Lecture Series

THOMAS MARZETTA
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
The Impact of Classical Physics on Communication Theory
November 30​, 2022

ANDREA ALÙ
City University of New York
Extreme Control of Light and Sound Using Metamaterials
March 9​, 2022

RUSS SALAKHUTDINOV
Carnegie-Mellon University
From Differentiable Reasoning to Self-supervised Embodied Active Learning
October 6, 2021

JENNIFER REXFORD
Princeton University
Networks Capable of Change
February 17, 2021

AYANNA HOWARD
Georgia Institute of Technology
Understanding and Mitigating Bias and Human Overtrust in Robotics and AI
October 21, 2020

JOANNA AIZENBERG
Harvard University
Bioinspired Materials
March 25, 2020

ALAN WILLNER
University of Southern California
High-Capacity Communications using Multiplexing of Multiple Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams
November 20, 2019

STEVEN BELLOVIN
Columbia University
Thirty Years of Defending the Internet
October 2, 2019

EDWARD FELTON
Princeton University
Toward Scalable, Sustainable Cryptocurencies
March 13, 2019
Seminar on YouTube

EDWARD COYLE
Georgia Institute of Technology
Theory, Design and Implementation of Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks: Combining Research and Education via a VIP Team
May 1, 2019
Seminar on YouTube

RICHARD FRENKIEL
Rutgers University – WINLAB
Creation, Confusion and Conflict: The 70-Year History of the Cellular System
November 14, 2018
Seminar on YouTube

HOD LIPSON
Columbia University
Automating Discovery: From Cognitive Robotics to Particle Physics
September 27th, 2018

TOD SIZER
Nokia Bell Labs
What’s the Big Deal about 5G, and Should you care?
September 27, 2017
Seminar on YouTube

JON STEVENSON
Stratasys, Inc.
The Future of Additive Manufacturing: Engineering is a Team Sport
November 15, 2017
Seminar on Youtube

ANTONIO ORTEGA
University of Southern California
Making Sense of Data on Networks: A Graph Signal Processing Approach
April 04, 2018
Seminar on YouTube

GURU PARULKAR
Stanford University
Internet Infastructure Transformation with Open Source and Device Disaggregation
May 02, 2018
Seminar on YouTube

BERNARD S. MEYERSON
IBM
The Cognitive Era: AI (Accessible Intelligence) Comes of Age
October 5, 2016
Seminar on YouTube

MARK JACOBSON
Stanford University
Is this the only hope for reversing global warming? Transitioning each country’s all-purpose energy to electricity powered 100% by wind, water, and sunlight
November 16, 2016
Seminar on YouTube

ROBERT W. HEATH JR.
University of Texas, Austin
Millimeter Wave for Vehicular Communication
April 19, 2017
Seminar on YouTube

RON WEISS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Synthetic Biology: From Parts to Modules to Therapeutic Systems
October 7, 2015
Seminar on Youtube

GERHARD P. FETTWEIS
Tu Dresden
The Tactile Internet
November 11, 2015
Seminar on Youtube 

DAVID C. MUNSON, JR.
University of Michigan
Engineering Education: Preparing Students to Change the World
March 9, 2016
Seminar on Youtube

JOHN A. ROGERS
University of Illinois
Electronics for the Human Body
April 20, 2016
Seminar on Youtube

AYDOGAN OZCAN
University of California Los Angeles
Democratization of Next-Generation Imaging, Diagnostics and Measurement Tools Through Computational Photonics
September 24, 2014
Seminar on YouTube

REINALDO VALENZUELA
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories
5G: Technology Opportunities and Challenges
November 12, 2014
Seminar on YouTube

JAN ALLEBACH
Purdue University
Digital Printing: The Transformation of a 2,000-Year Old Technology and What It Means to You
March 11, 2015
Seminar on YouTube

NAOMI HALAS
Rice University
Plasmonics: a Nanoscale Focus on Cross-cutting Science and Technologies
April 22, 2015
Seminar on YouTube

LINDA PETZOLD
University of California Santa Barbara
The Emerging Roles and Challenges of Stochasticity in Biological Systems
September 25, 2013
Seminar on YouTube

JONATHAN TURNER
Washington University
Building Networks in the Clouds
November 20, 2013

DAVID WELCH
Infinera, Inc.
Disruptive Innovation in the Telecommunications Market
March 5, 2014

ANDREA GOLDSMITH
Stanford University
The Road Ahead for Wireless Technology: Dreams and Challenges
April 23, 2014   
Seminar on YouTube

TED RAPPAPORT
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
The Renaissance of Wireless Communications, and the Future Edge of the Internet
September 26, 2012
Seminar on youtube

ELAINE WEYUKER
Looking for Bugs In All the RIGHT Places
November 7, 2012
Seminar on youtube

FRED KITSON
DTS
The Technology in a Good Experience Should be Heard and Not Seen
March 6, 2013
Seminar on youtube

TOM KOCH
The University of Arizona
Photonic Integrated circuits: Past, Present, and Future
April 24, 2013

JAMES WAGNER
Emory University
Inquiry-Driven Engineering: One of the Liberal Arts
October 5, 2011

VINCE POOR
Princeton University
Information and Inference in the Wireless Physical Layer
November 16, 2011
Vince Poor Presentation/Slides

NADER ENGHETA
University of Pennsylvania
Of Light, Electrons, and Metamaterials
February 15, 2012
Nader Engheta Presentation/Slides

THOMAS STERLING
Indiana University
Towards an Execution Model Driven X-Stack Strategy
April 4, 2012

TINGYE LI
AT&T Bell Laboratories (retired)
Strategic Research and Innovation in Optical Communications: An Excited-State Lifetime of Forty Years at AT&T Bell Laboratories
May 9, 2012

JOSEPH BORDOGNA
University of Pennsylvania
Life at the Edge – Embracing Cacophony, Enabling Symphony
October 27, 2010

STEPHEN CHOU
Princeton University
Nanostructure Engineering – A Path to Discovery, Innovation and Commercialization
December 1, 2010

FEDERICO CAPASSO
Harvard University
Sub-wavelength Photonics: From Light Manipulation to Quantum Levitation at the Nanoscale
February 16, 2011

DAVID CARLSON
BP Solar
Photovoltaics and Its Potential Impact on Climate Change
March 23, 2011

RICHARD BARANIUK
Rice University
Compressive Sensing
May 4, 2011
Richard Baraniuk Presentation/Slides

DAVID FARBER
Carnegie-Mellon University
The Technical and Political Evolution of the Internet — A Personal Perspective
November 18, 2009
Archived Webcast

SERGIO VERDU
Princeton University
Information Theory Today
February 17, 2010
Archived Webcast
Sergio Verdu Presentation/Slides

DAVID DIVINCENZO
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Prospects for Superconducting Quantum Computers
March 10, 2010

JAMES MILLER
PPL Corporation
US Utility Sector – Turmoil and Transition
April 14, 2010