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NL Seminar-Planning in Creative Contexts
Thu, Jan 09, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Alex Spangher, USC/ISI , USC/ISI
Talk Title: Planning in Creative Contexts
Abstract: The use of AI in human-centered creative tasks — such as journalism, scientific writing, and storytelling — has showcased their potential for assistance but highlighted a critical gap: planning. "Planning" describes actions performed before (and during) human workflows; "creative" refers to tasks humans execute where the rewards are not clearly defined. I will focus on tasks related to journalism, with specific focus on retrieving a set of sources relevant to a news story. We will show that suggestions made by current AI models do not align with decisions made by humans, and we will show methods for increasing alignment with humans. I will outline a research agenda based on this work to apply such approaches to novel creative tasks.
Biography: Alexander Spangher is pursuing his PhD in computer science at the University of Southern California; he is formerly a writer and data scientist at the New York Times. He focuses on computational journalism and is advised by Jonathan May, Emilio Ferrara and Nanyun Peng. His research is broad and has pursued the following side directions: he has worked at Microsoft Research under the mentorship of Eric Horvitz to detect misinformation. He has collaborated with EleutherAI to build state-of-the-art symbolic music models. Finally, he has collaborated with the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PFSC) to model disruptions in nuclear fusion reactions. His work has received numerous awards: 2 Outstanding Paper Awards at EMNLP 2024, 1 Spotlight Award at ICML 2024, and an Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL 2022. He is fortunate to be supported by a 4-year Bloomberg PhD Fellowship.
Host: Jonathan May and Katy Felkner
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5326/nl-seminar-planning-in-creative-contexts/
Webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5J_xDsCjZULocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual Only
WebCast Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5J_xDsCjZU
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5326/nl-seminar-planning-in-creative-contexts/
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CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series
Fri, Jan 10, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Peter Asbeck, Steve Crago, and Aaron Oki, UCSD, USC/ISI, and Northop Grumman
Talk Title: California DREAMS: RF Microelectronics in Southern California
Series: CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series
Abstract: In this talk, we will introduce the California DREAMS hub that is providing prototyping services for RF microelectronics under the DOD’s Microelectronics Commons program. We will provide a history of academic and industrial work in microelectronics in Southern California that includes history of the original MOSIS service and discuss how it led to the formation of California DREAMS. We will describe the hub and its MOSIS 2.0 service, and the progress we have made in our first year and plans for the future.
Biography: Peter Asbeck, UCSDPeter Asbeck is an Emeritus Professor and member of the Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD. He began work at Rockwell Science Center (now Teledyne Scientific) in 1979, and subsequently joined UCSD in 1992. His work has covered GaAs HBT, GaAs FET, GaN FET, and CMOS-SOI devices and circuits, including contributions at some of their early stages of technology development. He is an IEEE Fellow and member of the NAE. Steve Crago, USC/ISISteve Crago is the Director of California DREAMS, an Associate Director of the USC Information Sciences Institute His is located at the Arlington site of ISI, where he has been since 1997. He holds a joint appointment as a Research Associate Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include microelectronics lab-to-fab transition, heterogeneous architectures, high-performance and embedded cloud computing, introspective systems, and parallel software. Aaron Oki, Northrop GrummanAaron Oki is the General Manager of the electronics and sensors technologies operating unit and an NG Fellow at Northrop Grumman. Aaron is responsible for developing next generation advanced technology solutions for the nation’s highest priority missions and has 38 years of experience at Northrop Grumman focused on microelectronics, RF and digital electronics. He has over 300 technical publications and 18 U.S. patents. Additionally, Oki has been inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Host: Dr. Steve Crago
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5316/california-dreams-rf-microelectronics-in-southern-california/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addonWebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amy Kasmir
Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5316/california-dreams-rf-microelectronics-in-southern-california/
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Jan 14, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Salar Fattahi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Host: Dr. Qiang Huang
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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AME Seminar
Wed, Jan 15, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yue Wang, USC
Talk Title: Embodied Intelligence for Space Exploration with Foundation Models
Abstract: Robotics has made remarkable strides, driven by advances in machine learning, optimal control, and hardware innovation. However, their applications to the space domains still face unique challenges: it is neither straightforward nor inherently scalable to train large machine learning models to enable these applications. To address this gap, our research endeavors to tackle these challenges through three principal directions: Simulation. Constructing photorealistic simulations that replicate space environments and enabling foundation model learning from synthetic or hybrid data sources. Perception. Leveraging geometric, semantic, and motional cues to develop data-efficient algorithms for robust scene perception and understanding in both simulated and real-world settings. Decision making. Integrating knowledge from foundation models (such as LLMs) into intelligent agents to enhance autonomous decision-making capabilities in novel and unknown environments. My primary aim is to bridge the gap between the theoretical underpinnings of AI and tangible advancements in space robotics, overcoming data limitations to push the boundaries of intelligent exploration at an accessible cost.
