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AY 24-25

Fall Quarter 2024 (instruction begins 10/04/24 and ends on 12/06/24)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
October 4, 2024	Dean Magnus Egerstedt University of California, Irvine	From Coordination to Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems: Lessons from Ecology	Website Abstract/Bio	Salma Elmalaki
October 18, 2024	Azadeh Ansari Georgia Tech	MEMS for Next Generation Radio Frequency and Biomedical Applications	Website Abstract/Bio	Lee Swindlehurst and Camilo Cuervo
November 1, 2024	Dion Khodagholy UC Irvine	Translational Neuroelectronics	Website Abstract/Bio	Aparna Chandramowlishwaran
November 15, 2024	Naira Hovakimyan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Safe Learning in Autonomous Systems	Website Abstract/Bio	Yasser Shoukry
December 6, 2024	Ying Wai Los Alamos National Lab	Machine Learning Meets Statistical Physics: Breaking New Ground Together	Website Abstract/Bio	Aparna Chandramowlishwaran

Winter Quarter 2025 (instruction begins 1/10/25 and ends on 3/7/25)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
January 10, 2025	Krishnendu Chakrabarty Arizona State University	Error Correction and Fault Tolerance in ReRAM-Based AI Accelerators	Website Abstract/Bio	Mohammad Al Faruque
January 24, 2025	Alexander Khanikaev University of Central Florida	Topological Photonic Nanostructures for Ultimate Control of Classical and Quantum Light	Website Abstract/Bio	Maxim Shcherbakov
February 7, 2025	John Rogers North Western University	Transient Electronics - From Bioelectronics Medicines to Environmental Monitors	Website Abstract/Bio	Rahim Esfandyarpour
February 21, 2025	Hyoukjun Kwon University of California, Irvine	ML Workloads in AR/VR and Their Implications to the ML System Design	Website Abstract/Bio	Hyoukjun Kwon
March 7, 2025	David Love Purdue University	Using Old Problems and New Applications to Understand 6G and Beyond Communications	Website Abstract/Bio	Hamid Jafarkhani

Spring Quarter 2025 (instruction begins 4/4/25 and ends on 5/30/25)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
April 4, 2025	Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas, Dallas (UTD)	Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Securing Transportation Systems	Website Abstract/Bio	Zhou Li
April 18, 2025	Wen-mei Hwu University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	GPU Acceleration of Peta-Scale Semantic Search in the AI Era	Website Abstract/Bio	Sitao Huang
May 2, 2025	Yanning Shen University of California, Irvine	Demystifying and Mitigating Unfairness for Learning over Graphs	Website Abstract/Bio	Salma Elmalaki
May 16, 2025	Eun Sok Kim University of Southern California	Acoustic Tweezing and Propulsion	Website Abstract/Bio	Hung Cao
May 30, 2025	Ian Roberts University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Bean Learning for Full-Duplex Wireless Communication Systems in Future 5G/6G Networks	Website Abstract/Bio	Syed Jafar

 

AY 23-24

Fall Quarter 2023 (instruction begins 9/28/23 and ends on 12/08/23)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
October 6, 2023	Saman Amarasinghe Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Compiler Support for Structured Data	Website Abstract/Bio	Sitao Huang
October 20, 2023	Clarice D. Aiello UCLA	Quantum Biology	Website Abstract/Bio	Peter Burke
November 3, 2023	Sudipto Chakraborty IBM Watson Research Center	Low Power Cryo-CMOS Design for Quantum Computing Applications	Website Abstract/Bio	Hamidreza Aghasi
November 17, 2023	Richard Wesel UCLA	Reliable Short-Blocklength Communication with Low Complexity Decoding	Website Abstract/Bio	Ender Ayanoglu
December 1, 2023	Meeko Oishi University of New Mexico	Human-centered Probabilistic Planning and Control	Website Abstract/Bio	Yasser Shoukry

Winter Quarter 2024 (instruction begins 1/8/24 and ends on 3/15/24)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
January 12, 2024	Kumar Vijay Mishra DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory	Dual-Blind Deconvolution for Joint Radar-Communications	Website Abstract/Bio	Lee Swindlehurst
February 9, 2024	Leandros Tassiulas Yale University	Enabling Intelligent Services at the Network Edge	Website Abstract/Bio	Athina Markopoulou
February 23, 2024	Guofei Gu Texas A&M University	Revisiting Security in the Age of Software- Defined Everything	Website Abstract/Bio	Zhou Li
March 1, 2024	Mary WoottersStanford University	Low-Bandwidth Computation on Top of Error Correction	Website Abstract/Bio	Syed Jafar
March 8, 2024	Dileep Kalathil Texas A&M University	Reinforcement Learning with Robustness and Safety Guarantees	Website Abstract/Bio	Pramod Khargonekar

