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SUMMARY:Lifelong Learning: On Demand – Innovative Uses of Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:The Office of Alumni Relations is hosting “Lifelong Learning: On Demand – Innovative Uses of Artificial Intelligence”. Be introduced to a few innovative uses of AI in the fields of healthcare\, computers\, and robotics. Learn from Northeastern faculty experts Craig Johnson and Taskin Padir. This complimentary\, online program is available to you on demand from January 4 to 31. An opportunity to earn a non-credit digital badge is available. \nRegister Now
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/lifelong-learning-on-demand-innovative-uses-of-artificial-intelligence/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210104T170000
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SUMMARY:GWiSE Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Women in Science and Engineering is hosting a winter break Book Club! We will be reading sections from “All We Can Save: Truth\, Courage\, & Solutions for the Climate Crisis” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Keeble Wilkinson. \nThis book is a collection of provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth\, courage\, and solutions to lead humanity forward. We will be selecting a few of the book’s essays to discuss each week\, so you won’t need to read the whole book front to back! \nWe will be meeting weekly on Mondays starting on 1/4/2021 with the choice between 5 PM – 6 PM and 8 PM – 9 PM EST to accommodate all of our members in different time zones across the globe. \nYou may purchase the book if you wish. We submitted a purchase request for an e-book through the university library\, but it was unfortunately declined. The full e-book is available through most public library systems. Please check with your public library! It is available through the Boston Public Library system. \nTo accommodate members who do not have access to the full book\, PDFs of the selected essays will be shared. \nPlease fill out this form to be included in future updates!
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/gwise-book-club/2021-01-04/
ORGANIZER;CN="GWiSE%3A Graduate Women in Science and Engineering":MAILTO:gwise.neu@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210118
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SUMMARY:Program-Specific Orientations
DESCRIPTION:Admitted students to Spring 2021 entry are invited to hold their calendars for their program-specific orientations which will take place between January 7-January 17th. \nOrientation Schedule
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/program-specific-orientations/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210107T080000
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CREATED:20201103T160340Z
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SUMMARY:IEM-sponsored virtual event: Last Minute Questions Before Your Arrival
DESCRIPTION:January 7: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Last Minute Questions Before Your Arrival \n8:00 AM EST \nJoin link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. \nAudience: All admits for Spring\, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/iem-sponsored-virtual-event-last-minute-questions-before-your-arrival/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210107T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210107T110000
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SUMMARY:Grad Applicant Webinar: Emerging Fields in Civil and Environmental Engineering
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University is pleased to present to you the second installment in our Graduate Programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering Webinar Series. \nThis webinar\, titled Emerging Fields in Civil and Environmental Engineering\, will provide you with a deep-dive led by our professors into our MS in Engineering and Public Policy\, MS in Sustainable Building Systems\, and our Data and Systems concentration for our MS and PhD in Civil Engineering. Come learn how these unique interdisciplinary programs are preparing students for pressing societal challenges and emerging opportunities. \nThis webinar is hosted by Associate Professor Matthew Eckelman\, developer of the MS in Engineering and Public Policy\, Associate Professor David Fannon\, Faculty Advisor for the MS in Sustainable Building Systems\, and the Faculty Advisor for our Data and Systems program\, Assistant Professor Amy Mueller. \nLocated in Boston\, Massachusetts\, New England’s largest city\, Northeastern University is a wonderful place to study and live. Our city is home to world-class entertainment\, restaurants\, and sporting venues\, a diverse and dynamic economy\, and thriving community of academic institutions. \nThis webinar will feature an application fee waiver code for those who have not yet applied. Please be aware of our application deadlines. Therefore\, it is highly recommended that you prepare your application materials as soon as possible. \nGraduate Programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering Webinar 2: Emerging Fields in CEE \nThursday\, January 7\, 2021 \n10:00 – 11:00 AM EST \nRegister Here
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/grad-applicant-webinar-emerging-fields-in-civil-and-environmental-engineering/
ORGANIZER;CN="Civil & Environmental Engineering":MAILTO:civilinfo@coe.neu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210107T120000
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SUMMARY:Caracoglia Part of International Panel to Discuss Bridge Aerodynamics
DESCRIPTION:The fourth in the series of international seminars organized by the University of Birmingham\, UK and sponsored by the IAWE (International Association for Wind Engineering)\, will take place on Thursday 7th January  2021 at 12.00 noon UK time. \nThe seminar is entitled “Developments in Bridge Aerodynamics”. The program will be as follows. \nMain Speaker: Prof John Owen\, School of Engineering\, University of Nottingham\, United Kingdom\, The Response of Bridges to Wind – Some Lessons from Monitoring Large Bridges \nShort presentations: \nProf. Steve Cai\, Louisiana State University\, USA\, Time domain simulation of turbulence effects on the aerodynamic flutter of long span bridges. \nProf. Claudio Mannini\, University of Florence\, Italy\, Nonlinear modelling of self-excited forces for a long-span bridge under turbulent wind. \nProf. Ole Andre Øiseth\, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Lessons learned from long-term wind and acceleration monitoring of the Hardanger Bridge. \nProf. Luca Caracoglia\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, USA\, Relevance of Uncertainty Quantification to Study Wind Load Variability and its Effects on Long-Span Bridge Aeroelasticity. \nThis is a tremendous achievement. The top researchers in the world\, in the field of long-span bridge aerodynamics\, will talk to an audience of experts and PhD students from around the world (usually 300 people)\, who will be connected via ZOOM. \nRefer to seminar page for more information including instructions for seminar registration\, abstracts of the talks and biographical details of the speakers\, including Prof. Luca Caracoglia.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/caracoglia-part-of-international-panel-to-discuss-bridge-aerodynamics/
CATEGORIES:use the department, audience, and topic lists
