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2012-2013

Overview of Research in Wireless Networking @ FUNLAB: Sumit Roy; University of Washington; February 25, 2013
Low Power RF Circuits for Broadband Signals: Ramesh Harjani; University of Minnesota; February 22, 2013
Field-Tunable Oxides and Applications in RF/Wireless Components: Robert York; UC Santa Barbara; February 5, 2013
The Power of New Technologies in Engineering Education: Smita Bakshi; Zyante; December 7, 2012
After Your PhD or Postdoc: Five Career Options and the Strategies You Need to Implement Them: Dr. Richard M. Reis; November 30, 2012
Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Devices and Ultrasensitive Detections: Bin Chen; November 19, 2012
Microprocessor Design in the Nanoscale Era: Stefan Rusu; November 16, 2012
Cloud Computing's Impact on Network Design: Richard Palmer; November 9, 2012
What do you want to do when you graduate?: Engineering Disciplines and the Microprocessor Design Process: Bryan Chin, Cavium; November 2, 2012
Wireless Sensoring of the Brain: Dejan Markovic; October 26, 2012
Photovoltaics Research at IBM: Supratik Guha; October 19, 2012
Innovation at Texas Instruments: How You Can Shape the Future: Art George; October 16, 2012
Terahertz and mm-Wave Electronics: Reaching the Fundamental Limits: Omeed Momeni; October 12, 2012
Integrated Circuits and Systems from RF to Terahertz: Q. Jane Gu; October 5, 2012
R&D Projects under Investigation by the Woodall Group at UC Davis: Jerry M. Woodall; September 28, 2012

2011-2012

Integrated mm-Wave/Terahertz Circuits and Sub-systems on Silicon and Beyond: Q. Jane Gu; May 23, 2012
Active Control of Terahertz Nanogap Device: Minah Seo; May 21, 2012
Wireline/Wireless RF-Interconnect: The next wave of connectivity: Sai-Wang (Rocco) Tam; May 17, 2012
From III-Vs and II-VIs to Carbon Electronics: Semiconductor Devices and Electronics for Microwave to THz Communications and Sensing: Dimitris Pavlidis; May 15, 2012
Time for High-Confidence Cyber-Physical Systems: Edward A. Lee; March 9, 2012
A Case For Many-Core Processor Arrays: Bevan Baas; February 24, 2012
High Frequency Technology at Agilent: Daniel Thomasson; February 10, 2012
Nanotechnology: Development of Practical Systems and Applications: M. Meyyappan; January 13, 2012
Synthesizing Artificial Dielectric in Deep-Scaled CMOS with Tunable Permittivity for Radio/Imager System-on-a-Chip Applications: M.C. Frank Chang; December 2, 2011
Low-Density Parity-Check Codes: Developments, Constructions and Applications: Shu Lin; November 18, 2011
Exploiting Sparsity: Algorithms and Applications: Alyson Fletcher; November 14, 2011
Relaying in Networks: Abbas El Gamal; November 4, 2011
SRAM Variability in Space and Time: Borivoje Nikolic; October 28, 2011
Current Status of Coherent Large Scale Inp Photonic Integrated Circuits: Fred A. Kish; October 21, 2011
The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells: Eli Yablonovitch; October 14, 2011
Gold Foams: From Basic Science to Biomedical Applications: Erkin Şeker; October 7, 2011
Single Molecule Electromechanical Devices: Joshua Hihath; September 30, 2011
RF-MEMS: Lessons and Prospects: Leo Liu; September 23, 2011

