ESE Seminar – “A changing grid powered by the new generations of power conversion, control, and energy management”
The electric grid is undergoing a transformative paradigm shift, driven by sweeping changes in generation, demand, and energy storage. By 2035, solar PV alone is expected to supply 40% of […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Wave Interaction with Nonreciprocal Swift-Electron Platforms and Reconfigurable Metasurfaces”
The study of electromagnetic wave interactions with various media is of fundamental significance in both theoretical and applied sciences. Understanding how electromagnetic waves propagate, reflect, refract, and scatter when encountering […]
ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Optimization Algorithms”
The intersection of machine learning (ML) and dynamical systems and control (S&C) has become a prominent area of research in recent years. While most work applies ML to S&C problems, […]
ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Software-like Incremental Refinement on FPGA using Partial Reconfiguration”
To improve FPGA design productivity, our goal is to create a development experience for FPGAs that aligns closely with widely accepted software design principles. Software programmers quickly test their minimally completed […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Learning-based Model Predictive Control for Aerial Vehicles”
Learning-based model predictive control (MPC) is an increasingly prominent control paradigm in recent years. One primary approach in learning-based MPC is to leverage machine or deep learning tools to construct […]
ESE PhD Seminar – “Prehistory of Continual Learning and All Else That We Forget”
I would probably “forget” what I will say in the abstract, and you would, too. Translation: deep neural networks can “forget”, meaning they might perform poorly on previously learned tasks […]
MSE Seminar: “Luminescent Photonic Metamaterials and Devices From THz to Optical Frequencies”
A crucial yet unavailable component in high-performance photonic integrated circuits (ICs) and other chip-scale photonic systems is an on-chip light source that is efficient, functional, IC-compatible, and electronically addressable. In […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “Coherent Control of Electromagnetic Waves via Tunable Chaotic Cavities”
The theory of Coherent Perfect Absorption1 (time-reversed lasing) and Reflectionless Scattering Modes2 has shown that there always exist discrete solutions to scattering of electromagnetic waves in multiple-scattering geometries that achieve […]
ESE PhD Seminar: “Learning Local Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Hybrid Systems”
Safety-critical control is one of the fundamental problems in autonomous systems. A special class of autonomous systems is the class of hybrid dynamical systems, which involves both continuous dynamic flow […]
IDEAS Seminar: “Equivariant Neural Inertial Odometry”
Abstract: In this talk, we introduce a new class of problems related to integrating inertial measurements obtained from an IMU that play a significant role in navigation combined with visual […]