SCS Special Seminar February 28, 2023 10:00am — 12:00pm Location: In Person and Virtual - ET - Newell-Simon 4305 Speaker: CE ZHANG, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Institut für Computing Platforms, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich https://systems.ethz.ch/people/profile.ce-zhang.html Ce Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at ETH Zurich. The mission of his research is to make machine learning techniques widely accessible—while being cost-efficient and trustworthy—to everyone who wants to use them to make our world a better place. He believes in a system approach to enabling this goal, and his current research focuses on building next-generation machine learning platforms and systems that are data-centric, human-centric, and declaratively scalable. Before joining ETH, Ce finished his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent another year as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, both advised by Christopher Ré. His work has received recognitions such as the SIGMOD Best Paper Award, SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, Google Focused Research Award, an ERC Starting Grant, and has been featured and reported by Science, Nature, the Communications of the ACM, and a various media outlets such as Atlantic, WIRED, Quanta Magazine, etc. In Person and Zoom Participation. See announcement.