Distinguished Lectures
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Past Lectures
JUN
19
2025
Alumni | Cultural | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture | Other Event | Student Event
EECS Juneteenth: Celebrating Excellence and Innovation for an AI Future
Erin Teague , Chief Product Officer, Character.ai
APR
18
2025
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Implications of Our Dependence on a Digital Ecosystem
Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Evangelist, Google
APR
11
2025
Distinguished Lecture | William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits with Integrated Lasers
John Bowers , Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency; Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara
MAR
28
2025
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Advancing Thin-Film Piezoelectric Microsystems: Innovations and Future Directions
Reza Abdolvand, Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Central Florida (UCF)
FEB
27
2025
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Science of Computational Electromagnetics; a journey through its intellectual challenges
B. Shanker, Elizabeth and John Tinkham Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering , The Ohio State University
DEC
04
2024
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Meeting the spectrum needs of the next generation of wireless systems
Randall Berry, Chair and John A. Dever Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
NOV
15
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | Student Event
Positioning to catch the fourth wave of Computing … And the second wave of AI
Dr. Samuel H. Fuller, Chief Technology Officer Emeritus and Senior Vice President, Analog Devices
NOV
08
2024
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Post-Quantum Cryptography in Context
Whitfield Diffie, Honorary Fellow, Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge
NOV
07
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Cancer Screening For All – An Electrical Engineer’s Approach
Mehdi Hatamian, CEO, 2Pi-Sigma Corporation
NOV
01
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
An Engineer’s Journey: Exploring Earth, Mars, and Beyond, Together
Dr. Mariko Burgin, President, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
OCT
31
2024
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Self-Powered Connected Sensor Systems for Health and Environment
Veena Misra, Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the M.C. Dean Distinguished University Professor , North Carolina State University
OCT
23
2024
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Antimonide type-II superlattices and heterovalent integration: From MBE growth, materials physics, to device applications
Yong-Hang Zhang, Director of the Center for Photonics Innovation School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University
OCT
18
2024
Distinguished Lecture
Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth and Multiple Scattering of Waves
Leung Tsang, Robert J. Hiller Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
SEP
18
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Engineering Education for the 2030s and Beyond
Dean Leo Kempel, Dennis P. Nyquist Endowed Professor of Electromagnetics and Dean of the College of Engineering, Michigan State University
SEP
13
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Engineering Community: Cooperating at scale, from Motown to Tik Tok…to ChatGPT
David Tarver, Founder and Board President, Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative
APR
04
2024
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Images, Videos and Artificial Intelligence
Scott Acton, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor and Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Virginia
MAR
27
2024
Distinguished Lecture
The pursuit of better memory and computing systems: from ions to chips
Wei Lu, James R. Mellor Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
MAR
19
2024
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
A Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) Introduction
Ken R. Duffy , Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Professor, Department of Mathematics
MAR
18
2024
Distinguished Lecture
Distinguished University Professorship Lectures: with Kamal Sarabandi
Kamal Sarabandi, Fawwaz T. Ulaby Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering
MAR
11
2024
Distinguished Lecture | William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Disrupting Next G
Andrea Goldsmith , Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
FEB
15
2024
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Electronics on anything – how thin film electronics can instrument the world
Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering , Columbia University SEAS
FEB
06
2024
Distinguished Lecture
Metamaterials: An EE’s Approach to Material Design
Anthony Grbic, John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering, ECE Senior Associate Chair, University of Michigan
FEB
02
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | RADLAB Seminar
Sensing and Interconnect Technologies for Diverse Applications- Communications, Ecology, and Nanomedicine
Rhonda Franklin , McKnight Presidential Professor of Electrical Engineering; Abbott Professor of Innovative Education in the Institute for Engineering and Medicine, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
JAN
16
2024
Distinguished Lecture
Advancements in engineering education at UM and beyond: Two decades of transformation
Cynthia Finelli , David C. Munson, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Engineering , University of Michigan
DEC
01
2023
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Why do large AI models display new and complex skills?
Sanjeev Arora, Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University