ORGANIZER;CN="Civil & Environmental Engineering":MAILTO:civilinfo@coe.neu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210108T090000
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SUMMARY:Ask Your Ambassador Anything Session for Graduate School of Engineering
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a live chat for all graduate engineering programs at Northeastern University! This is designed for prospective students to ask any questions they may have including the application process\, coursework\, student life\, and more! This chat will be moderated by current student ambassadors and is hosted on the Unibuddy platform.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ask-your-ambassador-anything-session-for-graduate-school-of-engineering/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210108T140000
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CREATED:20210107T163951Z
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SUMMARY:ECE PhD Proposal Review: Sungho Kang
DESCRIPTION:PhD Proposal Review: Metamaterial Absorbers for Infrared Sensing Microsystems \nSungho Kang \nLocation: Zoom \nAbstract: 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 IR spectroscopy systems has been steadily growing due to the advent of Internet of Things and the burgeoning development of miniaturized sensors. The key challenge lies in realizing high performance IR detectors that have low noise\, high IR throughput\, and spectral sensitivity in a miniaturized form factor. This challenge has been tackled in the study of micro-electromechanical sensing systems and metamaterial absorbers\, in which the ultra-high resolution sensing capability and the near-perfect IR absorption properties can be simultaneously exploited in a minimized footprint. The metal-insulator-metal (MIM) IR absorbers\, in particular\, are characterized by the near-unity absorptance with lithographically tunable peak absorption wavelength and spectral selectivity in an ultra-thin form factor\, suitable for the implementation of miniaturized spectroscopic IR microsystems. The exceptional IR absorption characteristics realized by the MIM IR absorbers and their sub-wavelength form factor allow for seamless integration with the existing IR sensing microsystem and the unprecedented IR sensing performance for the next generation IoT sensing solutions. In this proposal\, novel development of zero-power long-wavelength IR (LWIR) detector and miniaturized IR spectroscopic sensor based on the two key technologies are presented: (1) plasmonically-enhanced LWIR micromechanical photoswitch and (2) multispectral resonant IR detector array.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-phd-proposal-review-sungho-kang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210112T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210112T110000
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SUMMARY:ECE PhD Proposal Review: Haoqing Li
DESCRIPTION:PhD Proposal Review: Robust Processing against Interferences in GNSS Navigation \nHaoqing Li \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: Satellite-based navigation is prevalent as positioning applications among our lives\, how-ever\, this high reliance brings potential threats when different interferences and jamming signals are considered. Jamming devices\, although illegal in many countries\, can be easily to get. Those devices can broadcast high-power jamming signals in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) frequency band to destroy receiver’s performance. While jamming signals are illegal and we may get rid of it with the power of law\, other kinds of interferences will cannot even be avoided. Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) signal is applied to measure the distance between aircraft and ground station\, significant in aircraft transport but interference in GNSS processing. Besides\, the GNSS signal itself can also be a interference after reflection and refraction. Since we couldn’t simply re-move those from the source\, methods to mitigate influences of interferences is necessary for stable performance of receiver. There are three main blocks in GNSS receiver: acquisition block\, tracking block and positioning block\, where influence of interferences could be eliminate to get an accurate Position\, Velocity\, and Time (PVT) solution. In this article\, robust statistics processing is applied as one of the interference mitigation methods. This method aims to lower influence of outliers\, which is the presence of many kinds of interferences in either time domain or transformed domain. Robust statistics processing can be used in pre-correlation in both acquisition block and tracking block\, while a robust Kalman filter is designed in positioning block to get rid of interferences. Deep learning\, achieving extraordinary performance in many application domains\, also provides improvement to tracking block against multipath problem. A deep neural network is built to substitute the whole tracking loop to bring robustness to receiver.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-phd-proposal-review-haoqing-li/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210113T110000
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SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Elahe Soltanaghaei
DESCRIPTION:Location: Zoom Link \nSeminar Title: Sensing the Physical World using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure \nAbstract: The promise of IoT and emerging applications such as smart cities\, autonomous vehicles\, and mixed reality that are tightly coupled\nwith the physical environment pushes the demand for high-fidelity sensing. Meanwhile\, we are also seeing advances in wireless technologies such as Millimeter-wave and Massive MIMO systems that can transform the role of wireless networks from a pure communication medium to a pervasive sensing infrastructure. Elahe’s research investigates the synergy of wireless and sensing by applying signal processing and machine learning techniques to low-level RF signals. This talk will focus on how to map the natural interactions of wireless signals with the environment into physical and behavioral measurements for human sensing\, device localization and object tracking. She will then discuss her ongoing research on designing an RF-equivalent of optical retro-reflectors for automotive applications and will conclude with her\nroadmap toward omni-present sensing for the wireless embedded systems of the future. \nSpeaker Bio: Elahe Soltanaghaei is a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in the Wireless\, Sensing\, and Embedded Systems\n(WiSE) lab. She received her PhD in Computer Science from University of Virginia. Her research spans the areas of wireless sensing and networking with applications in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of her research\, her work has been published in premier conferences and journals in the areas of mobile computing\, wireless networks\, and energy and infrastructure. She is the recipient of 2020 ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award\, 2019 EECS Rising Stars\, and 2019 N2-Women Young Researcher Fellowship.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-elahe-soltanaghaei/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210115T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210115T103000
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SUMMARY:Uncertainty Quantification and Dynamic Response of Buildings and Tower Structures under Stationary and Non-stationary Wind Loads
DESCRIPTION:Luca Caracoglia \nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering \nNortheastern University\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, USA \nlucac@coe.neu.edu \n  \nDate: Friday January 15th\, 2:30-4:30 pm (CET)\, 8:30-10:30am (EST) \nLink: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a864f3dfe8993442ca116fe24bd231662%40thread.tacv2/1610092407076?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%226e6ade15-296c-4224-ac58-1c8ec2fd53a8%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%226d036117-bf26-4ee2-95fa-124ff7fb3f76%22%7d \nAbstract: This presentation will review recent study activities examining the response of slender\, vertical structures under the effects of destructive wind loads. These large-period\, low-damping structures are sensitive to fluid-structure interaction and susceptible to damage induced by wind loads. The common feature of the research is the quantification of uncertain wind loads\, associated with both stationary synoptic winds and localized\, nonstationary events. The former are typical of large extra-tropical depressions and tropical cyclonic phenomena (at a scale of several hundred kilometers); the latter include thunderstorm downbursts and tornadoes (less than one kilometer in diameter). The research activities have been devoted to the examination of several methodologies for predicting the structural response by accounting for modeling uncertainty and measurement “errors”\, e.g. loads evaluated by wind tunnel tests. The investigated methods are both analytical (stochastic calculus) and numerical (Monte-Carlo sampling). The ultimate goal of the research is the evaluation of wind-related damage over time in the context of risk analysis. \nThis presentation will include characterization of the dynamic response through multi-variable probability density functions and examination of lifecycle wind-related damage through intervention cost analysis. Examples will consider interactions on the envelope of tall buildings under various wind load scenarios and aeroelastic vibration causing damages primarily to nonstructural elements. The results will demonstrate that it is possible to predict the structural response and its consequences\, even in the presence of large modeling and experimental load variability\, provided that uncertainty propagation is extended to all the stages of structural analysis. These stages should possibly consider wind field simulation\, wind-pressure load assessment and fluid-structure interaction. \nBio-sketch: Luca Caracoglia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Northeastern University\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, USA. He joined Northeastern University in 2005. Prior to this appointment\, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University\, Baltimore\, Maryland (USA) in 2001-2002 and a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign\, USA) in 2002-2004. He received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Trieste\, Italy in 2001. His interests are in structural dynamics\, random vibration\, wind engineering\, fluid-structure interaction of civil engineering structures\, nonlinear cable network dynamics\, energy harvesting systems in wind energy. Luca Caracoglia received the NSF-CAREER Award for young investigators in 2009. Luca Caracoglia was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2020.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/uncertainty-quantification-and-dynamic-response-of-buildings-and-tower-structures-under-stationary-and-non-stationary-wind-loads/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210115T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210115T120000
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SUMMARY:ECE PhD Proposal Review: Lorenzo Bertizzolo
DESCRIPTION:PhD Proposal Review: Software-Defined Wireless Networking for 5G and Beyond: From Indoor Cells to Distributed Aerial Swarms \nLorenzo Bertizzolo \nLocation: MS Teams Link \nAbstract: While Software-defined Networking is a consolidated and widely adopted concept in fixed infrastructure\, its adoption to the wireless domain has been limited by some fundamental challenges. Different from wired deployments\, wireless stacks are characterized by tight inter-dependencies among their protocol stack layers (known as vertical coupling) and the nodes sharing the wireless channel (horizontal coupling). These effects combined undermine the implementation of i) Control plane / data plane separation\, and ii) Control of multiple data planes from a separate controller; the two founding principles of SDN. Recent developments in spectrum access technology\, however\, made it possible to reconfigure multiple layers of the wireless stack at once. This paved the way for the development of cross-layer algorithms toward the implementation of control plane / data plane separation for wireless. Moreover\, cross-layer algorithms can be employed together with distributed control theory to implement distributed and scalable control for wireless networks\, this way overcoming the difficulties of implementing separate control for multiple data planes.\nThis proposal exploits full-stack programmability to propose\, design\, and implement new cross-layer algorithms that reconfigure the wireless stack at multiple layers and in real-time. Through the systematic use of cross-layer optimization\, closed-loop control\, and dynamic network adaptation\, this proposal contributes to the development of a wide range of technological innovations for spectrum access\, to bring the benefits of Software-defined networking to the wireless domain. We present a closed-loop PHY/MAC cross-layer control algorithm to enable spectrally-efficient OFDM spectrum access in Wi-Fi populated bands. Then\, we exploit the technological innovations of a 5G Open-RAN infrastructure and propose a control system that enables broadband 5G connectivity for aerial cellular users that dynamically adapts to the changing network conditions like the time-changing distribution of pedestrian users in the surrounding. At millimeter-wave frequencies\, we propose a cross-domain control algorithm that reduces the initial access latency in standalone high-frequency systems and obtains higher spectral efficiency for aerial links. Finally\, we empower the SDN paradigm to bring network management to distributed aerial swarms. Through full-stack software programmability and programmable motion control\, we implement scalable wireless network management for distributed aerial swarms.\nWe conclude the proposal with an overview of the requirements and design principles for next-generation wireless testing platforms to support software-programmable spectrum access. \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-phd-proposal-review-lorenzo-bertizzolo/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210119T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210119T133000
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CREATED:20210113T181029Z
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SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Maria Kyrarini
