ECE Calendar

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/wearable-nearable-and-ingestible-bioelectronics-for-precision-medicine/

This seminar will present a vision for “human-in-the-loop” precision medicine enabled by emerging wearable, nearable, and ingestible bioelectronics. The talk will highlight thread-based diagnostic platforms—including sweat-sensing bandages, saliva-sensing floss, and smart sutures for monitoring wound healing—that integrate seamlessly with the body and daily routine for continuous biochemical and physiological sensing. The seminar will also cover...

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Speaker: Dr. Sameer Sonkusale
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tufts University

Sameer Sonkusale is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University, where he holds joint appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering. He also served as a visiting professor at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital of the Harvard Medical School during 2011-2012 and 2018-2019, respectively. He currently directs an interdisciplinary research group focusing on devices, circuits, and systems for healthcare, biology, life sciences, and the environment. Dr. Sonkusale earned his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and has received several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010. He was also honored with a Distinguished Alumni award from his alma mater, BITS Pilani.

Dr. Sonkusale has also been active in translating his research into companies, and currently serves asa a scientific founder and Advisor to three companies, Anodyne Nanotech (Drug delivery), Microvitality (Microbiome) and SalivaSens (saliva diagnostics). In 2025, he was named the Distinguished Innovator of the year by Tufts University. Dr. Sonkusale has served on the editorial boards of several prominent journals, including Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, PLoS One, and Electronic Letters. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a senior member of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the IEEE. He is currently the CAS Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/approximate-computing-and-hardware-security-opportunities-and-challenges/

Approximate computing has been widely used for designing high-performance and energy-efficient systems for a growing class of error-tolerant applications, e.g., AI, image processing, signal processing, etc. The uncertain and unpredictable inherent error behaviour of approximate computing introduces both new security threats and opportunities to enhance the security of approximate computing. This talk will introduce the...

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Speaker: Dr. Chongyan Gu
Associate Professor in the Centre for Secure Information Technologies
Queen's University Belfast

Dr Chongyan Gu is currently an Associate Professor in the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen's University Belfast. She has been awarded the EPSRC New Investigator Award in 2022. Her research into physical unclonable function (PUF) has been utilised as part of a security architecture for electronic vehicle (EV) charging systems, licensed by LG-CNS, South Korea. Her team was the overall winner of INVENT 2015, a competition to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative ideas. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Technologies in Computing (TETC) and Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I (TCAS-I). She also serves on the Organising Committee of AsianHOST, and Technical Programme Committees of the DAC, ISCAS, ASP-DAC, and AsianHOST conferences. Her co-authored pioneering research paper (invited) in this research topic has been published by Proceedings of the IEEE (impact factor: 23.2).

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/dual-rail-microwave-cavity-qubits/

Dual-Rail qubits were originally proposed for optical quantum computation and communication, and the logical states are represented by a single photon which can be in one of two different modes. This talk will discuss recent experimental and theoretical progress extending this concept to a single microwave photon shared between two superconducting microwave cavities. Single-qubit gates...

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Speaker: Steven M. Girvin
Sterling Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics
Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University

After graduating from a high school class of five students in the small village of Brant Lake, New York, Robert J. Girvin earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Bates College. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Princeton University in 1977.

Girvin joined the Yale University faculty in 2001, where he is Sterling Professor of Physics and professor of applied physics. From 2007 to 2017, he served as Yale’s deputy provost for research, overseeing strategic planning for research across the university. From 2019 to 2021, he served as founding director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, one of five national quantum information science research centers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Along with experimental physicists Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf, Girvin co-developed circuit quantum electrodynamics (circuit QED), the leading architecture for building quantum computers based on superconducting microwave circuits.

Girvin is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he and collaborators Allan H. MacDonald and James P. Eisenstein were awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize from the American Physical Society for their work on the fractional quantum Hall effect.