Academic Year 2018-2019
| June 14, 2019 Sprague Hall Room 105 12:00PM – 1:00PM |
Erik Holmlin Bionano Genomics “Next-Generation Cytogenomics: High-throughput Mapping of Structural Variation in Genetic Disease”RSVP via Eventbrite |
| June 3, 2019 Donald Bren Hall Room 4011 12:00PM – 1:00PM |
Peter Sadowski Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawaii Manoa Co-Director of the AI Precision Health Institute at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center “Deep Learning for Extreme Remote Sensing: from Ocean Waves to Exocomets” |
| February 1, 2019 Donald Bren Hall Room 4013 3:00PM – 4:00PM |
Carlos Alberto Brizuela Rodríguez Researcher Computer Science Department CICESE Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico “A computational view of the side chain packing problem “ |
Academic Year 2017-2018
| April 9, 2018 Donald Bren Hall Room 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Sabino Miranda CONACYT Research Fellow INFOTEC “Towards a Multilingual and Error-Robust Approach for Sentiment Analysis” |
| March 12, 2018 Bren Hall Room 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Alessandro Achille PhD candidate at UCLA “The Emergence Theory of Deep Learning: Perception, Information Theory and PAC-Bayes” |
| January 10, 2018 Hitachi Lecture Hall at Hitachi Chemical Research Center (Plumwood House) Med Sci Complex Building 829 11:00AM – 12:00PM |
Indika Rajapakse Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Department of Mathematics University of Michigan Smale Institute “Dynamics and reprogramming of the human genome” |
Academic Year 2015-2016
| April 18, 2016 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Zachary Chase Amazon/UCSD “Learning to Diagnose with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks” |
| November 2, 2015 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Surya Ganguli Assistant Professor Department of Applied Physics Stanford University “The Statistical Physics of Deep Learning: on the Beneficial Roles of Dynamic Criticality, Random Landscapes, and the Reversal of Time” |
Academic Year 2014-2015
| March 30, 2015 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Pierre Baldi Professor Department of Computer Science UC Irvine “The Ebb and Flow of Deep Learning: a Theory of Local Learning” |
| January 26, 2015 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Dr. Richard Caruana Microsoft “Do Deep Models Really Need to Be Deep” |
Academic Year 2013-2014
| March 13, 2014 Bren Hall 4011 3:00PM – 4:00PM |
Peter G. Clote Professor of Biology with courtesy appointment in Computer Science Boston College “An overview of RNA Bioinformatics Tools developed by the Clote Lab” |
| March 3, 2014 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Hugo La Rochelle Member of the CREI research center Assistant Professor Département d’informatique Université de Sherbrooke “Deep Learning for Distribution Estimation” |
| February 7, 2014 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Joachim M. Buhmann Computer Science Department Machine Learning Laboratory ETH Zurich “What is the information content of an algorithm? “ |
| July 29, 2013 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Jurgen Schmidhuber Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA Professor of Artificial Intelligence at USI “Neural Network ReNNaissance” |
Academic Year 2012-2013
| June 10, 2013 Bren Hall 4011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
Mark Stalzer Center for Advanced Computing Research California Institute of Technology “Trends in Scientific Discovery Engines and Applications” |
| April 26, 2013 Bren Hall 6011 11:00AM – 12:00PM |
Laurent Itti Associate Professor, USC Computer Science, Psychology and Neuroscience “Computational modeling of top-down attention and visual behavior” |
| April 17, 2013 Bonney Conference Room 105 in the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
James Bower Professor of Computational Neuroscience Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio “The Hodgkin Huxley Model, Misunderstood by Experimentalists and Theorists” |
| April 17, 2013 Bren Hall 6011 4:30PM – 6:00PM |
James Bower Professor, Numedeon Inc. “What happens to STEM education if learning is based in virtual gaming worlds?” |
| April 15, 2013 Bren Hall 6011 1:00PM – 2:00PM |
William S. Noble Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington “The one-dimensional and three-dimensional structure of the genome” |
| January 25, 2013 Bren Hall 6011 11:00AM-12:00PM |
Robert L. Jernigan Director, L.H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology Iowa State University“Extracting Dynamics Information from Multiple Structures” |
| November 26, 2012 Bren Hall 3011 11:00AM-12:00PM |
Jonathan H. Chen Internal Medicine Resident, Expert Systems Informatics Department of Medicine Stanford University“Physician Order Suggestions Powered by Clinical Expertise Mined from (Undocumented) Order” |
| September 28, 2012 Bren Hall 6011 11:00AM-12:00PM |
