Past Events

2023

• TSCP Workshop 'Invented Inventing Solutions for Critical Infrastructure," February 02, 2023.

2017

• Security-Informed System Safety Engineering (SISSE), May 29-21, 2017.
• Workshop on Brain-Computer Interfaces and Neuro-Engineering, April 18, 2017.
• Workshop on Sparse Representations & Compressive Sensing, March 20, 2017.

2016

• Workshop on Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems, by Minh Do, August 18, 2016.
• Energy Infrastructure Cyber Security Workshop, May 25, 2016.
• 2nd Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS) 2016, May 30, 2016.

2015

• "Workshop on Deep Learning," August 25, 2015.
• "Workshop on Mobile Health and Environment Sensing," May 26, 2015.
• 1st Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS) 2015, by Ravi Iyer, April 14-17, 2015.
• "Graph Data Management and Query Optimization," by Miao Qiao of The Chinese University of Hong Kong on January 16, 2015.
• "Algorithmic Problems in Network Connectivity Analysis," by Illinois Franklin W. Woeltge Professor David M. Nicol on January 15, 2015.
• "Lost in Genafyngvba: Why important knowledge in academia aren't translated into implementation, and what needs of the security community aren't understood by academia," by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undergraduate Sze Chuen Tan on January 14, 2015.

2014

• "Boosting Design Productivity for the Internet of Billons of Things," by Illinois Associate Professor Deming Chen on December 22, 2014.
• Singapore GPU Users Group Christmas Meeting, December 17, 2014.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society Winter School on Visual Image Search and Visual Analytics, December 16 - 19, 2014.
• Workshop on Natural Language Processing, December 16, 2014.
• "Building Impactful Technologies to Support Critical Infrastructure Resiliency," by Dr. Robin Berthier of the University of Illinois on December 15, 2014.
• "PoliCert: A Highly Resilient Public-Key Infrastructure," by Adrian Perrig of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich on November 24, 2014.
• "Cloud Computing Research," by Prof Roy Campbell of the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science on October 27, 2014.
• Singapore GPU Users Meeting on October 15, 2014.
• "Social Informatics," by Prof Maurizio Marchese of the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento on October 9, 2014.
• "Human-centered Computing: Challenges and Perspectives," by Prof Nicu Sebe of the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento on October 8, 2014.
• "Video Biometrics," by Amit Pande of University of California Davis on September 29, 2014.
• International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), September 18 - 20, 2014
• "Machine Learning Solutions to Difficult Acoustic Signal Processing Problems," by Illinois Professor Paris Smaragdis on September 17, 2014.
• "How to Write a Grant Proposal Abstract," by Marianne Winslett, on September 11, 2014.
• GPU Technology Workshop SEA 2014, July 10, 2014.
• “Tackling problems on Blue Waters, the fastest supercomputer on a university campus," by Dr. Cristina Beldica, Associate Director at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, on July 9, 2014.
• "Scale-out Energy-efficient Big-data Server: Thousand Cores In-Memory with Reconfigurable I/Os," by Dr. Yu Hao, Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, on May 30, 2014.
• "Behaviour Analysis Using Visual Cues," by Ramanathan Subramanian, ADC research scientist, on May 5, 2014.
• “From Information Extraction Research to Vertical Search Products: The Semantic Gap is more than the Structure Divide," by Kevin Chang, ADSC and Illinois CS faculty member, on April 4, 2014.
• "Prevention of Malware Propagation in AMI," by David Nicol, ADSC and Illinois ECE faculty member and ITI Director, on March 28, 2014.
• Workshop on Immersive Telepresence and Adaptive Streaming on March 18, 2014.
• "How Rich Interpretations of Scene Activities Can Be Obtained from Videos in an Unsupervised Fashion," by Dr. Jagan Varadarajan, ADSC Researcher on March 4, 2014.
• "Scaling I/O Beyond 100,000 Cores using ADIOS," by Scott A. Klasky of Oak Ridge National Laboratory on January 14, 2014.
• "Financial Freedom for Working Professionals," by Anthony Tse, Associate Director of IPP Financial Advisers Pte Ltd. on January 10, 2014.
• "Exemplar Cut," by Ming-Hsuan Yang, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Merced, on January 9, 2014.

2013

• "State of the Art in HPC @ SC13," by Gabriel Noaje, ADSC Senior Research Engineer on December 20, 2013.
• "Computational Genomics at UIUC," by Steve Lumetta, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on December 18, 2013.
• "Insights on Intellectual Property, IP Ownership and Other Start-Up Issues," by Lesley Millar, Director Office of Technology Management (OTM) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on December 6, 2013.
• "Open-source Tools for Code Management," by Swathi Gurumani, ADSC Principal Research Engineer, on November 28, 2013.
• Kick-off Meeting of the Singapore GPU Users Group on October 17, 2013.
• "Complex Electronic Systems: From Hardware to System Resiliency," by Sharad Sinha, Ph.D. candidate from the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, on October 4, 2013.
• "Roadmapping Reconfigurable Computing: Challenges & Current Progress," by Kyle Rupnow, Professor at Nanyang Technological University and ADSC Research Scientist, on August 6, 2013.
• "Automatic Recognition of Offensive Team Formation in American Football Plays," by Indri Atmosukarto, ADSC Research Scientist on July 29, 2013.
• London School of Economics Marketing Seminar, July 11, 2013
• "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.

2012

• 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.

2011

• "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).

2010

• 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.

2009

• 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.