)	Mihailo Jovanovic
Wed Nov. 15, 2:00pm. EEB 132	From Local Network Structure to Global Graph Spectrum	Victor Preciado (U. Penn)	Paul Bogdan
Mon Nov. 20, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Towards a Market-mediated Software Defined Communications Ecosystem at the Wireless Edge	Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M)	Rahul Jain
Mon Nov. 27, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Decentralized Online Optimization with Global Objectives and Local Communication	Maxim Raginsky (Illinois)	Ashutosh Nayyar

Seminars for Spring 2017

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Jan. 18, 2:00pm. EEB 132	Sparsity and decomposition in semidefinite optimization	Lieven Vandenberghe (UCLA)	Rahul Jain
Wed Jan. 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Synthesis of user-interfaces and reachability-based controllers for human-in-the-loop systems	Meeko Oishi (U New Mexico)	Insoon Yang
Wed Feb. 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A system level approach to controller synthesis	Nikolai Matni (Caltech)	Insoon Yang
Wed Feb. 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Density flows and applications	Tryphon Georgiou (UC Irvine)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Feb. 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Delays in biological networks and feedback design	Marcella Gomez (UC Berkeley)	Paul Bogdan
Wed Feb. 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Infinite Dimensional Optimization for Safety Critical Human-in-the-Loop Systems	Ram Vasudevan (U Michigan)	Insoon Yang
Wed Mar. 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Sequential decision algorithms for as-you-go deployment of wireless relay network along a line	Arpan Chattopadhyay	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Mar. 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	TBA	Nina Mahmoudian (Michigan Technological University)	Paul Bogdan
Wed Mar. 22, 10:00am. EEB 248	Supplementing Centralized Infrastructure with Opportunistic Communication	Corey Baker (UCSD)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Mar. 29, 10:00am. EEB 248	Application of Polynomial Optimization to Electricity Transmission Networks	Cedric Josz (LAAS)	Rahul Jain
Wed Mar. 29, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Estimation & Control of Electrochemical Models	Scott Moura (UC Berkeley)	Insoon Yang
Wed Apr. 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Dynamic Market Mechanisms for Wind Energy	Hamidreza Tavafoghi	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Apr. 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Handling runtime state uncertainty, human-in-the-loop shared control and sampled data feedback	Ian Mitchell (UBC)	Insoon Yang
Fri Apr. 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	From Breach Prediction to Incentive Design	Mingyan Liu (UMich)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Apr. 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Information-theoretic tradeoffs in control	Victoria Kostina	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Apr. 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	TBA	Adam Wierman (Caltech)	Insoon Yang

Seminars for Fall 2016

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Aug. 31, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Blind Demixing and Deconvolution at Near-Optimal Rate	Felix Krahmer (TU Munich)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Wed Sep 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Optimal remote estimation over the collision channel	Marcos Muller Vasconcelos (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sep 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	New Problems in Modern Logistical Systems	John Carlsson (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sep 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Learning, Incentives and Optimization for Human-Energy System Interaction	Insoon Yang (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sep 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Allerton Conference	No seminar
Fri Oct 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	From vehicle dynamics to human-robot interactions	Mauro Da Lio (Univ. of Trento)	Petros Ioannou
Wed Oct 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Optimal Co-Design for Co-existence of MIMO Radars and MIMO Communication Systems	Athina Petropulu (Rutgers)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Generalized cut-set bounds and Symmetrical Projections of Entropy region	Amir Salimi	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	TBA	Sam Coogan (UCLA)	Rahul Jain
Wed Nov 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Enabling Smart Energy Communities with Proactive Demand Participation and Distribution System Operator Market	Nanpeng Yu (UC Riverside)	Insoon Yang
Wed Nov 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Optimal precommitment strategies in some time-inconsistent control problems	Christopher Miller (UC Berkeley)	Insoon Yang
Wed Nov 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	On the Provision of Public Goods on Networks	Parinaz Naghizadeh Ardabili (Univ. of Michigan)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Thu Nov 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	University-Students Game	George Papavassilopoulos	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Nov 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Thanksgiving Break	No seminar
Wed Nov 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Capacity and Energy Markets for Stable Renewable Economy	Mohammad Rasouli (Univ. of Michigan)	Ashutosh Nayyar

