ECE Speaker Series 2014
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Distinguished Lectures
Arye Nehorai, Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, The Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor, Washington University in St. Louis “Computable Performance Analysis of Sparse Recovery.” September 17, 2014.
David Lilja, The Louis John Schnell Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Minnesota, Minneapolis “When Close is Good Enough: Exploiting Randomness for Highly Reliable Approximate Computing.” October 8, 2014.
Philippe M. Fauchet, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University “Nanoscale Silicon as an Optical Material.” October 29, 2014.
Sharad Malik, Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University “Boolean Satisfiability: From Theoretical Hardness to Practical Success” January 2, 2014.
C.V. Hollot, Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Regulation of Cell Populations in Individuals Using Feedback-Based Drug-Dosing Protocols” March 5, 2014.
Dr. Filbert Bartoli, Chandler Weaver Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Lehigh University “Interferometric Plasmonic Biosensor Arrays for High-Performance Label-Free Biomolecular Detection” April 9, 2014.
Colloquia
Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, “Biometric Recognition: Some Challenges in Forensics,” January 22, 2014
Mark I. Stockman, Ludwig Maximilian University, “Quantum Nanoplasmonics and Spaser,” February 19. 2014.
Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University “Entering the Labyrinth of (Inexact) Computer Science: A Cyber-Physical Approach,” April 2, 2014.
Hans-Benjamin Braun, University College Dublin, Ireland “Topological Effects in Nanomagnetism: From Perpendicular Recording to Monopoles,” April 7, 2014.
Annand Raghunathan, Purdue University, “Approximate Computing & the Quest for Computing Efficiently,” November 19, 2014.
Eby G. Friedman, University of Rochester, “Power Delivery in Heterogeneous Nanoscale Integrated Circuits,” November 24, 2014.
Seminars
Willie Padilla, Boston College “Metamaterials as a Platform for Long Wave Imaging,” January 27, 2014.
Yinzhi Cao, Northwestern University “Protecting Client Browsers with a Principal-Based Architecture,” January 28, 2014.
Dimitris Pavlidis, Boston University “III-Nitride Devices for Electronics and Optoelectronics: From DC and Microwaves to the THz and Optical Spectrum,” January 31, 2014.
Manuel Egele, Carnegie Mellon University “Static Analysis on Mobile Applications for Security and Privacy,” February 3, 2014.
Dr. Saptarshi Das, Purdue University “2-D Electronics with Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Progress and Prospect,” February 6, 2014.
Vinod M. Menon, The City University of New York “Control of Light-Matter Interaction Using Dispersion Engineered Photonic Structures,” February 11, 2014.
Sivan Sabato, Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Learning with Lower Information Costs,” February 18, 2014.
Amir Houmansadr, University of Texas at Austin “The Cyberspace Battle for Information: Combating Internet Censorship,” February 20, 2014.
Byron Boots, University of Washington “New Machine Learning Approaches to Modeling Dynamical Systems,” February 21, 2014.
Dr. Sreeram Kannan, University of California, Berkeley “Optimal RNA Assembly: From Information Theory to Software,” March 3, 2014.
Saman Zonouz, University of Miami “Trustworthy Critical Infrastructures Threats, Challenges, and Countermeasures,” March 20, 2014.
Sarah Kate Wilson, Santa Clara University “Go Towards the Light: Optical Wireless OFDM,” March 26, 2014.
Samory Kpotufe, Toyota Technological Institute – Chicago “Self-tuning in Nonparametric Regression,” March 27, 2014.
Zhenming Liu, Princeton University “Learning in a Distributed System,” March 31, 2014.
Sudeep Kamath, University of California San Diego “Data Processing Theorems and Application,” April 2, 2014.
Georgios Piliouras, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 4, 2014.
Prof. Anand D. Sarwate, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey “Privacy-sensitive Learning for Medical Data Sharing,” April 7, 2014.
Bryan Robinson, MIT “The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration”6/26/2014 Ram Zimar, Tel Aviv University Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems, “The Modulo Output is a Sufficient Statistic (for a Strong Interference),” April 10, 2014.
Douglas Densmore, Boston University Dept. Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “% Make Biology: Bio-Design Automation in Synthetic Biology,” September 10, 2014.
Ayse Coskun, Boston University Dept. Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Towards Sustainable Computing: Innovative Design and Management Strategies across the Computing Stack,” September 15, 2014.
Vivek Goyal, Boston University Dept. Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “First-Photon Imaging and Nonlinear Inverse Problems,” September 15, 2014.
George Gordon, University of Cambridge- Post-doctoral Research Fellow, “Digital Holographic Modal Control of Optical Fibers,” September 23, 2014.
Joint Seminar with CISE, Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, London UK Intelligent Systems and Networks Group & Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, “Energy, QoS and Energy-Harvesting in Computation and Communications,” September 24, 2014.
Joint Seminar with CISE, Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, London UK Intelligent Systems and Networks Group & Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, “Stochastic Discrete Event Networks with Product Form,” October 6, 2014.
Shayan Mookherjea, University of California San Diego, “Integrated Silicon Photonic Devices and Subsystems,” October 27, 2014.
Liu Ningyu, Florida Institute of Technology, “Electrical Discharges in Earth’s Atmosphere,” October 29, 2014.
John Ek Weis, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, ” Isotopic Labeling of Bilayer Graphene for Advanced Studies.” December 11, 2014.
Guy Bresler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Learning Complex Structure in Data: Efficient Estimations Graphical Models.” December 19, 2014.