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Dissertation Defense

Compute- and Process-in-Memory Modules for Machine Learning and Neuromorphic Computing

12:00pm – 2:00pm in 1200 EECS Building

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Dissertation Defense

Coding Theory and Sketching for Distributed Optimization

Neophytos Charalambides

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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Student Event | Alumni | Division Event

EECS Juneteenth Celebration: Tech Empowering Our Communities

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

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Dissertation Defense

Circuits and Techniques for Digital Frequency Synthesizers and Design Automation.

10:00am – 12:00pm in 1303 EECS Building

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Dissertation Defense

Next Generation Terahertz Systems using Nonlinear Phenomena

Hossein Naghavi

1:00pm – 3:00pm in 3316 EECS

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Other Event | Alumni

ECE Family Fun Night

5:30pm – 8:00pm in EECS Atrium

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Past Events

Dissertation Defense

Managing Uncertainties in Grid-Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: Safety, Stability, and Optimality

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Dissertation Defense

Domain-Specific Hardware/Architecture for Emerging Applications

2:00pm – 4:00pm in 3316 EECS

Virtual Michigan ECE Graduate Program Information Session (MS/MEng program information)

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Advances in Manipulating Electromagnetic Waves Using Paired-Metasurface Devices

3:00pm – 5:00pm

The Programmable Matter Project: Realizing a matter made of autonomous robots

Julien Bourgeois, Professor, Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS

11:00am – 12:00pm in 1303 EECS Building

Dissertation Defense

Circuit-based Modeling and Inverse Design of Metastructures

9:00am – 11:00am in 1008 EECS Building

MIDAS Seminar | Women in Computing | Alumni

Beyond the First Portrait of a Black Hole

Katie Bouman, Assistant Professor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Analysis and Design of Information Transmission in Networks of Strategic Agents

Nasimeh Heydaribeni

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Data-Centric Networking: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

Edmund Yeh, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dynamics of Low Temperature Magnetized Plasmas: Self-Organization and Anomalous Electron Transport

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Preparing for Graduate School through Undergraduate Research!

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Therapy Dog in the EECS Atrium

2:00pm – 3:00pm in EECS Atrium

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Control Engineering for Equity in Social Systems

Hugo Villasanti, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Super Smash Bros. Tournament

5:00pm – 7:00pm in 1303 EECS Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Generalization and Inductive Bias in Neural Networks

Cengiz Pehlevan, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Finding low-dimensional structure in messy data

Laura Balzano, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club- Missouri

Donovan White, ECE Master’s Student

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

The 2nd Workshop on Seeking Low-dimensionality in Deep Neural Networks (SLowDNN)

8:30am – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

An Approach to Shared Control for Automated Driving

Reza Langari, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; JR Thompson Department Head Chair, Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Virtual Michigan ECE Graduate Program Information Session

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Finding Global Minima via Kernel Approximations

Francis Bach, Researcher at INRIA, École normale supérieure – PSL

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

The Plasma-Water Interface: Modern Challenges and New Software Tools

Prof. Davide Curreli

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Student Event | Symposium

12th MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium

2:00pm – 7:00pm

Dissertation Defense

Progressive Cellular Architecture in Microscale Gas Chromatographs for Broad Chemical Analyses

10:00am – 12:00pm

Control Seminar

The Speed–Robustness Trade-Off for Iterative Optimization Algorithms

Laurent Lessard, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Learning More from the Past: Offline Batch RL

Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Analog In-Memory Computing on Non-Volatile Crossbar Arrays

Justin M. Correll

1:00pm – 3:00pm in 1008 EECS Building

Control Seminar

Safe and Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Power System Control

Baosen Zhang, Keith and Nancy Rattie Endowed Career Development Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Thin-Film III-V Devices for Low-Cost Detection and Energy Conversion

Byungjun Lee, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan

3:00pm – 5:00pm in 1050 Ford Motor Company Robotics Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Spectrum Sharing for 5G and Beyond: A Network Economics View

Randall Berry, Chair and John A. Dever Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University

4:00pm – 5:00pm 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

Physics Impacts to Plasma Wave Thruster Design

Dr. James Gilland

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Dissertation Defense

Investigation of Dielectric Reliability with β–Gallium Oxide for Future Power Devices

