ECE Speaker Series 2025

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Seminars

Homanga Bharadhwaj, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University, “Watch, Predict, Act: Robot Learning Meets Web Videos” February 11, 2025. Details.

Haoning Tang, Research Associate, Harvard University, “Twisting Light with Nanomachines” February 25, 2025. Details.

Xinyi Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University, “Principled Algorithms for Efficient Machine Learning: A Dynamical Systems View” February 25, 2025. Details.

Wei-Lun Chao, Distinguished Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, “Perception and Learning with Imperfect Data: Insights from the Real World” February 27, 2025. Details.

Eran Malach, Research Fellow, Harvard University, “Learning Hard Problems with Neural Networks and Language Models” February 28, 2025. Details.

Zhiwen Fan, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas, Austin, “Building Spatially Intelligent Machines: Scalable 3D Reconstruction, Generation, and Perception” March 4, 2025. Details.

Cheng Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, “Theoretical Photonics: Nonlocal Metasurfaces, Reciprocity Constraints, and Unitary Control” March 4, 2025. Details.

Swati Padmanabhan, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, “Black-Box: Faster Algorithms for Structured Optimization” March 5, 2025. Details.

Lukas Schmid, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, “Spatio-Temporal AI for Long-Term Human-Centric Robot Autonomy” March 6, 2025. Details.

Souvik Biswas, Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Stanford University, “Programming Quantum Materials for Next-Gen Photonics” March 13, 2025. Details.

Ayush Sekhari, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, “ML for an Interactive World: From Learning to Unlearning” March 13, 2025. Details.

Haoshu Fang, Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT, “Data Science for Human-Level Robotic Manipulation” March 18, 2025. Details.

Sangyeon Cho, Instructor, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, “Semiconductor Nanolaser Physics: The Building Blocks of Next-Generation, Highly Multiplexed Photonic Systems” March 20, 2025. Details.

Mingyi Hong, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, “Old and New Optimization Techniques for Foundation Model Fine-Tuning and Pre-Training” March 20, 2025. Details.

Tamara Lehman, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Secure, Efficient and High Performance Computing: A Computer Architecture Perspective” March 21, 2025. Details.

Carmelo Sferrazza, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, “The Path to Humanoid Intelligence” March 25, 2025. Details.

David Lake, Research Scientist, California Institute of Technology, “Towards Quantum Interconnects: Entangling Microwave and Optical Photonic Qubits” March 27, 2025. Details.

Giuseppe Romano, Research Scientist, MIT, “Accelerated Materials Discovery with Differentiable Programming: From Thermal Energy Harvesters to Chiplets Design” April 15, 2025. Details.

Zeinab Jahed, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, “Interfacing Nano-Electronics with Biology for Sensing and Delivery” April 22, 2025. Details.