Data-Intensive Distributed Systems LaboratoryCS Seminars at IIT -- Spring 2026
The CS Seminar is a weekly seminar where faculty and researchers present their work in the CS department. Below is the schedule.
| Date | Time | Room | Title | Speaker | Host |
| 1/21 | 12:50pm | SB212 | XStore: A High-performance Lightweight Time-series Storage System | Lan Nguyen, PhD student, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 1/28 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Patchwork: A Traffic Capture and Analysis Platform for Network Experiments on a Federated Testbed | Dr. Nik Sultana, Assistant Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 2/4 | 12:50pm | SB111 | AI, Scaling Law, and the Memory-Wall Problem | Dr. Xian-He Sun, Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 2/11 | 12:50pm | SB111 | From Storage Optimization to Context Orchestration: Why Your AI Infrastructure is Already Obsolete | Dr. Anthony Kougkas, Research Associate Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 2/17 | 9:00am | KI211 | AI for Science and Society | Dr. Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame | Andre Bauer |
| 2/18 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Towards Privacy-Preserving Universal Approximators via Tropical Rational Functions | Dr. Yutong Wang, Assistant Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 2/25 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Accelerating Emerging Applications via Software-Hardware Co-Design | Dr. Minxuan Zhou, Assistant Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 3/4 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Fuzzy Private Set Intersection for Real-World Datasets | Dr. Yanxue Jia, Assistant Professor, IIT | Andre Bauer |
| 3/11 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Trustworthy Graph Learning | Dr. Binghui Wang, Assistant Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 3/18 | NO SEMINAR – Spring Break | ||||
| 3/25 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Gradient-as-retrieval: Classification beyond Cross Entropy | Dr. Yutong Wang, Assistant Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 4/1 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Learning from resource-constrained devices with model-heterogeneous federated learning | Dr. Nathaniel Hudson, Assistant Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 4/8 | NO SEMINAR - Spring Full Faculty Meeting | ||||
| 4/15 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Complexity in the Era of AI and Data-Driven Computing | Lance Fortnow, Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 4/22 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Online Flexible Busy Time Scheduling on Heterogeneous Machines | Dr. Gruia Calinescu, Associate Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |
| 4/29 | 12:50pm | SB111 | Building the Infrastructure for the Next Billion Video Calls | Dr. Oliver Michel, Assistant Professor, IIT | Ioan Raicu |