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Analysis of Policy Gradient Descent for Control: Global Optimality via Convex Parameterization

Maryam Fazel, Moorthy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Adaptive Acoustic Beamforming and Speech Processing Front-end

3:00pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Interactive Communications

Natasha Devroye, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Advancements of micro gas chromatographs and their core components

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Virtual Michigan ECE Graduate Program Information Session (international student information)

8:15am – 9:15am in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

SOI Through-Wafer Monolithic Knudsen Pumps for Microscale Gas Chromatographs

Tsenguun Byambadorj

4:00pm – 6:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Spectral and Temporal Control of Broadband Pulses to Enable Multi-TW peak power coherently-combined fiber laser arrays

11:00am – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Safe Learning in Robotics

Angela Schoellig, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

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)

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Prospective Candidate

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Prospective Candidate

Lucas Buccafusca, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Communication and Sensing: From Compressed Sampling to Model-based Deep Learning

Yonina Eldar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Weizmann; Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science; Dorothy and Patrick Gorman Professorial Chair; Head of Biomedical Engineering and Signal Processing Center, Weizmann Institute of Science

11:00am – 12:00pm in Remote/Virtual

A New Regime of HED Physics: Coupling High-Rep-Rate Lasers with Cognitive Simulation

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club- Germany

Marcus Koenig, ECE Master’s Student

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Reconstruction of Interconnectedness in Networks of Dynamical Systems Based on Passive and Partial Observations

Murti Salapaka, Professor, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Analog and Digital Assist Techniques to Improve Mixed-Signal Performances for Edge Devices and Microsystems

2:00pm – 4:00pm in 1050 Ford Motor Company Robotics Building

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Social Learning in Multi-Agent, Multi-Armed Bandits

Ayalvadi Ganesh, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

Other Event | Student Event

Ford Motor Company Recruitment

Andy Brown, Chassis Controls Advance Feature Supervisor, Ford Motor Company

5:00pm – 6:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Scaling Intense Laser-Atom Interactions from Low to High Frequency

Prof. Louis DiMauro

3:30pm – 4:30pm

ECE Student Leadership Training

11:30am – 12:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Virtual Michigan ECE Graduate Program Information Session (must be a current U-M student)

5:00pm – 6:00pm in Hybrid (In-person and Remote)

Control Seminar

Learning to Price Demand in Safety-Critical Infrastructure Systems

Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Secure Model Aggregation in Federated Learning

Salman Avestimehr, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Career Fair

9:00am – 9:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Virtual Michigan ECE Graduate Program Information Session

6:30pm – 7:30pm in Remote/Virtual

MEng Internship Info Session

2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Role for Systems and Control

Pramod Khargonekar, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Irvine

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

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)

AI Seminar | Computer Engineering Seminar | Computer Vision Seminar

Me, AI; You, Human—Advances in Human-AI Cooperation

Jason Corso, Director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Brinning Chair Professor of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology

10:00am – 11:00am

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Database Alignment: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms

Negar Kiyavash, Associate Professor, Chair of Business Analytics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

More Versatile Aerial Robots — Safer and Longer Flights

Mark Mueller, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Towards Model Agnostic Robustness

Sujay Sanghavi, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Rock Your LinkedIn Profile

Jen Jortner Cassidy , Customer Success Manager, LinkedIn

2:30pm – 3:30pm in Remote/Virtual

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Convergence Research Addressing Societal Challenges: The Central Role of Systems and Control

Dawn Tilbury, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and EECS, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

The Power of Exploiter: Provable Multi-Agent RL in Large State Spaces

Chi Jin, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club- New Zealand

George Li, EE Undergrad Student

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Efficient Methods for Optimizing Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Understanding the Photogeneration Process in Organic Photovoltaics: From the bulk to the edges

Kan Ding, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan – Physics Department

7:00pm – 9:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

CANCELED: Learning Models and Constraints with Limited Data

Necmiye Ozay, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Strategic Signaling under Higher-order Inference

1:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Memory and System Aware Architectures for Real-Time Machine Learning

12:30pm – 2:30pm in GM Conference Room, Lurie Engineering Center (4th floor)

Dissertation Defense | RADLAB Seminar

Surface and Volume Scattering Model in Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow and Soil Moisture

11:00am – 1:00pm in 3316 EECS

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

How to Schedule Near-Optimally under Real-World Constraints

Ziv Scully, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Games in Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Decision-Making with Compressed Information

1:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Alumni Resume Reviews

3:00pm – 7:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Dynamic Control of Waves with Reconfigurable, Time and Space-Time Modulated Metasurfaces

3:00pm – 5:00pm in 3316 EECS

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Multiclass and Multi-Label Learning with General Losses: What is the Right Output Coding and Decoding?