Seminars for Spring 2016

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Jan 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Communication in Strategic Environments - Crawford-Sobel Meet Shannon	Emrah Akyol (Illinois)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Jan 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization	Vishal Gupta (Marshall)	Rahul Jain
Wed Jan 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Phase Transitions in Semidefinite Relaxations	Adel Javanmard (USC)	Rahul Jain
Thu Jan 28, 10:00am. EEB 248	Improving Wireless Networks and Data Storage through Information Theory	Alireza Vahid (Duke)	Salman Avestimehr
Mon Feb 1, 11:00am. EEB 248	A systematic process for evaluating structured equilibria in dynamic games with asymmetric information	Achilleas Anastasopoulos (Michigan)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Feb 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248	NO TALK	ITA Week	NO TALK
Wed Feb 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Super-resolution radar	Reinhard Heckel (UC Berkeley)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Thu Feb 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Level-set methods for convex optimization	Michael Friedlander (UC Davis)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Wed Feb 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A fast drift method for convex programs	Hao Yu (USC)	Rahul Jain
Mon Feb 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Conservative Bandits	Csaba Szpesvari (U-Alberta)	Rahul Jain
Wed Feb 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Digitizing Humans into VR with a Glimpse into Deep Learning Applications	Hao Li (USC)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Wed Mar 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	When your big data seems too small, accurate inferences beyond the empirical distribution	Gregory Valiant (Stanford)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Wed Mar 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Distributed Energy Management with Limited Communication	Na (Lina) Li (Harvard)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Mar 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	NO TALK	SPRING BREAK	Host
Wed Mar 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Stochastic and Information-theoretic Approaches to Analysis of Biological Data	Farzad Farnoud (CALTECH)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Mar 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information-Equilibrium Concept and Sequential Decomposition	Yi Ouyang (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Sharp tradeoffs for randomized numerical algorithms Let the theory meet practice	Samet Oymak (Google)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Tue April 12, 2:30pm. EEB 248	NSF Programs in Energy, Power, Robotics, and Cyber-Physical Systems	Kishan Baheti (Program Director, NSF)	Ketan Savla
Wed April 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Cyber-Physical-Human Systems - Results and Challenges	Vijay Gupta (Notre Dame)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed May 4, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Theory and Applications of Asynchronous Parallel Computing	Wotao Yin (UCLA)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
Mon May 9, 11:00am. EEB 248	On solving certain Semidefinite programs with low-rank solutions	Afonso Bandeira (MIT and NYU)	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Seminars for Fall 2015

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Aug 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Online Learning and Pattern Recognition in Multi-Agent Systems	Alec Koppel (UPenn)	Nicolo Michelusi
Mon Aug 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Mean Field and Propagation of Chaos in Complex Interacting Systems	Ravi Mazumdar (Waterloo)	Rahul Jain
Wed Aug 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Mean-field Teams	Aditya Mahajan (McGill)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sept 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	LQG Control with Minimal Information- Semidefinite Programming Approach	Takashi Tanaka (MIT)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sept 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Integrated Staffing and Scheduling for Surgeries	Sandeep Rath (UCLA)	Rahul Jain
Wed Sept 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Structured signal recovery without the shackles of convexity	Mahdi Soltanolkotabi (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sept 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	When Lyapunov meets Church, automated synthesis of complex systems emerges	Majid Zamani (Technische Universität München)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sept 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Allerton Conference	No Seminar	-
Fri Oct 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Cyber-Physical Systems- Performance, Robustness and Security	Bruno Sinopoli(CMU)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Stochastic Network Optimization- The Steps Toward Realization	Sucha Supittayapornpong (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Learning (from) networks- fundamental limits, algorithms, and applications	Soheil Feizi (MIT)	Salman Avestimehr
Wed Oct 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Energy Harvesting and Rechargeable Wireless Networks	Ayfer Ozgur (Stanford)	Salman Avestimehr
Wed Nov 4, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma that assures Semantic Security in Wiretap Channels	Paul Cuff (Princeton)	Urbashi Mitra
Wed Nov 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Resilient Monitoring and Control of Distribution Networks	Saurabh Amin (MIT)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Nov 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Dynamic learning and information information discovery- an adaptive optimization perspective	Phebe Vayanos (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Nov 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Thanksgiving Break	No Seminar	-
Wed Dec 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Impact of Severity-Adjusted Workload on Health Status of Patients Discharged from an ICU	Song-Hee Kim (Marshall)	Rahul Jain
Fri Dec 4, 11:00am. EEB 248	A Common Information Based Multiple Access Protocol Achieving Full Throughput and Linear Delay	Ouyang Yi (Michigan)	Rahul Jain
Thu Dec 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Perennial and Personalized Sensing through Wireless Energy Transfer and Intra-body Networks	Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University)	Ashutosh Nayyar

