{"id":30,"date":"2013-12-25T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T22:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:36:50","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/talks\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Microsoft Research New England:<\/strong> \u201cPrivacy, Utility, and Invariant Representations via Adversarial Learning,\u201d <em>invited talk<\/em>, Machine Learning Discussion Group, 21 October, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India:<\/strong> \u201cLinear Algebra for Machine Learning,\u201d <em>invited lectures<\/em>, EE and CS Departments, 21-23 December, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIT Lincoln Laboratory:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA Topic Modeling Approach to Learning Preference-Behavior from Pairwise Comparisons,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited seminar talk (advanced natural language processing theme)<\/em>, 19 May, 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India:<\/strong> \u201cPrivacy-Preserving Indoor Activity Analysis,\u201d <em>invited talk<\/em>, EE and CS Departments, 23 December, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India:<\/strong> \u201cA Geometric Approach to Topic Modeling,\u201d <em>invited talk<\/em>, EE and CS Departments, 22 December, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9, Paris, France:<\/strong> \u201cOn the Ultimate Limit of Two-Terminal Interactive Computing,\u201d <em>invited talk in thematic program on Nexus of Information and Computation Theories, Distributed Computation and Communication Theme<\/em>, Paris, France, 11 Feb., 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Illinois, Urbana\u2013Champaign:<\/strong> \u201cEfficient Distributed Topic Modeling with Provable Guarantees,\u201d <em>invited talk in special session on Information Processing for Big Data in the 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing<\/em>, Monticello, IL, 29 Sep. &#8211; 2 Oct., 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Wisconsin, Madison:<\/strong> \u201cA Topic Modeling Approach to Learning Preference-Behavior from Pairwise Comparisons,\u201d <em>invited talk in the Systems, Information, Learning and Optimization (SILO) Seminar Series<\/em>, ECE Department, 30 September, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stanford University:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA Topic Modeling Approach to Learning Preference-Behavior from Pairwise Comparisons,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the Information Theory Forum<\/em>, EE Department, 22 May, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, San Diego:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA Topic modeling approach to ranking from pairwise preferences,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the Graduate Seminar in Communication Theory and Systems<\/em>, ECE Department, 13 May, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harvard University:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA Topic Modeling Approach to Ranking,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the EconCS Seminar Series<\/em>, Computer Science and Economics Departments, 13 Mar., 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arizona State University:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA New Geometric Approach to Topic Modeling and Discovery,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the Network Science Seminar Series<\/em>, ECEE Department, 31 Oct., 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, Berkeley:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA New Geometric Approach to Topic Modeling and Discovery,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the Networking, Communications, and DSP Seminar Series<\/em>, EECS Department, 12 Aug., 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, San Diego:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA Zero-One Law for Secure Two-Party Sampling,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Information Theory and Applications (ITA)<\/em>, San Diego, CA, 9\u2013 14 Feb., 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ParisTech, France:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cInteractive Source Coding and Computation : Benefits, Ultimate Limits, and Challenges,\u201d\u00a0<em>keynote in the GdR ISIS Workshop on\u00a0Information Theoretic and Coding aspects for Distributed Source Coding and Storage in Networks,<\/em>\u00a0Paris, France, 28 Nov., 2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EPFL, Switzerland:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cA New Geometric Approach to Topic Modeling and Discovery,\u201d<em> invited talk in the Information Processing Group (IPG) Seminar Series<\/em>, 27 Nov., 2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong>University of California, San Diego:<\/strong> \u201cAn Impossibility Result for High-Dimensional Supervised Classification,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Information Theory and its Applications (ITA)<\/em>, San Diego, CA, 11\u2013 15 Feb., 2013.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong>Harvard University:<\/strong> \u201cSensing-Aware Inference with High-Dimensional Data,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the EE Seminar Series of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/em>, 14 Sep., 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SPCOM 2012:<\/strong> \u201cImpact of Sensing Structure in Supervised Classification of High-Dimensional Data,\u201d\u00a0<em>invited talk in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.iisc.ernet.in\/~spcom2012\/technical_program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM)<\/a><\/em>, Bangalore,India, 22-25 Jul., 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery:<\/a><\/strong> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/workshops\/2012\/12w5119\/files\/Ishwar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Infinite Message Limit of Interactive Source Coding<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/events\/2012\/5-day-workshops\/12w5119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>International Workshop on Interactive Information Theor<\/em>y<\/a>, Banff, Canada, 15\u201320 Jan., 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Massachusetts, Amherst:<\/strong> \u201cRecognizing Human Actions using Feature Covariance Matrices,\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Department Seminar Series<\/em>, 17 Oct., 2011.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery:<\/strong><\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/workshops\/2011\/11w5074\/files\/IshwarPrakash.