Archives

AY 22-23

Fall Quarter 2022 (instruction begins 9/19/22 and ends on 12/9/22)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
September 30, 2022	Ken Cooper Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Humidity Sounding Differential Absorption Radar at 170 and 560 GHz	Website Abstract/Bio	Peter Burke
October 14, 2022	Sriram Sankaranarayanan University of Colorado Boulder	Forecasting Future Trajectories of Agents through Intent Inference	Website Abstract/Bio	Yasser Shoukry
October 28, 2022	Ali Pezeshki Colorado State University	A General Framework for Bounding Approximate Dynamic Programming Schemes	Website Abstract/Bio	Hamid Jafarkhani
November 18, 2022	Gonzalo Seco Granados Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona (Spain)	Radio Localization enabled by 5G Technologies and Beyond	Website Abstract/Bio	Lee Swindlehurst
December 2, 2022	Shanhui Fan Stanford University	Nonlocal Metasurfaces	Website Abstract/Bio	Maxim Shcherbakov

Winter Quarter 2023 (instruction begins 1/24/23 and ends on 3/24/23)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
January 20, 2023	Miroslav Pajic Duke University	Securing Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Unique Challenges and Opportunities	Website Abstract/Bio	Mohammad Al Faruque
February 3, 2023	P P Vaidyanathan California Institute of Technology	Srinivasa Ramanujan and Signal Processing	Website Abstract/Bio	Yanning Shen
February 17, 2023	Upamanyu Madhow University of California, Santa Barbara	NextG Signal Processing Architectures: from mmWave to Deep Learning	Website Abstract/Bio	Ender Ayanoglu
March 3, 2023	Bruno Sinopoli Washington University in St. Louis	Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Influence in Multi-Agent Systems	Website Abstract/Bio	Athina Markopoulou
March 17, 2023	Alvaro Cardenas University of California, Santa Cruz	Attacks Against the Power Grid - Past, Present and Future	Website Abstract/Bio	Yasser Shoukry

Spring Quarter 2023 (instruction begins 3/29/23 and ends on 6/16/23)

Date

Speaker

Title

Details

Host

April 14,

2023

Ming Li

University of Arizona

Secure Virtual-Physical Binding for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Website

Abstract/Bio

Zhou Li

April 28,

2023

Lee Swindlehurst

UC Irvine

Spatial Sigma-Delta Quantization

Website

Abstract/Bio

Salma Elmalaki

May 12,

2023

Petar Djuric

Stony Brook University

Measuring Strength of Casual Effects with Gaussian Processes

Website

Abstract/Bio

Yanning Shen

May 26,

2023

Ruonan Han

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chip-Scale Terahertz Systems and Applications

Website

Abstract/Bio

Hamidreza Aghasi

June 9,

2023

Wenyao Xu

University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY)

Unleashing the Potential of Wireless Sensing: Expanding Horizons in Smart Health, Cybersecurity and Beyond

Website

Abstract/Bio

Salma Elmalaki

AY 21-22

Spring Quarter 2022 (instruction begins 3/28/22 and ends on 6/3/22)

Date

Speaker

Title

Details

Host

April 8,

2022

Mingyan Liu

University of Michigan

Machine Learning in Sequential Decision Making: What is Fair and How to be Fair?

Website

Abstract/Bio

Athina Markopoulou

April 22,

2022

Sriram Vishwanath

University of Texas- Austin

New Architectures for Scalability and Security of Blockchain Systems

Website

Abstract/Bio

Athina Markopoulou
Syed Jafar

May 6,

2022

Willie Padilla
Duke University

Deep learning the properties of electromagnetic metamaterials

Website

Abstract/Bio

Maxim Shcherbakov

Filippo Capolino

May 20,

2022

Magnus Egerstedt

University of California, Irvine

Constraint-Based Control Design for Long Duration Autonomy

Website

Abstract/Bio

Yasser Shoukry

Salma Elmalaki

June 3,

2022

Santosh Kumar
University of Memphis

Can Sharing Anonymous Wrist-worn Accelerometry Data Re-identify You?

