January 25, 2024: Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, – “Disrupting NextG”

December 8, 2022: Daphna Shohamy, Kavli Professor of Brain Science, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, – “How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions”

November 29, 2022: Katrina Ligett, Microsoft Visiting Professor, Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University, – “Data Privacy is Important, But It’s Not Enough”

November 2, 2021: Elza Erkip, Institute Professor in Electrical Engineering, New York University, – “A Communications Perspective on Digital Privacy”

October 28, 2021: Natalia Litchinitser, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, Duke University, – “Optics on the Nanoscale: Conquering Absorption with Nonlinear Optics”

March 25, 2021: Jennifer A. Lewis, Wyss Professor for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Wyss Institute, Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, – “Biomanufacturing Vascularized Organoids and Functional Human Tissues”

November 12, 2020: Magdalena Balazinska, Professor and Director of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, – “Video Data Management: From Data Models to Data Storage and Benchmarking”

November 10, 2020: Jelena Vuckovic, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, – “Scalable Photonics: An Optimized Approach”

October 6, 2020: Santosh Kurinec, Professor of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, Kate Gleason College of Engineering, RIT, – “Emerging Non-Volatile Ferroelectric Memory”

January 16, 2020: Elizabeth Holm, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Melon University, – “Artificial Intelligence for Generating Materials Science Knowledge”

November 14, 2019: Rebecca Mercuri, Founder of Notable Software, Inc, – “A 2020 Vision of U.S. Election Security”

April 4, 2019: Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, – “Powering tumor cell migration through heterogeneous microenvironments”

December 5, 2018: Cynthia Friend, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, – “Understanding Dilute Alloy Catalysts to Improve Electivity: From Surface Chemistry to Catalytic Function”

November 8, 2018: Jie Shan, Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, – “Electrical Control of Magnetism in 2D”

November 16, 2017: Claudia Fischbach, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, – “Engineering Approaches to Study Emerging Roles of ECM Dynamics in Cancer”

October 18, 2017: Susannah Scott, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, – “Designing Catalysts: A very old idea finally starts to blossom”

October 12, 2017: Amalie L. Frischknecht, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Sandia National Laboratories, – “Pattern Formation and Particle Assembly with Mixed Polymer Brushes”

October 25, 2016: Murial Medard, Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, – “Network Coding – A Personal Account of Combining Theory and Practice”

April 29, 2015: Maria Santore, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, – “Quantitatively Translating Interfacial Biological Mechanisms to Responsive Polymer Surfaces”

January 29, 2015: Jennifer Elisseeff, Jules Stein Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

November 6, 2013: Xu Han, Assisstant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, – “Optogenetics and Neural Circuit Mapping”

March 28, 2013: Tresa Pollock, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, – “A New Tri-Beam Tomography System: How Much Information is Enough?”

February 9, 2012: Rebecca M. Bergman, Vice Presiden, New Therapies & Diagonostics Medtronic, Inc, – “Medical Technology: Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Decade”

January 20, 2011: Christine Ortiz, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Dean for Graduate Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, – “Natural Armor: An Encyclopedia of Protective Engineering Designs”

November 23, 2010: Margo Seltzer, Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Sciences,  Harvard University, – “Provenance Everywhere”

November 17, 2009: Elaine J.Weyuker, AT&T Labs–Research, Shannon Laboratory, – “Bugs – Find Them Before They Find You”

April 2, 2009: Linda Schadler, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – “Towards Design of Polymer Nanocomposites: Using the Interface to Control Polymer Nanocomposite Properties”

March 18, 2009: Sossina M. Haile, Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology – “Is There a Role for Nano-Materials in Fuel Cells?”

December 2, 2008: Anna R. Karlin, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington – “A Survey of Some Recent Research at the Border of Game Theory, Algorithms and Economics”

April 24, 2008: Frances M. Ross, Manager, Nanoscale Materials Analysis Department, IBM TJ Watson Research Center – “Dynamic Electron Microscopy of the Nucleation and Growth of Self-Assembled Nanostructures”

November 8, 2007: Lori Setton, Mary Milius Yoh and Harold L. Yoh Jr. Bass Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University – “Design of Environmentally Responsive Polymers To Form Locally-Delivered Drug Depots For Musculoskeletal Disease”

October 30, 2007: Martha E. Pollack, Dean and Professor, School of Information; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan – “Intelligent Assistive Technology:  The Present and the Future”

December 4, 2006: Nadine Aubry, Professor and Department Head, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University –  “Some Challenges of Micro-Fluid Mechanics”

October 26, 2006: Jessica Hodgins, Professor, Computer Science and Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University – “Interfaces for Controlling Human Characters”

January 18, 2006: Molly S. Shoichet, Canada Research Chair in Tissue Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Chemistry and Biomaterials, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto – “Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Strategies for Spinal Cord Injury Repair”

December 6, 2005: Sangetta N. Bhatia, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – “Application of Micro- and Nanotechnology Tools to Tissue Dysfunction”

September 14, 2005: Daphne Koller, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University – “Probabilistic Models for Complex Domains: Cells, Bodies, and Webpages”

April 2, 2004: Jennifer Widom, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University – “Old Systems for New Data: Querying XML and Data Streams”

January 27, 2004: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania – “Breaking the Mold: American Women Engineers”

September 18, 2003: Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, Robert M. and Prudie Leibrock Professor in Engineering, University of Texas, Austin – “Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging for the Early Detection of Cancer”

February 28, 2003: Nancy A. Lynch, Professor of Electrical and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – “RAMBO: A Reconfigurable Atomic Memory Service for Dynamic Networks”

October 28, 2002: T. Kyle Vanderlick, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University – “Driving Biological Membranes to the Breaking Point: Fundamental Studies using Lipid Vesicles”

April 23, 2002: Karen Sparck Jones, Professor of Computers and Information, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge – “Language and Information: Old Ideas, New Achievements”

April 11, 2002: Banu Onaral, H. H. Sun Professor and Director, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems Drexel University – “Complex Biological Systems”

March 20, 2002: Katherine Crothall, President, CEO and Founder, Animas Corporation – “In Search of the Holy Grail: a Continuous and Accurate Blood Glucose Monitor”

April 12, 2001: Kathryn Uhrich, Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers University – “PolyDrugs and Polymeric Micelles for Drug Delivery”

March 26, 2001: Carol K. Hall, Alcoa Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University – “Computer Simulation of the Competition between Protein Folding and Aggregation”

March 6, 2001: Barbara J. Grosz, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University – “Getting Computer Systems to Function as Team Players”