Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
The ECE Distinguished Speaker Series is our flagship seminar series, featuring presentations from distinguished speakers drawn from both academia and industry who will address a wide variety of topics of interest to our community. Everyone is invited to attend, from undergraduates on up to faculty and industry friends — the level of the presentations will be for non-specialists and accessible to students.
During the academic semester, a weekly Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquia presents a wide range of speakers from different backgrounds and experiences, sharing their research activities and collaborations.
In addition, the NSF FREEDM Systems Center hosts technical webinars focused on power systems—upcoming ones are posted here.
Also during the academic year, the NC State Quantum Initiative hosts the Triangle Quantum Computing Seminar Series.
Upcoming Doctoral Defenses are listed here — please contact ecegradoffice@ncsu.edu for more information.
Electrifying Aviation Propulsion Systems – Student Colloquium
Junyeong Jung
NC State Student, North Carolina State University on November 21, 2025.
Spectrum Coexistence between Active Wireless Technologies and Passive Remote Sensing Systems
Ahmed Manavi Alam
NC State Student, North Carolina State University on November 21, 2025.
How to Bounce a Radio Signal off the Moon, and other Space Communications Adventures
Dan Stancil
Alcoa Distinguished Professor Emeritus, NC State University on November 14, 2025.
Unleashing the Terahertz Band: From Near-Field Communications to Space Networks
Josep Miquel Jornet
Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Northeastern University on November 7, 2025.
Circuit Research Challenges for Next Generation AI Datacenters
Tom Gray
Senior Director Circuit Research, Nvidia on October 31, 2025.
Digital Human–Material Interfaces
Xiaoyue Ni
Assistant Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University on October 24, 2025.
Reliable Communications for Future Aviation
David Matolak
Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina on October 17, 2025.
Rethinking visual computing systems in the age of AI: From computational optics to intelligent displays
Praneeth Chakravarthula
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill on October 10, 2025.
From Virtual Staining to Diffractive Optical Networks: The Fusion of AI and Optics
Aydogan Ozcan
Chancellor’s Professor and HHMI Professor, ECE, UCLA on October 3, 2025.
Recent Developments in the Nuvotronics PolyStrata Process: Enabling Next-Generation Phased Arrays
Ben Cannon
Chief Technologist, Nuvotronics on September 26, 2025.
Enabling Cyber-Physical-Human Resilience in DER-Rich Power Grids
Anurag Srivastava
Chairperson, Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University on September 19, 2025.
Modeling Biology on a Quantum Computer: Deciphering the Mechanism of ATP Hydrolysis Using Quantum Hardware
Brenda Rubenstein
Director of Data Science, Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, Brown University on September 12, 2025.