Seminars for Spring 2015

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Jan 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Distributed stochastic optimization via correlated scheduling	Michael J. Neely (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Jan 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Signal and Noise in the Nervous System	Joel Zylberberg (Univ. of Washington)	Paul Bogdan
Wed Jan 21, 3:30pm. EEB 248	Convergence of a class of simple learning rules to pure-strategy Nash equilibria	Richard La (Univ. of Maryland)	Rahul Jain
Wed Jan 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Computing over Unreliable Communication Networks	Nicola Elia (Iowa)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Tue Feb 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248	From X-Ray Vision with WiFi to Communication-Aware Robotics	Yasamin Mostofi (UCSB)	Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Wed Feb 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A Control Theoretic Approach to Designing Biochemical Feedback Circuits	Yutaka Hori (Caltech)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Feb 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Turning Memory into Bandwidth via Wireless Edge Caching: Fundamental Limits and Practical Challenges	Mingyue Ji (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Feb. 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A Timing Approach to Causal Network Inference	Negar Kiyavash (Illinois)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Mar 4, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Longitudinal Driver Models & Driving Databases	Kangwon Lee (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Fri Mar 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Remote and Distributed Estimation over Shared Networks: New Results and Open Problems	Nuno Martins (Maryland)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Mar 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Spring Break	No Seminar
Wed Mar 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Point-to-point codes for interference channels: A journey toward high performance at low complexity	Young-Han Kim (UCSD)	Salman Avestimehr
Wed Apr 1, 2:30pm. EEB 248	Secure state-estimation and control for dynamical systems under adversarial attacks	Paulo Tabuada (UCLA)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Apr 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Vehicular Network: From Internet of Things to Urban Planning	Keyvan Rezaei Moghadam (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Apr 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Content Caching and Delivery: Fundamental Limits, Challenges, and Opportunities	Mohammad Maddah-Ali (Bell Labs)	Salman Avestimehr
Wed Apr 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Sufficient Statistics for Multi-Agent Decision	Sanjay Lall (Stanford)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed May 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Controlling Information Transfer in Spintronics Networks	Frank C. Langbein (Cardiff University)	Edmond Jonckheere

