Past Research Colloquium Talks 

Fall 2011 Research Colloquium Talks 

Speaker

Date

Topic

Brian Eddy

August 29

Text retrieval based feature location

Lei Zeng

August 31

A survey of operating system logging

Yuguang Zeng

September 2

Interaction techniques for large displays

Dustin Heaton

September 7

Software engineering for computational scientists: a systematic literature review

Bo Fu

September 9

A survey of cross-layer designs in computer networks

Amiangshu Bosu

September 12

Building trust and reputation in open source organizations

Songqing Yue

September 14

Reflection and metaprogramming for high-performance computing

Dr. Nan Niu
University of Minnesota

October 5

Information Foraging as a Foundation for Code NavigationPDF icon

Dr. Ashraf Saad
Armstrong Atlantic University

October 21

Biological and Computational Principles for Creating Self-Evolving Software PDF icon

Dr. David Du
University of Minnesota

November 11

A New Era after the Convergence of Network Centric and Data Centric ComputingPDF icon

Allen Ray
SimplyHome, LLC

November 18

How Technology is Used to Solve Problems of Living Independently...A Practical Approach PDF icon

Dr. Ragib Hasan
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

December 2

Cloud Computing: A Silver Lining, or Security Nightmare? An Overview of Key Research Problems in Cloud Security PDF icon

Spring 2011 Research Colloquium Talks 

Speaker

Date

Topic

Zhifeng Xiao
University of Alabama

January 14

Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing

Dawei Li
University of Alabama

January 19

Green Networking

Md. Ashfakul Islam
University of Alabama

January 21

Data Management in Cloud Environments

Hyun Cho
University of Alabama

January 24

Domain Engineering Product Lines

Lei Zhao
University of Alabama

January 26

Vehicle Networks

Kazi Zunnurhain
University of Alabama

January 28

Security in Cloud Computing

Dr. K. Michael Reynolds
University of Central Florida

February 7

The Evolution and Current State of the Florida Integrated Network for Data Exchange and Retrieval (FINDER) Information Sharing System PDF icon

Dr. Yan Liu
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

February 11

Model Driven Approaches to Managing Software Performance PDF icon

Eugene Syriani
McGill University

February 25

Transformation Languages Tailored to Your Needs PDF icon

Dr. John Anvik
University of Victoria

March 23

Assisting Bug Report Triage through RecommendationPDF icon

Dr. Judy Qiu
Indiana University

April 15

Hybrid Cloud and Cluster Computing Paradigms For Scalable Data Intensive ApplicationsPDF icon

Fall 2010 Research Colloquium Talks 

Speaker

Date

Topic

Xiannuan Liang
University of Alabama

August 23

Issues in Network Security

Debarshi Chatterji
University of Alabama

August 25

Empirical Software Engineering

Shameka Dawson
University of Alabama

August 27

Autonomous Robotics

Ferosh Jacob
University of Alabama

August 30

Software Modeling

Jingcheng Gao
University of Alabama

September 1

Network Communications in Smart Grids

Jing Liu
University of Alabama

September 3

Security and Privacy in Smart Grids

Aziz Nanthaamornphong
University of Alabama

September 8

Current issues in Software Engineering

Michael Galloway
University of Alabama

September 10

Cloud Computing

Karl Smith
University of Alabama

September 13

Grid Computing

Dr. Romain Delamare
University of Alabama

September 27

Automatic Analyses for Testing Aspect-Oriented Programs

Dr. E. Vincent Cross II
Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories

October 13

Human Robot Interactions Advanced Topics

Dr. Sudipto Ghosh
Colorado State University

November 15

Aspect-Oriented Refactoring of Legacy Applications: An Evaluation

Dr. Michael Golm
Siemens

December 1

Use of Domain-Specific Languages for the Development and Configuration of Embedded Controllers

