Supported Seminars
The Ming Hsieh Institute continues to provide support for the below innovative seminar series that show continued success by positive attendance and collaborations. These series target high quality academia and industry speakers that present the latest ground breaking research in their related field.
For 8 years, scholars from the Hing Hsieh Institute have hosted the Ph.D. Student Seminar Series that aims to improve and foster a tight-knit community among electrical engineering students. The ultimate goal for the seminar series is to establish new student-level collaborations among different research groups in the department. Students benefit by giving talks to a broad audience which train them for job interviews, qualifying exams and other research talks.
MHI Sponsored Seminars
This series is a weekly seminar that brings together faculty and students in communications, networks and controls. One of the primary goals of the series is to expose students to the work taking place in other areas of engineering.
2021-2021
Number of speakers: 0
Budget: $0
2018-19:
Number of speakers: 26
Budget: $15,000
2017-18:
Number of speakers: 33
Budget: $15,000
2016-17:
Number of speakers: 23
Budget: $10,000
P.I. - Mihailo Jovanovic
This series offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the cutting-edge research and development in the computer engineering field. Computer engineering deals with the design, development, testing, and evaluation of components, systems, and networks. It provides society with many critical utilities.
2020-2021:
Number of speakers: o
Budget: $0
2018-19:
Number of speakers: 6
Budget: $5,000 (with $5,000 from 2017-2018 budget)
2017-18:
Number of speakers: 17
Budget: $15,000
2016-17:
Number of speakers: 21
Budget: $20,000
P.I. - Xue Hai Qian
The first edition of the Cyber-Physical Systems Seminar Series was especially active in 2016. Visitors from industry and leading universities participated in the Spring as part of class EE 598. Even more talks will be scheduled for Fall of 2017.
2020-21
Number of speakers: 23
Budget: $0 (conducted online)
2018-19:
Number of speakers: 30
Budget: $10,000
2017-18:
Number of speakers: 30
Budget: $18,000
2016-17:
Number of speakers: 34
Budget: $10,000
P.I. - Paul Bogdan
This series hosts researchers to cover topics related to integrated circuits, systems, and related devices in the context of diverse applications including communication, computation, networking, sensing and imaging. Speakers from academia and industry covered topics related to brain-inspired integrated circuits for computation and communications, silicon integrated circuits, and high-speed integrated transceivers.
2020-21
Number of speakers: 1
Budget: $0 (conducted online)
2018-19:
Number of speakers: 11
Budget: $10,000
2017-18:
Number of speakers: 9
Budget: $8,100
2016-17:
Number of speakers: 13
Budget: $10,000
P.I. - Hossein Hashemi
This series features lecturers from leading universities and medical institutions in the US and abroad on all topics related to the various aspects of medical imaging.
2020-21
Number of speakers: 0
Budget: $0
2018-19:
Number of speakers: 3
Budget: $10,000
2017-18:
Number of speakers: 6
Budget: $13,000 (continuing to run on funds from 2015-16)
2016-17:
Number of speakers: 9
Budget: $13,000 (continuing to run on funds from 2015-16)
P.I. - Krishna Nayak
This series aims to expose students to cutting-edge research in the field of semiconductor and microelectronics. In 2016-17, leaders in academia and industrial research institutes shared their most recent achievement in the diverse field of nanoscale materials, devices and systems.
(continuing to run on funds from 2015-16)
2020-21:
Number of speakers: 3
Budget: $0 (conducted online)
2018-19:
Number of speakers: 11
Budget: $10,000
2017-18:
Number of speakers: 18
Budget: $16,000
2016-17:
Number of speakers: 16
Budget: $15,000
P.I. - Han Wang
MHI Seminars
Developed in the Fall of 2016, this series focuses on inviting speakers from industry to share their technical expertise. Speakers and ECE students exchange ideas and brainstorm solutions. The seminar series worked together with the department as Professional Enhancement seminar. In Fall, a total of 5 seminars with speakers from companies such as Freedom Photonics, Amazon, Verizon.
Past Events:
Speech Processing and Conversational AI - A Peek into the Startup Scene
The EE Pioneer Seminar Series focuses its attention on the stories and journeys of the many faculty who have been a crucial part of the growth and evolution of the EE Department over the last several decades. Our most recent Pioneer Series honorees were Andrew Viterbi, Alexander Sawchuk, and Daniel Dapkus.
The Emerging Trends Seminar Series features Electrical Engineering faculty member sharing his/her recent work. The series focuses on looking inward and courage the EE department to learn from our own fellow faculty members and explore the great researches on campus. In the past, faculty have learned from Prof. Jay Kuo and Prof. Kai Hwang.
In this bi-monthly series, professionals from across ECE-related industries present information, share advice, and answer questions. The series is hosted by Professos Mihailo Jovanovic and is open to all department members including faculty, PhD, MS, and BS students.
- 09/08/20 - "Starting a Tech Company - A Photonics Perspective" was given by Dr. Milan Mashanovitch, CEO Freedom Photonics.
- 09/22/20 - "Optimization, Control, and Machine Learning applied to Online Advertising" with Dr. Niklas Karlsson, Vice President of R&D for Verizon Media's Demand Side Platform
- 10/06/20 - "Navigating A Computer Networks Career" hosted by VGSA
- 10/20/20 - "What do you mean by open-minded and well prepared for a new opportunity?" with Dr. Jangwon Kim, Applied Scientist at Amazon
- 11/10/20 - "Transition From Academia to Industry" with Dr. Sepideh Moghaddam, Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Published on April 13th, 2017
Last updated on February 10th, 2023