Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
The Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) is an ongoing program in the Department of Computer Science (CS) where distinguished leaders are invited to present lectures to the computing community. Since it began in the Fall of 2000, the DLS has successfully hosted many prominent computer scientists.
Past DLS Lectures
Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
Measuring Cultural Variation using Natural Language Processing
November 08, 2024
Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill
Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation
December 06, 2024
Deborah Estrin, Cornell Tech
Digital Biomarkers and Immersive Therapeutics in the Age of Virtual Care
October 12, 2022
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh
Objective, Multimodal Measurement of Internalizing Disorders for Clinical Science
and Treatment
December 02, 2022
Rene Vidal, Johns Hopkins University
Explainable AI via Semantic Information Pursuit
February 10, 2023
Sal Stolfo, Columbia University
Phishing for Phishers
March 03, 2023
Robert Tarjan, Princeton University
Self-adjusting Data Structures
March 24, 2023
Daniel I. Rubenstein, Princeton University
AI for Conservation: AI and Humans Combating Extinction Together
September 20, 2019
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
Public Interest Technology Research and Education
November 15, 2019
Brian Kernighan, Princeton University
Millions, Billions, Zillions: Why (In)numeracy Matters
November 22, 2019
Patrick McDaniel, Pennsylvania State University
The Challenges of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings
December 06, 2019
Jason Nieh, Columbia University
Virtualization: Emerging Technologies and Trends
February 28, 2020
Yair Amir, Johns Hopkins University
Dependable Systems and Networks for a Complex World
September 28, 2018
Martial Herbert, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Challenges in Using Computer Vision in Robotics Systems
October 05, 2018
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
How Computer Science Informs Modern Auction Design
October 26, 2018
Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
Syntax-guided Program Synthesis
November 02, 2018
Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University
"Does This Vehicle Belong to You?" Processing the Language of Policing for Improving
Police-Community Relations
April 09, 2019
Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins University
Transcriptome Assembly: Computational Challenges of Next-Generation Sequence Data
November 01, 2017
Nir Shavit, MIT
High throughput connectomics: the making of a brain scope
November 17, 2017
Noah Smith, University of Washington
Syncretizing Linguistic and Learned Representations in Natural Language Processing
February 09, 2018
Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
From Robots to Biomolecules: Computing meets the Physical World
March 02, 2018
Jon Oringer, Shutterstock
The Art, Science, and Commerce of Image Search
April 20, 2018
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
Super-Human AI for Strategic Reasoning: Libratus Beats Top Pros in Heads-Up No-Limit
Texas Hold'em
May 04, 2018
Nick Feamster, Princeton University
Information Control in the Digital Age
October 07, 2016
Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania
3 Challenge Problems with Cyber Physical Systems and IoT
November 18, 2016
Alex Aiken, Stanford University
Programming Heterogeneous, Distributed Parallel Machines
January 25, 2017
Moshe Vardi, Rice University
The Automated-Reasoning Revolution: From Theory to Practice and Back
February 24, 2017
Carla P. Gomes, Cornell University
Challenges for AI in Computational Sustainability
March 10, 2017