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Spring 2008

CS/GRAND Seminar: When computers look at art: Image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts

Monday 12:00 Noon, May 05, 2008, Jonhson Center, Gold Room
David G. Stork, Chief Scientist,
Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University

GRAND Seminar: What Is Real Motion And Would We Know If We Saw It

Tuesday 12:00 Noon, April 29, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Alexander Razzook, Project Engineer
Physical Disabilities Branch
Rehabilitation Medicine Department
The National Institutes of Health
Naomi Lynn Gerber, Professor
Director, Center for Study of Chronic Illness and Disability
George Mason University

Software Engineering Seminar: Software Self-Adaptation: A study of the field

Monday 1:00PM, April 28, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Nikolaos Abatzis, Master Student
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

Software Engineering Seminar: A Survey of Trust Management Systems

Monday 1:00PM, April 28, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Dalal Al-Arayed, PhD Student
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

Software Engineering Seminar: An Industrial Case Study of Bypass Testing on Web Applications

Monday 1:00PM, April 21, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Jeff Offutt, Professor
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

System and Networking Seminar: Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation

Friday 3:00PM, April 18, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Ryan Farley, Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Visualizing & Exploring Networks using Semantic Substrates

Tuesday 12:00 Noon, April 15, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Aleks Aris, PhD Candidate in Computer Science
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
University of Maryland, College Park

GRAND Seminar: Deriving structural properties of the rat hippocampus: A computational approach

Tuesday 12:00 Noon, April 08, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Deepak Ropireddy
Krasnow Institute
George Mason University

System and Networking Seminar: Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks

Friday 3:00PM, April 04, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Muhammad Abdulla, Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Detecting Functional Modules in Heterogeneous Biological Data

Thursday, 11:00AM-12:00Noon, April 03, 2008, Johnson Center, Gold Room
Alexander Schliep, PhD
Department of Computational Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biology

GRAND Seminar: Heuristic Search And Information Visualization Methods For School Redistricting

Tuesday 12:00 Noon, April 01, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Marie desJardins, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Molecules in Motion: Computing Structural Flexibility

Thursday, 11:00AM-12:00Noon, March 27, 2008, Research I, Room 163
Amarda Shehu, PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
Rice University

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Multiscale Modeling of Calcium Dynamics in Ventricular Myocytes: from Imaging to Simulation

Monday, 11:00AM-12:00Noon, March 24, 2008, Research I, Room 163
Zeyun Yu, Postdoctorl Fellow,
Department of Mathematics
University of California San Diego

System and Networking Seminar: SQLProb: A Proxy-based Architecture towards Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

Friday 3:00PM, March 21, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Anyi Liu, Ph.D. student
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Structure and Function of Proteins Using Computational Methods

Thursday, 11:00AM-12:00Noon, March 20, 2008, Research I, Room 163
Huzefa Rangwala, PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Darshak: A Planning System for Cinematic Visual Discourse Generation in Virtual Environments

Tuesday, 11:00AM-12:00Noon, March 18, 2008, Research I, Room 163
Arnav Harish Jhala, PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: The Road to Human-Level AI in Wargames: Algorithms for Implementing the Five Canonical Offensive Maneuvers in a CGF Environment and Making Tactical Decisions Drawing Upon Knowledge Acquired from a Dataset of Historical Battles

Monday, 11:00AM-12:00Noon, March 17, 2008, Johnson Center, Gold Room
David Ezra Sidran, PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Iowa

System and Networking Seminar: Secure Structures for Symmetric Key Ciphers and Their Applications

Friday 4:00-5:30PM, March 07, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Debra Cook, Ph.D., Researcher
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Interdisciplinary Visualization and Interactive Computin

Thursday, 10:30-11:30AM, March 06, 2008, Johnson Center, Gold Room
Daniel Keefe, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Visualization Research Lab
Brown University

CS Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Interpersonal Simulation

Tuesday, 11:00Am-Noon, March 04, 2008, SUBII, Ballroom Front
Kyle Johnsen, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
University of Florida

