Paul G. Allen School Courses

Towards Robust Human-Robot Interaction: A Quality Diversity Approach

Exploring diverse human-robot interaction scenarios using quality diversity algorithms to improve robustness and avoid failures in real-world settings. Applications in shared autonomy and preference learning.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Communication Complexity of Private Simultaneous Messages Protocols - 2021 ITC Conference

Exploring communication complexity in private simultaneous messages protocols, examining quantum advantages and demonstrating gaps between classical and quantum models in secure multiparty computation.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Post-Compromise Security in Self-Encryption - 2021 ITC Conference

Explores post-compromise security in self-encryption, proving its implications for state size in cloud storage, 0-RTT session resumption, and secure messaging. Presents a secure scheme matching the derived bound.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Differentially Oblivious Database Joins - Overcoming the Worst-Case Curse of Fully Oblivious Algorithms

Explore innovative techniques for database joins that balance privacy and efficiency, overcoming limitations of fully oblivious algorithms in worst-case scenarios.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Perfectly Oblivious RAM and Parallel RAM Revisited - Improved Constructions

Explore novel constructions and asymptotic improvements in perfect ORAM/OPRAM performance metrics. Gain insights into advanced cryptographic techniques and their applications.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fooling an Unbounded Adversary with a Short Key, Repeatedly - The Honey Encryption Perspective

Explores honey encryption for unconditional security with short keys, presenting a new scheme for semantic security in the standard model and enabling multiple message encryption with a single key.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

ZK-PCPs from Leakage-Resilient Secret Sharing - 2021 ITC Conference

Explore cutting-edge cryptography research on ZK-PCPs derived from leakage-resilient secret sharing. Learn about innovative constructions combining the best aspects of zero-knowledge proofs and probabilistically checkable proofs.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Women's Research Day 2021 - Welcome and Keynote

Celebration of women and nonbinary researchers in computer science, featuring a welcome address and keynote presentation on innovative research and the vision behind Women's Research Day.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Machine Learning-centric, Energy-Optimized Wireless Systems - Spring 2021 Research Seminar

Explore cross-layer optimization for energy-efficient AIoT systems, integrating machine learning, wireless communication, signal processing, and VLSI architecture for ultra-low power IoT applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Kaemika App - Simulating Reaction Networks and Digital Protocols

Explore integrated descriptions for automated scientific processes, extracting models and protocols for analysis and execution using the Kaemika app across multiple platforms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Policy Learning in Spatial Action Spaces for Robotic Manipulation

Explore innovative approaches to robotic policy learning in spatial action spaces for complex manipulation tasks, addressing challenges and evaluating solutions in simulated and physical environments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Causal Inference in Single-cell Genomics - Machine Learning in Computational Biology

Explore causal inference in single-cell genomics, focusing on differential expression analysis and integrating bulk data for high-resolution insights into complex disease mechanisms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling Probabilistically Safe Learning to Robotics

Explores advancements in safe robot learning, focusing on imitation learning theory, scalable reward inference, and efficient policy evaluation to enable real-world deployment with safety guarantees.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates

Exploring human-machine collaboration to improve performance in complex tasks. Research on computational models enabling machines to understand human teammates and enhance capabilities in various fields.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Computer Vision to Phenotype Human Diseases Across Physical and Molecular Scales

Innovative computer vision algorithms for disease phenotyping across scales, from video-based heart function assessment to spatial transcriptomics and immune cell dynamics, with focus on robust and human-compatible AI.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video