Colloquia
Spring 2026
Fridays, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Joyce Cummings Center (JCC), Room 170
Additional seminars by ECE faculty candidates will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays (locations may vary).
January 16, 2026
Introduction
January 23, 2026
Canceled
January 30, 2026
Optimal Transport: Metric and Geometric Properties with Applications
Shuchin Aeron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tufts University
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 – Joyce Cummings Center, Room 180
Human Skill Augmentation in Robot-Assisted Surgery
Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, Postdoctoral Scholar, Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Lab
Stanford University
February 6, 2026
Causal Representation Learning
Burak Varici, Postdoctoral Researcher, Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University
Monday, February 9, 2026 – Joyce Cummings Center, Room 180
Trustworthy and Explainable AI for Real-World Interaction
Hanjiang Hu, Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 – Joyce Cummings Center, Room 180
Architecting Embodied and Embedded AI Systems for Next-Generation Intelligent Environments
Minghui (Scott) Zhao, Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
February 13, 2026
Structured World Understanding for Physical AI
Minghan Zhu, Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Pennsylvania
February 20, 2026
From Intuition to Innovation: Accelerating Scientific Discovery through Black-Box Probabilistic Inference
Diana Cai, Research Fellow, Center for Computational Mathematics
Flatiron Institute
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 – Joyce Cummings Center, Room 180
Toward Installing Abilities into Users’ Nervous Systems
Yudai Tanaka, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
University of Chicago
February 27, 2026
Beyond Teleoperation: Advancing Autonomy in Diagnostic and Interventional Medical Robotics
Lidia Al-Zogbi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Computer Science
Vanderbilt University
March 6, 2026
Electronic Structure Calculations in Optoelectronics
Bin Wang, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tufts University
Monday, March 9, 2026 – Joyce Cummings Center, Room 180
Synthesizing the Quantum Software Stack
Amanda Xu, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 13, 2026
Safe, Robust, and Generalizable Machine Learning for Power Systems
Priya Donti, Assistant Professor, EECS and LIDS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 20, 2026
Spring Break – No Seminar
March 27, 2026
Zero Performance Overhead Model Checkpointing via Network Gradient Replication
Ankit Bhardwaj, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Tufts University
April 3, 2026
TBA
Nicholas Rivera, Assistant Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
April 10, 2026
TBA
Diego Cuji, PRODIG + Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stony Brook University
April 17, 2026
TBA
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computing and Data Science
Boston University
April 24, 2026
TBA
Deniz Erdogmus, COE Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University