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ESE Seminar: “(Re)building Human Dexterity: Inferring Musculoskeletal Dynamics for Next-Generation Assistive Devices & Diagnostics”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduWhile there exist a number of mechanically sophisticated exoskeletons, prostheses, and assistive robots, with articulations similar to those of the intact human arm and hand, these devices remain limited in […]
ESE Seminar: “Sensing the Physical World using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduEmerging applications such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and mixed reality rely on embedded systems that are engaging with the physical environment through sensors. Building upon this connection, my vision […]
ESE Seminar: “High-Level Synthesis of Dynamically Scheduled Circuits”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduThe slowdown in transistor scaling and the end of Moore's law indicate a need to invest in new computing paradigms; specialized hardware devices, such as FPGAs and ASICs, are a […]
ESE Seminar: “Reliable Machine Learning in Feedback Systems”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduMachine learning techniques have been successful for processing complex information, and thus they have the potential to play an important role in data-driven decision-making and control. However, ensuring the reliability […]
ESE Seminar: “Megahertz Power Electronics in Transportation and Healthcare Applications”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduThe efficient use of electrical energy is a foundation of modern society. Power electronics is at the core of electrical energy conversion and greatly impacts a system’s size, performance, and […]
ESE Seminar: “Demystifying (Deep) Reinforcement Learning: The Optimist, The Pessimist, and Their Provable Efficiency”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduCoupled with powerful function approximators such as deep neural networks, reinforcement learning (RL) achieves tremendous empirical successes. However, its theoretical understandings lag behind. In particular, it remains unclear how to […]
ESE Seminar: “Surpassing Fundamental Limits through Time Varying Electromagnetics”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduSurpassing the fundamental limits that govern all electromagnetic structures, such as reciprocity and the delay-bandwidth-size limit, will have a transformative impact on all applications based on electromagnetic circuits and systems. […]
ESE Seminar: “Synthetic dimensions: harnessing light’s internal degrees of freedom for quantum, nonlinear and topological photonics”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduScaling up next-generation photonic systems in a resource-efficient manner is a ubiquitous challenge for quantum technologies such as quantum networks, quantum simulation and computation, and for classical technologies such as […]
ESE Seminar: “Engineering Quantum Processors in Silicon”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduAcross the globe, physicists in academia and industry alike are competing to be the first to build a scalable universal quantum computer. Amongst the multitudes of quantum computing architectures, solid-state […]