Shivani Agarwal, Rachleff Family Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Video Understanding with Minimal Human Supervision

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Dissertation Defense

Modeling and Parameter Identification for Condition Monitoring of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Drive Systems

Fanny A. Pinto Delgado

2:00pm – 4:00pm in 3316 EECS

Dissertation Defense

Advances in Feedback Control for High-dimensional Bipedal Models

4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE T-Shirt Design Contest 2021

8:00am – 12:00pm

Energy levels and charge transport in host-dopant organic semiconductors

Peicheng Li, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

10:30am – 11:30am in 1060 Ford Motor Company Robotics Building

Dissertation Defense

Energy-Efficient Wireless Connectivity and Wireless Charging for Internet-of-Things (IoT) Applications

2:00pm – 4:00pm in 1500 EECS Building

Dissertation Defense

Novel Imaging Systems Using Nanophotonic Devices

10:00am – 12:00pm

Dissertation Defense

Stability and Efficiency Improvement of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Changyeong Jeong

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Emerging Sensor Technologies and Data Analytics for Air Quality Monitoring

10:00am – 2:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow Layers Using Novel Wideband Radiometer Systems and RFI Mitigation

4:30pm – 6:30pm

Emerging Sensor Technologies and Data Analytics for Air Quality Monitoring

10:00am – 2:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Quantum Light Scattering in Disordered and Structured Media

Nooshin M. Estakhri

2:00pm – 4:00pm

ECE Movie Night- Hamilton

Kristen Thornton, ECE PhD Program Coordinator

6:00pm – 9:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Building Efficient and Reliable Emerging Technology Systems

Aporva Amarnath, Building Efficient and Reliable Emerging Technology Systems

3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Socially Responsible Machine Learning: On the Preservation of Individual Privacy and Fairness

9:00am – 11:00am in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Grounding Language Learning in Vision for Artificial Intelligence and Brain Research

2:00pm – 4:00pm

ECE Movie Night- The Danish Girl

Johnny Linn, ECE Master’s Program Coordinator

6:00pm – 8:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Towards Ubiquitous Wireless Power Delivery using Code Division Multiple Access

10:00am – 12:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Non-bleaching Super-resolution Imaging of Cell Dynamics

1:00pm – 3:00pm

EECS Juneteenth Celebration

1:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

The (α,β)-Precision Theory for Production System Monitoring and Improvement

4:00pm – 6:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Understanding and Controlling the Morphology of Organic Thin Films

Jongchan Kim, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan

9:00am – 11:00am in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Data Processing for Perception of Autonomous Vehicles In Urban Traffic Environments

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Energy-Efficient Circuit Designs for Miniaturized Internet of Things and Wireless Neural Recording

3:30pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Next Generation Graphene Photonics Enabled by Ultrafast Light-Matter Interactions and Machine Learning

3:45pm – 5:15pm in Remote/Virtual

Other Event | Student Event

ECE Community Gathering

2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Wave Propagation and Source Localization in Random and Refracting Media

David J. Geroski

1:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

2021 EECS Virtual Commencement

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Deep Networks from First Principles

Yi Ma, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

High Efficiency Mid and Deep Ultraviolet Optoelectronic Devices

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Learning-based Algorithms for Inverse Problems in MR Image Reconstruction and Quantitative Perfusion Imaging

12:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

2D Atomic Layer Crystals for Nanoelectronics and Applications

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Electromagnetic Model-Based Measurement, Sensing, and Detection for Wireless Power Transfer

1:00pm – 3:00pm

ECE Movie Night- Brave Blue World

7:00pm – 8:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Postponed: Seminar by Aylin Yener, ECE/CSE/IE @ OSU

