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About Minglei Qu is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a graduate faculty member of materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by…
About: Gautam Dasarathy is an associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. His research focuses on statistical machine learning, information processing and networked systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held postdoctoral positions at Carnegie Mellon University…
About Fatemeh Elhambakhsh is a doctoral student in the data science, analytics and engineering program at Arizona State University. She earned a Master of Science in industrial engineering with a concentration in systems optimization from Iran University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on generative AI and multimodal learning for engineering design and manufacturing….
This workshop explores how artificial intelligence, or AI, is transforming project management from planning to delivery. Participants will learn how AI can support risk identification, guide project execution and improve monitoring and control. The session also introduces practical tools for project learning and sustainability tracking, including dashboards. Attendees will gain insights into integrating AI-powered platforms…
About Karen Lozano is a trustee professor and chair of the materials science and nanoengineering department at Rice University. From 2000 to 2025, she served as the Julia Beecherl Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she founded the Nanotechnology Center and launched the college’s first doctoral degree…
About: Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with Martina Cardone, associate professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. An NSF CAREER Award recipient, Cardone’s research aims to develop theoretical frameworks that offer engineering guidelines and insights for the study of practically relevant…
About Ryan Spencer is an associate research and development staff member in the Composite Innovation Group at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a Fellow with the University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute, contributing to the Circular Bioeconomy Systems Convergent Research Initiative. Spencer earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees…
About: Juba Ziani is an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. A NSF CAREER Award recipient, Ziani’s research lies at the intersection of computer science, operations research and economics. He uses tools from learning theory, game theory and optimization to address technical and societal challenges arising from AI,…
About Robert Gao is the Cady Staley Professor and chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Since earning his doctoral degree from the Technical University of Berlin in 1991, he has conducted research in physics-based signal transduction mechanisms, multiresolution signal processing, stochastic modeling, and artificial intelligence and machine…
About Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with ASU Regents Professor Ying-Cheng Lai, from the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Lai is a senior engineering faculty member with over 30 years of experience working in nonlinear and complex dynamical systems….
The Fulton Schools Learning and Teaching Hub recently hosted an Engineering Education Seminar, or SEEdS, on artificial intelligence, or AI, mentors in engineering education, featuring Steve Salik, clinical associate professor of learning design and technologies at ASU. As enrollments grow and courses become more complex, faculty are increasingly asked to support learners with diverse prior…
About: Ali Tajer is a professor of electrical, computer and systems engineering and the associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI. His research interests include mathematical statistics, machine learning and information theory. He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and…
Join the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and the ASU Center for Semiconductor Microelectronics, or ACME, for a distinguished seminar with Mirela Alistar, assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with Nicholas Loizou, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Mathematical Institute for Data Science at Johns Hopkins University.
About: Duong Do is a fifth-year doctoral student in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. His current research lies at the intersection of operations research and quantum computing, with a specific focus on developing robust and efficient quantum optimization and…