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Events for November 08, 2024
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EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. StudentsFri, Nov 08, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Come to the EiS Communications Hub for one-on-one tutoring from Viterbi faculty for Ph.D. writing and speaking projects!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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DREAM Industry Mentorship speaker series
Fri, Nov 08, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
DREAM connects students with experienced industry professionals from a variety of tech and destination companies who help them create a vision for their futures, align their careers around purpose, and build character in the context of growth, reinvention, and constant change. Industry mentors discuss how professional challenges present opportunities for character and leadership development. This event features digital media and entertainment leader Josh Auffret in conversation about his path from undergraduate film student at USC to head of UX program and operations at Google.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elisabeth Arnold Weiss
Event Link: https://cglink.me/2nB/r400351
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Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Fri, Nov 08, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John Rogers, Ph.D., Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Mterials Science and Engineering, Biomedical and Neurological Surgery
Talk Title: Soft, Skin-Interfaced Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for Health Monitoring
Abstract: Over the last decade, a convergence of new concepts in materials science, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and advanced manufacturing has led to the emergence of diverse, classes of 'biocompatible' electronic and microfluidic systems with skin-like physical properties and wireless operational capabilities. A broad range of clinical-grade sensors of physiological health can be deployed into these platforms. The resulting technologies address health care challenges from the earliest to the latest stages of life, with demonstrated uses in both high and low resource settings, at the hospital and in the home. This talk presents an overview of the most recent fundamental and translational activities in this area, currently in progress at the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University and at several associated companies.
Biography: Professor John A. Rogers began his career at Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997 and served as Director from the end of 2000 to 2002. He then spent thirteen years at the University of Illinois, as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In 2016, he joined Northwestern University as the Simpson/Querrey Professor, where he is also Director of the Institute for Bioelectronics. He has co-authored more than 900 papers and he is co-inventor on more than 100 patents. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), the NAS James Prize for Science and Technology Integration (2022) and the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Medal (2024). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Host: Maral Mousavi
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Carla Stanard
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MHI - Physics Joint Seminar Series - Andrew Vlasic, Friday, November 8th at 2pm in SSL 202
Fri, Nov 08, 2024 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Andrew Vlasic, PhD, Fundamental Research Lead Quantum Institute, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Talk Title: A Categorical Perspective of Encoding Real-World Data in Quantum Computers
Series: MHI Physics Joint Seminar Series
Abstract: The question of how to encode real-world data in quantum computer has a tremendous amount of importance in the quantum machine learning (QML) community. There are a few proposed metrics to quantify the efficacy of quantum feature maps with the most used criteria being 'expressibility' [1] and 'expressivity' [2]. However, as noted by the authors, there are shortcomings with these two techniques. Our empirical analysis of using the standard schemes of angle encoding, instantaneous quantum polynomial encoding (IQP), and amplitude encoding to perform machine learning tasks on different dataset reveals new insights into our metrics need to be considered when choosing a particular quantum encoding technique [3,4]. Using the perspective of category theory, we propose that quantum encoding techniques should preserve "structures" of classical data. Based on this insight, we proposed technique on comparing the entropy of a point-cloud against the analytic extension of von Neuman entropy applied to quantum operators [5], directly addressing one area of structure. [5]
Biography: Andrew earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive experience in fundamental and applied research in the academia, DoD, and industry. Andrew has been a postdoc at Queen's University in Ontario, an acting funding officer at the Army Research Office, a senior data scientist at Bank of America, and is currently the fundamental research lead in the Quantum Research Group at Deloitte Consulting. If interested, view Andrew's portfolio on Google Scholar.
Host: Quntao Zhuang, Eli Levinson-Falk, Jonathan Habif, Daniel Lidar, Kelly Luo, Todd Brun, Tony Levi, Stephan Haas
More Information: Andrew Vlasic-Nov 8.pdf
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 202
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