Spring 2010 Research Colloquium Talks 

Speaker

Date

Topic

Zhonghai Deng
University of Alabama

January 20

Target Acquisition Systems

Xiannuan Liang
University of Alabama

January 22

Game Theory in Collaborations

Edward Dillon
University of Alabama

January 25

Computer Interfaces for Novice Programmers

Miao Peng
University of Alabama

January 27

Geometric Algorithms in Reference Structure

Jeremy Pate
University of Alabama

January 29

Issues in Software Engineering

Brandon Bonds
University of Alabama

February 1

Grammarware Engineering

Robert France
Colorado State University

February 24

Why Modeling is Essential to Software Engineering

Dr. Christopher Jules White (Faculty Candidate)
Vanderbilt University

February 26

Techniques and Tools for Managing Cyber-Physical System Complexity

Dr. Daniel von Dincklage (Faculty Candidate)
Google

February 26

Improving Programmer Productivity Tools with Intended Semantics

Sergiu Dascalu
University of Nevada – Reno

March 2

Cyberinfrasctucture Developments for Nevada Climate Change Research

Lynne Parker
University of Tennessee

March 8

Generating Dynamic Multi-Robot coalitions for tightly-Coupled Tasks

Shiwen Mao
Auburn University

March 29

Video over Cognitive Radio Networks

Chunying (Emily) Zhao (Faculty Candidate)
The University of Texas at Dallas

March 31

Graph Transformation and Its Applications in Software Engineering

Dr. David Dampier
Director, National Forensics Training Center
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Mississippi State University

April 14

A Progression of Models for Digital Forensics

Phil Bording
Alabama A&M University

April 19

 

 

José E. Rivera (Eduardo)
PhD Student - Department of Computer Science
University of Málaga

April 26

On the Behavioral Semantics of Real-Time Domain Specific Visual Languages


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Fall 2009 Research Colloquium Talks 

Speaker

Date

Topic

Yanping Zhang
University of Alabama

August 24

Security  

Ke Meng
University of Alabama

August 26

Wireless Networks�

Mohammad Hoque
University of Alabama

August 28

Wireless Networks  

Edward Dillon
University of Alabama

August 31

HCI  

Dr. Philip Rhodes
University of Mississippi

October 12

Spatial Data, Latency, Parallel Computing and Visualization  

Dr. Victor Basili
University of Maryland

November 11

Using Measures and Risk Indicators for Early Insight Into Software Product Characteristics such as Software Safety  

Dr. Mary Lou Soffa
University of Virginia

November 23

 

 

Dr. Brian Malloy
Clemson University

November 24

 

 


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Spring 2009 Research Colloquium Talks 

Speaker

Date

Topic

Bo Gu
University of Alabama

January 26

Mobility Modeling and Routing in Sparse Mobile Network  

Dr. Juan Gilbert
Auburn University

January 30

Applications Quest: A Computational Solution to Affirmative Action in the 21st Century  

Baoqiang Yan
University of Mississippi

February 11

IDEA Parallelization API — A Data Oriented Way to Parallelize Large Scale 

Robert Tairas
University of Alabama - Birmingham

February 13

Maintaining Cloned Software 

Chip Elliott
GENI Project Director
National Science Foundation

February 20

GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations  

Graylin Trevor Jay
University of Alabama

March 2

A Proposal in Statistical Computer Vision  

Dr. Andrian Marcus
Wayne State University

March 6

Information Retrieval support for Concept Location in Software 

Brajendra Panda
University of Arkansas

April 13

Database Damage Assessment and Recovery following an Information Attack 


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Fall 2008 Research Colloquium Talks 

Speaker

Date

Topic

Dana Steil
University of Alabama

August 20

Patrol Routing using Hotspots and Citation Effectiveness

Peng Shao
University of Alabama

August 22

Tailoring Information Retrieval Techniques for Software Maintenance and Evolution

Kaveh Ghaboosi
University of OuLu

August 22

Medium Access Control in the Next Generation Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges & Open Issues

Nathan Wiegand
University of Alabama

August 25

 

 

Quinton Alexander
University of Alabama

August 27

 

 

Briana Lowe
University of Alabama

August 29

 

 

Dr. Fei Hu
University of Alabama
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

September 19

Secure Time Synchronization in Underwater Sensor Networks

Dr. Upkar Varshney
Georgia State University

October 3

Pervasive Healthcare and Wireless Monitoring

Travis Atkison
Mississippi State University

October 24

Applying Dimensionality Reduction Techniques to Attack the Malicious Software Detection Problem

Dr. Yixin Chen
University of Mississippi
Department of Computer and Information Sciences

October 31

Depth, Outlier Detection, and Ranking

Chip Elliott
GENI Project Director
National Science Foundation

Being Rescheduled

The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI)


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Spring 2008 Research Colloquium Talks 

Name

Date

Dr. Jeff Ku

February 15

Dr. Jeff Carver

March 5


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Fall 2007 Research Colloquium Talks 