Biography: Yue Wang is an assistant professor at the computer science department and a faculty scientist at Nvidia Research. His lab is focusing on three major directions: 1) neural scene representations for robotics; 2) real-to-simulation-to-real transfer for robotics; 3) and robotic manipulation. He worked on 3D geometric deep learning during his PhD. His paper "Dynamic Graph CNN" has been widely adopted in 3D visual computing and beyond. He received the Powell Faculty Research Award, Toyota Young Faculty Researcher award, Nvidia Fellowship, the best paper award in geometric computing and graphics at the inaugural international congress of basic science, and the best paper nomination at the CVPR 2021 workshop on autonomous driving. He was also named the first place recipient of the William A. Martin Master’s Thesis Award for 2021. Yue received his bachelor from Zhejiang University, master from UCSD, and PhD from MIT. He has spent time at Nvidia Research, Google Research and Salesforce Research.
Host: AME Department
More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
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Alfred E.Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering - Seminar series
Fri, Jan 17, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Ellen Sletten, Ph.D., , Professor of Chemistry University of California Los Angeles
Talk Title: Next generation optical diagnostics and responsive therapeutics facilitated by poly(2-oxazoline).
Abstract: New approaches are necessary to solve major challenges in healthcare, which currently falls short on early detection of disease, effective therapeutics that minimize off-target effects, and robust methods for personalized medicine, among others. The Sletten Group tackles these challenges by harnessing bioorthogonality– not in the covalent chemistry sense that it was first introduced, but more broadly by capitalizing on abiotic non-covalent interactions and/or low energy wavelengths of light that are minimally produced by biology. This talk will highlight two stories: 1) the development of biocompatible contrast agents for the shortwave infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum and 2) our discovery of macromolecular crowding as a new responsive stimulus for nanocarriers. In both these stories, poly(2-oxazoline)s (POx)– a hydrophilic, biocompatible, poly(ethylene glycol)-replacement polymer– play critical roles in our technologies. The modular synthesis of POx enables highly functional polymers to be prepared with minimal post-polymerization steps, which offer means to solubilize and stabilize fluorophores as well as control the assembly of nanoemulsions.
Biography: Prof. Ellen Sletten received her BS in Chemistry from Stonehill College in 2006. Ellen pursued her PhD in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi. Her thesis work involved the optimization and development of bioorthogonal chemistries and their subsequent applications in labeling living systems. Upon graduation in 2011, Ellen joined the laboratory of Prof. Tim Swager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow where she worked with soft fluorous materials for use in fluorescent sensors. Ellen joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA as an Assistant Professor and John McTague Career Development Chair in 2015 and promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2021 and Full Professor in 2023.
Host: Maral Mousavi
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Carla Stanard
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AI Seminar-Towards Socially Aware and Safe AI Agents
Fri, Jan 17, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Xuhui Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: Towards Socially Aware and Safe AI Agents
Series: AI Seminar
Abstract: LLMs are increasingly playing agentic and social roles by interacting with users and tools. I’ll first introduce SOTOPIA, a framework for evaluating LLM social intelligence through interactive simulations. Showing that LLMs struggle with real-world social skills, I will then discuss the crucial role of information asymmetry, highlighting that LLMs cannot properly deal with the information asymmetry that is present in real interactions. Finally, I will introduce HAICosystem, a new framework for simulating and evaluating the safety of LLM agents in user-AI-tool interactions, showcasing the many safety issues that could arise from increasingly autonomous and tool-using agents. I will conclude with some future directions towards safe and socially intelligent LLM agents.
Meeting ID: 933 0676 1471Passcode: 2024
Biography: Xuhui Zhou is a third-year PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Department (CMU LTI) advised by Maarten Sap. His research focuses on making NLP systems socially intelligent, aligning them with human social values. He has presented his work at top-tier NLP and AI conferences, receiving spotlights, and runner-up best paper at ICLR 2024, and EmeCom 2022. Additionally, he has been red-teaming for GPT-4. His work has been covered in the press, including The New York Times, Financial Times, and Marktechpost. He previously organized the workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents at ICML 2023 and he has served as a reviewer for major conferences, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, etc.
Host: Abel Salinas and Maura Covaci
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5285/towards-socially-aware-and-safe-ai-agents/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93306761471?pwd=EnUKnvfrE5WruxuYa1jtx6v7BhznSr.1Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual Only
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93306761471?pwd=EnUKnvfrE5WruxuYa1jtx6v7BhznSr.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5285/towards-socially-aware-and-safe-ai-agents/
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CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series
Fri, Jan 17, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Payam Heydari, Professor, University of California, Irvine
Talk Title: Novel Integrated Circuits and Systems Covering Radio-Frequency and Millimeter-Wave
Abstract: This talk will give an overview of all the research projects conducted at UCI’s Nanoscale Communication Integrated Circuits (NCIC) Labs. Topics being covered include (1) Wideband Radars with Excellent Range Resolution and Long-Range Coverage; (2) Wideband RF Receivers with Excellent LO Leakage Cancellation; (3) End-to-End Transceivers for 6G and Beyond; (4) High-Performance Frequency Synthesis.