2010-2011

CMOS Terahertz and mm-Wave Electronics: Reaching the Fundamental Limits: Omeed Momeni; May 23, 2011
RF/Wireless-Interconnect: The Next Wave of Connectivity: Dr. Sai-Wang (Rocco) Tam; May 19, 2011
3-D RF-MEMS Devices for Reconfigurable Radio Front-ends: Dr. Xiaoguang Liu; May 16, 2011
When Moore Meets Maxwell, Medical Applications Emerge: Dr. Amin Arbabian; May 12, 2011
Using Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers as Amplifiers and Sources for Time-Domain Spectroscopy: Dr. Nathan Jukam; May 9, 2011
Self-Aligned N-Polar GaN HEMTs: Towards Next-Generation Nitride Electronics: Dr. Nidhi; May 2, 2011
Nanoporous Gold: Fabrication, Characterization, and Biomedical Applications: Erkin Şeker; April 28, 2011
Molecular Electronics: Transport, Devices, and Applications: Joshua Hihath; April 27, 2011
Novel Electronic Devices Based on Graphene Heterostructures: Cory Dean; April 25, 2011
Graphene Nanopores and Nanodevices for Single-Molecule Sensing: Slaven Garaj; April 18, 2011
On the Shape of the Photon: Pulse-Shaping for Quantum Control: Yaron Silberberg; April 14, 2011
Single-Digit Nanofabrication Technologies for Tailoring Graphene into Functional Nanostructures: Xiaogan Liang; April 11, 2011
Sustainable Silicon: Energy-Efficient VLSI Interconnects: Patrick Chiang; March 4, 2011
A Signal-Processing Approach to Modeling Vision, and Applications: Sheila Hemami; February 25, 2011
The Next Frontier of Cloud Computing is in the Clouds, Literally.: Prof. Christoph Kirsch; February 18, 2011
Protocol Coding and Secondary Wireless Channels: Some Capacity Results and Applications: Prof. Petar Popovski; February 4, 2011
High-Dimensional Structure Learning of Graphical Models: Trees, Latent trees and Beyond: Prof. Anima Anandkumar; January 28, 2011
Energy Aware Computing: Abishek R. Agrawal; January 14, 2011
Micro (and Nano) Mechanical Signal Processors: Prof. Sunil Bhave, Cornell University; November 12, 2010
Entropy Vectors and Network Optimization: Prof. Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology; October 22, 2010
Multi-Armed Bandits: History, Theory, and Applications: Prof. Qing Zhao, UC Davis; October 15, 2010
Residential Demand Response Using Reinforcement Learning: Dan O’Neill, Consulting Professor, Stanford University; September 24, 2010

2009-2010

Cell processor and Cell World: Mitsuo Saito, Chief Fellow and Vice President of Engineering, Toshiba; Wednesday, April 21, Kemper 1065, 10:30am - 11:30am
Computer-Aided Design for Industrial Print Infrastructure and Services: Jun Zeng, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; April 8, 2010
Opportunistic Interference Management in MIMO Broadcast Channels: Prof. Hamid Sadjadpour, UCSC; Entrepreneur and Visionary Series; February 26, 2010
Xampling: Analog-to-digital at Sub-Nyquist rates: Prof. Yonina Eldar; Distinguished Speakers Series; February 25, 2010
Research Programs and Emerging Opportunities and Trends in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dr. R.J. Trew, National Science Foundation; Distinguished Speaker Series; February 19, 2010
High-performance Reconfigurable Systems: Prof. Rajit Manohar, Cornell University; Distinguished Speaker Series; February 12, 2010
Bioelectronics: Prof. Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT; Bio-ECE Series; February 5, 2010
The Role of the Public Research University in Economic Development: Lessons Drawn out of Personal Experience: Chancellor Linda Katehi, UC Davis; December 11, 2009
CMOS Integrated Biosensors: Fact or Fiction?: Prof. Arjang Hassibi, UT Austin; December 4, 2009
Quantum Mechanical Gene Sequencing?: Prof. Stuart Lindsay, Director of the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at ASU; November 20, 2009
Implantable Medical Devices: The Power-Constrained Frontier: Prof. S. O'Driscoll, UC Davis; November 6, 2009
Computation and Communication - Two sides of one tapestry?: Prof. Michael Gastpar; October 30, 2009
From Combinatorial Chemistry to Cancer Targeting to Nanotherapeutics: Prof. Kit Lam, UC Davis Medical School; October 23, 2009
On the Theory and Practice of Fountain Codes: Dr. Payam Pakzad, Qualcomm, Silicon Valley Research Center; October 9, 2009
Adaptive Networks: Professor Ali H. Sayed, Chair of Electrical Engineering, UCLA; October 2, 2009
Silica-based highly nonlinear optical fibers: October 16, 2009
The impact of networking on distributed consensus: September 18, 2009
The Future of Nanotechnology at Samsung: September 14, 2009

