Faculty Candidate Seminar

May 17

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Optimization and Learning in Energy Systems: Privacy and Performance

May 24

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Feedback Design Principles for Efficient and Reliable Robot Learning

Nov 13

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Teaching Faculty Candidate Seminar: Introduction to Hash Tables

Nov 30

10:30 am - 11:30 am

What Can Cryptography Do For Decentralized Mechanism Design?

Dec 5

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Neurons to Numerical Analysis: Applications of machine learning in scientific computing

Jan 22

10:30 am - 11:30 am

An Introduction to Inheritance in Java

Feb 2

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Sub-cent Processors, Earable Computers, and Space Microdatacenters: Novel Computer Systems for Truly Ubiquitous Computing

Feb 6

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Content Moderation in Social Media: The Steel Armor of Social Media

Feb 7

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Engineering Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors at the Atomic Scale

Feb 8

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Catch M(oor)e If You Can: Agile Hardware/Software Co-Design for Hyperscale Cloud Systems

Feb 9

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Accessible Foundation Models: Systems, Algorithms, and Science

Feb 12

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Toward Energy-efficient Electronics from Ultrawide-Bandgap Semiconductors: Materials, Devices, and Application

Feb 13

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Impacting the future one failure at a time

Feb 15

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Cyber-Physical Protection of Multi-Terminal DC Grids

Feb 19

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Multidimensional Power Devices in (Ultra-)Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors

Feb 20

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Foundations for Efficient Information Usage: Inference, Storage, Networks

Feb 21

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Structured Control and Learning for Sustainable Energy Systems

Feb 22

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Future Energy Storage System: A Bridge between Transportation and Power Systems

Feb 22

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Hardware-Aware Efficient Primitives for Machine Learning

Feb 23

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Modern Clouds: Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses

Mar 4

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Codes, nearest neighbors, and learning: From communication to computation

Mar 4

10:30 am - 11:30 am

The Binomial Theorem

Mar 7

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Sequential nonparametric inference by betting

Mar 7

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Designing efficient and scalable cache management systems

Mar 8

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Understanding Language Models through Discovery and by Design

Mar 11

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Toward Practical Quantum Computing Systems with Intelligent Cross-Stack Co-Design

Mar 13

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Information theory for sequential decision-making

Mar 14

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Scaling Deep Learning Up and Down

Mar 15

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP

Mar 15

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Data Privacy in the Decentralized Era

Mar 18

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Generative AI for 3D Content

Mar 20

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Towards Principled Modeling of Inductive Bias for Generalizable Machine Learning

Mar 21

10:00 am - 11:00 am

From Systemic to Regional: Personal Health and Medical Monitoring Systems that Adapt to Individual Variance

Mar 25

10:00 am - 11:00 am

White-Box Computational Imaging: Measurements to Images to Insights

Mar 25

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Building Planetary-Scale Collaborative Intelligence

Mar 27

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Building the Infinite Brain

Mar 27

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Finding Shortest Paths in the Real World

Mar 28

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Unleashing the Power of Ubiquitous IoT Sensors for Ambient Intelligence

Apr 1

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Towards Provably Safe and Secure Systems with Contract-Based Design

Apr 4

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Power Electronics Hardware Accelerating Grid Technology Evolution and Deployment

Apr 4

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Intelligent Textiles for Physical Interactions

Apr 5

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Towards Principled Sequential Decision-Making

Apr 9

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Efficient Deep Learning with Sparsity: Algorithms, Systems, and Applications

Apr 11

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Learning from Interaction

Apr 12

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Circular Interactive Material: making ubiquitous computing more scalable and sustainable

Apr 15

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Programmable Software Systems for Correct High-performance Applications

Apr 18

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Towards Practical Superconducting Computing with Technology-Driven Optimizations

Apr 19

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Generalizing Beyond the Training Distribution through Compositional Generation

Nov 1

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Teaching Demonstration: An Introduction to Register-Transfer-Level Design Decomposition

Nov 4

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Why reinvent the wheel? A lecture on software engineering with reuse

Nov 19

10:30 am - 11:30 am

kNNs and Hyperparameter Optimization

Dec 2

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Bloom Filters and MinHash: Two Probabilistic Data Structures

Dec 9

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Introduction to Classes and Objects in Python

Jan 23

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Pareto-efficient AI systems: Expanding the quality and efficiency frontier of AI

Jan 30

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Steering Machine Learning Ecosystems of Interacting Agents

Feb 12

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Adventures in Feature Space: Vector Similarity Measures for Machine Learning

Feb 13

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Generative Computer Vision for the Physical World

Feb 17

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Where can quantum computers outperform classical computers?

Feb 19

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Unobtrusive Bioelectronic Platforms for Personalized Healthcare

Feb 20

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Learning to Perceive the 4D World

Feb 21

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Teaching Demonstration: What Should I Test? How to Think About and Select Test Inputs

Feb 24

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Ultra-wide Bandgap based High Voltage Electron Devices towards Grid Scale Applications

Feb 26

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Foundations for Efficient Information Usage

Feb 27

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Next-Generation High-Power RF Sources – Establishing GaN IMPATT Technology and Beyond with Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Feb 27

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Understanding and Enhancing Deep Neural Networks with Automated Interpretability

Mar 10

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Small-scale robots – from one to a swarm

Mar 10

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Thinking Outside the GPU: Systems for Scalable Machine Learning Pipelines

Mar 13

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Harnessing Terahertz Signals to Bridge Digital and Neurological Divides

Mar 13

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts

Mar 17

9:00 am - 10:00 am

From Agents to Optimization: User Interface Understanding and Generation

Mar 17

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Programming Quantum Materials for Next-Gen Photonics

Mar 17

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Building the Tools to Program a Quantum Computer

Mar 18

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Privacy, Copyright, and Data Integrity: The Cascading Implications of Generative AI

Mar 20

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Multisensory Dexterity for Robotics

Mar 24

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Performance Interfaces for Systems Software and Hardware

Mar 24

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Deep Microscopic Quantum Electrodynamics: Spotlight on Quantum-Light Science and Technology

Mar 24

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Sublinear Algorithms and Quantum Computing

Mar 27

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Real-Time Inference and Adaptive Closed-Loop Control of Physiological States in Critical Care: A Cardiovascular Case Study

Mar 27

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Neural Operator for Scientific Computing

Mar 31

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Security & Privacy through Programmable Cryptography, Compilers, and Verification

Apr 1

10:30 am - 11:30 am

From Language to Silicon: Programming Systems for Sparse Accelerators

Apr 1

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Self-Learning Principles of Large-Scale Foundation Models

Apr 3

9:30 am - 10:30 am

The tin-vacancy center in diamond: understanding this emerging qubit and its application to quantum networks

Apr 3

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Aligning AI Agents with an Ideal

Apr 7

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Building Practical Quantum Computing through Hardware-Aware Algorithm-Calibration Co-Design

Apr 7

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Developing Responsible AI Monitoring Technologies for Chronic Care

Apr 10

10:30 am - 11:30 am

CANCELLED: Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

Apr 14

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Achieving scalable quantum advantage in bosonic sensing and transduction in the presence of loss and noise

Apr 14

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Architecting Quantum Systems for the Scaling Era: A Systems Approach to Practical Quantum Computing

Apr 21

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Scalable SoC Architectures for Domain-Specific Computing: From Algorithms to Silicon