Spring 2024

January 26, 2024

Philip Kim

Professor, Harvard University

"Engineered Quantum Materials for Quantum Technology"

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February 2, 2024

Greg Hager

Senior Principal Scientist, Amazon Web Services

"Building AI-powered Computer Vision Systems that Customers Can Trust"

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February 9, 2024

Gagandeep Singh (ECE MS'11)

Senior Strategy Manager, Ericsson North America

""America Beyond Campus"

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February 23, 2024

Neil Caswell

AI/ML Senior Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton

"Doing Data Science for Clients & Corporations: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ambiguity"

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March 1, 2024

Christos Papadimitriou

Professor, Columbia University

"How does the brain create language?"

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April 5, 2024

Ness Shroff

Professor, The Ohio State University

April 12, 2024

Shantanu Chakrabartty

Professor, Washington University of St. Louis

April 19, 2024

Filiz Yesilkoy (ECE Ph.D. '12)

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Spring 2024

Previous Series

September 1, 2023

Kevin Daniels

University of Maryland, Electrical and Computer Engineering

"The Carbon Scaffold: Building Next Generation Sensors and Electronics on Quasi-freestanding Epitaxial Graphene"

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September 8, 2023

Cheng Gong

University of Maryland, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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October 6, 2023

Saikat Guha

Professor, University of Arizona

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October 20, 2023

Cynthia Chestek

Associate Professor, University of Michigan

"Neuroprostheses for Controlling Hand and Finger Movements"

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November 3, 2023 - CANCELLED

Matthew Wycoff

Director of DarkLabs

Booz Allen Hamilton

 

November 10, 2023

Michael Clifford

Principal Researcher, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA

"Cybersecurity for Autonomous Mobility"

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November 17, 2023

Darnell Moore

Principal Technical Program Manager, Amazon Consumer Robotics Lab

"Meet Astro: Amazon Consumer Robotics' First Robot for Homes and Small-to-Medium Business"

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December 8, 2023

Pavithra Prabhakar

Professor, Kansas State University

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February 3, 2023

Viktor Gruev

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

"Bio-Inspired Sensors: From the Ocean to the Operating Room"

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February 24, 2023

Om Deshmukh

Head of Data Science and Data Products

"Building At-Scale Data-Driven Products"

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March 3, 2023

L3 Harris, Space and Airborne Systems

"Microelectronics and Photonics Research to Space Applications:

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March 31, 2023

Abhishek Motayed

CEO, N5 Sensors

"Sensors for Greater Good"

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April 14, 2023

Pramod Viswanath

Princeton University

"Witness Chain: Proof of Bandwidth for Trust-Free Wireless Networking"

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April 21, 2023

Na (Lina) Li

Harvard University

"Scalable distributed control and learning of networked dynamical systems"

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April 28, 2023

Les Valiant

Harvard University

"How to Augment Supervised Learning with Reasoning"

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May 5, 2023

Saikat Guha

University of Arizona

Rescheduled for October 6, 2023

September 2, 2022

Tim O'Shea, Chief Technology Officer, 

DeepSig, Inc.

"Deep Learning in the Physical Layer: Building AI-Native Sensing and Communications Systems"

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September 9, 2022

Jay Patel, Vice President

Northrup Grumman Space Systems

"Changing Industry Trends and the Surprising Tools needed To Best Prepare"

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September 16, 2022

Laura Fisk, Head of Mixed Signal Circuits Research

Mythic AI

"Compute-in-Memory Processing for Energy Efficient Algorithms"

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September 23, 2022

Kostas Daniilidis,

Ruth Yalom Stone Professor

University of Pennsylvania

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September 30, 2022

Yiorgos Makris

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Texas at Dallas

"Malicious Hardware-Induced Covert Channels in Wireless Networks: Risks and Remedies"

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October 21, 2022

Michael Lundberg

Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton

"Zero Trust: Survival of the Fittest"

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November 11, 2022

David Bader

Director of Institute for Data Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology

"Innovations for Solving Global Grand Challenges"

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December 2, 2022

Jamil Abo-Shaeer

CEO & Co-Founder, Vector Atomic

"Quantum technology for the real world"

