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		1	2 Siemens Tech Talk Siemens Tech Talk October 2, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm FWH 2336 See more details •	3 From Virtual Staining to Diffractive Optical Networks: The Fusion of AI and Optics From Virtual Staining to Diffractive Optical Networks: The Fusion of AI and Optics October 3, 2025 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/from-virtual-staining-to-diffractive-optical-networks-the-fusion-of-ai-and-optics/ In this presentation, I will provide an overview of our recent advances in applying deep neural networks to push the frontiers of computational microscopy and sensing, with a focus on their biomedical applications, including the virtual staining of label-free tissue for digital pathology. I will also discuss our development of diffractive optical networks—deep-learning-designed surfaces that... Join on Zoom Webinar at go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar Speaker: Aydogan Ozcan Chancellor’s Professor and HHMI Professor UCLA Dr. Aydogan Ozcan is the Chancellor’s Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA and is also the Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Dr. Ozcan is elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and holds >85 issued/granted patents in microscopy, holography, computational imaging, sensing, mobile diagnostics, nonlinear optics and fiber-optics, and is also the author of one book and the co-author of >1200 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals/conferences. Dr. Ozcan received major awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), International Commission for Optics ICO Prize, Dennis Gabor Award (SPIE), Joseph Fraunhofer Award & Robert M. Burley Prize (Optica), Keith Terasaki Innovation Award, SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, Rahmi Koc Science Medal, SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, Army Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Navy Young Investigator Award, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and Distinguished Lecturer Award, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award, National Academy of Engineering The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award and MIT’s TR35 Award for his seminal contributions to computational imaging, sensing and diagnostics. Dr. Ozcan is elected Fellow of Optica, AAAS, SPIE, IEEE, AIMBE, RSC, APS and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a Lifetime Fellow Member of Optica, NAI, AAAS, SPIE and APS. Dr. Ozcan is also listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science, Clarivate. See more details •	4	5
6	7	8 Centennial Coffee Hour With 321 Coffee Centennial Coffee Hour With 321 Coffee October 8, 2025 8:30 am - 9:30 am 930 Main Campus Dr., Raleigh, NC 27695 Start your morning off with Centennial Coffee Hour at 321 Coffee's new location at 930 Main Campus Drive. Network with friends and co-workers from 8-9 a.m. the second Wednesday of every month. Stop by during the coffee hour and receive a dollar off your beverage. All are welcome to attend. See more details •	9	10 Praneeth Chakravarthula Praneeth Chakravarthula October 10, 2025 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/praneeth-chakravarthula/ Join on Zoom Webinar at go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar Speaker: Praneeth Chakravarthula UNC Chapel Hill Praneeth Chakravarthula is an assistant professor of computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the intersection of optics, perception, graphics, optimization and machine learning. He is a senior member of Optica and has received the IEEE VR Best Dissertation Award, the Timothy L. Quigg Inventor of the Year Award at UNC and several best paper and demo awards. He completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University and earned his PhD in computer science from UNC-Chapel Hill. He also holds B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in electrical engineering with a specialization in signal processing from IIT Madras. His past research experience includes internships with Facebook Reality Labs, Microsoft Research Cambridge and NVIDIA Research, as well as visiting researcher positions with the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab and the CoSMIC Lab at the National University of Singapore. See more details •	11	12
13	14	15	16 From Coordination to Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems: Lessons from Ecology From Coordination to Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems: Lessons from Ecology October 16, 2025 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm BTEC 123 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/from-coordination-to-collaboration-in-multi-robot-systems-lessons-from-ecology/ A standard approach to multi-robot systems is to divide the team-level tasks into suitable building blocks and have the robots solve their respective subtasks in a coordinated manner. However, by bringing together robots of different types, it should be possible to arrive at completely new capabilities and skill sets. In other words, the whole could... Join on Zoom Webinar at go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar Speaker: Dr. Magnus Egerstedt Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering University of California Irvine Dr. Magnus Egerstedt is the Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, Egerstedt was on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, serving as the School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Georgia Tech's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of multi-robot systems. Magnus Egerstedt is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, and a past president of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has received several teaching and research awards, including the Ragazzini Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the American Control Conference, and the Alumni of the Year Award from the Royal Institute of Technology. See more details •	17 Reliable Communications for Future Aviation Reliable Communications for Future Aviation October 17, 2025 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/reliable-communications-for-future-aviation/ Aviation growth will require advances in air-ground and air-air communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS). Projects such as NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), which is aimed at the transportation of both cargo and people in low-altitude flights in and around urban areas, require extremely high-reliability links, sometimes with low latencies. In this presentation, we provide background... Join on Zoom Webinar at go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar Speaker: David Matolak University of South Carolina David W. Matolak received the B.S. degree from The Pennsylvania State University, M.S. degree from The University of Massachusetts, and Ph.D. degree from The University of Virginia, all in electrical engineering. He has over 25 years’ experience in communication system research, development, and deployment, with industry, government institutions, and academia, including AT&T Bell Labs, L3 Communication Systems, MITRE, and Lockheed Martin. He has over 250 refereed publications and ten patents. He was a professor at Ohio University (1999-2012), and since 2012 has been a professor at the University of South Carolina. He has been Associate Editor for several IEEE journals, is currently the chair of the IEEE VTS Propagation Committee, and has delivered several dozen invited presentations at a variety of international venues. His research interests are radio channel modeling, communication techniques for non-stationary fading channels, and secure and covert communications. Prof. Matolak is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of standards groups in RTCA and ITU, and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, URSI, ASEE, AAAS, and AIAA. See more details •	18 University Open House University Open House October 18, 2025 9:00 am - 2:00 pm See more details •	19
20	21	22	23	24 Xiaoyue Ni Xiaoyue Ni October 24, 2025 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/xiaoyue-ni/ Join on Zoom Webinar at go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar Speaker: Xiaoyue Ni Duke University See more details •	25	26
27	28	29	30 Centennial Social Hour at Raleigh Founded Centennial Social Hour at Raleigh Founded October 30, 2025 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Partners Building I, 1017 Main Campus Dr, Suite 1650 Grab your coworkers or friends, and join us every month for Centennial Social Hour. The event is open to everyone, and local beer, wine, and small bites are available for FREE. See more details •	31 Circuit Research Challenges for Next Generation AI Datacenters Circuit Research Challenges for Next Generation AI Datacenters October 31, 2025 10:15 am - 11:45 am EB2 1231 https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/circuit-research-challenges-for-next-generation-ai-datacenters/ AI applications on GPU systems have exploded with an almost unlimited appetite for compute. Single-chip inference performance has increased more than 1000X over the last 10 years with improvements ranging from architecture to circuits. Tens of thousands of datacenter connected GPUs are needed for training and inference of state-of-the-art generative AI models. Bandwidth density requirements... Join on Zoom Webinar at go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar Speaker: Tom Gray Senior Director Circuit Research Nvidia C. Thomas Gray received the B.S. degree in computer science and mathematics from Mississippi College, Clinton, MS and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. From 1993 to 1998, he was an Advisory Engineer with IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC working on transceiver design for communication systems. From 1998 to 2004, he was a Senior Staff Design Engineer with the Analog/Mixed Signal Design Group, Cadence Design Systems, working on SerDes system architecture. From 2004 to 2010, he was a Consultant Design Engineer with Artisan/ARM and Technical Lead of SerDes architecture and design. In 2010, he joined Nethra Imaging as a System Architect. His work experience includes digital signal processing design and CMOS implementation of DSP blocks as well as high-speed serial link communication systems, architectures, and implementation. In 2011, he joined NVIDIA, Inc., Durham, NC where he is currently Senior Director of Circuit Research leading activities related to high-speed electrical signaling, photonics, security circuits, low-energy and resilient memories, circuits for machine learning, variation-tolerant clocking, and power delivery. See more details •