PhD Proposal Review: Towards Empirical Implementation and Theoretical Analysis in Adversarial Machine Learning Kaidi Xu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning or deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary performance in many application domains such as image classification, object detection and recognition, natural language processing and medical image analysis. It has been well accepted that […]
PhD Proposal Review: Metamaterial Absorbers for Infrared Sensing Microsystems Sungho Kang Location: Zoom Abstract: Infrared (IR) spectroscopic sensing has become a key technique in multidisciplinary environments such as military applications, industrial safety control, and smart homes, by providing an accurate and non-disruptive analysis of the target objects. Recently the demand for high performance and compact […]
PhD Proposal Review: Robust Processing against Interferences in GNSS Navigation Haoqing Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Satellite-based navigation is prevalent as positioning applications among our lives, how-ever, this high reliance brings potential threats when different interferences and jamming signals are considered. Jamming devices, although illegal in many countries, can be easily to get. Those devices […]
Location: Zoom Link Seminar Title: Sensing the Physical World using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure Abstract: The promise of IoT and emerging applications such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and mixed reality that are tightly coupled with the physical environment pushes the demand for high-fidelity sensing. Meanwhile, we are also seeing advances in wireless technologies such as […]
PhD Proposal Review: Software-Defined Wireless Networking for 5G and Beyond: From Indoor Cells to Distributed Aerial Swarms Lorenzo Bertizzolo Location: MS Teams Link Abstract: While Software-defined Networking is a consolidated and widely adopted concept in fixed infrastructure, its adoption to the wireless domain has been limited by some fundamental challenges. Different from wired deployments, wireless […]
Seminar Title: Robot Learning from Demonstrations for Human-Robot Synergy Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Imagine a world where robots support and assist us in our everyday professional and personal life. To achieve a successful Human-Robot Synergy, robots will need to learn new tasks from humans seamlessly, to act on the new knowledge, and easily adapt to […]
The Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) Fair is an opportunity for students to learn more about Northeastern's signature faculty-led summer programs! Faculty member will be available via Zoom for questions and conversation. Representatives from Student Financial Services, the Honors Office, and GEO will also be available for any questions you may have. These are the opportunities […]
Seminar Title: IoT: An Enabling Technology for Designing Better Cities Location: Zoom Link Abstract: IoT is rapidly evolving into an enabling technology with countless potential applications. In this seminar, we will explore how IoT technology can help in the design of better cities, starting from the re-design of city systems and infrastructures (mobility, power grid, […]
Seminar Title: Research Background and Experience in Medical Robotics,Human-Robot Interaction, and Collaborative/Assistive Devices Location: Zoom Link Abstract: In this talk, Mojtaba Sharifi will go over the research projects he has done in the field of Medical Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Collaborative/Assistive Robotics during the past ten years. His presentation is organized in three sections, which cover his research achievements chronologically from his MSc to […]
Seminar Title: Challenges and opportunities in design in tunable, soft mechanical sensors. Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Physically-soft mechanical sensors are poised to unlock exciting new applications in wearable devices, robotics, and human-machine interfaces. Typically with these sensors, tuning their properties through the device geometry is a challenge. A promising development in soft mechanical sensors is hierarchically-patterned structures within the […]