List of qualifying seminars - Fall 2013

1. Aug 28, 11:00am-noon, ENG-4201
   Dharmendra Sharma, Professor, Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra
   Knowledge Discovery for Computational Intelligence Research (KDCIR)
2. Sep 25, 2:00-3:00pm, ENG-4201
   Yu Le, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Arlington
   Combinatorial Testing-Based Fault Localization
3. Oct 09, 2:00-3:00pm, Research Hall 163
   Huzefa Rangwala, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, George Mason University
   Machine Learning Approaches for Annotating Biological Data
4. Oct 17, 2:00-3:00pm, Research Hall 163
   Amarda Shehu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, George Mason University
   Advancing Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation: A Probabilistic Approach for Characterizing Complex Systems in the Presence of Constraints
5. Oct 04, noon-1:00pm, ENG-4201
   Gang Qu, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park
   Hardware in Cybersecurity: from the Weakest Link to Great Promises
6. Oct 18, 11:00am-noon, ENG-4201
   Aziz Mohaisen, Research Scientist, VeriSign Labs
   There's Always Room for Improvement: Dissecting Bad Codes with Chatter and AVMeter
7. Oct 23, 11:00am-noon, Research Hall 163
   Vipin Kumar, William Norris Professor and Head, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota
   Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research
8. Oct 16, 11:00am-noon, The Hub (SUB II), Meeting Room 4
   Anthony Stefanidis, Director, Center for Geospatial Intelligence, George Mason University
   Harvesting Geospatial Intelligence from Social Media Feeds
9. Nov 01, 11:00am-noon, ENG-4201
   Wenjing Lou, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech
   Wireless Security and Privacy: From Crypto-based Protection to Cross-Layer Security Enhancement
10. Oct 28, 4:30-5:30pm, Exploratory Hall 3301
    Huzefa Rangwala, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, George Mason University
    A Machine Learning Framework for Analyzing Protein-molecule Interactions
11. Nov 11, 1:00-2:00pm, ENG-4201
    Rina Dechter Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Irvine
    From AND/OR Search to AND/OR Sampling
12. Nov 20, 11:00am-noon, Research Hall 163
    Annie I. Antón, Professor and Chair, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Designing Software Systems that Comply with Privacy and Security Regulations
13. Nov 22, 2:00-4:00pm, ENG-4201
    David DeBarr, PhD Candidate, George Mason University
    Spam, Phishing, and Fraud Detection Using Random Projections, Adversarial Learning, and Semi-Supervised Learning (Dissertation Defense)
14. Dec 4, 1:00-3:00pm, ENG-4801
    Susan Farley, PhD Candidate, George Mason University
    Top-K Algorithms for SimQL: A Decision Guidance Query Language Based on Stochastic Simulation (Dissertation Defense)
15. Dec 2, 1:00-3:00pm, ENG-4201
    Jing Jin, PhD Candidate, George Mason University
    Towards Evasive Attacks: Anomaly Detection Resistance Analysis on the Internet (Dissertation Defense)
16. Nov 18, 2:00-3:00pm, ENG-4201
    Krzysztof (Chris) Krawiec, Associate Professor, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland (currently Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT)
    Guiding Evolutionary Learning by Behavioral Evaluation
17. Dec 11, 1:00-3:00pm, ENG-4801
    Uday Kamath, PhD Candidate, George Mason University
    Evolutionary Machine Learning Framework for Big Data Sequence Mining (Dissertation Defense)
18. Dec 6, 11:00-noon, Johnson Center 337, Meeting Room G
    Jim Fill, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University
    Distributional Convergence for the Number of Symbol Comparisons Used by QuickSort