| 08:30-09:00 | Breakfast refreshments |
| 09:00-10:40 | Talk session 1 (Chair: Weiran Wang) |
| 09:00-09:20 | Behnam Neyshabur | Ensemble of Bandit Algorithms |
| 09:20-09:40 | Jialei Wang | Efficient Globally Convergent Stochastic Optimization for Canonical Correlation Analysis |
| 09:40-10:00 | Haris Angelidakis | Algorithmic and Hardness Results for the Hub Labeling Problem |
| 10:00-10:20 | Rachit Nimavat | Approximating Node-Disjoint Paths in a Special Case of Grids |
| 10:20-11:20 | Poster session 1: |
| Jon Cai | Understanding Natural Language Stories via Neural Networks |
| Andrea Daniele | Natural Language Generation in the Context of Providing Indoor Route Instructions |
| David Kim | Improved Approximation for Node-Disjoint Paths in Planar Graphs |
| Chip Schaff | Bayesian Optimization for Automated Model Selection |
| Shane Settle | Discriminative Acoustic Word Embeddings: Recurrent Neural Network-Based Approaches |
| Samira Sheikhi | Practical Newton_type Distributed Learning using Gradient Based Approximations |
| Hao Tang | End-to-End Training Approaches for Discriminative Segmental Models |
| Wei Tian | Towards High Resolution Structure Prediction of Beta Barrel Membrane Proteins |
| Shubham Toshniwal | Jointly Learning to Align and Convert Graphemes to Phonemes with Neural Attention Models |
| Shubhendu Trivedi | High Dimensional Robust Optimization using Metric Learning |
| Hai Wang | An empirical study of several cloze-style question answering datasets |
| Blake Woodworth | Tight Complexity Bounds for Optimizing Composite Objectives |
| Xiaoming Zhao | Less pain? Deep Learning Aids Mammography Diagnosis |
| 11:20-12:40 | Talk session 2 (Chair: Hammad Naveed) |
| 11:20-11:40 | Gustav Larsson | Learning Representations for Automatic Colorization |
| 11:40-12:00 | Nick Kolkin | An Objectively Spatial Loss Function for Segmentation |
| 12:00-12:20 | Somaye Hashemifar | ModuleAlign: module-based global alignment of protein-protein interaction networks |
| 12:20-12:40 | Herman Kamper | Unsupervised speech recognition using acoustic word embeddings |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch + poster session 2 (same posters) |
| 14:00-16:00 | Alumni + faculty panel: Julia Chuzhoy, Andy Cotter, Mark Hallen, Kevin Gimpel, Mesrob Ohannessian, Karthik Sridharan, Zhiyong Wang; Madhur Tulsiani, moderator |
| 16:00-16:45 | Grad student resources (Chrissy Novak), refreshments, best talk + poster awards |
| 16:45-17:30 | Informal session of students with alumni (no faculty) |