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Spring 2022  

January 28

"Closed-Loop Data Transcription via Minimaxing Rate Reduction"
3:30-4:30 PM

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Yi Ma
UC Berkeley

February 11

"Building brain-inspired hardware accelerators: co-designing devices, circuits and architectures for machine learning and pattern matching applications"
3:30-4:30 PM

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Catherine Graves
Principal Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard

February 25

"Wireless Communications Above 100 GHz and 5G and Beyond"
3:30-4:30 PM

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Sundeep Rangan  
New York University 

March 4

"Lessons Learned in Building Trusted AI at Leidos"
3:30-4:30 PM

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Ron Keesing 
Leidos 

April 1

Special Colloquium: ECEGSA Industrial Career Roundtable

12:00PM

Panelists:

  • Charles Barnett - Senior Vice President, Hughes
  • Kemal Sonmez - Co-Founder & CSO, Omics Data Automation
  • More panelists to be announced.

April 8

"An Information-Geometric View of Learning in High Dimensions"
3:30-4:30 PM

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Gregory Wornell 
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 22

"Intent to Experience and Back Again"
3:30-4:30 PM

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Kireeti Kompella 
Juniper Networks 

April 29

"Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED"
3:30-4:30 PM

Will Oliver 
MIT

May 6

"Accelerator Architectures for Deep Neural Networks: Inference and Training"
3:30-4:30 PM

Keshab Parhi
University of Minnesota 

 

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Fall 2021  

September 10

"Binary Analysis: Understanding and mitigating offensive cyber attacks"

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Thomas Dean 
Cyberwarfare Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton

September 24

"mm-Wave Imaging for Automotive and Beyond"

Brian Ginsburg
Systems Manager, Radar Business
Texas Instruments

October 22

"From Cancer to COVID, Pivoting in the Pandemic"

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Jennifer Blain-Christen  
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University 

October 29

"What can cells teach us about computing?"

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture Series

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Pamela Abshire
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Maryland, College Park

October 29

14th Annual ECEGSA Academic Career Panel 
2460 AV Williams Building 
1:00-3:00 PM

*This is an optional make-up colloquium class*

November 5

"Transitioning of Artificial Intelligence to Users: ARLIS's Human-Centered Approach"

William (Bill) Regli
Director, Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security, UMD

November 12

"Narratives synchronize brain, hearts and eye"

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Lucas Parra
Professor, City College of New York

November 19

"Blind Carbon Copy on Dirty Paper: Seamless Spectrum Underlay via Canonical Correlation Analysis" 

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Nikolaus Sidiropoulos
Louis T. Rader Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia

December 3

"Staircase Codes: Forward-error-correcting Codes for High-speed Optical Communication"
3:30-4:30 PM
Format: Zoom

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Frank Kschischang
Distinguished Professor of Digital Communication, University of Toronto

Spring 2021  

February 12

"Engineering New Solid State Quantum Systems"

Nathalie P. de Leon
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

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February 19

"Binary Convolutional Neural Network Design, Training and Implementation"

Arthur Redfern 
Manager of the Machine Learning Lab, Texas Instruments 

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February 26

"Silicon Technologies and ASICs for High-density Neural Interfaces and Organ-on-chip"

Nick Van Helleputte
R&D Manager, IMEC, Belgium

View Presentation

March 12

"Pursuit and Flocking in Robot Networks"

Kevin Galloway
Associate Professor, US Naval Academy

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March 26

"3D Perception for Autonomous Systems"

Camillo Taylor
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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April 2

Special Colloquium: ECEGSA Industrial Career Roundtable

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Panelists:

1. Wahab Jilani, Chief Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton
2. Daniela Moody, VP of Artificial Intelligence, Arturo.AI
3. Lisa Krayer, Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
4. Adedoyin (Doyin) Adewodu, Principal, INFRASI
5. Madhav Annamraju, Principal Architect, Microsoft (Azure Cloud&AI Division) 

View Panel Event Here

April 9

"How AI & Machine Learning are Disrupting Networking"

