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Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture: Melody Swartz

Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

"Immunoregulatory Roles of Lymphatic Vessels in Cancer and Opportunities for Immunoengineering" Melody Swartz will discuss her pioneering research on the lymphatic system. This talk will highlight her translational work in immunotherapy, including lymph node-targeting vaccines and engineering tumor microenvironment models for therapeutic discovery.

CIS Seminar: “Next Generation Operating Systems for the Cloud”

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

Modern datacenters must handle an ever-growing array of real-time and data-intensive workloads, such as interactive web services and AI models, that demand both low latency and high throughput. However, traditional operating systems introduce significant I/O overhead, degrading performance and reducing efficiency. A common solution is to let applications directly communicate with hardware, bypassing the operating […]

Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Terry Fong, NASA Ames Research Center, “The NASA Volatiles Inspecting Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Mission”

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 Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is a NASA mission designed to explore the extreme environment of the Moon in search of water ice. VIPER is intended to land at the South Pole of the Moon […]

MEAM Seminar: “Three-Dimensional Biointerfaces: Soft Bioelectronics for Complex Biological Geometries”

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

Cutting-edge biological and medical research demands innovative methods for sensing and modulating complex tissues, organs, and organ systems. Recent progress in bioelectronics enables multimodal interfacing for broad fundamental and therapeutic applications. However, key challenges persist in interfacing with complex biological geometries, particularly for applications requiring conformal contact in electrical, chemical, or mechanical biointerfaces. In this […]

Seminar: “Merging Bio-integrated Materials and Devices with Ultrasound: Opportunities in Sensing, Modulation and Actuation” – Dr. Jiaqi Liu, Ph.D.

LRSM Reading Room 3231 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Soft, bio-integrated materials and devices exhibit the ability to collect physiological signals and offer therapeutic functions, posing a substantial impact on our understanding of biology and paving the way for precision medicine. With the assistance of advanced ultrasound technology, the innovative integration holds immense promise for sensing, modulation and actuation in deep tissues and complex […]

Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Shubham Tulsiani, Carnegie Mellon University, “Reconstructing and Generating 3D”

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

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Raisler Lounge (Towne 225) and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Modern reconstruction systems, leveraging advances in pose estimation and generative modeling, can reconstruct everyday objects and scenes from casually captured images. In this talk, I will highlight recent work from our group that pushes these […]

MEAM Seminar: “Bioinspired Robotic Sensorimotor Systems via 3D Printed Soft and Architected Materials”

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

Animals can easily adapt their bodies and movements to new, unstructured environments and situations. Robots cannot. While engineers construct robots from rigid, motorized mechanisms to precisely control their movements, vertebrates leverage compliant, deformable musculoskeletal systems to adaptively navigate complex environments and produce dynamically stable gaits and motions. Providing robots with an equivalent musculoskeletal system will […]

ESE Spring Seminar – “Generalization, Memorization, and Privacy in Trustworthy Machine Learning”

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

Machine learning is transforming numerous aspects of modern society, and its expanding use in high-stakes applications calls for responsible development. In this talk, I will present my research on the foundations and methodologies for building trustworthy ML, centered on three interconnected challenges: generalization, memorization, and privacy. First, I will show how information-theoretic tools can be […]

CIS Seminar: “Probabilistic Experimental Design for Petascale DNA Synthesis”

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

Generative modeling offers a powerful paradigm for designing novel functional DNA, RNA and protein sequences. In this talk, I introduce probabilistic experimental design methods to efficiently manufacture samples from generative models of biomolecules in the real world. These algorithms merge computational techniques for approximate sampling with physical randomness. I also develop tools to rigorously evaluate […]