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Each year, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering invites prominent computer scientists and engineers to visit Texas A&M and present their research. This distinguished lecture series is sponsored by academia and industry.


2022-2023 Distinguished Lecture Series

March 2023

6 - Monday - 4:10 p.m.
Learning to Generalize to Out-of-Distribution Data
Dr. Jiebo Luo,  Professor, University of Rochester
Faculty Contact:  Tianbao Yang

20 - Monday - 4:10 p.m.
Human-in-the-Loop Creative AI
Dr. Takeo Igarashi,  Professor, The University of Tokyo
Faculty Contact:  Jeeeun Kim

April 2023

10 - Monday - 4:10 p.m.
The Many Dimensions of "Identity"
Dr. Radia Perlman,  Computer Programmer and Network Engineer
Faculty Contact:  Scott Schaefer


2020-2021 Distinguished Lecture Series

February 2021

22 - Monday - 1:20 p.m.  (via Zoom)
PCI Express® 6.0: a low latency, high bandwidth, high reliability and cost-effective interconnect with 64.0 GT/s PAM-4 signaling
Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, fellow and director of the I/O Technology and Standards Group Intel Corporation
Faculty Contact: Rabi Mahapatra


2019-2020 Distinguished Lecture Series

November 2019

4 - Monday - 4:10 p.m. (HRBB 124)
Human Behavioral Machine Intelligence from Multimodal Data
Shrikanth (Shri) NarayananUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 
Faculty Contact: Theodora Chaspari

18 - Monday - 4:10 p.m. (HRBB 124)
Bias on the Website
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT & Northeastern University at Silicon Valley 
Faculty Contact: Juan Garay


2018-2019 Distinguished Lecture Series

September 2018

10 - Monday - 4:10 p.m. (HRBB 124)
End-to-end perceptual video streaming quality
Al Bovik, University of Texas at Austin 
Faculty Contact: Atlas Wang

28 - Friday - 4:10 p.m. (ZACH Chevron Room)
Fun research in computer vision and robotics
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University 
Faculty Contact: Dezhen Song and Nancy Amato

October 2018

3 - Wednesday - 4:10 p.m. (HRBB 124)
Cloud security
Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA 
Faculty Contact: Juan Garay

November 2018

28 - Wednesday - 4:10 p.m. (HRBB 124)
The Blocks World Redux
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder 
Faculty Contact: Ruihong Huang

December 2018

3 - Monday - 4:10 p.m. (HRBB 124)
Using technology for health and wellbeing
Mary Czerwinski, Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group 
Faculty Contact: Theodora Chaspari