System and Networking Seminar: Exploiting Hardware/Software Interactions for Embedded Systems Design

Friday 1:30-3:00PM, February 22, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Sibin Mohan, Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science Department
North Carolina State University

Joint ECE/CS Seminar: On the Use of Source Coding as a Tool for Network Protocols Design and Evaluation

Wednesday 11:00AM-Noon, February 20, 2008, SUBII Room 5&6
Alhussein Abouzeid, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

GRAND Seminar: Probabilistic Topic Modeling for Text Data

Tuesday 12:00 Noon, February 12, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Loulwah AlSumait, Ph.D. student
Department of Computer Science
George Mason University

PhD Defense: Service Assurance in Insecure Networks with Byzantine Adversaries

Monday 10AM, February 11, 2008, STII Room 430A
Paul Rabinovich
Advisor: Dr. Robert Simon

CS Seminar: VoIP over 802.11

Thursday 2:00-3:30PM, February 07, 2008, SUBII Room 5&6
Henning Schulzrinne, Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University

System and Networking Seminar: Dynamic Bi-Overlay Rotation for Streaming with Heterogeneous Devices

Friday 3:00PM, January 25, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Dongyu Liu, Ph.D. student
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Two New Methods for Predicting Outcome in Cancer Patients

Tuesday 12:00 Noon, January 22, 2008, STII, Room 430A
Dechang Chen, Associate Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Science

Fall 2007

GRAND Seminar: Machine learning techniques in image analysis of Bio-Structures

Thursday Noon, December 06, 2007, STII Room 430A
Ajay Nagarajan, Ph.D. student
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

CS/ISE Seminar: The Wireless Networks Program at the National Science Foundation

Thursday 10:30AM-12:00Noon, December 06, 2007, STII Room 430A
Jie Wu, Program Director
CISE/CNS/NeTS
National Science Foundation

System and Networking Seminar: Scaling Properties of Worst-Case Delays in Networks

Friday 3PM, November 30, 2007, STII Room 430A
Florin Ciucu, Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto

GRAND Seminar: Serious Games and Robotics in Command and Control: Kinetics meets Information

Thursday Noon, November 29, 2007, STII Room 430A
Jay Crossler, Ph.D. student
George Mason University

CS/ISE Seminar: Biclustering Bioinformatic Data Sets Using a Possibilistic Approach

Wednesday 2PM, November 28, 2007, STII Room 430A
Francesco Masulli, Associate Professor
University of Genova, Italy

CS/ISE Seminar: Satisfying Complex Data Needs using Pull-Based Online Monitoring of Volatile Data Sources

Tuesday 11AM, November 27, 2007, STII Room 430A
Avigdor Gal, Associate Professor
Israel Institute of Technology

PhD Defense: Reliable Bulk Data Dissemination in Sensor Networks

Monday 11AM, November 26, 2007, STII Room 430A
Leijun Huang
Advisor: Dr. Sanjeev Setia

GRAND/SANR Seminar: Online Buffer Management

Thursday Noon, November 8, 2007, STII Room 430A
Fei Li, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
George Mason University

CS/ISE Seminar: Machine Learning with Adaptive Data Transformation

Tuesday 1:30PM, November 6, 2007, SUBII Room 6-7
Carlotta Domeniconi, Assistant Professor
Department of Information and Software Engineering
George Mason University

CS/ISE Seminar: Healthcare Informatics: The Subject, the Challenges, the Opportunities

Friday 2PM, November 2, 2007, STII Room 430A
Khalid Moidu, Professor
Farokh Alemi, Professor
College of Health & Human Services
George Mason University

System and Networking Seminar: OpenTor: Anonymity as a Commodity Service

Friday 3PM, October 26, 2007, STII Room 430A
Angelos Stavrou, Assistant Professor
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Flexible Metrics in Machine Learning

Thursday Noon, October 25, 2007, STII Room 430A
Carlotta Domeniconi, Assistant Professor
Information and Software Engineering Department
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Multi-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Thursday Noon, October 18, 2007, STII Room 430A
Keith Sullivan, Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

