All Seminars
Events for 2021
JAN
22
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Partial alignment of sparse random graphs
Laurent Massoulie, Professor, Research Director, Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre
JAN
27
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Journey to the Sun
Dr. Nicola Fox, NASA Heliophysics Division
JAN
29
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Fastest Identification in Linear Systems, Joint work with Yassir Jedra
Alexandre Proutiere, Professor, KTH Division of Decision and Control Systems
JAN
29
2021
ECE Seminar | Other Event
Silicon Micro-Machines for Fun and Profit
David J. Bishop, Professor, Director of CELL-MET ERC, Boston University
JAN
29
2021
Control Seminar
Safety Verification and Conflict Analysis for Connected Automated Vehicles
Gábor Orosz, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
FEB
03
2021
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club / Lunar New Year Celebration
Chenlan Wang, ECE PhD Student
FEB
04
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Reinforcement Learning for Mean Field Games with Strategic Complementarities
Srinivas Shakkottai, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University
FEB
05
2021
Other Seminar
Using hiPSC-CM Technology for Personalized Regenerative Medicine and In Vitro Toxicity Testing
Todd Herron, Director of Frankel Cardiovascular Regeneration Core Laboratory, University of Michigan
FEB
05
2021
Control Seminar
Optimal Time Trajectory with Provable Safety for Connected and Automated Vehicles
Andreas Malikopoulos, Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
FEB
10
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report
Prof. Troy Carter, University of California, Los Angeles
FEB
12
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Variations on a theme of Watkins
Vivek Borkar, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
FEB
12
2021
Other Seminar
Engineering Tissues: Where we have been and where we are going
Dr. Christopher S. Chen, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering , Boston University
FEB
12
2021
Control Seminar
CANCELED: An Approach to Shared Control for Automated Driving
Reza Langari, Department Head and J.R. Thompson Endowed Chair of Engineering Tech & Industrial Distribution; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
FEB
18
2021
Cultural
That Ain’t Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives
Chad Jenkins, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
FEB
18
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
A Lyapunov Theory for Finite-Sample Guarantees of Asynchronous, Value-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Siva Theja Maguluri , Fouts Family Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor, ISYE @ Georgia Tech
FEB
19
2021
Other Seminar
Analyzing Movies of Beating hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes
Emma Lejeune, Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department , Boston University
FEB
19
2021
Control Seminar
Moving Bionic Legs from the Lab to the Real World
Tommaso Lenzi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
FEB
23
2021
Cultural
Alumni Round Table for Black History Month
7 COE Alumni
FEB
25
2021
Cultural | Student Event
ECE Movie Night- Hidden Figures
Robert Scott, College of Engineering Center for Engineering Diversity & Outreach
FEB
26
2021
Other Seminar
Surface Engineering Concepts
Joerg Lahann, Professor, Director of the Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan – Chemical Engineering
FEB
26
2021
Control Seminar
Deep Neural Networks, Universal Approximation, and Geometric Control
Paulo Tabuada, Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA
MAR
04
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning is Pruning
Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MAR
04
2021
Distinguished Lecture
Optical Frequency Combs
Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
MAR
05
2021
ECE Seminar
Mechanical Properties of Small Scale and Soft Biological Materials
Arvind Agarwal, Distinguished University Professor , Florida International University
MAR
05
2021
Control Seminar
New Approaches to Distributed Hypothesis Testing and State Estimation in Large-Scale Networks
Shreyas Sundaram, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
MAR
08
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Understanding Human-Centric Sides of Deep AI Models
Bolei Zhou, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
MAR
10
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Shining a Light on the Complex Physics of Low-temperature Plasmas
Dr. Sedina Tsikata, CNRS, Orléans, France
MAR
11
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Reliable Machine Learning in Feedback Systems
Sarah Dean, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
MAR
11
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Benign overfitting
Peter Bartlett, Professor, Computer Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley
MAR
12
2021
Other Seminar
Imaging Engineering Tissue
Dr. Thomas Bifano, Director of the Photonics Center, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
MAR
12
2021
Control Seminar
Safe Real-World Autonomy in Uncertain and Unstructured Environments
Sylvia Herbert, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
MAR
15
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Leveraging Dataset Structure for Neural Network Prediction
Christine Allen-Blanchette, Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
MAR
17
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Developing and Deploying Gallium Nitride Magnetometers for Harsh Environments
