ECSE Colloquium Series

The Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering's Colloquia series brings speakers from academia, national labs and industry to present their research. The colloquia are open to the public; registration is not required.

Spring 2023 Colloquium Schedule

February 14, 2023: "Towards Enhanced Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction"

  • Speaker: Alexis E. Block, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Addition Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: White 411

 

February 21, 2023: "Electrical Actuation, Sensing, and Control of Soft Fluidic Robots"

  • Speaker: Siyi Xu, Harvard University
  • Addition Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: White 411

 

February 28, 2023: "Title to be announced."

  • Speaker: Wei Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: White 411

 

March 2, 2023: " Integrating Learning and Planning for Robotic Manipulation: Bringing Theory to Practice"

 

 

Past Colloquium Speakers

February 7, 2023: "Modeling and Control of Smart Material-based Actuators"

  • Speaker: Chun-Yi Su, Concordia University
  • Additional Information: PDF icon Chun-Yi Su Abstract.pdf
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: White 411

 

October 18, 2022: "Toward Energy-Efficient MIMO Communications"

  • Speaker: Hamid Bahrami, The University of Akron
  • Additional Information: PDF icon Hamid Bahrami Abstract.pdf
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 935 2774 6217, Passcode: 946606

 

October 11, 2022: "A Homogeneity-Augmented Perspective for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems: From Control Design to Deep Learning"

  • Speaker: Chunjiang "CJ" Qian, PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: White 411

 

March 8, 2022: "Next Generation Bioelectronic Medicine: Wireless Microelectronic Systems"

  • Speaker: Soner Sonmezoglu
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

March 1, 2022: "Acousto-Bioelectronics"

  • Speaker: Albert Kim, Temple University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

February 8, 2022: "Feeling Through Seeing: Vision-based Force Estimation in Robot-assisted Surgery by Humans and Machines"

  • Speaker: Zonghe Chua, Stanford University
  • Additional Information:  
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

February 1, 2022: "Autonomous Medical Robots Guided by Real-Time 3D Imaging"

  • Speaker: Mark Draelos, MD, Ph.D, Duke University Medical Center
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

December 2, 2021: "New Lower and Upper Bounds for Quantile Summary Algorithms"

  • Speaker: Grahan Cormode, Warwick University, England
  • Additional Information:  
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

November 30, 2021: "Organizing in the age of Organic Machines"

  • Speaker: Youngjin Yoo, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

November 23, 2021: "Robust and Explainable Machine Learning Algorithms for Social Good"

  • Speaker: Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 74388634 Passcode: 357363

 

November 16, 2021: "Develop data-driven AI technologies to enable translational biomedical research"

  • Speaker: Rong Xu, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

November 2, 2021: "Modern Medical Ultrasound Technologies and Emerging Applications"

  • Speaker: Mahdi Bayat, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

October 28, 2021: Is a literature review in your future?  Get ready for it!

  • Speaker: Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: PDF icon Announcement_Solomon.pdf
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

 October 21, 2021: Machine Learning Modeling for the Reactivity of Contaminants in Engineered and Natural Environments

  • Speaker: Huichun (Judy) Zhang, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Location: Hybrid: White 411 or join here,

https://cwru.zoom.us/j/94074388634?pwd=QlFOaE9YSVBuOW1QWTBRZU82N2FYUT09

Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363 

October 15, 2021: Enabling robust quantum computer system by understanding the calibration data.

  • Speaker: Qiang Guan, Kent State University
  • Additional Information:
  • Location: Hybrid: Glennan 313 or join here,

https://cwru.zoom.us/j/94074388634?pwd=QlFOaE9YSVBuOW1QWTBRZU82N2FYUT09

Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

October 7, 2021: NVIDIA Tech Talk

  • Speakers: Scott Ricketts (cuDNN Software), Kevin Kranzusch (CWRU '90) and Mark Costin (CWRU '84)
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: REGISTER HERE or visit bit.ly/cwru-nvidia

 

September 16, 2021:  Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE): A Brief Overview of NSF AI Institute

  • Speaker: Vipin Chaudhary, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 940 7438 8634 Passcode: 357363

 

April 20, 2021: Control Co-Design: The ARPA-E ATLANTIS and SHARKS Programs 

  • Speaker: Mario Garcia-Sanz, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: PDF icon Mario Garcia-Sanz Abstract
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

April 13, 2021: Networked Systems in the Era of Programmable Dataplanes

  • Speaker: Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

April 8, 2021: Clinical Translation of Peripheral Nerve Interfaces: From Restoring Movement to the Future of the Human-Technology Relationship

  • Speaker: Dustin Tyler, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

April 6, 2021: Re-thinking Information Extraction in the Age of Neural Networks

  • Speaker: Claire Cardie, Cornell University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

April 1, 2021: Introduction to The Advanced Platform Technology Center:  Innovating and TranslatingRehabilitation and Medical Technologies

  • Speaker: Ronald Triolo, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information:
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

March 23, 2021: ​Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing, and Fundamental Physics

  • Speaker: Corey Adams, U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Lab
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

March 18, 2021: Networks Capable of Change

  • Speaker: Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363
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March 9, 2021: Micro AI: When Intelligence Moves to the Low Power Sensors

  • Speaker: Tinoosh Mohsenin, UMBC
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

February 25, 2021: Language, Brain, and Computation

  • Speaker: Christos H. Papadimitrious, Columbia University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

February 23, 2021: What matters in clinical informatics?

  • Speaker: Xiaoqian Jiang, School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363
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February 2, 2021: Advancing Internet Topology Discovery

  • Speaker: Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 998 2943 6376 Passcode: 357363

 

November 24, 2020: Next-generation Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): Goals, Solutions and Challenges

  • Speaker: Amir Herzberg, University of Connecticut
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

November 19, 2020: GNSS Only Sparse Data Based Route Processing Model for Tire Wear Prediction

  • Speaker: Stanley Omeike, Advanced Digital Solutions Innovation Center of Bridgestone Americas
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

November 5, 2020: Overcoming Bias in Computational Characterization of Cellular Signaling

  • Speaker: Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

November 3, 2020: Automation of Road Painting

  • Speaker: Wyatt Newman, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

October 29, 2020: ZettaScale Computing on Exascale Platforms

  • Speaker: Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University
  • Additional Information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

October 22, 2020: Edge Intelligence - Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence

  • Speaker: Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
  • Additional information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

October 20, 2020: Toward Point-of-Care Assessment of Blood Coagulation Using Miniaturized Dielectric Coagulometry

  • Speaker: Michael A. Suster, PhD, Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional information:  
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

October 13, 2020: Multi-Regularization Reconstruction of One-Dimensional $T_2$ Distributions in Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry

  • Speaker: Chuan Bi, National Institute of Health
  • Additional information:  
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

September 22, 2020: Improving Fault Localization by Integrating Value and Predicate Based Causal Inference Techniques

  • Speaker: Andy Podgurski, Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

September 15, 2020: Innovative Machine Learning for Medical Data Analytics

  • Speaker: Shuo Li, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
  • Additional information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

September 8, 2020: Sensory and Perceptual Computation

  • Speaker: Michael Lewicki, Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
  • Additional information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464

 

September 1, 2020: Personalized Models of Natural Language

  • Speaker: Julian McAuley, Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, San Diego
  • Additional information: 
  • Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  • Location: Zoom Webinar ID: 862 815 806 Passcode: 914464