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.
Learning from Language
Prof. Jacob Andreas
Assistant Professor, MIT on May 3, 2019.
An Optimal Transportation (OT) View of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
David Gu
Professor, Stony Brook University and Harvard University on April 5, 2019.
What is the shape of your data? An introduction to computational topology and its application in the data sciences
Yu-Min Chung
Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro on March 1, 2019.
Constructing a Quantum Computer
Dr. Kenneth Brown
Associate Professor, Duke University on February 15, 2019.
Fusion of Detection Systems using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis
Mark E. Oxley
Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology on February 15, 2019.
Online Learning with Model Selection
Adrian Barbu
Professor, Florida State University on February 1, 2019.
A Behavior-based Approach to Secure and Resilient Industrial Control Systems
Dimitrios Serpanos
Professor, University of Patras on January 25, 2019.
Novel Machine Learning Solutions for Pertinent Applications
Dr. Moncef Gabbouj
Director, NSF IUCRC Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, Tampere University of Technology on November 16, 2018.
Segmentation is Selection
Jason J. Corso
Associate Professor, University of Michigan on October 19, 2018.
BRECCIA: A Novel Multi-source Fusion Framework for Dynamic Geospatial Data Analysis
Dr. Tom Henderson
Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah on October 19, 2018.
Distributed Randomized Algorithms for Convex and Non-Convex Optimization
Dr. Mert Pilanci, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Stanford University on October 5, 2018.
Accelerated Optimization in the PDE Framework
Dr. Anthony Yezzi, Ph.D.
Julian Hightower Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology on September 21, 2018.