Karen Dowling, Postdoctoral Research Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MAR
17
2021
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club- Hawaii
Christopher Okumura, ECE Undergraduate Student
MAR
18
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
MLE and the EM algorithm for Mixtures: Minimax Results
Constantine Caramanis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
MAR
19
2021
Control Seminar
Control Theory Meets Genetic Circuit Engineering
Domitilla Del Vecchio, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
MAR
22
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Fair and Reliable Machine Learning for High-Stakes Applications: Approaches Using Information Theory
Sanghamitra Dutta, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
24
2021
Cultural
Picture a Scientist: Screening, Panel and Discussion
MAR
24
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch
Dr. Richard Gottscho, Lam Research
MAR
25
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Artificial Intelligence for Geometry Processing
Rana Hanocka, Ph.D. candidate , Tel Aviv University
MAR
25
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Communication-Efficient Optimization Methods for Federated Learning
Gauri Joshi, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
MAR
26
2021
Other Event | Other Seminar
Biomanufacturing Instrumented Heart-on-Chip Models and Vascularized Cardiac Tissues
Jennifer A. Lewis, Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
MAR
26
2021
Control Seminar
Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Process Systems Optimization and Model Predictive Control
Andrew Allman, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
MAR
29
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Physics-Based Visual Computing for Efficient 3D Vision and Sensing
David Lindell, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
MAR
31
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Steps towards making machine learning more natural
Mengye Ren, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto
MAR
31
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Mode Transitions in Low-temperature Aerospace Plasmas
Prof. Justin Little, University of Washington
MAR
31
2021
Cultural | Student Event
ECE Movie Night- Wonder Woman
Hayley Hanway, ECE Marketing Communications Specialist and ECE member on the Committee for an Inclusive Department
APR
01
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Ben Van Roy, Professor, EE, MSE Stanford University
APR
02
2021
Other Seminar
Coming Together in Hard Times: Matrix mechanics regulate endothelial cell force transmission and multicellular assembly
Brendon Baker, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
APR
02
2021
Control Seminar
Algorithmic Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Non-Convex Optimization to Perception and Control
Vasileios Tzoumas, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
APR
05
2021
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning to See the 3D world
Jia-Bin Huang, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
APR
08
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Data-Derived Universal Compression
Venkat Anantharam, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
APR
09
2021
Other Seminar
Regenerating Cardiac Tissues – Reflecting on Lessons Learnt from Heart Valves
Sharan Ramaswamy, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University
APR
09
2021
Control Seminar
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Na Li, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
APR
14
2021
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club- Gambia
Demba Komma, ECE PhD Student
APR
14
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Physics of Partially Magnetized ExB Plasmas in the Laboratory and Space
Prof. Andrei Smolyakov, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
APR
15
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Risk-Sensitive Market Clearing for the Modern Power System
Subhonmesh Bose, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
APR
16
2021
Control Seminar
Control Co-Design: A Step Change in Active Engineering System Design Capability
James Allison, Associate Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering and Aerospace Engineering; Jerry S. Dobrovolny Faculty Scholar; Director of the Engineering System Design Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
APR
22
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Postponed: Seminar by Aylin Yener, ECE/CSE/IE @ OSU
Aylin Yener, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University
APR
22
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Adaptive Design of Switchback Experiments: A Markov Chain Perspective
Ramesh Johari, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
APR
29
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Deep Networks from First Principles
Yi Ma, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
MAY
04
2021
Cultural | Other Event | Student Event
ECE Community Gathering
JUN
18
2021
Cultural | Student Event
EECS Juneteenth Celebration
JUN
23
2021
Cultural | Student Event
ECE Movie Night- The Danish Girl
Johnny Linn, ECE Master’s Program Coordinator
JUL
28
2021
WIMS Seminar
Emerging Sensor Technologies and Data Analytics for Air Quality Monitoring
JUL
29
2021
WIMS Seminar
Emerging Sensor Technologies and Data Analytics for Air Quality Monitoring
JUL
29
2021
WIMS Seminar
Emerging Sensor Technologies and Data Analytics for Air Quality Monitoring
SEP
02
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Multiclass and Multi-Label Learning with General Losses: What is the Right Output Coding and Decoding?
