ECE Speaker Series

2024

Dr. Mohit Prabhushankar
Robustness at Inference: Towards Explainability, Uncertainty, and Intervenability
Date 09/16/2024 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Dr. Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
Fast and Efficient Domain Specific Hardware Design
Date 08/26/2024 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting

2022

Brett L. Lucht
Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) of Lithium Ion Batteries: Role of Additives and Crossover Reactions on Stability and Performance
Date 12/05/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Ngan Le
Human Perception Based-Contextual Representation in Video Understanding
Date 11/21/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Harry A. Atwater
Trip the Light Fantastic
Date 11/14/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Fred Wang
A Flexible Microgrid with a Low-Cost Open-Source Controller
Date 10/31/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Ajay Joshi
There and Back Again: Leveraging Photonics for Designing Computing Systems
Date 10/24/2022 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Joshua Hawke
DoD Investments in Microelectronics, RF Electronics, and Photonics
Date 10/17/2022 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Khoa Luu
Advanced Computer Vision and Deep Learning with Limited Data Approaches to Human Behavior Analysis and Scene Understanding in Open World
Date 10/10/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Jan Ulrich Becker
Nephropathology - An Introduction and Why We Need Computer Vision for It
Date 09/19/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Holger Schmidt
Integrated Optofluidic Devices for Single Molecule Analysis
Date 04/25/2022 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Ying Ding
Chest X-ray Imaging Diagnosis: Classification, Localization, and Interpretation
Date 04/18/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Chang Lu
Microfluidic Epigenomic Technologies and Their Application to Brain Neuroscience
Date 04/11/2022 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Polina Golland
Learning to Read Xray: Applications to Heart Failure Monitoring
Date 04/04/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
John Shen
Emerging DC Power and DC Fault Protection
Date 02/28/2022 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Pengyu Chen
Nanoplasmonic Optofluidic Biosensors for Immune Functional Analysis towards Personalized Immune Therapy towards Precision Medicine
Date 02/21/2022 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Le Xie
An Open-access Cross-domain Approach to Analyzing the Impact of Extreme Events on the Electricity Sector: What We Learned from COVID-19 and 2021 Texas Winter Outage
Date 02/14/2022 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting

2021

Ehsan Adeli
Modeling Confounders (and Bias) in Medical Studies in the Age of Deep Learning
Date 11/22/2021 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Mohammad Reza Abidian
Advanced Nanobiomaterials for Neural Interfaces
Date 11/15/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Issa Batarseh
Recent Advances in Multi-port Solar Photovoltaics and Energy Storage Systems
Date 11/08/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Sharon Weiss
Silicon-based Optical Biosensors: From On-chip to Portable Diagnostics
Date 11/01/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Chi Yung Chung
Advanced Prediction Techniques Applied to Smart Grids
Date 10/25/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Sharon Huang
Deep Learning Models for Medical Image Synthesis and Segmentation
Date 10/11/2021 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Faisal Mahmood
Data-Efficient and Multimodal Computational Pathology
Date 10/04/2021 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Youzuo Lin
Physics-guided Learning-driven Computational Seismic Imaging: From Synthetic Practice to Field Applications
Date 09/13/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Yu-Hwa Lo
Applications of Microfluidics for Single Cell Analysis and Spatial Biology
Date 04/26/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Paul J. Dauenhauer
Computer Chips as the Catalyst of the Future: The Catalytic Mechanics of Dynamic Surfaces
Date 04/19/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Jonghwan Kwon
Market-based Resource Adequacy Assessment Framework: The Impact of Market Design on Long-run Resource Investment and Reliability
Date 04/13/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Mikael Backlund
Quantum Tools for Molecular Microscopy
Date 04/05/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Qin Wang
Grid Operations with 100% Inverter-based Resources and the Role of Flexible Resources
Date 03/29/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Constantine Sideris
A New Age of Computing: Numerical Methods for Automatically Designing Radio-Frequency and Nanophotonic Devices using Fast Simulation and Inverse Design Techniques
Date 03/22/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Edward T. Yu
Is Bigger Better? Engineering Self-Assembly and Strain, From Nanometers to Centimeters
Date 03/08/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Christine P. Hendon
Monitoring and Guidance of Ablation Therapy with Optics
Date 02/22/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Svetlana V. Boriskina
Meeting - and Preventing - New Challenges in Bio(chemical) Sensing
Date 02/08/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Al Bovik
Faster and Faster! Perceiving High-Frame Rate Videos
Date 02/01/2021 - 10:00am