CS/ISE Seminar: Critical Infrastructure Protection: The Research Challenge in Europe

Wednesday 11AM, October 17, 2007, STII Room 320
Emiliano Casalicchio, Associate Professor
Computer Science, Systems and Production Department
University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy

CS Seminar: The Future of Internet Security

Friday Noon-1PM, October 12, 2007, Johnson Center Room E
Steven M. Bellovin, Professor
Computer Science Department
Columbia University

GRAND Seminar: Static and Motion Based Approaches to Biometric Gait Recognition

Thursday Noon, October 11, 2007, STII Room 430A
Ed Lawson, Ph.D. Student
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Minimizing Distortion in Information Hiding

Thursday Noon, October 4, 2007, STII Room 430A
Younhee Kim, Ph.D. Candidate
George Mason University

System and Networking Seminar: Billing Attacks on SIP-Based VoIP Systems

Friday 3PM, September 28, 2007, STII Room 430A
Xinyuan Wang, Assistant Professor
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Kernel and Spectral Methods for Clustering

Thursday Noon, September 27, 2007, STII Room 430A
Maurizio Filippone, Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Genova, Italy

System and Networking Seminar: Intrusion Detection on Rootkit

Friday 3PM, September 14, 2007, STII Room 320
Jing Jin
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Discovering Unusual Patterns in Massive Time Series Data

Thursday Noon, September 13, 2007, STII Room 430A
Jessica Lin, Assistant Professor
George Mason University

GRAND Seminar: Probabilistic Motion Planning Methods and Their Applications

Thursday Noon, September 6, 2007, STII Room 430A
Jyh-Ming Lien, Assistant Professor
George Mason University

System and Networking Seminar: Enabling "Out-of-the-Box" Malware Detection with Virtual Machines

Friday 3PM, August 31, 2007, STII Room 320
Xuxian Jiang, Assistant Professor
George Mason University

Summer 2007

PhD Defense: Securing Public and IP Telephone Networks

Wednesday 10:00AM, July 25, 2007, Research I Room 401
Hemant Sengar
Advisor: Dr. Sushil Jajodia and Dr. Duminda Wijesekera

PhD Defense: Deducing Fatigue and Cognitive Engagement from Eye Region Biometrics

Tuesday 10:30AM, July 17, 2007, STII Room 430A
Ricci L. Heishman
Advisor: Dr. Zoran Duric and Dr. Duminda Wijesekera

ISE/C4I Seminar: Information Fusion from Databases, Sensors and Simulations - A Research Initiative for a Common Approach

Friday 11AM-Noon, June 15, 2007, Research I Room 163
Gunnar Mathiason (University of Skövde) and Per Gustavsson (SAAB, University of Skövde)

May 2007

PhD Defense: An Analysis of Island Models in Evolutionary Computation

Friday 1:00PM, May 11, 2007, STII Room 430
Zbigniew Skolicki
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth De Jong

CS/ISE Seminar: Scenarios Read by People and Software

Friday 11AM-Noon, May 11, 2007, Research I Room 163
Thomas Alspaugh, Assistant Professor
Department of Informatics
University of California Irvine

April 2007

PhD Defense: Coupling-based Analysis of Object-Oriented Software

Monday 1:00PM, April 30, 2007, STII Room 330B
Aynur Abdurazik
Advisor: Dr. Jefferson Offutt

CS/ISE Seminar: Secure Two-Party Computation in Two Rounds

Monday 11AM-Noon, April 23, 2007, Research I Room 163
David Omer Horvitz, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park

CS/ISE Seminar: Trends in the Game and Film Entertainment Industry

Thursday 10:30AM-11:30AM, April 12, 2007, STII Room 430
Bing McCoy,
Stone Foundation Entertainment

CS/ISE Seminar: An Overlay Architecture for End-to-End Service Availability

Monday 10AM-11AM, April 9, 2007, Research I, Room 163
Angelos Stavrou, Ph.D. Candidate
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia University

