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Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Flat Minima Generalize for Low-Rank Matrix Recovery

Lijun Ding, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS), University of Wisconsin

3:30pm – 5:00pm in 3427 EECS Building

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MIDAS Symposium | The AI in Science and Engineering annual symposium

8:00am – 5:00pm in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

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Past Seminars

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club: India

Ady Hambarde, ECE PhD Student

1:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Connections between Online Learning and Differential Privacy

Ambuj Tewari, Associate Professor , LSA Statistics, EECS (by courtesy), University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Approximate planning and learning in partially observed systems

Aditya Mahajan, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Exploring Transformative Startup Solutions for Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas

Prof. Stephanie Diem

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Student Event | Alumni

ECE Apparel Sale

12:00am – 11:59pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Deep Generative models and Inverse Problems

Alexandros Dimakis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Learning via early stopping and untrained neural nets

Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Assistant Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Lasers, Z Pinches, and Nuclear Weapons: The Importance of Plasma Physics to the NNSA

Dr. Sarah Nelson

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club: Venezuela

Fanny Pinto Delgado, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Control Seminar

Exergy-wise Control of Energy Systems: A Promising Paradigm to Enable Maximum Energy Conversion Efficiency in Systems

Mahdi Shahbakhti, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Ultrafast Dynamics in Light-Molecule Strongly Coupled Systems

Dr. Bin Liu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, City University of New York

9:00am – 10:00am in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Adaptive Discretization For Reinforcement Learning

Christina Lee Yu, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE), Cornell University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020

With Prof. David Fouhey and Prof. Jason Corso

9:00am – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Planning, Control, and Test of Connected Automated Vehicles

Shaobing Xu, Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

FAMILY: Foundations and Applications of Machine Intelligence Lab for societY

Aly El Gamal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Quantum Hydrodynamics and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Dr. Frank Graziani

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Control Seminar

Enabling Human-Aware Automation: A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Human Cognition

Neera Jain, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Heavy-tail Phenomenon in SGD

Mert Gürbüzbalaban, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers Business School.

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Social Identity 101

3:00pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Bridging the Cap between Optimal and Real-Time Safe Control: Making Autonomous Vehicles a Reality

Christos G. Cassandras, Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering; Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, Boston University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Screening of “A Single Man”

11:00am – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Not Enough Measurements, Too Many Measurements

Michael McCann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), Michigan State University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth

Dr. Derek Schaeffer

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club: Egypt

Omar Abdelatty, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Control Seminar

Learning and Control of Linear Dynamical Systems in High-Dimensional Settings

Salar Fattahi, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Enabling Fast and Robust Federated Learning

Ramtin Pedarsani, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Control Seminar

Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support

Dennice Gayme, Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Competitive Control via Online Optimization

Adam Wierman, Professor, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the California Institute of Technology. Director of the Information Science and Technology (IST) initiative

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

On the Geometry of Optimal Mass Transport, Where Probability, Control, and Physics Meet

Tryphon Georgiou, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Discrete choice with irrelevant alternatives: models and lower bounds on testing

Johan Ugander, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) School of Engineering

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Relativistic Nanophotonics: Creating Extreme Plasma Conditions and Fields with Ultrafast Lasers

Prof. Jorge Rocca

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Data Science and Politics

David Shor, SuperPAC Data Scientist, Democratic Consultant

8:00am – 5:00pm

Control Seminar

Walking Like a Robot: Improving Human Gait through Modeling and Simulation

Anne Martin, Martin W. Trethewey Early Career Professor; Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Multi-armed Bandits with Structured and Correlated Arms

Osman Yagan, Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & CyLab

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Control Seminar

Efficient Reachability for Safe Autonomous Systems: A Mixed Monotone Approach

Samuel Coogan, Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club: Japan

Silvia Dykstra, Events Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering

3:00pm – 4:00pm

MIDAS Reproducibility Day

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Control Seminar

Bridging Control Theory and Machine Learning

Bin Hu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Incentivizing Exploration with Selective Data Disclosure

Nicole Immorlica, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Lab – New York City

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Stochastic Analysis and Design of Secure and Scalable Blockchain protocols

Sreeram Kannan, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Beyond Algorithmic Fairness: What Social Justice Needs from Data Science

Kentaro Toyama, Professor of Community Information, Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:00pm

MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase

Chris Brooks, Assistant Professor of Information – School of Information, University of Michigan

1:00pm – 2:00pm

“Is AI Racist?”