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exploring Function and Distribution Structure in Interactive Computing Through Examples<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birs.ca\/events\/2011\/5-day-workshops\/11w5074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>International Workshop on Algebraic Structure in Network Information Theor<\/em>y<\/a>, Banff, Canada, 14\u201319 Aug., 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI):<\/strong> \u201cAction Recognition in Covariance Manifolds,\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Department Graduate Seminar Series<\/em>, 17 Feb., 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tufts University:<\/strong> \u201cAction Recognition on Covariance Manifolds,\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Department Colloquium<\/em>, 25 Jan., 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, San Diego:<\/strong> \u201cKaspi\u2019s Two-Way Source Coding Question Resolved,\u201d <em>invited talk in the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Information Theory and its Applications (ITA)<\/em>, San Diego, CA, 31 Jan.\u2013 5 Feb., 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boston University:<\/strong> \u201cCondensing Video and Recognizing Actions,\u201d <em>invited talk in the Department of Computer Science, Image and Video Computing Weekly Symposium<\/em>, 29 Oct., 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boston University:<\/strong> \u201cAn Information Processing Tour of Sensor Networks: Field-Estimation, Interactive-Computing, and Visual-Analytics,\u201d <em>tenure talk in the ECE Department Seminar Series<\/em>, 09 Sep., 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Wisconsin, Madison:<\/strong> \u201cInteractive Function Computation: A Distributed Block Source Coding Perspective,\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Department Systems Seminar Series<\/em>, 12 Mar., 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Illinois, Urbana\u2013Champaign:<\/strong> \u201cInteractive Function Computation: A Distributed Block Source Coding Perspective,\u201d <em>invited talk in the Topics in Systems Seminar Series, Coordinated Science Laboratory<\/em>, 10 Mar., 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harvard University:<\/strong> \u201cDistributed Source Coding for Interactive Function Computation,\u201d <em>invited talk in the EE Seminar Series of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/em>, 13 Feb., 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, San Diego:<\/strong> \u201cBounds for Interactive Computation in Collocated Networks,\u201d <em>invited talk in the 4t\u210e IEEE International Workshop on Information Theory and its Applications (ITA)<\/em>, San Diego, CA, 8\u201313 Feb., 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIT:<\/strong> \u201cDistributed Source Coding for Interactive Function Computation,\u201d <em>invited talk in the RLE Signal Transformation and Information Representation Seminar Series<\/em>, 1 Dec., 2008.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yale NSF Workshop 2008:<\/strong> \u201cDistributed Coding for Interactive Computing,\u201d <em>invited talk in the US National Science Foundation Workshop on the Frontiers in Distributed Communication, Sensing and Control, Yale University<\/em>, New Haven, CT, 31 Oct. \u2013 2 Nov., 2008.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boston University:<\/strong> \u201cInformation-Theoretic Performance Limits and Algorithms for Signal Processing Applications,\u201d <em>invited talk in the BU CISE Faculty Research Workshop<\/em>, Boston, MA, 11 Jan. 2008.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, San Diego:<\/strong> \u201cDistributed Field Reconstruction in Sensor Networks,\u201d <em>Center for Advanced Network Sciences (ANS) inaugural invited summer lecture series <\/em><em>(2-lecture short-course), California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CALIT2)<\/em>, San Diego, CA, 1\u201310 Aug., 2007.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harvard University:<\/strong> \u201cThe Benefit of Delays in Sequential Coding of Correlated Sources,\u201d <em>invited talk in the EE Seminar Series of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/em>, 23 Feb. 2007.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boston University:<\/strong> \u201cEnabling Low-Power Video-Over-Wireless: Do We Need a Paradigm Shift Based on Distributed Coding?\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Department Research Spotlight Seminar Series<\/em>, 21 Oct. 2005.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Wisconsin, Madison:<\/strong> \u201cInformation processing in distributed sensor systems: Data acquisition and Inference,\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Department Systems Seminar Series<\/em>, 6 Apr. 2004.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boston University:<\/strong> \u201cInformation processing in distributed sensor systems: Data acquisition\u00a0and Inference,\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Colloquium Series<\/em>, 24 Mar. 2004.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Minnesota, Minneapolis:<\/strong> \u201cInformation processing in distributed sensor systems: Data acquisition and Inference,\u201d <em>invited talk in the Digital Technology Center Seminar Series<\/em>, 12 Mar. 2004.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, Berkeley:<\/strong> \u201cDistributed Sampling of Smooth Fields,\u201d <em>invited talk in the EECS Graduate Seminar Series on Conceptual Issues in Large-scale Ad-hoc Networks<\/em>, 3 Nov. 2003.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, Berkeley:<\/strong> \u201cA Unified Framework for Image Modeling and Estimation using Measurement Constraints,\u201d <em>invited talk in the EECS Networking, Communications, and DSP Systems Seminar Series (sponsored by Cisco)<\/em>, 8 Oct. 2002.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:<\/strong> \u201cStatistical Signal Modeling and Estimation using Multiple Wavelet Bases and the Maximum Entropy Principle,\u201d <em>invited talk in the EECS Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory Seminar Series<\/em>, 13 Mar. 2002.<\/li>\n<li><strong>University of California, Santa Barbara:<\/strong> \u201cStatistical Signal Modeling and Estimation using Multiple Wavelet Bases and the Maximum Entropy Principle,\u201d <em>invited talk in the ECE Communications and DSP Seminar Series<\/em>, 8 Mar. 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Research New England: \u201cPrivacy, Utility, and Invariant Representations via Adversarial Learning,\u201d invited talk, Machine Learning Discussion Group, 21 October, 2019. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India: \u201cLinear Algebra for Machine Learning,\u201d invited lectures, EE and CS Departments, 21-23 December, 2017. MIT Lincoln Laboratory:\u00a0\u201cA Topic Modeling Approach to Learning Preference-Behavior from Pairwise Comparisons,\u201d\u00a0invited seminar talk (advanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2606,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}