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.
Email Alerts
Non-ECE students and faculty are welcome to attend ECE seminars and colloquia. To get on the email notification list, join this Google Group.
Severity Grading of Southern Leaf Blight on Corn Leaves
Chanae Ottley
PhD Student, NC State University on April 24, 2026.
Enabling Scalable and Collaborative Energy Management in Networked Microgrids
Aditya Joshi
PhD Student, NC State University on April 24, 2026.
“Advanced Integrated Photonics for AI-Era Interconnects, Computing, and Beyond”
Di Liang
Professor, University of Michigan on April 17, 2026.
Chirstopher Monroe
Distinguished Professor, Duke University on April 10, 2026.
Ultra-Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors – Challenges and Opportunities
Robert Kaplar
Research Department Head of End-to-end Networked Systems, Sandia on April 3, 2026.
I know that you know that I know: Enabling Embodied Cognition Capabilities in Collaborative Robotic Systems
Nicola Bezzo
Associate Professor, University of Virginia on March 13, 2026.
How Memory Powers Intelligence: From Cognition to AI Computing Systems
Helen Li
Distinguished Professor, Duke University on March 6, 2026.
Dual-Rail Microwave Cavity Qubits
Steven M. Girvin
Sterling Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics, Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University on February 20, 2026.
Approximate Computing and Hardware Security: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Chongyan Gu
Associate Professor in the Centre for Secure Information Technologies, Queen's University Belfast on February 13, 2026.
Wearable, Nearable, and Ingestible Bioelectronics for Precision Medicine
Dr. Sameer Sonkusale
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University on February 6, 2026.
Adaptive Processor Designs
Dr. Keith Bowman
Principal Engineer and Director, Qualcomm on January 30, 2026.
From Guided Sampling to Learned Solvers: Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems
Dr. Santiago Segarra
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University on January 23, 2026.