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 | Rahim Esfandyarpour |
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| October 24, 2025 | Urbashi Mitra University of Southern California |
Causal Graph Inference: New methods for Application-driven Graph Identification, Interventions and Rewards Optimization | Ender Ayanoglu | |
| November 7, 2025 | Yale Patt The University of Texas at Austin |
Random Thoughts After More Than 60 years in the Trenches | Jean-Luc Gaudiot | |
| November 21, 2025 |
Sung Kyu Lim |
AI-Driven Design Automation for Multi-Chip Integration in AI Chips | Lee Swindlehurst | |
| December 5, 2025 | Yiran Chen Duke University |
Less Compute, More Intelligence: Efficient and Autonomous Generative AI and Agents | Mohammad Al Faruque |
Winter Quarter 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title | Details | Host |
| January 16, 2026 |
Saif Islam |
Abstract/Bio |
Ozdal Boyraz | |
| January 30, 2026 | Scott Keene Rice University |
Mixed Conductors for Bioelectronics | Dion Khodagholy |
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| February 13, 2026 |
Aydogan Ozcan |
Abstract/Bio |
Fei Xia | |
| February 27, 2026 | Morteza Mardani NVIDIA Fundamental Generative AI Research (GenAIR) |
Abstract/Bio |
Yanning Shen | |
| March 13, 2026 |
Benjamin Williams |
Terahertz Metasurface Quantum-Cascade Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting-Lasers (VECSELs) | Lee Swindlehurst |
Spring Quarter 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title | Details | Host |
| April 10, 2026 |
Syed Bahauddin Alam |
Abstract/Bio |
Yasser Shoukry | |
| April 24, 2026 | Mark L Brongersma Stanford University |
Abstract/Bio |
Maxim Shcherbakov | |
| May 8, 2026 |
Madhavan Swaminathan |
Abstract/Bio |
Boris Vaisband | |
| May 22, 2026 | Ahmed Alaa University of California, Berkeley |
Website Abstract/Bio |
Salma Elmalaki | |
| June 5, 2026 |
Website Abstract/Bio |