Vasant Honavar Professor, Department of Computer Science. Director, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery Iowa State UniversityProgram Director, Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) Computer Science and Engineering DirectorateNational Science FoundationDepartment of Computer Science.“Computational Prediction of Protein Interfaces and Interactions“ |
Academic Year 2011-2012
| August 19, 2011 Bren Hall 4011 1:00-2:00PM |
Karsten Borgwardt Professor, Department of Machine Learning & Computational Biology of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology “Efficient Graph Mining“ |
| September 26, 2011 Bren Hall 4011 1:00-2:00PM |
Amir Atiya Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Cairo University, currently on temporary leave at Veros Systems, Texas. “Gaussian Processes for Classification“ |
| January 9, 2012 Bren Hall 4011 11:00am |
Wendy Warr, Ph.D. Wendy Warr & Associates “Adapt and Survive: the Changing Face of R&D in the Pharmaceutical Industry and its Impact on Cheminformatics” |
| February 6, 2012 Bren Hall 3011 11:00am |
S. Joshua Swamidass, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis “Mining Small-Molecule Screens to Repurpose Drugs” |
| May 14, 2012 Bren Hall 6011 11:00am |
Chloe-Agathe Azencott, Ph.D. Postdoctoral researcher, Machine Learning and Computational Biology research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen Germany “Guided feature selection from incomplete data for disease-gene prediction and chemoinformatics applications” |
Academic Year 2010-2011
| Aug 23, 2010 Bren Hall 3011 11:00am |
Andrea Vattani 3rd year Ph.D. student in computer science at UC San Diego “Clustering: complexity and popular procedures“ |
| Oct 4, 2010 Bren Hall 3011 11:00am |
Jianlin Cheng Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia “Challenges and Solutions to Protein Structure Prediction in the Post Genomic Era“ |
| Nov 1, 2010 Bren Hall 3011 11:00am |
Guido Germano Professor at David Geffen School of Medicine at UC Los Angeles. “Quantification of non-invasive cardiac imaging“ |
| Nov 4, 2010 Hitachi Lecture Hall 12:00-1:00pm |
Yijun Ruan, Ph.D. Senior Group Leader Associate Director, Genomics Technology Genome Institute of Singapore “Chromatin Looping Architecture and Models of Transcription Regulation in Human Cancer Cell“ |
| Nov 22, 2010 Gillespie 3135 11:00am | Diego di Bernando, Ph.D.
“Discovery of Drug Mode of Action and Drug Repositioning from Transcriptional Responses” |
| Feb 1, 2011 Bren Hall 3011 11:00am |
Wendy Warr Wendy Warr & Associates “Finding the “rich nitch” “ |
| March 28, 2011 Bren Hall 3011 1:00-2:00pm |
Klaus Robert Muller Professor at the Technical University of Berlin “Kernel machine and their applications” |
| May 10, 2011 Bren Hall 4011 11:00am |
Knut Reinert Professor at the University of Berlin, Institute of Computer Science “SeqAn — An efficient C++ library for NGS data analysis” |
| May 23, 2011 Bren Hall 4011 11:00am |
Mark Silberstein Postdoctoral Scholar, Israel Institute of Technology “Superlink-online: A Distributed Supercomputer for Hunting Disease Mutations” |
Academic Year 2009-2010
| Oct 1, 2009 Bren Hall 3011 12:30pm |
Victoria Mironova Institute for Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk “Auxin Regulation of Root Pattering “ |
| Oct 15, 2009 Bren Hall 6011 4:00pm |
James M. Bower Principle Founder: Whyville.net Chief Visionary Officer, Numedeon, Inc. Professor of Computational Biology University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio “Whyville a Virtual Learning World for children: 10 years old & going strong“ Sponsored & Moderated by Pierre Baldi, Institute for Genomics & Bioinformatics |
| Nov 12, 2009 Bren Hall 4011 11:00am |
Karine Le Roch Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience University of California, Riverside “Mapping Chromatin Structure and Nucleosome Fluctuation by massive Parallel Sequencing: A Genomic Approach to understand the Malaria Parasite Infection Cycle“ |
| Feb 16, 2010 Bren Hall 4011 11:00am |
S. Joshua Swamidass Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass is a recent graduate of UCI’s MD/PhD and BIT (Biomedical Informatics Training) programs and, after working as a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute at MIT/Harvard, is now completing a research and laboratory medicine residency in the physician scientist training program at Washington University. He has been continuing his work on high throughput screening analysis and chemical informatics, laying the foundation for an independent science career, while simultaneously completing his clinical training. “To Dose or Not to Dose? An Economic Framework for Prioritizing Confirmatory Experiment in the Context of High Throughput Screening” |
| March 5, 2010 Calit2 Auditorium 2:00pm |
Geoffrey Hinton Professor of Computer Sciene Canada Research Chair is Machine Learning Fellow of the Royal Society Canada Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence University of Toronto |