Dr. Jagadish and Other Experts, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science

4:30pm – 5:30pm

MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: #6

Sharon Glotzer, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, U-M

1:00pm – 2:00pm

MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: Sharon Glotzer – An Open Software Approach for Reproducible Research for Materials Design

SHARON GLOTZER, Professor – Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

1:00pm – 2:00pm

MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: #5

John Silberholz & Nigel Michki, Associate Professor, Technology & Operations, U-M & Doctoral student, Biophysics, U-M

1:00pm – 2:00pm

A Mobile/wearable Platform for Collecting Data on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in the Time of COVID

Danny Forger, Professor of Computational Medicine, Bioinformatics, & Mathematics, U-M, University of Michigan

1:00pm – 2:00pm

A Scalable Tool for Longitudinal Twitter Analysis

Al Hero & Walter Dempsey, Professor, EECS & Engineering, U-M & Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, UM, University of Michigan

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Other Event | Student Event

EECS Juneteenth Celebration

1:00pm – 2:00pm

EECS Community Gathering

1:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Osman Yagan

Osman Yagan, Associate Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Aly El Gamal

Aly El Gamal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

CANCELED: Journey to the Sun

3:30pm – 4:30pm in TBD

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELLED: Online Optimization and Energy

Adam Wierman, Professor and Executive Officer (Chair), California Institute of Technology, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

CANCELED: Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth

Dr. Derek Schaeffer

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1005 EECS Building

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Bin Hu

Bin Hu, Assistant Professorr, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Aylin Yener

Aylin Yener, Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

MIDAS Seminar | Student Event

A Data Scientist Plays Games

Nick Berry, Data Scientist, Formerly with Microsoft, GameHouse, and Facebook

12:00pm – 1:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Birgit Vogel-Heuser

Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Professor, Technische Universität München

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELED: Communication-Efficient and Straggler-Resilient Distributed Learning

Ramtin Pedarsani, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Going Towards 6G

Robert Heath, Cockrell Regents Endowed Chair in Engineering #7, The University of Texas at Austin

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Cross-Layering in Future Wireless Networks: From Compact Full-duplex Radios to City-Scale Experimentation

Tingjun Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Small-Data Learning in Big Cyber Physical Systems

Pei Zhang, Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Emanuele Garone

Emanuele Garone, Assistant Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Université Libre de Brux

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Achilleas Anastasopoulos

Achilleas Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Large-Scale Optimization and Nonconvexity: From Deep Learning to Energy Markets

Navid Azizan, Ph.D. Candidate, California Institue of Technology

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Learning from Societal Data: Theory and Practice

Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Tryphon Georgiou

Tryphon Georgiou, Professor, University of California at Irvine, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

(Remote) A mean-field theory of lazy training in two-layer neural nets: entropic regularization and controlled McKean-Vlasov dynamics

Maxim Raginsky, Associate Professor, William L. Everitt Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Canceled: Scalability and Methods of Deep Learning from an Optimization Viewpoint

Kenji Kawaguchi, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:30am – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Towards Scalable Algorithms for Distributed Optimization and Learning

Cesar Uribe, Post Doctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Towards a Rigorous Framework for Optimal Selection of Basis Functions in Feedforward Tracking Control – and Beyond

Chinedum Okwudire, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Associate Chair, Integrative Systems and Design, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELED: Seminar by Mert Gurbuzbalaban

Mert Gurbuzbaalaban, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Mining Smart Meter Data for Improving Distribution Grid Observability