Shivani Agarwal, Rachleff Family Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
SEP
09
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
How to Schedule Near-Optimally under Real-World Constraints
Ziv Scully, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
SEP
10
2021
Dissertation Defense | RADLAB Seminar
Surface and Volume Scattering Model in Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow and Soil Moisture
Jiyue Zhu
SEP
10
2021
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Learning Models and Constraints with Limited Data
Necmiye Ozay, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
SEP
15
2021
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club- New Zealand
George Li, EE Undergrad Student
SEP
16
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
The Power of Exploiter: Provable Multi-Agent RL in Large State Spaces
Chi Jin, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University
SEP
17
2021
Control Seminar
Convergence Research Addressing Societal Challenges: The Central Role of Systems and Control
Dawn Tilbury, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and EECS, University of Michigan
SEP
23
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Towards Model Agnostic Robustness
Sujay Sanghavi, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
SEP
24
2021
Control Seminar
More Versatile Aerial Robots — Safer and Longer Flights
Mark Mueller, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
OCT
01
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Database Alignment: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms
Negar Kiyavash, Associate Professor, Chair of Business Analytics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
OCT
01
2021
AI Seminar | Computer Engineering Seminar | Computer Vision Seminar
Me, AI; You, Human—Advances in Human-AI Cooperation
Jason Corso, Director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Brinning Chair Professor of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology
OCT
01
2021
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Active Data Collection, Hypothesis Testing, and Learning
Dr. Tara Javidi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
OCT
01
2021
Control Seminar
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Role for Systems and Control
Pramod Khargonekar, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Irvine
OCT
07
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Secure Model Aggregation in Federated Learning
Salman Avestimehr, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
OCT
08
2021
Control Seminar
Learning to Price Demand in Safety-Critical Infrastructure Systems
Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
OCT
13
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Scaling Intense Laser-Atom Interactions from Low to High Frequency
Prof. Louis DiMauro, Ohio State University
OCT
15
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Social Learning in Multi-Agent, Multi-Armed Bandits
Ayalvadi Ganesh, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
OCT
15
2021
Control Seminar
Reconstruction of Interconnectedness in Networks of Dynamical Systems Based on Passive and Partial Observations
Murti Salapaka, Professor, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
OCT
20
2021
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club- Germany
Marcus Koenig, ECE Master’s Student
OCT
20
2021
MIPSE Seminar
A New Regime of HED Physics: Coupling High-Rep-Rate Lasers with Cognitive Simulation
Dr. Tammy Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
OCT
21
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Communication and Sensing: From Compressed Sampling to Model-based Deep Learning
Yonina Eldar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Weizmann; Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science; Dorothy and Patrick Gorman Professorial Chair; Head of Biomedical Engineering and Signal Processing Center, Weizmann Institute of Science
OCT
21
2021
ECE Seminar | President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Prospective Candidate
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Prospective Candidate
Lucas Buccafusca, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OCT
22
2021
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
My Journey in Enabling 100M+ Intelligent Things
Dr. Scott Hanson, Chief Technology Officer, Founder, Ambiq
OCT
22
2021
Control Seminar
Safe Learning in Robotics
Angela Schoellig, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
OCT
28
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Interactive Communications
Natasha Devroye, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago
OCT
29
2021
Control Seminar
Analysis of Policy Gradient Descent for Control: Global Optimality via Convex Parameterization
Maryam Fazel, Moorthy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
NOV
03
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Physics Impacts to Plasma Wave Thruster Design
Dr. James Gilland, Ohio Aerospace Institute
NOV
04
2021
Alumni | Cultural | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture
An electrical engineer’s guide to research and development at Corning Incorporated
Dr. Donnell Walton, Director, Corning Technology Center—Silicon Valley
NOV
04
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Spectrum Sharing for 5G and Beyond: A Network Economics View
Randall Berry, Chair and John A. Dever Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
NOV
05
2021
Control Seminar
Safe and Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Power System Control
Baosen Zhang, Keith and Nancy Rattie Endowed Career Development Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
NOV
11
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning More from the Past: Offline Batch RL
Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
NOV
12
2021
Control Seminar
The Speed–Robustness Trade-Off for Iterative Optimization Algorithms
Laurent Lessard, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
NOV
17
2021
MIPSE Seminar
The Plasma-Water Interface: Modern Challenges and New Software Tools
Prof. Davide Curreli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
NOV
18
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Finding Global Minima via Kernel Approximations
Francis Bach, Researcher at INRIA, École normale supérieure – PSL
NOV
19
2021
Control Seminar
An Approach to Shared Control for Automated Driving
Reza Langari, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; JR Thompson Department Head Chair, Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University
DEC
01
2021
Cultural | ECE Culture Club
ECE Culture Club- Missouri
Donovan White, ECE Master’s Student
DEC
02
2021
Other Seminar
Finding low-dimensional structure in messy data
Laura Balzano, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
DEC
02
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Generalization and Inductive Bias in Neural Networks
Cengiz Pehlevan, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
DEC
03
2021
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Control Engineering for Equity in Social Systems
Hugo Villasanti, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
DEC
08
2021
MIPSE Seminar
Dynamics of Low Temperature Magnetized Plasmas: Self-Organization and Anomalous Electron Transport
Prof. Ken Hara, Stanford University
DEC
09
2021
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Data-Centric Networking: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Edmund Yeh, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
DEC
13
2021
Alumni | MIDAS Seminar | Women in Computing
Beyond the First Portrait of a Black Hole
Katie Bouman, Assistant Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech
DEC
16
2021
MICL Seminar
The Programmable Matter Project: Realizing a matter made of autonomous robots
Julien Bourgeois, Professor, Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS