Seminars
ECE hosts a regularly scheduled seminar series, the Interdisciplinary Distinguished Seminar Series, with preeminent and leading researchers in the US and the world, to help promote North Carolina as a center of innovation and knowledge and to ensure safeguarding its place of leading research.
ABB and ECE are proud to host the ABB Distinguished Lecture Series in Power Engineering. Each semester, a nationally prominent expert will lecture on a topic related to recent developments in power technology and the smart grid. Distinguished speakers drawn from ABB, academia and the power industry will address the most timely and challenging topics of the power engineering and smart grid industries. Everyone is invited to attend, from undergraduates on up to faculty and friends of the department.
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Sculpting Light in 3D with Femtosecond Sources
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Nicolas Pégard
Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill on September 11, 2020.
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Alumni Conversation at Hughes
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Emanuel Harrington
Vice President of Engineering, Hughes Network Systems on September 11, 2020.
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Designing Personalized and Privacy-Aware Machine Learning for Promoting Well-Being
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Dr. Theodora Chaspari
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M on September 4, 2020.
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“Tiny-but-tough” Gallium Nitride Nanoelectronics for Extreme Harsh Environments
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Dr. Debbie Senesky
Associate Professor, Stanford University on August 28, 2020.
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Distributed Optimization for Billions of Edge Devices
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Prof. Anna Scaglione
Professor, Arizona State University on March 6, 2020.
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Engineering Approximate Computations
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Prof. Michael Carbin
Assistant Professor, MIT on February 21, 2020.
RIAPS: an Open Source Platform for Distributed Controls
Mr. Hao Tu
Ph.D. Candidate, FREEDM Systems Center/NC State University on February 17, 2020.
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Recent Developments in Quantum Computing
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Prof. Robert Calderbank
Professor, Duke University on February 7, 2020.
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Correlated Nanoelectronics
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Dr. Jeremy Levy
Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, University of Pittsburgh on February 4, 2020.
ParaPower: Leveraging Finite Difference Simulator for Quick Thermal Design
Prof. Doug Hopkins
Director - Laboratory for Packaging Research in Electronic Energy Systems (PREES), NSF FREEDM Systems Center on January 24, 2020.
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Designing Agents’ Preferences, Beliefs, and Identities
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Prof. Vincent Conitzer
Professor, Duke University on January 24, 2020.
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Enabling technologies for advancing mm-wave communications and nanomedicine applications
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Prof. Rhonda Franklin
Professor, University of Minnesota on December 6, 2019.