CS/ISE Seminar: Community Discovery and Analysis in Biological Networks

Thursday 11AM-Noon, April 5, 2007, Research I Room 163
Jianhua Ruan, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

CS/ISE Seminar: Co-evolution (Correlated Mutations) as An Indicator of Protein and Domain Interactions

Tuesday 10AM-11AM, April 3, 2007, Research I Room 163
Raja Jothi, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health(NIH)
National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD

CS/ISE Seminar: Optimal K-mer Superstrings for Protein Identification and DNA Assay Design

Monday 10AM-11AM, April 2, 2007, Research I Room 163
Nathan Edwards, Ph.D.
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Maryland, College Park

March 2007

CS/ISE Seminar: Circuit Lower Bounds

Thursday 10:30AM-11:30AM, March 29, 2007, Research I, Room 163
Rahul Santhanam, Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

CS/ISE Seminar: Online Buffer Management in QoS Switches

Tuesday 10AM-11AM, March 27, 2007, Research I Room 163
Fei Li, Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science Department
Columbia University

CS/ISE Seminar: Reductions for Comparing Access Control Models

Monday 10AM-11AM, March 26, 2007, Research I, Room 163
Mahesh V. Tripunitara, Ph.D.
Motorola Labs

CS/ISE Seminar: Accounting for Context and Lifetime Factors: A New Approach for Evaluating Regression Testing Techniques

Friday 10AM-11AM, March 23, 2007, Research I, Room 163
Hyunsook Do, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

CS/ISE Seminar: Succinct Data Structures: External and Dynamic

Tuesday 11AM-Noon, March 20, 2007, Research I, Room 163
Rahul Shah, Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
Purdue University

CS/ISE Seminar: Detecting and Tracking Inconsistencies in Software Design Models

Monday 11AM-Noon, March 19, 2007, Research I, Room 163
Alexander Egyed, Ph.D.
Teknowledge Corporation
University of Southern California

CS/ISE Seminar: A User-Centric Approach for Improving a Distributed Software System's Deployment Architecture

Wednesday 1PM-2PM, March 7, 2007, SUBII Ballroom(Front)
Sam Malek, Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California

Bioinformatics Seminar: Multi- and Large-Scale Systems Modeling and Analysis: Cellular Metabolic Dynamics in Tissue-Organ and Whole-Body Systems

Friday 11AM, March 2, 2007, Verizon Auditorium, Occoquan Building, Prince Williams Campus
Gerald M. Saidel
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Modeling Integrated Metabolic Systems
Case Western Reserve University

February 2007

Seminar: Providing Assurance of the Correctness of Security-critical Code: Two Approaches Based on Formal Methods

Tuesday 11:00AM-Noon, February 20, 2007, Research I Room 401
Elizabeth I. Leonard, Ph.D.
Myla Archer, Ph.D.
Center for High Assurance Computer Systems
Naval Research Laboratory

IT & E Seminar: Computational Hemodynamics for the Evaluation and Treatment of Brain Aneurysms

Friday 11:00AM, February 16, 2007, STII Room 320
Juan Cebral, Associate Professor
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
College of Science
George Mason University

PhD Defense: Workload Characterization and Business-Oriented Performance Improvement Techniques for Online Auction Sites

Monday 1:00PM, February 12, 2007, STII Room 430A
Vasudeva Akula
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Menascé

January 2007

IT & E Seminar: Mining Gene Expression Data for the Presence of Genetic Variation

Tuesday 11:00AM, January 23, 2007, STII Room 320
Jennifer Weller, Associate Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
School of Computational Sciences
George Mason University

December 2006

Joint C4I/CS/ISE Seminar: Adaptive Service-Oriented Application Architecture and System Engineering

Friday 2:00PM, December 8, 2006, STII Room 320
Raymond Paul
Technical Director for Command and Control (C2) Policy
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Networked Information Infrastructure

PhD Defense: Learning From Data Streams Using Transductive Inference and Martingale

Wednesday 9:30AM, December 6, 2006, STII Room 430
Shen-Shyang Ho
Advisor: Dr. Harry Wechsler