Name

Date

Dr. Monica Anderson

October 1

Mr. Andy Dalton, ABD

October 15

Dr. Nicholas Kraft

October 17

Dana Steil

October 26

Dr. Susan Vrbsky

October 29

Dr. Sudarshan Chawathe

November 2

Dr. Alex Zhang

November 5

Dr. Xiaoyan Hong

November 9

Dr. Gary McGraw

November 12

NO MEETING ON THIS DATE 

November 16

Dr. Phillip Bradford

November 19

Dr. Randy Smith

November 23

Dr. Richard Borie

November 26

Dr. Monica Anderson

November 30


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2006-2007 Research Colloquium Talks 

Fall Semester 2006

Speaker

Date

Topic

Dr. Yang Xiao

September 22

Updated-based Cache Access and Replacement Policies

Dr. Susan Vrbsky

October 2

Scheduling On-Demand Broadcast with Timing Constraints

Dr. Marcus Brown

October 16

Computer User Authentication Based on Typing Style

Dr. John McGregor

October 27

Software Product Lines
Slides

Dr. Shankar Swamy

November 10

Computation Models for Emerging Multicore Systems

 

Spring Semester 2007

Speaker

Date

Topic

Jeff Carver
Mississippi State

January 26

Empirical Software Engineering - Why and How do we Measure?

Larry Bernstein
Stevens Institute

February 7

Trustworthy Software Systems

Byron Marshall
Oregon State University

February 23

Cross-jurisdictional Law Enforcement Data Sharing and Analysis

Nicholas Kraft
Clemson University

March 5

An Infrastructure to Support Interoperability in Reverse Engineering

Benjamin Fung
Simon Fraser University

March 6

Privacy Preserving Data Publishing

John Lusth
University of Arkansas

March 21

Research and Education Initiatives

James Du
North Dakota State Univ.

March 23

An Energy Efficient, Self-Healing Secure Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks


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2005-2006 Research Colloquium Talks 

Fall Semester 2005

Speaker

Date

Topic

Wolfram Schulte
Microsoft Research

September 16, 2005

Spec# - Contracts in C#

Xiaoyan Hong

University of Alabama

October 7, 2005

Mobile Networking

Chengcui Zhang

The University of Alabama Birmingham

October 14, 2005

Unsupervised Learning-Based Spatio-Temporal Vehicle Tracking and Indexing for Transportation Multimedia Database Systems

John Lusth

The University of Arkansas

November 4, 2005

Simplicity Versus Simplexity in Language Design

Guangbin Fan
The University of Mississippi

November 18, 2005

Research in the Next Generation Mixed Wireless Networks

Andrew Kun
The University of New Hampshire

December 5, 2005
(Different time - 1:00 PM)

Project54 - Data Integration andVoice Controlled Systems

Spring Semester 2006

Speaker

Date

Topic

Wenye Wang
North Carolina State University

January 20, 2006

Towards Reliable and Resilient Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

Dr. Yang Xiao
University of Memphis

February 10, 2006

QoS Provisioning at Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks

Dr. Matt Otey
Ohio State University

February 17, 2006

Approaches to Abnormality Detection with Constraints

Dr. Rafae Bhatti
Purdue University

February 20, 2006

Access Control Management In Information Systems Integration

Dr. Matt Miller
University of Illinois

February 22, 2006

Adaptive Energy-Saving for Multihop Wireless Networks

Dr. Yi Qian
University of Puerto Rico

February 24, 2006

Modeling Dynamic Behavior of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Dr. Monica Lapoint
University of Minnesota

February 28, 2006

Heuristic-based Search in Unknown Indoor Environments Using Cooperative Robotic Teams

Dr. Jie Wu
Florida Atlantic University

March 16, 2006

Mobility in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Friend or Foe?


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2004-2005 Research Colloquium Talks 

Spring Semester 2005

Speaker

Date

Topic

Gary T. Leavens
Iowa State University

Friday, April 8

 JML and its Unit Testing Tool

Leo M. Tilman
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

Thursday, March 24

The Convergence of Risk Management, Investment Strategy, and Corporate Finance

Yi Cui
The University of Illinois

Monday, March 14

Supporting Content Distribution Applications in Overlay Multicast

Deborah Duong
Object Sciences Corporation

Friday, March 11

Symbolic Interactionist Modeling

Marjan Mernik
The University of Maribor

 Monday, March 7

Automatic generation of language-based tools and Grammar-based Systems

Ben Tyler
The Ohio State University

Friday, February 25

Specifying and Monitoring Design Pattern Contracts

Jeff Gray
The University of Alabama Birmingham

Friday, February 18

Transformations across Multiple Software Artifacts

Fall Semester 2004

Speaker

Date

Topic

Subhash C. Nandy
Indian Statistical Institute

Monday, December 6

Recognition of Minimum Width Color-spanning Corridor and Minimum Area Color-spanning Rectangle