Seminars for Fall 2014

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Aug 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Device-to-device communication for 5G	Erik Strom (Chalmers)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sep 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Unfalsified Adaptive Control with Reset and Bumpless Transfer	Sagar Patil (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sep 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A cross-layer framework for joint control, distributed sensing and estimation in agile wireless networks	Nicolo Michelusi (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sep 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Establishing Strong Secrecy and Stealth over Wyner's Wiretap Channel	Gerhard Kramer (Technische Universität München (TUM))	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Sep 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Exploiting Caches for Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Device-to-Device Networks	David Kao (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Allerton Conference	NO SEMINAR	Host
Wed Oct 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Analysis and Design of Optimization Algorithms via Integral Quadratic Constraints	Laurent Lessard (Berkeley)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Two Recent Results in Random Matrix Theory And their Applications in Wireless Interference Management and Semi-Supervised Learning	Aly El Gamal (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Mon Oct 20, 3:00pm. EEB 248	Closed-Loop Brain-Machine Interface Architectures	Maryam Shanechi (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Stochastic Optimization of Sub-hourly Economic Dispatch with Wind Energy	Harsha Gangammanavar (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Oct 29, 2:00pm. EEB 248	The Weighted Sum Rate Maximization in MIMO Interference Networks- Minimax Lagrangian Duality and Algorithm	Lijun Chen (Colorado)	Host
Wed Nov 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Balancing Delay and Congestion Costs in Scheduling and Computing Bottleneck Congestion Equilibria	Rajgopal Kannan (LSU)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Nov 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Information theory meets control	Anant Sahai (Berkeley)	Salman Avestimehr
Wed Nov 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Thanksgiving Break	NO SEMINAR	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Dec 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Semidefinite relaxation of optimal power flow	Steven Low (Caltech)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed Dec 10, 3:00pm. EEB 248	A Framework for Structural Input/Output and Control Configuration Selection of Large - Scale Systems	Sergio Pequito (U. Penn)	Paul Bogdan
Wed Dec 17, 3:00pm. EEB 248	Convergence of a class of simple learning rules to pure-strategy Nash equilibria	Richard La (Maryland)	Rahul Jain

Seminars for Spring 2014

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Jan 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Transitory Queues- A New Paradigm in Queueing Theory	Harsha Honnappa (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Jan 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Information-theoretically optimal compressed sensing via spatial coupling and approximate message passing	Adel Javanmard (Stanford Univ.)	Giuseppe Caire
Wed Jan 29, 2:00pm. EEB 248	On Networked Source Coding in the Presence of Exploration versus Exploitation Tradeoff	Emrah Akyol (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Feb 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Robust Distributed Routing in Dynamical Network Flows	Ketan Savla (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Feb 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	ITA Workshop	NO SEMINAR	Host
Wed Feb 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Active state tracking in heterogeneous sensor networks via controlled sensing	Daphney - Stavroula Zois (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Feb 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Diffusion Based Molecular Communication- Efficient Modulator and Simple near optimal Decoder	Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed March 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Dynamic Games with Stochastically Failing Information Channels	Tamer Basar (Illinois)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed March 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Designing Optimal Resource Sharing in the Long Run	Mihaela van der Schaar (UCLA)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed March 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	SPRING BREAK	NO SEMINAR	Host
Wed March 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks	Harpreet S. Dhillon (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Parallel and Distributed Optimization of Large Scale Systems	Gesauldo Scutari (Buffalo)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Using fluid approximations for designing service systems	Ramandeep Randhawa (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Risk-aware decision making- a story about stochastic dominance	William Haskell (USC)	Ashutosh Nayyar
Wed April 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Dynamic Spectrum Allocation via a Game-Theoretic Approach	Jong-Shi Pang (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Dynamics and control of distributed systems	Mihailo Jovanovic (Minnesota)	Rahul Jain
Wed May 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Dynamic Games and Teams with Asymmetric Information- Some Existence Results	Abhishek Gupta (UIUC)	Rahul Jain

