ECE Lectures Archive

This is an archive of this year’s ECE Distinguished Lectures, Colloquia and Seminars. You may visit prior years’ archives by following the year-specific links in the right sidebar. Please note that lecture materials are only available to members of BU community.

2013

ECE Distinguished Lectures

Schulzrinne_squareJanuary 30

Professor Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technology Officer, United States Federal Communications Commission, Columbia University

“Can the Internet Survive the Next 40 Years?”

Talk abstract and speaker’s bio || News Story

IMG_3170_Crop3March 20

Professor Kim L. Boyer, Head, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic University

“Staring Into Your (Dry) Eyes: Monitoring the Pre-Lens Tear Film From Narrowband Interferometry”

Talk abstract and speaker’s bio || News Story

 


ECE Colloquia

  • 2/27 Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
    “Implementing Randomized Matrix Algorithms in Parallel and Distributed Environments”

ECE Seminars

  • 1/24 Marten van Dijk, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    “Secure Computation on Encrypted Data”
  • 1/28 Xi Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
    “Learning from Big Data: Scalability & Structures”
  • 2/4 Yisong Yue, Carnegie Mellon University
    “Learning with Humans in the Loop”
  • 2/6 Rezy Pradipta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    “Remote Sensing of Space Environment Using Ground-Based and Satellite-Borne Instruments”
  • 2/11 Prateek Mittal, University of California, Berkeley
    “Trustworthy Communications Using Network Science”
  • 2/13 Alessandra Babuscia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    “Development of Innovative Communication Technologies and Design Strategies to Meet the Emerging Needs of Space Exploration”
  • 2/19 Kasper Rasmussen, University of California, Irvine
    “Selected Topics on Wireless Security and Localization”
  • 2/21 Wooram Lee, Broadcom
    “A New Circuit Design Paradigm Exploiting Nonlinear Phenomena”
  • 2/25 Ameet Talwalkar, University of California, Berkeley
    “Divide-and-Conquer Learning for Big Data”
  • 2/28 Vinod M. Menon, The City University of New York – Queens College & Graduate Center
    “Control of Light-Matter Interaction Using Dispersion Engineered Photonic Structures”
  • 3/4 Taylor Barton, MIT
    “Energy Efficient Design: Amplifiers for High Data Rate Wireless Communications”
  • 3/5 Dan Feldman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    “Learning Patterns in Big Data From Small Data Using Core-Sets”
  • 3/6 Sidharth Jaggi, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    “Robust Sparse Recovery and Applications: Order-Optimal Measurements and Complexity”
  • 3/13 Xudong Chen, National University of Singapore
    “Computational Model for Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens Microscopy”
  • 3/18 Pingshan Wang, Clemson University
    “Highly Sensitive and Tunable RF Sensors: Label-Free Detection and Analysis of Single Cells and Particles in Liquid”
  • 3/21 Daniel Hsu, Microsoft Research New England
    “Fast Learning Algorithms for Discovering the Hidden Structure in Data”
  • 3/25 Sahand Neghaban, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    “Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions”