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Events for 2025
JAN
06
2025
Dissertation Defense
Design of Flexible Domain-Specific Accelerators for Diverse and Dynamic Computation
Junkang Zhu
JAN
15
2025
Student Event
2025 Winter ECE Student Headshots
JAN
15
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
JAN
16
2025
Student Event
2025 Winter ECE Student Headshots
JAN
16
2025
Dissertation Defense
High-Performance ADCs Using Floating Ring Amplifiers and Negative-C
Seungheun Song
JAN
16
2025
Student Event
ECE Alumni Resume Review
JAN
17
2025
Control Seminar
Designing Complex Systems Using Assume-Guarantee Contracts
Inigo Incer, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
20
2025
Dissertation Defense
Low Noise Frequency Synthesis Techniques
Matthew Belz
JAN
21
2025
Dissertation Defense
Online Learning and Decision Making for Resource Allocation
Zixian Yang
JAN
22
2025
Student Event
Computer Engineering (CE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
JAN
22
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Minor Declaration Day
JAN
22
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Minor Declaration Day
JAN
22
2025
MIPSE Seminar
Understanding and Controlling the Interactions of Plasmas with Flames and Flowing Gases
Prof. Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JAN
23
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
How to make the gradient descent-ascent converge to local minimax optima
Donghwan Kim, Associate Professor, KAIST
JAN
23
2025
Student Event
Women in Tech Panel: Working on Technology for the Future of AI
Marcella Gatti – U of M Alum , Physical Design Engineer VLSI Physical Design Team ,
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Mandy Nan – U of M Alum , Senior Design Verification Engineer, IP DV Lead GPU HW ASIC Team ,
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Yan Chang – U of M Alum , Senior Engineering Manager Robotics Mobility Team ,
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
JAN
24
2025
Control Seminar
Learning-based Control for Large-scale Sustainable Energy Systems
Jing Yu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
JAN
27
2025
Student Event
ECE Mock Interviews
JAN
29
2025
Student Event
Declare ECE!
JAN
29
2025
ECE Seminar
Talking about Teaching – Session 1: Using active learning
JAN
29
2025
Cultural | Student Event
ECE Lunar New Year Celebration
JAN
29
2025
Student Event
Virtual Michigan ECE Graduate Program Information Session (must be a current U-M student)
JAN
30
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Mixed Reality Security and Streaming at the System and Application Levels
Jiasi Chen, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
JAN
31
2025
Control Seminar
Smoothing-enabled Zeroth-order Schemes for Stochastic Optimization Problems: Addressing Stochasticity, Nonsmoothness, Nonconvexity, and Hierarchy.
Uday Shanbhag, Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
FEB
05
2025
MIPSE Seminar
Direct and Model-Independent Temperature Measurements in Extreme States of Matter
Prof. Thomas White, University of Nevada, Reno
FEB
06
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation
David Ham, Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Ross Business School, University of Michigan
FEB
07
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
FEB
07
2025
Other Seminar
Leveraging Offline Data in Latent Decision Processes
Chinmaya Kausik , PhD Student, Mathematics , University of Michigan
FEB
07
2025
Control Seminar
Accelerating Control Algorithms with Randomized Linear Algebra
James Anderson, Associate Professor, Columbia University
FEB
11
2025
Student Event
Computer Engineering (CE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
FEB
13
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Enhancing Fairness in Deep Learning from Data and Model Perspectives
Xiaoqian Wang, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
FEB
14
2025
Student Event
You light up my life!
FEB
14
2025
Control Seminar
Set-theoretic Methods for Verification of Closed-loop Systems, Motion Planning, and Energy-aware Autonomy
Herschel Pangborn , Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
FEB
17
2025
ECE Seminar
Empowering Semiconductors: The Dual Path of Nanomechanical Innovation and Integration
Roozbeh Tabrizian, Associate Professor, University of Florida
FEB
19
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Unobtrusive Bioelectronic Platforms for Personalized Healthcare
Jihong Min, Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology
FEB
19
2025
MIPSE Seminar
Investigating Jupiter’s Powerful Auroras with NASA’s Juno Mission
Dr. George Clark, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
FEB
20
2025
Other Seminar
Advancing Ultrawide-Bandgap Semiconductors for Next-Generation Power and Radiation-Hardened Electronics
A. Bhuiyan , Assistant Professor , University of Massachusetts Lowell
FEB
20
2025
Student Event
Free Massages for ECE Students
FEB
20
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Improved very sparse matrix completing using an intentionally randomized “asymmetric SVD”
Raj Nadakuditi, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
FEB
21
2025
Control Seminar
Data as models? A closer look at data-driven control systems.
Roy Smith, Professor, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich
FEB
24
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Ultra-wide Bandgap based High Voltage Electron Devices towards Grid Scale Applications
Saurav Roy, Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Barbara
FEB
25
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
FEB
26
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Foundations for Efficient Information Usage
Jennifer Tang, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
FEB
26
2025
Student Event
Honoring Black History Month
FEB
27
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Next-Generation High-Power RF Sources – Establishing GaN IMPATT Technology and Beyond with Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
Zhengliang Bian, Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University
FEB
27
2025
ECE Seminar
Talking about Teaching – Session 2: Leveraging AI in teaching
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
FEB
28
2025
Other Seminar
Scaling up reinforcement learning theories of cognition: Towards human-like deep reinforcement learning
Wilka Carvalho, Research Fellow, Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard
MAR
02
2025
Student Event
ECE Expedition: Boston 2025
MAR
07
2025
CUOS Seminar | ECE Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Seminar: Relativistic optics and multi-GeV laser-driven particle accelerators
Howard Milchberg, Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland
MAR
10
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Small-scale robots – from one to a swarm
Di Ni, Postdoc Fellow, Princeton University
MAR
10
2025
Student Event
Conversing with Alumni
MAR
11
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Minor Declaration Day
MAR
12
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
ADVANCING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION THROUGH ROBUST SUPERVISED AND GENERATIVE MODELS
Shijun Liang, Postdoc Candidate, Michigan State University
MAR
12
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
MAR
12
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
MAR
12
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
MAR
12
2025
MIPSE Seminar
Synergies in Inertial Fusion Energy and Inertial Confinement Fusion Research
Dr. Verena Geppert-Kleinrath, Los Alamos National Laboratory
MAR
13
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Harnessing Terahertz Signals to Bridge Digital and Neurological Divides
Duschia Bodet, Ph.D. Candidate, Northeastern University
MAR
13
2025
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Institute | Quantum gas of molecules
Jun Ye, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado
MAR
13
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Exploring and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models and Generative AI
Pin-Yu Chen, Principal Research Scientist, IBM Research AI
MAR
14
2025
Dissertation Defense
Chip-Scale Spectropolarimetric and Quantum Optical Phase Sensing with Semiconductor Nanostructures
Juhyeon Kim
MAR
14
2025
Alumni | Student Event
ECE Pie a Prof
MAR
14
2025
Control Seminar
Metric Regularity and Its Role in the Systems Theory of Nonlinear Optimization
Torbjørn Cunis , Lecturer, University of Stuttgart Institute of Flight Mechanics and Control
MAR
17
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Programming Quantum Materials for Next-Gen Photonics
Souvik Biswas, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
MAR
18
2025
2025 AI in Science and Engineering Symposium
MAR
18
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Training-free approaches for image inversion and editing using latent generative models
Sanjay Shakkottai, Professor, University of Texas
MAR
19
2025
Student Event
ECE T-Shirt Design Contest 2025
MAR
19
2025
2025 AI in Science and Engineering Symposium
MAR
19
2025
Student Event
Fall 2025 Computer Engineering Backpacking and Registration Info Session
MAR
20
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Emergence and grokking in “simple” architectures
Mikhail Belkin, Professor, University of California, San Diego
MAR
21
2025
RADLAB Seminar
Radlab Grad Seminar: Thin Film Ferroelectric Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators: from Continuum Mechanics Modeling to mm-Wave Operation
Wenhao Peng, Ph.D. Candidate, ECE at Michigan
MAR
21
2025
Other Seminar
Overcoming the Sim-to-Real Gap: Leveraging Simulation to Learn to Explore for Real-World RL
Andrew Wagenmaker, Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