Website

Abstract/Bio

Salma Elmalaki

Winter Quarter 2022 (instruction begins 1/3/22 and ends on 3/11/22)

Date

Speaker

Title

Details

Host

January 14,

2022

Claire Tomlin

University of California Berkeley

Safe Learning in Robotics

Website

Abstract/Bio

Pramod Khargonekar
Yasser Shoukry

January 28,

2022

Payam Heydari

University of California Irvine

Integrated Circuits and Systems Revolutionizing 21st Century

Website

Abstract/Bio

Hamid Aghasi

February 11,

2022

Pei Zhang

University of Michigan

From Sensors to ‘Structures as Sensors’: Combining Sensing and Learning in Dirty Cyber-Physical Systems

Website

Abstract/Bio

Salma Elmalaki

February 25,

2022

Bhaskar Rao

University of California San Diego

Insights into Sparse Signal Recovery algorithms using an Array Processing perspective

Website

Abstract/Bio

Lee Swindlehurst

March 4,

2022

Masood Parvania

University of Utah

Control, Optimization, and Learning for Interdependent Critical Infrastructures

Website

Abstract/Bio

Pramod Khargonekar

March 11,

2022

Xiaoming Li

University of Delaware

Digging Performance From Patterns In Data: Case Studies On FFT and Convolution

Website

Abstract/Bio

Jean Luc Gaudiot

Fall Quarter 2021 (instruction begins 9/23/21 and ends on 12/3/21)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
October 1, 2021	Michael Reiter Duke University	Tackling Credential Abuse Together	Website Abstract/Bio	Zhou Li
October 15, 2021	Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Towards Intelligence at the Point of Need: Advancing Real-Time Intelligent IoT Services	Website Abstract/Bio	Yasser Shoukry
October 29, 2021	Fadel Adib Massachusetts Information of Technology	Decoding Hidden Worlds: Wireless & Sensor Technologies for Oceans, Health, and Robotics	Website Abstract/Bio	Salma Elmalaki
November 12, 2021	Anjan Chakravorty Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Towards the Development of Thermal Models for Multifinger Bipolar Transistors	Website Abstract/Bio	G.P. Li
December 3, 2021	Gaurav Sukhatme USC- Viterbi	Decentralized Control of Quadrotor Swarms with End-to-end Deep Reinforcement Learning	Website Abstract/Bio	Magnus Egerstedt Yasser Shoukry

AY 20-21

Spring Quarter 2021 (instruction begins 3/29/21 and ends on 6/4/21)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
April 2, 2021	John Martinis UC Santa Barbara	Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Supercomputing Processor	Abstract/Bio Website	Payam Heydari
April 16, 2021	Utkan Demirci Stanford University	Microfluidic Label Free Sorting Technologies for Applications in Medicine	Abstract/Bio Website	Ozdal Boyraz
May 7, 2021	Ismail Guvenc North Carolina State University	Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless	Abstract/Bio Website	Peter Burke
May 21, 2021	Christ Richmond Arizona State University	Shared Spectrum for Radar Communications Coexistence-Cooperative Bounds and Radar Performance	Abstract/Bio Website	Hamid Jafarkhani
June 4, 2021	Randall Beard Brigham Young University	Vision-based Tracking with Small UAVs	Abstract/Bio Website	Lee Swindlehurst

Winter Quarter 2021 (instruction begins 1/4/21 and ends on 3/12/21)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
January 8, 2021	Alberto Del Barrio Complutense University of Madrid	The Power of Arithmetic in ML Applications	Abstract/Bio Website	Nader Bagherzadeh
January 22, 2021	Marco Aiello University of Stuttgart	The Web Was Done by Amateurs: On the History of the Web	Abstract/Bio Website	Kwei-Jay Lin
February 5, 2021	Hamdi Joudeh Eindhoven University of Technology	Cellular Networks and Treating Inter-cell Interference as Noise	Abstract/Bio Website	Syed Jafar
February 19, 2021	Mengjia Yan Massachusettes Institute of Technology	Quantitative Security Analysis of Micro-architectural Side Channels	Abstract/Bio Website	Zhou Li
March 5, 2021	Antonia Ortega University of Southern California	Graph Signal Processing - Theory and Applications	Abstract/Bio Website	Yanning Shen

