Seminar Series

In academic year 2025-2026, EECS seminars will be held five Fridays per quarter 9:00-10:20 a.m. in the McDonnel Douglas Engineering Auditorium. The specific dates, speakers and hosts are listed below. The list below includes the seminar title, an abstract of the seminar and the biography of the speaker for seminars whose future dates are close. The list will be populated to completion as the school year progresses.

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Fall Quarter 2025
 

Date Speaker Title Details Host
October 10, 2025 Joseph Wang 
University of California, San Diego
Multi-Modal Wearable Sensor Platforms for Comprehensive Health Monitoring 

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Rahim Esfandyarpour
 
October 24, 2025 Urbashi Mitra 
University of Southern California
Causal Graph Inference: New methods for Application-driven Graph Identification, Interventions and Rewards Optimization

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Ender Ayanoglu
November 7, 2025 Yale Patt
The University of Texas at Austin
Random Thoughts After More Than 60 years in the Trenches

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Jean-Luc Gaudiot
November 21, 2025

Sung Kyu Lim
University of Southern California

AI-Driven Design Automation for Multi-Chip Integration in AI Chips

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Lee Swindlehurst
December 5, 2025 Yiran Chen
Duke University
Less Compute, More Intelligence: Efficient and Autonomous Generative AI and Agents

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Mohammad Al Faruque
 


Winter Quarter 2026
 

Date Speaker Title Details Host
January 16, 2026

Saif Islam
University of California, Davis

 

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Ozdal Boyraz
January 30, 2026 Scott Keene
Rice University
Mixed Conductors for Bioelectronics

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Dion Khodagholy
 
February 13, 2026

Aydogan Ozcan
University of California, Los Angeles

 

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Fei Xia
February 27, 2026 Morteza Mardani
NVIDIA Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR)
 

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Yanning Shen
March 13, 2026

Benjamin Williams
University of California, Los Angeles

Terahertz Metasurface Quantum-Cascade Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting-Lasers (VECSELs)

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Abstract/Bio

Lee Swindlehurst


Spring Quarter 2026
 

Date Speaker Title Details Host
April 10, 2026

Syed Bahauddin Alam
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

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Yasser Shoukry
April 24, 2026 Mark L Brongersma
Stanford University
 

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Maxim Shcherbakov
May 8, 2026

Madhavan Swaminathan
The Pennsylvania State University

 

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Boris Vaisband
May 22, 2026 Ahmed Alaa
University of California, Berkeley
 

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Salma Elmalaki
June 5, 2026    

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