Biography: Payam Heydari is currently the Henry Samueli Faculty Excellence Professor and the University Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the (co)-author of two books, three book chapters, and more than 190 journal and conference papers. He has given Keynote Speech to IEEE GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on Millimeter Wave Imaging and Communications, served as Invited Distinguished Speaker to the 2014 IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, and gave a Tutorial at the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He has served as Distinguished Lecturer of both the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) (2014-2016) and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) (2019-2022). Dr. Heydari is a fellow of National Academy of Inventors and a fellow of IEEE. He is the co-recipient of the 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award, and is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Distinguished Educator Award, the 2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Innovative Education Award, and Best Invited Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. He was selected as the inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellow by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Beall Applied Innovation. He was the recipient of the 2016-2017 UCI School of Engineering Mid-Career Excellence in Research, the 2014 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from Orange County Engineering Council, the 2009 Business Plan Competition First Place Prize Award and Best Concept Paper Award both from Paul Merage School of Business at UC-Irvine, the 2010 Faculty of the Year Award from UC-Irvine’s Engineering Student Council (ECS), the 2009 School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award, the 2007 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, the 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award, the 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the 2005 Henry Samueli School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the Best Paper Award at the 2000 IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), and the 2001 Technical Excellence Award from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH). He was recognized as the 2004 Outstanding Faculty in the EECS Department of the University of California, Irvine. His research on novel low-power multi-purpose multi-antenna RF front-ends received the Low-Power Design Contest Award at the 2008 IEEE Int’l Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED). Dr. Heydari is an Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS), and was an AE of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L) and IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - Regular Papers. He serves on the Technical Program Committe (TPC) of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, and was a TPC member of IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), ISSCC, and CICC. He is the director of the Nanoscale Communication IC (NCIC) Labs.
Host: Dr. Steve Crago
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5310/novel-integrated-circuits-and-systems-covering-radio-frequency-and-millimeter-wave/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addonWebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amy Kasmir
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How Hollywood AI Helps Creators Go Global
Tue, Jan 21, 2025 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hao Li , CEO/Co-Founder of Pinscreen
Talk Title: How Hollywood AI Helps Creators Go Global
Abstract: In this talk I will talk about our journey on bringing digital humans to life in Hollywood, and how we use AI to democratize technologies for generating and manipulating photorealisitc human faces. I will showcase some use cases of our technologies developed at my startup Pinscreen, and how top film studios and streaming companies have adopted our approach for AI-driven visual effects, including face swapping, actor de-aging, and facial reenactment. One particular scalable application consists of dubbing movies from foreign language into English, where lips are perfectly matched to the translated content using AI. I will show how we are moving from Hollywood adoption to building a consumer product: pindub.ai for any Internet content creator. I will also showcase some our recent research efforts at MBZUAI with focus on more advanced generative AI capabilities and metaverse application such as telepresence using the currently most advanced one-shot head reenactment system.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium.
Biography: Hao Li is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based startup renowned for its pioneering generative AI technologies in visual effects, dubbing, and digital humans. He is also Professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and the Director of the MBZUAI Metaverse Center. Previously, Hao was a Distinguished Fellow with the Computer Vision Group at UC Berkeley and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), where he directed the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He has also been a visiting professor at Weta Digital, a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm, and a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and Princeton Universities. Hao’s research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning with a focus on photorealistic human digitization, real-time performance capture, immersive telepresence, and generative video synthesis and manipulation (deepfakes). He is widely recognized for his groundbreaking work in real-time 3D facial tracking, which has led to the technology behind Apple's Animoji, the digital recreation of Paul Walker in the movie Furious 7, and the first real-time deepfake face-swapping technology based on generative AI. His research on facial reenactment has been widely adopted in Hollywood, driving advancements in photorealistic digital doubles and seamless de-aging effects. Additionally, he is known for pioneering production-grade visual dubbing solutions, which have made possible the first fully AI-lip-synced foreign language films and TV shows dubbed into English. Hao and his company, Pinscreen, have earned credits in numerous high-profile motion pictures, including Fallout, Money Heist – Berlin, Slumberland, Free Guy, Blade Runner 2049, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Furious 7, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. His algorithms on deformable shape registration have not only advanced the field of data-driven facial animation and human body modeling, but also improved the radiation treatment for cancer patients all over the world through his collaboration with C-RAD on surface guided radiation therapy. Hao has received numerous accolades, including being named a Top 35 Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2013. he has been awarded the Google Faculty Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair. In 2018, he won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, and in 2019, he was named to the DARPA ISAT Study Group. He received the ACM Symposium on Computer Animation Best Paper Award in 2009, the ACM SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live! “Best in Show” Award in 2020, and an Epic Megagrant in 2021. Hao has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos (2020) and was featured in the inaugural season of Amazon’s documentary series re:MARS Luminaries in 2022. Hao earned his PhD from ETH Zurich and his MSc from the University of Karlsruhe (TH).
Host: Prof. Stefanos Nikolaidis
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 267
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Jan 21, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Salar Fattahi, Assistant Professor Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan
Talk Title: Finding the needle in the haystack: How gradient descent converges to the correct solution in the face of many local minima
Host: Dr. Andres Gomez
More Information: FLYER ISE 651 Salar Fattahi 1.21.25.png
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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CS Colloquium: Corey Baker (USC / ECE) - Patient Centered Systems for Remote Patient Monitoring
Wed, Jan 22, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Corey Baker, USC / ECE
Talk Title: Patient Centered Systems for Remote Patient Monitoring
Abstract: Reliance on Internet connectivity is detrimental where modern networking technology is lacking, power outages are frequent, or network connectivity is expensive, sparse, or non-existent (i.e., underserved urban communities, rural areas, natural disasters). Though there has been much research conducted around 5G and 6G serving as the conduit for connecting any and everything; scalability issues are a major concern and real-world deployments have been limited. Realization of the limitations resulting from reliance on Internet and cellular connectivity are prevalent in mHealth applications where remote patient monitoring has improved the timeliness of clinical decision making, decreased the length of hospital stays, and reduced mortality rates everywhere in the nation except in medically underserved and rural communities in the US like Appalachian Kentucky, where chronic disease is approximately 20% more prevalent than other areas. As an alternative, deploying resilient networking technology can facilitate the flow of information in resource-deprived environments to disseminate non-emergency, but life saving data. In addition, leveraging opportunistic communication can supplement cellular networks to assist with keeping communication channels open during high-use and extreme situations. This talk will discuss the pragmatic applications of designing opportunistic systems for particular entities (patients, citizens, etc.); specifically applied to healthcare and increasing patient adherence, permitting any community to become smart and connected while simultaneously keeping network connectivity costs to a minimum.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Corey E. Baker holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining USC, Baker served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky (UK) as well as an Application and Framework Engineer in Health and Research Products at Apple Inc where he worked on medical and research frameworks such as CareKit and ResearchKit. In his current role, Baker directs the Network Reconnaissance (NetRecon) Lab, where his research focuses on developing full-stack systems for distributing, protecting, and authenticating data in opportunistic networking scenarios. These scenarios encompass rural remote patient monitoring, smart cities, and natural disasters, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the well-being of individuals. Baker’s research also involves evaluating the practical applications of opportunistic delay-tolerant networks (DTNs), software-defined networks (SDNs), and human-centered design in empowering device-to-device (D2D) social networks for crowd-sourcing information. By leveraging opportunistic communication, Baker seeks to provide complementary solutions to traditional networks, which often rely on centralized infrastructures such as the Internet.
Host: CS Department
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Faculty Affairs
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Photonics Seminar - Dr. Chenzi Guo, Wednesday, January 22nd at 1pm in EEB 248
Wed, Jan 22, 2025 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Chenzi Guo, Deputy Head of Light Publishing Group
Talk Title: Journals eLight, Light: Science & Applications: for the Wellbeing of Optics Community
Series: Photonics Seminar Series
Abstract: Dr. Guo will talk about why eLight was launched, the significant visibility that eLight has received, and how eLight serves the community with high quality, speed and transparency. In additions, Dr. Guo will also talk about Light: Science & Applications, as well as Light: Advanced Manufacturing.
Biography: Dr. Chenzi Guo serves as the Deputy Head of the Light Publishing Group, which oversees nine scientific journals. She is the Director of eLight (elight.springeropen.com) and an Editor of Light: Science & Applications (nature.com/lsa). Dr. Guo is a committee member of the International Division of the China Editology Society of Science Periodicals and a fellow of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has received many national and state-level awards and has co-authored over 30 publications, including articles in Nature, Light: Science & Applications, as well as three books.
Host: Mercedeh Khajavikhan and Demetri Christodoulides
More Information: ChenziGuo_flier_PDF.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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AME Seminar
Wed, Jan 22, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Placid M. Ferreira, University of Illinois
Talk Title: IONICS-BASED NANOMANUFACTURING
Abstract: Mechanics and transport at the micro- and nanoscale offer a rich set of controllable phenomena that can be exploited for the development of manufacturing processes compatible with these dimensional scales. Here, we exploit ionic transport in solids as the basis of highly controllable, efficient, high-resolution, high-throughput nanomanufacturing processes for producing metallic (specifically, silver and copper) nanostructures.
This talk will focus on the exploitation of the high room-temperature ionic conductivity in silver and copper-based superionic glasses as the basis of subtractive and additive nano-manufacturing processes such as superionic imprinting/stamping, roll patterning and direct writing. Taking a traditional manufacturing perspective, the talk will discuss tooling and tool materials; process characterization and rates; and tool wear with such processes. Applications and future directions towards photochemical patterning for ionics-based nanomanufacturing processes will also be discussed.