2008-2009

Exhaustive Weight Spectrum Analysis of LDPC Codes with Results for some well known Codes: April 14, 2009
Organic Semiconductor Devices for Bioelectronics: April 2, 2009
Prof. Urbashi Mitra USC, December 5, 2008: December 5, 2008
An electrical engineer's view of biomedical imaging and drug delivery: December 2, 2008
Biophotonics Focused on Grand Challenges in Medicine and Bioscience: November 25, 2008
Prof. Ian Blake University of British Columbia, November 21, 2008: November 21, 2008
Bio Emphasis Talk & Faculty Lunch: November 18, 2008
Prof. David Tse University of California at Berkeley, November 14, 2008: November 14, 2008
Bio-inspired Polymers as Nano-scale Building Materials: November 11, 2008
Emerging applications of wireless sensors: November 7, 2008
Jared Zerbe Engineering Director Rambus Inc., October 31, 2008: October 31, 2008
The Impact of Quasi-equally Spaced Sensor Layouts on Field Reconstruction: October 29, 2008
Dr. John Camagna Akros Silicon, October 24, 2008: October 24, 2008
Engineering Computation & Electrical Interfaces into Living Systems: October 21, 2008
Cooperative networks and the growth of wireless infrastructures: October 17, 2008
Supported Lipid Membranes Potentials and Pitfalls: October 14, 2008
Digitally Assisted Data Converters and Sensor Interface Circuits: October 10, 2008
Tunable negative index metamaterials and devices: October 3, 2008
Computing with Things Small, Wet, and Random: Design Automation for Nanoscale Technologies and Biological Processes: September 26, 2008

2007-2008

Technology Directions in Fiber-Optic Communication: December 12, 2007
Oversampling Analog-to-Digital Conversion: November 30, 2007
GaN Nanowires: Growth, Optical, and Electronics Properties: November 16, 2007
Making Sense Out of Variability in Scaled CMOS: November 9, 2007
Reinforcement Learning Solution to a Benchmark Time-Optimal Control Problem: November 2, 2007
Location Estimation and Navigation Using TV Signals: October 26, 2007
Trade 2.0 (Legal Issues for Internet Commerce): October 19, 2007
Fall Engineering Career Fair....Grads Welcome!: October 12, 2007
Microwave Applications of Metamaterial Structures: October 5, 2007
Distributions Mean More than Means: Simple Statistics in Benchmark Analysis: September 3, 2007

2006-2007

mm-wave Transistors & Integrated Circuits: December 1, 2006
Nanoscale Transistors: Speed or Talent?: November 17, 2006
System Theoretic Foundations for Sensor Networks: October 27, 2006
Information Processing by Assemblies of Molecules: Directed Self-Assembly, Nonlinear Behavior, Array Architectures: October 20, 2006
Start Something: Some Thoughts on Entrepreneurship: October 6, 2006
Scalable Data Gathering In Wireless Sensor Networks: September 29, 2006

2005-2006

Ontage-Optimal Relaying: December 2, 2005
RF MEMS for Commercial and Defense Applications: November 4, 2005
Controlled Synthesis and Integration of Semiconductor Nanowires: October 21, 2005
Terahertz Technology in Outer and Inner Space: October 7, 2005
Overview of FLO Technology Optimized Mobile Multicast Solution: September 30, 2005

2003-2004

And What The Heck Is a Sensor Web Anyway?: December 5, 2003
What Every ECE Grad Student Should Know About the Law: November 21, 2003
RF MEMS Device and Circuit Applications: November 14, 2003
RF and Microwave Device and Circuit Research at UCSD-Wireless Technology for the 21st Century: November 7, 2003
RF Power Semiconductors for Wireless Communications: October 31, 2003
Beyond Smart Dust-Evolving Sensors to Micro-Instruments: October 24, 2003
Cellular Processor System-on-chip Architectures: October 17, 2003
Challenges In Multimedia Compression, Networking and Computer Architecture Research: October 10, 2003
Preparing Now for Your Future Academic Career: October 3, 2003
Power and Performance In Digital VLSI Design: September 26, 2003