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Interdisciplinary Distinguished Seminar Series
Fundamental problems in science and engineering have become increasingly interdisciplinary, requiring knowledge and expert input from several areas of research. This is both challenging and exciting. The primary challenge faced by researchers is to keep abreast of new developments in tangential research areas to their own, not to mention those which are considered different. The increasing complexity of newly arising problems has on the other hand, invariably required a multifaceted approach to viewing and understanding them, and ultimately produce a solution.
To that end, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosts a regularly scheduled seminar series with preeminent and leading reseachers in the US and the world, to help promote North Carolina as a center of innovation and knowledge and to ensure safeguarding its place of leading research.
The Interdisciplinary Distinguished Speaker Series is funded through a grant provided by the US Army Research Office.
All talks are scheduled to take place at 1 pm in Room 1230 at Engineering Building II (unless noted otherwise), on NC State's award-winning Centennial Campus. Each talk will be free and open to the public.
Past Lecturers
Design and Performance of Adaptive Systems, Based on Evolutionary Optimization Strategies
Dr. W. K. Jenkins, Professor of Electrical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. W. K. Jenkins spoke on Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
The Impact of Time Delays in Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment
Gyorgy Korniss, Professor, Department of Physics and The Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Gyorgy Korniss spoke on Friday, April 13th, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Controlling Epitaxial Graphene Growth
Dr. D. Kurt Gaskill, Senior Scientist
Advanced SiC Epitaxial Research Laboratory, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375
Dr. D. Kurt Gaskill spoke on Friday, April 6th, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Revitalizing the Power Grid Needs, Benefits and Advancements
Dr. Damir Novosel, President
Quanta Technology
Dr. Damir Novosel spoke on Friday, March 23rd, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Empirical Mode Decompositions, From basics to recent results
Patrick Flandrin, Research Director
Laboratoire de Physique, Eciole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Patrick Flandrin spoke on Friday, March 16th, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Super-Turing Computation
Dr. Hava Siegelmann, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dr. Hava Siegelmann spoke on Friday, February 24th, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Reformation-Based Approaches to Query Optimization
Dr. Rada Chirkova, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
North Carolina State University
Dr. Rada Chirkova spoke on Friday, February 17th, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Skewed functional processes and their applications
Dr. Ana-Maria Staicu, Assistant Professor, Statistics Department
North Carolina State University
Dr. Ana-Maria Staicu spoke on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
A Weight-Based View of Approximate Inference In Graphical Models
Alexander Ihler, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Alexander Ihler spoke on Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
At the boundaries of high-frequency analog & RF ICs: Speed, energy and uncertainty
David Ricketts, Harvard Innovation Fellow, School of Engineering & Applied Science
Harvard University
David Ricketts spoke on Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 12:50PM in Monteith Research Center (MRC) 136
Screening For Connections and Hubs In Large Scale Correlation Graphs
Alfred Hero, R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering
University of Michigan
Alfred Hero spoke on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Compressive Sensing-Based MIMO Radar
Athina Petropulu, Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Rutgers University
Athina Petropulu spoke on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Multiple Uses of Correlation Filters for Biometrics
Vijay Kumar, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Kumar spoke on Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Greener Video Coding and Processing for the Mobile and Desktop Worlds
Dr. Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Full Professor, Computer Science Department
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Dr. Ricardo L. de Queiroz spoke on Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Robust Topological Features For Deformation Invariant Image Matching
Dr. Edgar Lobaton, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State University
Dr. Edgar Lobaton spoke on Friday, October 14th, 2011 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Bio-Inspired Cognition and Networks
Ali Sayed, Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of California
Ali Sayed spoke on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Fast, Automatic, Photo-realistic, 3D Modeling of Building Interiors
