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Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Leveraging Tissue-Microwave Interactions for Future Applications in Smart Medicine and Smart Agriculture

Dr. Susan Hagness, Philip D. Reed Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

From Bursley to the Board Room – my journey from UM Engineering to becoming a fortune 500 CEO

Rick Wallace, CEO and President, KLA

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

Those were the days

Olgica Milenkovic, Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of ECE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

What’s it like to build a semiconductor startup

Dr. Mo Faisal , President and CEO , Movellus

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

Fabless, From Startup to Beyond IPO

Dr. Curtis Ling, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer , MaxLinear

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Gilleo Lectureship

Launching the Webb Telescope: Managing Global Teams In Turbulent Times

Gregory Robinson, 33-Year Veteran of NASA, Former Director, James Webb Space Telescope, TIME Magazine 100 Most Influential People of 2022, Columbia University Faculty

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

Distinguished Lecture

Cybersecurity and Risk Management: From Data to Policy

Mingyan Liu , Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Alumni | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture

Engineering – The Joy of Journey

Christopher Rutledge, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1311 EECS Building

Women in Computing | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

Fireside chat with Dr. Ruba Borno

Dr. Ruba Borno , Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2:00pm – 2:45pm in Remote/Virtual

Distinguished Lecture | Student Event

A Recent History of Integrated Circuits: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs

Dennis Sylvester, Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

Sensing and Interconnect Technologies for Communications and Ecology, and Nanomedicine Applications

Rhonda Franklin, McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Abbott Professor for Innovative Education in the Institute for Engineering and Medicine, University of Minnesota

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

Engineering is Logical. Life Isn’t

Vikram Verma, Board Member, Advisor and Recovering CEO

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

Distinguished Lecture

From analog to digital and back again

Michael Flynn, Fawwaz T. Ulaby Collegiate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

An engineer’s journey from Motor City to Capitol Hill

Tanya Das, Associate Director of Energy Innovation, The Bipartisan Policy Center

3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

My Journey in electrifying the world’s most popular truck

Linda Zhang, Chief Engineer, All-Electric F-150 Lightning, Ford Motor Company

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium, Chrysler Center

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Electromagnetic Metasurfaces for Wavefront Manipulation and Antenna Beamforming

George V. Eleftheriades, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

2:00pm – 3:00pm in 1200 EECS Building

ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Electronics 5.0: New Materials and Devices for Edge Intelligence

Tomás Palacios, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:30pm – 3:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Women in Computing | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

A Perspective on Microelectronics Technology

Katherine Herrick, Director, Advanced Enabling Technology, Raytheon Technologies

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Rethinking General Anesthesia

Dr. Emery Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience, MIT

2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | 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

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

My Journey in Enabling 100M+ Intelligent Things

Dr. Scott Hanson, Chief Technology Officer, Founder, Ambiq

11:00am – 12:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)

Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

Active Data Collection, Hypothesis Testing, and Learning

Dr. Tara Javidi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego

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

Distinguished Lecture

Optical Frequency Combs

Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:00pm 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

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

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