13/05/2026 SQUARE talk – “Acceptance Testing for Robots: From Acceptance Criteria to Executable Validation” by Prof. Nico Hochgeschwender, University of Bremen
SPEAKER: Prof. Nico Hochgeschwender, University of Bremen ABSTRACT: Defining acceptable robot behavior is challenging. A vague requirement like “the robot shall pick and place the object safely and reliably” is not[…]
28/04/2026 SQUARE talk – “Mission Management System for Mars Analog Mission” by Stefan Moser
SPEAKER: Stefan Moser, PhD fellow at ITU. ABSTRACT: The prospect of human missions to Mars introduces significant challenges, as harsh environmental conditions and limited resources demand more advanced and efficient human-robot[…]
21/04/2026 SQUARE talk – “From ‘Gaining altitude’ to ‘Descending to depths’: When UAVs lead to AUVs” by Harshith Kumar
SPEAKER: Harshith Kumar, PhD fellow at ITU. ABSTRACT: UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and AUVs (Automated Underwater Vehicles) are types of robots that tackle key physical forces of nature in order to[…]
14/04/2026 SQUARE talk – “Perceiving the World Through Sound: A Framework for Spatial Map Generation Using Acoustic Echoes” by Usama Saqib
SPEAKER: Usama Saqib, PostDoc fellow at ITU. ABSTRACT: Robot audition is a subdomain of robotics that combines robotic platforms with advanced audio signal processing techniques. This field enables a robot to[…]
07/04/2026 SQUARE talk – “Bayesian Data analysis in the field of Games User Research” by Oleg Jarma
Oleg discusses how Bayesian methods can address the small, mixed datasets typical in game user research. SPEAKER: Oleg Jarma, Ph.D. fellow at ITU. ABSTRACT: Games User Research (GUR) is a young[…]
24/03/2026 SQUARE Talk – “Towards a Biomedical Ontology for COVID-19: Structuring Knowledge for a Pandemic” by Sehar Shafique
In this weeks SQUARE talk, Sehar will tell us about constructing and validating an ontology for COVID-19. SPEAKER: Sehar Shafique, PhD. fellow at ITU. ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an[…]
17/03/2026 SQUARE Talk – “Sound Mixed Fixed-Point Quantizer for Neural Networks” by Debasmita Lohar
Debasmita will present Aster, which automates mixed-precision fixed-point quantization for deep feed-forward neural networks. SPEAKER: Debasmita Lohar, Assist. Prof. at ITU. ABSTRACT: Neural networks are increasingly becoming integral to safety-critical applications,[…]
24/02/2026 SQUARE Talk – “Inference as Projection: How Variational Methods Decide What You Can See” by Ola Rønning
In this SQUARE talk, Ola will discuss how variational inference can be understood as projections that decide the visible shape of a posterior. SPEAKER: Ola Rønning, Postdoc at ITU. ABSTRACT: Exact[…]
19/02/2026 SQUARE Talk – “A Type System for Privacy-by-Design with Dynamic Consent” by Chinamyi Baramashetru
Chinamyi Baramashetru is visiting SQUARE. In this SQUARE talk, Chinamyi will present her work on a type system for privacy-aware programming, focusing on enforcing GDPR-style consent and data-flow constraints through a[…]
10/02/2026 SQUARE Talk – “A brief introduction to the Java Memory Model and its use for writing thread-safe code” by Raúl Pardo Jimenez
In this SQUARE talk Raúl will discuss writing thread safe code using the Java Memory Model. SPEAKER: Raúl Pardo Jimenez, Assoc. prof. at ITU. ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will give[…]