PhD Dissertation Defense: Automatic Face Understanding: Recognizing Families in Photos Joseph Robinson Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Visual kinship recognition has an abundance of practical uses. For this, we built the largest database for kinship recognition, FIW. Built entirely in-house with no cost using a semi-automatic labeling scheme. Specifically, we first aligned faces detected in family […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Planning of Contact-Interaction Trajectories Using Numerical Optimization Aykut Onol Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Dynamic multi-contact behaviors, such as locomotion and item manipulation, remain to be a challenge for today’s robotic systems. This is primarily due to the discontinuous and non-smooth dynamics introduced by contacts. For mobile manipulators (e.g., humanoids) to become useful […]
MS Thesis Defense: MEMS Infrared Resonant Detectors With Near-Zero Power Readout For Miniaturized Low Power Systems Sila Deniz Calisgan Location: Online Abstract: The demand for low-cost and low-power microsystems for spectrally-selective IR sensing has been rising with the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) for applications such as security surveillance and natural disaster monitoring. As […]
PhD Proposal Review: Sample Complexity of Pairwise Ranking Regression Berkan Kadioglu Location: Zoom Abstract: We consider a rank regression setting, in which a dataset of $N$ samples with features in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is ranked by an oracle via $M$ pairwise comparisons. Specifically, there exists a latent total ordering of the samples; when presented with a pair […]
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December 1: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Talk to a Regional Campus Advisor: Seattle + Silicon Valley Admitted Students 9:00 PM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.
December 2: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Discussion: Spring Semester, What to Expect? 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.
PhD Dissertation Defense: Ceramic Magnetic Wires at Wireless Communication Frequencies Leili Hayati Location: Online Abstract: Ferrite magnetic devices play an important role in modern wireless telecommunication systems. They generally require permanent magnets in order to magnetically polarize the ferrite material component used in these devices. The permanent magnets are bulky and take up most of […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Topology Error Detection in Power System State Estimation Bilgehan Donmez Location: Teams Link Abstract: Growth of renewable energy, changes in weather patterns, and increases in cyber- and physical-attacks are examples of recent challenges in power system operation. To keep up with these rapid transformations, it is imperative to improve the tools used […]
Jessica Wagenseil, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis MO “Elastin mechanobiology in aortic development” ABSTRACT: The extracellular matrix protein, elastin, provides reversible extensibility to the aorta that is critical for proper function of the cardiovascular system. Elastin is deposited during late embryonic and early postnatal growth, […]