Department of EECS Seminar Series: 2009-2010 Academic Year
| Speaker and Affiliation | Title & Abstract | Seminar Info |
| Justin Romberg School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology | An Introduction to Compressed Sensing | Friday, August 6, 2010 • 11:00 am • Harris Center 102 |
| Jake Aggarwal Director of the Computer and Vision Research Center, University of Texas at Austin | Computer Recognition of Human Activities and Objects | Thursday, August 5, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 102 |
| Antonio Torralba Assistant Professor, EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Scene and Object Recognition in Context | Monday, August 2, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 102 |
| Jianjian Wei President, Technology for Environmental Protection and Earth Convey Corporation | Investigations on Development, Integration, and Applications of Novel Alternative Technologies on Pesticides for Organic Agriculture | Monday, July 19, 2010 • 3:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Rajeev Thakur Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory | Programming Extreme Scale Parallel Computers | Thursday, July 8, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Ting-Ao Tang Fudan University | Novel Nonvolatile Memory Technology - Ferroelectric, Phase Change and Resistive Switching Memory | Monday, June 21, 2010 • 11:00 am • Harris Center 450 |
| Richard P. Gabriel IBM Research | Design Beyond Human Abilities | Tuesday, June 8, 2010 • 10:30 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Mung Chiang Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University | An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 • 1:30 pm • Harris Center 450 |
| Lily Mummert Intel Labs Pittsburgh | Exploiting Parallelism for Low-latency Activity Recognition in Streaming Video | Wednesday, May 19, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Sajal K. Das Program Director, National Science Foundation, CISE/CNS Division | NSF CISE Core and Cross-Cutting Programs: Funding Opportunities | Friday, April 23, 2010 • 11:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Jichen Zhu Department of Digital Media, University of Central Florida | Computational Narrative as a Critical, Expressive Practice | Monday, April 19, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Radislav A. Potyrailo General Electric Company, Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA | Passive Wireless Highly Selective Gas Sensors: Illusion or Future Reality? | Friday, April 16, 2010 • 11:00 am • Harris Center 111 |
| Robb Lindgren Digital Media / University of Central Florida |
Inter-Identity Technologies for Learning | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 • 3:00 pm • Harris Center 118 |
| Scott Shepard University of Central Florida Department of Engineering Technology - Photonics | Recent Advances in Quantum Sensors and in Hybrid Photovoltaic/Solar-Thermal Energy Converters | Monday, April 12, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Ramesh Jain Department of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine | Contenxt: Bridging the Semantic Gap | Friday, April 9, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 104 |
| Jiangjian Xiao Sarnoff Corporation | Aerial Video Processing for Scene Understanding and Object Tracking | Thursday, April 8, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| James Clause Ph.D. Candidate - College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology | Enabling and Supporting the Debugging of Field Failures | Monday, March 29, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Emmanuel Witrant Emmanuel Witrant (GIPSA-lab, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) | Profiles Control and Stability in Thermonuclear Fusion: Some Issues for ITER | Monday, March 22, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Damian Dechev Scalable Computing R&D Department at Sandia National Labs | Nonblocking Concurrent Objects for Real-Time C++ | Monday, March 22, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Sumit K. Jha Ph.D. Student - Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University | Model Validation and Discovery of Stochastic Systems: Applications to Systems Biology | Friday, March 19, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Robb Lindgren Digital Media / University of Central Florida |
Inter-Identity Technologies for Learning | Rescheduled |
| Xiaotong Zhuang | Code Optimizations in the Heterogeneous Multicore Era | Monday, March 15, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Albert Chin | Improved Charge-Trapping Memory Using High-k Technology & Device Design | Tuesday, March 9, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Liang Min | End-to-End Power Delivery Chain -- Smart Transmission Operations and Planning | Friday, March 5, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Fernando De la Torre | Learning Components for Human Sensing | Thursday, March 4, 2010 • 4:30 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Qinru Qiu SUNY at Binghamton/USC |
Adaptive Power Management for Green Computing | Monday, March 1, 2010 • 10:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Mingjie Lin UC Berkeley |
From Sea-of-Gates to Sea-of-Cores: Many-Core Computing with Reconfigurable Hardware | Friday, February 26, 2010 • 11:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Klara Nahrstedt Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Mobile Networking Solutions for First Responders | Friday, February 19, 2010 • 11:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Byung-Ju Yi Hanyang University, Korea |
Evolution and Current Direction of Robotics Research | Friday, February 5, 2010 • 11:00 am • Harris Center 101 |
| Spartak Gevorgian Chalmers University of Technology |
Applications of Ferroelectrics in Microwave Devices, Circuits, and Systems | Friday, January 15, 2010 • 2:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Jim Stathis IBM Research |
Reliability of Advanced CMOS Devices and Circuits | Friday, December 4, 2009 • 11:00 am • ENG2-203 |
| Tayfun Ozdemir Virtual EM, Inc. |
Sensing Front-Ends and RF Technologies for Wireless Sensors | Tuesday, December 1, 2009 • 3:00 pm • Harris Center 101 |
| Frank Tanner Chief Scientist GEOINT Program, Raytheon |
Computer Vision Problems in Overhead Imagery | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 • 3:30 p.m. • Harris Center 101 |
| John Volakis The Ohio State University |
Antennas & RF Sensors: Changing the Way We Live (From mobile communications to electronic textiles and RFID | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101 |
| Dr. Huei Wang Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Graduate Institute of Communication EngineeringNational Taiwan University |
Current Status and Future Trends for Si and Compound MMICs in Millimeter-wave Regime and Related Issues for System on Chip (SOC) and/or System in Package (SIP) Applications | Monday, November 9, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101 |
| Henrique Rebelo Informatics Center Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil |
AOP Framed! | Tuesday, November 3, 2009 • 4:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101 |
| Dr. Witold Byrski Professor AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland |
The Optimal Integral Observes for the Exact State Reconstruction | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 • 12:00 p.m. • Harris Center 102 |
| Jan Vitek Computer Science Department, Purdue University |
Programming Models for Concurrency and Real-Time | Friday, August 14, 2009 • 2:00 p.m. • Harris Center 101 |