Seminars for Fall 2013

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Aug 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Sensor node localization based on two-way time-of-arrival ranging with imperfect clocks	Erik Strom (Chalmers)	Ubli Mitra
Wed Sep 4, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Bayesian Congestion Control over a Markovian Network Bandwidth Process- A multiperiod Newsvendor Problem	Parisa Mansourifard (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Sep 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Decentralized Control for Asymmetric Information Patterns- Overview and New Results	Naumaan Nayyar (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Sep 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Talking to Your Cells- Exploiting Molecular Communication in Bacteria Networks for Medical Applications	Paul Bogdan (USC)	Host
Thu Sep 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Searching And Bargaining With Middlemen	Vijay Subramaniam (Northwestern)	Rahul Jain
Mon Sep 23, 11:00am. EEB 248	TBA	Or Ordentlich (Tel-Aviv)	Giuseppe Caire
Wed Sep 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Two network problems and their application to streaming codes	Tracey Ho (Caltech)	Rahul Jain
Wed Oct 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	NO SEMINAR	ALLERTON CONF	Host
Wed Oct 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Rare Event Simulation of Heavy Tailed Random Walks – A New Approach	Sandeep Juneja (TIFR)	Rahul Jain
Wed Oct 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A Cross-Layer Perspective on Distributed Estimation with Fusion Center quality feedback	Nicolo Michelusi (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Oct 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	How I got into Impulse Radio -- the Education of one Communication Theorist	Bob Scholtz (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Oct 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Identifiability Results for Bilinear Inverse Problems- With Applications to Blind Deconvolution and Matrix Factorization	Sunav Choudhary (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Nov 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Plug'n'Play Operation of Microgrids- Objectives and Strategies	Florian Dörfler (UCLA)	Rahul Jain
Wed Nov 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Adaptive, Parallel, and Asynchronous Stochastic Optimization Algorithms	John Duchi (Berkeley)	Ubli Mitra
Wed Nov 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Redundancy in Speech and Robustness of Automatic Speech Recognition	Zoran Cvetovic	Ubli Mitra
Wed Nov 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248	NO SEMINAR	THANKSGIVING	Host
Wed Dec 4, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Fundamental limits and Optimal algorithms for RNA Transcriptome Assembly	Sriram K (Berkeley)	Giuseppe Caire

Seminars for Spring 2013

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Jan 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Design Guidelines for Limited Feedback in Interference-Limited Systems	Vasanthan Raghavan (USC Math)	Rahul Jain
Wed Jan 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Randomized Methods in Game Theory with Applications to Network Security	Joao Hespanha (UCSB)	Rahul Jain
Wed Jan 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Optimal receivers and rate regions for interference networks with superposition codes	Bernd Bandemer (UCSD)	Giuseppe Caire
Wed Feb 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Interference Alignment, Interference Neutralization, and Function Computation over Gaussian Networks	Sangwoon Jeon (EPFL)	Giuseppe Caire
Wed Feb 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	No Seminar	UCSD ITA Workshop Week	No Seminar
Fri Feb 15, 11:00am. EEB 248	Coding over Interference Channels- An Information-Estimation View	Shlomo Shamai (Technion)	Giuseppe Caire
Wed Feb 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Optimal Online Bin Packing in an Infinite Server System	Yuan Zhong (MIT)	Rahul Jain
Wed Feb 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Constrained Signaling for Welfare and Revenue Maximization	Shaddin Dughmi (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Mar 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Interference Management in Bursty Wireless Networks with Feedback	I-Hsiang Wang (EPFL)	Giuseppe Caire
Wed Mar 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A Tensor Spectral Approach to Learning Mixed Membership Community Models	Anima Anandkumar (UCI)	Ubli Mitra
Wed Mar 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248	No Seminar	Spring Break	No Seminar
Wed Mar 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Smarter Markets for a Smarter Grid - The Why and How	Rahul Jain	Ubli Mitra
Wed Apr 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Cognitive Access Policies under a Primary ARQ process via Chain Decoding	Nicolò Michelusi (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Apr 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Networked Information Processing- New Compression, Processing and Control Paradigms for Networks	Emrah Akyol (UCSB)
Wed Apr 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Ambiguity in risk preferences in optimization and control	Will Haskell (USC)
Wed Apr 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Pricing of Fluctuations in Electricity Markets	Yunjian Xu (Caltech)	Rahul Jain
Wed May 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Channel Coding Methods for Green Data Storage- Innovations Beyond the Hamming Metric	Lara Dolecek (UCLA)	Rahul Jain