Aylin Yener, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Adaptive Design of Switchback Experiments: A Markov Chain Perspective

Ramesh Johari, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Microscale Infrared Technologies for Spectral Filtering and Wireless Neural Dust

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Yoga For Concentration and Mental Focus

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Control Co-Design: A Step Change in Active Engineering System Design Capability

James Allison, Associate Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering and Aerospace Engineering; Jerry S. Dobrovolny Faculty Scholar; Director of the Engineering System Design Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Risk-Sensitive Market Clearing for the Modern Power System

Subhonmesh Bose, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Physics of Partially Magnetized ExB Plasmas in the Laboratory and Space

Prof. Andrei Smolyakov

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club- Gambia

Demba Komma, ECE PhD Student

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Tips & Tricks for Outdoor Headshots

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems

Na Li, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Advances in Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Devices, Materials, and Processes for Customizable Scalable Manufacturing of Thin-Film Electronics

Christopher R. Allemang

3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Regenerating Cardiac Tissues – Reflecting on Lessons Learnt from Heart Valves

Sharan Ramaswamy, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Data-Derived Universal Compression

Venkat Anantharam, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Virtual Expedition

Samsung Research America, California

1:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Learning to See the 3D world

Jia-Bin Huang, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Algorithmic Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Non-Convex Optimization to Perception and Control

Vasileios Tzoumas, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Coming Together in Hard Times: Matrix mechanics regulate endothelial cell force transmission and multicellular assembly

Brendon Baker, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State

Ben Van Roy, Professor, EE, MSE Stanford University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Movie Night- Wonder Woman

Hayley Hanway, ECE Marketing Communications Specialist and ECE member on the Committee for an Inclusive Department

6:00pm – 9:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Mode Transitions in Low-temperature Aerospace Plasmas

Prof. Justin Little

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Steps towards making machine learning more natural

Mengye Ren, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

ECE Game Night- Taboo

7:00pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Michigan Culture and Campus Life Workshop

5:00pm – 6:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Physics-Based Visual Computing for Efficient 3D Vision and Sensing

David Lindell, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Process Systems Optimization and Model Predictive Control

Andrew Allman, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Biomanufacturing Instrumented Heart-on-Chip Models and Vascularized Cardiac Tissues

Jennifer A. Lewis, Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Communication-Efficient Optimization Methods for Federated Learning

Gauri Joshi, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Artificial Intelligence for Geometry Processing

Rana Hanocka, Ph.D. candidate , Tel Aviv University

9:30am – 10:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch

Dr. Richard Gottscho

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Cultural/Diversity

Picture a Scientist: Screening, Panel and Discussion

9:00am – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Virtual Quals Panel

2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Fair and Reliable Machine Learning for High-Stakes Applications: Approaches Using Information Theory

Sanghamitra Dutta, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Control Theory Meets Genetic Circuit Engineering

Domitilla Del Vecchio, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

From “organs on a chip” to bioengineering whole organs, and back

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, University Professor, Columbia University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

MLE and the EM algorithm for Mixtures: Minimax Results

Constantine Caramanis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club- Hawaii

Christopher Okumura, ECE Undergraduate Student

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Developing and Deploying Gallium Nitride Magnetometers for Harsh Environments

Karen Dowling, Postdoctoral Research Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Electromagnetic Modeling for Radar Remote Sensing from Snow-packs

11:00am – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Leveraging Dataset Structure for Neural Network Prediction

Christine Allen-Blanchette, Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Safe Real-World Autonomy in Uncertain and Unstructured Environments

Sylvia Herbert, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Imaging Engineering Tissue

Dr. Thomas Bifano, Director of the Photonics Center, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Benign overfitting

Peter Bartlett, Professor, Computer Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Reliable Machine Learning in Feedback Systems

Sarah Dean, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Shining a Light on the Complex Physics of Low-temperature Plasmas

Dr. Sedina Tsikata

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Game Night- Codenames

7:00pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

CMOS mm-Wave Digital Beamformer Receiver with Parallelized Continuous-Time Band-Pass Delta-Sigma ADCs

1:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Understanding Human-Centric Sides of Deep AI Models

Bolei Zhou, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Control Seminar

New Approaches to Distributed Hypothesis Testing and State Estimation in Large-Scale Networks

