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Archive:<\/strong> Current Year<\/a>, 2025<\/a>, 2024<\/a>, 2023<\/a>,\u00a02022<\/a>, 2021<\/a>, 2020<\/a>, 2019<\/a>, 2018<\/a>, 2017<\/a>, 2016<\/a>, 2015<\/a>, 2014<\/a>, 2013<\/a>, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

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Distinguished Lectures<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Professor Lawrence Carin<\/strong>, William H. Younger Professor of Engineering, Duke University \u201cStatistical Methods for compressive Hyperspectral Imaging.\u201d February 8, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Mau-Chung Frank Chang<\/strong>, Wintek Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) \u201cMillimeter-Wave and Terahertz System-on-a-Chip for Radio, Radar and Imaging Systems.\u201d March 7, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Charles W. Tu<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego \u201cBandgap Engineering and Device Applications of Dilute Nitrides.\u201d March 28, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Supratik Guha<\/strong>, Director, Physical Sciences Department, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center \u201cPhotovoltaics Research at IBM\u201d October 3, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Colloquia<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Professor Luca Carloni<\/strong>, Columbia University. \u201cSystem-Level Design Methods for System-on-Chip Platforms,\u201d\u00a0January 25, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mihaela van der Schaar<\/strong>, Chancellor\u2019s Professor, UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. \u201cGame-Theoretic Design for Networked Communities,\u201d\u00a0January 30, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Andr\u00e9 DeHon<\/strong>, University of Pennsylvania. \u201cSemiconductor Life Extensions Through Reconfiguration (Using Reconfiguration and Adaptivity to Deal with Variation, Aging, and Power Reduction),\u201d\u00a0October 23, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor James W. Davis<\/strong>, Ohio State University. \u201cClustering Using Ripley\u2019s K-Function for Analysis of Scene Behaviors in Video,\u201d\u00a0October 31, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Seminars<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Jonathan Klamkin<\/strong> (ECE\/Photonics), Institute of Communications Information and Perception Technologies, Scuola Superiore Sant\u2019Anna. \u201cPhotonic Integrated Devices, Circuits, and Subsystems,\u201d\u00a0January 18, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed<\/strong>, Director of the Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel. \u201cThe Renewable Energy Research in Southern Arava,\u201d\u00a0January 31, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Simone Gambini<\/strong>, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley. \u201cElectronics for Future Medical Devices: From Connected Implants to Point of Care Diagnostics,\u201d\u00a0February 1, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Phillipa Gill<\/strong>, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto. \u201cSecurity and Reliability for Internet-Scale Devices,\u201d\u00a0February 6, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. George D. Skidmore<\/strong>, Principal Scientist, DRS Technologies RSTA. \u201cIntroduction to Microbolometers for Infrared Imaging,\u201d\u00a0February 8, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Nick Feamster<\/strong>, Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cThe Battle for Control of Online Communications,\u201d\u00a0February 10, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Eric Keller<\/strong>, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania. \u201cSecure Virtualization for Dependable Cloud Services,\u201d February 13, 2012<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Nanfang Yu<\/strong> (ECE\/Photonics), Researcher Associate, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. \u201cMolding Optical Wavefronts Using Meta-Interfaces,\u201d\u00a0February 14, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Tracey Ho<\/strong>, California Institute of Technology. \u201cError Correction for Deadlines, Keys and Computationally Limited Networks,\u201d\u00a0February 21, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Elison Matioli<\/strong>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u201cNanophotonics for Energy Efficiency Applications: Exploiting Light Emitters Up to the Last Photon,\u201d\u00a0February 21, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Monika Patel<\/strong>, Northwestern University. \u201cIndistinguishable Photon Sources for Practical Quantum Communication,\u201d\u00a0February 24, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Jacob Sorber<\/strong>, Dartmouth College. \u201cRethinking Mobile Systems for Uncertain Environments,\u201d\u00a0February 27, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Michelle Sander<\/strong>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u201cTowards Integrated On-Chip Femtosecond Photonic Technology,\u201d\u00a0February 28, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Laura Waller<\/strong> (ECE\/Photonics), Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University. \u201cComputational Wave-Field Imaging,\u201d\u00a0March 1, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Alexey Gorshkov<\/strong> (ECE\/Photonics), Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology. \u201cMany-Body Physics with Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems and Methods,\u201d\u00a0March 2, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Igmar Hartl<\/strong> (ECE\/Photonics), IMRA America, Inc. \u201cFrequency Comb Spectroscopy: From Precision Metrology to Hyperspectral Imaging,\u201d\u00a0March 5, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Haryadi S. Gunawi<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley \u201cTowards Reliable Storage Systems: From OS-Level File Systems to Cloud Storage,\u201d\u00a0March 5, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Devi Parikh<\/strong>, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. \u201cAdvancing Computer Vision by Leveraging Humans,\u201d\u00a0March 19, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amir Ali Ahmadi<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT. \u201cThe Interplay of Convexity and Algorithmic Algebra in Optimization and Systems Analysis,\u201d March 21, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew G. Kirk<\/strong>, James McGill Professor, McGill University. \u201cIntegrated Resonant Photonic Structures for Biosensing,\u201d\u00a0April 17, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Daniel Hsu<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England. \u201cAlgorithms for Learning Latent Variable Models,\u201d April 18, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

David F. Welch<\/strong>, Founder, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Infinera Corporation. \u201cA Paradigm Change in the Fiber Optic Networks,\u201d April 26, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Valerio Pruneri<\/strong>, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). \u201cFlexible Transparent Electrodes Based on Ultrathin Metals,\u201d May 1, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Neal Crago<\/strong>, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. \u201cEnergy-Efficient Latency Tolerance for Many-Core Processors with Decoupled Strands,\u201d\u00a0May 16, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alessandro Tuniz<\/strong>, Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, University of Sydney Faculty. \u201cMetamaterials in Fibers,\u201d\u00a0May 17, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vahid Sandoghdar<\/strong>, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU). \u201cUltrasensitive Detection and Tracking of Nano-Objects via Scattering Interferometry,\u201d May 25, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shlomo Havlin<\/strong>, Bar-Ilan University. \u201cThe Extreme Vulnerability of Network of Networks,\u201d June 12, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Aryeh Kontorovich<\/strong>, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. \u201cMetric Anomaly Detection Via Asymmetric Risk Minimization,\u201d\u00a0August 13, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Joerg Kliewer<\/strong>, New Mexico State University. \u201cCoding Strategies for Link and Physical Layer Security,\u201d\u00a0September 11, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Max H. M. Costa<\/strong>, University of Campinas (Unicamp). \u201cOn Gaussian Interference Channels,\u201d\u00a0October 24, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Vasileios Palvidis<\/strong>, University of Manchester. \u201cTruth and Lies about 3-D ICs,\u201d\u00a0November 2, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cristina Boero<\/strong>, \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL). \u201cElectrochemical Biosensors for On-line Monitoring of Cell Culture Metabolism,\u201d\u00a0November 5, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Ricardo L. de Queiroz<\/strong>, Universidade de Brasilia. \u201cGreen Computing for Video Processing,\u201d\u00a0November 14, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Vahid Tarokh<\/strong>, Harvard University. \u201cInformation in Non-Linear Regime,\u201d\u00a0November 20, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Chandra R. Murthy<\/strong>, Indian Institute of Science. \u201cDistributed Co-Phasing for Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks,\u201d\u00a0December 11, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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