https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/fundamental-sensing-communication-and-networking-for-personal-physical-and-security-intelligence/

We are entering an era where the digital and physical worlds are becoming indistinguishable. To support this transition, my group is building the fundamental pillars of sensing, communication, and networking, moving them beyond isolated technology silos toward an application-aware design. In this talk, I will present a decade of research that unifies these domains to...

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Speaker: Dinesh Bharadia
Associate Professor
UC San Diego

"Dinesh Bharadia is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Klein Gilhousen Chancellor’s Endowed Chair at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he leads the Wireless Communication Sensing and Networking Group (WCSNG). He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2016, followed by a Postdoctoral Associate position at MIT. In 2018, he joined UCSD as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to a tenured position in 2022.

His research focuses on the design and prototyping of advanced systems for communication, sensing, and networking, with applications spanning privacy, security, robotics, health, and everyday life. His work has driven new research directions across fields such as communication theory, RFIC design, and robotics. Many of his innovations have been successfully translated into startups and commercial products, including Haila, Kumu Networks, and Totemic Labs.

Under his leadership, the WCSNG group has secured funding from sources including NSF, industry partners, and DoD grants. This funding supports a vibrant team of more than 40 students at any given time, helping train the next generation of engineers and scientists. He has received numerous prestigious accolades for his contributions to wireless research, including being named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Science) and MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 list."

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/ultra-wide-bandgap-semiconductors-challenges-and-opportunities/

Ultra-wide-bandgap (UWBG) materials constitute the next frontier in semiconductor physics, and also hold great promise to revolutionize applications such as power conversion and high-frequency electronics, among others. This talk will discuss the key properties of UWBG semiconductors, some of the challenges facing the research community, and how these materials and devices may advance selected applications....

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Speaker: Robert Kaplar
Research Department Head of End-to-end Networked Systems
Sandia

Bob Kaplar received a B.S. degree in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus. He subsequently joined Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, as a postdoctoral researcher, worked for a dozen years as a technical staff member, and is now the manager of the Semiconductor Material and Device Sciences department at Sandia. His scientific work has included wide-bandgap optoelectronics and reliability physics, and he is currently focused on wide- and ultra-wide-bandgap materials and devices, primarily the III-Nitrides, for power conversion and other applications.

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/266667/

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Speaker: Chirstopher Monroe
Distinguished Professor
Duke University