Location Zoom Meeting
Maria Soler
Label-Free Nanophotonic Biosensors as Integrated Solution For Early and Rapid Diagnostics
Date 01/25/2021 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting

2020

Sridevi Sarma
Neural Fragility of Epileptic Networks Pinpoint the Epileptogenic Zone in Medically Refractory Epilepsy
Date 11/23/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Tongxin Zheng
The Wholesale Electricity Market and Its Operation
Date 11/09/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Filiz Yesilk
Nanophotonic Biosensors: From Plasmonic to Dielectric Metasurfaces
Date 11/02/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Donald Kouri
Chirps, Harmonic Oscillators, Heisenberg Uncertainty and Fourier Analysis
Date 10/26/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Constance Johnson
Using Smart Technology to Manage Chronic Disease
Date 10/19/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Samantha Santacruz
Neural Interface Development and Bi-directional Modeling for Multi-modal Interfaces
Date 10/12/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Xudong Chen
Physical-Insight Assisted Machine Learning in Microwave Imaging
Date 10/05/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Ke Xu
Multifunctional Super-resolution Microscopy through Multidimensional Single-molecule Spectroscopy
Date 09/28/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Tomy Sebastian
Latest Developments in Vehicle Electrification
Date 09/21/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Jose 'Pepe' Contreras-Vidal
Neuroengineering the Creative Brain: Challenges and Opportunities at the Nexus of Art and Science
Date 04/20/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Hadi Ghasemi
Material Paradigms for Full-Spectrum Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage
Date 03/30/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Stephen Bayne
Reliability Analysis of Silicon Carbide Power Devices
Date 03/23/2020 - 9:55am

Location Zoom Meeting
Constance Johnson
Aging in Place Using Smart and Assistive Technology (CANCELLED)
Date 03/16/2020 - 9:55am

Location CBB Rm. 106
Christy F. Landes
Towards Quantitative Protein Separations: Imaging Protein Dynamics at Nanoscale Interfaces
Date 03/02/2020 - 9:55am

Location CBB Rm. 106
Tony Jun Huang
Acoustofluidics: Merging Acoustics and Microfluidics for Biomedical Applications
Date 02/24/2020 - 9:55am

Location CBB Rm. 106
Mark Everett
Theory and Application of Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Geophysics
Date 02/03/2020 - 9:55am

Location CBB Rm. 106
Albert M. K. Cheng
Implementing Next-Generation Embedded Systems with Functional Reactive Programming and Real-Time Virtual Resources
Date 01/27/2020 - 9:55am

Location CBB Rm. 106

2019

Amanda Haes
Nanoparticles and SERS – To Stability and Beyond!
Date 11/18/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room 106, Arnold Hall
Mubarak Shah
Video Capsule Networks: Human Action Detection, Video Object Segmentation and Video Segmentation Conditioned on Text
Date 11/11/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room AH106, Agnes Arnold Hall
Costas Sarris
Electromagnetic Field Based Wireless Channel Propagation Models: Fundamental Advances and Integration with Network Protocol Design
Date 11/04/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room AH106, Agnes Arnold Hall
Gustavo Rohde
Transport and Other Lagrangian Transforms for Signal Processing and Machine Learning
Date 10/28/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room 106, Arnold Hall
Marzia Cescon
Toward Medically Inspired Internet-of-Things Automated Glucose Control Systems for People with Diabetes
Date 10/14/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room 106, Arnold Hall
Ali Adibi
Resonance-based Integrated Nanophotonic Structures for Lab-on-chip Sensing and Spectroscopy
Date 09/16/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room 106, Arnold Hall
Jin-Oh Hahn
Model-Based Development and Evaluation of Physiological Monitoring and Closed-Loop Control Systems
Date 04/22/2019 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Minh Hoai Nguyen
Attentive Human Action Recognition
Date 04/19/2019 - 1:00pm

Location Room 102D, Engineering Building 1
Babak Fahimi
Optimal Design, Control and Condition Monitoring of IPMSM and Induction Motor Drives
Date 04/15/2019 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm D3-W122
Gerard L. Coté
Point of Care Biomedical Sensing and Imaging for Enhancing Health in Underserved Communities
Date 04/08/2019 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Tianhong Dai
Antibiotic Resistance: Is There a (Blue) Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Date 04/01/2019 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Rui He
Raman Spectroscopy of 2D Materials
Date 03/25/2019 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Feng Pan
Large-Scale Optimization in Energy Applications
Date 03/18/2019 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm D3-W122
Huilin Tu
Degradable Materials for Multi-Stage Stimulation
Date 03/04/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room W122, Engineering Building 2
Amanda Lazar
The Role of Technology in Understanding Perspectives on Aging and Health
Date 02/18/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room W122, Engineering Building 2
Jinyang Yang
Advances in Optical Coded-aperture Imaging: Ultrafast Visualization and Ultra-precise Modulation of Laser Beam/Pulses
Date 02/11/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room W122, Engineering Building 2
Cosmin Safta
Workflows for Quantifying Uncertainty in Computational Model Predictions
Date 02/04/2019 - 9:55am