Bob Friday
CTO and co-founder of Mist Systems, a Juniper Company

View Presentation Here

April 16

"From 5G to 6G: Research, Engineering, and Applications for the Future of Connectivity"

T. Charles Clancy, PhD
Senior Vice President & General Manager, MITRE Labs
Chief Futurist

View Presentation Here

April 23

"Weakly Supervised Learning from Video"

Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Professor, UC Riverside

View Presentation Here

Fall 2020  

September 4

"Into the New Privacy Era: Hardware Assisted Large-Scale Confidential Computing"

Xiaofeng Wang
James H. Rudy Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington
Director of Center for Security Informatics

View Presentation Here

September 11

"Networks of Auditory Attention"

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University
Director, Neuroscience Institute

View Presentation Here

September 25

"Quantum in the Wild"

JD Dulny 
Chief Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton 

October 9 

"Decentralization and its Limits"

Bahman Gharesifard
Associate Professor, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada  

View Presentation Here

October 23

"New Perceptions and Prospects using Graphene"

Rachael Myers-Ward
Director, High Power Electronics Branch / Power Materials Section,
US Naval Research Lab

View Presentation Here

Special Seminar

November 6  |  2:00 - 2:45 PM

"NASA Goddard: Current and Future Priorities"

Dennis Andrucyk
Center Director, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

November 13

"Assuring AI for Real-World Applications with Robust AI System Design"

Reza Ghanadan
Senior Manager, Google Cloud AI

November 20

Special Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Seminar

"Optics and Electronics in Flatland: The Surprising Capabilities of 2D Materials"

Thomas Murphy
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
The University of Maryland, College Park

View Presentation Here

December 4

"Light-matter Interfaces for Quantum Information and Sensing at ARL"

Fredrik Fatemi
Branch Chief for Quantum Sciences, CCDC Army Research Lab
Associate Director, Quantum Technology Center

View Presentation Here

Spring 2020  

January 31

Advanced Cryptography: Promise, Progress, and Challenges

Shai Halevi
Research Fellow, Algorand Foundation 

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation here

February 14

Challenges of Charging EVs @ Scale

Lee Slezak
Vehicle Systems Manager, Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Program

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation here

February 21

Quantum Diamond Sensing: Advances and Applications to Integrated Circuit Activity Monitoring

Edlyn Levine 
Research Associate, Department of Physics, Harvard University 
Lead Physicist, The MITRE Corporation

Gannon Auditorium, Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering, 3:30 PM

View Presentation here

March 27 

*CANCELED*

Decentralization and its Limits

Bahman Gharesifard
Associate Professor,
Mathematics and Engineering Program: Control Group
Queen's University, Ontario, Canada  

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

April 3

*CANCELED*

JD Dulny 
Chief Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton 

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

April 24

*CANCELED*

Daniel Cunningham
Technology to Market Advisor,
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, U.S. Department of Energy 

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

May 1

*CANCELED*

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Deputy Director, Carnegie-Mellon Neuroscience Institute 
Professor, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

May 8

*CANCELED*

Xiaofeng Wang
James H. Rudy Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indiana University Bloomington

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

Fall 2019  

October 4, 2019

"Energy Harvesting Using Magneto-Elastic Materials"

Amr Adly
Professor, Cairo University
Deputy Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research for University Affairs
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View presentation here

October 11, 2019

"High-Risk Job Training: Using Virtual Reality to Save Lives and Minimize Risk"

Elyse Heob
Lead Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View presentation here

October 25, 2019

"Security and Privacy Guarantees in Machine Learning with Differential Privacy"

Roxana Geambasu
Associate Professor,
Computer Science Department, Columbia University

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View presentation here

November 8, 2019

"Design and Operation of Highly Scalable Datacenter Networks - Google Perspectives"

Vijay Vusirikala
Director, Network Architecture and Optical Engineering, Google

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

November 15, 2019

"The Journey from Engineering to the Law: An Ever-Changing Perspective"

Joseph Drayton
Partner, Cooley LLP

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View presentation here

November 22, 2019

"From Student to Leader – Opportunities at NSA"

George C. Barnes
Deputy Director, National Security Agency

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

December 6, 2019

"QTC @ UMD"