Biography: Placid M. Ferreira is the Tungchao Julia Lu Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Illinois. From 2003 to 2009, he was the director of the Center for Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS), an NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center after which he served as the Head of the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Illinois until August 2015. He currently leads the Center for Networked Intelligent Components and Environments, a translational research collaboration between the University of Illinois and Foxconn Interconnect Technology.
Professor Ferreira graduated with a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1987, M.Tech (Mechanical) from IIT Bombay, 1982 and B.E. (Mechanical) for University of Bombay in 1980. He has been on the mechanical engineering faculty at Illinois since 1987, serving as the associate head for graduate programs and research from 1999 to 2002. Professor Ferreira's research and teaching interests are in precision manufacturing and includes computer-controlled machines, nano-manufacturing and metrology. Professor Ferreira received NSF's Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990, SME's Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 1991, University of Illinois' University Scholar Award in 1994, ASME’s Ennor Award for Manufacturing Technology in 2014. He is also a Fellow of ASME, SME and AAAS. He has served on the editorial board of a number of manufacturing-related journals
Host: AME Department
More Info: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1Location: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 252
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96060458816?pwd=8LmoG2q6vBCQubqqWpcizd2F1bxqsH.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Tessa Yao
Event Link: https://ame.usc.edu/seminars/
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NL Seminar-Inductive Biases for Data- and Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning
Thu, Jan 23, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mozhdeh Gheini, USC/ISI, USC/ISI
Talk Title: Inductive Biases for Data- and Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning
Abstract: THIS TALK WILL "NOT" BE RECORDED, PLEASE WATCH LIVE OR ATTEND IN PERSON. https://usc.zoom.us/j/95381979100?pwd=yKkC6snFuqRddSnRCEwnVWvtP9ZdCX.1 Meeting ID: 953 8197 9100Passcode: 911377 Data- and resource-intensive pre-training and fine-tuning applied upon Transformer-based models is the dominant paradigm at the forefront of rapid advancements in natural language processing, human language technologies, and most notably, large language models. Such reliance on massive amounts of data, computation, and energy, while effective and impressive from a performance-only perspective, can hinder open, nonexclusive, and sustainable development of these technologies. In this talk, we present how certain inductive biases can be devised to adjust current natural language methods under resource-constrained scenarios and provide insights into why the proposed inductive biases are successful in such cases. Specifically, we discuss four research directions on data and parameter efficiency of fine-tuning and transfer learning in natural language processing: (1) a universal regimen that creates a single pre-trained checkpoint suitable for machine translation transfer to practically any language pair and eliminates the need for ad hoc pre-training; (2) an architecture-guided parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that performs competitively with full fine-tuning while exclusively updating cross-attention parameters; (3) an analysis of Mega, a recently introduced augmentation of the Transformer architecture to incorporate explicit recency bias, through the lens of transfer learning; and (4) a meta-learning algorithm to prime pre-trained models for specific fine-tuning strategies. Combined with ablations that show how they are effective and analyses that demonstrate their generalizability, these directions are meant to serve as tools for resource-efficient transfer learning for natural language processing.
Biography: Mozhdeh "Mo" Gheini is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California advised by Jonathan May. Her PhD focus has been on investigating different inductive biases to build data- and parameter-efficient methods for transfer learning for natural language processing tasks like machine translation and beyond. She has also spent three summers interning with Apple, where she will be joining again in February as Machine Learning Research Engineer.
Host: Jonathan May and Katy Felkner
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5379/inductive-biases-for-data-and-parameter-efficient-transfer-learning/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/95381979100?pwd=yKkC6snFuqRddSnRCEwnVWvtP9ZdCX.1Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual and ISI-Conf Rm#689
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/95381979100?pwd=yKkC6snFuqRddSnRCEwnVWvtP9ZdCX.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5379/inductive-biases-for-data-and-parameter-efficient-transfer-learning/
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Alfred E.Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering - Seminar series
Fri, Jan 24, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Wyatt Shields, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder
Talk Title: Programmable Microrobots for Biomedicine
Abstract: Colloidal particles are often used as building blocks for generating hierarchical structures with useful capabilities at small scales. However, the capabilities of such structures often depend on the physical properties of the particles. My research group is interested in broadening the complexity of microparticle designs, giving rise to distinctive behaviors outside of equilibrium. Inspired by microorganisms, we fabricate and synthesize microparticles that are highly dissipative, bestowing the fascinating and occasionally useful capability of harvesting energy from their environment and locally dissipating it to perform specific functions, such as self-propel or reconfigure (e.g., latch, crawl, contort). In my seminar, I will highlight our efforts to engender symmetry-breaking principles into microparticles for directed motion using energy from external acoustic, electric, and magnetic fields. I will describe how particle systems can be intelligently designed to actuate in prescribed ways. Building on basic principles, I will share how these dissipative systems can be used in functional assays for biomedicine. I will discuss how active particles can in some cases enhance the transport of drugs through biological barriers, facilitate the sensitive detection of biomolecules for disease identification, and cooperate with immune cells to enhance the performance of cell-based immunotherapies. Overall, I hope to convey how active and responsive microparticles show promise as a powerful and potentially disruptive tool for next-generation biomedicine.
