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.

2022–2023 Distinguished Lecture Series

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Pascal Van Hentenryck
A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor
Milton Stewart School of Industrial and System Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Fusing AI and Optimization

Tuesday, November 15, 2022
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online lecture

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Sheila McIlraith
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Vector Institute

Reward Machines: Formal
Languages and Automata for Reinforcement Learning

Wednesday, January 11, 2023
10:30 a.m. • DC 1302

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Tim Roughgarden
Professor, Computer Science Department
Columbia University
Head of Research, a16z crypto

The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science:
A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online lecture

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Tanya Berger-Wolf
Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Director, Imageomics Institute
Ohio State University

Imageomics: Images as the Source of Information about Life

Monday, April 24, 2023
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online lecture

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Sharad Goel
Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

Included-variable Bias and Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Tuesday, May 9, 2023
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online lecture

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Earl T. Barr
Professor of Software Engineering
University College London

Leveraging Dual Channel Constraints to Speed Program Repair

Thursday, July 20, 2023
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online lecture

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2022-2023 DLS (you are here)

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

2021-2022 DLS

  • 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