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• Feb

  21

  ECE Seminar - Lingjia Liu

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

  11:00 AM L440, Technological Institute

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  Leadership in next generation wireless (NextG) is a national priority, and one of the key enabling technologies is to incorporate machine learning in the design of NextG. Machine learning algorithms have revolutionized image and natural language processing, but if they are to revolutionize wireless then they need to learn at the speed of wireless. This requires fundamental innovation by developing algorithms that can conduct online real-time learning with extremely limited training overheads. This talk describes some of our efforts toward this end.
  
  Lingjia Liu received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University and his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. At Virginia Tech, he is a Professor & Bradley Senior Faculty Fellow in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Wireless@Virginia Tech. At the national level, he serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC). Prior to joining academia, he worked at Samsung Research America (SRA), leading efforts on 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced standards. His research interests are focused on enabling technologies for 6G networks, including machine learning for NextG, massive MIMO, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), O-RAN, and integrated sensing and communications. Dr. Liu has received 8 Best Paper Awards, and his research program has attracted more than $132M in research funding with him serving as the principal investigator (PI) on $25+ Million research projects.

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  TIME Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  LOCATION L440, Technological Institute    map it

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  CONTACT Catherine Healey    catherine.healey@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• May

  28

  ECE Seminar - Husheng Li

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

  11:00 AM L440, Technological Institute

  EVENT DETAILS

  Communications and sensing (say, radar sensing) are developed, designed and operated independently. However, they share many similarities such as frequency bands, hardware and signal processing techniques. Therefore, pressed by the deficiency of available frequency spectrum, there is a demand for integrating both functionalities of communications and sensing in the same waveform and operated in the same hardware platform. This integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has been made one of the six use scenarios of 6G cellular systems. The marriage of the two historically independent technologies brings many challenges, such as the fundamental trade-off between communications and sensing, waveform design, ADC sampling bottleneck for wideband processing, and security issues. In this talk, I will discuss these topics, together with the theoretical, algorithmic and experimental progress in my research lab.

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  TIME Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  LOCATION L440, Technological Institute    map it

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  CONTACT Catherine Healey    catherine.healey@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

• Jun

  15

  2024-2025 Commencement Ceremony

  University Academic Calendar

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  2024-2025 Commencement Ceremony

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  TIME Sunday, June 15, 2025

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  CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  16

  Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  9:00 AM 2705 Ashland Ave

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  McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony. The most up to date information can be found on our graduation webpage.

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  TIME Monday, June 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  LOCATION 2705 Ashland Ave   

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  CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events    northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

• Jun

  16

  Northwestern Engineering Undergraduate Convocation

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  2:00 PM 2705 Ashland Ave

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  McCormick School of Engineering Undergraduate Convocation. The most up to date information can be found on our graduation webpage.

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  TIME Monday, June 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  LOCATION 2705 Ashland Ave   

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  CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events    northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science