Fall 2024 EE Colloquia
The colloquium [course number EE500] will be held at 1:25 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. every Friday in Henderson Bldg. Room 117, beginning on 8/30, ending on 11/22.
Following each colloquium, students enrolled in EE500 must complete a questionnaire. A template for the questionnaire will be posted in Canvas for you to download and use. You have one week after each seminar to complete and submit the questionnaire.
In order to pass and receive credit for EE500, you should attend all colloquia and submit at least 11 questionnaires. Approved absence due to university-related activity or health reasons should be requested ASAP prior to the colloquium.
Important to note: One of the colloquia is the so-called SARI required colloquium [date TBD] that all EE students must attend to fulfill the SARI requirement for EE degree completion. Contact Lisa Timko at 814-863-7294 or lmg183@psu.edu for more information on the SARI requirement for degree completion.
For all matters related to EE500 course, please contact Prof. I. C. Khoo at ick1@psu.edu and consult the guidelines given in Canvas.
Colloquium Dates and Presentation Schedule
August 30
Speaker: Prof. I-Hong Hou [Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M]
Title: Deep RL for Index Policy in Restless Bandit Problems
September 6
Speaker: Prof. Xianbiao Hu [Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State]
Title: Advancing Smart Mobility at Penn State: Innovations in Automated Vehicles, Infrastructure Support, and Transportation Electrification
September 13
Speaker: Prof. Victor Pasko [Electrical Engineering, Penn State]
Title: Lightning Related Transient Luminous Events in the Middle Atmosphere
September 20
Speaker: Prof. Venkatraman Gopalan [Material Science and Engineering, Penn State]
Title: Probing Emergent Phenomena in Complex Oxides through Nonlinear Optics and Coherent X-rays
September 27 — Distinguished Electrical Engineering Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Shaya Fainman [Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UC San Diego]
Title: Foundry Enabled Chip-Scale Photonics Technology and Applications
October 4
Speaker: Prof. Jason Valentine [Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University]
Title: Meta-optics for Edge Computing
October 11
Speaker: Prof. Patrick Fay [Electrical Engineering, Notre Dame]
Title: Advances in Polarization Engineering and Field Control in III-N Devices
October 18
Speaker: Prof. Aida Ebrahimi [Electrical Engineering, Penn State]
Title: Innovative Interfaces: Bridging Technology and Biology for a Healthier Future
October 25
Speaker: Dr. Yihan Du [Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois]
Title: Exploration-Driven Policy Optimization in RLHF: Theoretical Insights on Efficient Data Utilization
November 1
Speaker: Prof. David J. Miller [Electrical Engineering, Penn State]
Title: Adversarial Learning and Secure AI
November 8
Speaker: Dr. Anurag K Srivastava [Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University]
Title: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Enabling Resilient Cyber-Power Systems
Nov. 15 Raj and Jeanette Mittra Lecture
Speaker: John L. Volakis [Dean College of Engineering & Computing, Florida International University]
Title: Fabrication Challenges and Digital Twin-Models for High Density Heterogeneous Packaging of RF/mm-Wave Transceivers
Nov. 22 SARI Colloquium
Speaker: John Domico [Research Computing Manager; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Penn State]
Title: Digital Ethics
EE Colloquia Archives:
- Spring 2025
- Fall 2024
- Spring 2024
- Fall 2023
- Spring 2023
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Fall 2020
- Spring 2020
- Fall 2019
- Spring 2019
- Fall 2018
