ECE Colloquium Speaker: VLSI Design to The Rescue: Building Future Application Drivers with Energy Efficiency

Wednesday, February 26, 2014
11 a.m.–Noon

Fengbo Ren

Computer Studies Building (CSB) 209

ECE Colloquium Speaker: At the Intersection of Robot Planning and Natural Language Understanding

Thursday, February 27, 2014
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

Thomas Howard

Goergen 101

ECE Colloquium Speaker: If You Didn't Test It, It Doesn't Work

Thursday, March 6, 2014
11:15 a.m.

Dr. Robert Colwell, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Gleason Hall 318/418

ECE Colloquium Speaker: Wireless and Mobile Systems : Changing the Rules of the Game

Monday, March 17, 2014
10:45 a.m.–11:45 a.m.

Krishna Chintalapudi

Computer Studies Building 2309

ECE Colloquium Speaker: Sampling Massive Datasets in the Internet and Beyond

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
11 a.m.–Noon

Nick Duffield

Computer Studies Building 209

Efficient Reconstruction Algorithms for Fast MRI

Friday, March 21, 2014
3:15 p.m.

Zhili Yang

Supervised by Professor Mathews Jacob and Professor Marvin Doyley

Computer Studies Building 523

ECE Colloquium Speaker: Sparsity and Low Rank for Robust Social Data Analytics and Networking

Friday, March 28, 2014
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Gonzalo Mateos

Computer Studies Building 209

Acoustic Characterization and Nonlinear Imaging of Ultrasound Contrast Agents for Intravascular Assessment of Atherosclerosis

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
9 a.m.

Himanshu Shekhar

Supervised by Professor Marvin Doyley

Computer Studies Building 209

Reliable Ultra-Low-Voltage Cache Design for Many-Core Systems

Friday, April 11, 2014
10 a.m.

Meilin Zhang

Supervised by Professor Paul Ampadu

Computer Studies Building 426

Low-Cost, High-Resolution Computational Ultrasound Imaging

Thursday, April 17, 2014
12:30 p.m.

Roland Cheng

Supervised by Professor Roland Cheng

Hopeman Building 335

Acceleration of High Angular and Spatial Resolution Diffusion Imaging

Thursday, May 1, 2014
2 p.m.

Merri Mani

Supervised by Professor Jianhui Zhong

Computer Studies Building 426

Construction and Evaluation of Differential Phase-Contrast Cone Beam CT Imaging System

Thursday, June 12, 2014
3 p.m.

Jiangkun Liu

Supervised by Professor Ruola Ning

Computer Studies Building 426

Temperature-Dependent Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Thin-Film Vanadium Dioxide

Thursday, August 14, 2014
10:30 a.m.

Graham Jensen

Supervised by Professor Roman Sobolewski

Computer Studies Building 426

Scaling Trends of Power Supply Noise in TSV-Based Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits

Monday, September 15, 2014
3 p.m.

Kan Xu

Supervised by Eby Friedman

Computer Studies Building 426

Theory, Modeling and Design of the Indirect-Feedback Sigma-delta Image Sensor System

Friday, October 3, 2014
11 a.m.

Zhe Gao

Supervised by Professor Mark Bocko

Computer Studies Building 426

Energy-Efficient, High-Speed Integrated Circuits for Emerging Computing and Sensing Applications

Friday, October 10, 2014
9 a.m.

Jie Xu

Supervised by Professor Hui Wu

Computer Studies Building 426

ECE Colloquium Speaker: Using Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition for “Printed” Thin Film Electronics

Wednesday, October 22, 2014
11:50 a.m.

Dr. Shelby F. Nelson, Eastman Kodak Company

Computer Studies Building 209

ECE Colloquium Speaker: Current Trends in Parallel Numerical Computing and Challenges

Wednesday, October 29, 2014
10:30 a.m.

Dr. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rush Rhees Library, Hawkins – Carlson Reading Room

ECE Colloquium Speaker: CMOS Image Sensors and Quanta Image Sensors

Wednesday, November 5, 2014
11:50 a.m.

Professor Eric R. Fossum, Dartmouth College

Computer Studies Building, Room 209

ECE Colloquium Speaker: Perceptual Texture Similarity and Structurally Lossless Image Compression

Thursday, November 6, 2014
2 p.m.–3:15 p.m.

Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Gavett Hall, 202