Thursday, Jan 28, Room 32-141

08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast and Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Opening remarks
09:45 – 10:45 Plenary Talk
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Student Session on Communications

  • Broadcast in Large Scale Mobile Wireless Networks
    • Rajat Talak

  • Decentralized Throughput Optimal Scheduling for Multihop Wireless Networks
    • Rahul Singh

  • Some results on non-binary alpha-beta maps
    • Hajir Roozbehani

  • Disepersion of Coherent MIMO Fading Channels
    • Austin Collins
12:00 – 01:30 Poster Session and Lunch at LIDS lounge (Stata D Tower 6th floor)

  • Dynamic Pricing in Social Networks: The Word of Mouth Effect
    • Amir Ajorlou

  • Sampling varieties for sum of squares programs
    • Diego Cifuentes

  • Super-Resolution Off the Grid
    • Qingqing Huang

  • Endogenous Error Pricing for Energy Imbalance Settlements
    • Ian Schneider

  • Robust & Secure Estimation of Smart Infrastructures
    • Sze Zheng Yong

01:30 – 02:30 Plenary Talk
02:30 – 02:45 Coffee break
02:45 – 03:45 Student Session on Learning and Optimization

  • Contextual decision rule learning in convex problems: online and stochastic approaches
    • Chong Yang Goh

  • Combating Inventory Inaccuracy using Transactions via Hidden Markov Models
    • Nirav Bhan

  • The Traveling Salesman Problem for Dynamically-Constrained Vehicles
    • Aviv Adler

  • Blind Regression: Revisiting Collaborative Filtering
    • Dogyoon Song
03:45 – 04:00 Coffee break
04:00 – 05:00 Student Session on Networks

  • Delay, memory, and messaging tradeoffs in distributed service systems
    • Martin Zubeldia

  • Coflow Scheduling in Switched Networks: Optimal Delay Scaling and Algorithms
    • Qingkai Liang

  • Network Flow Routing under Strategic Link Disruptions
    • Mathieu Dahan

  • Node Deployment for Network Localization
    • Zhenyu Liu
05:00 LIDS Social


Friday, Jan 29, Room 32-141

08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 – 10:30 Plenary Talk
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Student Session on Control Theory

  • Making Fast Movements - Considerations in Feedback
    • Shreya Saxena

  • TBD
    • Valerio Varricchio

  • Polling-systems-based Control of High-performance Provably-safe Autonomous Intersections
    • David Miculescu

  • Inference on graphical model with dynamic nodes -- application in robotics
    • Beipeng Mu
11:45 – 01:00 Lunch with Speakers (by invitation only)
01:00 – 02:00 Plenary Talk
02:00 – 03:00 Student Session on Probability and Learning Theory

  • Truncated Completely Random Measures
    • Trevor Campbell

  • Recovering Structured Probability Matrices
    • Qingqing Huang

  • Improving Speed and Reliability of SAR ADCs
    • Jennifer Tang

  • Finding a Large Sub-matrix of a Gaussian Random Matrix
    • Quan Li
03:00 – 03:15 Coffee break
03:15 – 04:15 Panel Discussion (32-144)
05:30 Banquet (by invitation only)