Ronald Walsworth
Minta Martin Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Maryland

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View presentation here

 

February 1, 2019

"All-Optical Switching for Photonic Quantum Networks"

Prem Kumar
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Northwestern University

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

February 8, 2019

"Machine Learning for Cyber Security: Challenges and Successes"

Edward Raff
Senior Lead Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

February 15, 2019

"Because That’s Where the Money Is: Designing Defenses for Entrenched Legacy Payment Systems"

Patrick Traynor
Professor, Computer and Information Science & Engineering
University of Florida

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

February 22, 2019

“Can Nuclear Batteries Ever Be a Reality”

Michael Spencer
Dean of Engineering, Morgan State University

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

March 1, 2019

"Reaching 10 years battery life in IOT end device – challenges and key technologies"  

Xiaolin Lu
Fellow and Director of Texas Instruments Kilby Innovation Center

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

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March 29, 2019

"Power Electronics Technology - Quo Vadis"

Frede Blaabjerg
Professor, Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

April 5, 2019

"Cryptographic Code Obfuscation"

Brent Waters
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

April 26, 2019

"The Resurgence of Software Performance Engineering"

Charles Leiserson
Professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 PM

View Presentation Here

May 3, 2019

"Verification for Safe Autonomy: Challenges and Recent Developments"

Sayan Mitra 
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

 

 

   

September 7, 2018

"US Navy Electrical Leap Forward...A Vision for the Future: ONR Technology Development"

Lynn J. Petersen
CAPT USN (Retired)
Ship Systems and Engineering Research, Office of Naval Research

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

September 14, 2018

"AI and Robotics for Crop Management & Breeding"

George A. Kantor
Senior Systems Scientist
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

October 5, 2018

"AI: Hype vs. Reality"

Josh Sullivan
Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

October 26, 2018

"Towards Semantic Adversarial Examples"

Somesh Jha
Professor, Department of Computer Sciences,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

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November 2, 2018

"Counter Intuitive Physics of Ballistic Transport in State-of-the-Art Electronic Devices"

Michael S. Shur
Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor of Solid State Electronics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

November 9, 2018

"From Basic Research to Quantum Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities"

Tatjana Curcic
Program Manager,
Defense Sciences Office, DARPA

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

November 16, 2018

"Learning to Benchmark"

Alfred O. Hero, III
John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of EECS; R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering
University of Michigan

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 PM

View Presentation Here

November 30, 2018

"Underwater Patrol: A Tale about Gliding Robotic Fish "Grace"

Xiaobo Tan
MSU Foundation Professor, Michigan State University

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here


December 7, 2018

"Can Machine Learning Ever Be Trustworthy?"

David Evans
Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Presentation Here

 

 

February 2, 2018

"Caring Analytics for Long-Term Care of People with Special Needs"

Marilyn Wolf
Professor; Georgia Research Aliance Eminent Scholar; Rhesa "Ray" S. Farmer, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems
Georgia Tech, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Wolf's presentation here.

 

February 9, 2018

"The Age of Information: Applications, Metrics, and Analytical Methods"

Roy D. Yates
Associate Director, WINLAB
Distinguished Professor, ECE, Rutgers University

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Yates Presentation here.

March 9, 2018

"Current and Future Directions in Power Electronic Devices and Circuits based on Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors"
 

Isik C. Kizilyalli
Program Director, Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy,
U.S. Department of Energy

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.
 

 

April 6, 2018

"Emerging Trends in Silicon Carbide Power Electronics"

Alan Mantooth
Distinguished Professor, The Twenty-First Century Research Leadership Chair in Engineering, ECE, University of Arkansas

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Mantooth's presentation here.


 

April 9, 2018

ECE Special Seminar: "Cybersecurity Threats to U.S. Elections"

Alex Halderman
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 11:00 a.m.

View Dr. Halderman's presentation here.
 

April 13, 2018

"Building and Getting Infected by Interdisciplinary Research!"

Ramesh R. Rao
Professor, ECE, UC San Diego Director, California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology, UC San Diego

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Rao's presentation here.



April 27, 2018

"Networking 3.0"

Bikash Koley
Executive Vice President & CTO, Juniper Networks

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Koley's presentation here.

