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CACS Seminars

During the academic year, the Center sponsors a weekly lecture series. These include research colloquia from faculty within the school, presentations from local and national companies, and colloquia from distinguished invited speakers.

Fall 2024

  • Colloquium: "A Multi-Enclave Architecture for Blockchain Admitting Proof of Useful Work for Consensus", Dr. Yuliang Zheng, University of Alabama at Birmingham (11/15/2024)
  • Colloquium: "How to Review Scientific Literature Effectively and Without Bias? (Part 3)", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (11/08/2024)
  • Colloquium: "How to Review Scientific Literature Effectively and Without Bias? (Part 2)", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (11/01/2024)
  • Colloquium: "How to Review Scientific Literature Effectively and Without Bias?" (Part 1), Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (10/25/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Skills You Need to Have to Become a Published Author in Academia (Part 2)", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (10/18/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Skills You Need to Have to Become a Published Author in Academia (Part 1)", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (10/11/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Advancing Data-Efficient and Robust Deep Learning in Biomedical Image Analysis", Dr. Hao Zheng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/27/2024)
  • Colloquium: "AI Cybersafe Innovations Lab (AICSIL): Shaping the Future of AI and Cybersecurity", Dr. Shuvalaxmi Dass, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/20/2024)
  • Colloquium: "An Unconventional Approach to Tiny Learning Machines: Learning from Sequences", Dr. Sercan Aygun, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/13/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Mitigating Unfairness of AI in Healthcare and Medicine", Dr. Min Shi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/06/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Welcome and Introduction to New Students", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (08/30/2024)

Spring 2024

  • Colloquium: "Discussion on Anonymity Networks", Dr. Jacques Bou Abdo, University of Cincinnati (04/19/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Five Pillars of a Successful Entrepreneur", Suresh Katta, Saama Technologies (04/12/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Hardware-Software Co-design for Real-time Latency-accuracy Navigation in TinyML Applications", Mr. Payman Behnam, Georgia Tech (04/05/2024)
  • Colloquium: "2-D Biosignal Processing for Automation in Disease Detection Based on Deep Neural Networks", Dr. Celia Shahnaz, BUET, Bangladesh (03/22/24)
  • Colloquium: "Emerging Trends and Demands in Technical Careers", Dr. Fahmida N. Chowdhury, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (03/15/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Gazing into the Future: Exploring Recent Trends in Eye Tracking and their Impact on Extended Reality and Privacy", Dr. Efe Bozkir, Technical University of Munich and University of Tübingen, Germany (03/08/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Explore the World of Opportunities and Volunteering Engagement through IEEE", Dr. Manisha Guduri, Visiting Scholar, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (03/01/2024)
  • Colloquium: "System-on-Chip (SoC) Design and Development Evaluation", Dr. Malcolm Mandviwalla, Intel Corporation (02/23/2024)
  • Colloquium:"Compiling for Trapped Ion Quantum Computers", Dr. Peter Campora, Quantinuum (02/16/2024)
  • Colloquium: "STEM Careers at the NSA and quantum computing", Sean Nemetz, NSA (02/09/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Advancements in Deep Learning Acceleration: Hardware and Software Perspectives", Mr. Vahid Janfaza, Texas A&M University (02/02/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Hypothesis Testing and the Multiple Comparison Problem", Dr. Phillip Whitman, Statistical Consulting Center, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/26/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Computing and Informatics Research Part II: Writing a Scientific Survey Paper: Purpose, Structure, Approach, and Applicability to Your Thesis/Dissertation", Dr. Michael W. Totaro, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/19/2024)
  • Colloquium: "Welcome and Introduction to New Students", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/12/2024)