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: Robot Learning from Demonstrations for Human-Robot Synergy \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: Imagine a world where robots support and assist us in our everyday professional and personal life. To achieve a successful Human-Robot Synergy\, robots will need to learn new tasks from humans seamlessly\, to act on the new knowledge\, and easily adapt to new situations and people around them. Robot Learning from Demonstrations (RLfD) is a method used to enhance the ability of robots to be easily teachable by people\, a vital ability for a successful Human-Robot Synergy. RLfD enables non-expert users to ‘program’ a robot by simply guiding the robot through a task. However\, current research in RLfD tends to disconnect low-level motor control and high-level symbolic reasoning capabilities. In this talk\, I will present a novel RLfD framework\, which enhances a robot’s abilities to learn and perform the sequences of actions for object manipulation tasks (high-level learning) and\, simultaneously\, learn and adapt the necessary trajectories for object manipulation (low-level learning). Then\, I will present a ‘hands-free’ human-robot interaction modality that enables individuals with severe motor impairments\, such as quadriplegia\, to teach a robot an assistive manipulation task. I will discuss how the presented RLfD framework was evaluated in a dual-arm industrial robot for assembly tasks and in an assistive robotic manipulator for providing a drink. The experimental results demonstrate the potential of the developed robot learning framework to enable continuous human-robot synergy in industrial and assistive applications. Finally\, I will conclude the talk with a brief discussion of my ongoing work and future research plans. \nSpeaker Bio: Maria Kyrarini is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas at Arlington under the advisement of Professor Dr. Fillia Makedon. She is also the assistant director of the Heracleia Human-Centered Computing Lab. In 2019\, Maria received her Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Bremen under the supervision of Professor Dr.-Eng. Axel Gräser. The title of her Ph.D. thesis is: “Robot learning from human demonstrations for human-robot synergy”. Before that\, she received her M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and her M.Sc. degree in Automation Systems both from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2012 and 2014\, respectively. Her primary research interests are in the fields of Robot Learning from Human Demonstrations\, Human-Robot Interaction\, and Assistive Robotics with a special focus on Enhancing Human Performance.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-maria-kyrarini/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T124500
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210113T171458Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Citation Management Tools
DESCRIPTION:Start your spring 2021 research off on the right foot with Northeastern University Library’s series of online workshops and webinars. In this workshop\, learn the basics of how to manage citations for yourself or your research group. \nRegister here: bit.ly/citationmgmtworkshops
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/introduction-to-citation-management-tools-2/2021-01-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T193000
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CREATED:20210111T201607Z
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SUMMARY:Dialogue of Civilizations Fair
DESCRIPTION:The Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) Fair is an opportunity for students to learn more about Northeastern’s signature faculty-led summer programs! Faculty member will be available via Zoom for questions and conversation. Representatives from Student Financial Services\, the Honors Office\, and GEO will also be available for any questions you may have. These are the opportunities for College of Engineering students: \n\nDiscovering Turkish Cultural Values and Engineering Economy Principles (Istanbul\, Turkey) – Mohammad Dehghani\nInternational Applications of Fluid Mechanics (Panama City\, Panama) – Carlos Hidrovo Chavez\nProcess Safety and Chemical Engineering in Spain (Tarragona\, Spain) – Ron Willey\nSustainable Urban Transportation (Delft\, Netherlands) – Peter Furth\nSustainable Waste Management: Resource Recovery & Environmental Protection (Cagliari\, Italy) – Annalisa Onnis-Hayden\nTechnical Innovation and Product Prototyping (San Jose\, California) – Bala Maheswaran\nTimber/Masonry Technology\, Design and Architectural Practices in Northern Italy (Trieste\, Italy) – Luca Caracoglia\nVirtual – Sustainable Energy in 21st Century Brazil (Sao Paulo\, Brazil) – Courtney Pfluger
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/dialogue-of-civilizations-fair/2021-01-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T103000
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SUMMARY:Innovative Solutions to Fight Ocean Pollution
DESCRIPTION:18 billion pounds of plastic enter our oceans each year\, a harrowing fact that only accounts for a portion of our planet’s pollution crisis. Northeastern innovators are tackling this problem to create sustainable solutions for cleaner oceans. Bureo Inc\, an emerging B-Corp\, has created a program to recycle fishing nets into a NetPlus™ material\, used in products by Patagonia and other partner companies. \nJoin the conversation to fight plastic pollution with Ben Kneppers\, E’07\, co-founder and COO of Bureo Inc.\, and Maarten Eenkema van Dijk\, E’14\, MS’15\, operations manager for Van Dyk Recycling Solutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is complimentary but registration is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/innovative-solutions-to-fight-ocean-pollution/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210119T160023Z
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SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Paolo Santi
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: IoT: An Enabling Technology for Designing Better Cities \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract:  IoT is rapidly evolving into an enabling technology with countless potential applications. In this seminar\, we will explore how IoT technology can help in the design of better cities\, starting from the re-design of city systems and infrastructures (mobility\, power grid\, etc.) based on large- scale data acquisition. We will highlight the challenges related to systems where real-time actuation is a need\, as well as those related to design problems where actuation occurs on a longer time scale\, such as urban infrastructure planning. We will then show how IoT technology can be used also to gain a deeper understanding of how humans interact with existing urban systems. This deeper comprehension of human behavior is key to design systems that are not only “algorithmically” efficient\, but that also conform to fundamental human behavioral patterns. \nBio: Paolo Santi is Principal Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab and Research Director at the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica\, CNR\, Pisa\, Italy. Dr. Santi holds a “Laurea” degree and the PhD in computer science from the University of Pisa\, Italy. Dr. Santi is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and has recently been recognized as\nDistinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery. His research interest is in the modeling and analysis of complex systems ranging from wireless multi hop\nnetworks to sensor and vehicular networks and\, more recently\, smart mobility and intelligent transportation systems. In these fields\, he has contributed more than 160 scientific papers and two books.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-paolo-santi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210114T184813Z
