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    • CIS Seminar: “Realizing the Promise of Language-level Security in Real Systems”

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Promises are cheap. Software vendors routinely describe their offerings as “secure”, but few are based on designs that can guarantee even the most basic security properties. To address this problem, services like Cloudflare, Android, and Firefox are increasingly relying on languages like Rust and WebAssembly to provide safety by design. But these promises too can […]

    CIS Seminar: “Privacy, Copyright, and Data Integrity: The Cascading Implications of Generative AI”

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    The rapid adoption of generative AI has created a cycle where personal information cascades perpetually: from people to models to applications and online platforms, then back through scrapers into the system. Simple blanket rules such as "don't train on this data" or "don't share sensitive information" are inadequate, as we face training data scarcity while […]

    Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Bruno Olshausen, University of California, Berkeley & Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, “Invariance and equivariance in brains and machine”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The goal of building machines that can perceive and act in the world as humans and other animals do has been a focus of AI research efforts for over half a century. Over this same period, […]

    CIS Seminar: “Intelligence Augmentation for Scientific Researchers”

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    Special location for this talk: 105  Amy Gutmann Hall Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are powering revolutionary interactive tools that will transform the very nature of the scientific enterprise. We describe several large-scale projects at the Allen Institute for AI aimed at developing open models, agentic platforms, and novel interaction paradigms in order to amplify […]

    MSE Thesis Defense: “Chain and Pendant Architecture Effects in Associating Polyolefins” Eli Jared Fastow

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    Wu & Chen Auditorium

    The United States recycles less than 9% of plastic waste, representing a tremendous environmental catastrophe and a loss of embodied value. This dissertation presents the structure-property relationships of functional polymers made from an upcycling approach targeting polyolefins for polymer-to-polymer conversions. The overall strategy proceeds by first dehydrogenating polyolefins, then functionalizing the resulting C=C to generate […]

    Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: James Tompkin, Brown University, “Joint Depth and 3D Motion Estimation Two Ways”

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    Levine 512

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 512 and virtual attendance on Zoom. This seminar will NOT be recorded. ABSTRACT Dynamic scene reconstruction from monocular cameras often requires us to simultaneously estimate depth and 3D motion, where knowledge of either one would help to constrain the other. I will review two […]

    • ESE Spring Seminar – “Versatile RF Interconnects and Electronics for Extreme Environment Sensing and Communications”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Future emerging applications like extreme environment electronics, high-performance computing, space sensing, and brain-machine interfaces share a critical goal: massive bandwidth and deployment scalability. To this end, my research group is investigating energy-efficient and scalable sensing and communication techniques, emphasizing circuits, advanced packaging, and signal processing innovations for the above applications. To begin with, I will […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Engineering Soft Medical Robots and Devices to Solve Hard Health Problems in Extreme Body Environments”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Advances in engineering have enabled a new generation of soft medical robots and devices with unique theranostic capabilities for interfacing with delicate organs. However, challenges remain in achieving spatial and temporal precision in extreme body environments, particularly within the digestive system. This talk will highlight three recent preclinical innovations addressing these challenges: (i) BIOSENTER: a […]

    ASSET Seminar: “From Data to Insights: Trustworthy Solutions for Imaging Problems”

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Abstract:  Extracting insights from imaging data used to be straightforward: every component of imaging systems was engineered by humans, the analysis and interpretation of the collected data was driven by human understanding and experience, and only humans were responsible for the impact of the decisions stemming from such insights. Today, however, machine learning permeates every […]

    Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: John Suehle, Image Engineering, “The Magic of Lasers in Entertainment – Behind the Technology”

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT It was not long after Theodore Maiman published the first demonstration of the ruby laser in the August 6, 1960 issue of Nature1 that it was realized that such a unique light source could be used in many applications, including […]

    CBE Seminar: “Multifunctionality of MXenes for Sensor Technologies” (Lia Stanciu, Purdue University)

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    Wu & Chen Auditorium

    Abstract: MXenes, a versatile family of 2D materials, have garnered interest for applications in sensing technologies due to their unique combination of conductivity, hydrophilicity, and surface tunability. This talk explores the integration of MXenes into sensor platforms, and discusses their potential in electrochemical, optical, and environmental sensing. Their surface functional groups can be leveraged for […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Exploring Structure, Mechanics, and Function in Soft Biological Systems Across Scales”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Soft biological systems exhibit intricate hierarchical organization, with structures spanning multiple length scales, from tissues to cells and molecules. This structural complexity gives rise to rich mechanical behaviors that profoundly influence biological function. My research integrates soft matter physics and biology to establish a unified framework that connects structure, mechanics, and function in soft biological […]