CSE591: Introduction to Graduate Study in CSE (Fall 2018)

Course Description:
Introduces students to the different areas of research conducted in the department. Provides an introduction to research skills, including literature review, problem formulation, presentation, and research ethics. Lecture and discussion are supplemented by exercises in the different research areas and in critical reading, idea generation, and proposal writing. Prerequisites: standing as a doctoral student in CSE, or permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor

Instructor: Prof. Raj Jain, jain@wustl.edu
Office: Jolley 208
Office Hours: By Appointment

Location: The class meets Mondays and Wednesdays at 11:30PM to 1:00PM in Lopata 103.

When you have come to an understanding with a faculty member to form a research advising relationship, complete the Lab Affiliation Form and have your advisor return it to Sharon Matlock in the CSE department office.

Tentative Schedule (Subject to Change)

Date	Topic	Speaker
8/27/2018	Class Overview	Raj Jain
8/29/2018	WUSTL Library Facilities	Lauren Todd
9/3/2018	LABOR DAY - NO CLASS
9/5/2018	Visualization of Tomorrow (7 MB)	Alvitta Ottley
9/10/2018	How to be a Successful Researcher?	Raj Jain
	Homework 3
9/12/2018	Networking, Security, Internet of Things, Blockchains, and Drones	Raj Jain
9/17/2018	Image Reconstruction and Deep Learning for Imaging	Mark Anastasio
9/19/2018	Computer Vision and Computational Photography	Ayan Chakrabarti
9/24/2018	Learning abductive reasoning	Brendan Juba
9/26/2018	Machine Learning with Humans in the Loop (14 MB)	Chien-Ju Ho
10/1/2018	SIMD Parallelism for Bioinformatics and Beyond	Jeremy Buhler
10/3/2018	Attack and Defense in the Cyber-Physical World	Ning Zhang
10/8/2018	Variability in Operating Systems (14 MB)	Brian Kocoloski
10/10/2018	Protein-DNA interactions (4 MB)	Gary Stormo
10/15/2018	FALL BREAK - NO CLASS
10/17/2018	Software and System Support for Parallel Programming	Angelina Lee
10/22/2018	Active Learning in Brain Science (88 MB)	Dennis Barbour
10/24/2018	Computer Graphics	Tao Ju
10/29/2018	Active Discovery in Big Data (6 MB)	Roman Garnett
10/31/2018	Allocating Scarce Societal Resources Based on Predictions of Outcomes	Sanmay Das
11/5/2018	Adversarial Machine Learning	Eugene Vorobeychik
11/7/2018	Fast Image Registration and Statistical Shape Analysis	Miaomiao Zhang
11/12/2018	No Lecture
11/14/2018	Computational Imaging (40 MB)	Ulugbek Kamilov
11/19/2018	Making the Cloud A Better Fit for Real-Time Applications	Roch Guerin
11/21/2018	THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS
11/26/2018	No Class
11/28/2018	Ultrasound	William D Richard
12/3/2018	Entrepreneurship	Roger Chamberlain
12/5/2018	TBD	Kunal Agrawal

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