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UID:23804-1611241200-1611244800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Mojtaba Sharifi
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: Research Background and Experience in Medical Robotics\,Human-Robot Interaction\, and Collaborative/Assistive Devices \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: In this talk\, Mojtaba Sharifi will go over the research projects he has done in the field of Medical Robotics\, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)\, and Collaborative/Assistive Robotics during the past ten years. His presentation is organized in three sections\, which cover his research achievements chronologically from his MSc to the current Postdoc position. The first one is devoted to his main research area during the MSc and Ph.D. programs on the “Control of HRI: Medical Robotic and Tele-Robotic Systems”. After that\, he will touch upon his recent contribution made on the “Interaction Learning and Autonomy for Collaborative Robots and Assistive Exoskeletons”\, during the postdoctoral research. The last part of this presentation is dedicated to his past and ongoing projects on the “Human Musculoskeletal Modeling & Soft Exoskeletons for Safe HRI”\, for biomedical applications. Throughout this presentation\, the theoretical and experimental aspects of these studies will be elaborated on.   \n Biography: Mojtaba Sharifi received the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shiraz University\, Shiraz\, Iran\, in 2010 and the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology\, Tehran\, Iran\, in 2012. He conducted a collaborative project in the Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Lab of the University of Alberta\, Canada\, from 2015 to 2016 as a visiting doctoral researcher. Then\, he earned a Ph.D. degree in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology\, Tehran\, Iran\, in 2017. Mojtaba also performed an interdisciplinary research project on the design and fabrication of new soft robotic actuators in 2019 as a research associate at the University College London\, UK. He has published more than 40 papers and chapters in high-quality journals\, conferences\, and books on his interdisciplinary theoretical-experimental research. His research interests include the design and implementation of autonomous control systems\, physical human-robot interaction (pHRI)\, medical robotics (rehabilitation\, surgery\, and imaging)\, control of musculoskeletal systems\, impedance control and learning\, haptics\, collaborative– and tele-robotics\, soft robotics\, wearable\, and assistive mechatronic systems (exoskeleton and prosthesis). Mojtaba is the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship award\, working at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Medicine\, University of Alberta\, Canada. He is now investigating new autonomous control policies employing adaptive learning rules for the Central Pattern Generation (CPG) to update and personalize the human locomotion\, which is to be tracked by a lower-limb powered exoskeleton with optimized torque and FES inputs. He is also leading a project that aims to design\, fabricate\, and implement soft robotic systems for safely assisting people with upper-limb weakness.  
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-mojtaba-sharifi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210114T204132Z
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UID:23810-1611252000-1611257400@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Galante Event: Career Paths Are Rarely Linear\, Follow Your Passion
DESCRIPTION:Join the Galante Program on Thursday\, January 21st at Career Paths Are Rarely Linear\, Follow your Passion! Chris Willis ’82\, former Partner at Impala Asset Management\, will cover his extensive background in engineering and finance. Chris has experience working on Wall Street in equity analysis and eventually transitioned to the investing side of business. He retired in 2016\, only to return to the investment business for a couple of years and is running his own fund Exothermic Global.  \nPlease RSVP. We hope to see you at this virtual event! \n  \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/galante-event-career-paths-are-rarely-linear-follow-your-passion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210112T150820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T150820Z
UID:23685-1611338400-1611338400@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:5th Annual Multicultural Mixer
DESCRIPTION:This year’s theme is “Moving the Dream Forward” in honor and celebration of MLK Day (1/18). Registration is currently live. We are trying to reach current and new graduate students (those starting Winter/Spring ’21)\, faculty\, staff\, and alumni within the Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color (BIPOC) community to be apart of this amazing event. We have so many surprises in store and we can’t wait to share them with all of you. \nRegister
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/5th-annual-multicultural-mixer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210125T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210125T133000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210114T184911Z
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UID:23788-1611577800-1611581400@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Kris Dorsey
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: Challenges and opportunities in design in tunable\, soft mechanical sensors. \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: Physically-soft mechanical sensors are poised to unlock exciting new applications in wearable devices\, robotics\, and human-machine interfaces. Typically with these sensors\, tuning their properties through the device geometry is a challenge. A promising development in soft mechanical sensors is hierarchically-patterned structures within the sensor\, which enables both deformation selectivity and the ability to tune\, and potentially reconfigure\, sensing properties. Dorsey will discuss challenges and recent work related to designing and fabricating hierarchically-patterned sensors\, including origami-patterned sensors. Dorsey will also present work in enhancing the stability and mechanical selectivity of stretchable sensors\, and discuss applications for such sensors in wearable healthcare applications and soft robotics.    \nSpeaker Bio: \nKris Dorsey is an assistant professor of engineering in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley and University of California\, San Diego. Dr. Dorsey graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and earned her Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Olin College. She founded The MicroSMITHie Lab at Smith College to investigate micro- and miniature-scale sensor design and to prepare undergraduates for graduate study in engineering. Her current research interests include novel morphology soft sensors\, stability concerns for soft-material sensors\, and sensors for soft robots and wearable medical devices.  Dr. Dorsey has co-authored several publications on hyper–elastic strain sensors\, novel soft lithography processes\, and the stability of gas chemical sensors. In 2019\, she received the NSF CAREER award.  
