Distinguished Speaker Series in Robotics Gregory S. Chirikjian: Robot Imagination: Affordance-Based Reasoning about Unknown Objects Location: ISEC Auditorium or Zoom Link Abstract: Today’s robots are very brittle in their intelligence. This follows from a legacy of industrial robotics where robots pick and place known parts repetitively. For humanoid robots to function as servants in the […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Domain Design Space Exploration: Designing a Unified Platform for a Domain of Streaming Applications Jinghan Zhang Location: ISEC 362 or Zoom Link Abstract: Many demanding streaming applications share functional and structural similarities with other applications in their respective domain, e.g., video analytics, software-defined radio, and radar. This opens the opportunity for specialization […]

Good afternoon Northeastern Graduate Students, Please join the Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering and your fellow grad students for our end-of-year event on December 17th from 12-1 pm in Curry 440! We will have pizza and will be hosting a cookie swap, so bring a dozen or two of your favorite homemade (or not, […]

PhD Proposal Review: Robust Observer Structures and Control Design for Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Applications Anahita Moradmand Location: Zoom Link Abstract: This thesis focuses on special class of observers and controllers for different and seperable nonlinear systems. In the first step, a robust fault detection approach using observers for linear systems is proposed […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Plasmonically Enhanced Infrared Sensing Microsystems Sungho Kang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Infrared (IR) spectroscopic sensing has become a key technique in multidisciplinary environments such as military applications, industrial safety control, and smart homes, by providing an accurate and non-disruptive analysis of the target objects. Recently the demand for high performance and compact […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Automated Bayesian Network Exploration for Nuisance-Robust Inference Andac Demir Location: Zoom Link Abstract: A fundamental challenge in the analysis of physiological signals is learning useful features that are robust to nuisance factors e.g., inter-subject \& inter-session variability, and achieve the highest nuisance-invariant classification performance. Towards resolving this problem, we introduce 3 frameworks: […]

Join the College of Engineering Global Co-op team in learning about global co-op opportunities for Summer II/Fall 2022. Topics discussed will include: Search techniques and global positions in your field What to consider when interested in a global co-op Logistics for moving and living abroad Tips and resources for self-developing global positions Attendance to one […]

PhD Proposal Review: Exploring Micro-Machined Glass Shell Resonators For Sensor Application Vedant Sumaria Location: Zoom Abstract: Optical resonators have been playing an important role in modern optics. They are fundamental in any laser device, etalon for optical filtering, accurate measurement for non-linear optics. Bulk optical resonators that use two or more mirrors are usually used […]

PhD Proposal Review: Machine Learning Approaches for Classification of Myriad Underwater Acoustic Events Over Continental-shelf Scale Regions with Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing Hamed Mohebbi Kalkhoran Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Underwater acoustic data contain a myriad of sound sources that include bioacoustics related to marine life such as marine mammals and fishes; man-made such […]

Learn about disability rights with a Nationally recognized lawyer on Friday, 21st January at 3 p.m. in ISEC 655, 6th floor or virtually through zoom - https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/95320296228