ECE Distinguished Colloquium Series

Jan 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024 Spring 2024

A User Guide to Low-Pass Graph Signal Processing and its Applications

A User Guide to Low-Pass Graph Signal Processing and its Applications

Anna Scaglione, Ph.D. - Cornell University

1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB

Enabling Performant and Trustworthy Learning-enabled CPS-loT Systems

Enabling Performant and Trustworthy Learning-enabled CPS-loT Systems

Mani Srivastava, Ph.D. - UCLA

1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB

Wavefront Shaping with Active Metasurfaces

Wavefront Shaping with Active Metasurfaces

Harry Atwater, Ph.D. - Caltech

1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB

Learned Emulators of Physical Systems

Learned Emulators of Physical Systems

Rebecca Willett, Ph.D. - University of Chicago

1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB

Unconventional Applications of Atomic Materials from Non-volatile Electronics to Wearable Health and Sensors

Unconventional Applications of Atomic Materials from Non-volatile Electronics to Wearable Health and Sensors

Deji Akinwande, Ph.D. - University of Texas - Austin

1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB

To be announced soon

To be announced soon

Mike Zafirovksi, Ph.D. - CEO of ZAF Consulting

1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB

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Anna Scaglione (M.Sc.'95, Ph.D. '99) is currently a professor in electrical and computer at Cornell Tech, the New York City campus of Cornell University,  Prior to that she held faculty positions at Arizona State University, the University of California at Davis, Cornell University (the first time) and the University of New Mexico.

Colloquium: Electrification of Aviation
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Juan de Bedout, Ph.D. - Senior Vice President of Aerospace Technology at Raytheon Technologies

Colloquium: One Click at a Time - Photon and Electron-Level Modeling in Computational Imaging
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Colloquium: On Some Quantum Internet Information Rates
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This talk discusses information rates in two quantum internet building blocks concerning quantum (conference) key distribution (QKD). 

Colloquium: Computing Near Storage
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We live in an age where enormous amount of data is being collected constantly because of smart phones, ubiquitous presence of sensors and the wide-spread use of social media. Useful and cost-effective analysis of this data is the biggest economic driver for the IT industry.

Colloquium: Underwater Acoustic Communications - Fundamentals and Recent Results
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Colloquium: Alumni Award Recipient Panel
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Illinois ECE Colloquium Series - 2022 Alumni Awards Panel.  We will be joined by four of the 2022 Illinois ECE Alumni Award Recipients.

Colloquium: Emerging opportunities in optical microresonators - fundamentals and applications
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Lan Yang, Ph. D. - Professor, Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University (St. Louis)

Colloquium: From Differentiable Reasoning to Self-supervised Embodied Active Learning
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Colloquium: Accelerating spatio-temporal data analytics and AI
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Colloquium: SiC - Beyond Power Devices
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Alan Mantooth, Ph.D. - University of Arkansas

Colloquium: Graduate Student Well-being Informational Seminar
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Colloquium: Memristive Neuromorphic Computing Beyond Moore's Law
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Steve Kang, Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz

Colloquium: First-Person Video for Understanding Interactions
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Kristen Grauman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin

Colloquium: Frontiers in Nanophotonics: Enabling Technology for Next-Generation Biosensors
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Colloquium: Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Skin
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John Rogers, Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering & Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL describes the key ideas from his research and presents some of the most recent device examples.

Colloquium: Information Security for the 6G Connected Future
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Aylin Yener, Ph.D., Roy and Lois Chope Chair in Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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P. R. Kumar, University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prof. Kumar is also a Professor Emeritus from ECE and CSL. 

Colloquium: Empathetic Physical Interaction
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Katsu Yamane, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Robotics Researcher, Honda Research Institute discusses two related projects: perception of pedestrian avoidance behavior of a mobile robot and modeling of intimate social interactions such as hugging.

Colloquium: Predictive and generative artificial intelligence for biology
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In the field of artificial intelligence, a combination of scale in data and model capacity enabled by unsupervised learning has led to major advances in representation learning and statistical generation. In the life sciences, the anticipated growth of sequencing promises unprecedented data on natural sequence diversity. 

Colloquium: Phase Calibration and Imaging in Interferometric Arrays
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In this colloquium, Athol Kemball, Ph.D., Department of Astronomy, discusses recent work in phase calibration and image formation for radio interferometric arrays using new approaches made possible by supercomputing in the petascale era. 

Colloquium: Deepak Divan - Power Electronics and Energy Access
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Ensuring universal, affordable and sustainable energy access for everyone is one of the biggest societal changes of our time.

Colloquium: 2020 Illinois ECE Alumni Awards Panel
Colloquium: 2020 Illinois ECE Alumni Awards Panel

Celebrate the 2020 Illinois ECE alumni award recipients who participated on this panel discussion.  

Colloquium: Illuminating My Career - From Flash Gordon to Laser Surgery
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Colloquium: Graduate Student Well-being Informational Seminar
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Colloquium: Graduate Student Well-being Informational Seminar | September 10, 2020

This informational seminar will focuses on graduate well-being, including relationships with advisors and peers, recommendations for health, and important resources that are available for students. The featured speaker are:

Thomas Miebach - Thomas is a Clinical Counselor/Crisis Triage Case Manager at the Counseling Center. He oversees the crisis/triage services at the Counseling center, and also serves on Suicide Intervention Team and Suicide Prevention Outreach Team. Thomas coordinates the trauma response services provided to the UIUC campus. Prior to working at the Counseling Center, he worked as a Crisis Clinician providing crisis mental health services to the Champaign-Urbana area.

 

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