TTIC 20th Anniversary Workshop

Welcome to TTIC's 20th Anniversary workshop featuring student alumni, faculty alumni, current faculty, panel discussions, and a poster session!

Invited Speakers

Schedule

Thursday (11/9):

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:30 Welcome and History of TTIC - Avrim Blum (TTIC)

9:30-10:00 Karthik Sridharan (Cornell; TTIC PhD 2012)

10:00-10:30 Sepideh Mahabadi (MSR; TTIC 2018-2021)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-11:30 Karen Livescu (TTIC)

11:30-12:00 Mohit Bansal (UNC; TTIC 2013-2016)

12:00-1:30  Lunch

1:30-2:00 Matt Walter (TTIC)

2:00-2:30   Suriya Gunasekar (MSR; TTIC 2016-2019)

2:30-3:00   Adam Kalai (MSR; TTIC 2003-2006)

3:00-3:30   Break

3:30-4:30 Panel Discussion [career issues / life after TTIC]:

Rob Nowak (UW-Madison), Shubham Toshniwal (NVIDIA), Julia Chuzhoy (TTIC), Matthew Turk (TTIC)

4:30+ Pizza and Posters

Friday (11/10):

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:30 Audrey Sedal (McGill; TTIC 2020-2021)

9:30-10:00 Harald Räcke (TU Munich; TTIC 2005-2007)

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-11:00 Aly Azeem Khan (UChicago; TTIC 2014-2019)

11:00-11:30 Qixing Huang (UT Austin; TTIC 2014-2016)

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-1:30 David McAllester (Research@TTIC) (TTIC)

1:30-2:00 Break

2:00-2:30 Shubham Toshniwal (NVIDIA; TTIC PhD 2022)

2:30-3:00 Thatchaphol Saranurak (UMichigan; TTIC  2018-2020)

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-4:30 Panel  Discussion [The future of AI / what will we be talking about at the 30th anniversary?]:

Shai Ben-David (UWaterloo), Adam Kalai (MSR), David McAllester (TTIC), Manuel Blum (CMU/UC Berkeley emeritus)

4:30+ TGIF