Fall Quarter 2020 (instruction begins 10/1/20 and ends on 12/11/20)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
October 9, 2020	Sasan Fathpour University of Central Florida	Rejuvenating a Versatile Photonic Material: Lithium Niobate	Abstract/Bio Website	Ozdal Boyraz
October 23, 2020	Geert Leus TU Delft	Learning Higher-order Interactions with Graph Volterra Models	Abstract/Bio Website	Yanning Shen
November 6, 2020	David Atienza EPFL	Designing Computing Systems for the Internet of Things - Follow Your Brain!	Abstract/Bio Website	Mohammad Al Faruque
November 20, 2020	Hua Wang Georgia Institute of Technology	Building Heterogeneous Integrated Systems for Future Wireless Communication and Sensing	Abstract/Bio Website	Hamidreza Aghasi
December 4, 2020	Muhammad Shafique New York University Abu Dhabi	Machine Learning at the Edge: Hardware-Software Approaches for Energy Efficiency and Robustness	Abstract/Bio Website	Mohammad Al Faruque

AY 19-20

Spring Quarter (instruction begins 3/30/20 and ends on 6/12/20)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
April 3, 2020	Steven Low California Institute of Technology	Localization and Mitigation of Cascading Failures in Power Systems	Abstract/Bio Website	Athina Markopoulou
April 17, 2020	Mark Rodwell UC Santa Barbara	Wireless Above 100 GHz	Abstract/Bio Website	Payam Heydari
May 1, 2020	Matthias W Pleil University of New Mexico	How Does a Cantilever Work?	Abstract/Bio Website	Hung Cao
May 15, 2020	Daniel Bliss Arizona State University	Future of RF Spectral Use	Abstract/Bio Website	Lee Swindlehurst
June 5, 2020	Boris Murmann Stanford University	Mixed-Signal Interfaces for the Data-Driven World	Abstract/Bio Website	Hamidreza Aghasi

Winter Quarter (instruction begins 1/6/20 and ends on 3/20/20)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
January 17, 2020	Mani Srivastava UC Los Angeles	Quality of Time: Enabling Robust, Secure and Efficient IoT	Abstract/Bio Website	Salma Elmalaki
February 7, 2020	Daniel Sievenpiper UC San Diego	Chiral and Topological Metasurfaces	Abstract/Bio Website	Filippo Capolino
February 21, 2020	Hironori Kasahara Waseda University	Green Multicore Computing	Abstract/Bio Website	Jean-Luc Gaudiot
March 6, 2020	Moe Win Massachusettes Institute of Technology	Localization of Things: From Foundation to Operations	Abstract/Bio Website	Hamid Jafarkhani
March 13, 2020	Aydin Buluc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley	Sparse Matrices Beyond Solvers: Graphs, Biology, and Machine Learning	Abstract/Bio Website	Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

Fall Quarter (instruction begins 9/26/19 and ends on 12/6/19)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
October 4, 2019	Robert Heath University of Texas Austin	Vehicle-to-Everything Communications	Abstract/Bio Website	Lee Swindlehurst
October 18, 2019	Adam Ierymenko CEO, ZeroTier	ZeroTier	Abstract/Bio Website	Peter Burke
November 1, 2019	Alexander Vardy UC San Diego	Topics from the Past, Present, and Future of Polar Coding	Abstract/Bio Website	Zhiying Wang
November 15, 2019	Nadir Dagli UC Santa Barbara	Novel Optical Modulators	Abstract/Bio Website	Peter Burke
December 6, 2019	Yahya Ezzeldin UC Los Angeles	A Theoretical Model for Information Flow and Scheduling in mmWave Networks	Abstract/Bio Website	Athina Markopoulou

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