Spring Quarter 2024 (instruction begins 4/1/24 and ends on 6/7/24)

Date	Speaker	Title	Details	Host
April 5, 2024	Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California	Decentralized and Dispersed Computing for the Internet of Things	Website Abstract/Bio	Salma Elmalaki
April 12, 2024	Athina Petropulu Rutgers University	Physical Layer Security for Dual-function Radar-Communication Systems	Website Abstract/Bio	Yanning Shen and Lee Swindlehurst
May 3, 2024	Vikas Chandra Meta Research	On-device Contextual AI - Challenges and Opportunities	Website Abstract/Bio	Hyoukjun Kwon
May 10, 2024	Helen Li Duke University	AI Models for Edge Computing: Hardware-aware Optimization for Efficiency	Website Abstract/Bio	Mohammad Al Faruque
May 31, 2024	Juan Sebastian Gomez Diaz UC Davis	Applied Electromagnetics & Articial Intelligence: From Terahertz and Infrared Generation to Cancer Detection	Website Abstract/Bio	Filippo Capolino

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	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	Peter Burke
October 14, 2022	Sriram Sankaranarayanan University of Colorado Boulder	Forecasting Future Trajectories of Agents through Intent Inference	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	Yasser Shoukry
October 28, 2022	Ali Pezeshki Colorado State University	A General Framework for Bounding Approximate Dynamic Programming Schemes	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	Hamid Jafarkhani
November 18, 2022	Gonzalo Seco Granados Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona (Spain)	Radio Localization enabled by 5G Technologies and Beyond	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	Lee Swindlehurst
December 2, 2022	Shanhui Fan Stanford University	Nonlocal Metasurfaces	WebsiteAbstract/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 MarkopoulouSyed Jafar
May 6, 2022	Willie PadillaDuke 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 KumarUniversity 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 KhargonekarYasser 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	Website Abstract/Bio	Jean Luc Gaudiot
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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	WebsiteAbstract/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	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	Yasser Shoukry
October 29, 2021	Fadel Adib Massachusetts Information of Technology	Decoding Hidden Worlds: Wireless & SensorTechnologies for Oceans, Health, and Robotics	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	Salma Elmalaki
November 12, 2021	Anjan Chakravorty Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Towards the Development of Thermal Models for Multifinger Bipolar Transistors	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	G.P. Li
December 3, 2021	Gaurav Sukhatme USC- Viterbi	Decentralized Control of Quadrotor Swarms with End-to-end Deep Reinforcement Learning	WebsiteAbstract/Bio	Magnus EgerstedtYasser 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 andResearch Platform forAdvanced 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 VersatilePhotonic Material:Lithium Niobate	Abstract/Bio Website	Ozdal Boyraz
October 23, 2020	Geert Leus TU Delft	Learning Higher-orderInteractions with GraphVolterra Models	Abstract/Bio Website	Yanning Shen
November 6, 2020	David Atienza EPFL	Designing ComputingSystems for the Internetof Things - Follow Your Brain!	Abstract/Bio Website	Mohammad Al Faruque
November 20, 2020	Hua Wang Georgia Institute of Technology	Building HeterogeneousIntegrated Systems forFuture WirelessCommunication andSensing	Abstract/Bio Website	Hamidreza Aghasi
December 4, 2020	Muhammad Shafique New York University Abu Dhabi	Machine Learningat the Edge:Hardware-SoftwareApproaches forEnergy Efficiencyand 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/BioWebsite	Athina Markopoulou
April 17, 2020	Mark Rodwell UC Santa Barbara	Wireless Above 100 GHz	Abstract/BioWebsite	Payam Heydari
May 1, 2020	Matthias W Pleil University of New Mexico	How Does a Cantilever Work?	Abstract/BioWebsite	Hung Cao
May 15, 2020	Daniel Bliss Arizona State University	Future of RF Spectral Use	Abstract/BioWebsite	Lee Swindlehurst
June 5, 2020	Boris Murmann Stanford University	Mixed-Signal Interfaces for the Data-Driven World	Abstract/BioWebsite	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/BioWebsite	Hamid Jafarkhani
March 13, 2020	Aydin Buluc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley	Sparse Matrices Beyond Solvers: Graphs, Biology, and Machine Learning	Abstract/BioWebsite	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