 


May 4, 2018

*CANCELED & RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2018*

George Pappas
Joseph Moore Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania 

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m

 



May 11, 2018

"ALGORAND: A Truly Distributed Ledger"

Silvio Micali
Ford Professor of Engineering, CSAIL,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m

View Dr. Micali's presentation here.

 

 

September 15, 2017

"Laser Sensing and Communicating in the Underwater Environment"

Linda Mullen
Senior Science and Technology Manager 
Avionics Department at the Naval Air Warefare Center
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

 

October 6, 2017
 

"AI: A Signal Processing Perspective"

Brian Sadler
Senior Scientist, Intelligent Systems Army Research Laboratory
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Sadler's presentation here.

 

November 3, 2017

"Learning and Predicting Human Intentions Through Interactions"

Fumin Zhang
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Zhang's presentation here.

 

November 10, 2017

"Reconfigurable Power Electronics Grid Emulator"

Leon M. Tolbert
Min H. Kao Professor and Department Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Tolbert's presentation here.

December 1, 2017 (RESCHEDULED FOR SPRING 2018)

George Pappas 
Joseph Moore Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 


December 8, 2017

John Apostolopoulos
VP & CTO for Enterprise Segment, and Lab Director for Innovations Labs, Cisco
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

View Dr. Apostolopoulos's presentation here.

 

 

February 3, 2017

"Productivity and Security in the age of IOT"

Chi-Foon Chan
President and co-CEO, Synopsys
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.
View Dr. Chan's Presentation here

February 24, 2017

"Entropy Minimization for Sparse Recovery, Low-rank Approximation and Representative Selection"

Trac Tran

Professor, Johns Hopkins University 
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

 

March 31, 2017

"Low-Energy and Flexible GPS Sensing Through Cloud Offloading"

Jie Liu
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

 

April 7, 2017

"Educating Innovators Across the Disciplines"

Andreas C. Cangellaris
Dean, College of Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering 
University of Illinois
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

 

April 14, 2017

"CMOS System-on-chip Solutions for Wearable Biosensors, 5G Wireless, and Beyond"

Valencia Koomson
Professor, Tufts University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

 

April 21, 2017

"Design Thinking for Socially Responsible IoT"

Eric Rickard

Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

April 28, 2017

"Compact Modular Medium Voltage Power Converters"

Hamid Toliyat
Raytheon Endowed Professor, Texas A&M University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:30 p.m.

 

 

September 16, 2016

"Quantitative Cybersecurity Assessment: From Breach Prediction to Incentive Design"

Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:00 p.m.

See video of Colloquium talk

September 23, 2016

"Learning From Life"

Louis Scheffer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, and Janelia Principal Scientist
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:00 p.m.

 

 

September 30, 2016

"Distributed Grid Control-The Next Frontier For Power Electronics"

Deepak Divan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:00 p.m.

 

 

October 7, 2016

"A New Look at Optimal Control of Wireless Networks: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems"

Eytan Modiano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:00 p.m.

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November 4, 2016

"Transport of Magnetic Particles in Tissues: Possible Applications and Mechanisms"

Gary Friedman, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Drexel University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:00 p.m.

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November 11, 2016

"Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy"

G.K. Surya Prakash, Professor and Director at Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry,University of Southern California
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:00 p.m.

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December 2, 2016

"The Wireless Revolution"

Sennur Ulukus, Distinguished Scholar Teacher
ECE/ISR, University of Maryland
J.M. Patterson Building, Rm. 3201, 4:00 p.m.

December 9, 2016

*Rescheduled for Spring*

Thomas Richardson, Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm Inc.
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110, 3:00 p.m.