Fall 2023

  • Colloquium: "Salvage Hardware Efficiency via Unary Computing in the Deep Learning Era", Dr. Di Wu, University of Central Florida (11/17/2023)
  • Colloquium: "VPP101: What is a Virtual Power Plant?", Roberto Dolci, Head GDS Battery Storage Solutions (11/10/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Developing a Growth Mindset to Accelerate Your Technical Career", Mr. David Maynor, Director of Consulting, CGI (11/03/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Introduction to Achronix FPGAs", Bill Jenkins, Achronix (10/27/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Merging Insights from Artificial and Biological Neural Networks for Neuromorphic Edge Intelligence", Dr. Charlotte Frenkel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (10/20/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Molecular Communication Platforms at Multiple Scales", Bige Deniz Unluturk, Georgia Institute of Technology (10/06/2023)
  • Colloquium: "PULP: RISC-V Based Heterogeneous Parallel Computing from IoT to HPC", Prof. Luca Benini, Prof. Davide Rossi, and Prof. Giuseppe Tagliavini, University of Bologna (Italy) (09/29/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Mitigating Cybersecurity Challenges from Software Misconfiguration with Bio-inspired Algorithms and Machine Learning", Dr. Shuvalaxmi Dass, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/22/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Computing and Informatics Research Part I: Scientific Method and Anatomy of the Research Paper", Dr. Michael W. Totaro, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/15/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Combination of Multi-objective Optimizations with Deep Neural Networks for Enhancing Overall Performances of RF and VLSI Designs", Dr. Lida Kouhalvandi, Dogus University, Turkey (09/08/2023)
  • Presentation: "CMIX Graduate Program and Degree Requirements", Dr. Sheng Chen, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/01/2023)
  • Presentation: "Welcome and Introduction to New Students", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (08/25/2023)

Spring 2023

  • Colloquium: "Workload Behavior-Driven Memory Subsystem Design for Hyperscale Workloads", Dr. Wei Shu, Tenstorrent (04/28/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Getting the Best of Both Worlds (IoT and Edge) using Hierarchical Inference", Dr. Jaya Prakash Champati, IMDEA Networks Institute (04/21/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Developing for Azure with Logic Apps", Jeremy Beckham, Architect and Leader (03/31/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Subspace Learning for One-class Classification", Dr. Fahad Sohrab, Tampere University, Finland (03/24/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Be Careful I Can Read Your Mind", Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (03/10/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Uncrewed Boats: Present and Future", Michael P. Scherer, Chance Maritime Technologies (03/03/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Streaming Accelerators for Highly Sparse GEMM on FPGAs", Dr. Reza Hojabr, Qualcomm AI Research (02/24/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Developing an Internet and Blockchain Emulator for Research and Education", Dr. Wenliang (Kevin) Du, Syracuse University (02/17/2023)
  • Colloquium: "AI+Systems: Edge-to-Cloud Systems for AI-based Applications", Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (02/10/2023)
  • Colloquium: "The Role of Machine Learning in Electronic Design Automation", Dr. Vidya A. Chhabria, Arizona State University (02/03/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Software Engineering for Reliability and Safety", Mark Harman, Meta Platforms (01/27/2023)
  • Colloquium: "Stochastic Bitstream-Based Vision and Learning Machines", Dr. Sercan Aygun, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/20/2023)
  • Colloquium: "GPUs, Machine Learning Resources and a Crash Course in Linux", Dr. Robert Minvielle, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/13/2023)

Fall 2022

  • Colloquium: "FPGA Data Frameworks: Abstraction and Schema-aware Processing for Edge/IOT Applications", Robert Morrow, SigmaX.ai (12/02/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Visual Studio/Azure DevOps/Azure App Services - working together", Chad Theriot, CBM Technology (11/18/2022)
  • Colloquium: "Serverless Computing across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum", Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (11/11/2022)
  • Colloquium: "Optimized Video Compression and Communications, for Modern Multimedia Systems", Dr. Farhad Pakdaman, Tampere University, Finland (11/04/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Efficient Computing Using Emerging Technologies", Dr. Masoud Zabihi, University of Minnesota (10/21/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Link Prediction for Optimizing Network Microsegmentation Policy", Dr. Steven Noel, MITRE’s Cyber Solutions Innovation Center (10/14/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Vision-based Algorithm Design for UAVs", Dr. Sedat Ozer, Ozyegin University, Istanbul (09/30/2022)
  • Colloquium: "Intelligent Weather Forecast", Dr. Nian-Feng Tzeng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/23/2022)
  • Colloquium: "Redesigning Machine Learning for Lightweight and Robust Artificial Intelligence", Dr. Yeseong Kim, DGIST, South Korea (09/16/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Computing with Switching Lattices", Dr. Mustafa Altun, Istanbul Technical University (09/09/2022) (Recording)
  • Presentation: "CACS Graduate Program and Degree Requirements and Computer System and Support", Dr. Sheng Chen and Dr. Robert Minvielle, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/02/2022)
  • Presentation: "Welcome and Introduction to New Students", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (08/26/2022)