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-kris-dorsey/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T142000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210119T192827Z
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UID:23849-1611666000-1611670800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Dr. Subhanshu Gupta
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: The Coming Together of Silicon Circuits and AI for Next Generation Wireless Communications\, IOT\, and Quantum Applications \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: The ubiquity of silicon-based devices around us have paved the way for fast communications\, personalized healthcare\, and terabits/sec computing unthinkable few decades ago. The question of what’s next for silicon-based circuits and systems gets interesting with the end (or as some say\, slowing) of technology scaling but the emphasis on wireless infrastructure\, internet-of-things\, and quantum computing leveraging advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought forward several new fundamental challenges. This talk will harness recent research in silicon-based circuits and systems and AI to bridge the fundamental gap in the underlying physics of large-scale wireless communications and cryogenics harmoniously with the outside environment. The first part of the talk will present reconfigurable spatial signal processors for large-scale antenna arrays that can achieve unprecedented resolution both in near-field and far-field. Introducing discretetime delay compensating techniques with large range-to-resolution ratios and AI-optimized radio frontend solutions\, we will demonstrate high data-rates with wide modulated bandwidths suited to 5G/Beyond-5G wireless communications. The second part of the talk will present AI optimizers to solve practical issues in well-known high-speed and high-resolution superconducting/quantum circuits for the first time. We will look into the design of an energy-efficient and low-latency optimizer that greatly reduces the calibration time and enabling heterogeneous cryogenic platforms coupling speed and energy-efficiency of Josephson Junctions with area-efficiency of CMOS. The third part of the talk will present silicon-based systems-on-chip that enables large-scale IoT networks combining advances in self powered radios with energy harvesters tapping into the surrounding environments. We will conclude this talk with custom integrated cryoelectronics and multi-antenna testbeds for modeling and design of high-speed cryoelectronic processors and spatial signal processors with diverse spatial functions such as beam training and RFI cancellation for future quantum computing and distributed antenna arrays of tomorrow. \nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Subhanshu Gupta received the B.E. degree from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) at Tiruchirappalli\, Tiruchirappalli\, India\, in 2002\, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA\, USA\, in 2006 and 2010\, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with Washington State University\, Pullman\, WA\, USA. He has held industrial positions at Maxlinear (Irvine\, CA) where he worked on wideband transceivers for SATCOM and infrastructure applications. Subhanshu is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2020\, the Department of Defense DURIP award in 2021\, and the Cisco Faculty Research Award in 2017. He and his group has also been nominated and awarded multiple student awards including Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2008\, the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award (third place in 2011 and nominee in 2020)\, and the IEEE Applied Superconductivity Conference (nominee in 2020). Subhanshu serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I for the term 2020-21 and also served as a guest editor for IEEE Design & Test of Computers in 2019. His research interests include large-scale phased arrays and wideband transceivers\, low-power time-domain circuits and systems\, and statistical hardware optimization for next-generation wireless communications\, internet-of-things\, and quantum applications.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-dr-subhanshu-gupta/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T142000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210119T202431Z
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UID:23862-1611752400-1611757200@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Dr. Jun Xiao
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: 2D Materials For Next-Generation Information Technology: From Functional Material Miniaturization To Energy-Efficient Phase Engineering \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: The emergence of artificial intelligence and 5G technology is transforming our world with novel applications such as the Internet of Things\, smart manufacturing\, and AI-empowered medical care. However\, this information revolution sets a massive demand for information capacity and energy supply. Such a big challenge urges innovations in device engineering and its material building blocks to boost information capacity and reduce energy consumption. In this talk\, I will focus on the exciting progress of the emergent 2D layered materials and their device engineering in this direction. First\, I will introduce our discovery of intrinsic 2D out-of-plane ferroelectricity in semiconducting In2Se3\, which holds great promise for ferroelectric device miniaturization. I will then present our electrostatic doping control innovation as a new energy-efficient mechanism for structural phase engineering in layered materials. I will further show how we utilize such technology to invent the non-volatile Berry curvature memory\, a new type of energy-efficient quantum devices. Inspired by these findings and techniques\, I will also briefly discuss the exciting future opportunities of leveraging the structure-property relationship and light-matter interactions in layered quantum materials and devices to boost the translation of novel quantum notions into technological advantages for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing\, robust quantum processing\, and biosensing. \nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Jun Xiao is a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. Aaron Lindenberg in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Prof. Tony Heinz in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Science and Technology from UC Berkeley (2018) under Prof. Xiang Zhang’s supervision. His research experience and interests focus on leveraging quantum materials and devices for energy-efficient neuromorphic engineering\, robust quantum computing\, THz sensing\, and high-throughput manufacturing.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-dr-jun-xiao/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210126T180728Z
