Graduate Seminars Series

The graduate seminar series features lectures on current research within the field of industrial and systems engineering. The series occurs autumn, winter and spring quarter. MSIE and Ph.D. students are required to register for the entire seminar series (3 credits total).

IND E 593 Schedule

Quarter:

Spring 2025

Time:

Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.

Location:

LOW 111

Date	Speaker
April 1	Professor John Choe, Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE), UW What is Research in ISE?
April 8	Min Kang, Ph.D, Staff Data Scientist at Pinterest Causal inference under limited outcome observability: A case study with Pinterest Conversion Lift
April 15	Dr. Wuyang Chen, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computing Science, Simon Fraser University PDE-Controller: LLMs for Autoformalization and Reasoning of PDEs
April 22	Dr. Peeyush Kumar, research scientist, Microsoft Research OG-RAG: Ontology-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Generation using Knowledge Hypergraphs For Large Language Models
April 29	Sabine Loos, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Designing Human-Centered Disaster Impact Information
May 6	Dr. Jay Shafer, Director of Utilities, Disaster Tech Weathering the Storm: Predictive Models for Outage Risk and Grid Vulnerability
May 13	Brett Maurer, Associate Professor, UW Why Most “AI” Geohazard Models Are Ignored, Plus Some That Maybe Shouldn’t Be
May 20	Dr. Ali Mostafavi, Zachry Endowed Professor of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M Univeristy Multi-modal AI Systems for Disaster Resilient Communities
May 27	Zack W. Almquist, Associate and Adjunct Professor, UW Big and Small Data for Understanding the Demographics and Health of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County