ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: ”Manifold Filters and Neural Networks: Geometric Graph Signal Processing in the Limit”
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the tool of choice for scalable and stable learning in graph-structured data applications involving geometric information. My research addresses the fundamental questions of how GNNs […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “Efficient Computing for AI and Robotics: From Hardware Accelerators to Algorithm Design”
The compute demands of AI and robotics continue to rise due to the rapidly growing volume of data to be processed; the increasingly complex algorithms for higher quality of results; […]
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering Symposium Honoring Kurt Petersen: “Small Tech, Big Impact: The Development and Commercialization of MEMS Sensors & Actuators:
This Symposium celebrates Kurt Petersen for his pioneering research and development of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology – microscopic systems that merge mechanical and electrical functionality and which have wide ranging […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Can Robots Learn from Machine Dreams? – Robot Learning via GenAI-powered World Models”
Over the past decade, large-scale pre-training followed by alignment has revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, robotics remains constrained by the scarcity of real-world data. In this talk, […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Engineering and utilizing interactions between spins and light with molecular qubits”
Coupling of spins and light can enable photon-mediated scaling and control in quantum technologies, as demonstrated in trapped atom, ion, and solid-state spin qubits. Molecular analogs of such systems hold […]
Celebration of Community
The Cora Ingrum Center for Community and Outreach is planning its annual Celebration of Community gala to showcase Penn Engineering students, staff, and faculty in their multi-talented richness. The event […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Wavelength-Encoded Nanolaser Particles for Highly Multiplexed Single-Cell Analysis”
Understanding single-cell heterogeneity in biological systems is considered the holy grail of biomedicine. However, conventional single-cell analysis methods are constrained by the destructive readout process of DNA barcodes and the […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “On Team Decision Problems with Nonclassical Information Structures”
Team theory is a mathematical formalism for decentralized stochastic control problems in which a “team,” consisting of a number of members, cooperates to achieve a common objective. It was developed […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Versatile RF Interconnects and Electronics for Extreme Environment Sensing and Communications”
Future emerging applications like extreme environment electronics, high-performance computing, space sensing, and brain-machine interfaces share a critical goal: massive bandwidth and deployment scalability. To this end, my research group is […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Generalization, Memorization, and Privacy in Trustworthy Machine Learning”
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 […]