ESE Fall Seminar – “From Circuits to Cognition: Silicon for Embodied Intelligence”
The next generation of intelligent and autonomous systems requires not only novel devices but also new silicon architectures and design workflows that transcend conventional approaches to deliver real-time learning, perception, […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Diamond and GaN: Wide-Bandgap Allies for Thermal and Power Management from Devices to 3D-Stacked Chips”
Once considered exotic, diamond and gallium nitride (GaN) have become practical enablers for next-generation electronic systems. Their convergence—diamond providing exceptional thermal conductivity and GaN delivering high-efficiency power conversion—lays the groundwork […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Physics-Aware, Full-Stack Software to Accelerate Practical Quantum Computing”
Quantum software can be a force multiplier that can significantly shorten the timeline for utility-scale results from quantum hardware. In particular, several key research directions will help realize practical quantum […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Distributional Control: From Robotic Motion Planning to Generative AI”
Uncertainty propagation and mitigation is at the core of all robotic and control systems. The standard approach so far has followed the spirit of controlling a system “with uncertainties,” as […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Novel van der Waals Chalcogenides for Sustainable Light Harvesting”
The global climate crisis demands a shift to renewable energy sources. Solar photovoltaics (PVs) are widely considered the most feasible renewable technology to meet global energy demands, and solar photo-electrocatalysis […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Architectures, Topologies and Control for High-Frequency Power Electronics”
Power converters designed for higher frequency operation than conventional designs can be smaller and lighter. However, to gain these benefits and maintain high reliability the converters also need to be […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “New Pathways for Energy Efficient Computing Hardware”
This winter the Americans will see a price hike in their electricity bill – not because of any issues related to energy generation but rather because of the rapidly increasing […]
ESE Guest Seminar: “On-Device Probabilistic AI: From Gaussian Transistors to Light-Driven Spike Encoding”
Emerging edge AI systems call for device-level approaches that are inherently low-power, secure, and capable of managing uncertainty. In this talk, I will share our recent exploratory efforts toward realizing […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Energy-efficient Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Systems for the Next Generation of Optical Transceivers”
The rapid growth of data traffic in data centers and AI applications demands faster, more energy-efficient communication solutions to scale up parallel computing capabilities. This dissertation explores integrated photonic-electronic systems […]
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Towards General Microscopic Robots”
This defense presents my contributions towards general robotics at the microscopic scale. Namely, through the introduction of fully programmable, autonomous microscopic robots free to explore the microscopic world. The robots […]