ECE Speaker Series 2015

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Distinguished Lectures

Kenneth Loparo, Nord Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University“Stability, Control and Estimation in Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Decisions.” March 4, 2015.

Luke. F. Lester, The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech “Quantum Dot Laser Diodes and Mode-Locking.” March 18, 2015.

John Lach, Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia “Body Sensor Networks: An Application-Centric Approach.” April 1, 2015.

Daniel Fleetwood, Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering, Vanderbilt University “Moore’s Law and Radiation Effects on Microelectronics.” September 30, 2015.

Kevin Skadron, Chair, Department of Computer Science, Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor, University of Virginia “Automata Processing: Massively-Parallel Acceleration for Approximate Pattern Matching.” October 14, 2015.

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University “I, Robot: Blurring the lines between Mind, Body and Robotics.” December 2, 2015.

Colloquia

Nibir K. Dhar, Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate, “Imaging Technology: What is on the Horizon?” April 15, 2015.

Shlomo Shamai, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, “Fronthaul Compression for Cloud Radio Access Networks: An Information Theoretic View,” August 21, 2015.

Seminars

Palash Bharadwaj, Photonics Laboratory at ETH Zurich, “Antenna-coupled photons from single emitters and single electrons,” January 26, 2015.

Dr. Ehsan Elhamifar, University of California, Berkeley, “Sparse Modeling for High-Dimensional Multi-Manifold Data Analysis,” January 29, 2015.

Dr. Xingjie Ni, University of California, Berkeley, “Metasurfaces for Planar Photonics and Spin Optoelectronics,” February 5, 2015.

Shlomi Arnon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “Optical Wireless Communications For Next-Generation Data Centers,” February 6, 2015.

Ghada Koleilat, Stanford University, “Solution Processed Quantum-Tuned Photovoltaics,” February 12, 2015.

Dr. Artur Davoyan, University of Pennsylvania, “New States of Light within a Nanophotonic Platform,” February 26, 2015.

Dr. Ivan Grudinin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics with Microresonators,” March 5, 2015.

Prof. Brian Kulis, Ohio State University, “Small-Variance Asymptotics for Large-Scale Learning,” March 17, 2015.

Robert M. Farrell, University of California, Santa Barbara, “III-Nitride Materials for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Health Applications,” March 19, 2015.

Pranjal Awasthi, Princeton University, “Data Aware Models and Algorithms for Machine Learning,” March 23, 2015.

Prineha Narang, California Institute of Technology, “Functional Materials for Optoelectronic Devices and Nanophotonic Phenomena,” March 24, 2015.

Professor Mark Horenstein, Boston University, “The Contribution of Surface Potential to Diverse Problems in Electrostatics,” April 8, 2015.

Dongning Guo, Northwestern University, “Toward a Many-User Information Theory,” April 24, 2015.

Ajay Joshi, Boston University, “Designing Energy-efficient Reliable and Secure Systems: From Emerging Devices to Bio-inspired Architectures,” April 28, 2015.

Navakanta Bhat, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, “CMOS Compatible Nanostrcutured Gas Sensors,” May 5, 2015.

Joshua C. H. Lui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Unconventional Photoconductivity in 2D Materials Revealed by Terahertz Spectroscopy,” May 7, 2017.

Matthieu Bloch, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Covert Communication over Noisy Channels: A Resolvability Perspective,” May 8, 2015.

Jonathan Klamkin, Boston University, Integrated Photonics: From On-Chip Interconnects to Mars Communications,” May 14, 2015.

Sudeep Kamath, Princeton University, “Learning Distributions from their Samples,” May 22, 2015.

Jean Armstrong, Monash University, “OFDM and MIMO for Optical and Wireless Communications,” June 17, 2015.

Or Ordentlich, Tel Aviv University, “Minimum MS. E. Gerber’s Lemma,” July 8, 2015.

Ashwin Ashok, Carnegie Mellon University, “Reliable Screen-to-Camera Communication through Visual MIMO,” September 11, 2015.

Yuval Kochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Finite-Blocklength Lossy Compression of Infinite Sequences,” October 14, 2015.

Markus Pollnau, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, “Highly efficient amplifiers and lasers in Yb- and Tm-activated potassium double tungstate waveguides,” October 26, 2015.

Viveck Cadambe, Pennsylvania State University, “An Information Theoretic Perspective of Consistent Distributed Storage,” November 6, 2015.

Shawn Y. Lin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Recent Advances in 3D Optical Photonic-Crystal: Light Manipulation and Amplification,” November 19, 2015.

Rodrigo Noriega, University of California, Berkeley, “Effects of Molecular Environment on the Photophysics of Fluorophores in Biomimetic Light Harvesters and in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes,” December 1, 2015.

Shuchin Aeron, Tufts University, “Learning with Algebraically Structured Subspaces,” December 3, 2015.

Ling Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Topological Photonic Crystals,” December 8, 2015.