ESE Seminar: “Quantum Dot Plasmon Nanolasers”
Miniaturized light sources are critical for next-generation on-chip photonic devices. Plasmon-based lasers and surface plasmon amplified spontaneous emission of radiation (spasers) have received significant attention since their prediction over a […]
ESE Seminar: “The Role of Explicit Regularization in Overparameterized Neural Networks”
Overparameterized neural networks have proved to be remarkably successful in many complex tasks such as image classification and deep reinforcement learning. In this talk, we will consider the role of […]
ESE Seminar: “A New Era of Open-Source System-on-Chip Design”
Open-source software has been a critical enabler for tremendous innovation in the software ecosystem over the past two decades. Inspired by this success, open-source hardware involves making the high-level description […]
ESE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Scalable Photonics: An Optimized Approach”
Classical and quantum photonics with superior properties can be implemented in a variety of old (silicon, silicon nitride) and new (silicon carbide, diamond) photonic materials by combining state of the […]
ESE Seminar: “Accelerating MRI with Deep Learning”
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be accelerated by sampling below the Shannon-Nyquist rate via compressed sensing techniques. In this talk, I will consider the problem of optimizing the under-sampling pattern […]
ESE Seminar: “High-Frequency Power Conversion with Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors”
With the commercialization of wide-bandgap power semiconductors, multi-MHz switching frequencies are more compelling and critical to meet new applications demanding leaps in power density and efficiency. In the past, studies […]
ESE Seminar: “New Tools for Better Understanding Social Networks”
We shall examine in our talk concepts and tools for the analysis of social networks. We shall present in particular YouTube and Twitter. For YouTube, we point at shortcomings in […]
ESE PhD Defense: “Orbital angular momentum microlasers: From the first demonstration to ultrafast tunability”
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by structured vortex light establishes a new information dimension, thereby promising high capacity optical communication and high performance computation in both classical and quantum regimes. […]
ESE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Emerging Non-Volatile Ferroelectric Memory”
Abstract The last decade has seen a remarkable shift in usage and value of semiconductor memory technologies. These changes are driven by the elevation of four particular target applications –(1) […]
ESE Seminar: “Data-driven Decision Making and Estimation in CPS/IoT Networks”
The modern instantiation of a sensor network is a cyberphysical (CPS) system where CPS subsystems can be interconnected by a shared communication network of limited bandwidth. A common problem in […]