Events

This is the set of 5 finalists for the IEEE Computer Society Global Student Challenge 2021 (GSC-21), selected from among 250 student teams who registered. The teams solved 2 data science problems based on real-world datasets. This has the presentations from the finalists along with the voting link for the audience choice award.

CRISP is launching a student research competition separately for undergraduate and graduate students, who are working with faculty affiliated with CRISP. The first round will start Aug 23 and submissions will be due Sep 13 and then the finalists will present to a judging panel. There will be multiple prizes for each category.

Dr. Riccardo Boero, from the Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology group at Los Alamos National Laboratory will deliver a CRISP lecture on the socio-technical resilience theme.

A set of CRISP faculty members will present research briefs to NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer, Dr. Nirmal Saxena. The presentations relate to different forms of resilience as they relate to autonomous systems.

Dr. Nirmal Saxena, a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA, will discuss the role of resilient computing and design for testability in paving the path for dependable autonomous vehicles.

3 vision talks on different aspects of resilience by Profs. Shreyas Sen, Jing Gao, and Ashraf Alam, followed by a panel discussion. The vision talks cover three diverse areas with a focus on resilient systems --- body area networks, data mining for veracity, and reliable sensing systems from unreliable sensors.

This Wed (Nov 4) we will hear from Dr. Tom Jacobs, Director of the Systems Technology Lab at Adobe Research in San Jose.

We will also hear from some members of his team.

They will present some of their current projects in self-healing systems and applied ML and ask for expertise at Purdue relevant to their open problems. They are looking for funding projects in this space and also for providing Adobe Research awards.

Dr. Bill Chappell, CTO of Microsoft Azure Cloud and formerly Director of the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) will address CRISP and the Purdue community. His talk is titled: "Experiences as a DARPA Program Manager and the Competition for the Cloud".

Debashis Saha, VP Engineering at an AI in Fintech startup AppZen, will share his lessons building and growing software companies in the Silicon Valley. He will draw on his experience previously serving as VP at eBay, PayPal, and Intuit.

Purdue ECE Bachelors graduate and alum from DCSL, John Rogers, will talk of professional lessons learned in his career in security for the finance sector.