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Meet the Faculty Series

The purpose of this series is to give ECE faculty and students an opportunity to find out about each other's work. The seminars are at the cutting edge of research but at a level that everybody can understand. We encourage everybody in the department and the Northwestern community to attend.

Speakers in 2022

Prof. Ermin Wei
Assistant Professor, ECE Dept, Northwestern University
"Flexible and Faithful Federated Learning Methods"
Hosted by: ECE Department
Date: October 26th, 2022

Prof. Hai Zhou
Associate Professor, ECE Dept, Northwestern University
"Attacks and Defenses in Logic Encryption"
Hosted by: ECE Department
Date: October 12th, 2022

Prof. Ted Sargent
Professor, ECE Dept, Northwestern University
"Materials Discovery in the Age of Intelligent Machines"
Hosted by: ECE Department
Date: May 4th, 2022

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Speakers in 2022

Speakers in 2015

Prof. Jie Gu
Assistant Professor, ECE Dept, Northwestern University
"Design of Ultra-low Power Integrated Circuits with Emerging Technology"
Hosted by: Prof. Seda Ogrenci Memik

Prof. Jennie Rogers
Assistant Professor, ECE Dept, Northwestern University
"Bridging the Gap: Multi-Database Systems for Data Science"
Hosted by: ECE Department

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Speakers in 2014

Prof. Ermin Wei
Assistant Professor, ECE Dept, Northwestern University
"Demand Response and Fluctuation Reduction in Smart Grid"

Prof. Omid Nohadani
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Dept, NU
"Robust Optimization in Engineering Design"
Hosted by: Prof. Hooman Mohseni

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Speakers in 2013

Prof. Haoqi Zhang
Assistant Professor, ECE & Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University
"Enhancing Communities Big and Small"
Hosted by: ECE Department

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Speakers in 2012

Prof. Oliver Cossairt
Assistant Professor, ECE
"Increasing Camera Functionality through Computational Imaging"

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Speakers in 2011

Prof. Koray Aydin
Assistant Professor, ECE
"Functional, hybrid metamaterials and nanophotonic devices for optical communication, sensing and energy applications"

Prof. Matthew Grayson
Associate Professor, ECE
"Topological Insulators: Electronic Materials for the Sorcerer's Apprentice"
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Speakers in 2010

Prof. Fabián Bustamante
Professor, ECE
"Distributed Systems at the Edge"

Prof. Thrasos Pappas
Professor, ECE
"Visual Signal Analysis and Compression: Focus on Texture"

Prof. Hooman Mohseni
Professor, ECE
"Making of a Superlens: Compressing Light A Million Times Smaller Than What is Possible With A Perfect Lens"

Prof. Alok Choudhary
John G. Searle Professor and Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor, ECE
"High-Performance Data Mining: An Essential Paradigm for Knowledge Discovery"

Prof. Vadim Backman
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
"Detecting Alterations in Cell Nano-Structure with Optical Imaging: Implications for Cancer Screening"

Prof. Janet Pierrehumbert
Professor of Linguistics
"The statistical behavior of words over time scales from seconds to centuries"

Prof. Randy Berry
Professor, ECE
"Wireless Resource Allocation: scheduling, feedback and interference games"

Prof. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Professor, ECE
"Recovering Lost Information in Images and Video"
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Prof. Ying Wu
Professor, ECE
"Making Machines That Can See"

Prof. Bryan Pardo
Associate Professor
"Teaching Machines to Listen"

Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry
"Thermal to Electrical Energy Conversion with Nanostructure Semiconductors: Phonon Blocking Electron Transmitting Materials"

Prof. Mike Horn
Assistant Professor, ECE
"Learner-Computer Interaction: Designing Emerging Technology for Informal Education"

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