Shreyas Sundaram, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Mechanical Properties of Small Scale and Soft Biological Materials

Arvind Agarwal, Distinguished University Professor , Florida International University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

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

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Learning is Pruning

Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Virtual Expedition: International

National Acoustic Laboratories, Australia

4:30pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Efficient Model-Based Reconstruction for Dynamic MRI

3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Deep Neural Networks, Universal Approximation, and Geometric Control

Paulo Tabuada, Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Surface Engineering Concepts

Joerg Lahann, Professor, Director of the Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan – Chemical Engineering

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Movie Night- Hidden Figures

7:00pm – 9:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Cultural/Diversity

Alumni Round Table for Black History Month

6:00pm – 7:30pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Virtual Expedition: International

9:30am – 11:30am

Control Seminar

Moving Bionic Legs from the Lab to the Real World

Tommaso Lenzi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Analyzing Movies of Beating hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes

Emma Lejeune, Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department , Boston University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

A Lyapunov Theory for Finite-Sample Guarantees of Asynchronous, Value-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Siva Theja Maguluri , Fouts Family Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor, ISYE @ Georgia Tech

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Cultural/Diversity

That Ain’t Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives

Chad Jenkins, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Game Night- Scattagories

7:00pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

CANCELED: An Approach to Shared Control for Automated Driving

Reza Langari, Department Head and J.R. Thompson Endowed Chair of Engineering Tech & Industrial Distribution; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Engineering Tissues: Where we have been and where we are going

Dr. Christopher S. Chen, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering , Boston University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Variations on a theme of Watkins

Vivek Borkar, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

9:30am – 10:30am

Powering the Future: Fusion & Plasmas, the FESAC Long Range Planning Report

Prof. Troy Carter

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Optimal Time Trajectory with Provable Safety for Connected and Automated Vehicles

Andreas Malikopoulos, Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Using hiPSC-CM Technology for Personalized Regenerative Medicine and In Vitro Toxicity Testing

Todd Herron, Director of Frankel Cardiovascular Regeneration Core Laboratory, University of Michigan

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Virtual Michigan ECE Graduate Program Information Session (must be a current U-M student)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Reinforcement Learning for Mean Field Games with Strategic Complementarities

Srinivas Shakkottai, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Student Event | ECE Culture Club

ECE Culture Club / Lunar New Year Celebration

Chenlan Wang, ECE PhD Student

3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Other Event | Student Event

ECE Community Conversations

12:00am – 11:59pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Game Night- Charades

7:00pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Engineering Calibration and Physical Principles of GNSS-Reflectometry for Earth Remote Sensing

10:00am – 12:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Control Seminar

Safety Verification and Conflict Analysis for Connected Automated Vehicles

Gábor Orosz, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

1:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Silicon Micro-Machines for Fun and Profit

David J. Bishop, Professor, Director of CELL-MET ERC, Boston University

12:20pm – 1:10pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Fastest Identification in Linear Systems, Joint work with Yassir Jedra

Alexandre Proutiere, Professor, KTH Division of Decision and Control Systems

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

Other Event | Student Event

Winter Graduate Student Kick Off

8:00pm – 9:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Journey to the Sun

3:30pm – 4:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Small Electrical, Mechanical, and Biomechanical Systems of Electromagnetic Radiation

3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Virtual Grad Coffee Hour

2:30pm – 3:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Partial alignment of sparse random graphs

Laurent Massoulie, Professor, Research Director, Microsoft Research-Inria Joint Centre

9:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

ECE Resume Reviews

5:00pm – 7:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Temporal Data Analysis Using Reservoir Computing and Dynamic Memristors

1:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Implementations of Low-power μProcessor System for Miniaturized IoT Applications

8:30am – 10:30am in Remote/Virtual

ECE Virtual Town Hall Evening Session

8:00pm – 9:00pm in Remote/Virtual

ECE Virtual Town Hall Morning Session

10:00am – 11:00am in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Advanced Noise-Shaping Data Conversion Techniques

1:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Multiple-element Direct Digital Beamforming for Next Generation Wireless Communication System

1:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Computationally-Efficient Thermal Modeling Techniques for Electric Machines

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

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