Research
MassAITC Webinar: Comprehending Human Behaviors using Wireless Sensing on Everyday Wearables
Cheng Zhang (Cornell University) will present research on the development of everyday wearables that are minimally obtrusive yet capable of capturing movement.
NLP Seminar: Akari Asai (University of Washington), Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
In this talk, Asai will urge the necessity of moving beyond the traditional scaling of monolithic LMs and advocate for Augmented LMs.
PhD Thesis Defense: Mehmet Savasci, SLO-Aware Power Management for Elastic Cloud Applications
PhD Thesis Defense: Mehmet Savasci, SLO-Aware Power Management for Elastic Cloud Applications
NLP Seminar: Wenting Zhao (Cornell University), Reasoning in the Wild
In this talk, Wenting Zhao will discuss how to build natural language processing (NLP) systems that solve real-world problems requiring complex reasoning.
Seminar: Haiying Shen (University of Virginia), Resource Optimization for ML Inference Serving
With the growing popularity of deep learning models, minimizing the monetary costs and maximizing the goodput of inference-serving systems has become critical.
UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Harsh Chaudhari, Propagation of Adversarial Bias to Distilled Language Models
This talk investigates the vulnerability of distilled language models to adversarial injection of biased content during training.
Cybersecurity Institute Hackathon
Save the date: on Friday, October 24, the Cybersecurity Institute will be holding its third annual hackathon in LGRC A112.
PhD Thesis Defense: James Kostas, Coagent Networks: Reinforcement Learning with Asynchronous Stochastic Neural Networks
PhD Thesis Defense, James Kostas
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally, Beyond the Hopfield Memory Theory: Dynamic Energy Landscapes and Traveling Waves in RNNs
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally
Data Science Deep Dive: "Getting Started with Data Products: The People, Processes, & Tools"
In this webinar, we will break down the key steps to establish a strong foundation for data products.
Data Management Seminar: Kaisong Huang (Simon Fraser University), Systematic Latency Optimizations for Modern Database Systems
In this seminar, Kaisong Huang will present my research on optimizing latency for modern database systems built on multicore CPUs, large memory, and NVMe SSDs.
Mass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Om Thakkar, Privacy Leakage in Speech
In this talk, we first explore two primary types of privacy leakage: extraction attacks and memorization audits.