Computer Science Colloquia & Seminars are held each semester and sponsored by the Computer Science department. Faculty invite speakers from all areas of computer science, and the talks are open to all members of the RPI community.
Computer Science Colloquia - Ben Greenman: Kicking the Ladder Away: From Gradual Types to Plain Types
Ben Greenman is an assistant professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. He earned his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 2020 and was a CIFellows 2020 postdoc at Brown University.
Computer Science Colloquia - Rajkumar Buyya - Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Quantum Computing
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Quantum Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (qCLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Computer Science Colloquia - Ke Wang - Beyond the Phase Ordering Problem: Finding the Globally Optimal Code with Respect to Optimization Phases
Ke Wang is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His work received a Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2020. He has served on the program committee for PLDI in 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2025. Prior to joining Visa Research, Dr.
Computer Science Colloquia - Chen Wang - Efficient and Robust Learning Algorithm Design: Online Learning and Clustering
Chen Wang is a postdoctoral researcher hosted jointly by Vladimir (Vova) Braverman at Rice University and Samson Zhou at Texas A&M University.
Computer Science Colloquia - Jaemin Cho - Modular and Interpretable Multimodal AI for Improved Generation and Evaluation
: Jaemin Cho is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Computer Science Colloquia - Sheshera Mysore - AI Models that Learn from Interaction with Users
Sheshera Mysore is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft in the Office of Applied Research. In May 2024, he earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Computer Science Colloquia- Utkarsh Ojha - On the creative potential of generative models and detecting their images
Utkarsh Ojha is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research work has centered around generative models for images.
Computer Science Colloquia - Clayton Thomas - Explaining Matching Mechanisms to Participants
Clayton Thomas is a postdoctoral researcher in the Economics and Computation group at Microsoft Research, New England.
Computer Science Colloquia - Ali Vakilian - Algorithms in the AI Age: Fair and Learning-Augmented
Ali Vakilian is a Research Assistant Professor at TTIC. His research interests include fairness of algorithms and machine learning, learning-augmented algorithms, and algorithms for massive data. Ali received his Ph.D.
Computer Science Colloquia- Edward Lee- Pragmatic Type and Effect Systems
Edward Lee is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, advised by Ondřej Lhoták.
Computer Science Colloquia- Josiah Dykstra - Getting Started with Cybersecurity Science
Dr. Josiah Dykstra is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Trail of Bits. He worked previously for 19 years at the National Security Agency (NSA).
Computer Science Colloquia - Jeremy Blackthorne: Debugging Programs for School, Fun, and Profit
In this seminar, we’ll show you better ways to debug which now you NEED to know since we’re all using ChatGPT to write programs and half the time it spits out nonsense.
