ECE Speaker Series 2013

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Distinguished Lectures

Professor Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technology Officer, United States Federal Communications Commission, Columbia University. “Can the Internet Survive the Next 40 Years?” January 30, 2013.

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,” March 20, 2013.

Professor Keren Bergman, Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. “Scalable Computing Systems With Optically Enabled Data Movement,” April 10, 2013.

Professor Yehia Massoud, Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. “Computing and Embedded Systems in the Age of Nanotechnology and the Data Deluge,” September 25, 2013.

Professor George J. Pappas, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. “Differential Privacy in Estimation and Control,” October 23, 2013.

Professor Larry Coldren, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Photonic Integrated Circuits as Key Enablers for Coherent Sensor and Communication Systems,” November 20, 2013.

Colloquia

Jan M. Rabaey, University of California at Berkeley. “Ultra-Low Power Platforms for Human Advancement,” February 6, 2013.

Michael Mahoney, Stanford University. “Implementing Randomized Matrix Algorithms in Parallel and Distributed Environments,” February 27, 2013.

Sahand Neghaban, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Design Margins, Scaling and the Future of Moore’s Law,” April 29, 2013.

Yuan Xie, Pennsylvania State University. “Modeling, Architecture, and Applications for Emerging Memory Technologies,” October 2, 2013.

Todd Austin, University of Michigan. “On the Rules of Low Power Design (and Why You Should Break Them),” October 15, 2013.

Ton Kalker, DTS. “Security of Biometric Systems,” October 16, 2013.

Seminars

Marten van Dijk, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. “Secure Computation on Encrypted Data,” January 24, 2013.

Xi Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. “Learning from Big Data: Scalability & Structures,” January 28, 2013.

Yisong Yue, Carnegie Mellon University. “Learning with Humans in the Loop,” February 4, 2013.

Rezy Pradipta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Remote Sensing of Space Environment Using Ground-Based and Satellite-Borne Instruments,” February 6, 2013.

Prateek Mittal, University of California, Berkeley. “Trustworthy Communications Using Network Science,” February 11, 2013.

Alessandra Babuscia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Development of Innovative Communication Technologies and Design Strategies to Meet the Emerging Needs of Space Exploration,” February 13, 2013.

Kasper Rasmussen, University of California, Irvine. “Selected Topics on Wireless Security and Localization,” February 19, 2013.

Wooram Lee, Broadcom. “A New Circuit Design Paradigm Exploiting Nonlinear Phenomena,” February 21, 2013

Ameet Talwalkar, University of California, Berkeley. “Divide-and-Conquer Learning for Big Data,” February 25, 2013.

Vinod M. Menon, The City University of New York – Queens College & Graduate Center. “Control of Light-Matter Interaction Using Dispersion Engineered Photonic Structures,” February 28, 2013.

Taylor Barton, MIT. “Energy Efficient Design: Amplifiers for High Data Rate Wireless Communications,” March 4, 2013.

Dan Feldman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Learning Patterns in Big Data From Small Data Using Core-Sets,” March 5, 2013.

Sidharth Jaggi, Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Robust Sparse Recovery and Applications: Order-Optimal Measurements and Complexity,” March 6, 2013.

Xudong Chen, National University of Singapore. “Computational Model for Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens Microscopy,” March 13, 2013.

Pingshan Wang, Clemson University. “Highly Sensitive and Tunable RF Sensors: Label-Free Detection and Analysis of Single Cells and Particles in Liquid,” March 18, 2013.

Daniel Hsu, Microsoft Research New England. “Fast Learning Algorithms for Discovering the Hidden Structure in Data,” March 21, 2013.

Sahand Neghaban, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions,” March 25, 2013.

Sokrates T. Pantelides, Vanderbilt University. “Atomic-Scale Modeling of Device Reliability – The Defects That Cause the Trouble,” March 27, 2013.

Lingkai Kong, University of California, Berkeley. “Energy-Efficient Communication at mm-Wave Frequency: From System Design to Circuit Implementations,” March 28, 2013.

Jakub Szefer, Princeton University. “Architectural Support for Securing Cloud Servers,” April 5, 2013.

Maxim Raginsky, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. “Fundamental Limits of Passive and Active Learning: A New Look via Feedback Information Theory,” April 8, 2013.

Professor Keren Bergman, Columbia University. “Scalable Computing Systems With Optically Enabled Data Movement,” April 10, 2013.

Professor Ryan Kastner, University of California, San Diego. “Bit-Tight Design: A Clean-Slate Approach to Hardware-Assisted Security and Resiliency,” April 11, 2013.

Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern University. “Visual Signal Analysis and Compression: Focus on Texture Similarity,” May 2, 2013.

Vivek Goyal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Signal Processing for Novel Acquisition Technologies,” June 5, 2013.

Xiaodan Jin, University of Dayton. “Analysis and Processing of Pixel Binning for Color Image Sensor,” June 7, 2013.

Professor Sambasiva Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. “Digital Signal Processing: Teaching and Research Perspectives,” June 12, 2013.

Dr. Muhammad Aurangzebâ, University of Texas at Arlington. “Teaching and Research Experiences in Electrical and Computer Engineering,” June 13, 2013.

Dr. Ahmed Abu-Hajar, University of South Florida. “Perspectives on Computer-Based Learning in Electrical & Computer Engineering,” June 17, 2013.

Dr. Malik Khan, MIT. “IMA – Image Manipulation Architecture,” June 26, 2013.

Dr. Katarzyna Radecka, McGill University. “Engineering Approach to Treatment of Diabetes,” July 2, 2013.

Professor Seyed Zekavat, Michigan Technological University. “Wireless Local Positioning System and its Applications in GPS-Denied Environments,” August 2, 2013.

Dr. Leonid Perlovsky, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. “Maximum Likelihood Joint Tracking and Association in a Strong Clutter (“Track-Before-Detect”),” September 11, 2013.

Dr. Mondira (Mandy) Pant, Intel Labs. “On-Chip Sensing for Reliability,” September 16, 2013.

Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame. “Improving System Reliability Through Temperature-Aware Design,” October 31, 2013.

Hany Elgala, Boston University. “High-Speed Wireless Networking Using Indoor LED Lighting,” November 13, 2013.

Dr. Gang Feng, University of Wisconsin-Platteville. “Lagrangian Relaxation Based Algorithms for Finding Constrained Shortest Path,” November 15, 2013.

Dr. Albert Wasef, University of Waterloo, Canada. “Managing Public Key Infrastructure for Securing Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” November 19, 2013.

Shuchin Aeron, Tufts University. “Methods for Multilinear Data Analytics,” December 11, 2013.