Avideh Zakhor, Professor, EECS
University of California, Berkley
Avideh Zakhor spoke on Friday, September 2nd, 2011 at 12:50PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Algebraic Statistics
Seth Sullivant, Associate Professor, Mathematics
NC State University
Seth Sullivant spoke on Friday, August 26th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Configuration Spaces of Hard Disks
Matthew Kahle, Assistant Professor
Ohio State University
Matthew Kahle spoke on Friday, April 29th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Bayesian Alignment of Unlabeled Marked Point Sets Using Random Fields
Dr. Ian Dryden, Professor, Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
Dr. Ian Dryden spoke on Friday, April 15th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Natural Language Processing in a Multilingual Setting
Dr. Sandra Kubler, Director of Computational Linguistics
Indiana University
Dr. Sandra Kubler spoke on Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Multiscale Geometric Methods for Noisy Point Clouds in High Dimensions
Dr. Mauro Maggioni, Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science
Duke University
Dr. Mauro Maggioni spoke on Friday, March 18th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Statistical Inference, Topology and Geometry
Dr. Sayan Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Statistical and Computer Science
Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
Dr. Sayan Mukherjee spoke on Friday, February 25th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Finite-dimensional variational inequalities: analysis, algorithms and applications
Dr. Shu Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Shu Lu spoke on Friday, February 11th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems) Machine for Smart Grid
Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State University
Dr. Subhashish Bhattacharya spoke on Friday, January 28th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Information Aggregation in Complex Networks
Dr. Ali Jadbabaie, Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Ali Jadbabaie spoke on Friday, January 14th, 2011 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Topology in the 21st Century
Dr. Vin de Silva, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Pomona College, California
Dr. Vin de Silva spoke on Friday, December 10th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Digital Color Management: Getting the Colors Right
Dr. Michael J. Vrhel, Color Scientist
Artifex Software Inc.
Dr. Michael J. Vrhel spoke on Friday, November 19th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
From Millimeter to Terahertz Waves
Dr. John Scales, Professor of Physics
Colorado School of Mines
Dr. John Scales spoke on Friday, November 5th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
An Introduction to Network Science: History, Perspective, Statistical Research
Dr. Stanley Wasserman, Rudy Professor of Statistics and Psychology
Indiana University
Dr. Stanley Wasserman spoke on Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Mathematical Modeling of Shape
Dr. Huiling Le, Professor, Mathematics
University of Nottingham, UK
Dr. Huiling Le spoke on Friday, September 24th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
Metric Geometry in Shape Matching
Dr. Facundo Memoli, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics Department
Stanford University
Dr. Facundo Memoli spoke on Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building III, Room 2213
An MCMC Approach to Lossy Compression of Analog Sources
Dr. Dror Baron, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NC State University
Dr. Dror Baron spoke on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 2213
Frequency Domain Bootstrap Methods for Spectral Analysis
Dr. Abdelhak M Zoubir, Fellow of the IEEE and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Dr. Abdelhak M Zoubir spoke on Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at 3:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
An Optimal Control Viewpoint to Fluid Registration
Marc Niethammer, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Biomedical Research Imaging Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marc Niethammer spoke on Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
A Signal-Processing Approach to Modeling Vision, and Applications
Sheila S. Hemami, Professor
Cornell University
Sheila S. Hemami spoke on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
A Friendly Introduction to Compressive Imaging
Dr. Kerkil Choi, Research Scientist
Duke University
Dr. Kerkil Choi spoke on Saturday, April 10th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
The Re-Emergence of Successive Approximation as the Architecture of Choice for Integrated Analog to Digital Converters
L. Richard Carley, STMicroelectronics Professor of Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
L. Richard Carley spoke on Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 3:00PM in Monteith Research Center (MRC) 136
Grand Challenge Problems in Digital Imaging
Charles A. Bouman, Michael J. and Katherine R. Birck Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Charles A. Bouman spoke on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Automated High-Resolution Protein Structure Determination Using Residual Dipolar Couplings
