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.
Soft bioelectronics for wearable and implantable interfaces
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Stéphanie P. Lacour
From EPFL on May 20, 2021.
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Mechatronics and Automation for Revitalizing Critical infrastructure Health (MARCH) – Moving from Research to Application
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Dr. Tianfu (Matt) Wu
Assistant Professor, NC State University on May 19, 2021.
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Low-Resolution to the Rescue of All-Digital Massive MIMO
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Christoph Studer
Associate Professor, ETH Zurich on April 23, 2021.
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Ferroelectricity and 21st century microelectronics
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Asif Khan
Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology on April 9, 2021.
High-dimensional Regression and Dictionary Learning: Some Recent Advances for Tensor Data
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Waheed Bajwa
Associate Professor, Rutgers University on April 2, 2021.
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Coded Distributed Matrix Multiplication – A Survey and Some Recent Results
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Krishna Narayanan
Professor, Texas A&M University on March 26, 2021.
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Building a Next-Generation Utility for Africa
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Christopher Baker-Brian
Managing Director, Product Division, Bboxx Ltd. on March 19, 2021.
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Towards Electric Power Systems Dominated by Inverter Based Resources
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Evangelos Farantatos
Senior Project Manager with the Grid Operations and Planning R&D Group, EPRI on March 12, 2021.
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Convergence Research Needs for 5G: Is it an Edge, Cloud or Radio Network?
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Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain
Senior Technical Program Director for PAWR and Director of Industry Engagement for Institute of Wireless Internet of Things, Northeastern University on February 26, 2021.
Towards Ubiquitous Healthcare with Wearable and Non-Contact Sensors
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Negar Tavassolian
From Stevens Institute of Technology on February 5, 2021.
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Intro CS: Recent improvements in student learning, teacher time, and cheating, both in-person and online
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Frank Vahid
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of California, Riverside on January 29, 2021.
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Soft-Matter Engineering for Wearable Electronics
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Carmel Majidi
Clarence H. Adamson Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University on January 21, 2021.