Biography: Wyatt Shields joins us an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his B.S. from the University of Virginia in 2011 and Ph.D. from Duke University in 2016. He performed a brief postdoc at NC State on active matter and a second postdoc at Harvard University on cell-based immunotherapies. He started his research group at CU Boulder in 2020 and has gained national recognition for his work with awards such as the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, the NSF CAREER award, the ONR young investigator award, the Pew Biomedical Scholars award, the NIH MIRA, and most recently the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. His group focuses on developing field-responsive and active particles as vehicles for next-generation biosensing, drug delivery, and immunoengineering.
Host: Eunji Chung
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Carla Stanard
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CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series
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Fri, Jan 24, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Umesh K. Mishra, Dean, Richard A Auhll Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara
Talk Title: A Brief History and the Promise of Gallium Nitride (GaN) Electronics; the Next Wave After GaN Photonics
Series: CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series
Abstract: In this talk, we will recount the development of GaN electronics over its history of nearly 40 years to its widepsread deployment today in commercial and DoD systems.
Biography: Umesh K. Mishra is the Richard A Auhll Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara and the Donald W. Whittier Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. He received his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, his M.S from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA., and his Ph.D. in 1984 from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He has supervised 81 Ph.D theses to completion with 15 of them being women and 69 of them in the field of Gallium Nitride (GaN) materials and devices. 11 of his students are members of the faculty in prestigious universities, with 5 of them being women. His students have founded/co-founded 10 companies. He co-founded the first start-up in the world to commercialize RF GaN transistors and LEDs in 1996 (Nitres) which was acquired by CREE (now Wolfspeed) in 2000. Umesh co-founded Transphorm in 2007 which was honored as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum, 2013, to commercialize GaN-on-Si transistors for power conversion. Transphorm was acquired by Renesas in 2024. He has over 1000 papers (>70,000 citations; h-index 130) and over 100 patents. Umesh received several awards including the IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal for his contributions to the development and commercialization of GaN electronics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an International Fellow of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kanpur.
Host: Dr. Steve Crago
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5356/a-brief-history-and-the-promise-of-gallium-nitride-gan-electronics-the-next-wave-after-gan-photonics/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addonWebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amy Kasmir
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CS Colloquium: Ben Fielding (Gensyn) - The future of machine learning is decentralized
Mon, Jan 27, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ben Fielding, Gensyn
Talk Title: The future of machine learning is decentralized
Abstract: It is now likely indisputable that machine learning is the next technical evolution.As we move from a world dominated by deterministic and imperative human-machine interactions into a world of probabilities and agentic decisions, the lower layers of our collective software stack must be re-architected to more appropriately cater to these methods. Electricity and compute must scale, raw data must be translated and compressed, human knowledge must be harnessed, and decision making must become much, much faster. In this talk, I’ll describe the progression of machine learning, the problems it faces both technically and philosophically as it rapidly scales throughout the world, and the state-of-the-art solutions that make this possible.Attendees will leave with a clear view on why, how, and when humanity will transcend deterministic machine relationships and become cybernetically diverse. Keywords: AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cryptography, Compilers, Game Theory, Blockchain. This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Ben is a co-founder of Gensyn, the decentralized machine learning compute protocol. Gensyn allows developers to use any GPU, CPU, TPU, etc. in the world to train their machine learning models at any scale and for a fair market price, with the work verified automatically and trustlessly. Ben has a PhD in computer science, where his research focused on evolutionary optimization of deep neural architectures for computer vision applications. He also previously co-founded a data privacy / sovereignty startup.
Host: Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone (USC) is invited
Contact: CS Faculty Affairs
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process ImprovementTue, Jan 28, 2025 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: IISE Faculty, IISE Faculty
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement, offered in partnership with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, allows professionals to learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics, and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a USC Six Sigma Green Belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the USC Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Host: USC Viterbi Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: https://viterbiexeced.usc.edu/engineering-program-areas/six-sigma-lean-certification/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement/
Audiences: Six Sigma Green Belt Students
Contact: VASE Executive Education
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Startup Stories- Nicole Chau
Tue, Jan 28, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Every startup has a story. Uncover the blueprint of success in the words of our very own Viterbi Alumni, Nicole Chau and hear about resources available to you start a business while at USC.
Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Jashan Dhami
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/Viterbitie/rsvp?id=402002
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Conversations with OIS: Understanding Immigration Requirements
Tue, Jan 28, 2025 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Join our team and the Office of International Services (OIS) to address your questions and have a conversation about immigration requirements and how they impact you. Please submit questions that you would like to ask OIS here: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b25skcGmozKRi9E. Submitted questions will be addressed during the workshop.