Anna Yershova, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University
Duke University
Anna Yershova spoke on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Distance and mean in the Space of Phylogenetic Trees
Megan Owen, Postdoctoral Associate at North Carolina State University
North Carolina State Universtiy
Megan Owen spoke on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
TV Whitespace: technical challenges, regulatory issues, and a new testbed in Wilmington
John Chapin, Scientist and consultant
MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics - TV Band Service LLC
John Chapin spoke on Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 3:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Defending Against Biological Terrorism
Dr. C. A. Aguilar, MIT Technical staff member in Chemical and Biological Defense Systems Group
MIT Lincoln Laboratories, MA
Dr. C. A. Aguilar spoke on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Perceptual and Predicted Color Difference Evaluations
Dr. Renzo Shamey, Lecturer, Polymer and Color Chemistry
North Carolina State University
Dr. Renzo Shamey spoke on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Biomedical Optical Coherence Sensing of Plasmon-Resonant and Magnetic Nanoprobes
Amy Oldenburg, Assistant Professor in Physics and Astronomy
Physics Department, UNC-Chapel Hill
Amy Oldenburg spoke on Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Configuration Spaces and Topology of Robot Motion Planning
Dr. Goderdzi Pruidze, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Louisiana State University
Dr. Goderdzi Pruidze spoke on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Estimating Homology of High-Dimensional Point Clouds
Dr. Yuriy Mileyko, Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department at Duke University
Duke University
Dr. Yuriy Mileyko spoke on Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Building Barriers in Sensor Networks With Cyclic Cellular Automata
Dr. Yuliy Baryshnikov, Department Head at Bell Laboratories
Bell Laboratories
Dr. Yuliy Baryshnikov spoke on Friday, September 4th, 2009 at 1:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Sensitivity Analysis of Biochemical Reaction Systems: Current Techniques and Future Challenges
Dr. John Goutsias, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Dr. John Goutsias spoke on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Local Field Potential Neural Prosthetics
A. H. Tewfik, Professor of Electronic Communications
University of Minnesota
A. H. Tewfik spoke on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Golay, Heisenberg and Weyl
Robert Calderbank, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
Princeton University
Robert Calderbank spoke on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Numerical Algebraic Geometry
DR. Andrew Sommese, Duncan Professor of Mathematics
University of Notre Dame
DR. Andrew Sommese spoke on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Security: Content Protection and Sensor Forensics
Edward J. Delp, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Edward J. Delp spoke on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Multi-Projector Displays: Problems and Advantages
Prof. H. Joel Trussell, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
North Carolina State University
Prof. H. Joel Trussell spoke on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Target Enumeration Via Euler Characteristic Integrals
Yuliy Baryshnikov, Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computing Engineering
University of Illinois
Yuliy Baryshnikov spoke on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Imaging Experience-Dependent Emergence of Functional Circuits In Visual Cortex
Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Professor in the Department of Neurobiology
Duke University
Dr. David Fitzpatrick spoke on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Distributed Estimation Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Georgios B. Giannakis, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
Georgios B. Giannakis spoke on Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Looking For Patterns In Video
Dr. Rama Chellappa, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
Dr. Rama Chellappa spoke on Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Distributed Flow Detection via Timing Analysis
Dr. Lang Tong, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
Dr. Lang Tong spoke on Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Arrays and Cooperative Transceivers for Wireless Localization and Communications
Mostafa Kaveh, Associate Dean for Research and Planning for the Institute of Technology
University of Minnesota
Mostafa Kaveh spoke on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Language, Cognition, and Cultural Evolution
Dr. Leonid Perlovsky, Visiting Scholar
Harvard University
Dr. Leonid Perlovsky spoke on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
The Multimedia Revolution
Alex Acero, Research Area Manager
Microsoft Research
Alex Acero spoke on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Nanotechnology and the Future of Electronics
