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    • GRASP on Robotics: “Learning and Influencing Conventions in Interactive Robotics”

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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 & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here.  There have been significant advances in the field of robot learning in the past decade. However, many challenges still remain when studying how robot learning can advance interactive agents such as robots that collaborate […]

    MEAM PhD Thesis Defense: “High Throughput Immunospecific Detection and Analysis of Subcellular Nanomaterials at the Single Particle Level”

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

    Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have shown great potential in diagnostics, therapeutics, and have been discovered to play a key role in intercellular communication. The study of EVs in biological fluids has proven challenging due to the nanoscale size of EVs (30 nm-1 µm diameter), the enormous quantity of EVs present in clinical samples (e.g. 10E10/mL), and […]

    ODEI Spotlight: SWE Headshots on Smith Walk

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    SWE Headshots | November 20, 3-4 pm | On Smith Walk (between Towne and Hayden Hall near the Penn Engineering Banner) Come get a professional headshot taken on Saturday, November 20th (rain date Sunday, November 21st)! Headshots will be taking place on Smith Walk (between Towne and Hayden Hall near the Penn Engineering Banner) from […]

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Computer-aided Clinical Trials for Medical Devices”

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    Zoom - Meeting ID 916 4694 2571

    Life-critical medical devices require robust safety and efficacy to treat patient populations with potentially large inter-patient and intra-patient variability. Today, the de facto standard for evaluating medical devices is the randomized clinical trial. However, even after years of device development many clinical trials fail. For example, in the Rhythm ID Goes Head to Head Trial […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “New Materials for Three Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics”

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    Zoom - Meeting ID 954 7393 2132 PA, United States

    In the last decade, there have been major changes in the families of ferroelectric materials available for integration with CMOS electronics.  These new materials, including Hf1-xZrxO2, Al1-xScxN, Al1-xBxN and Zn1-xMgxO, offer the possibility of new functionalities. This talk will discuss the possibility of exploiting the 3rd dimension in microelectronics for functions beyond interconnects, enabling 3D […]

    CIS Seminar: “From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World”

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    Visual intelligence is a cornerstone of intelligence, for both humans and machines. In this talk, I go over a number of research work by our group on the topics of visual perception and robotic learning. The guiding principle of our work is inspired by the Gibsonian belief that perceptual and robotic learning should be based […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Predictive Simulations of High-rise Building Peak Wind Pressure Loads”

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

    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can inform sustainable design of buildings and cities in terms of optimizing pedestrian wind comfort, air quality, thermal comfort, energy efficiency, and resiliency to extreme wind events. An important challenge is that the accuracy of CFD results can be compromised by the large natural variability and complex physics that are characteristic […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Bits and Brains: Ultra-low Power, Neuro-inspired Edge-AI for Autonomous Systems”

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    Zoom - Meeting ID 912 5944 4192

    As we march towards the age of “ubiquitous intelligence”, we note that AI and Machine learning are progressively moving from the Cloud to the Edge devices. The success of Edge-AI is pivoted on innovative circuits and hardware that can enable inference and limited learning, in hardware-constrained ultra-low-power (uW to mW) systems – an area of […]

    CIS Seminar: “Tackling climate change with machine learning”

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    Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

    Machine learning can be a powerful tool in helping society reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. In this talk, we will explore opportunities and challenges in AI-for-climate, from optimizing electrical grids to monitoring crop yield, and how these impactful problems can also drive methodological innovations in machine learning.

    • Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: Lucas Manuelli, NVIDIA, “Robot Manipulation with Learned Representations”

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

    We would like to have robots which can perform useful manipulation tasks in real-world environments. This requires robots that can perceive the world with both precision and semantic understanding, methods for communicating desired tasks to these systems, and closed loop visual feedback controllers for robustly executing manipulation tasks. This is hard to achieve with previous […]