Location: Online Event
Audiences:
Contact: Sidney Lim
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/viterbi/rsvp?id=401798
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Jan 28, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Neeraj Sood, Interim Vice Dean for Research Department at the USC Price School of Public Policy with joint appointments at the USC Keck School of Medicine and USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California
Talk Title: Using modeling to influence public policy & What drives inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in India?
Host: Dr. Qiang Huang
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Location: Social Sciences Building (SOS) - B2
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Wed, Jan 29, 2025 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: IISE Faculty, IISE Faculty
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement, offered in partnership with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, allows professionals to learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics, and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a USC Six Sigma Green Belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the USC Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Host: USC Viterbi Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: https://viterbiexeced.usc.edu/engineering-program-areas/six-sigma-lean-certification/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement/
Audiences: Six Sigma Green Belt Students
Contact: VASE Executive Education
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ISE Special Guest Seminar
Wed, Jan 29, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Kim-Chuan Toh, Professor and Provost Chair in Analystics & Operations at the National University of Singapore
Talk Title: A low-rank ALM for doubly nonnegative relaxations of mixed-binary QP
Host: Dr. Jong-Shi Pang
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Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Thu, Jan 30, 2025 @ 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Executive Education
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: IISE Faculty, IISE Faculty
Talk Title: Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement
Abstract: USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Six Sigma Green Belt for Process Improvement, offered in partnership with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, allows professionals to learn how to integrate principles of business, statistics, and engineering to achieve tangible results. Master the use of Six Sigma to quantify the critical quality issues in your company. Once the issues have been quantified, statistics can be applied to provide probabilities of success and failure. Six Sigma methods increase productivity and enhance quality. As a USC Six Sigma Green Belt, you will be equipped to support and champion a Six Sigma implementation in your organization. To earn the USC Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, you will be required to pass the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer's green belt exam (administered on the final day of the course).
Host: USC Viterbi Corporate and Professional Programs
More Info: https://viterbiexeced.usc.edu/engineering-program-areas/six-sigma-lean-certification/six-sigma-green-belt-process-improvement/
Audiences: Six Sigma Green Belt Students
Contact: VASE Executive Education
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AI Seminar-Evaluating Text to Image Platforms Content Moderation During the 2024 US Presidential Election
Fri, Jan 31, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Kevin Greene, Princeton University, Princeton University
Talk Title: Evaluating Text to Image Platforms Content Moderation During the 2024 US Presidential Election
Series: AI Seminar
Abstract: Join Zoom Meeting: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96982313329?pwd=rZkvQ5qgBMsQfY3MjZgn4WrOJTOJjp.1 Meeting ID: 969 8231 3329 Passcode: 853171 Register in advance for this webinar: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_erWJIqKDSzifVzFRoezM5A How do generative AI platforms’ content moderation policies handle the creation of political deepfakes? There are considerable concerns about the risks posed by AI generated images of political leaders, but no systematic evaluation detailing how AI platforms address this outcome. We leverage an automated pipeline to extract and transform references to individuals on the US Presidential tickets from prominent media into prompts for generative AI systems, enabling politically diverse, externally valid evaluations. These prompts are sent to three prominent T2I platforms each week for the final three months of the 2024 US Presidential election. First, we show that the platforms take different approaches to content moderation. These differences contribute to there being low agreement in blocking behavior between platforms. Second, there is little consistency in the blocking behavior within platforms over time. Stability AI allowed almost all prompts featuring political figures until a sudden change two weeks before the 2024 election. Further, almost no prompts were blocked in every week of our collection. Our findings highlight the importance of developing scalable context specific approaches to monitoring text-to-image platforms.
Biography: Kevin T. Greene is an Academic Research Manager in the Empirical Studies of Conflict project at Princeton University leading the Digital Conflict and Information Integrity project. He studies the role of information and information communication technologies in international and domestic politics. Ongoing projects investigate the spread of unreliable content from algorithmic recommendations, the social and political risks posed by generative AI, and the strategies employed by foreign influence operations. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs and Microsoft and published in Science Advances, PNAS Nexus, American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, the Journal of Politics, and Political Communication among others. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs and Microsoft and published in Science Advances, PNAS Nexus, American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, the Journal of Politics, and Political Communication among others.
Host: Zhuoyu Shi and Pete Zamar
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5317/evaluating-text-to-image-platforms-content-moderation-during-the-2024-us-presidential-election/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96982313329?pwd=rZkvQ5qgBMsQfY3MjZgn4WrOJTOJjp.1Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual Only
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/96982313329?pwd=rZkvQ5qgBMsQfY3MjZgn4WrOJTOJjp.1
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
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Spring 2025 Viterbi Undergraduate New Student Welcome
Fri, Jan 31, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
This event will take place following the USC New Student Convocation. We hope you will join us for lunch and hear from Viterbi School of Engineering Dean Yortsos as well as meet faculty, staff, and your fellow incoming Viterbi students.
