DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES
Lectures are presented in TI Auditorium in the south building of UTD's
Engineering & Computer Science Complex. (Directions)
SEPT. 19, 2008
MARIO A. ROTEA
Optimization and Control of Mechanical and Aerospace Systems
Professor and Head of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
APRIL 25, 2008
JONATHAN S. TURNER
Performance Guarantees for Asynchronous Buffered Crossbars
Computer Science and Engineering Department,
Washington University
APRIL 11, 2008
MOENESS AMIN
Challenges in Through Wall Imaging
Professor,
Villanova University
APRIL 4, 2008
BENJAMIN W. WAH
Exploring Constraint Partitioning and Their Applications In Planning and Optimization
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and the Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MARCH 21, 2008
CARL-ERIK W. SUNDBERG
Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting Methods
President and Chief Scientist,
SundComm
FEBRUARY 29, 2008
DR. ARVIND
Bluespec: A New Way of Describing SoC Behavior
Johnson Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
The Stata Center, M.I.T.
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
YAHYA RAHMAT-SAMII
Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques in Engineering:
Let Darwin and the bees help improve your designs
Distinguished Professor,
Northrop-Grumman Chair in electromagnetics,
past chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
FEBRUARY 1, 2008
LEAH JAMIESON
Experiencing Engineering
John A. Edwardson Dean,
College of Engineering,
Purdue University
JANUARY 11, 2008
AKHLESH LAKHTAKIA
Sculptured thin films exemplify nanoengineered metamaterials
The Charles G. Binder (Endowed) Professor
Dept. of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Pennsylvania State University
AUGUST 24, 2007
MARK RODWELL
III-V Bipolar and Field-Effect Transistors: Applications, Performance Limits, THz Scaling Roadmaps
Professor and Director of the UCSB Nanofabrication Laboratory and the NSF Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN),
Director of the SRC Nonclassical CMOS Research Center,
The University of California, Santa Barbara
SEPTEMBER 14, 2007
MING LI
Modern Homology Search
Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Professor of Computer Science,
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
SEPTEMBER 17, 2007
GEORGIOS GIANNAKIS
Distributed Estimation Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Professor, Endowed ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications
University of Minnesota
OCTOBER 12, 2007
EUGENE CHARNIAK
Generative Models of Discourse
Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Brown University
NOVEMBER 2, 2007
JOSE PRINCIPE
Engineering the Brain-Machine Interface
Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
DAVID LORGE PARNAS
Precise Practical Software Documentation:
A Real Software Engineering Grand Challenge
Director of the Software Quality Research Laboratory,
University of Limerick
JANUARY 12, 2007
MARY JEAN HAROLD
Improved Debugging Using Automatic Fault-localization Techniques
ADVANCE Professor of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology
JANUARY 26, 2007
METIN AKAY
Neurogenesis, Neurocontrol and Neurochips
Fulton School of Engineering
Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering
FEBRUARY 9, 2007
CANCELED
FEBRUARY 23, 2007
JOHN WAWRZYNEK, PH.D.
Reconfigurable Systems and a Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors (RAMP)
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California - Berkeley
MARCH 2, 2007
BERNHARD BOSER
Resonant Force Sensing for 0.1-me , 10-kHz Strain Sensor
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California - Berkeley
MARCH 16, 2007
MAURICE HERLIHY
Taking Concurrency Seriously: the Multicore Challenge
Professor of Computer Science
Brown University
MARCH 30, 2007
COSTAS N. GEORGHIADES
On the Estimator-Correlator and the Search for the Optimum Transmit Point
Texas A&M University
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head
Delbert A. Whitaker Endowed Chair
APRIL 10, 2007
LUIS TORRES
Distributed Video Coding: The New Video Coding Paradigm
IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
APRIL 13, 2007
TBA
APRIL 27, 2007
TBA
SEPTEMBER 8, 2006, 11:00 A.M.
MOSHE Y. VARDI
Where Have All The IT Jobs Gone? There, There, and Right Here
George Professor,
Computational Engineering
Director of the Computer and
Information Technology Institute,
Rice University
SEPTEMBER 22, 2006, 11:00 A.M.
GRANT WILLSON
Advances in Nanostructure Fabrication Technology
Rashid Engineering Regent Chair
University of Texas at Austin
OCTOBER 13, 2006, 11:00 A.M.
PASCAL VAN HENTENRYCK
Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization
Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
OCTOBER 27, 2006, 11:00 A.M.
YANNIS TSIVIDIS
Continuous-time DSPs, Analog/Digital Computers and other Mixed-Domain Circuits
Charles Batchelor Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Columbia University
NOVEMBER 10, 2006, 11:00 A.M.
ELAINE WEYUKER
Fault Prediction - Goals, Models, Experience
AT&T Labs Researcher
DECEMBER 15, 2006, 11:00 A.M.
ALAN W. BLACK
Making Synthetic Speech Output as Natural, Flexible and Efficient as Human Speech
Associate Research Professor,
Language Technologies Institute,
Carnegie Melon University
