Events

ESD Research Seminar by Yuanwei Liu – The design dilemma of “What will be different between near-field communications (NFC) and far-field communications (FFC)?” is discussed from four perspectives in this talk.

ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Rulin Chen – An assembly comprises parts joined together to achieve a specific form or functionality. Compared to monolithic objects, assemblies have many benefits in terms of fabrication, transportation, and adaptability. Parts of assemblies are always geometrically simple to fabricate with digital techniques, can be efficiently packed for transportation, and offer adaptability through flexible replacement or modification. Hence, assemblies are widely used in our daily lives that most of our consumer products, industry machines, and architectural structures are assemblies.

ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Menglin Li – Social media has become an integral part of daily life, leading to an explosion of social data. Geographical information within social media is essential for applications such as location-based analysis, recommendations, and targeted advertising. However, such information is sparse, prompting the exploration of mining it from social media data.

ESD Research Seminar by Howard H. Yang – This talk aims to present the current research efforts on the development of implementing distributed machine learning algorithms in wireless systems.

ESD Research Seminar by Wang Hai – This talk will briefly discuss several research cases on the applications of data-driven methods in smart cities, include: (1) Descriptive methods for mobile transaction digits distribution and crowd-sourcing food delivery; (2) Predictive methods for ICU patient evaluation; (3). Prescriptive method for multi-objective matching in ride-sourcing.

ESD Research Seminar by Hanwei Li – In this study, we partner with Meituan, a leading shopping platform, to develop a real-time, end-to-end coupon allocation system that aims to maximise customer conversion rate (CVR) while adhering to marketing budgets, addressing challenges of uncertain traffic from a diverse customer base and the need for real-time decision-making.

ESD Research Seminar by Rasoul Etesami – Data placement is one of the fundamental allocation problems in storage-capable distributed systems, such as web caches and peer-to-peer networks. Motivated by such applications, we consider the non-metric data placement problem and develop distributed algorithms for computing or approximating its optimal solutions.

ESD Research Seminar by Caroline Chaux – In this talk, we will be interested in inverse problems arising in the signal and image processing field. Solving such problems imply in a fist time to formalise the direct problem by understanding the physics behind and in a second time, to solve the associated inverse problem, through a variational formulation, that is, solving an optimisation problem.

Qiang Huang (University of Southern California) – Infer and Control Effects of Lurking Variables for 3D Printing Quality Control

Max Li (University of Michigan) – Data-Driven Modeling and Optimization Methods for Current and Future Airspace Users