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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Polymer MEMS/NEMS Sensor Systems: Opportunities and Challenges
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Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao
Director, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi on June 12, 2017.
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Multi-Tb/s Widely-Tunable DWDM Coherent Transmitter and Receiver Photonic Integrated Circuits
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Fred A. Kish, Jr.
Senior Vice President, Infinera Corporation on May 8, 2017.
Qualcomm Corporate Overview
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Dr. Baaziz Achour
SVP Engineering, Qualcomm on April 30, 2017.
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Adaptive Sketching and Validation for Learning from Large-Scale Data
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Georgiios Giannakis
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota on April 21, 2017.
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Models and Algorithms for Hyperspectral Image Processing
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Dr. Miguel Velez Reyes
El Paso Electric Distinguished Professor in Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso on March 25, 2017.
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Convolutional Sparse Representations for Imaging Inverse Problems
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Dr. Brendt Wohlberg
Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory on March 17, 2017.
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Translational Neuroscience for Human Machine Systems
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Dr. Vernon J Lawhern
Human Research and Human Machine Systems Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory on February 17, 2017.
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Network Tomography
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Dr. Ananthram Swami
Senior Research Scientist, Network Science, U.S. Army Research Laboratory on February 10, 2017.
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High-Dimensional Statistical Inference and Analysis of Microbial Association Networks
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Dr. Christian L Muller
Project Leader in Computational Statistics, Numerical Algorithms, CCB, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation on January 27, 2017.
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The Wild, Wonderful, Wide-Open But Challenging World of Mobile Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications
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Dr. Ted S Rappaport
Founding Director, NYU WIRELESS, NYU Tandon School of Engineering on January 20, 2017.
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Deep Understanding of Faces
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Dr. Rama Chellappa
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland on January 20, 2017.
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IEEE Internet Initiative: Governance, Cybersecurity & Privacy
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Karen Bartleson
President Elect, IEEE on September 23, 2016.