Spring 2022

  • Presentation: "Unique Opportunities in Tech: Something Borrowed Blooms", Alissa Talbot, Something Borrowed Blooms (04/08/2022) 
  • Colloquium: "T-Reqs: HTTP Request Smuggling with Differential Fuzzing", Dr. Engin Kirda, Northeastern University (04/01/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Human Action Recognition in Videos", Dr. Alexandros Iosifidis, Aarhus University, Denmark (03/25/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Logic Synthesis for Approximate Circuits and Its Application", Dr. Weikang Qian, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (03/18/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Challenges in Modern Information Management - Data Management, Data Governance", Larry Baker, Ab Initio LLC (03/11/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Combatting Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks", Dr. Abdullah Yasin Nur, University of New Orleans (03/04/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Finding Vulnerabilities in Embedded Software", Dr. Christopher Kruegel, University of California, Santa Barbara (02/25/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Securing Cyber Physical Systems Against Novel Physical-Layer Attacks", Dr. Qiben Yan, Michigan State University (02/18/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Safe and Deadlock-free Cooperation of Connected Autonomous Vehicles", Dr. Mohammad Khayatian, Vecna Robotics (02/11/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Towards Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Multi-Access Edge Computing in Future Wireless Networks", Dr. Omid Semiari, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) (02/04/2022)(Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Emerging Storage Systems for Big Data", Dr. Bingzhe Li,  Oklahoma State University (01/28/2022) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Of Brains and Computers", Dr. Jan M. Rabaey, University of California Berkeley (01/21/2022) (Recording)
  • Presentation: "Welcome and Introduction", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/14/2022) (Recording)

Fall 2021

  • Presentation: "How to Make Your Own Businesses, Money, and Inventions", Noah Bergeron (UL Lafayette Office of Innovation Management) and Katherine Nebel (Opportunity Machine) (11/19/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Program Analysis for Security in Open Source Software", Dr. Navid Emamdoost, Google (11/12/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Reverse Attack: Black-box Attacks on Collaborative Recommendation", Yihe Zhang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (11/05/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Blockchain DoS Security and Communication Efficiency", Dr. Yuzhe Tang, Syracuse University (10/29/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Designing Simulation Tools for Modeling Analog Side-Channel Signals", Dr. Nader Sehatbakhsh, University of California, Los Angeles (10/22/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "DeepSpeed-Inference: Multi-GPU Inference for Large-scale Models", Dr. Reza Yazdani, Senior Research Engineer at Microsoft (10/15/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Digital Health Inclusion to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in the Era of 4IR", Dr. Khondaker A. Mamun, United International University (UIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh (10/01/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional System for Efficient and Robust Cognitive Learning", Dr. Mohsen Imani, University of California, Irvine (09/24/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "In-Memory Computing and Memristors", Dr. Nima TaheriNejad, TU Wien, Austria (09/17/2021) (Recording)
  • Colloquium: "Towards Secure and Robust AI Stack in Emerging Autonomous Cyber-Physical System", Dr. Qi Alfred Chen, University of California, Irvine (09/10/2021) (Recording)
  • Presentation: "CACS Graduate Program and Degree Requirements and Computer System and Support", Dr. Sheng Chen and Dr. Robert Minvielle, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/03/2021) (Recording)
  • Presentation: "Welcome and Introduction", Dr. Martin Margala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (08/27/2021) (Recording)

Spring 2021

  • Colloquium: "Fairness and Privacy In AI Applied to Healthcare", Dr. Philippe Burlina and Dr. Yinzhi Cao, Johns Hopkins University (04/30/2021) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Liquid Haskell: Refinement Type Checker for Haskell", Dr. Niki Vazou, IMDEA (04/23,2021) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things", Dr. Hongxin Hu, University at Buffalo, SUNY (04/09/2021)
  • Colloquium: "Reimagining the User Interfaces for Programming", Dr. Ravi Chugh, University of Chicago (03/26/2021)
  • Colloquium: "When Machine Learning Meets Security and Privacy: Challenges and Opportunities", Dr. Yuan Tian, University of Virginia (03/19/2021)
  • Colloquium: "Tech to Success", Barbara Sugg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Inc. (03/12/2021)
  • Colloquium: "Design and Analysis of Scheduling for Distributed Deep Learning and Federated Learning", Abeda Sultana, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (03/05/2021)
  • Colloquium: "Elastic-honeypot: Malicious Content Sniffers for Social Networks", Dr. Xu Yuan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (02/26/2021)
  • Colloquium: "Automation Tools for Gradually Typed Languages", Mr. John Peter Campora III, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (02/19/2021)
  • Colloquium: "Secure Federated Learning", Dr. Neil Gong, Duke University (02/12/2021)
  • Colloquium: "Engines of Play", Mr. Joel Gonzales, Senior Game Programmer, Firaxis Games (02/05/2021)

