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Distinguished Seminar Series

University of Michigan’s Electrical and Computer Engineering division has established the Distinguished Seminar Series with the intent to host distinguished academics and industrial leaders who have had significant influence in the advancement of the ECE discipline, and whose visions are shaping the future and setting the research agenda of electrical and computer engineering. Our goal is to display the most recent advancements in all sub-fields of ECE to our research community and student populations, and to provide networking opportunities to our faculty and Ph.D. students. 

The ECE Distinguished Seminar Series is a monthly or bi-monthly series where prominent scientists from various backgrounds in ECE are invited to give a one hour seminar followed with questions and answers. The lecturers will also meet with faculty and graduate students during their one and a half day visit to our department and further engage with exchange of ideas and better learn about ongoing research in the ECE department at the University of Michigan. These seminars will be recorded and are made available to the public at large.

Faculty Organizer 

Kamal Sarabandi

Prof. Kamal Sarabandi
Director, Radiation Laboratory

Campus Contact

Ann Stals

Ann Stals
Alumni Engagement & Events Manager
[email protected]

Past Seminars

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
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
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
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
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
NOV
28
2023
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
MAY
20
2022
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
MAY
06
2022
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
MAR
11
2022
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series | ECE Seminar
Rethinking General Anesthesia
Dr. Emery Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience, MIT
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
FEB
28
2020
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Control of electromagnetic fields for energy applications
Prof. Shanhui Fan, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
JAN
17
2020
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
DEC
13
2019
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Enhancing learning and inclusivity in Electrical Engineering
Prof. Susan Lord, Chair and Professor, Integrated Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of San Diego
NOV
15
2019
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series | WIMS Seminar
45 Years of MEMS Start-up Companies
Dr. Kurt Petersen, Co-Chair of HardTech Group at Silicon Valley Band of Angels, 2019 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient