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https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/implantable-optical-interfaces-for-the-next-generation-biomedical-applications/

Implantable optical interfaces offer exciting routes to drive biomedical innovations. When integrated into advanced engineering systems and an ecosystem of supporting technologies, devices like these provide revolutionary approaches relevant to diagnostics, therapeutics, and real-time health monitoring applications. By leveraging light-based bidirectional communication, these interfaces offer control and interrogation of biological processes, opening new frontiers in...

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Speaker: Dr. Abraham Vázquez-Guardado
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University

Dr. Abraham Vázquez-Guardado is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics from the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) in the University of Central Florida in 2018, and his Postdoctoral training from the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University (2019-2022). His contributions to implantable wireless devices, nanophotonics, and optical and optoelectronic biosensors has been published in about 50 peer reviewed journal publications, and a book chapter. His research interests span from the fundamental development of multimodal bidirectional nanophotonic and optoelectronic bio-interfaces to the deployment of biomedical devices for applications in biosensing, biomedical and neuroscience research, clinical diagnostics, and unsupervised feedback-controlled human interfaces.

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/data-driven-monitoring-of-atmospheric-composition-for-climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation/

Robust predictions of air pollution and climate forcing require better representations of air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions than we have at present. In the coming decades, satellites will significantly enhance this understanding by monitoring atmospheric composition in exhaustive detail, at meter-to-continental and minute-to-decadal scales. I will present how we exploit satellite data to its...

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Speaker: Zhen Qu
Assistant Professor
North Carolina State University

Dr. Zhen Qu is an assistant professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Air Quality Track) from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019 and B.S. in Physics from Peking University in 2014. She had her postdoctoral training at Harvard University from 2020 to 2022 before joining NC State.

Her research interests include air quality, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, data assimilation, and inverse modeling. Her research aims to address the current challenges in air pollution and climate change by (1) exploiting observations to elucidate air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions, concentrations, and chemistry; and (2) developing science-based strategies to improve air quality and abate climate forcing.