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Distinguished Lectures
Events for 2023
JAN
31
2023
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Fireside chat with Dr. Ruba Borno
Dr. Ruba Borno , Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
FEB
23
2023
Alumni | Cultural | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Engineering – The Joy of Journey
Christopher Rutledge, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon
MAR
29
2023
Distinguished Lecture
Cybersecurity and Risk Management: From Data to Policy
Mingyan Liu , Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
APR
10
2023
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
SEP
22
2023
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
Fabless, From Startup to Beyond IPO
Dr. Curtis Ling, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer , MaxLinear
OCT
06
2023
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
What’s it like to build a semiconductor startup
Dr. Mo Faisal , President and CEO , Movellus
OCT
27
2023
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Those were the days
Olgica Milenkovic, Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of ECE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
NOV
10
2023
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
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
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