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The Future of AI: A Fireside Chat with Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Neural Compression: Estimating and Achieving the Fundamental Limits”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 515
3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
Neural compression, which pertains to compression schemes that are learned from data using neural networks, has emerged as a powerful approach for compressing real-world data. Neural compressors often outperform classical […]
MSE PhD Defense: “Chromatin as an Active and Adaptive Material”
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CEMB Conference room, LRSM
3231 Walnut Street, Room 112-C, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The three-dimensional organization of chromatin within the cell nucleus plays a critical role in regulating gene expression, maintaining genome stability, and guiding cellular responses to environmental cues. Despite advances in […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Machine Learning for Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems”
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Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Directly training deep learning models for applications in large-scale cyber-physical systems can be intractable due to the large number of components and decision variables. Instead, we focus on exploiting spatial […]
Confirmation Bias, the Original Error. A master class with Prof. Konrad Kording
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RSVP at https://bit.ly/3RzmdVH Learn what confirmation bias is, how to identify it in your own research, and acquire the skills to mitigate it. Yes, it turns out, we’re all biased […]
ESE 5160 Special Lecture: “Taking RoboRacer Off-Road: Learning Extreme Off-Road Mobility”
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Towne 327
In this guest lecture, we will cover two recent research thrusts from the RobotiXX lab in taking RoboRacer off-road: high-speed off-road navigation and wheeled mobility on vertically challenging terrain. For […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Inverse design for engineering complex light-matter interaction”
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Moore 317
200 S 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The inverse design paradigm has emerged as a transformative approach for the synthesis of nanophotonic structures, offering a powerful alternative to conventional intuition-driven design. By approaching photonic device design as […]
CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Structure and transport properties of nanoporous polymers derived from lyotropic mesophases” (Christopher Johnson)
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Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Abstract: Burgeoning energy and water scarcity challenges motivate the development of new membrane materials for charge transport as well as chemical and water separations. This in turn requires an improved […]
MEAM Master’s Thesis Defense: “Investigating Jet Interactions in the Multi-Jet SALP Robot”
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David Rittenhouse Laboratory Building, Room 4E19
209 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Jet propulsion is a common locomotion strategy in nature. We developed an underwater particle image velocimetry (PIV) system to investigate the hydrodynamic effects of the SALP (Salp-inspired Approach to Low-energy […]
MEAM Master’s Thesis Defense: “In Situ Additive Manufacturing of Metal-Graphene Composites by Upcycling Polymers”
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4E9, DRLB
209 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a bourgeoning additive manufacturing technique for rapid prototyping and creating unconventional designs using metal alloys. In parallel, graphene has garnered significant research interest since […]
Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Robin Walters, Northeastern University, “Pushing the Limits of Equivariant Neural Networks”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 306
3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in AGH 306 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Despite the success of deep learning, there remain challenges to progress. Deep […]
MEAM Seminar: “Biomedical Innovations for Global Health Research and Technology (BIGHEART): NOAS, EXODUS, iTEARS, and BOAS”
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Wu & Chen Auditorium
This presentation will discuss the concept of BIGHEART and present various illustrative examples of this approach. The initial focus will be on NOAS (Nanoscale Optical Antennas) within the context of […]