Seminars for Fall 2012

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Aug 29, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Implementation of Cooperative Schemes with Network Coding on Smartphones	Anh Le (UCI)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Sep 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Decentralized learning for multi-player multi-armed bandits	Dileep Kalathil (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Sep 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Beyond Point-to-Point Coding	Young-Han Kim (UCSD)	Rahul Jain
Wed Sep 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Three open problems in network communication.	Michael Langberg (The Open University of Israel)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Sep 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems	Venkat Chandrasekaran (Caltech/MIT)	Rahul Jain
Wed Oct 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248	An Unexpected Universal Networking Paradigm	Ray Sanders (SAIN Networks)	Giuseppe Caire?
Wed Oct 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Regenerating Codes A System Perspective	Nicolas Le Scouarnec (Technicolor)	Alex Dimakis
Mon Oct 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Optimal Reliability over a DMC with Feedback via Deterministic Sequential Coding	Tara Javidi (UCSD)	Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Wed Oct 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Support Recovery with Sparsely Sampled Free Random Matrices	Dr. Antonia Tulino (Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs)	Giuseppe Caire
Wed Oct 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Online Learning Algorithms for Network Optimization with Unknown Variables	Yi Gai (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Oct 31, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Lossy Compression for BigData- First Steps	Thomas Courtade( Center for Science of Information)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Nov 2, 4:30pm. EEB 248	Topological interference alignment through distributed index coding	Syed Ali Jafar (UCI)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Nov 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	The Changing Energy Landscape- The Role of Consumer Participation	Ufuk Topcu (U-Penn)	Rahul Jain
Wed Nov 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Time Consistency of Bounded Memory Plans	Yilmaz Kocer (USC Econ)	Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Wed Nov 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248	An Analytical Approach to Regulation of Security Investments in the Internet	Arman Khouzani (Ohio State)	Rahul Jain
Wed Nov 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design	Hamid Nazerzadeh (USC Marshall)	Rahul Jain
Wed Dec 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248	From Compression to Compressed Sensing	Shirin Jalali (Caltech)	Rahul Jain
Fri Dec 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Graphical Congestion Games with Applications in Spectrum Sharing	Jianwei Huang (CUHK)	Rahul Jain

Seminars for Spring 2012

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Jan 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Error Correcting Codes for Automatic Control	Ravi Teja Sukhavasi (Caltech)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Jan 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Coalitions in Cooperative Wireless Networks	Srinivas Yerramalli (USC)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Jan 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Critically Sampled Wavelet Filterbanks on Graphs	Sunil Kumar (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Feb 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Large Scale Integration of Deferrable Demand and Renewable Energy Sources in Power Systems	Anthony Papavasiliou (Berkeley)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Feb 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	ITA	ITA	ITA
Wed Feb 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248	To Pay or Not To Pay. Profit Maximizing Payment Schemes on Social Media Platforms	Shaolei Ren (UCLA)	Rahul Jain
Wed Feb 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Erasure Codes in Facebook's Data Warehouse	Ramkumar Vadali	Alex Dimakis
Wed Feb 29, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Signal Processing for Next-Generation Sequencing and Biosensing	Haris Vikalo (UT Austin)	Ubli Mitra
Wed Mar 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Solving the Matched Filter Detector in Linear Time	Shamgar Gurevich (Wisconsin)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Mar 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	No seminar	No Seminar	Spring Break
Wed Mar 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Infocom Practice talks	Multiple Speakers	Alex Dimakis
Wed Mar 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248	When to exercise control	Paulo Tabauda (UCLA)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 4, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Linearly Parameterized Bandits	Paat Rusmevichientong (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A Novel Distance Metric for Rank Aggregation	Farzad Farnoud (UIUC)	Alex Dimakis
Wed April 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Inference and Control in Complex Networks	Vijay Subramanian (Northwestern)	Rahul Jain
Wed April 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	TBA	Harsha Honnappa (USC)	Rahul Jain