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UID:23940-1611759600-1611766800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:AIX Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our first AIX Seminar. \nLocation: Zoom Link \nSeminar 1 title: Allostasis and Interoception: Brain-Body Interactions and Implications for Robotics \nSpeakers: Dr. Karen Quigley\, Northeastern University\, and Dr. Erin Reilly\, Veteran Affairs \nAbstract: For much of the history of psychology\, sensation\, perception\, action\, emotion\, and cognition were studied as if they were separate\, biologically-defined faculties — they are not. A prominent current neuroscientific perspective (and variants thereof) suggest that a brain runs an internal\, predictive model or simulation of itself in the world. This model supports all functions achieved by a brain\, and in this view\, predictions constitute the internal model. Our lab has marshaled neuroanatomical evidence that predictions arise from visceromotor control regions in the brain to support anticipated action and other metabolically-costly functions such as learning. Collectively\, these anticipatory regulatory processes are called allostasis. Allostasis is the major task of a brain\, which utilizes 20% of the energetic budget of a human. A brain also requires a body\, which is the effector by which the brain supports maintenance of its own energetic needs. The internal model also is modified by prediction error arising from unanticipated inputs from both exteroceptive (e.g.\, vision) and interoceptive (e.g.\, viscerosensory) sources. Interoceptive sensations provide critical information to the brain about the status of the body\, enabling motor and visceromotor actions that can most efficiently support the brain’s energetic needs. Understanding these biological realities can bring new ideas to both the design of robots\, and also to our understanding of how to optimize humans-robot interactions. \n  \nSeminar 2 title: Improving Interaction using Intelligence \nSpeaker: Dr. Jaime Ruiz\, University of Florida \nAbstract: Adding intelligence to user interfaces provides unique opportunities to improve the way users interact with computing systems. In this talk\, I will give a broad overview of the types of projects undertaken by may lab. I will also highlight several projects that aim to use neration of multimodal interfaces.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/aix-seminar/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210131
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210119T190824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T190824Z
UID:23797-1611792000-1612051199@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:CILS Film Screening: Picture A Scientist
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems (CILS) is hosting a virtual screening of Picture A Scientist. This award-winning documentary draws attention to the challenges facing women and minority scientists. \nRegister for the screening through the following link: https://forms.gle/SNQjrFQQt5zYduMk7 \nThe showing will be the start of monthly learning events hosted by CILS where new imaging modalities or microscopic techniques that are available through CILS will be highlighted and explained. View the CILS facilities. \nStay tuned for a panel discussion hosted by the Department of Chemistry about the film.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/cils-film-screening-picture-a-scientist/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210121T150742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210121T150742Z
UID:23891-1611831600-1611835200@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:CommuniTEA Time
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Women in Science and Engineering is hosting CommuniTEA time on Thursday\, 1/29 at 11 AM EST. Come chit chat with us and sip on your favorite mid-morning beverage. Join the virtual sipping circle at bit.ly/gwisetea. See you there! \nJoin our email list at bit.ly/GWISEJoin and our MS Teams at bit.ly/GWISETeam
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/communitea-time/
ORGANIZER;CN="GWiSE%3A Graduate Women in Science and Engineering":MAILTO:gwise.neu@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T133000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210125T144810Z
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UID:23903-1611837000-1611840600@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Seungmoon Song
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: Toward predictive simulation of human movement – for assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment  \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: I will present my research towards predictive simulations of human movement for assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment. First\, I will talk about a neuromechanical control model based on simple reflexes. The model can generate diverse locomotion behaviors\, react to perturbations similarly to humans\, and explain why walking performance declines with age. However\, as the model was focused on low-level motor control primarily for steady locomotion behaviors\, extending and verifying the model for more complex movements and reactions is necessary for producing reliable predictions for novel scenarios. In the later part\, I will present recent projects on conducting a human experiment with gait assistive exoskeletons and using deep reinforcement learning to developing complex control models. In the experimental study\, we found using human-in-the-loop optimization that it is possible to substantially increase self-selected walking speed with ankle exoskeletons. Regarding deep reinforcement learning\, we organized the Learn to Move competition\, where participants developed controllers for a human musculoskeletal simulation model. The competition has been organized at the NeurIPS conference since 2017 and has attracted over 1300 teams from around the world. At last\, I will discuss my plan of incorporating rigorous experimental validations and advanced computational techniques toward neuromechanical models that could change the way we design rehabilitation treatment and study human movement. \nSpeaker Bio: Seungmoon Song is a postdoctoral researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Stanford University. He is also a recipient of an NIH K99 award and the lead organizer of the NeurIPS: Learn to Move competition. His research focuses on modeling the neuromechanics of human movement and applying it to rehabilitation and robotics. As a postdoc\, he is working on improving human walking performance with exoskeleton assistance using human-in-the-loop optimization. During his Ph.D. at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University\, he proposed a reflex-based control model that could explain various aspects of human locomotion including diverse locomotion behaviors of healthy adults\, responses to unexpected disturbances\, and performance degradation in aging.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-seungmoon-song/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T141000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T153000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210119T202302Z
