In academic year 2025-2026, EECS seminars will be held five Fridays per quarter 9:00-10:20
a.m. in the McDonnel Douglas Engineering Auditorium. The specific dates, speakers and hosts
are listed below. The list below includes the seminar title, an abstract of the seminar
and the biography of the speaker for seminars whose future dates are close. The list
will be populated to completion as the school year progresses.
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Fall Quarter 2025
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Details |
Host |
| October 10, 2025 |
Joseph Wang University of California, San Diego |
Multi-Modal Wearable Sensor Platforms for Comprehensive Health Monitoring |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Rahim Esfandyarpour |
| October 24, 2025 |
Urbashi Mitra University of Southern California |
Causal Graph Inference: New methods for Application-driven Graph Identification, Interventions
and Rewards Optimization |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Ender Ayanoglu |
| November 7, 2025 |
Yale PattThe University of Texas at Austin |
Random Thoughts After More Than 60 years in the Trenches |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Jean-Luc Gaudiot |
| November 21, 2025 |
Sung Kyu LimUniversity of Southern California |
AI-Driven Design Automation for Multi-Chip Integration in AI Chips |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Boris Vaisband |
| December 5, 2025 |
Yiran ChenDuke University |
Less Compute, More Intelligence: Efficient and Autonomous Generative AI and Agents |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Mohammad Al Faruque |
Winter Quarter 2026
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Details |
Host |
| January 16, 2026 |
Saif IslamUniversity of California, Davis |
AI-Enhanced Ultrafast Sensing: Smart Photonics on a Chip |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Ozdal Boyraz |
| January 30, 2026 |
Scott KeeneRice University |
Mixed Conductors for Bioelectronics |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Dion Khodagholy |
| February 13, 2026 |
Aydogan OzcanUniversity of California, Los Angeles |
Programming Light Diffraction for Information Processing and Computational Imaging |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Fei Xia |
| February 27, 2026 |
Morteza MardaniNVIDIA Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR) |
Steering Diffusion Models for Generative AI: From Multimodal Priors to Test-Time Scaling |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Yanning Shen |
| March 13, 2026 |
Benjamin WilliamsUniversity of Califonia, Los Angeles |
Terahertz metasurface quantum-cascade vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting-lasers
(VECSELs) |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Lee Swindlehurst |
Spring Quarter 2026
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Details |
Host |
| April 10, 2026 |
Syed Bahauddin AlamUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
|
Website Abstract/Bio |
Yasser Shoukry |
| April 24, 2026 |
Mark L BrongersmaStanford University |
|
Website Abstract/Bio |
Maxim Shcherbakov |
| May 8, 2026 |
Madhavan SwaminathanThe Pennsylvania State University |
|
Website Abstract/Bio |
Boris Vaisband |
| May 22, 2026 |
Ahmed AlaaUniversity of California, Berkeley |
|
Website Abstract/Bio |
Salma Elmalaki |
| June 5, 2026 |
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Website Abstract/Bio |
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