Location Room W122, Engineering Building 2

2018

Sabato Santaniello
Temporal Evolution and Diagnostic Utility of High Frequency Oscillations in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
Date 11/19/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Peter Bajcsy
Multi-faceted Software-Based Measurements from Large Microscopy Images
Date 11/12/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Palash Bharadwaj
Antenna-Coupled Optoelectronics With Two- Dimensional Materials
Date 11/05/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Reza Shadmehr
The Cerebellum as a Supervised Learning Machine
Date 10/22/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Steve Jiang
Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research
Date 10/15/2018 - 12:00pm

Location ECE Large Conference Room (D N328)
Filippo Capolino
Interesting Electromagnetic Phenomena in Metamaterials and Some Applications
Date 10/15/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Gabriel Popescu
3D Imaging of Thick Specimens Using Gradient Light Interference Microscopy (GLIM)
Date 10/08/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Zeynep Çelik-Butler
Flexible, Self-Packaged MEMS Sensors and Nano Energy Harvesters
Date 10/01/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Trac D. Tran
Entropy Minimization for Sparse Recovery, Low-rank Approximation and Representative Selection
Date 09/24/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Kristen Maitland
Internal Excitation in Whole Animal Fluorescence Imaging for Enhanced Detection of Tuberculosis
Date 09/17/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Chia-Hung Chen
Ultrafast Single-Cell Level Enzymatic Tumor Profiling
Date 09/10/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Peter So
High Throughput, High Content Neurobiological Imaging
Date 05/16/2018 - 11:00am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm E-220
Shanlin Pan
Photoelectrochemical Investigations of Semiconductor Surfaces and Catalyst Interfaces for Clean Energy
Date 04/30/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Keith Roper
Nanoantenna-induced Carriers and Nonlinear Susceptibility in 2D Materials
Date 04/23/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Irina Larina
Exploring Reproduction and Development through Functional Optical Imaging
Date 02/26/2018 - 10:00am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Albert Hoefel
System Architecture, Practical Grounding and Signal Distribution
Date 02/19/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Ronald Summers
The Impact of Deep Learning on Radiology
Date 02/12/2018 - 9:45am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Won Park
Principles and Biomedical Applications of Plasmon Enhanced Luminescence Upconversion
Date 02/05/2018 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122

2017

Pei-Yu Chiou
Light-Controlled Cellular Surgery
Date 11/20/2017 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Vladislav V. Yakovlev
Per Aspera Ad Astra: Channeling Light Through Opaque Medium
Date 11/13/2017 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Jeff Wang
Discerning Rare Disease Biomarkers by Micro- and Nanotechnologies
Date 11/06/2017 - 9:55am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Huikai Xie
MEMS Scanning Mirrors and Their Sensing and Imaging Applications
Date 10/23/2017 - 9:50am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Jin Z. Zhang
Novel Optical Properties of Plasmonic Metal Nanostructures: A Case Study of Hollow Gold Nanospheres (HGNs) and Their Applications in Sensing and Cancer Therapy
Date 09/18/2017 - 10:00am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Nianqiang Wu
Plasmon-Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion in Semiconductor-Metal heterojunctions
Date 04/24/2017 - 10:00am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
B. Shanker
Challenges and Opportunities in High Fidelity Computational Electromagnetic simulation
Date 04/17/2017 - 10:00am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Richard Levenson
Microscopic Evaluation of Tissue: The Definitive Diagnostic Procedure
Date 04/10/2017 - 10:00am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Alexandre Brolo
Golden Times for Nanotechnology: Plasmonic Materials and their applications
Date 03/20/2017 - 10:00am

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Robert Magnusson
Guided-mode resonance nanophonics: Fundamentals and applications
Date 02/13/2017 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122

2016

Syed Mubeen
Engineering Nanomaterials for Solar Fuel and Chemical Production
Date 11/21/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Steven Gao
Low-cost Small Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications
Date 10/31/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Kai Zhu
Perovskite Solar Cells: Materials Synthesis, Device Operation and Charge Carrier Dynamics
Date 10/28/2016 - 12:30pm