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UID:23856-1611843000-1611847800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Dr. Xufeng Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: Advancing Quantum Information Science With Hybrid Cavity Magnonics \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: With recent demonstration of quantum computers and quantum communication\, quantum technologies have started to change our world in an unprecedented way. To fully explore the power of quantum information science and technology\, it is critical to further combine discrete quantum elements and build distributed quantum networks. However\, this poses significant technical challenges because the quantum coherence can be easily destroyed as the weak quantum signal propagates across different systems. In this talk\, I will show that magnons — the collective excitations of magnetization — provide a promising solution for efficiently transducing quantum information among different systems while preserving the delicate quantum coherence. Specifically\, cavity magnonics can be conveniently hybridized with other physical platforms that operate in the microwave\, mechanical and optical domains because of its exceptional compatibilities with them. Moreover\, thanks to the large spin density in our magnonic system\, the interactions between magnons and the information carriers used in other systems (such as photons and phonons) are drastically boosted\, providing elevated protection for the signal coherence. Most importantly\, the excellent tunability of magnons permits unparalleled manipulation for the signal transduction. Therefore\, high-fidelity magnon-based signal transduction can be achieved. I will finish the talk by describing opportunities and our efforts toward quantum operations and on-chip integration of hybrid cavity magnonics. \nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Xufeng Zhang has been working as an assistant scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials\, Argonne National Laboratory\, and CASE fellow of the University of Chicago since 2018. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Yale University in 2016\, where he worked on hybrid magnonic devices in Prof. Hong Tang’s group. He is the winner of the Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for his exceptional graduate research at Yale University. After graduation he joined Argonne National Laboratory as the Nikola-Tesla postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include hybrid quantum devices\, magnon spintronics\, integrated photonics\, nanomechanics\, and high frequency devices.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-dr-xufeng-zhang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210129T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210129T124500
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210119T202526Z
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UID:23866-1611918900-1611924300@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: Dr. Yi Li
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Title: Coherent Information Processing with Onchip Hybrid Magnonics \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: Hybrid dynamic systems have recently attracted great attention due to their applications in quantum computing\, communications\, and sensing. In particular\, they provide a new paradigm for combining platforms and devices that can perform different tasks such as storing\, processing\, and transmitting coherent states. In this talk\, I will discuss the potential in quantum information processing brought by magnon—the collective excitations of magnetization. Magnons exhibit a few key features making them highly competitive in quantum information processing\, namely their strong coupling to microwave photons\, their extraordinary tunability and flexibility for chip-based circuit integration\, as well as their excellent compatibility for coupling with various dynamic media such as mechanical excitations and optical photons for coherent quantum transduction. In the first part\, I will demonstrate strong coupling between magnons and microwave photons by integrating magnetic devices with coplanar superconducting resonators on Si substrate. The on-chip integration of such superconducting hybrid magnonic circuits provides great flexibility in circuit design\, device scalability as well as being extended to the circuit quantum electrodynamics for qubit controls. In the second part\, I will cultivate the dynamic interaction between magnons and excitations with far different frequencies\, such as mechanical excitations and optical photons\, for advanced sensing of magnetic excitations. The device level coupling between diverse excitations suggest a compelling candidate of magnons for building a universal coherent transducer in bridging different quantum systems for extended functionality. \nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Yi Li is currently a postdoc in the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group at Argonne National Laboratory. He has obtained his B.S. degree in Physics from Peking University (2009) and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Columbia University (2015). Prior to Argonne he has been a postdoc at CEA Saclay in France for two years (2015-2017). Yi Li’s research focuses on building hybrid quantum magnonic circuits based on microwave superconducting circuits and magnetic devices for their applications in quantum information processing. Yi was the recipient of the Postdoctoral Performance Awards (2020) at Argonne National Laboratory and the IEEE Chicago “Distinguished R&D” Award (2020) for his pioneering work on magnon-photon coupling in superconducting resonator for Quantum Information Science. For more information about his work please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/prc1988.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-seminar-dr-yi-li/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210129T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T230035
CREATED:20210128T190716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210128T190716Z
UID:24004-1611932400-1611936000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE PhD Proposal Review: Sadjad Asghari Esfeden
DESCRIPTION:PhD Proposal Review: SpatioTemporal Prediction of Object Handover for Human Robot Collaboration \nSadjad Asghari Esfeden \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: Predicting human behaviour in video is one of the challenging problems in computer vision. In order for robots to be able to interact with humans they need to understand human intent. We study the problem of object handover\, where a robot tries to follow its collaborator’s movement as well as the object of interest to grasp the object in a human-like behavior. Therefore\, the robot should predict a moving object’s time and location of handover. We propose a computer vision based algorithm to help robot understand its environment\, detect\, track\, and predict object and human motions during the task of handover. The perception system enables robot to move towards the locus of handover before it occurs\, and refine its motion when there is a change in human intention. \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-phd-proposal-review-sadjad-asghari-esfeden/
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