ECE Speaker Series 2025

Archive: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Seminars

Homanga Bharadhwaj, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University, “Watch, Predict, Act: Robot Learning Meets Web Videos” February 11, 2025. Details.

Haoning Tang, Research Associate, Harvard University, “Twisting Light with Nanomachines” February 25, 2025. Details.

Xinyi Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University, “Principled Algorithms for Efficient Machine Learning: A Dynamical Systems View” February 25, 2025. Details.

Wei-Lun Chao, Distinguished Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, “Perception and Learning with Imperfect Data: Insights from the Real World” February 27, 2025. Details.

Eran Malach, Research Fellow, Harvard University, “Learning Hard Problems with Neural Networks and Language Models” February 28, 2025. Details.

Zhiwen Fan, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas, Austin, “Building Spatially Intelligent Machines: Scalable 3D Reconstruction, Generation, and Perception” March 4, 2025. Details.

Cheng Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, “Theoretical Photonics: Nonlocal Metasurfaces, Reciprocity Constraints, and Unitary Control” March 4, 2025. Details.

Swati Padmanabhan, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, “Black-Box: Faster Algorithms for Structured Optimization” March 5, 2025. Details.

Lukas Schmid, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, “Spatio-Temporal AI for Long-Term Human-Centric Robot Autonomy” March 6, 2025. Details.

Souvik Biswas, Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Stanford University, “Programming Quantum Materials for Next-Gen Photonics” March 13, 2025. Details.

Ayush Sekhari, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, “ML for an Interactive World: From Learning to Unlearning” March 13, 2025. Details.

Haoshu Fang, Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT, “Data Science for Human-Level Robotic Manipulation” March 18, 2025. Details.