Joint C4I/CS/ISE Seminar: RFID in the U.S. Department of Defense

Tuesday 2:00PM, December 5, 2006, STII Room 320
Nick Tsougas, Director
RFID programs
SRA International

PhD Defense: An Analysis of Two-Population Co-evolutionary Computation

Friday 2:00PM, December 1, 2006, STII Room 430
Elena Popovici
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth DeJong

November 2006

IT & E Seminar: Simulation and Virtual Reality for Education and Medical Applications

Tuesday 1:30PM, November 21, 2006, SUBI Room A
Jim X. Chen, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
George Mason University

Seminar: Using Honeyclients for Detection and Response Against New Attacks

Thursday 11:00AM-Noon, November 16, 2006, Research I Room 401
Kathy Wang
The MITRE Corporation

Joint CS/ISE Seminar: Some Recent Advances in Near-neighbor Statistical Learning

Monday 2:00PM, November 6, 2006, STII Room 330B
Maya Gupta, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington

PhD Defense: An Integrated Approach to Rule Refinement for Instructable Knowledge-Based Agents

Monday 10:30AM, November 6, 2006, Research I Room 401
Cristina Boicu
Advisor: Dr. Gheorghe Tecuci

October 2006

Joint CS/ISE Seminar: Low-Power Real-Time Computing

Tuesday 2:00PM-3:00PM, October 31, 2006, SUBII Room 3014, Meeting Room 3
Hakan Aydin, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
George Mason University

Krasnow Monday Seminar: Very Large Scale Agent Systems and Emergent Macroeconomics

Monday 4:00PM, October 30, 2006, Krasnow Institute Building Room 229
Robert Axtell,
Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow Institute, George Mason Univ
Sante Fe Institute, and Brookings Institution

Joint CS/ISE Seminar: Near Duplicate Document Detection

Thursday 3:00PM, October 19, 2006, STII Room 430
Abdur Chowdhury
http://www.ir.iit.edu/~abdur/

Seminar: Malicious Transactions in Mobile Database Systems

Wednesday 11:00AM-Noon, October 18, 2006, Research I Room 401
Vijay Kumar, Professor
Computer Science & Informatics
University of Missouri-Kansas City

PhD Defense: Secure Real-Time Service Protocols in the DOD Environment

Tuesday 10:00AM-Noon, October 17, 2006, STII Room 330B
Barry P. Sweeney
Advisor: Dr. Duminda Wijesekera

Seminar: Research Issues of Privacy Access Control Enforcement Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Healthcare Services

Thursday 11:00AM-Noon, October 12, 2006, Research I Room 401
Patrick C. K. Hung, Assistant Professor
Business and Information Technology
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada

ECE Seminar: QoS-Driven Cross-Layer Optimized Resource Allocation Over Wireless Networks

Wednesday 1:30-2:30PM, October 11, 2006, SUBII Room 7
Xi Zhang, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University

September 2006

Seminar: VR for Training and Gaming:Can We Fly for Real?

Wednesday 10:00AM, September 27, 2006, STII Room 430
Kai-Uwe Doerr
University of California, Irvine
California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology

Joint CS/ISE Seminar: Extracting Topics from Web Archives: Stochastic k-Means Analysis

Tuesday 11:00AM-Noon, September 26, 2006, STII Room 430
Hiromichi Fujisawa
Stanford University
Hitachi Research Labs, Tokyo, Japan

Seminar: Exploiting Open Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks

Monday 2:00-3:00PM, September 25, 2006, Research I Room 401
Patrick McDaniel, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

Joint CS/ISE Seminar: Steering Behaviors for Autonomous Vehicles in Virtual Environments

Tuesday 10:30AM, September 12, 2006, STII Room 430
Joseph Kearney, Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Iowa

PhD Defense: Protecting Privacy in Released Database Views

Tuesday 11:00AM, September 5, 2006, STII Room 320
Chao Yao
Advisor: Dr. Sushil Jajodia and Dr. X. Sean Wang