[Colloquium] 9/30 Junchen Jiang (UChicago) Perception-Driven Internet Systems

[Holly Santos via Colloquium]

Department of Computer Science Colloquium 

Junchen Jiang
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Monday, September 30th
2:00pm - 3:00pm 
In Person: John Crerar Library Rm 390

Title: Perception-Driven Internet Systems

Abstract: Internet systems serve as vital infrastructure, but what should they optimize for? Traditional approaches optimize system performance metrics, but improvements in system performance often cannot be perceived by the actual consumers of applications. This talk introduces a paradigm shift to optimize for the perception of consumers rather than performance metrics. This new paradigm also embraces the trend that consumers themselves are increasingly ML models (vision models and large language models), which also exhibit a wide range of sensitivities to system performance. This perception-driven paradigm offers new potential to improve the user experience for a broader audience. I will explain several projects as concrete case studies of this new paradigm. 

Bio: Junchen Jiang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He received her Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017 and a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University (Yao Class) in 2011. His research interests are networked systems and their intersections with machine learning. He has received a Google Faculty Research Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and a CMU Computer Science Doctoral Dissertation Award. He has also received multiple best paper and best paper runner-up awards at IEEE Symposium of Edge Computing and ACM CoNEXT.  More information can be found here: https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~junchenj/



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Holly Santos
Executive Assistant to Hank Hoffmann, Liew Family Chair
Department of Computer Science
The University of Chicago
5730 S Ellis Ave-217   Chicago, IL 60637
P: 773-834-8977
hsantos at uchicago.edu






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