Dr. Robert Trew, Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Dr. Robert Trew spoke on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Object Categorization and the Need for Many-to-Many Matching
Dr. Sven J. Dickinson, Professor of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Dr. Sven J. Dickinson spoke on Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Weather Radar
Dr. Svetlana Bachman, Researcher
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Svetlana Bachman spoke on Friday, January 18th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Complex Modulation and Acoustic Scene Analysis
Dr. Les Atlas, Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Dr. Les Atlas spoke on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Optimal (Delayed) Control of Stochastic Systems with Memory
Dr. Mou-Hsiung (Harry) Chang, Program Manager
U.S. Army Research Office
Dr. Mou-Hsiung (Harry) Chang spoke on Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Contextual Effects in Primary Visual Cortex: Pathways and Mechanisms
Dr. Alessandra Angelucci, Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Dr. Alessandra Angelucci spoke on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Intercarrier Interference Suppression in OFDM Systems
Dr. Husheng Li, Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
Dr. Husheng Li spoke on Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
The Iterative Solution of General Finite Linear Systems VIA Flexible New Dual Variational Principles
Dr. Elmor L. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Operations Research
North Carolina State University
Dr. Elmor L. Peterson spoke on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Object and Scene Recognition with Bags of Features and Spatial Pyramids
Dr. Svetlana Lazebnik, Assistant Professor
University of Chapel Hill
Dr. Svetlana Lazebnik spoke on Friday, October 5th, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Measuring the Placenta: Highlights into the "how" and "when" of gestational complications
DR, Carolyn M. Salafia, Physician, Surgeon, Director
EarlyPath Clinical and Research Consultation Service
DR, Carolyn M. Salafia spoke on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Management of Images Collections
Dr. Djemel Ziou, Professor of Computer Science
Universite of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Dr. Djemel Ziou spoke on Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Multiphysics Compact Modeling
Michael Steer, Professor
North Carolina State University
Michael Steer spoke on Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
A Low-Complexity Universal Scheme for Rate-Constrained Nonparametric Regression Using a Wireless Sensor Network
Dr. Maxim Raginsky, Assistant Research Professor
Duke University
Dr. Maxim Raginsky spoke on Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
A Signal Processing Approach to Modeling Vision and Applications
Dr. Sheila S Hemami, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Cornell University
Dr. Sheila S Hemami spoke on Friday, April 27th, 2007 at 12:00AM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
Discreet Signaling: From the Chinese Emperors to the Internet
Dr. Pierre Moulin, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
Dr. Pierre Moulin spoke on Friday, March 30th, 2007 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1229
Geometric Aspects of Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data
Dr. Misha Beylkin, Professor of Computer Science
Ohio State University
Dr. Misha Beylkin spoke on Friday, March 16th, 2007 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building 2, Room 1230
Distributed Interference: Topology Optimization
Dr. José Moura, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Central Michigan University
Dr. José Moura spoke on Friday, March 2nd, 2007 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1229
Fractional Calculus and Fractal Dynamics (with some applications)
Dr. Bruce West, Senior Scientist
Army Research Office
Dr. Bruce West spoke on Friday, February 23rd, 2007 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building 2, Room 1229
Statistical Analysis of Shapes of Curves and Surfaces
Anuj Srivastava, Associate Professor of Statistics
Florida State University
Anuj Srivastava spoke on Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 12:30PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1220
Data-Powered Algorithms
Bernard Chazelle, Professor of Computer Science
Princeton University
Bernard Chazelle spoke on Friday, December 1st, 2006 at 12:00PM in MRC Room 313
Imaging Arithmetic
Dr. Gaurav Sharma, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Rochester
Dr. Gaurav Sharma spoke on Sunday, August 6th, 2006 at 1:00PM in Engineering Building 2, Video Conference Room
Sobolev Active Contours
Dr. Anthony Yezzi, Professor of Systems and Controls
Georgia Tech
Dr. Anthony Yezzi spoke on Friday, May 5th, 2006 at 11:30AM in Engineering Building 2, Room 1213
Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) for Heterogeneous Radar Clutter Scenarios
Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy spoke on Friday, April 7th, 2006 at 12:00PM in Engineering Building II, Room 1230