Seminars for Fall 2011

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
Wed Aug 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Noise Benefits in Markov Chains	Brandon Franzke (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Aug 31, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Channel Estimation for Wideband Channels	Ubli Mitra (USC)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Sep 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Energy Procurement Strategies in Presence of Intermittent Sources	Sachin Adlakha (Caltech)	Rahul Jain
Wed Sep 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Toward a Computational Information Theory	Michelle Effros	Alex Dimakis
Wed Sep 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Compressed Representations for Subsurface Imaging	Behnam Jafarpour (USC)	Rahul Jain
Wed Sep 28, 2:30pm. EEB 248	NO TALK	Allerton	No TALK
Wed Oct 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Reliable Allocations for Distributed Storage	Derek Leong	Alex Dimakis
Wed Oct 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Space-from-Time Imaging - Acquiring Reflectance and Structure Without Lenses	Vivek Goyal (MIT)	Ubli Mitra/Antonio Ortega
Wed Oct 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Net Neutrality & Wireless Net Neutrality - Why Network Researchers Should Care	Scott Jordan (UCI)	Rahul Jain
Wed Oct 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Privacy in the Smart Grid, Two New Challenges	Lalitha Sankar (Princeton)	Ubli Mitra
Wed Nov 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Decision-making in Decentralized Systems	Ashutosh Nayyar (UIUC/U-Mich)	Rahul Jain
Wed Nov 9, 11:00pm. EEB 248	(talk canceled)		(Asilomar Conference)
Wed Nov 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	On source-channel separation over networks	Suhas Diggavi (UCLA)	Alex Dimakis
Wed Nov 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	No Seminar		Thanksgiving
Wed Nov 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A journey through data-rate theorems for communication and control	Massimo Franceschetti (UCSD)	Rahul Jain
Wed Dec 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	No Seminar	No Talk	Week of Finals
Wed Dec 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Toward Energy Efficient Operation of Base Stations in Cellular Wireless Networks	Kyuho Son (USC)	Alex Dimakis

Seminars for Spring 2011

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
January 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Utility Optimal Scheduling in Networks- Small Delay and No Underflow	Longbo Huang	Rahul Jain
January 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Role of Feedback in Interference Networks	Changho Suh	Alex Dimakis
January 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Bringing network coding closer to practice	Christina Fragouli	Alex Dimakis
January 27, 4:30pm. SAL 101	Sparse Approximations- Algorithms and Analysis	Anna Gilbert	Alex Dimakis
February 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Recent results on discrete memoryless broadcast channels	Chandra Nair	Giuseppe Caire
February 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Title	ITA	N/A
February 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Delay and power-optimal control in multi-class queueing systems	Chih-ping Li	Rahul Jain
February 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Channel coding, non asymptotic fundamental limits with and without feedback	Yury Polyanskiy	Urbashi Mitra
March 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A Clean Slate Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using On Off Division Duplex	Dongning Guo	Alex Dimakis
March 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Robustness in High Dimensions -- Principal Component Analysis	Constantine Caramanis	Alex Dimakis
March 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Cooperative Information Exchange over Networks	Tom Courtade (UCLA)	Rahul Jain
March 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Wavelets on Graphs - Theory and Applications	Antonio Ortega (USC)	Rahul Jain
April 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248	A New Approach to Robustness and Flexibility in High-dimensions	Sujay Sanghavi (UT Austin)	Rahul Jain
April 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Wireless Open-Access Research Program	Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice)	Rahul Jain
April 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Rethinking wireless networks with network coding - Overhead and stability challenges	Yalin Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc.)	Alex Dimakis
April 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Content-Aware Caching and Traffic Management in Content Distribution Networks	Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M)	Rahul Jain
May 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Network Modulation-- Simultaneous Optimality in Multi-User Communication	Yuval Kochman	Giuseppe Caire
May 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248	MDS Array Codes with Optimal Rebuilding	Zhiying Wang	Alex Dimakis
May 26, 2:00pm. TBD	Efficient Code Constructions for Reliable Distributed Storage	P Vijay Kumar	Alex Dimakis
June 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Multi-Channel Multi-Stage Spectrum Sensing- Link Layer Performance and Energy Consumption	Przemysław Pawełczak	Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Seminars for Fall 2010

