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About Albert To is the William Kepler Whiteford Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also serves as director of the ANSYS Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory. He is the founding director of the MOST-AM Consortium, a public-private collaboration of more than 30 organizations formed to…
About Natural swarms use simple rules to generate complex, coordinated behaviors on land, in the air and under the sea. Their robustness to failure, uncertainty and other disruptions makes them useful models for designing synthetic and robotic swarms. A key challenge is controlling emergent swarm patterns to achieve mission goals without tightly engineering individual agents….
About: Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with Yingbin Liang, professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University and a core faculty of the Ohio State Translational Data Analytics Institute, or TDAI. Liang also serves as the deputy director of the…
About Sean B. Andersson earned a bachelor’s degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 1994, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and a doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003. Before pursuing his doctoral degree, Andersson worked at…
About: Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with Pan Li, associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Li earned his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and worked as a postdoctoral researcher…
How much energy storage is needed when wind and solar generation remain low for several days? Join Ryan Milcarek, an associate professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, or SEMTE, for an interactive webinar examining how these multi-day events affect energy storage capacity, grid reliability and renewable generation siting. Using historical…
About: Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with YooJung Choi, assistant professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her research interests lie in probabilistic machine learning, tractable probabilistic modeling and inference, knowledge representation…
About: Join the ASU Center for Semiconductor Microelectronics, or ACME, for a seminar with guest Pravin Premakanthan, Director of Technology and Connectivity systems at Infineon, in Chandler, Arizona. Premakanthan leads the connectivity systems group and focuses on low power transceivers for Internet of Things, or IOT, applications. His area of research and work include developing RF…
About Hannah Budinoff is an assistant professor of systems and industrial engineering at the University of Arizona. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include automated geometric manufacturability analysis with a focus…
The Industrial Engineering Seminar Series from the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence brings leading researchers and industry experts to share leading-edge ideas shaping the future of optimization, data science and complex systems. Join us to explore innovative methods, real-world applications and emerging challenges driving impactful research and practice. AbstractSurrogate optimization algorithms have been increasingly…
About: Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with Yixuan He, assistant professor in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences with a joint appointment in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He completed her…
About: Join the ASU Center for Semiconductor Microelectronics, or ACME, for a seminar with Sandeep Kumar Goel, Academician and Senior Director with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC. Goel received his M. Tech. degree in VLSI from IIT Delhi in 1999 and his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Twente in 2005….
About Venkata Rani is a doctoral student in robotics and autonomous systems in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. His research focuses on language-driven robot control and fine-grained multimodal understanding for robotics and industrial automation. He develops methods for code generation…
About: Join the Learning, Information, Optimization, Networks and Statistics, or LIONS, group for a seminar with Nicolo Michelusi, associate professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Padova, Italy, and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications…
In this talk, Kim will argue that advances in design, manufacturing and materials are central to expanding the motion capabilities of miniature robots.