Philip Bohannon
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies

Monday, November 22

ROLEX: A System for Tightly-Integrated XML Publishing

Nageswara S. Rao
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Friday, November 19

Dynamics of Internet Transport Protocols

Wenke Lee
Georgia Institute of Technology

Friday, November 12

Architectural Considerations for Anomaly Detection

Li Gao
The University of Alabama      

Wednesday, November 3

On Scheduling Mesh Structured Computation on Unreliable Computers on the Internet

Stephen V. Rice
The University of Mississippi

Friday, October 1

The Comparisonics Technologies for Audio Comparison, Search, Display, and Monitoring


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2002-2004 Research Colloquium Talks 

2003-2004 Academic Year Speakers

Speaker

Date

Topic

Prof. Grzegorz Malewicz
University of Alabama

Wednesday, September 3

Establishing Wireless Conference Calls Under Delay Constraints

Prof. David Mount
University of Maryland

Monday, September 22

Approximation Algorithms for Clustering

Prof. Xiaoyan Hong
University of Alabama

Monday, October 6

ANODR: ANonymous On Demand Routing with Untraceable Routes for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Dr. Gary McGraw, CTO
Cigital, Inc.

Monday, October 27

Building Secure Software: Why the standard approach to security doesn't work

Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh  
Binghamton University

Monday, November 10

Active Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Prof. Nenad Jukic
Loyola University Chicago

Monday, November 17

Comprehensive Data Warehouse Exploration: Extending the Scope of Association-Rule Mining

Jiageng Li (PhD Candidate)
University of Alabama

Wednesday, December 3

Integrated Authorization for Grid System Environments

Danyang Zhang
University of Alabama

Friday, January 16

Subgroup-based Local Recovery for Reliable Multicasting

Wan Huang (PhD Candidate)
University of Alabama

Friday, January 30

Intelligent Trust Evaluation and Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Community

Prof. Gregg Rothermel
Oregon State University

Friday, February 6

Software Testing: An Evolution-Centric Perspective

Prof. Joel Jones
University of Alabama

Monday, February 16

Automatic Auditing of Design Principle Adherence

Prof. Riccardo Bettati
Texas A&M University

Monday, March 8

Watch your Timing! A Biased View on Security in the Post-Encryption Era

Prof. Paul Purdom
Indiana University

Friday, March 12

Algorithms for the Frequent Item Set Problem

Prof. Murali Sitaraman
Clemson University

Friday, April 9

Contract Checking - Modular Alternatives to Testing

Prof. Yuanyuan Yang
SUNY, Stony Brook

Wednesday, April 14

Recent Development in Multicast Switching Networks

2002-2003 Academic Year Speakers

Speaker

Date

Topic

Don Yessick
University of Alabama

September 13

Reinventing the Wheel-Or Not Yet Another Compiler Compiler Compiler

Yahya Mirza
Aurora Borealis Software

 

October 11

Rotor Internals and the CLI

Dr. Linda Rising
Private Consultant

 

October 23

Patterns and Scrum

Dr. Stephan Olariu
Old Dominion University

October 30

Self-organizing Sensor Networks

Dr. William Harrison
Oregon Graduate Institute

 

November 22

Slaying the "Dragon": Prospects for Modular Compiler Construction

Jonathan Zweig
Nortel Networks

February 14

An Irrevent Insider's Look at the IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Standards Process

Dr. Chuck Hansen
University of Utah

February 21

Leveraging PC Graphics Cards for Advanced Visualization

Xiaoyan Hong

 

February 26

Scalable Ad Hoc Routing in Large Wireless Networks Using Dynamic Landmarks

Jeffrey Carver
University of Maryland

March 7

Impact of Background and Experience on Software Inspections

Dr. Thomas Cormen
Dartmouth University

March 14

Parallel Out-of-core Sorting: The Third Way

Ju Wang
University of Florida

March 19th

Supporting Multimedia Traffic with CDMS Wireless Networks

Dr. Victoria Ungureanu
Rutgers

March 21

Regulating E-Commerce through Certified Contracts

Dr. Biswanath Mukherjee
University of California Davis

March 24

R&D Priorities and Challenges for Optical Networking

Chung-Hsing Hsu

March 31

Compiler-Directed Dynamic Voltage Scheduling for CPU Power and Energy Reduction

Dr. Michiel Smid
Carleton University

April 25

Approximating geometric bottleneck shortest paths


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