Fall 2020

  • Colloquium: "Charger Scheduling Optimization Framework", Xuan Li, PhD Candidate, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (10/30/2020)
  • Colloquium: "Keeping Pipelines Full", Mr. David Ducrest, Production Director, ExploreLearning's R&D Team (10/23/2020)

Spring 2020

  • Colloquium: "Research at Human-Computer Interaction Lab", HCI-Lab Group, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (02/21/2020)
  • Colloquium: "Network Science Research Group", Dr. Mehmet Tozal, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (02/14/2020)
  • Colloquium: "Energy-Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks Using Stochastic Computing", Dr. Hassan Najafi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (02/07/2020)
  • Colloquium: "Intro to Latex", Brad Burkman, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/31/2020)
  • Colloquium: "High Performance Cloud Computing Lab", Dr. Mohsen Amini, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/24/2020)
  • Colloquium: "PLOSE: Tackling Software Development Complexity", Dr. Sheng Chen and John Peter Campora, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/17/2020)

Fall 2019

  • Colloquium: "Cybersecurity of Industrial Control System", Mr. Roland Sako, Kaspersky kab (11/22/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Uncovering Server Side Vulnerabilities via Automated Mobile App Analysis", Dr. Zhiqiang Lin, The Ohio State University (11/21/2019)
  • Colloquium: "WEDS: Wireless Embedded Device Security Lab", Dr. Xiali Hei, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (11/15/2019)
  • Colloquium: "BAIL: Biological AI Lab", Dr. Anthony Maida, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (11/08/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Human-Machine Teams for Geospatial Applications", Mr. Brad Landreneau, US Naval Research Laboratory (11/01/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Agile Innovation in the Workplace", Mr. Kevin Normand, Fugro USA Marine, Inc. (10/25/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Laboratory for Internet Computing - Past, Present, and Future", Dr. Vijay Raghavan and TSR Project Team, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (10/18/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Intelligent Systems, Modeling and Simulation (ISMS) Lab: Research Overview", Dr Michael Totaro and group, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/27/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Creating Artificial Intelligence Based Art by Suing Turkish Art Genre - Ebru", Dr. Sebnem Ozdemir, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (09/06/2019)

Spring 2019

  • Colloquium: "Akamai Platform Data Services", Dr. Gesan Wang, Akamai Technologies (05/03/2019)
  • Coloquium: "Robust Dynamic Resource Allocation via Probablistic Task Pruning in Hetrogeneous Computing Systems", Dr. Mohsen Amini, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (04/26/2019)
  • Colloquium: "If Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the Answer, Then What is the Question"?, Dr. Rasiah Loganantharaj, University of Louisiana at aLafayette (04/05/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Machine Learning and Hardware Security Technologies for the IoT era: Challenges & Opportunities", Dr. Ram K. Krishnamurthy, Intel Labs USA (03/01/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Improving Gaming Experience through Usage of 3D User Interface Technologies", Dr. Arun Kulshreshth, University of Louisiana at aLafayette (02/12/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Performing Stochastic Computation Deterministically", Dr. Hassan Najafi, University of Louisiana at aLafayette (02/15/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Cyber-physical Attacks and Defenses for Sensor Systems", Mr. Connor Bolten, University of Michigan (02/08/2019)
  • Colloquium: "Record Route IP Traceback: Combining DoS Attacks and the Variants", Dr. Mehmet Tozel, University of Louisiana at aLafayette (02/01/2019)

Fall 2018

  • Colloquium: "Unsupervised Scalable Statistical Method for Identifying Influential Users in Online Social Networks", Dr. Antonio Fernandez Anta, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (10/12/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "What is High Performance Computing, and How Can I Use it?", Mr. J. Bradford Burkman, Louisiana School for Math. Science and the Arts (09/28/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Text and Problems: Mapping Books to Time", Dr. Aminul Islam, University of Louisiana at aLafayette (09/14/2018) (abstract)
  • Presentation: "CACS Graduate Program and Degree Requirements and Computer System and Support", Dr. Anthony Maida and Dr. Robert Minvielle, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (08/24/2018)