MAR
21
2025
Control Seminar
Some fundamental limitations of learning for dynamics and control
Necmiye Ozay, Chen-Luan Family Faculty Development Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Robotics, University of Michigan
MAR
24
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Deep Microscopic Quantum Electrodynamics: Spotlight on Quantum-Light Science and Technology
Sathwik Bharadwaj , Research Scientist , Purdue University
MAR
24
2025
Dissertation Defense
III-Nitride Nanostructures for Optoelectronic and Artificial Photosynthesis Applications
Yixin Xiao
MAR
25
2025
ECE Seminar
Talking about Teaching – Session 3: Designing and using personalized take home exams
MAR
26
2025
MIPSE Seminar
Plasma XXI (Joint CLaSP/MIPSE seminar)
Prof. Roald Sagdeev, University of Maryland
MAR
26
2025
Student Event
Datadog – Corporate Information Session
MAR
27
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Real-Time Inference and Adaptive Closed-Loop Control of Physiological States in Critical Care: A Cardiovascular Case Study
Taylor Baum, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
27
2025
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Institute | Coupling control and quantum dynamics of spin defects in solids: from room temperature quantum sensing to quantum computation
Michael E. Flatté, Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Iowa (UI)
MAR
27
2025
Dissertation Defense
Resource-constrained Intelligent Edge Systems for Internet-of-Things Applications
Andrea Bejarano
MAR
27
2025
Student Event
Credera – Corporate Information Session
MAR
27
2025
Student Event
The Road to Success: From Engineering Student to Executive
Jon DeGaynor, President and CEO , Methode Electronics, Inc.
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)
MAR
28
2025
Control Seminar
A Topological Approach For Data Assimilation (TADA)
Firas Khasawneh, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
MAR
28
2025
Student Event
Quantum Careers Panel
APR
01
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
From Language to Silicon: Programming Systems for Sparse Accelerators
Olivia Hsu, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
APR
01
2025
Student Event
ECE Pitching Your Poster Event for Undergraduate Students
APR
03
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
The tin-vacancy center in diamond: understanding this emerging qubit and its application to quantum networks
Eric I. Rosenthal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
APR
03
2025
Student Event
Computer Engineering (CE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
APR
03
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Machine Unlearning for Generative AI
Sijia Liu, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
APR
04
2025
Other Seminar
Robust Decision Making Without Compromising Learning Efficiency
Laixi Shi, Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS Caltech
APR
04
2025
Control Seminar
Control and system design of wave energy converters
Ryan Coe, Wave Energy & Fluid Dynamics Modeling Specialist, Sandia National Laboratories
APR
07
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Building Practical Quantum Computing through Hardware-Aware Algorithm-Calibration Co-Design
Yulong Dong, Research Scientist, ByteDance Research US
APR
08
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
APR
09
2025
MIPSE Seminar
RF Plasma Cathodes and Other Research Activities in the Plasma Propulsion Group at NRL
Dr. Marcel Georgin, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
APR
09
2025
Student Event
Skyworks Tech Talk: Analog & RF IC Design Careers in Wireless Industry
Leo Wilz , Engineering Director, Skyworks
APR
10
2025
Quantum Science Seminar
Quantum Research Institute | A New Era in Quantum Optics: From Topological Photonics to Correlated Materials
Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland
APR
10
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Setup Times in Multiserver Systems: New Insights
Jalani Williams, PPFP Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Michigan
APR
11
2025
Dissertation Defense
Efficient Band Diagram Computation for Periodic Structures using Multiple Scattering Theory and Broadband Green’s Function (MST-BBGF)
Ruoxing Gao
APR
11
2025
Computer Engineering Seminar
Chips for AI and AI for Chips: The Symbiotic Future of Computer Hardware
Austin Rovinski, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University
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
APR
11
2025
Control Seminar
