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.
Modeling Biology on a Quantum Computer: Deciphering the Mechanism of ATP Hydrolysis Using Quantum Hardware
Brenda Rubenstein
Director of Data Science, Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, Brown University on September 12, 2025.
Control and Information Design for Water Infrastructure Operations
Marta Zaniolo
Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University on September 5, 2025.
Wide and Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Electronic and Photonic Applications
Tom Oder
Professor, Program Officer, Army Research Office on August 29, 2025.
AI-Native Telecom: Advancing Open RAN Intelligence Towards 6G Networks
Vijay Shah
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University on August 22, 2025.
III-V-based Two-and Three-Terminal Devices
Dimitris Pavlidis
Professor, University of Michigan on June 4, 2025.
Insight into 6G based on Today’s Research
Jeff Reed
Willis G. Worcester Professor, Virginia Tech University on April 18, 2025.
Flexible electronics for neural interfaces
Jonathan Viventi
Associate Professor, Duke University on April 11, 2025.
Staying Ahead of the Sun: Solar Irradiance Data and Extreme Weather Impacts in the PV Industry
Matt Stevenson
Senior Technical Account Manager, SolarAnywhere on April 4, 2025.
Integrated Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles and Beyond
Liyan Zhu
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech on March 28, 2025.
Graph Data Compression: Practical Methods and Information Theoretic Limits
Dr. Justin Coon
Professor, University of Oxford on March 21, 2025.
ECE Coffee Talk on Quantum Computing
Greg Byrd, Sabre Kais, Qing Gu, Dima Farfurnik, Yuan Liu, and Huiyang Zhou
From NC State University on March 14, 2025.
Distributed Risk-Constrained Learning-Based Controls: Designs Focusing on Inverter-Dominated Grid Operations
Dr. Sayak Mukherjee
Senior Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on February 28, 2025.