Zhaoyu Wang, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

11:00am – 12:00pm in Remote/Virtual

CANCELED: Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter

Dr. Frank Graziani

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1005 EECS Building

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Learning Low-complexity Models from the Data – Geometry, Optimization, and Applications

Qing Qu, Moore-Sloan Research Fellow, New York University

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Distinguished Lecture | RADLAB Seminar

Low Phase Noise Signal Generation Utilising Oscillators, Resonators & Filters and Atomic Clocks

Dr. Jeremy Everard, Professor of Electronics, University of York

5:00pm – 6:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Smart Additive Manufacturing: A Modeling and Control Framework for Closing the Loop in 3D Printing

Kira Barton, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Nonconvex Optimization Meets Statistics: A Few Recent Stories

Yuxin Chen, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture

Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Enabling Hybrid Thin Films for Optoelectronics

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts, Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University

1:30pm – 2:30pm in Remote/Virtual

CANCELED: Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch

Dr. Richard Gottscho

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1005 EECS Building

POSTPONED: Real World Perspectives: Conversations of Leadership and Diversity in Engineering

12:00am – 11:59pm in Boeing Auditorium: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Control of electromagnetic fields for energy applications

Prof. Shanhui Fan, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

11:00am – 12:00pm in 1200 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture

Henry Russel Lecture: Carbon vs. carbon dioxide: Using carbon-based (organic) electronics for a more sustainable planet

Stephen Forrest, Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor; Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

4:30pm – 5:30pm in Rackham 4th floor Amphitheater

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

CANCELLED: Seminar by Paramveer Dhillon

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Is It Possible to Democratize AI for Business

Jen Stirrup, Regional Director

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 340 West Hall

Control Seminar

Bridging the Gap Between Controls Theory and Practice

Leila Bridgeman, Assistant Professor, Duke University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

How Language Makes Us Smart (Without Big Data)

Charles Yang, Director

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 340 West Hall

Control Seminar

Time-Delayed Control of Single-Input Single-Output Systems for Improved Stability Margins

A. Galip Ulsoy, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Capacity upper bounds for deletion-type channels

Mahdi Cheragchi, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Control Seminar

Robustness in Data-Driven Control Design

Peter Seiler, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture

Computing in Millimeters

David Blaauw, Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS-ECE

4:30pm – 6:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)

Systems Seminar – ECE

Solving Large Zero-Sum Matrix Games: Randomized and Approximate Algorithms

Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

11:00am – 12:00pm in 1008 EECS Building

Control Seminar

Let’s Walk and Talk: Co-Design of Mobility and Communications (and Sensing) for Ubiquitous Robots

Ankur Mehta, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Learning from Multiple Biased Sources

Clay Scott, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Vehicle-to-Everything Communications

Robert Heath, Professor and Chair, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Control Seminar

From Kinematic to Energetic Design and Control of Wearable Robots for Agile Human Locomotion

Robert Gregg, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Coding for Non-Stationary Scenarios and Low Capacity Channels

Hessam Mahdavifar, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Lunar New Year Celebration

2:00pm – 3:30pm in EECS Atrium

Student Event | Symposium

MLK Keynote Watch Party & Discussion

Angela Davis, Professor

10:00am – 12:30pm in 3358 Duderstadt

Control Seminar

Steering without Taking Over: A Means for Human-Machine Control Sharing

Brent Gillespie, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Electronics in the Brain – Literally

Prof. Arto Nurmikko, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Physics, Brown University

1:30pm – 2:30pm in Gerald R. Ford Library

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

A Framework for Interactive Learning

David Kempe, Associate Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science

4:10pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1005 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Derandomized Load Balancing using Random Walks

Vijay Subramanian, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1005 EECS Building

Real-time, Measurement-based Identification of Voltage Instability Onset

Constantine (Costas) Vournas, Professor (Retired), National Technical University of Athens

11:00am – 12:00pm in Michigan Memorial Phoenix Laboratory, Suite 2000

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