Thursday, February 2:

9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks

• LIDS Associate Director Pablo Parrilo

9:15 – 10:15 Invited Speaker

• Prof Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge

  Nonparametric Bayesian Machine Learning

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30 Inference and Learning

• Theja Tulabandhula
  The influence of operational cost on estimation
• Oliver Kosut
  Sparse recovery with forward model uncertainty based on ellipsoid parameterization
• Alborz Geramifard
  Convergence rate analysis of incremental Feature Dependency Discovery
• James Saunderson
  A convex optimization approach to learning latent tree models
• Ying Liu
  Feedback message passing for inference in Gaussian graphical models
• Pratik Chaudhari
  Incremental sampling-based algorithms for state estimation

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:30 Invited Speaker

• Professor David Tse, UC Berkeley

  Information Theory of DNA Sequencing

2:30 – 2:45 Coffee Break

2:45 – 4:45 Networks

• Yuan Zhong

  Resource allocation in switched networks: scaling laws and delay optimality

• Chih-ping Li

  Delay and rate-optimal control in multi-class priority queues

• Marzieh Parandehgheibi

  Survivable paths in multilayer networks

• Yuan Shen

  A theoretical foundation of network navigation

• Watcharapan Suwansantisuk

  First passage time of Brownian motion with drifts

• Annie I-An Chen

  Fast distributed first-order methods

• Andras Gyorgy

  Modularity and impedance in transcription networks

4:45 – 5:00 Break

5:00 – 6:00 Panel Discussion: Information and Decision Sciences in Biomedicine

6:00 – 8:00 LIDS Social (in the 6th floor of the Stata Center)

Friday, February 3:

8:30 – 9:15 Breakfast

9:15 – 10:15 Invited Speaker

• Professor Claire Tomlin, UC Berkeley

  Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems using Reachability Analysis with Machine Learning

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30 Systems and Control

• Andrew Mastin

  Loss bounds in approximate Dynamic Programming

• Jagdish Ramakrishnan

  Heuristic approaches to adaptive fractionation in radiation therapy

• Hajir Roozbehani

  Learning and control in dynamic search problems: separation or duality?

• Sid Palas

  Formal design of driver assist systems through Hybrid Control

• Reza Ghaemi

  Computational tools for safety control of piecewise continuous order preserving systems

• Mitra Osqui

  Lower bounds on the performance of Analog to Digital Converters

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:00 Invited Speaker

• Professor Benjamin Van Roy, Stanford University

  Reinforcement Learning

3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break

3:15 – 5:15 Operations Research

• Mohamed Mostagir

  Pricing mechanisms for crowd sourcing applications

• Yunjian Xu

  A dynamic pricing mechanism for electricity

• Qingqing Huang

  Welfare impacts of real time electricity pricing under different market architectures

• Elie Adam

  A non-monotonic threshold model for cascading behavior on finite networks

• Xin Lu

  Online Stochastic Matching

• Daw-sen Huang

  Online Hamiltonian path problem

• Kuang Xu

  Make it go viral!

6:30 – 8:30 Banquet

• LIDS Banquet at MIT's Faculty Club (not open to the public)