Spring 2018

  • Colloquium: "Jumping Finite Automata", Dr. Alexander Meduna, Brno University of Technology (04/27/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Product Innovation in a Privacy by Design World", Noble Ackerson, LynxFit and Google Developers Expert (04/20/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Ubiquitous Computing: What It Means to Me (And You)", Allen Firstenberg, Google Developer Expert (04/13/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Big Data from an Earth Scientist’s Perspective", Dr. Kurt Schwehr, Google and the University of New Hampshire (03/23/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Developing Big Data Systems and Predictive Analytics’ Workflows - Case Studies in Political, Environmental and Healthcare Domains", Dr. David Sathiaraj, Louisiana State University (LSU) (03/09/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Custom Visualization of Scientific Phenomenon", Dr. Rajeev Agrawal, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (03/02/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Fugro R&D: Joy in Product Development, Methodologies Employed, Processes, and Technologies", Mr. Kevin Normand, Fugro USA Marine, Inc. (02/23/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Privacy and Security Issues in Data Analytics and the Internet of Things", Dr. Jun Zhao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (02/21/2018) (abstract)
  • Presentation: "Computer Science and Engineering Meets Creativity and Communication: Exploring FIRST LEGO League (FLL) as a Vehicle for STEM Education and Effective Discourse", Team Phoenix, Dr. Douglas Williams and Ms. Anne Zappi Williams (02/16/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Holistic Cybersecurity from System, Human and Social Perspectives", Dr. Ziming Zhao, Arizona State University (02/05/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium:"Transfer Learning for Performance Analysis of Highly-Configurable Software Systems", Dr. Pooyan Jamshidi, Carnegie Mellon University (01/31/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium:"Visual Text Analytics for Exploring and Understanding Large Datasets", Dr. Enamul Hoque Prince, Stanford University (01/29/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Inference, Compression, and Control in Dynamic Networks", Dr. Abraham Magner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (01/24/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "A Synergy of Programming Language and Big Data Research", Dr. Sheng Chen, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (01/19/2018) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Automated Visual Flight Rule Mapping", Mr. Brad Landreneau and Dr. Chris J. Michael, Naval Research Laboratory (01/12/2018) (abstract)

Fall 2017

  • Colloquium: "UTS Data Science Strategic Plan for Next Five Years", Dr. Chengqi Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (11/17/2017)(abstract)
  • Colloquium: "From Graduate School to the Workplace: A Perspective", Dr. Edward Conrad, School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (11/10/2017) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "How Does Video Streaming Work?", Dr. Xiangbo Li, Video Engineer, Brightcove, Inc. (11/03/2017) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Cloud Computing - Trends and Challenges", Suraj Subramanian, Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Software Architect , CMS, IBM Corporation (10/27/2017) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "Multi-Target Prediction via Low-Rank Embeddings ", Inderjit S. Dhillon, Fellow: IEEE, ACM, AAAS, Gottesman Family Centennial Professor,  University of Texas at Austin (10/27/2017) (abstract)
  • Colloquium: "An Inside Look at the Marine Robotics Industry with ASV", Mr. William Ganucheau, Software Developer, ASV (10/20/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Secure Semantic Search over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud", Dr. Mohsen Amini, School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (10/13/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Driving Innovation Through the Optimal Use of Data", Bruce D. Greenstein, the CTO at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (09/28/2017) 
  • Colloquium: "Chip Multiprocessors and their Design Challenges on Cache Coherence", Wei Shu, School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/22/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Beauty and the Bits: Why your ACT and GPAWill Matter Less in the Future", Mr. Calvin Fabre, Founder and President, Envoc (09/15/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Minding the Gaps in Memory Forensics", Dr. Golden G. Richard III, Center for Computation and Technology (CCT), Louisiana State University (LSU) (09/08/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Research and Applications Development at the UL Lafayette Informatics Research Institute", Dr. Chee-Hung Henry Chu, School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/01/2017)
  • Colloquium: "CACS Graduate Program and Degree Requirements and Computer System and Support", Dr. Anthony Maida and Robert Minvielle, School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (08/25/2017)