Sensing the Unseen: Dexterous Tool Manipulation Through Touch and Vision
Nima Fazeli, Assistant Professor, Robotics, University of Michigan
APR
14
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Achieving scalable quantum advantage in bosonic sensing and transduction in the presence of loss and noise
Haowei Shi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southern California
APR
15
2025
Dissertation Defense
C1-Smooth Multi-Contact Dynamics for Robotics
Marion Anderson
APR
16
2025
MIPSE Seminar
Grand Challenges in RF & Plasmas for Next Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing
Dr. Benjamin Yee and Dr. Hema Swaroop Mopidevi, Lam Research Corporation
APR
17
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Canceled Rescheduling To Fall 2025 On the computation of Stackelberg and Nash equilibria and their variants
Uday V. Shanbhag, Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
APR
17
2025
Student Event
Exxon Mobil – Corporate Information Session
APR
18
2025
ECE Seminar
Talking about Teaching: Session #4 – Integrating social responsibility into EECS 215
APR
18
2025
Dissertation Defense
Performance Scaling of Polygonal Chirally-Coupled-Core (CCC) Fibers for Coherently Combined Fiber Laser Arrays
Mingshu Chen
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
18
2025
RADLAB Seminar
On-the-Fly Calibration of Active Electronically Scanned Antenna Arrays
Duncan Madden, Ph.D. Candidate
APR
18
2025
Dissertation Defense
Variational Bayesian Methods for Discovering Gene Expression Mechanisms from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data
Yichen Gu
APR
18
2025
Student Event
Data Science Night
APR
21
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Scalable SoC Architectures for Domain-Specific Computing: From Algorithms to Silicon
Seah Kim, Ph.D. candidate , University of California, Berkeley
APR
23
2025
Student Event
ECE Tea Table
APR
23
2025
Student Event | Symposium
2025 ECE Undergraduate Research Symposium
APR
24
2025
Dissertation Defense
Automated ELISA and Machine Learning-Enhanced Precision in Biosensing and Colorimetric Measurements
Majid Aalizadeh
APR
24
2025
Dissertation Defense
Network Models for Learning Uncertain and Multimodal Data
Conrad D. Hougen
APR
24
2025
MIDAS Seminar
Generative AI and Sexual Harms
Sarita Schoenebeck (Professor of Information, School of Information)
APR
25
2025
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar | Quantum Science Seminar
CUOS Seminar: Frontiers in quantum science with neutral ytterbium atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays
Alexander Burgers, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, College of Engineering
APR
29
2025
Dissertation Defense
New Directions In Millimeter-Wave Imaging: Systems, Circuits and Algorithms
Aditya Varma Muppala
MAY
02
2025
Student Event
ECE Graduation Celebration
MAY
05
2025
Dissertation Defense
Signal Detection with High-Dimensional Random Matrix Models
Robert Malinas
MAY
08
2025
Dissertation Defense
Connecting Sight and Sound through Space, Time and Language
Ziyang Chen
MAY
09
2025
Dissertation Defense
Mathematical Methods for Managing Distributed Energy Resources
Hannah Moring
MAY
12
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
MAY
16
2025
Dissertation Defense
Fast Hybrid Multiple Scattering Theory Method Applied to Multiple Scattering Problems
Jongwoo Jeong
MAY
19
2025
MPEL Seminar
Wildfire Risk Mitigation in Power Systems Operations: Optimizing Public Safety Power Shutoffs and Restoration Planning
Dr. Noah Rhodes , Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
MAY
20
2025
Symposium
2025 Energy Symposium
MAY
21
2025
Symposium
2025 Energy Symposium
MAY
21
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Behavior of Gradient-Based Optimization Methods in Nonconvex Landscapes: A Dynamical Systems Perspective
Waheed U. Bajwa, Professor and Graduate Program Director , Rutgers University
MAY
23
2025
Dissertation Defense
From THz to DUV: Exploring emission properties in biofilm and semiconductor structures with spectroscopy
Yifan Shen
JUN
18
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Group Declaration and Major Signing Day
JUN
25
2025
Student Event
Electrical Engineering (EE) Minor Declaration Day
JUL
21
2025
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Guiding Diffusion and Flow Models for Constrained Sampling in Image, Video and 4D
Jong Chul Ye, Professor, Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (AI), KAIST
SEP
25
2025
Quantum Science Seminar
Mohammad Hafezi (University of Maryland)
TBD