Location: Sign into EngageSC to View Location
Audiences:
Contact: Melissa Medeiros
Event Link: https://engage.usc.edu/viterbi/rsvp?id=401630
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CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series
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Fri, Jan 31, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Mike Barsky and Dr. Ben Heying, General Manager of Microelectronics Products and Services, Northrop Grumman Space System and Director of Microelectronics, Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center
Talk Title: The Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center and Microelectronics Products and Services Storefront Overviews
Abstract: NGMC: The Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC) provides microelectronics and advanced packaging for government, defense industrial base and commercial customers. It’s three foundries located in Baltimore, MD, Redondo Beach, CA and Apopka, FL, offer a variety of processes and capabilities, including silicon and compound semiconductors fabrication, wafer post-processing (Bump, Dice, Test), 2D, 2.5D & 3D advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration. The technologies developed and produced in these three foundries address needs in integrated multifunction sensing, wireless technology, advanced materials, space and rad hard technologies, and directed Energy. MPS: Microelectronics Products and Services (MPS) is the storefront for external access to the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center. The Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center is comprised of the compound semiconductor facility in Redondo Beach, CA., the silicon and compound semiconductor facility in Baltimore, MD., and the wafer post processing facility in Apopka, FL.. MPS and the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center is open access and offers standard product integrated circuits, wafer foundry runs, design services, test services, assembly services, and wafer bumping and dicing services. In addition, all three facilities have Accreditation of Trust to allow Trusted wafer runs for competition sensitive or restricted products. MPS operates using commercial terms and conditions with standardized and industry competitive pricing, and we serve both commercial industry and the Defense Industrial Base.
Biography: Dr. Mike Barsky, Director, General Manager of Microelectronics Products and Services, Northrop Grumman Space System Mike Barsky is the director and general manager of Microelectronics Products and Services Operating Unit, which provides external access to the Northrop Grumman Corporation microelectronics foundry at Space Park. Barsky is responsible for the commercial storefront and business deals with clients in the commercial and aerospace industries. With 29 years at Northrop Grumman, Barsky has held leadership positions across program and functional management. Prior to his current role, Barsky was the manager of the semiconductor wafer fabrication facility at Space Park. He has also held roles in the technical development of semiconductor devices as well as program-level roles for electronic subsystems. Barsky holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California, Irvine, and a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Ben Heying, Director of Microelectronics, Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center Ben Heying is responsible for Managing the Microelectronics Foundry in Redondo Beach, CA that manufactures and develops advanced III-V semiconductors for Northrop Grumman’s Space, DoD, and Commercial systems. Ben has 24 years of experience in Microelectronics and has served in various roles within TRW and Northrop Grumman, from leading research and development to functional and program management. Before becoming the Director of Microelectronics, he was an NG Fellow responsible for partnering with NG’s customers to transitioning Microelectronics technologies from R&D to flight production. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science from NC State University (1994) and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1999). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara developing GaN epitaxial growth techniques using Molecular Beam Epitaxy before joining TRW in 2001.
Host: Dr. Steve Crago
More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5362/ng-ngmc-and-mpw-storefront-overviews/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addonWebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Amy Kasmir
Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5362/ng-ngmc-and-mpw-storefront-overviews/
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Photonics Seminar - Jacob (Koby) Scheuer, Friday, January 31st at 2pm in EEB 248
Fri, Jan 31, 2025 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Koby Scheuer, Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University
Talk Title: Exceptional points in periodic optical systems
Series: Photonics Seminar Series
Abstract: Exceptional points (EPs) are point singularities in the parameters space of a system at which at least two of its eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Such points are often associated with non-Hermitian (optical) systems and have been the focus of intense research in the last decade due to their potential applications in optical sensing, switching, lasing, but also in signal processing and impedance matching. While EPs mostly studied in the context of parity-time symmetric systems, they can also be found in passive and Hermitian periodic systems, where they are often designated as stationary points and associated with vanishing group velocity. In this talk, I will review the fundamental concepts of stationary points formation in periodic system and discuss their applications, mainly light amplification and lasing. I will also present our recent work on EPs in PT-symmetric periodic systems.
Biography: Koby Scheuer is the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Nano-Scale Information technology and a full professor at the school of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. He received the B.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering and in physics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1993 and 2001, respectively. He was a Chief Designer with Lambda crossing-an optical component startup specializing in microring resonators for two years. Then, he joined the Center for the Physics of Information and the Department of Applied Physics, the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, as a Research Associate. In 2006 he joined the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. His main fields of research involve metasurfaces, plasmonics, integrated optics and telecommunications. Prof. Scheuer is the author or co-author of more than 220 scientific paper in peer-review journal, more than 140 papers in conference proceeding, and 12 patent applications. He is a Fellow of Optica (former Optical Society of America) and a fellow of the SPIE.
Host: Mercedeh Khajavikhan and Demetri Christodoulides
More Information: Jacob Scheuer Flyer.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Marilyn Poplawski
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