Date	Title	Speaker
Thu. July 21, 10:00am. HED 116	Cloud Security Issues	Randy Marchany
Wed Sep 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	No Seminar	No seminar
Wed Sep 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248	TBA	Bathiya Senanyake (ANU)
Wed Sep 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Barrage Relay Networks	Keith Chugg
Fri Sep 24, 2:30pm. EEB 248	Three fundamental measures of geometry and their role in model selection and sparse inverse problems	Waheed U. Bajwa
Tue Sep 28, 10:00am. TBA	Lattice Coding for Interference Networks	Sriram Viswanath
Wed Oct 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Short Range Radio Research in Twente	Arjan Meijerink, USC
Wed Oct 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248	TBA	Dorit Hochbaum
Wed Oct 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Computation over Networks	Nikhil Karamchandani
Wed Oct 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Actions can speak more clearly than words	Pulkit Grover
Wed Nov 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Interference Management in Cognitive Networks with Reactive Primary Users	Marco Levorato
Fri Nov 12, 11:00pm. EEB 248	Quantifying and Achieving the Capacity of Wireless 1-Hop Network Coding --- A Code-Alignment-Based Approach	Chih-Chun Wang
Wed Nov 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Open	Open
Wed Nov 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Open	Open
Mon Nov 29, 11:00am. EEB 248	Flows and Decompositions of Games - Harmonic and Potential Games	Pablo Parrillo
Wed Dec 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Open	Open
Wed Dec 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Open	Open

Seminars for Spring 2010

Date	Title	Speaker
Wed. Jan 13, 2010 2:00pm. EEB 248	Backpressure Routing Made Practical	Scott Moeller, USC
Wed. Jan 20, 3:00pm. EEB 248	Bumpless Transfer with Slow-Fast Controller Decomposition	Shin-Young Cheong, USC
Wed. Jan 27, 11:00am. EEB 248	Wireless Network Coding Algorithms	Christina Fragouli
Thurs. Jan 28, 3.30pm. EEB 248	Entropy, Networks and Information Flow	Babak Hassibi
Fri., Feb. 5, 11:00am. EEB 248	An I-MMSE Perspective to the Capacity of the MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channel	Shlomo Shamai
Wed. Feb 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Safe Industrial Operation: Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Alarm Systems	Tongwen Chen
Wed. Feb 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Event-triggered and Self-triggered Control	Paulo Tabuada
Wed. Mar 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Xampling-- Analog-to-digital at Sub-Nyquist rates	Yonina Eldar
Wed. Mar 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Three talks for the price of one: 1. Concatenated polar codes 2. Coding for causal adversaries 3. Robust network tomography	Sid Jaggi
Wed. Mar 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Learning from sensitive data-- balancing accuracy and privacy	Anand Sarwate
Wed. Mar 31, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Deterministic Channel Models: an Overview	Giuseppe Caire
Wed. Apr 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248	TBD	Open
Wed. Apr 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Traffic pattern analysis and load balancing in negatively curved networks	Edmond A. Jonckheere
Wed. Apr 21, 3:00pm. EEB 248	Multi-user Effort Allocation	Mihaela van der Schaar
Wed. Apr 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Using structural properties of rare events for better system design-- examples from codes and circuits	Lara Dolecek
Wed. May 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248	Altruism, Selfishness, and Spite in Traffic Routing	Po-An Chen
Monday May 24, 2:00pm. HED 116,	A Rate-Distortion Perspective on Multiple Decoding Attempts for Reed-Solomon Codes	Henry Pfister
Wed. June 2, 2:00pm. EEB 539	Interference Alignment-- Principles and Applications	Viveck Cadambe
Wed. June 9, 2:00pm. room TBD	Deterministic Channel Models: an Overview 2	Giuseppe Caire
Tue. June 15, 1:00pm. EEB 349	Equality conditions for the quantum f-relative entropy and generalized data processing inequalities	Naresh Sharma

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