Friday, Sept. 19 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. in ETB 1020 Varun Murali Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Title: “From Robots that React to Robots that Adapt” Abstract: Achieving truly autonomous robotic systems that can adapt to unknown environments and collaborate using natural language requires a fundamental shift beyond the traditional […]
Seminars
CESG Seminar: Stephen McCullough
Friday, Sept. 12 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. in ETB 1020 Stephen McCullough Alumnus from Texas A&M Engineering Dept. of Electrical Engineering Title: “Solution Engineering, Explained” Abstract: This seminar will illuminate the world of solutions engineering and why it may be the right path for you. You’ll learn about careers in solutions engineering, how the […]
CESG Seminar: Fabia Farlin Athena
Friday, Sept. 5 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. in ETB 1020 Fabia Farlin Athena Energy Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical Engineering Stanford University Title: “Emerging Materials and Devices for Energy-Efficient Nanoelectronics” Abstract: The rapid rise of data-intensive workloads, driven by artificial intelligence, is exposing the fundamental energy and latency limits of conventional computing hardware. The memory […]
CESG Fishbowl Seminar: Sanjay Shakkottai
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. in WEB 333’s Fishbowl Sanjay Shakkottai Professor of ECE and Director of Center for Generative AI University of Texas, Austin Title: “Training-Free Approaches for Image Inversion and Editing Using Latent Generative Models” Abstract: Diffusion-based generative models transform random noise into images; their inversion aims to transform images […]
CESG Seminar: Tomer Galanti
Friday, April 25, 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Tomer Galanti Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Texas A&M University Title: “SGD and Weight Decay Secretly Compress Your Neural Network” Abstract: Several empirical results have shown that replacing weight matrices with low-rank approximations results in only a small drop in accuracy, suggesting that […]
CESG Seminar: Kaushik Chowdhury
Friday, April 11, 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Dr. Kaushik Chowdhury Chandra Family Endowed Distinguished Professor Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering The University of Texas, Austin Title: “Programming the Network and the Environment for Sensing, Communication and Computation” Abstract: This presentation delves into how extreme reconfigurability will shape future wireless […]
CESG Seminar: Vijay K. Shah
Friday, March 25, 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Dr. Vijay K. Shah, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University Title: “Advancing the Future of Telecoms with Open RAN” Abstract Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) is a transformative technology that is reshaping the global telecom […]
CESG Seminar: Zhongyuan Zhao
Friday, April 4, 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Zhongyuan Zhao Research Assistant Professor Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Rice University Title: “Distributed AI in Networked Systems: A Graph-Based Neuro-Symbolic Perspective” Abstract Artificial intelligence has achieved remarkable success in processing regular, unstructured data, such as language and images, where information is […]
CESG Seminar: Xiongye Xiao
Friday, March 21, 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Xiongye Xiao PhD Candidate , Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Southern California Title: “AI for Science: From Microscopic Structures and Dynamics to Macroscopic Functions” Abstract The evolution of scientific discovery has transitioned from observational studies and mathematical modeling […]
CESG Seminar: Cunxi Yu
Friday, March 7, 2025 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. (CST) ETB 1020 Cunxi Yu Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Maryland, College Park Title: “The Rise and Fall of Machine Learning for EDA and Beyond – Studies in Synthesis and Verification” Abstract In recent years, Machine Learning (ML) […]