Spring 2025 ECE Seminars | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Spring 2025

Sina Alemohammad
Ph.D. candidate at Rice University

Generative AI in the Age of Synthetic Data: Challenges and Solutions

Thursday, January 9 | Seminar Recordings


Dr. Andrea Goldsmith
Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

NYU Ecosystem Hub Seminar : Dr. Andrea Goldsmith

Wednesday, February 5 | Seminar Recordings


Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University

Achieving AI Safety in a Contested World

Thursday, February 6 | Seminar Recordings


Urbi Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

New Emerging Attacks in Hardware Security: Embedded Systems to ML Accelerators

Thursday, February 13 | Seminar Recordings


Mark Schmidt
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Why does Adam work so well for LLMs? And can we find optimal per-variable step sizes?

Tuesday, February 18 | Seminar Recordings


Souvik Biswas
Ph.D. graduate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University

Programming Quantum Materials for Next-Gen Photonics

Wednesday, February 19 | Seminar Recordings


Eugene Vinitsky
Assistant professor, Civil and Urban Engineering, New York University

An empirical foundation for multi-agent reinforcement learning at scale

Thursday, February 20 | Seminar Recordings
 


Michele Polese
Research Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston

Towards Open, Programmable, and Intelligent Cellular Networks

Monday, February 24 | Seminar Recordings


Aziza Almanakly
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building superconducting quantum networks

Wednesday, February 26 | Seminar Recordings


Dr. Haoning Tang
Research associate at Harvard University

Twisting Light with Nanomachines

Friday, February 28 | Seminar Recordings


Osvaldo Simeone
Professor, Information Engineering, King's College, London

Efficient and Reliable Information Engineering: From Neuromorphic to Quantum Computing

Monday, March 3 | Seminar Recordings
 


Zidong Wang
Professor of Dynamical Systems and Computing, Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, U.K

Networked Control Systems with Communication Protocols: Challenges and Progress

Monday, March 3 | Seminar Recordings


Miguel Rodrigues
Professor, Information Theory and Processing, University College, London

Deep Learning for Inverse Problems: Theoretical Perspectives, Algorithms, and Applications

Wednesday, March 5 | Seminar Recordings
 


Jason Jangho Choi
Ph.D. candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Towards Generalizable Safety for Robot Autonomy: Integrating Model-Based Analysis with Data-Driven Approaches

Wednesday, March 5 | Seminar Recordings


Dr. Joel I-Jan Wang
Research scientist, Engineering Quantum Systems (EQuS) group, Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT

Layering Quantum Innovation: From van der Waals Materials to Quantum Technology

Thursday, March 6 | Seminar Recordings
 


Jovan Stojkovic
Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chasing the "Tail at Scale": Toward Cloud-Native Architectures

Wednesday, March 12 | Seminar Recordings


Dani S. Bassett
J. Peter Skirkanich Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Curiosity Styles in the (Natural & Artificial) Wild

Thursday, March 13 | Seminar Recordings


Zahid Durrani
Professor of Quantum Nanoelectronics, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London

Single-electron quantum nanoelectronics in silicon

Thursday, March 13 | Seminar Recordings


Benjamin Riviere
Postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology

Robot Autonomy with Feedback Systems of Search and Deep Learning

Wednesday, March 19 | Seminar Recordings


Marco Pavone
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University

Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving

Thursday, April 3 | Seminar Recordings


Haozhi Qi
Ph.D. candidate in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley

Multisensory Dexterity for Robotics

Monday, April 7 | Seminar Recordings


Dan Abraham
Assistant Director, Physical Sciences Technology Transfer at NYU Technology Opportunities and Ventures

Promoting Innovation and Speeding Adoption

Thursday, April 10 | Seminar Recordings


Mohammad-Ali Miri
Associate Professor of Physics, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

Analog Information Processing with Programmable Photonic Circuits

Friday, April 11 | Seminar Recordings


Benjamin Tan
Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary

The Early Bird Gets the Bug: Supporting Security Earlier in the Digital Design Flow

Monday, April 21 | Seminar Recordings
 


Henning Schulzrinne
Levi Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Internet For All - High-Speed Broadband for Every Home in the United States

Thursday, April 24 | Seminar Recordings


Max Welling
Professor, University of Amsterdam

Transforming Scientific Innovation with AI

Tuesday, May 6 | Seminar Recordings


Van Anh Ho
Ph.D. degree in robotics from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Enhancing Embodied Intelligence through Adaptive Morphology

Wednesday, May 7


Dr. Bo Zeng
Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh

Investigating Two-Stage Robust Optimization and Distributionally Robust Optimization from the Primal Perspective: A Complete and Intuitive Solution Framework

Thursday, May 29


Yuan Cao
Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley

A new twist of two-dimensional lattices

Friday, May 30


Onur Mutlu
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich

Memory-Centric Computing: Enabling Fundamentally Efficient & Intelligent Machines

Tuesday, July 1


Jaime Llorca
Associate Professor at the University of Trento and a Research Professor at New York University

Resilient Delivery of Real-Time Interactive Services over NextG Compute-Dense Mobile Networks

Wednesday, July 16


Zihang Su
Postdoc Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles

Bio-derived materials development at biotic-abiotic interface for energy and environmental applications | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Thursday, July 17


Yi Wang
The University of Hong Kong

Lightweight Learning for the Coordination of Behind-the-meter Resources

Monday, July 21


Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Professor at University of California, San Diego

Affordable Phased-Arrays and Reflect Arrays (RIS) for SATCOM, Radars and Terrestrial Communications (5G/6G) Using Silicon Beamformer ICs

Monday, August 25


Dr. Feng Qiu
Argonne National Laboratory

Spatio-Temporal Model for Power Outage Prediction and Resilience Enhancement Planning

Friday, August 29