Spring 2017

  • Colloquium: "Designing a Community-Based mHealth System", Dr. Beenish Chaudhry, University of Notre Dame (04/07/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Fusion of Multiple Heterogeneous Social Networks for Synergistic Knowledge Discovery", Mr. Jiawei Zhang, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (03/31/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Discovering and Mitigating Social Data Bias", Mr. Fred Morstatter, Computer Science Department, Arizona State University (03/29/2017)
  • Presentation: "Silicon Fingerprinting: Where Energy Efficiency Meets Security", Dr. Anys Bacha, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (03/27/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Configuration Formation Planning and Adaptive Locomotion Learning in Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots", Mr. Ayan Dutta, University of Nebraska at Omaha (03/24/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Exploring New Performance Limits of Wireless Networks", Dr. Xu Yuan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto (03/22/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Rethinking Cloud Storage System Software under Multi-Tenancy", Mr. Hui Lu, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University (03/20/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Towards Efficient Architecture Design in IoT Big Data Era: Integrating Intelligence into the Communication Path", Mr. Yang Hu, University of Florida (03/16/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Modern Applications of AI, Machine Learning, and Computational Game Theory to Security Domains", Dr. Hau Chan, Computer Science Department, Trinity University (03/15/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Visualizing the Dreams of Deep Neural Networks", Mr. Anh Nguyen, University of Wyoming (03/13/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Total Health: Empowering a Proactive and Preventive Healthcare System with Computing and Sensing", Dr. Feng Lin, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY (03/10/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Finding Interesting Regions in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Datasets", Dr. Christoph F. Eick, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston (03/10/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Addressing Challenging Problems in Science and Industry with A Little Help from Our Friends: Computational Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Agent-Based Modeling", Dr. Predrag Tosic, School of EECS, Washington State University (03/08/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Protein 3-D Structure Representation for Alignment-Free Comparison and Structural Motif Discovery of Proteins", Dr. Sumi Singh, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri (03/03/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Precise Medicine: Are we there yet?", Dr. Rasiah Loganantharaj (02/17/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Harnessing Malware Intelligence for Defense and Attribution", Dr. Arun Lakhotia (02/03/2017)
  • Colloquium: "Learning by Working in IT Projects with Industry", Dr. Sonya Hu, Informatics (01/20/2017)

Fall 2016

  • Colloquium: "Video Streaming using Cloud Services", Dr. Mohsen Amini, Computer Science Department (11/18/2016)
  • Presentation: "Deep Kernel: Enhancing Kernel Machines using Deep Learning", Dr. Ying Xie, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Co-Director, PhD in Analytics and Data Science Program, Kennesaw State University (11/11/2016)
  • Colloquium: "Improving Gaming Experience through Usage of 3D User Interface Technologies", Dr. Arun Kulshreshth, Computer Science Department (10/14/2016)
  • Presentation: "NeuMachine.com A New Deep Learning Company in Silicom Bayou", Mr. Joe Reed, Alumni of University of Louisiana at Lafayette (09/23/2016)
  • Presentation: "Programming Trading Aps",  Mr. Van Gothreaux, Triquant Analytics (09/16/2016)
  • Presentation: "Private Investigations Industry and Associated Technologies", Mr. Bill Connolly, IT Director, HUB Enterprises, Inc. and Mr. Robert Mouton, CPA, Chief Financial Officer, HUB Enterprises, Inc. (08/26/2016)

Spring 2015

  • Presentation: "Muddy Ponds to Mass Customization:The Evolution of Louisiana’s First Online Retailer", Mr. Tom Cox (04/17/15)
  • Colloquium: "Harnessing Intelligence from Malware Repositories", Dr. Arun Lakhotia (03/27/15)
  • Colloquium: "Compartmental Modeling for Biological Neural Cables using a Nonlinear Parabolic PDE", Dr. Anthony S. Maida (03/20/15)
  • Colloquium: "Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-Scale Graphs", Dr. Vijay V. Raghavan (03/13/15)
  • Presentation: "Cloud Computing at CenturyLink", Mr. Brad Nielsen, Mr. Tommy Hughes & Mr. David Burkhardt (03/06/15)
  • The 2015 Louisiana Distinguished Lecture Series: "Magic of Wireless Sensor Networks", Professor Dharma P. Agrawa (03/06/15)
  • Colloquium: "Facing The Future: Computing and Emotions", Mr. Boisy Pitre (02/13/15)
  • Colloquium: "Getting a Grasp on, and in, Virtual Reality", Dr. Christoph Borst (02/06/15)
  • Presentation: "Fugro R&D: Development Methodologies Employed, Processes and Technologies", Mr. Kevin Normand & Mr. Michael Venable (01/30/15)