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Dr. Jiming Song
Efficient Modeling of Electromagnetic and Ultrasonic Wave Propagation and Applications in Nondestructive Evaluation
Date 10/18/2016 - 4:00pm

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Dr. Yung-Hsian Lu
Opportunities and Challenges in Global Network Cameras
Date 10/03/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Dr. Jingyu Lin
Hexagonal boron nitride: Epitaxial growth, optical properties, and exploration of active devices
Date 09/26/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Dr. Joel Kubby
Adaptive Optical Microscopy using Direct Wavefront Sensing
Date 09/12/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122
Dr. Teri Odom
Follow the Nano Brick Road
Date 04/29/2016 - 2:30pm

Location UH Hilton
Dr. Mark Arnold
Noninvasive Spectroscopy for Analytical Measurements of Glucose in People and Polarizability in Novel Organic Co-Crystaline Materials
Date 04/22/2016 - 12:00pm

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. Frederico Rosei
Multifunctional Material for Electronics and Photonics
Date 04/11/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. Scott Carney
Lens vs Algorithm: Optical Imaging in the Age of Computers
Date 04/04/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. Mike McShane
Implantable Optical Biosensors: Materials for Next-Generation Monitoring
Date 03/28/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. Rajakkannu Mutharasan
Biosensors for genes, pathogens, parasites, biomarkers and toxins
Date 03/21/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. Shuaiwen Leon Song
Exploring Performance, Energy, Reliability and Accuracy Optimizations for Future Exascale Systems
Date 03/07/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. David Cappelleri, Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Multi-Scale Robotics Automation
Date 02/22/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. Xiong Gong, Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron
Bulk Heterojunction Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells with Large Fill-Factor
Date 02/19/2016 - 12:30pm

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. Sang-Hyun Oh, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
Ultra-flat and Ultra-small: New Approaches to Nanofabrication for Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Date 02/08/2016 - 10:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2 Rm W122
Dr. P.R. Kumar, Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
On Architectures, Strategies and Theories for Integrating Renewable Energy Sources
Date 01/29/2016 - 11:00am

Location Egr Bldg 2, Rm W122

2015

John H. Slater
Manipulation of Cell Behavior via Regulation of Cellular Adhesive States Using Nano- and Micropatterned Substrates
Date 12/23/2015 - 10:00am

Location University of Houston TX
Xin Zhang
MEMS and Metamaterials: A Perfect Marriage at Terahertz Frequencies
Date 11/20/2015 - 12:30pm

Location Engr Bldg 2, Rm W122 TX
Oliver C. Mullins
New Asphaltene Nanoscience and Its Impact on Reservoir Characterization
Date 11/13/2015 - 12:00pm

Location University of Houston, W122-D3
Matthew Sheldon
Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Optical-To-Electrical Energy Conversion
Date 11/06/2015 - 12:30pm

Location Engineering Building 1
Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., Levit Family Professor of Neuroscience, Dept. of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Univ. of Texas-Houston Medical School
Population Coding in Visual Cortical Networks
Date 04/24/2015 - 4:00pm

Location CBB Room 104
Behnaam Aazhang
On Real-Time Network Modulation for Intractable Epilepsy
Date 03/27/2015 - 4:00pm

Location CBB Room 104, University of Houston
Cameron Buckner, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UH
Philosophical Issues in Comparative Cognition Research
Date 02/13/2015 - 4:00pm

Location CBB Room 106

2014

Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Senior Manager, Cognitive Computing, IBM
Declarative Big Data Analytics: Applications and Tools
Date 10/24/2014 - 4:00pm

Location CBB Room 106, University of Houston
Pawan Sinha, Ph.D., Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Learning to see late in life
Date 04/18/2014 - 9:30am

Location CBB Room 106, University of Houston
Matthew A. Wilson, Ph. D., Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sequential Event Memory Formation and Reactivation in the Hippocampus and Beyond
Date 03/31/2014 - 11:00am

Location SEC 104
Professor Antonio Facchetti, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University and Polyera Corporation
New Materials for Printed Opto-Electronic Devices: Synthesis, Charge Transport, and Process Engineering
Date 02/10/2014 - 11:00am

Location SEC 104
Professor Brian T. Cunningham, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy: A New Tool for Imaging Cell-Surface Interactions and High Sensitivity Biomolecule Detection
Date 02/03/2014 - 11:00am

Location SEC 104