Spring 2025 ECE Seminars | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Spring 2025 ECE Seminars


Spring 2025

Sina Alemohammad
Ph.D. candidate at Rice University

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

Thursday, January 9


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

NYU Ecosystem Hub Seminar : Dr. Andrea Goldsmith

Wednesday, February 5


Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University

Achieving AI Safety in a Contested World

Thursday, February 6


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


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


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

An empirical foundation for multi-agent reinforcement learning at scale

Thursday, February 20
 


Michele Polese
Research Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston

Towards Open, Programmable, and Intelligent Cellular Networks

Monday, February 24


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

Building superconducting quantum networks

Wednesday, February 26 |


Dr. Haoning Tang
Research associate at Harvard University

Twisting Light with Nanomachines

Friday, February 28


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

Efficient and Reliable Information Engineering: From Neuromorphic to Quantum Computing

Monday, March 3
 


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


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

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

Wednesday, March 5
 


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


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
 


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

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

Wednesday, March 12


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


Benjamin Riviere
Postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology

Robot Autonomy with Feedback Systems of Search and Deep Learning

Wednesday, March 19


Marco Pavone
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University

Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving

Thursday, April 3


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

Multisensory Dexterity for Robotics

Monday, April 7


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

Promoting Innovation and Speeding Adoption

Thursday, April 10


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


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
 


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


Max Welling
Professor, University of Amsterdam

Transforming Scientific Innovation with AI

Tuesday, May 6


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