Category: Seminar

Dr. Jie Xu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. He presents “Federated Learning via Indirect Communications” Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Dr. Junyu Liu is a quantum scientist affiliated with the University of Chicago and IBM. He presents “Quantum AI: From near-term to fault-tolerance” Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Laura Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. She presents “Nanophotonic Interfaces for Engineered Quantum Systems: Controlling Plasmons and Spins for Next-Generation Quantum Technologies” Tuesday, Dec. 19 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Nasim Soltani is a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. She presents “Deep Learning for Wireless Communications” Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Dr. Bosen Lian is currently an assistant professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Auburn University. He presents “Distributed Estimation, Objective Reconstruction, and Efficient Control of Multiagent Systems” Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 3:00pm in LAR 229.

Dr. Yiyu Shi is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, the site director of the National Science Foundation I/UCRC Alternative and Sustainable Intelligent Computing, and the director of the Sustainable Computing Lab (SCL). He presents “On-Device AI to Better Mobile and Implantable Devices in Healthcare” Friday, Dec. 1 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Chi Ding is currently a third-year mathematics PhD student at the University of Florida. He presents “Learned Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction: A Multi-Modal Approach” Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 3:00pm in NEB 589.

Dr. Ivan Ruchkin is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, where he leads the Trustworthy Engineered Autonomy (TEA) Lab. He presents “Calibration Guarantees for Closed-Loop Safety Chance Prediction” Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 3:00pm in NEB 589.

Dr. Chris H. Kim is the Louis John Schnell professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering with the University of Minnesota. He presents “Quantum-inspired Ising Chips for Solving Hard Optimization Problems” Thursday, Nov. 16 at 10:30am in LAR 234.

Dr. Payam Heydari is the University Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of California-Irvine. He presents “Novel mm-Wave/Terahertz Integrated Circuits and Architectures for High-Speed Communications” Monday, Nov. 13 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Dr. Wenqian Xue is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. She presents “Data-Driven Model-Free Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Linear Systems” Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 3:00pm in NEB 589.

John L. Volakis is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University (FIU), and a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. He presents “Ultra Wideband Millimeter-Wave Simultaneous Transmit/Receive Radios” Thursday, Oct. 26 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Dr. Ludwig is the Co-Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Translational Neuroengineering (WITNe) and leads the Ludwig Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin within the WITNe structure. He presents “Lessons in Translation: Accelerating the Path to Market for Neurotechnology” Thursday, Nov. 9 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Linda Rae is the general manager for the power generation and oil and gas businesses for GE Digital. On Thursday, Sept. 28, at 1:00pm in LAR 234, she will provide an overview about GE Vernova (a spin-off for GE’s energy businesses) and GE Digital.

Ran Dou is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Florida and a research assistant with CNEL. He presents “Dual-stream External Memory for Long-term Dependency” Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 3:00pm in NEB 589.

Dr. Rafael Segundo is a Research Associate at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. He presents “Stability Assessment of Forthcoming Power Networks with Massive Integration of Renewable Energy Source” Wednesday, Nov. 1 at 3:00pm ET via IEEE.org.

Dr. Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt is currently a senior lecturer in Electrical Power Systems at the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) at Loughborough University. He presents “Understanding of Grid-Forming Control for Inverter-Based Resources: Theory and Practice” Wednesday, Oct. 25 via IEEE.org.

Douglas Gardner is the chief technologist in Analog Device’s CTO Office Security Center of Excellence. He presents “Hyperconnectivity Driving Security to the Edge” Thursday, Sept. 7 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Dr. Jason Cong is Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence Professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department. He presents “Democratizing Integrated Circuit Designs with Deep Learning” Thursday, Sept. 14 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

Dr. Susan Trolier-McKinstry is an Evan Pugh University Professor and Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University. She presents “New Materials for Three-Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics” Thursday, Nov. 16 at 1:00pm in LAR 234.

“Min_LQG games and collective discrete choice problems” Wednesday, April 19 at 3:00pm NEB 409 Join via Zoom MeetingID: 925 7191 6778 Passcode: 358569 Presented by the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory Abstract We introduce a class of finite horizon linear quadratic Gaussian games involving distinct potential finite destination states, interpreted as discrete choices under social pressure. The […]

Dr. Baoyun Ge is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He presents “Physics-Enhanced Topology Optimization for the Design of Electric Machines” Wednesday, April 12 at 3:00pm in NEB 409.

Dr. Shahed Reza is an R&D manager at Sandia National Laboratories. He presents “An Overview of Electronic Device Modeling Research at Sandia National Laboratories”
Thursday, April 6 at 2:00pm in LAR 234.

Dr. Yiran Chen is the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He presents the 2023 Walter G. Fredrickson Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture, “Synergistic Edge AI Optimization through Cross-Layer Design” on Thursday, April 6.