2021-2022 Distinguished Lecture Series

This annual series showcases outstanding researchers, scholars and thinkers in the field of computer science and related disciplines, and gives them a forum to present their views and ideas to students, faculty, and the interested public.

2021–2022 Distinguished Lecture Series

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Raquel Urtasun
Founder and CEO
Waabi Innovation Inc.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Co-founder, Vector Institute for AI

Inaugural 2021–22 DLS Presentation
An AI-first Approach to Self-driving

Thursday, October 7, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Online presentation

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Karl J. Friston
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Scientific Director
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Institute of Neurology
University College London

Active Inference

Thursday, November 4, 2021
11:00 a.m
Online presentation

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Milind Tambe
Director, Center for Research in Computation and Society
Harvard University
Director, AI for Social Good
Google Research India

AI for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conservation

Tuesday, February 15, 2022
1:30 p.m.
Online presentation

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Kai Li
Paul M. Wythes '55, P'86 and Marcia R. Wythes P'86 Professor 
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University

Machine Learning Meets System Designs: Experience with Designing Learned Cache Systems

Wednesday, May 25, 2022
11:00 a.m.
Online presentation

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Tony Chan
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

A Personal and Historical View of Computational Mathematics

Wednesday, June 15, 2022
2:00 p.m. • DC 1302 | Livestreamed

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Lecture videos on YouTube

2024-2025 DLS

  • Adam Smith

2022-2023 DLS

  • Pascal Van Hentenryck
  • Sheila McIlraith
  • Tim Roughgarden
  • Tanya Berger-Wolf
  • Sharad Goel
  • Earl T. Barr

2021-2022 DLS (you are here)

  • Raquel Urtasun
  • Karl J. Friston
  • Milind Tambe
  • Kai Li
  • Tony Chan

2020-2021 DLS

  • Moshe Y. Vardi
  • Oren Etzioni
  • Mary Czerwinski
  • Laurie Williams
  • Leonard Kleinrock

2018-2019 DLS

  • Donald Knuth
  • Vitalik Buterin
  • Margo Seltzer
  • Barbara Liskov
  • Shafi Goldwasser

​2017-2018 DLS

  • Silvio Micali
  • James Demmel
  • Jeff Ullman
  • ​Jennifer Widom
  • ​Joe Mitchell

2016-2017 DLS

  • Gail Murphy
  • Ophir Frieder
  • Eric Horvitz
  • Daniel Alan Spielman

2015-2016 DLS

  • Margaret Martonosi
  • Mike Stonebraker
  • Tony Chan
  • Robert Tarjan
  • Susan Dumais
  • Kevin Leyton-Brown

2014-2015 DLS

  • Michael Zyda
  • Deborah Estrin
  • Harry Shum
  • Leslie Pack Kaelbling
  • Laurie Hendren

2013-2014 DLS

  • Frans Kaashoek
  • David Sankoff
  • Mary Lou Soffa
  • Pat Hanrahan
  • Maria Klawe

2012-2013 DLS

  • Zvi Galil
  • Hector Levesque
  • Jennifer Chayes
  • Renée Miller
  • Maneesh Agrawala
  • David Eppstein

2011-2012 DLS

  • Bruno Buchberger
  • Saul Greenberg
  • Ed Lazowska
  • Jeannette Wing
  • Cynthia Dwork

2010-2011 DLS

  • Stuart Feldman
  • Madhu Sudan
  • Susan Landau
  • Gilles Brassard
  • Joe Marks
  • Jon Kleinberg

2009-2010 DLS

  • Andy Yao
  • Paul Van Oorschot
  • Shafi Goldwasser
  • Adi Shamir
  • Fran Allen

2008-2009 DLS

  • Alan Kay
  • Eric Brewer
  • Anne Condon
  • Nancy Leveson
  • Tom Furness

2007-2008 DLS

  • David Patterson
  • Manuela Veloso
  • David D. Clark
  • Christos Papadimitriou

2006-2007 DLS

  • Kurt Mehlhorn
  • Ben Shneiderman
  • Barbara Liskov
  • Vint Cerf

2005-2006 DLS

  • Umesh Vazirani
  • Stephen Cook
  • Andrew Tanenbaum
  • Andries van Dam

2004-2005 DLS

  • Alfred Aho
  • Brian Kernighan
  • Jim Gray
  • Barbara Grosz
  • Jim Mitchell