 

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February 5, 2016


"Ford's Mobility and Innovation Strategy"
Sherif Marakby, Ford Motor Company
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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February 19, 2016


3D Integrated CMOS-Memristor Hybrid Circuits: Devices, Integration, Architecture, and Applications” 
Professor Tim Cheng, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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March 4, 2016

"Imaging Materials for Renewable Energy"
Professor Marina Leite, University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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March 25, 2016

"Traffic Offloading and User Provided Wireless Networks: Theory and Novel Realizations"
Professor Leandros Tassiulas, Yale University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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April 8, 2016

"Flying Cars – Challenges and Propulsion Strategies"
Professor Kaushik Rajashekara, University of Texas at Dallas
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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April 15, 2016

"Big Data and Social Physics"
Professor Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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April 29, 2016

"Advanced RF Acceleration Science and Technology"
Professor Sami Tantawi, Stanford University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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May 6, 2016

"The Year of Shannon"
Professor Sergio Verdu, Princeton University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan Simon

September 18, 2015
To Be Determined
Dr. Balaji Sampath, AID India
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan Simon

September 25, 2015
"Opportunities & Challenges in Engineering Research, Education, & Innovation – A Perspective from NSF"
Dr. Pramod Khargonekar, National Science Foundation
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University

October 9, 2015
“Power-Aware Computing, Heterogeneous Parallelism, & the Post-ISA Era” 
Professor Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Sharon Hu

October 30, 2015
"Resource Management in CyberPhysical Systems"
Dr. X. Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
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November 6, 2015
"Machine Learning and Privacy: Friends or Foes?"
Dr. Vitaly Shmatikov, Cornell University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
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Pinaki Mazumder

November 13, 2015
"Smart Solar Energy for the Smart Grid"
Professor Brad Lehman, Northeastern University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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David Munson

November 20, 2015
"Engineering Education: Where We've Been and Where We're Going"
Dean David Munson, University of Michigan
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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David Munson

December 4, 2015
"Going Where No Plasma or Laser Has Gone Before: Microcavity Plasmas, Micrphontonic Resonators and Biomolecular Lasers"
Professor J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
The Stanley Zupnik Lecture Hall, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan SimonFebruary 13, 2015
"Modeling and Simulation for the International Space Station"
Rebekah Anchondo, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
Video of this talk is not available.

 

    February 20, 2015
    "Micro/Nano/Biosytems: "The New Fantastic Voyage"
     Professor Reza Ghodssi, University of Maryland
    *Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture (Note different time and location.)
    Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC), Rm. 1115
    4:30 p.m.
    Video of this talk is not available.

 

Jonathan SimonFebruary 27, 2015
“Energy and Power Electronics” 
Professor Fred Lee, Virginia Tech
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan Simon   March 27, 2015
   "Overview of Activities at United Technologies Research Center: From Building Automation to Autonomous Helicopters"
   Dr. Isaac Cohen, United Technology Research Center
   Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
   3:00 p.m.
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Pinaki MazumderApril 10, 2015
"Beyond Moore’s Law Disruptive Technologies and Architectures"
Professor Pinaki Mazumder, University of Michigan
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan SimonApril 17, 2015
"Adaptive and Optimal Control of Solar Thermal Energy Plants"
Dr. Joao Lemos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan Simon    April 24, 2015
   "Engineering Education Research: The Growth of a Discipline"
   Dean Leah Jamieson, Purdue University
   Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
   3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan SimonSeptember 12, 2014
Sponsorship of Scientific Research in a Competitive Environment
Dr. Lawrence Schuette, Office of Naval Research
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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    September 19, 2014 RESCHEDULED: October 3, 2014
    "High-Dimensional Data Analysis for fMRI Brain Connectivity Modeling"
    Professor Jane Wang, University of British Columbia
    Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
    3:00 p.m.
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XC ZhangSeptember 26, 2014
"The Institute of Optics and My Passion for THz Technology"
Professor XC Zhang, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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   October 10, 2014
   "Technology of FIRST"
   Ashley Cowall, Booz Allen Hamilton & FIRST Robotics
   Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
   3:00 p.m.
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Ness ShroffOctober 17, 2014
"Resilient Networking"
Professor Ness Shroff, Ohio State University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Tom MehlhornNovember 14, 2014
"National Security Research in Plasma Physics and Pulsed Power: Past, Present, and Future: From a Naval Research Laboratory Perspective"
Dr. Thomas Mehlhorn, Naval Research Laboratory
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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     November 21, 2014
     "The Continuing Arms Race: Malware Attacks on Embedded Systems and Countermeasures"
     Professor Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
     Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
     3:00 p.m.
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Philip KreinDecember 5, 2014
"Transforming the Electric Grid from the Distribution System Out"
Professor Thomas Jahns, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan SimonFebruary 7, 2014
Shining Light on Forensic Research
Dr. Miranda van Iersel, TNO Netherlands
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Dr. KellerMarch 7, 2014 
Visual Computing for Big Data
Professor Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Paul FranzonMarch 14, 2014
The 'Magical' World of Autism: Autism as a Disorder of Prediction
Professor Pawan Sinha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Naomi HalasApril 4, 2014
Fast, Small -- yet Still in Control: How Flying Insects Balance Speed and Accuracy
Dr. Sanjay Sane, National Center for Biological Sciences, India
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Feng ZhaoApril 11, 2014
A Real-Time Digital Simulation Environment for the Analysis of Large High-Voltage AC-DC Power Systems
Professor Reza Iravani, University of Toronto
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Prasad EnjetiApril 18, 2014
GPS Denied Location and Mapping
Dr. Carole Teolis, TRX Systems
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Min WuApril 25, 2014
Computational Electromagnetics Applications in the Industry
Mr. Jason Miller, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Philip KreinMay 2, 2014
Scalable Control of Monotone Systems
Professor Anders Rantzer, Lunds University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jonathan SimonSeptember 6, 2013
Cortical Encoding of Auditory Objects at the Cocktail Party
Professor Jonathan Simon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Institute for Systems Research as part of the Intelligent Automation Inc. Colloquiua Series
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Dr. KellerSeptember 13, 2013
Innovating with Analytics
Dr. Brian Keller, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Paul FranzonSeptember 27, 2013  POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER 8, 2013
3DIC: Short and Long Range Opportunities
Professor Paul Franzon, North Carolina State University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Naomi HalasOctober 4, 2013
Frontiers of Plasmonics: New Materials, Interactions, and Applications
Professor Naomi Halas, Rice University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Feng ZhaoOctober 11, 2013
Planet-Scale Sensing: From Lab to the Real World
Dr. Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Prasad EnjetiOctober 25, 2013
Advance Power Electronic Converters for Renewable Energy Systems
Professor Prasad Enjeti, Texas A&M University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Min WuNovember 15, 2013
Distinguished Scholar Teacher Lecture Seeing the Invisibles: A Backstage Tour of Information Forensics 
Professor Min Wu, University of Maryland
Computer Science Instructional Center, Rm. 1115
4:00 p.m.
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Philip KreinNovember 22, 2013
The Solar Energy Cost Parity Inflection and High Reliability Power Electronics
Professor Philip Krein, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Ian WhiteFebruary 22, 2013
Inkjet-printed Fluidic Paper SERS Devices for Chemical and Biological Analytics
Dr. Ian White, Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Dr. SrinivasanMarch 1, 2013
Visual Guidance of Flight in Bees and Birds, and Applications to Robotics
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan, The University of Queensland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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David PerreaultMarch 8, 2013
In Search of Powerful Circuits: Developments in Very High Frequency Power Conversion
Professor David Perreault, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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dean ChangMarch 15, 2013
Lessons from Stanford to Silicon Valley Start-Up
Dr. Dean Chang, University of Maryland
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Jose Contreras-VidalMarch 29, 2013
Clinical Brain-Machine Interface Systems for Restoration and Rehabilitation of Upper and Lower-Limb Motor Function
Professor Jose Contreras-Vidal, University of Houston
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Dr. KahngApril 12, 2013
Design Margins, Scaling and the Future of Moore’s Law
Professor Andrew Kahng, University of California, San Diego
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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April 26, 2013
Computing Trends and the Mobile Experience
Mr. David Hansquine, Qualcomm
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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May 10, 2013
Exploring the Nano-World with Bright Beams of Extreme Ultraviolet Light
Professor Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Rm. 1110
3:00 p.m.
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Fall 2023   

September 1, 2023

Kevin Daniels

University of Maryland, Electrical and Computer Engineering

"The Carbon Scaffold: Building Next Generation Sensors and Electronics on Quasi-freestanding Epitaxial Graphene"

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